daily musings of rubbish.

2011-06-24T21:31:00.000-07:00

sometimes, i just think
that singaporean culture really sucks. i mean, don't get me wrong,
i love singapore and everything, but sometimes when you trawl the internet and travel and stuff you see the difference in priorities.

like how in other countries, education isn't everything.
or how people are alot more liberal in some cases.
granted, education's one of the things that's made singapore into what it is today, but at what cost?
even though singapore's such a safe, clean, green etc etc place i'm not sure if i'd want to bring up a child in an environment as stressful as this.
if he/she succeeds, then good, but what if he doesn't do well academically?
in singapore, that'd be taken as "oh, GG liao. dunnid to go uni = fail at life." (which is quite true given our local context. how to find job siallll.)

our crazy cost of living, materialistic pressures and kiasu attitude really does suck sometimes.

2011-02-05T05:21:00.000-08:00

right now
i have an overwhelming urge to go Zirca tonite ._.

VEH BORED LEH SO LONG NEVER CLUB LIAO HOW

2011-02-02T08:51:00.000-08:00

places to go before i die:

-New York in general. Madison Square Gardens, the statue of liberty, empire state, broadway, manhattan, the entire new york experience in general.
-LA Lakers Staples Centre
-the eiffel tower
-leaning tower of pisa
-the grand canyon
-aurora borealis
-the taj mahal
-the pyramids
-great wall of china
-the colosseum
-buckingham palace
-tower of london
-big ben
-CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia. if i can even get in, that is.
-Israel
-parthenon
-angkor wat (already went)
-Dubai

this list is unexhaustive; at least for now.

2010-12-23T03:15:00.000-08:00

how cool,
in less than 12 hours i'll be in bangkok :D
whooo gonna go there and shop like siao!

man, today felt like the longest day in camp since lull started, couldn't wait to book out in the evening just now to reach home and pack stuff for my trip.
don't get me wrong, i love the fact that everyday's so freaking slack, just that today was reaaaallly draggy.

back on the 27th!

2010-11-27T04:14:00.001-08:00

woo,
just realised i haven't really updated my blog ever since i came back from australia ._.
aaaanyway, it was pretty ok la :D
going outfield in australia's quite decent considering the fact that you don't sweat cos of the low humidity;
somemore the last week there was totally slack!
like, everyday was just the same, 3 meals and movies all day long at the camp's canteen.
i think in total we watched maybe 20 odd movies in 4 days, something like that?
yeaaaaaa.

and when we came back to camp 2 days after wallaby the training programme everyday was PT in the morning and 3 meals, along with PSP/read books/talk cock/bathe excessively cos there's nothing better to do.
(sounds familiar, doesn't it? welcome to my life as a combatant during lull period :D)

random stuff that happened the past few weeks:
runchao's band performance and dinner with the 08S16 peeps
watched the social network, RED, HP7, unstoppable, saw 7, She's Outta My League
dinner for the past 2 fridays with NJ shooters
slacking around bugis with yangsheng and finding nice sesame peanut balls at rochor food centre (wah this place is nice man, gotta go eat there sometime soon)

what else arh? can't really remember.
will fill up this space when i do!

2010-10-15T07:32:00.000-07:00

when all else fails,
watch a movie.

block leave week:

monday- went gymming with kenneth at yiochukang, played bball and watched the movie Buried. oh man, people, don't watch this movie. seriously.
you'll get pretty depressed at the end because even though this movie's pretty novel in terms of cinematography and everything, the ending's just sad.
like WTF sad, makes you curse the director for deceiving your feelings LOL.
because the fella died in the end!
i mean, you see him struggle and everything then in the end he just dies, and the way he dies....aiya.
sian ji pua.
can't help but feel sad for his life.

tuesday- woke up late, like at 11 odd, and bummed around the house before realising it's around 5 in the evening orredy.
tried to go for a run and realised my right hamstring got quite screwed, result of training too much/often. damn.
played pool at nite with yanling, walked to westmall late at night to get stuff to eat after.

wednesday- shopped @ orchard, went to like 3 different zaras in 2 hours. (the 313 one, ion, and taka's one) hehh. bought some stuff, walked around, bummed and enjoyed the feeling of being in orchard on a weekday :D

thursday- went back to nj to see them train, and realised I EHM OLD SIA. wow i realised that i'm like now jiapei's batch, or rather, the new jiapei's batch in comparison to the current exco.
2 years older seh.

today- watched dinner for schmucks, and enjoyed a mcflurry. YESSS! ate breakfast at macs too, and yeaaa that's why my post is titled watch a movie when all else fails. when there's nothing to do, just watch all the movies. or rather, watch those that're entertaining. not one like buried.
did cardio at the gym at nite, reached home and here i am.

a non too wild night before i'm flying off tmr morning.

see yall in three weeks time!

2010-10-11T22:40:00.000-07:00

just like most block leaves,
there aren't many people free to go out with cos they're all either in school or still in camp -.-

hmm, wonder what i'm gonna do for the next few days before i fly off to australia on saturday morning.
maybe go back to nj?

2010-08-12T07:36:00.000-07:00

i think i'm some
chemical junkie aye ._.
i realised when i book out all i do is get high on endorphines from exercise and eating shiok food.
HAHA.

omnomnomnom.
i still love food dammit.
and that's not good for fitness but then ITZ SO GOOD YAH?
pizza and icecream and.
ok i should stop making myself think of food.
should think of pumping and running and bball and gym.
yaiis.
maybe after letting my discipline rot like mad its hard to follow my routines anymore.

well army does that to do, makes you seek excitement or rather anything that isn't mildly boring.
how irritating that now when i'm on block leave the other dudes who aren't involved in NDP and the girls in NUS are all not free.
that leaves the NTU girls and...those people in school?
me is wan to go out.

ok lets end this random post.
go youtube Gotten, by slash feat adam levine.
NAISE.

2010-07-17T22:16:00.001-07:00

a brief summary of my life
for the past few weeks:

-NS stuff la, hor.
-NDP rehearsals, means reaching Padang by 11.45pm on friday nite and leaving on saturday 12mn. not that i'm marching of course, i'm part of the security cordon which means if you're watching the rehearsals and sitting at yellow/red sector i'll see you there.
-preparation for exercise wallaby in australia in oct

hmm, wonder if i'll have enough money to blow on a holiday to taiwan during my end of year block leave.

2010-06-04T21:47:00.001-07:00

what a way to start
a 19th birthday;
reaching back to camp at 1am in the morning after an entire day of jungle navigation in mandai.

CHUI.

i hate topo/navigation exercise/compass course/wadever the hell you call it.
not that it's incredibly tiring, but that it's pointless!
it's just walking through really dense vegetation for no apparent reason, because in the future we won't ever have to do navigation on our own since it's our commanders that'll be doing it.

anyway lotsa thanks to everyone who wished me a happy 19th (:
i guess i'm incredibly lucky to get book out on my birthday, even though there was like practically 2 hours left in the day.
and woooo i'm booking in on monday night, talk about a long weekend.

burnt the last 2 days going out and slacking at home, gonna see who's free today and tmr to spend my days well.

if anyone wans to go gym/go out/play pool/go makan/movie/ CALL ME PLS
kthxbyeeee

2010-05-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

powerhouse
is powerrrr.

2010-05-15T20:02:00.000-07:00

hehh wow,
i din realise it's been a month since i've last blogged!

i think it's gonna be incredibly boring if i regularly update and all i write about is NS.
see the bottom posts?
case in point ._.

just came back from live firing, slept for like 2 hours last night (not really night, considering we finished our unpacking, washing up, gun cleaning at 3am) and now here i am at home.
surprisingly not that tired aye.

but life so far's actually quite nice, considering that my company is super slack wooooooo~
all we do in armoured infantry for the moment is learn bout heavy weapons and stuff;
there's hardly any PT, well nowhere as siong as BMT but it's practically making us gain weight due to the lack of physical training and the utter pileup of weapons lessons.

yesyes, on a non NS note!
i got my NTU sports science offer hehehhh :D
heng arh, seriously.
tot i wouldn't make the cutoff, maybe i'm lucky that as a whole cohort we did well so more people applied for law etc etc rather than my course.

hmmm.
any ideas where i should eat?
where and what actually, i'm wondering where to go to eat tonight.
ppl, find me go out ayee D:

2010-04-16T00:06:00.001-07:00

fml,
im gonna be running behind a stupid tank, inhaling dust and all sorts of shit for the next 1 year 8 months of my life ._.

ARMOURED INFANTRY?!
what the shit.

tyvm SAF.

2010-03-21T01:05:00.000-07:00

sia la,
reading the post below this makes me realise how noob i was at the start of NS.
but now when i'm 3 weeks away from passing out, you kinda realise that heyy, it wasn't all that tough rite?

pardon me for the incredibly long hiatus,
its just that weekend time is so friggin precious that i gotta maximise the time i've got outside of camp.
not to mention on weekends i get too tired to blog so the only thing i do pretty much is LAXING MODE.
and go out to town, of course.
one misses the lights, sights and sounds of town when you're in a camp full of guys and concrete and regimentation for too long.

so how's NS been?
ask me when you see me la hor, my personal rule is that on weekends no NS shit pls.
unless i choose to talk about it of my own accord, if not, then pls noooooo thanks ._.
thang is, now i really appreciate stuff like taking the bus and just walking and breathing in fresh air.
cos it reminds you that you're not on tekong hehhh.

ahhh, but more of that another time;
got alot of random NS homework to do.
yes, homework.
raven company is siao, too bad.
tons of reflections and essays and shit and reviews to write.

POP SOOOOON

2010-02-14T00:11:00.000-08:00

NS is....
tiring.
sian.
incredibly regimental.
strict. (well this point and the previous one depends alot on what company you're posted to; Raven Company isn't very slack at all)

can't hide the sianness of booking in on tues and the foreboding knowledge that once we do anything wrong now, after the first week, we're gonna be screwed for it.

._.

2010-01-17T05:10:00.000-08:00

the dichotomies;
nowadays either i've got tons of things to do on some days or totally nothing to do,
more of the latter though.

3+10+6=19 days.
less than 3 weeks left to NS,
ashdkjsahawjdkawn.

i wanna go overseas and exploit the currency!
like thailand or msia or cambodia hehh.
just getting quite bored of singapore as a whole, i'm running out of things to do and places to go ._.

damn adidas singapore for not stocking wade's jersey.
guess i gotta get it online?

2010-01-08T05:17:00.000-08:00

myyy.
i'm gonna get bored to death at work.
i can totally see why people keep on emphasizing the importance of choosing the right course/job in the future;

if i had to do this the rest of my life i'd most likely shoot myself with my rifle.
not that it's agonizing work or anything but it's just....
the opposite of challenging;
think in between menial work and stoning.

to quote Outliers, if someone paid you 100k a year to sit at a tollbooth or 50k a year doing somethin interesting (like being a travel journalist or one of those coolshit food presenters on discovery travel and living) chances are you'd choose the latter.

sooner or later you'll reach a point where the money given to you won't matter anymore because no amount of it'd keep you at that retarded job.

think by the time i'm finished with all this my glasses degree's gonna be higher.

payday soon!
my dwyane wade jersey, comecome :D

2010-01-03T08:42:00.000-08:00

God,
Grant me the serenity;
To accept the things I cannot change;
The courage, to change the things I can;
And the wisdom, to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.

nice.

2009-12-30T06:25:00.000-08:00

on those days
that i've got stuff to do, life's great, but its those days in between where i've got pretty much nothing to do that really bite sometimes;
which is quite sad considering how much boredom (or rather my search for a lack of it) influences my life.

what i haven't done yet, plus what i hope'll happen:
-went on a food hunt all over singapore for 1 day
-ECP lagoon dinner with the NJ rifleboys
-dinner with BBSS Rifle B Boys '07
-meet up with ppl i haven't met in quite awhile
-S16 chalet? i know i'm being a wee bit optimistic here hahaa.
-NCC chalet

life's wayy too short to think too much.
play laaaa

2009-12-22T21:31:00.000-08:00

amazing,
the things i'm getting paid to do.

-facebook all day long.
-play tetris, poker, and any other conceivable online game.
-eat free food (we had a xmas staff celebration, got free christmas lunch from 3 of my colleagues)
-stare at passing people
-eat skittles
-chat with the security uncles
-fiddle with the things on the counter
-read random emails like how cucumbers and apples are really really good for health

and so on.

life is good.
(:

basketball later when i reach home!

2009-12-18T04:54:00.000-08:00

random update:
if you're really incredibly bored, pls come down to The Grassroots Club @ yiochukang MRT there and entertain yourself by irritating me at the front desk counter;
that's depending on whether or not i'm working that shift though.
sibeh boring there!

ppl, a must watch (:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri1QFfiSvDY
the arnold and the indian cursing part's the best.

I IS WAN TO GO JAPANZXZ

2009-12-12T04:54:00.000-08:00

wooh, packed.
ever since after As i've been all over the place.
immediately after bio paper 1 went to do Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon Event helping out again, the paper finished at 9am and by 1 i was at expo handling the event orredy.
3 days of running around and handling weird customers complaints, leaving the house at 5.30 every morning and reaching back at 12;
stood and ran around until my legs ached like siao man. i'm pretty sure a great form of torture would be forcing ppl to be unable to sit down, make them stand non-stop.
being a SCSM Manager isn't easy.

and the money isn't fantastic for the amount of time too, i did 3 days of work and i got 150.
hmm, then again stand chart is a volunteer thing, not a real job, and even though i know from last year that it's incredibly tiring and stupid sometimes i still went back this year;
there's that little satisfaction in seeing a huge event go well~

after that was a one day break, then off to prom on the 7th!
prom was niiice, the performances were pretty good but the food wasn't as nice; then again who cares bout the food?
a long story short, a bunch of us walked to the wrong central for NJ's postprom at helipad (went to orchard central instead of the clark quay one) but when we reached there we left in like 5 mins.
cos it was pretty incredibly stone. a whole bunch of ppl getting drinks sitting and staring around, end of story.
went to SA's postprom instead @ supperclub, ohh man.
wildshit.
hahahaaa, quite fun aye, depending on whether or not you like crazy stuff.
quite alot of SA ppl got wasted, pools of puke on the floor outside ._.

after that, slacked at macs for awhile before the morning train came with the soccer dudes and sufen + yangsheng before taking it back to yangsheng's house.
crashed @ his house, went back the next morning and had another rest day before goin back to the east for shooting chalet at tanah merah;

ohh my, after all this i quite hate travelling that incredibly long distance from west to east.
expo, simei and tanah merah,
eeeeeeee.

shooting chalet was fun, went to see ahguas @ changi village and again, night cycling is funshit yo.
veeerrry fun shit.
other than that, bowled, talked alot, and slept like a hobo;
i woke up on the outside foyer of the bungalow on the 3rd morning -.-

now, i'm really bored.
tons of people are goin overseas and i'm pretty much stuck in singapore.

SIANZXZXZX

2009-12-08T21:38:00.000-08:00

prom was nice!
hahaa i'm kinda lazy to explain, here's a quick one before i leave for changi.
gonna write more after i come back from chalet on the 11th.

cya all!

2009-11-29T05:34:00.001-08:00

how strange,
i saw 3 funerals today!
the one downstairs my house, another on my running route just now and another near the bottom of a nearby block;
either singapore's ageing population is really increasing, or bukit batok is a really really suay place to live in.

and screw it, my back's acting up again after playing ball with yangsheng yesterday. veli the painzxzx.
k, maybe i should reaaally stop for the moment and let it rest before i regret it during NS or something.

so what've i been doin?
lemme see.
friday was gym and a wee bit of ball, ohh yea it was cos of this that i started to screw up my back again....
and studying for bio of course. hehh i refuse to let cambridge take away MCQ marks again, not after how horrible chem paper 1 was.
went to clarke quay with deb and sherrie to celebrate the latter's belated birthday, became incredibly broke after that ._.

saturday: as usual, balled + loafed around the house, woke up at 10-ish and cursed the hwachong bio prelim MCQ setters for being so sadistic. poor poor HC bio students. went to mustafa to look for my NS phone, ohmy discovered that you can get a phone in singapore for like 38 bucks?
(without plan of course. greyscale, ultimate basic functions and everything, but still that's quite cool)
din find anything really nice, either the screen was kinda small or the better phones all had camera.
today: woke up, went church, came back, ate, ran, tv. what a fulfilling life indeed.

and ohh yea, MY WATCH GOT STOLEN YESTERDAYYY.
curse the cheenabastards who took it.
hope a middle finger forms on the screen and asks them to screw themselves.
why'm i always so suay to kena retarded ppl with kleptomanic tendencies that love to pocket my items -.-
first it was my phone 3 months back, now it's my watch.
200 plus leh, the watch!

haii, oh well.
time to get a new one.
on a different note, i wanna work for a month!
considering if anyone'll hire me, that is.
since i've got 2 months effectively, might as well work 1 month and play the other month rite?

after Os was horrible enough, i think i'd be better off doing something productive with my time rather than spending it doing absolutely nothing other than eating and loafing and growing stubble; so if 2 months gets cut down to 1 month it'd be just nice fine i think?

hopefully i'll get the admin job that jason's office has. plsssss, i could use some extra monehh to buy things.

see how, see how.

2009-11-25T21:13:00.000-08:00

just one more paper
to the end of the As and i'm already celebrating my ass off 7 days away from it.

wooo, went back to the range after lit paper 3 yesterday morning (which was definitely decent, greaaat stuff) and slacked around with the shooters and watched their internals; great to be back yea :D

me and gerald've got alot of work to do sia..........
but anyway.

after that went for leejing + jeremy's surprise 18th bbq at jeremy's condo, had a friggin great time with about 20+ bukitbatok peeps;
my gosh man, i don't think i've laughedoutloud that much in the past donkey months or maybe years.

pics should be up on facebook soon, i'll steal them here when then they're up (:

but for now,
to ze gymmmmm!

2009-11-17T08:16:00.000-08:00

how cool,
i'm sitting at home in front of the comp at 12.17AM when the physics/econs ppl are stressing over studying.
the benefits of a BCML student, 6 days to the next paper(:

wooo only 4 more papers to go, (lit p3 bio p3 chem and bio MCQs) of which lit p3 hopefully won't be anywhere as killer as my lit today.
damn cambridge, of all the context passages they could've set for Duchess of Malfi and Great Expectations they chose some random ulu bits that weren't anywhere as juicy as what we were used to, and i left out 4 points of analysis in my unseen! no time to add in or vet cos i was trying to squeeze in as much stuff as possible into my 1 hour per essay;

so damn shingz can :/

but then again i've only got myself to blame for putting faith in the standardization of questions, it's abit far fetched to think that for the last year that cambridge is using this syllabus they'd set us the ending parts of our texts just like prelims.

aye, why wasn't mr.whitby born with the ability of foresight.

destressed after lit by balling with chris, ziyi, yangsheng and puonen and realised that my new shooting form's improving my shots but killing my left back;
PAIN sia!
feels like an elephant sat on it or something. hmm, my jumpshots more consistent i guess? at the sacrifice of my back though.
went to KAP after that where me yangsheng zy got drinks and talked bout tons of stuff until 9 something, it's a great feeling to go home and not have to wake up early tmr~

tetris awaits.
at least before i get too tired to continue and sleep, and it's back to mugging tmr.

where to mug?

2009-11-09T04:36:00.000-08:00

it's time,
the last night before the first paper.

all the best people!
finally the start of the end's coming, all we need to do is to tahan like 3 more weeks of this stuff.
and it's freeeeeedom!
chiong this final lap and that's it.

alrite, let's do this.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. -Philippians 4:13

2009-10-29T20:16:00.000-07:00

oh my,
abit unbelievable that i'm gonna go for NS in 4 more months ._.
but its quite cool i think?
not the torture and everything, but the fact that you don't have to think for the next 2 years and just follow orders and i know quite some ppl who're goin the same BMT sch as me.

fun sia, it's gonna be like NCC all over again.

and the mood for the day is:
BORED.

2009-10-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

coooool,
finally figured out how to transfer stuff outta my phone!

somewhere near changi village after prelims with kuanloong and yangsheng

more changi village

nice dinner that my mom made. yummm :d

daybreak outside my house, the sky was a whole lot nicer than this just that the cam couldn't catch it.

2009-10-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

what to do
before the As really come;

bring my chem from fail to pass!
hopefully that is. it's the only thing i've got left that's failing.

finally had the last day of school yesterday, the last day of 2 years wearing full grey.
abit weird, considering that in sec 2 one of my reasons for wanting to come NJ was cos of the uniform but who knew the material was so horribly uncomfortable ._.

wanted to blog about something but i can't really remember it in its entirety, something along the lines of living life now.

like, there's so many things happening around the world like all the typhoons earthquakes etc etc especially around the SEA region but we're so lucky not to get hit by any.
maybe cos we singaporeans haven't really experienced these things therefore we don't appreciate the little nuances in life as well as others?

like waking up with a shelter above us or having a proper meal.
i mean yea, now it's the A/O levels for students and stuff, but that doesn't mean that academics are gonna be everything that's important in life rite?

people say that ohh well, i'm sacrificing my time with friends/enjoying myself for the greater good, when i've gotten good grades and got into my dream uni i'll make up for it.
after that i get my first class honours and secure a good job, of course.
and after i climb up the corporate ladder.
and after i make my first million.

before you know it, life's over.
and the time that you thought was always there never waited for you.
of course, it's an incredibly exaggerated example but nevertheless it just shows all of us that time really does wait for no one.

all in all i'm not asking everyone to pon sch and go mad enjoying life la, but to, y'know, just appreciate the things and people around us a little bit more?
life's really beautiful, but only if you slow down enough to take a look around.

ok enough about my random musings about life hahaa.

went out with a bunch of the S16 people for a meal and played pool after the last day of school!
(namely grace jingxi yangsheng runchao me leena saradha caleb)
grace wanted her squid ink pasta so we went to timah food centre purposely for that ._.
abit sian cos i eat there almost every weekend for church, but was fun looking at her eat it cos it looks abit like the strands from a mop that's been used for like 23784342 years.
pics are up on yangsheng's facebook i think.

ohh yea, went to watch surrogates and funny people last week, i think both were abit of a flop.
could've had better plots but at least the funny parts in funny people were really nice :D

time to go work on work.
(the english language, a guailan one. just like how fingers don't fing and hamburgers don't have ham in them)
hmm feel like getting new jeans.

2009-10-03T04:04:00.000-07:00

10 nov,
aye.

hmm, feel like playing pool.

2009-09-20T08:23:00.001-07:00

what strange dreams;
2 bizarre dreams in a row.

i remember in one of them i was driving around in a really horrible car (was a honda getz or a hyundai picanto) with ximing, junyang, shaz, geokpoh and brenda liew i think;

the funny thing was that we were looking for a restaurant in bugis that didn't exist and we went down this weird path (that i've never seen in bugis either) looking for it.
but amazingly we found it and i then woke up -.-

can't remember the other one, but it made me think that either,
1: i'm missing batok people like crazy, or
2: dreams occur for me when i sleep at 1am or so due to a result of incredible boredom during the daytime.

bio was fine, maths was stupid (or rather i was stupid), lit and GP was decent, and chem was passable for the first time in my life ^^

thank God.

"hm?"

2009-09-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

and so ends GP and bio P2;

(my post today starts in small letters cos my blogger interface is spoilt for some reason, i can't enlarge the font size. just thought i'd wanna share that incredibly random bit of info with the world)

i thought GP went pretty well, at least for paper 1 where i wrote like a madman for the sports question, the longest i've ever written for a GP essay. hahaa just hope that it'll make sense to mary lim and that she wun give me some weird mark for it. i thought the compre passage was kinda irritating cos the Sachs guy doesn't understand the importance of punctuating his sentences -.- like, 1 sentence was 4 lines long so you have to read and read and read and read to find out what he's actually trying to convey.

but the questions were alrite i guess, nothing too amazingly hard.

and bio! damn, i could've written so much more and for the first time i left something blank in a bio paper; auto -3m. heng it's not an essay question.
i was thinking i'd have enough time to come back and do the question, but i think i screwed myself by writing too much to secure those 2m-3m questions when there were so much more heavy questions at the back.

thursday, yesterday:
finally woke up early at 8 (yessss) to do a day of chem. well if you call 4 hours of work "a day", then yes i did finish a day of chem (:
went to popular at nite to hunt for a chem study guide cos half the time i've got no idea what the physical chem questions are saying, but i realised study guides are more or less like our chem notes, just compiled.
definitely not worth 31 bucks buying it for only 6 physical chem topics that i need when NJ's organic and inorganic notes are fine.

today:
maths and bio to do;
chiong arhhh.

2009-08-31T23:57:00.000-07:00

a routine/process:

routine: a regular course of procedure.
process: a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result; a continuous operation or treatment especially in manufacture (heh yea, the manufacture of 4As)

i don't think i've actually posted a proper post in quite a long while eh?
anyway life's been more or less a routine for the past 2 weeks, just going in and out of school and chaining myself to my table and doing chem/bio/maths.
(along with the usual basketball gym and running, but a whole lot less though.)

maybe it's just me who's feeling this, but i actually feel pretty darn lackadaisical about prelims and the fact that it's starting tml ._.

this morning:

mom: "prelims tomorrow eh. can anot?"

me: "orh, k lor."

waking up at 12 in the afternoon and walking to get roti prata, coming home and reading for the next 1 hour or so doesn't seem like the life of a j2 student a day before prelims. and yeaa, my morning prata rocked (:

hahaa don't get me wrong, i'm incredibly thankful that i'm feeling an almost negative amount of stress but at the same time it might mean that i THINK i've done enough work when i actually haven't.

or at least i feel that i've finished a relatively decent amount of revision and work that'll get me okay grades, then again i definitely could've done alot more; you can't really do too much revision, can you?

maybe it's cos i've been putting alot of faith into my routine, that since i get A B C accomplished per day for 1 week X N weeks it'll more or less add up to a quantity of work done, the question is whether or not that quantity is enough.

hmm, see how la hor. i've improved on my studying techniques since CTs and kinda found out what i did to screw up my grades, so i'll find out whether what i changed makes any difference after the 24th.

on a different note:
i ran 4.8 in a new PB timing last nite :D
22:51 whoooo~
roughly a min faster than my old timing, 23:54 i think? can't really remember.
i'd upload a pic of the timing from my watch but nooooo, omnia2 is ironically the stupidest smart phone on earth.
i can't even upload pics or transfer any sai from my phone to the comp, and vice versa it's super mafan to get stuff into the phone.

okayyy, gonna go read abit of bio + read the bio prelims 08, look through GP essays and maybe attempt abit of maths.

last random bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDfIxUjDeQ
Underdog by Kasabian live, ownage live performance. great song to be driving along to :D

2009-08-26T07:33:00.000-07:00

staying in school to mug is;
good?
well, depends on what good entails.
good that i actually do get work done, but it ain't good that it makes it easy to be sick of school pretty quickly.

random: hahaa for some reason i'm feeling abit detached.

finally ponning tml :d

2009-08-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

forgot what i wanted to say,
but i wanna watch G.I joe! and up.

man, there's like so little time left between now and prelims. (amazingly not like i'm feeling it just yet. hahaa no idea if that's a good thing)

woke up at 10 odd today, went out for breakfast when i felt like sleeping more actually cos i went gym last nite and kinda needed more rest.
reached home and did abit of maths before i ate abit, used comp and went back to doing; found myself asleep like 1 hour later on my bro's bed ._.

lazed around abit more after that, ate dinner, watched abit of tv, finished up that maths paper and did like 2 more questions of chem and here i am.

so interesting hor?
LOL.

off to watch top gear.

2009-08-07T07:06:00.000-07:00

super suay nowadays, after getting my phone stolen by some retard i got a fever just yesterday -.-

FML.

man, it's been quite a long while since i've had a fever, somemore one at 38.5 degrees.

really thank God that i'm recovering quite well ;D

on a very random note,
happy national day Singapore! (or at least soon la, in 2 more days)

2009-08-01T06:34:00.000-07:00

curse the muthaf_cka who stole my phone.

hope his children get born without assholes,
hope his house burn down,
hope he trips and falls down the 18th floor and breaks both his legs and his nutsack.

DAMMIT

2009-07-25T00:13:00.000-07:00

mann, it sure sucks big time to get grades like mine.

STUDY ARHHH

2009-07-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

choices, choices.

sports science, law, or lit?
or all 3, get a triple degree :D

hmmm, kind of thinking bout what i might do in uni.

sports science; my interests/strengths i guess. knowing how to lead and manage people and there's the aspect of actually doing a pretty interesting job.
sports scientist, coach, gym trainer, working for nike or adidas (hopefully), PE teacher, corporate trainer, manager and alot more.

law; what i wanted to do ever since i was sec 2. but then again, i've never really had a real passion for it or at least not yet. i like the idea of arguing for a living hahaa, but of course the lawyers that you see on TV are a hell lot more overglamorized than they really are.
crazy working hours and a job that becomes your life along with a huge pay, that's what a lawyer's life is ._.
still quite cool though!

lit; my backup. LOL.
if mr whitby heard me he'd gimme that look.
narhh, my ultimate backup's still coaching shooting or being a PE teacher.
or dropping out and becoming a bum (:
interested in it, yes. enough to take it on as a career? no.
hmm, doesn't mean that if i take a degree in literature i'll have to do lit though. it's still applicable to any old office job or a management level occupation.

why so cheem.

2009-07-08T06:25:00.000-07:00

haha whoa,
i don't get how some people are so contemplative/can think so much mannnn.
like in blogs and stuff, its as though they're constantly thinking of so many things at the same time and they've got so many opinions on things.

maybe i'm too simple?
LOL.
man, all i nid to make me happy are sports and a great meal with friends ;D

(or bachormee, of course.)

contented can liao larh.

2009-07-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

gym and shooting;
6 years and counting.

kinda coincidental that i picked up both these things in sec 1 and they're my 2 biggest passions ._.

idk, when i've been mugging for a real long time (like during Os and promos) i always feel really really great when i go back to the gym and start working out;
feels great to feel the ache the next day.
shuangggggg!
kinda theraputic i guess?
knowing that your muscles are growing, HAHA.

and i've never lost my passion for shooting, even after 6 years of the sport.
i mean yea, sometimes it can get incredibly boring/horrible when you shoot horribly, but when you shoot well and get great groupings its the best feeling in the world!
its great when you see your personal bests go up and up and up.
from 543 to 547, to 555, 563, 567, 574.
(and my theoretical 580, i dun care. dammit laaa)

up to now i still do feel passionate enough for these 2 things to consider a career in them, maybe that's why i'm choosing to do sports science in uni. (cos both these aspects are sports related and i kinda like nurturing ppl)

see how la hor,
let God guide me ;D

and i hate my blocked nose.
heng its going away!

2009-06-27T07:40:00.000-07:00

hmmm,
life's a tad meaningless nowadays.

hahaa the past 3 weeks've been great for my studies but horrible for anything else;
i think i haven't left bukit batok/bukit panjang for the whole while, i haven't realised my bus pass expired cos i didn't take bus for so long.

and the stupid MSN virus is making blogging real hard, cos when i type halfway the stupid virus comes out -.-

shit thisssssss.

then again, it's like showing so many people i haven't chatted with in a damn long time!
man, gotta go meet them up soon.

hmm i feel like watching the AYG shooting events but it's during CTs i think.
and i wanna buy some new stuff.
and get a new bball.
and 4 As.
:D

k i have no idea what i'm writing.
LOL.

2009-06-18T05:35:00.000-07:00

shooting end of season chalet!

a whole bunch of the shooters met at pasir ris MRT before walkin to aranda, and its a pretty nice chalet eh!
there's a pool and stuff, great location cos it's walkable distance from a whole lot of things.
tons of seniors came back, man its like a reminder that i'm gonna be bald in less than a year's time like hanxiao johnathan hanson alex and the rest.
dammit.

but then again NS very horrible meh?
nid to experience it to judge, i guess.

had handover after the bbq, and i'm officially retired after 6 years of shooting!
mannnnnn.
can't believe it's over so fast, that was 6 years?!
didn't feel like it.
its kinda nice to know that i don't need to send out tons of team messages anymore though ;D

hahaa as usual, shooting chalet ends up being a giant LAN fest on the first nite with a whole lot of ppl goin;
and andy's a great source of entertainment when he's sleep deprived.

got only 2 hours of sleep before goin for breakfast with cheryl zhongyi and jeremy, caught ghosts of girlfriends past before eating with a whole bunch of them (shengrui chok kee julie jiapei, can't rmb the rest)

man i remember getting damn tired around that time after lunch, decided to go home cos i think i'd get knocked down on the way if i went night cycling with the dudes half-awake.
crashed like a fool on the mrt, slept from city hall all the way back to jurong east before sleeping another 16 hours ._.

daaamn, i think it's the longest i've ever slept so far or at least one of the longest.

more mugginggggg, chem GG liao la

2009-06-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

whoo update
hahahaa whoa.
quick one, im pretty lazy to elaborate ._.

my life's still gym + bball + mugging as usual, but its cool that shooting's finished our elections!

(i'll update later on, i wanted to write a whole chunk about elections and stuff but i kinda forgot while watching TV bout what i wanted to write. blame my short term memory.)

top gear rocks.

what a random update.

2009-06-03T08:40:00.000-07:00

i'm legal!
:D

18~
hahahaa thanks to everyone who wished me yeaa, really appreciate it!(:

(coolshit man, i can finally buy drinks on my own HAHA.)
gosh i feel mature.

lotsa thanks to (not in order):
rae
norman
zhongyi
paul
yihuai
changjie
karthik
henry
ben lee
guiyen
brenda
rafidah
kenny
deyan
shuyan
jiani
cherie
shaz
weecheng
ximing
chyiwei
hanafi
gavin
lim min
andy
keson
xiong
yanhui
qiaowei
cheryl
weishuen
saradha
kailing
safa
michael kevin
nick
geokpoh
diyana
gary

sorry if i missed anyone out yea ._.

and of course the most thanks to God(:

2009-05-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

cool shit, more rotting.
tons of stuff to write about, but i'm just too lazy ._.

CIP+dinner with haocheng, (and yangsheng safa grace jingxi)
slacking around and trying to study during the 9th week of term,
and NJC Archery Invitationals. where i got my sexayy chaota look.

i look like a canoeist now, cool

retaking A lvl chinese tml!
ok suddenly i've got not much idea as to what to write other than the fact that I SHOULD BE STUDYING more.
(not studying chinese that is, as in overall studying for CTs.)

i'm hating the pressure.

2009-05-18T06:36:00.000-07:00

incredibly random dream.
like the title says, hahaa.

i had like, 3 really weird dreams in a row last week?
one of them i imagined i was in some building/club/hotel with shaz and sodi and weecheng and we had to go to some place, i think it was a room on the 4th floor.

andd, to go to that place we had to crawl through tons and mounds of garbage (i've got no idea why the only way through is through a rubbish heap, ask my subconscious.) and sodi pulled out a hot pink rugby skins from the trash before we entered the heap.

from what i remember it was something like this:

*sodi digging the trash*

me: dude, wtf you doing?

sodi: since we getting dirty later might as well wear this ah.

and i remember i gave him a totally ehm. are yououtofyourmind? look.

the thing is that the rugby skins were totally disgusting! there were like covered in trash and semi black in some areas and he was still brushing the dirt off and wearing it OVER his normal clothes like a retarded superman.
HAHA.

now that i come to think of it, it was really funny when i first dreamt it and woke up.

the other dream i can't really remember, but my last dream was BIZZARE.

ask me if you're curious hahaa, its just totally wrong though.

2009-05-17T06:42:00.000-07:00

before it starts to rot;

here's a post.

today's random post is dedicated to paul ooi :D

(hahahaa paiseh arh dude, i'm just bored)

gay love with caleb

yes. more gay pics. and oh yes he loves caleb's ipod touch.

paul also loves to sleep.

sleep somemore.

still sleeping.

50! sexayyy. 10 10 10 10 10.

ok i'm very bu yao lian, tyvm.

wokayyyys.

not that much stuff happened throughout the past few weeks,

some of the s16 peeps went to piano ensemble's concert on...the 12th i think?

can't rmb the date, but it was pretty nice!

although i couldn't really appreciate some of the later pieces, im not really a huge classical piano fan ._.

but the jazz and the blues pieces were nice though.

ohh yea, bio spa!

hahaa i'm thankful that we all don't need to cram large amounts of useless information (that the teachers feed us even before the stupid SPA happens) anymore.

what a giant waste of brain space and effort and pen ink -.-

regurgitating what you've just read like 5 mins before goin into the exam hall isn't exactly a very good way to assess one's scientific ability.

and this is so overdue, napfa ._.

yayy i got my gold, but wahlau it's like the worst gold i've ever got i think?

dammit, cos i'm double jointed at my elbow i can't fully extend my arm when doing pullups and mr. menon didn't count like 5 cos he said it wasn't fully extended.

the angle that my arm makes is over 180 degrees la pls, extended enough for you?

ended up doing 8 only, sianzzzzzzzzzz.

but anyway its over, who cares as long as i don't need to go in for 2 more months of extra training! whooooohoo.

and thanks ben raja for running super slow! (piang, your laxing pace is like my normal pace eh. hahahaa.)

cos i paced him during 2.4 yea.

and i realised that i shouldn't go to the pool on fridays, its pretty full.

how random.

and im aching physically from gym yo, i loooove the ache :D

HAHA.

thankyou, im siao.

2009-05-08T21:59:00.001-07:00

what to do now arh?
cooool, i reached home before 2pm on mon and tues
(not that i've got anything nice to do anyway.)

swimming on weeknights is damn nice, especially when practically no one's in the pool and it's like you own it.
maaan, i should take a pic of the evening sky at the pool leh!
its damn laxing.

sitting there and staring makes me question why i'm even in school ._.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeee.
im bored again

2009-04-26T07:23:00.001-07:00

food for thought;
i read zhi ler's blog for the first time ever,
scrolled down to a post about having a life and it was incredibly true.

something along the lines of how ironic it is that some people play like crazy all day long (who mock other people for having no life while mugging like siao) are instead the ones that're wasting theirs away, and how everyone's got their own definitions of what life should be like.

i mean, yea,
is there anything wrong with thinking that getting a decent education is a meaningful use of your life?
really made me think again about judging others and stuff,
because i know friends who're really really hardworking academically (not just in NJ la) but i've never really thought about it that way.
that they really might be mature and responsible enough to give up their privileges,
like going out with friends more often and all that just to secure their grades and put in that extra few hours of work.

maybe its just the fact that i can't really study when i'm surrounded with other people that're that hardworking,
hahaa it's one of the things that i considered before even coming to NJ ._.
whether or not i'd even be suited to studying in such a pressurizing environment.

cos i'm the type that needs to own people before getting my head in the books,
as in i hate climbing up from the bottom to get my As.
i'd much rather own from the beginning and score relatively consistently all the way till the end,
not like how i'm struggling to get like just an average C for my subs.

and to those people who're from diff JCs,
please don't say "ohhh nvm laa, NJ's standard is different, too high. "
hahaa yea that's correct to a certain extent la, but wtf we're all still taking the A levels rite?
it can't be THAT easy to get 4 As in other JCs, its still A level curriculum.

(and dun tell me that a U in NJ chemistry translates to an A or a B in other JCs.
im pretty sure my chem sucks balls big time, LOL.)

from the beginning of J1 i already felt weird and kinda foreign being in NJ, especially when i didn't really like certain parts of the culture.
but then again, lookin back more than a year ahead i've pretty much come to terms with it that if God put me in NJ it would've been for a hell of a good reason,
and that's more than enough for me to welcome His decision with open arms.

winning team champions for nationals this year was one of those reasons(:

swim/run/gym ftw.

2009-04-22T04:09:00.000-07:00

since i took 10 days for this post,
it should take 12 days for the next one considering i posted the old post 8 days after it's predecessor.
(if you bothered to really go read this and figure it out then WHEEE you're incredibly bored i must say ._.)

wow, i think for the past week life's been pretty nice.
at least i dun feel as tired for some reason, even though im sleeping around the same number of hours a night;
but life for me after school's pretty much either

1. going down to the range to coach the J1s,
2. going gym/running/swim + mug
3. plain old mug and laze around

isnt this an incredibly boring post?!
even i think so, LOL.

oh yeaa, i explored hostel today after school!
its quite nice actually eh, seriously speaking. other than the fact that people like yangsheng steal food like mad and that there isnt a piano there for free use (still nid to book slots somemore) its quite good overall.

the ambience feels pretty nice?
that weird bench-water feature-thingy near the laundry room should look cool at nite with yellowish soft lighting mannn.
great for laxing mode(:

(so this is what our school budget spent its money on. black marble-ish water features. -.-)

its pretty nice that the environment's pretty slated for pure mugging and laxing, considering that your room's like that small and all you can do there is pretty much walk around/mug.

and the downsides;
there isn't really freedom per se.
it's not like you can walk out as and when you like and return at like 2 in the morning or something if you wanted to. well not that i WANT to do somethin like that, but its the fact that you can't even if you wanted.

there's not that many peeps in the J2 level that're rooming, man if like majority of the cohort roomed it'd be frrrrigggin FUNN!
(not that it'll ever happen unless the singaporean hostel peeps go mad and wage a war against the vietnamese/PRC/indo/thai/indian/malaysian scholars and kill SP and Cheng at the same time.)

hahaa i wouldn't really mind rooming with ys, at least life'll be more fun yo ;D

andand, being random,
i B-ed my GP twice :D
in your face, mary lim!

my bio notes are callinggggg.

2009-04-12T04:16:00.000-07:00

lazy to update again;
hahaa i think i've lost the meaning of my life after nationals passed ._.

cos it's like for the past 1 year plus everyday (or every other day) after school = chiong straight down to the range to train,
so when the need to stop training comes its quite jarring.
like i feel lost and abit itchy to train :D
(my suit's just lying there.....)

its dumb to continue, but as much as i wanna coach the J1s i really wanna continue training!
dammit.
lemme hit 580 first pls!

so yea.
i've been lounging around school everyday after lessons in the range teaching the J1s, either that or back home quite early to rest and start my homework.
what an excess of free time ._.
hahaa i think every other sport that hasn't ended nationals sure would like that.

and i've got no idea what to blog right now, for some reason my mind's kinda empty;
maybe its cos i've just gymmed an hour ago and i'm feeling abit hungryyyyy.

MAKAN

2009-04-04T06:10:00.000-07:00

nationals '09.

sexayy, A div air rifle men's challenge trophy

zonal team gold, nationals team gold

individual 1st 2nd 3rd!

sooo, here comes my post about ponning 4 days of school for nationals.
(abit leceh to say eh, i can't really rmb what happened other than the significant stuff)

went to school on monday and trained after school, still shot quite ok and packed up my things for nationals to start tml;
we still haven't decided on the 3rd shooter even on one day before the comp cos both me and akshay were shooting around the same score (so we chose to decide on the day itself)
and HENNGG akshay was feeling pretty great that morning!
HAHA.
even though i din shoot i'm incredibly proud of him yo, individual 2nd ;D

hmm, it would've felt great to shoot for the last time and win team gold ._.
hahaa just that i'm not sure we would've confirm swept all 3 individual positions, no idea if i'dve been able to shoot 580 on that day..
haii, the what ifs.

but nvm, rifleboys still did great!

the B div rifleboys shot great for their first ever competition, not including taro who did ok too ;D

on the 2nd day the pistolboys shot, mark and zhongyi crashed quite badly so they just missed out on top 4 :/
this year's A div rifleboys top 4 results were incredibly guailan, cos the champs din shoot a really good score (like none of them won individual which is rare for a gold team); they just shot a safe score.
its alrite pistolboys, still got next year to win it back(:
thrash MJ and every other school in '10!
and given how little time zhongyi had to train it's amazing how he shot with 2 months plus of training time.

3rd day:
the A div riflegirls day to shoot, carol thought she crashed until 387 but ended up with 392!
niiiiice.
congrats to riflegirls, nationals team 3rd!

4th day:
B div girls shot, and was kinda convenient to watch cos batok girls were shooting next to NJ o.O
NJ girls did great for their first time, and wenying shot ok too; 380!
prize presentation after that, and omg la west spring girls scream like siao.
hahaa we sang inilah (practically shouted it) and cheered like mad for our shooters who won stuff, and man it felt friggin awesome to be part of NJ shooting right there(:

went back to NJ for club photo and off to plaza sing for dinner with riflegirls, pistolboys and the seniors (zhongxian jiapei hanson julie chor kee etc etc), din join the guys for LAN cos i was broke ._.

and that pretty much ends my whole week;
its back to school -.-

NJCSC is sexayyyyyyy(:

2009-04-01T06:13:00.000-07:00

sexayyy.
(:

2009-03-31T20:02:00.000-07:00

NJ rifleboys OWNAGE.

Gerald: 587
Akshay: 580
Xu Yang: 580

rifle mens' A div team gold.
individual 1st, 2nd, 3rd. ALL NJ.

'nuff said.

WE ROCKKKKKKKKKKK

(off to support APB now! the rest of the club, JIAYOU :D)

2009-03-26T05:24:00.001-07:00

oooh and for absolute fun and for posterity/reflection's sake, my last two shoots:

training camp internals:
97 96 99 96 93 90 571 -.-
(i should go shoot myself for those last two series)
siannnz, i totally screwed up my sighting for the last 2 series cos it was actually my position that wasn't there during my 5th series but i tot it was sighting. so i gey-kiang went to sight and made my sighting cockup big time ._.
my last series had like tons of 9.9 and 9.8s, wharrrt the hellllll.
if i shot 96-96 instead i'dve hit 580! WTF.

zhang's sunday night monthly: (or izzit saturday nite? can't rmb.)
93 95 94 97 96 97 572
bloody hell, this time my first few series weren't that good instead -.-
cos zhang's monthly was incredibly chaotic, when i just suited up she shouted "competition start!"

......

maan, i didn't even start dry firing eh then everyone else orredy started sighting. got too kancheong and ended up dry firing for like 7 mins tops, then started sighters without my form being totally there which kinda screwed up my first half of the shoot.
could get 10s, but like they were kinda borderlined?
like as if i pulled the trigger even though i didn't feel confidently stable enough to pull i did and by luck it ended up as a 10.

hmm, but my last 2 trainings this week were sexayyy :D

please let it last until nationals! (or let akshay gerald and xuyang peak until siao this week instead oso can)

2009-03-26T04:51:00.000-07:00

how time flies;

team bbss 07!

"LOls that sounds so weird.
but haiii, yeaa....
indeed.
seems such a short time before that me, shaz, kimhock and zhihao first stepped into the range ):
now we're officially the alumni of BBSS air rifle -.-
EX-vice capt~
hahahaaas, but on the other hand its kinda good?
cos after relinquishing all the responsibility, there's much less stress to handle ;D

to my lovely jrs reading this:

WASSUP!

you wouldn't even begin to realise how much we seniors've been stressing and worrying over you all, until you're in our shoes; so nvm nvm. yeaa, and of cos im always the horrible, irritating, vulgar, love-to-scold-the-living-hell-out-of-you-all vice capt, but has it occurred to you all if i don't be the bad guy, whos gonna be?

PLS......

i do all that nonsense not just for fun -.- i dun enjoy myself when i scream the shit out of everyone, i dun derive anything beneficial to myself out of that....

so ook.

my point being, i sincerely apologise if i've actually been hurtful or harsh in any way or time during my lectures and scoldings, cos they're meant to wake you all up rite? what's the use of scolding you all if you can't feel the pain involved in it? hope you guys understand my rationale for being so horrible and everything.

SORRY to the C team! hope you all can be forgiving and have a big heart horr~

hahahaaaas.

hmmm and on a lighter note, i dun wanna leave air rifle still lecturing you all on my blog; makes me feel like i'm ancient and long dead, then still wan to scold you guys somemore -.-but it was indeed an honour to have led you guys, i'm sure all the other seniors oso feel the same way(:

dun forget all the stuff we've taught you all alrite? just like how we passed down everything we learnt frm mag's batch all the way down to you all, like bringing sweets into comp, stuff like that. see? even you all know stuff that they've taught us! hope you guys wun forget how much the seniors have put into air rifle, and rmb to thank mr loo, mr neo and mrs chan for everything too; they're not the youngest ppl around anymore, and please be patient with them when they get quite cranky (happens frequently with old ppl like them ;D)

and now that you all are goin to take over soon as leaders of the cca soon, keep in mind; the character development of your juniors character is higher than anything, including shooting well and getting great scores.

who wants a team without teamwork or integrity, even if they can shoot 590/600?

that's not a team, that's a bunch of machines.

dun forget bout everything the seniors taught you guys about character, responsibility etc etc, there's reasons why we put so much emphasis to have team talk everytime after trainings. don't fight among yourselves for petty, stupid things and i don't wanna hear of politics during training and selections for team slots k?

lastly, just chill alrite?

keep the fun factor in air rifle and like mag said, you're a family, but during trainings keep the concentration up,you guys still got a long way to go to bring air rifle to greater heights ;D

do your best and give all you have during trainings, trust me;

they'll pay off in the end(:

Gabra's still around next year whn you guys need help, and so are all of the seniors; just give us a call or a msg or anythin and we're there.

hope after leading you guys for the past year or so we've earned your respect, cos you all have definitely earned ours.(:
dun miss us horr!

LOLs.

takkaire and all the best, jrs;

yr vice capt,

-DAN. "

wow, it's been 2 years since i wrote this.

and looking back it brings back great memories yo (: but then again, it reminded me about how much NJCSC is about the people, that we're so much more than just a bunch of shooters but that we're a legacy; the end result of so many years of seniors and their hard work.

as i'm typing this, i'm 5 days away from closing the chapter called "shooting" on my life, and after 6 years of it and i'd safely say i definitely wouldn't be who i am without it.

the holiday trainings, the sweat in the old batok range and the equipment, rushing to the back gate after eating outside batok just to go for training, competitions and how we screwed them up, training and bonding camps in NJ (where the rifleboys scammed the 100 plus drinks machine HAHA), trainings in the NJ range, playing pool in the range, thursday morning coach trainings, and tons more.

great memories eh (:

hmm, wonder if i'm ever gonna take up shooting again competitively.

cos after As its either i'm going back to batok/NJ to coach after taking NCAP (hopefully for real this time, if i din succeed it'd be the 3rd time i tried to take NCAP but forgot to register at MOE for it -.-) or really start training on my own and try out for NTT.

but then again my standard's not there yet ehh, so see how i guess. i'm at the most a high 570-low 580 at the moment but NTT cut off point should be at 58something consistently.

5 more days to nationals, peeps.

CHIONG ARHHHHHH

2009-03-17T04:22:00.001-07:00

when one dies,
the three biggest regrets are that they din have enough fun while they were alive, they should've been more generous and they should've been more patient (this one i dun really agree, should be they should've loved more)

hmm but very true yarh?
one's dying regrets sure wouldnt be like "aiyahh, shit. i shouldve scored 1 more A1 for O lvls," or "damn i din finish that chem tutorial."
aiyarhh, life's just too short to waste ppl.
just like that dude who got killed while crossing the PIE -or rather cos he made way for some retarded drunk guy crossing it- or any other instance where life just gets taken away in an instant;
we never know when we'll just kick the bucket so why bother getting so uptight over certain small small things?

its times like these when everyone's all swamped up with schoolwork and trainings and nationals and studying that we forget how to appreciate the smaller, simpler things in life.
like taking a long walk back instead of taking 3 more bus stops to clear your mind,
spending time with your friends just chatting and hanging out,
or just taking a break from the books.

to put it more simply, laxxxxing yo!
the most important thing in the world SURE ain't the coming A lvls or the nationals,
even though they're pretty important of course.
all im saying is that one should learn to take a step back and have a breather, especially when we're all kinda bogged down with random shit that's clogging our lives.

hahaa, i still believe in my mantra. "do what you feel like."
cos time sure doesn't wait for anyone or anything.

(incredibly random musings, was listening to "Live Your Life" on the way back from training camp last nite)

2009-03-16T06:42:00.000-07:00

wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzJqRXLI08&feature=related
hahaa, nsync still owns (:

2009-03-13T22:08:00.000-07:00

2 more weeks
to nationals!
whoa.

i think time passes wayy too fast when my week gets packed with trainings and homework.
HTNS interschools wasn't too bad for us, although it could've been alot better though hahaa;
chiong for 2 more weeks and that's it ppl.

and whooo i broke my personal best for the 4th time in 4 shoots ;D
95 95 98 95 96 95 574
finally hit 570!
aiseh, for the first time i saw my name so high up on a results list.
shocking yo.
really thank God for the good performance, its like for most of the shoot my elbow-hip form was damn nice, it totally din move at all.

and here's my punching bag at home:

great for relieving stress yo, just anyhow whack/kick it for fun

and its pretty good exercise too.

kays, off to study abit before gymming ._.

2009-03-07T05:21:00.000-08:00

ooh and i forgot:

many people, one purpose. taupok. HAHA

taupok from hell.

hongqian's face looks like he's in so much agony its friggin funny

please let the coming week be a slack week, i'm incredibly shagged.

2009-03-07T05:03:00.000-08:00

more random pics
just cos i feel like it.

the round table that xinyi broke, no idea how he did it

puonyl puonanoate,
nice smile ;D

zhongyi and shengrui standing just below the aircon cos the range wasn't aircon-ed until i switched it on.
(cos only rifleshooters in full suit can on the aircon, we rock yo)

more boredom in class

cool, din know my phone could do artistic shots like this.

another tribal

black dolphin.

what usually happens in chinese class

ben raja "meditating" in chem class

the carpark at tohtuck rd, just felt bored while waiting for my dad to get the car after church

2009-03-03T04:41:00.001-08:00

what a week;
izzit just me or did the week just pass by so darn quickly?
school+NTU shoot+roadrun and there goes the week ._.

the past week NJ shot at NTU invitational shoot and i guess we din do very well as a whole larh, but its a good learning experience yo.
quite alot of our shooters crashed and din do as well as they'dve wanted to, hmm maybe cos of competition pressure?
for the rifleboys it's more of handling competition mistakes that's the problem.
ppl, lets just go ahead and make as many mistakes as you wan now, we'll own the other schools upside down during nationals(:

this year's shoot was pretty quiet, like there weren't as many schools around SAFRA yishun during the competition days itself; almost like NJ+our alumni, RJ and MJ only for the rifleboys detail at least.

and MJ and dunman high are catching up,
crap.
how'd dunman suddenly have a 580-something shooter suddenly?

time to start the last month of chionging for nationals, it's just that little bit more!
come to think of it there's only exactly 28 more days to the rifleboys detail.
(which is abit scary, considering that there's so little time and still quite a big gap to catch up in terms of standard)

but NTU was alright for me, yayy i broke my old personal best again ;D

94 93 95 95 95 95 567

amaazin, considering the fact that i thought i screwed up my first series. thought i shot 90, still can 94 sia.
although i think it's kind of due to the scoring machine's leniency;
i dun think i shot a 567 performance, it kinda felt like 561-564 at the most.

love the fact that i'm still improving but i just wish it was a wee bit faster, nidta find out my mistakes and work on them quick.

on to today:
hmm feels great to come home and find the junk in my room all cleared up (thanks to my mom hahahaa)

and i think koda kumi's Moon Crying is damn nice eh!
ok maybe i'm a sucker for how well she's able to portray emotions in her songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy004oCvZrI

and i'm done.

2009-02-24T03:46:00.000-08:00

hmm come to think of it,
i haven't actually blogged for real in a very long time.
as in like, other than posts of what i've been doing/going/stuff bout shooting,
but instead random musings about stuff.

like, the past few weeks've been pretty darn repetitive for some reason;
i think J2 life's better in the sense that we got tons of free periods now?
even though its supposed to be more stressed i feel a hell lot more slack nowadays.

maybe it's cos BCML H1maths means that you've essentially only got bio and chem homework to deal with most of the time, then again its not giving me enough pressure to work harder for my studies.

but i almost passed me chem test yo ;D
HAHA.

hmm at least i'm still studying bit by bit every nite, at least it'll be easier off for me when we're all nearer to the As.
regardless, most of the time after school still means straight to the range.
i'm back to training but i'm not feeling back on great form yet even with NTU invitationals coming up this thursday and monthly shoot on sunday :/
pray that i'll get shooting well soon yo.

aaanyway.
its such a cycle larh, doing the same stuff week after week;
talk about the mundane lives of the women of Canterbury ._.

on a very random note i feel like getting a tattoo! (on my ankle or something)
hahaa it's kinda fun to think of and draw designs during boring classes,
just brings me closer and closer to really getting myself a real tatt.

and damn, its totally unfair that since my brother ended his NS 2 weeks ago he's been living the life of a total bum.
his whole day is pretty much:
wake up late, laze around, go out with friends, shop, play comp, watch movies online/tv, eat, sleep.
repeat every day until near march, when he's gonna go to korea on holiday with his friends -.-

goin to watch miami/L.A/London ink online now(:

2009-02-17T05:59:00.000-08:00

dude's nite out was funnnnn ;D
or at least being total idiots with the guys (yangsheng, wensong, caleb, paul) was nice(:

met up at plaza sing's mac for dinner before waiting for wensong and caleb to come, and we watched valkyrie which wasn't too bad i guess?
as in the movie's significance was nice and everything, but i kinda thought it was really boring at some parts ._.
its like, you know that the plot to kill hitler obviously didn't succeed yet you're still eager to find out what happened to the heroes.
and of cos yangsheng liked it, patriotic movie wad hahahaa.

after that we went all over town, wanted to go to marina barrage but we kinda got lost and decided it was too friggin far so we settled for esplanade there.
watched some concert thingy at near the singapore river and went over to that empty space across the road (opposite the padang) to slack and watch yangsheng go camera crazy ._.

peeektures:
(i forgot to include one more shot of me and paul holding hands HAHA, go facebook if you wanna see :D)

we got bohliao waiting for the lift

on the way to esplanade

screwing around opposite the padang

our last shot, its niiiiiiice ;D

more outings like this would be da sex.
and im training again!
yayyyy(:

2009-02-07T06:17:00.000-08:00

what the ponggg,
i can't train ._.

stupidly injured that joint near my left knee cos my stance was making it twist when it's not supposed to be twisting.
got blueblack somemore!
dammit.

hmmm, shouldn't have trained so often larh..
:/
but it's good to take a break for the moment i guess, cos of that injury i've been leaving the firing line limping;
my leg feels super numb after shooting, especially that thursday morning during coach training.
i'm definitely going back when i feel better yo.

anywayyyyy:
its been fun to be so guai lately, like everyday after school and training i've been doing tutorials consistently for the first few times in my time at NJ ;D
its gonna sound real brainwashed and everything,
but it feels incredibly good to finish a whole stack of work and go "HELLYEAAHHH" and do whatever the hell i want after that.
like gym or running or piano or wasting time aimlessly online or watching tv or pool.

i miss soccer ._.
and i kinda love PE nowadays cos it feels great to ache the day after!
hahaa ok i sound i'm a masochist.

i'll update properly sometime soon yarh(:

2009-01-31T07:24:00.000-08:00

hmmm,

what a short CNY this yr ._.
maybe its cos of how late it started and how lazy my family was this year hahaa.
CNY celebrations in school were pretty nice, class party was goooood yarh!
see ppl? our class is fun just that we don't get that many chances to hang out together -.-
played polar bear and some other stuff.
after eating most of the girls went down to watch the performance,
the dudes (me runchao paul puonen yangsheng lishuo) stayed and played texas until school ended cos ys and lishuo couldn't go back to maris stella so quickly cos of the guard.

puonen, if you're reading this please learn how to play texas better la dude.
;D

after that, went for lunch at serangoon gardens with paul and runchao;
nice western food yo.

bohliao on the bus

runchaoooo

hahaa, yangsheng trying to read some random auntie's newspaper

the food was great, lepaked for like 1 hr deciding wad to do next before we chose to go jamming with runchao's other friend at some ulu place near pasir panjang.
ppl, jamming plus good food totally rocks pls.
played for like 2 hrs plus until my fingers kinda started to hurt, went home after that yeap.

okkkk, time for random pics!

what happens when i get bored during maths class;

i love the "blurry-background-but-nice-focus-in-the-middle, hahaa" effect!

no idea how i did it with my phone cam though.

the next tribal.

doesn't look that nice here but looks better from the top

sexayyy keyboard, a yamaha CP33 ;D

i'd have it at home if i had 1.6k lying around the house.

feeen-eeeshed.

2009-01-25T07:07:00.000-08:00

tagged.

1: Besides your lips, where is your favourite spot to get kissed?
-hahaa, aren't dudes usually the kissers?

2: How did you feel when you woke up this morning?
-din really wanna wake up.

3: Who was the last person you took a photo with?
-paul and runchao, on the bus to serangoon gardens; courtesy of yangsheng.

4: Would you consider yourself to be spoiled?
-nah.

5: Would you ever donate blood?
-just did, at batok's blood drive in 08

6: Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex?
-ehh, how bout having 4 of them. hahahaa, or at least really close friends

7: Do you want someone dead?
-not reallyyy, can't think of anyone i particulary wanna kill

8: What does your last text message say?
-hahaa that someone neglected her phone while eating reunion dinner (fooood)

9: What are you thinking of right now?
-seriously, food. cos my reunion steamboat was pretty early, like at 5-6ish so now i'm hungry at 11 ._.

10: Do you wish someone is with you right now?
-why not?

11: What time did you go to sleep last night?
-ehh lemme think. around 12.30?

12: Where did you buy the T-shirt you are wearing now?
-no idea, i can't remember where my dad got this Yale tee.

13: Is someone on your mind right now?
-kinda, what's it to you?

14: Who was the last person to text you?
-liumin

done.
now time to go look for stuff to eat, and NO i'm not another chyiwei.
HAHA.

2009-01-25T06:58:00.000-08:00

mytiannn,
i love fang da tong.
not in the gay sense, of course -.-

friggin fell in love with his music,
gonna get his albums soonnnnn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO9qWDPeU8o

2009-01-21T05:24:00.000-08:00

yayy,
new personal best ;D

thankyou Lord.

2009-01-18T05:10:00.000-08:00

so sue me for not updating,
i'm just kinda lazy to update larhhh cos my life is pretty much:
training + gym + school + eating + sleeping + slacking with friends.

is borrreeeeng, no?
and screw this, i'm feeling like i got a cold ( or rather leng3 dao4 in chinese),
think cos of the weather at nite nowadays, its kinda cold.
i'm getting a cough and kind of a blocked nose,
MAN I HATE BEING SICKK

*sniffs my blocked nose.*

first week of school:
hell yeaaa, marcus yip's my chem teacher ;D
at least i feel a whole lot more confident with him than mrs poon,
and paul, michael, albert and grace are in GP too, cooolio.

my new gp teacher reminds me of professor trelawney,
old and a leeeetle bit crazy ._.
and YESS no more angeline koh for lit;
its benzie dio who's pretty cool, at least he's a dude.
the only male teacher we had last yr was whitby who's the lit students' reason to gloat cos he OWNS.

"ppl like whitby don't die, they become gods and get worshipped"
-danieljohnlee

chinese is quite a friggin waste of time, its like a structured free period with a teacher sitting in.

and ooooh ppl,
go read "the study skills handbook" by Tony Buzan,
its just some random study skills book that's not a bad readddd.
but its 40 bucks though, so um up to you la ._.

ok i have no idea what else to blog.

random:
christina aguilera rocks yo.
akon: you're so beautifulllllll~

2009-01-07T06:11:00.000-08:00

just cos i'm feeling like it;

1. Put your iTunes/Napster/Zune Player/WinAmp/etc on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Built to Last-Melee

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

青花瓷-Jay Chou (flowerpot? HAHA.)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Everybody's Fool-Evanescence (ehh quite true. hahaa)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Call Me Irresponsible-Michael Buble (okkkkk.)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Heartbreaker-Will.I.am (where got sia)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
軌跡-Jay Chou

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Wake Up Call-Maroon 5 (hahahaa, pretty much.)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
不痛-张韶涵

WHAT IS 2+2?
落叶归根-王力宏

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
The Best is Yet to Come-Michael Buble (aisehhh)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
路小雨-不能说的秘密 OST (trueee)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Don't Stay-Linkin Park

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Everything-Michael Buble (...)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
你那么爱他-李圣杰 (whoa, how tyco it shuffled to this)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
By Myself-Linkin Park (aiyoh how disappointing)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Nobody's Listening-Linkin Park (ohmytian, it sucks la...even from a LP fan it sucks.)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
淡水海边 -不能说的秘密 (i dun mind, its nice)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Breathing-Ocean Avenue (HAHA)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Black Cherry-Koda Kumi

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Holiday-Green Day (bring it on la)

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
I'm Yours-Jason Mraz (i'm His)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
蒲公英的約定-Jay Chou

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Give it Up to Me-Sean Paul

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
愛のうた-Koda Kumi

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Bleed It Out-Linkin Park (guess nooooot.)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
背叛-曹格

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
思念是一种病-张震岳 (hahaaa, apparently)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race-Fallout Boy

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
说你爱我-S.H.E

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Cookie Jar-Gym Class Heroes

2009-01-06T18:53:00.000-08:00

punggol la, dey.

punggol station yo.
after chem retest went explorin with yangsheng,
and yes i'm quite random hahahaa
went to some path at punggol jetty there, where the OBS boat takes ppl to ubin.

cool path.

this isn't mirrored leh!
really just took it as it is.

more grass stuff

what i did the last week:

had bbq at jingxiang's house with most of the batok dudes

chilled at sherrie's poolside with km shuyan and sherrie until 11 odd

training, coach zhang was late againnnn.

chem retest, UUUUU ;D

aiyarh, but either way im confirm goin to have to go to consolidation so boh pian.

who ask me to lose my chem genes after O lvls.

few more days to sch, JC peeps.

enjoy yourselves while you can la(:

2008-12-30T05:39:00.000-08:00

traininggg
wah, trained yesterday + today + safra monthly on sunday.
and i shot 554 for monthly,
kinda okok?

but it's like i definitely could've done a whole lot better if i din mess up my alignment, sighting and hip + elbow form.
aiyaaaaa..
sian.

and whoa, for the first time i trained from 9 to around 3pm;
tiring like hell especially when mentally i'm still thinking bout my bad positionings from safra monthly and the training on mon.

hahaa i can't believe it's been a year since the Os have passed,
its friggin fast leh!
wow.
now looking at my old posts makes me feel super immature.
like how come last time i posted like that arh?
kinda overly optimistic.

gonna be 09 in 2 days ppl,
enjoy 08 while it lasts(:
even though it's been quite a shit yr larh hor.
sichuan earthquake, the financial meltdown, my studies bein pretty crap hahaa,
hope 09's gonna be real different.

gogogoooo

2008-12-24T20:45:00.000-08:00

i love my gun.

hahaa, the title kinda says it all.

yayy, my first 50!
or at least in quite a long while.

feels great when everything goes smoothly during trainings(:
thank you Lord;

570 here i comeeeee

2008-12-24T07:38:00.000-08:00

randommm,
just felt like posting out of the blue ._.

hmm.

angel.

2008-12-19T07:14:00.000-08:00

random pics again.

hooo yeah ;D

standard chartered bags, its only 3k somemore.
imagine 47k more ._.
like lord of the rings seh..

mutant banana, 2 for the price of 1

2008-12-19T06:33:00.000-08:00

hoooo yeaaaa,
i broke my personal best (in shooting) ahahahahahaaa~
just lemme shuang la can?

87 95 95 90 93 95 555

from 549/600 to 555/600! (563 unofficially, if i din screw up my first series cos i din sight properly.)
daaaamn, i still felt like i could've done so much better like possibly high 560s if my sighting was perfect and i din keep on having triggerfreeze;
like so many wasted 9.8s, 9.9s.
and the middle 90 series was cos i din concentrate properly, keep on letting my bad instincts take over and cause a whole ton of 8s and 9s.
k, i nidta train more before i shoot dec safra monthly.

anyways, today was internals!
and lets see what else i did throughout the week.
woke up at 7 odd and was in charge of club internals for this month, pretty fun ;D
after that went to return my friend some stuff, stopped at near little india and ate indian food LOL. random.
but quite nice actually.

reached home and watched a horrible quality version of twilight, courtesy of my dad's friend's pirated dvd.
hmmmm, its not bad i guess?
but guys, realise that in the movie bella NEVER smiles at edward.
its quite disturbing, its like she's not drawn to edward by love, its this inexplicable allure rather than it;
abit freaky arh.
i think the actor who played edward suits the role, but you know what?
no one really remembers that he played Cedric in HP Goblet of Fire ._.

monday:
what did i do?
ohh yea bio tutorial ;D
finally did some work, but then again stem cells is so damn easy.
recovered frm gym the previous day, cant remember what else i did.

tues:
cant remember at all, maybe run?
i know i ran 4.8k this week in 24.58, but i dunno when ._.

weds:
no idea either, hols are shit in the sense that they screw up your memory cos everyday seems the friggin same.

thurs:
pool and LAN with shaz, weecheng and shiva.
after that,
standard chartered dinner!
free food and free adidas merchandise + the leaders, what's there not to like?

aiseh, what an incredibly long post.

2008-12-14T04:32:00.000-08:00

it's amazing
how we dun appreciate the hols and all the free time we have;
it's like every day passes and its basically the same stuff each day and we moan bout how boring it is.
the days and weeks go pass and we don't feel how much time we've wasted,
but when it's back to school, you dun even have time to sleep a full 8 hours ._.

whee my arms are dead.

2008-12-07T05:23:00.000-08:00

dawg,
quarantine was the worst movie I've ever watched in my 17 years on this earth.
seeeerious shit;
(van if you're reading this maybe not my cup of tea la hor. more like cup of piss. LOL.)
it's probably cos i can't take those kinda blair witch-esque movies,
where some retard runs around with a handycam.
screw that la, its damn nauseating..
dunno wtf's happening and the screams of that lead lady make me wanna slap her in the face -.-

its the kind when you know, you cry too much until you've got nothing left in you and YET you still wanna shout and scream?
that kind of hoarse hoarse wan to die voice ._.
aiyaaa, shaddap can.
it didn't help that the dude in the couple on my left had horrible breath and that the right couple had this really strong perfume smell coming from them.

seeeriously,
the last 5 mins i got so dizzy cos of how screwed up the shots were that i was just listening mp3 and trying to sleep, wishing for it to friggin end.
one day when i get rich i'm gonna hire someone to shoot the maker of quarantine in the balls;
daaaaaamn.

(ehh sia la, rhyme seh. LOL.)

2008-12-04T02:38:00.001-08:00

its ooover,
starting frm YLTC to shooting training camp to standard chartered marathon work to shooting chalet.

woww.
just burnt a total of 15 days like that.
but was damn fun though, the standard chartered thingy, even though its the most friggin mentally stressful thing i ever did so far.
tons and tons of packing to do, and checking and double, triple, quadruple checking.
packed around 50000 race packs in total, and tons of tshirts and race bibs (those stupid tags you pin on yourself when you run)

kinda lazy to elaborate on how it's done,
but its a great experience cos you sorta understand what working life is like.
like ohmytian la, frm the shooting camp all the way to the end of SC marathon when i left the house in the morning it was dark, when i came back it was dark;
averagely came back at 11pm every nite ._.

shooting chalet was pretty fun!
at least the first day i went to, dunno bout the 2nd cos was too damn tired to go and my parents wanted me to stay at home to rest.
reached the place and soccered abit with akshay gerald henry,
went to chye watt seng to buy william and xuandao their senior's farewell gift.
coool shit, was this damn nice collarpin/pin thingy in the shape of an airrifle!
and got them some other random stuff, like raisins for william (cos he gets relaxed when he eats raisins and shoots HAHA) and bandages for xuandao (cos he wans to be a doctor).

had the bbq and showed the seniors farewell videos,
rifle+pistol boys' was retarded as usual ;D
after that went LAN-ing frm about 1am to 5,
dunno why i wasnt tired AT ALL.
damn fun stuff, C&C and got dizzy again cos of battlefield ._.
walked back to the chalet after that in 20 mins, i love walking around at nite when the road's practically yours.
trained back and finally KOed on the train, damn tired at that point.
bought a 2 bucks mac breakfast and ate at home, died on my bed for 10 hours and woke up for 4 more hours, died AGAIN until this morning at 10 o.O

and here i am!
after 1 day of slacking/being online/using comp/piano,
i think i should go gym tml morning.
oks.

2008-11-24T06:52:00.000-08:00

training camp
is a great time to play cards with the team.
LOL.

random, lately i haven't been feeling the slightest bit of inclination to gym;
maybe cos im too lazy after YLTC and PT from normal days ._.

2008-11-23T05:15:00.000-08:00

wai-el-tee-see;
and whoa it's been 2 wks since i blogged!
kayyy, onto yltc.
its gonna be one loooong post.

day 1:
we met at the parade square and had our briefing and icebreakers, quite fun leh actually;
this ask qns M&M game, human bingo, and some other game where we hadta listen to ppl's voice to form shapes while holding hands.
and i started out not really knowing anyone from my group other than amanda frm track, but we rock yo.
owned the groups in outdoor cooking and rafting when our raft was absolute SHIT somemore, HAHA ;D
aanyway.
land expedition!
this crazy round the island expedition from the reservoir near yishun/khatib MRT (cant rmb which one it was) to chinese gardens, to vivo, to east coast park.
so yea, after getting frm one station to the other we hadta walk about 5k from the middle part of ECP to the end of it, near changi airport there.
reached and ate dinner, changed for night cycling and ohmytian it was so daaaammn fun.
hahaaa at least for me la, first time wad!
cycled frm ecp to bedok reservoir to around bedok changi siglap area, woww was damn nice la...
like so many empty areas where you can just chiong, and i've never went to those areas of the east before, coooolio.
can see why paul goes crazy over it.
came back to my bunk kinda tired with an aching ass, but it sure was nice.

day 2:
first thing in the morning: PT.
jumping jacks, 100 counts of 8 along with some other stuff;
piang eh now i'm scared of jumping jacks -.-
but overall it wasn't too horrible?
like kinda tolerable, not until you wan die but not slack until you'd just cruise through it.
so today was sea expedition I, kayakinggg.
nowhere nearly as far as OBS' sea expedition, its pretty much under 20km i'd say, only kayaked to near bedok jetty there and back.
but still ended up super burnt, which is nice!
i love my tan.
finished sea ex I, and had leadership talk which i thought was the most leadership-ly beneficial thing in the whole camp other than learning on the way frm all the activities;
the speakers and the activities were seeeriously good leh,
gotta try them in shooting camp next time.

day 3:
sea ex II!
dragonboating and rafting, did stuff like singing inilah and tons of songs while tying our raft which got stolen by another team -.-
ok it's like this,
we did our raft until it was pretty much quite good then the instructors said we had to change with the group next to us which wasn't building a raft more than they were building a submarine.
so we swapped our damn nice raft with another group, (group 8) and we got group 6's submarine -.-
BUT!
the irony man, group 8's raft looked the best and ours looked the worst but we got 1st and they got last.
LOL.
life is fair ;D

outdoor cooking at nite, and even though we got 2nd and our food sure looked great i think it was contaminated or sth cos i felt abit nauseous on day 4 and 5 o.O
and after that we had alumni talk which was SHIT.
daaamn, no offence to the alumnis who took out their time to come all the way to changi to talk to us for an hour but i totally din get the link between what they were talking about and how it linked to leadership ._.

day 4:
high ropes course and that's pretty much it, kinda repeated stuff from pri 5 camp, SPARKC, sec 2 camp and OBS.
the campfire was kinda nice, saw the other groups skits and some were really funny while others were, um. plain un-understandable.
sian larh, i think i didnt bang the dustbin lid hard enough so the bollywood tune wasnt really audible so ppl ended up not understanding why the hell we suddenly zi-high and danced like siao during our skit.
couldnt really cheer/shout cos my voice went to hell from the 3rd day onwards, sounded like a wounded cow -.-

day 5:
damn, they woke us up at 3am for the final challenge (run/walk 10k to near the 360ski thingy and come back with your team flag), and like even though we went from 2nd to 6th cos we had casualties and stuff its cool, we still finished the whole thing as a team ;D
cheered alot and sang stuff along the way back, laxingg.
went back to NJ after cleanup and bussed home, stopped at wm for SUBWAY!
subway tastes like heaven after bein so tired.
amazingly, din KO once i reached home cos i really wanted to use the comp and check emails, etc.

finished!
training camp frm 24th to 28th, standard chartered frm 28th to 1st, shooting chalet frm 1st to 4th.
God help me.

2008-11-10T23:09:00.000-08:00

random:
this post happens to be the same as my PSLE score!

awkward silence.
._.

okayyyy.
had PT this morning which was kinda more siong than normal,
back raises, alternate crunches, pumping, sideplanks, jumping jacks, standing broad jumps, and in 5 rounds in between.
kao, at the standing broad jump part i wanna peng orredy.
very nua~ after that.

ohhh yaya, whn we were having PT at the same time saw nanyang girls opposite us doin pt oso, wahseh.
they could carry each other leh.
no idea what cca though, but i think it was judo (even though they looked like netballers/softballers) cos i saw one of them on the way to lunch just now.
this small small girl could carry a girl roughly twice her size;
aisehhhh.
hahahaaa, i cant even carry ppl around!

supposed to go hang out with zh and zhengyang after PT but they nt free -.-
aaaanyway, went to old bukitbatoksec the kopitiam to eat cos my mom's sick so settle food myself.
so nostalgic maann, the tons of hours of slacking after meals after sch;
the mac and kfc that BELONGS to bbss ;D
the busstop i went to every friggin day to take 188 back,
the neighborhood stuff and the blocks that i walked through after trainings and NCC.

daaaamn, and i feel so weird larh for some reason;
like alot of ppl i knw are getting holiday jobs and all i can say is that the only work exeperience i've got is being a bangla for 2 days.
LOL.

yeaa, carrying stuff around larh basically for like 60 bucks or so.
lotsa stuff.
k i sound like a drug runner.
._.

yeaaaaa, i can play better now ;D
piano, that is.

off to practice.

2008-11-04T04:42:00.000-08:00

tagged:
tagged by paul -.-

Three names you go by:
1. daniel
2. dan
3. ah tee (youngest ma)

Three screen names you have had:
1. DAN`.
2. xdaywalkerx LOL. sec 2 put one la, immatureeeee ;D
3. ehhh that's about it, only dan or daywalker.

Three parts of your heritage:
1. BATOK boy, bbss owns. fullstop.
2. chinese
3. God's child

Three things that scare you:
1. going to hell
2. getting really really REALLY fat
3. horror movies (hahaaa i knw im hum)

Three of your everyday essentials:
1. at least 6 hrs of sleep
2. food
3. music; in the form of mp3/comp/piano/guitar

Three things you are wearing now:
1. batok pe shorts
2. nike tee
3. my watch

Three of your favourite songs: (how to choose just 3?!)
1. 发如雪-周杰伦
2. 星晴-周杰伦
3. Papercut-Linkin Park

Two truths & a lie, in no particular order:
1. i love my gun
2. paul is gay
3. i love pw

Three of your favourite hobbies:
1. lepaking with friends
2. piano/reading
3. gym

Three things you want to do really badly now:
1. go back japan, SERIOUSLY
2. watch chris rock's video that's still downloading
3. spend lotsa holiday time with friends

Three careers you're considering/you've considered:
1. lawyer
2. shooting coach
3. poly lecturer, LOL.

Three places you want to go on vacation to:
1. Japan
2. Hawaii
3. The Carribean

Three things you want to do before you die:
1. be a dad
2. travel the world
3. die without regrets

Three things that make you stereotypically a girl:
1. I WATCH GOSSIP GIRL
2. i can play the piano (aiyarh cos most guys dunno how to play)
3. i'm short, HAHA.

Three things that make you stereotypically a boy:
1. i gym
2. i love slacking/lazing around
3. i love food

Three people that you would like see take this quiz too:
1. vanessa
2. yangsheng
3. liumin

DONE

2008-11-04T02:55:00.000-08:00

PW's over babbyyyy!
ok this is late, i was just lazy to blog bout the end of pw yesterday ._.
but i can't really care less bout it anyway,
so there.

hahaaa went out with paul and yangsheng after OP, makan-ed at serene mac and paul bought RA3;
oh my tian i wan it pls, looks so damn nice!
supposed to go shaz's house for soccer after that but it rained like siao, so still went but slacked and watched bits of a movie on his comp instead.

watched max payne with him and kimhock,
aiseh khock come frm tampines sehhh~
made it just in time.
the movie was decent i guess?
kinda disappointing cos there's a whole lot less action than you'd expect.
and no gore or violence or chase sequences or anything!
what the love...
but nvm la, worth watching to say you watch orredy though.

lepaked abit at batok interchange after that and went home,
helped van edit her vogue essay,
yay someone owes me big time ;D

today:
woke up for the first time in a LONG LONG time that it's officially the hols!
hahahaa, damn nice feeling ;D
supposed to go out with sherrie deb shuyan to ecp cycling, but they all couldnt make it sooo....
GYM.
._.
and piano-ing around a whole lot, since nth to do

woww its been ages since i really posted like this,
like what i did in the day or etc etc.

stuff in the hols that's goin on:
17th to 21st, YLTC
24th to 28th, training camp
28th to 1st dec, standard chartered run (if i get selected that is)
training
s16 chalet, dunno when.
4e2 chalet/bbq, no idea.
ogl camp, cant rmb the dates
h3 lit preparation, IF i get in

busyyyyy.

wishlist:
new adizeros
mayyybe a new bag
that hugo boss jacket i saw on taka's escalator (me, not the jacket -.-)
570 average! ok see how la this one, see training good anot hahaa

ok, BLOG.

2008-10-25T05:25:00.000-07:00

what life is about:

hahaa, says on haocheng's blog that
"Friends,Food,Sleep,Movie,Sport,Guitar..life is about these stuffs "
always read that and went "HELL YEA." inside!
i'd add in God, girls, family, music, travelling and gym though ;D

isnt it amazin how life's just all about these simple things?
not studying, not your future job, not PW, contrary to wad NJC school management thinks.
i'm sure that after you die you're not gonna be saying stuff like "damn, i should've sealed that last deal before i kicked it."

or i shouldve gotten A for PW,

or scored 4As.

you get my drift.

hmm, mr heah's leadership stuff really gets people thinking.
just imagine ppl, when you die what do you wanna get remembered as?
what would you want yr tombstone to say?

and its so coincidental that 2 family members of people close to me passed away,
got me thinking that whoa, if i die just like that would i have any regrets anot.
soooo, moral of the story:

just live your life to the fullest la(:

another random musing brought to you by danieljohnlee.
;D

2008-10-20T04:18:00.001-07:00

seeeeeeerious arh?!

open day was shit. hahaa.
rotted for 6 hours while teaching overexcited parents and their scrawny p6 kids how to shoot ._.

i hate PW,
period.

so much friggin stuff to do, mannn i'm damn busy larh nowdays!
pw+chinese+training
heh, hell of a holiday.
can't wait for OP and chinese As to be over, THEN its finally a holiday.

and those peeps who wan 4e2 outing, can have on a friday/sat?
sounds ok rite, and easier for everyone to commit on a wkend.
hmmm but ehh pls come arh, dun we organise orredy then y'all all pangseh and dun come like the last e2 outing (if you call THAT an e2 outing) where only me, xm, yongjie, andy, junjie and yihuai turned up -.-
5 duddes, gayshit.

if wan, then be steady can?
tag/email/msn me, i collate and see how in between poly/jc students when most suitable ;P

my life for the past few days basically:
PW
training
gym (well, less of it cos of the first thing -.-)
lepaking (OSO less of this cos of the first thing)

i
wan
go
outt-to.

me wan watch movie.

2008-10-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

training resumes, yeaaaaa
can't wait to start again ;D

PW workshop was actually pretty nice, and everyone seems to be drowning in PW now.
*nods to paul's blog*

i got the same few things to do at home if im bored,
partly cos my laptop's reformatted and i don't have any games in it.
I NEED A GAMEE;

things i can do:
bloghop
watch whose line/gaki no tsukai/movies
blog
fster/facebook
chat
guitar
piano
watch tv
putter around and annoy davidshawnlee
play dota on his comp
gym
run my house there the 4.8k route
makan with the dudes

random: i miss swimming.

new songs i wanna learn on piano:
Secret (wanna learn so long everytime so jipua one ._.)
pieces frm 不能说的秘密
more newage pieces

i think i'm losing muscle mass leh, sian :/
lose oso lose everythin, including the good stuff.
dammit.

time to train.

2008-10-05T07:02:00.000-07:00

ohh how random, post no.231.

woww, i think i've gotten used to bumming around ever since promos ended last last thurs ._.
effectively i've been slacking for the past 10 days.
the gym-going out repetition's getting kind of boring, + movies at home,
i need more shit to do!
other than PW and preparing for chinese As that is;

like preparing for training to come back &&&
organising BBSS CIP!
ohh yeaa, to all batok peeps, are you guys open to the idea of going back to tutor the jrs?
like, once/dunno how many times per month go back to help out those who need academic help, in maths or wadever subjects you guys are good at.
CIP hours are awarded ;D
just that we haven't really ironed out the timeframe, the amount of ppl, etc etc with the teachers yet so if you're interested tag/msg/email me or elaine yeaa.
aiyaa go back la ppl, got new building who dun wanna go back(:

somemore a hell lot nearer than bukit timah, so travelling all that easy to kao tim.

other stuff:
-4e2 class outing, still haven plan with xm seh
-outing with the Five, zhihao better be free that moron -.-
-AFS Japan ppl outing
-i wanna watch eagle eye!

okkayyy, making a mental note to start planning this stuff.

saw I, II, IV finished.
time to watch saw III ;D

2008-10-02T06:12:00.000-07:00

i.
am.
red.

like a lobster.
that's what soaking in the sea for quite awhile does to you while in the afternoon sun.
how come it seems everytime i go to sentosa i end up overtanning?
should learn how to control my tan larh, now i'm sore and i look like hellboy ._.

*touches burnt parts*
ssssssss~

went for class outing today,
HAHA if you call 5 ppl a class outing. (caleb, xinyi, yangsheng, safa, me)
but nevertheless quite fun ehh, cycling and slacking around in the water(:
bought food there to save $$, imma poor boy man!
and sentosa cheats ppl money anyway;

pics up soon!
and;
I WAN TO SHOOT.

2008-09-26T21:30:00.000-07:00

the irony,
everyone's either not free to go out or still having promos.
I WAN GO OUT.

ohh ohh!
if you're not a fan of seeing gory stuff pls dun read the bottom part of the post, there's just 2 pics of my incredibly big blister i got frm soccer yesterday HAHA

played soccer with the soccer dudes and bball with chris, kuanloong and caleb for the first time in ages, siiibeh song ;P
and caleb can dunk sehhh!
although got chair to help la but still, coool shit. ;D

i think i'm getting a throat infection soon, sorta feel my voice getting more manly.
how suay, once promos end i'm getting sick dammit -.-

CALL/MSG/MSN ME IF YOU WANNA GO OUTT
ohh wow i sound incredibly despo.

scroll down to see my blisters!
aiyaaa, not that scary anywayyy

sexy big blister

no wonder it's stupid to play soccer in sneakers.

thumb sized hole sehh

woke up today and it was motherpain, sia la.
hobbled around in the morning and watched the VMAs until my dad wanted to watch the news,
and ooh britney doesnt look all that psychotic ;D

i wan go city/orchard/vivo/japan/taiwan/osama's underground lair/the states
(hmm, wonder wth's in his lair. probably alot of turbans and AKs.)

bacardiiii

2008-09-25T07:59:00.000-07:00

Batista: "ohh yeaaa, bite me."
END OF PROMOOOSSSS~
(LOL batista's got nothing to do with end of promos, just that his expression very "hell yeaaa" ;D)

he's up there cos i bought WWE Unforgiven for 5 bucks at TS for fun,
i still love wrestling and seeing mindless violence!
not too bad for 5 bucks, cheap thrill ah.
and pls dun watch disaster movie, its a total waste of $$;
i've never been in so much agony in my life while watching a movie -.-
there's onli 1 real funny part i guess, the rest is reaaaallli trash.

SLACKKKKKK

2008-09-22T07:35:00.001-07:00

i sorta remembered what i wanted to blog about
but once i actually opened blogger i forgot ._.

my life resumes after this thurssssssss
i think i suck.
big time.
for not blogging often.
for being retarded.
for not running when i should be.

on a very random note, i just realised boon lay is HUGE

2008-09-15T07:05:00.000-07:00

crap.
haii, chose not to try out for waseda :/
cos technically its a shortened/condensed version of AFS Japan?

AFS Japan:
3 wks total
2 wks homestay & school immersion programme
1 wk of sightseein and ASEAN jr summit+some parties and a whole lot of activities
all expenses paid by Japan's MFA, although we cost US10k each ._. or izzit 5k? can't rmb.

Waseda:
8 days
school immersion+sightseeing+cultural exchange
1.5k

but i think the people'd make up for it if i went?
cos the ppl goin for waseda (as in those that i knw wanna go, hope they make it ;D) are niiiice
kinda sad if im not goin and miss out on the fun :/
SHIT LAA.

can't help feeling like i let slip another once in a lifetime opportunity again.
hmm but i dun think i'd wanna blow 1.5k of my parent's money doing stuff i did before,
although i realli wouldn't mind going back to Japan. (not when its for 1500 bucks though)
parents' not really supportive of the $$ part, especially me dad.

"if you wan go, then have fun saving 1.5k from now until december la hor?"
-.-

and if i went i'd definitely feel kinda selfish for spending so much of my parents' $$, everytime oso get me stuff;
it's time they and my bro get more stuff lor.
hahaa since the deadline's over and i can't do anythin else bout it, it's God's will that i'm not goin to Waseda then(:

still, AFS OWNS WASEDA!
ok maybe self consolation.
LOL.

2008-09-15T03:08:00.001-07:00

ain't this pretty?

japan= missed :/
it's supposed to be near promos
but i don't feel the least bit like it's exam time ._.
there's still homework we hafta do and tutorials we haven't went through, shouldnt they just give us study breaks instead? -.-
and i think i'm getting increasingly more and more boring,
the only things i can think of nowadays other than studies are. nothing.

can't wait for promos to end and a semblance of normal life to come back, ehhh 4e2 ppl who wans outing again?
and a proper one lehh, dun ji pua ji pua come, must have most of the e2 ppl back ;D

chiong arhhhhh

2008-09-09T05:14:00.000-07:00

random pics!

my sexayy blood

full pack of sexayy O+ blood

NIKE.
from left: AF1s, AF1s, court force, dunk lows, delta force

smoking doesnt kill, bio does

bio doesnt kill, JC life does ;D

nice shot of the grandstand

random tribal made out of boredom;
coool shit.

2008-09-07T05:04:00.000-07:00

things to do before i die:
or rather, those that i've thought of for the moment.

-go back to japannnnn
-travel around the world, go to every continent before i kick the bucket
-skydive
-climb a mountain
-fill up my passport (i could do this by goin to and from malaysia every damn wk, LOL.)
-shoot a real sniper rifle
-wear a custom korean and use a 700 alu ;D (aiyaaa i knw i noob la, haven touch alu before ._.)
-shoot 570
-score frm midfield

and the list goes on.
maaan, i sure aint into blogging for real for the past 3 posts hahaaa,
kinda lazy to actually write about what happens in my life cos nowadays its so boring i could put you to sleep if i did ._.

the past wk:
wake up, eat, study.
repeat frm sat last wk to tues.
weds, gym break.
thurs and fri, study.
sat, slacked,
and finally today when i'm supposed to do work i din and i chilled out instead.

wonderfully interestin', ayye.

watch lock, stock and two smoking barrels ppl!
its a nt bad show even if it's 10 yrs old, if you like lotsa crude British humour, cockneyed accents and tons of swearing ;D

random:
i love neil humphreys and his books, funny shit(:

2008-08-31T23:04:00.000-07:00

nice feelings:
-falling onto your bed after a tiring day of gym
-after showering
-after eating a hell lot when you're hungry
-shooting a 10.9
-randomly throwing rubbish into a dustbin and totally not expecting it to go in when it actually DID go in (HAHA did this alot of times, 4 times consecutively actually. once at AMK hub i threw an empty can into the dustbin and it actually went in and i shouted WHOOOOO! pretty darn loudly. LOL. end up ppl started staring)
-great music

more to come, dunno why i love making retarded lists like this nowadays.

and teacher's day was pretty nice, went out with the batok dudes to pool and chatted bout lotsa crap hahaa;
im just lazy to meticulously update bout how it went ._.