what's life???

posted : Friday, November 12, 2010

title : updates :D

waoh its almost a month since i last blogged but i was dam lazy to haha.

HCL was quite ok i guess. Paper 1 was straight forward, Paper 2 had some tricky questions but overall quite managable. But who cares about that. I (along with most ri dudes) care about what happened after that. GRAD NIGHT! Well, it was like the official end to our 4 years here, after grad ceremony on last day of sch. The food was average at best, but once again, who cares?? Well it started really really high, with everyone running around snapping pics with batchmates :D Then something dam screwed up happened, and after that we had the lucky draw etc, and ended with batch song, unite, spirit, school song and cheers. It was quite emotional. The last time we were gonna sing we are the young. The last unite in ri. The last institution anthem in ri. I really don't wanna leave. During JRIC in sec1 our PSL said "RI life is like pringles. Once you pop, you can't stop". Well everything thing has to come to an end sooner or later, and i think i've been really lucky to have went through these 4 years, with these bunch of awesome people, (mostly) awesome teachers, and up till recently ... (ok i'll stop here some ppl might get where i'm going :x) i know this might be me 一厢情愿，but hopefully ri will always stay as that awesome RI, and provide that awesome rafflesian experience to the future batches of students that step through those gates, instead of being some screwed up corporate place for people to do whatever they want to it.

haha ok fine enough of that. Went for RJ soccer clinic yesterday. It was dam dam fun. It was the first time i could save in front of a actual sized goalpost, with ppl just shooting none stop and all i have to worry about is to save those shots that come :D it was also great to have someone there to guide me, teaching me stuff to improve my game. It was dam tiring and got a lot of cuts and bruises, but it was really worth it cauz it was so fun :D and from ytd i finally knew why i screwed up so badly during RI-HCI. I was freaked out by the atmosphere, so i stuck to my goalline far too much, so it was harder for me to get to balls come in (goal no. 2:x), a wider angle for opponents to shoot (1 and 3 :x). :((((((((((( thanks ben :D

but that leads to a big dilemma that i have now :x CCA next year. RJCO is quite a nice cca i guess, with nice ppl and all, but i want to try sports. I think i should be able to get into soccer, and i like the sport, but i'm not sure if i can afford to train like 6 times a week (am i right??). I also like floorball, but i've not goalkeeped in 4 years, and i'm wondering if i wanna tryout for an outfield position. But then again i heard its a dam hot cca so i dunno if i can get in :s at least i can go for soccer training first for now if i got time (if i get invited that is haha), and decide in jan.

The most tou tong one now is subject combi. I'm thinking of PHEM, but i have reservations about droping chem although i don't really like that subject. So its between PHEM, PCME, and CHEM now. And the worst thing is i only have 3 more days to freaking decide. There's 1 more dilemma, but well that one really dunno what to do man...and its just as tou tong as subject combi, if not worse :x

oya i got 3.8 for gpa haha. quite happy, but individual subject percentiles not that good, and was quite lucky to get that 3.8. Really need to spend more time mugging next year :s

I wanted to blog about something, but i think i'm not gonna say it cauz suddenly don't feel like it. I'll try (keyword: try) to blog more frequently, but no promises HAHA (doubt anyone actually comes here :P).

DECISIONS HERE I COME RAWR!!!

10:22 PM

posted : Wednesday, October 20, 2010

title :

ok i just realized i haven't posted in a dam dam dam long time like last night...

Well, EOYS were just over last friday. Preparing for this EOYs have been a total nightmare, as I've not listened in most classes throughout the year. All the other stuff happening just made me so freaking tired that i couldn't concentrate in class, didn't finish all the homework i have every day, and so I had to like re-learn every single thing in 3 weeks, other than math. towards the end i was so sick and tired of mugging i just wanted everything to be done and over with. In the end it didn't turn out too bad I think, but i still feel bad that i didn't really mug for bio until the day before as i was gonna drop it :s

I thought that i'll be dam high and happy after the end of the papers, but it didn't turn out to be so. I was definitely relieved, but after a brief period of high-ness, all the hype just died down and i felt very empty inside, like something just disappeared, and i was feeling quite sian after that. Really funny how life actually works. You look forward to something so bad, but when it actually comes, you don't feel as you thought you would at all.

I'm actually looking forward to the results coming up, but i know that if i get anything above 3.7, i'll be happy, but i certainly don't deserve it as studies hasn't been something i put enough effort into until like 3 or 4 weeks before eoys started :/

A teacher said something after one of the papers (forgot which). He was scolding us...and this line came out. "......spent 4 years of your RI life just for this", with 'this' referring to the EOYs. Its not the exact wording, but the gist is there. I was like...wtf man. 4 years of RI life with the ultimate aim being EOYs?!?! i admit that this year's EOYs are really important, as it'll decide our JC class and all, but the freaking EOYs are not the only thing we have in our whole freaking 4 years! RI is more than just about exams. For me, RI is about your friends, juniors, seniors, your CCAs, what you do daily, and the other stuff that you do in school, and exams are just a small sub-set of all these many things. If your ultimate aim in 4 years of RI life is to score for this EOYs, and there are people who are like that, then all i can say is that you've more or less wasted a good part of 4 years in RI.

ah well, enough ranting about EOYs. I just realized that i've not said anything about this, but YFC awards interviews happened like a few weeks ago. Week 1 of DMP saturady.

There's only 1 word to describe everything that happened the day before when we prepared. MAD! We started preparing at like 5pm on friday afternoon, went out for dinner, and guess what? we went for a movie at 1am with our slides and cue-cards not finalized :/ got back at 3+ before finalizing the things and rehearsed till the next morning. Other than joshua who like managed to sleep a good hour or 2 and still dun wanna wake up, the rest of us just napped a bit here and there. And even then it was still dam hilarious, with joshua waking up and machine gunning everyone as if he was in Iraq now fighting a war or something HAHA. I really feel like posting the video up on facebook lei HAHA :P but in the end despite that almost sleep-less and mad night, we managed to pull of quite a good presentation. Still a key-notes presentation, but something different that was i guess more entertaining and impactful.

ok now that eoys are over i'm gonna make sure i post more regularly (I hope :P)

and can anyone like suggest things that i can do???? i'm getting bored but don't feel like mugging chinese at all :s

11:09 AM

posted : Saturday, September 25, 2010

title :

Well, since I'm locked out of my room now and can't mug (yes i know i'm dumb) ...just thought i'll update this half-dead / dead blog :P

EOYs are coming up soon, so haven't been doing much other than mugging, and to a far lesser extent emoing and thinking about some stuff :x The english essay eoy back in week 1 was quite ok. The topic which i chose was surprisingly straight-forward. Good thing the decision to focus on 1/2 topics only and to totally heck language/gender did not backfire on me haha :P With some luck maybe 4.0 i guess :D But my mugging pace kinda suck lei... will be able to finish up all the revision wks for maths by dinner today, but other subjects progress not very good :(

Just submitted our YFC final report yesterday afternoon. Well, it has been a long journey through which I think I've grown like never before. The project we implemented was in many ways different from the one we proposed back in april, but it was still an enriching and extremely memorable experience nonetheless. It was not just the successes and the things we did right that made this experience special, but also the failures and the mistakes that we've made throughout the course of the planning and implementation process. They've taught me many lessons, and exposed me to many things which i had no idea of before this. This journey was made even more special by the people we met along the way, our Org Comm, volunteers, performers, VWO, mentors, and obviously not forgetting the 3 other jokers in the core team :P Thanks everyone :D

It has recently dawned upon me that another chapter of my life will be closing soon. RI. It seems like just yesterday when i first stepped into the then foreign RI as a small (ok maybe not small :x), naive 12 year old back in 2007. The whole place was like a totally different dimension, and I had some trouble adapting to it. However, in a blink of the eye, i'm already in year four, staring at the graduation ceremony and dinner in the face, and will be soon moving down the road into the JC campus. RI certainly hasn't been a bed or roses, nor has it been the 100% perfect environment which people outside of RI think it to be. However, despite all these, RI still hold that special place in my heart for making me the person which i am. However, RI is changing, and for me personally i think it's changing in a way that isn't really good. I'll not say why here as i believe i shouldn't, but i believe there is a considerable number of RI dudes out there who know what i mean.

That said, I hope to be proven wrong.

I'll try to update more regularly from now on, but till then, BB

2:07 PM

posted : Monday, September 6, 2010

title : HARMONIZE. It's Nice!

It was harmonize on friday. After a month and a half of planning, heart-attacks, refining, heart-attacks, and many more heart-attacks, the concert was finally staged :D

The turnout was definitely much better than i expected, and so was the performances. Despite the fact that we only had 1 afternoon the rehearse and prepare everything and get the whole concert into shape, the quality of the concert was there. I think most of the audience generally enjoyed the concert greatly, and it was definitely great fun running around during the concert ensuring that everything was ok and doing what has to be done :D

Transforming that 1 paragraph in our YFC proposal back in april to the concert that was staged on friday was definitely a long and hard process, with many many seemingly insurmountable obstacles along the way, and many other challenges which almost caused the concert to be a no-go. However, overcoming those obstacles were really quite enjoyable and enriching, and pulling the concert off with the numerous constraints which we had was really very gratifying and self-rewarding (ok i don't think this makes sense but you get what i mean)

I think i was quite stressed up before the concert on Friday, and was really quite dominant throughout the whole thing. So if i pissed anyone off im srry D: (i know i said this a few times alr, but i just feel that thr's a need to do so :x)

Ok, enough with all those reflective/emo stuff up there. The concert was really great, and I think everyone enjoyed it tremendously, be it as the audience or the org comm. Thanks so much to everyone who made that wonderful night possible: The performers, the org comm, the backstage crew, the av crew, mr dennis au, karen, ccf, and the audience :D if you wan the detailed "thank-you"s are on fb :x

okay can't find many nice pics, so just a few here. Hopefully the nice ones will be up soon :D

12:02 AM

posted : Tuesday, August 31, 2010

title : HARMONIZE

OYA 1 LAST THING :X

Ok dun really noe how many ppl actually cme here, but PLEASE COME FOR HARMONIZE!!

HARMONIZE is a charity concert which will be held in RI this coming friday at 7.30pm. It is to help the kids that suffer for cancer, and your support will really help in their treatment process.

Tickets are only priced at $10 each, and if you buy 3, you'll get the 4th FREE!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT??!!

To make it even better, performances will include really cool and great! It'll be featuring RJ Jazz, CHIJ TaoPayoh Dance, Raffles players, and also many other awesome bands, singers, intstrumenl performances and dancers :D

So come on down this friday to the RI Auditorium, and enjoy a great end to Term 3, all for a good cause :D do contact me if you need more details or wan the tics! (i noe u wanna come, just COME!! :D)

11:28 PM

posted :

title : Looooong Post

Ok i noe this is so overdue but i didn't feel like posting/didn't have the time to post over the past few weeks :P

so I tink lets go by chronological order ba, starting from where I left off in the last post.

So firstly semis against 4R last last thurs. Didn't really play well as a class, always on the back-foot, but still survived without them getting a shot on target by full-time, although there were a few close shaves. Then the stupid thing came. At the last 30 secs, maybe the last play of the game before penalties, they got a throw-in near our goal. Brilliantly, no one marked greg so he just popped up at the far post n nodded the ball in from like 50cm out :x I shld have done btr n kept it out but the marking ar... (Y) n so we lost it :(

Then the next day... RI-HCI Challenge Shield.

Playing in standard sized goal on an almost standard size pitch for the first time. PRESSURE.

RI won frisbee but lost basketball so it was up to soccer to decide the winner. PRESSURE.

There was a really big crowd watching. PRESSURE.

And well, I cracked under the pressure. big time.

Played like a total piece of shit like as if I was goal-keeping for the first time in my life. Positioning, distribution, defensive line commanding, catching, shot-stopping ALL CMI. Like totally. Only did a few decent things, made a few decent saves, but other than that really sucked. First goal was cause I wasn't confident enough to catch a ball which I should have caught easily. 2nd was cauz of mis-com between me n my defender. 3rd was cauz it was like 5 on 2 or smth like tat n i shld have been able to deflect the first shot out of play instead of just saving n palming it str8 to the opponents.

This game was a total disaster for me, but it has also made me realize that I really have to learn to play under pressure if I am to join n do well in RJ soccer. I'll also have to train really hard to improve my handling n get used to the big goal if i wanna do well...

And ya you guessed it, we lost... 3-1 :(

K so now 3rd-4th placing against 4E last monday. Was really desperate to win it as I lost 2 games str8 :( well we played really well as a class. Defended very well, was threatening when we attacked, and we played so well until all i did for the whole game was to pick up lose balls n watch balls sail off-target. (ok maybe i prevented a shot, but onli 1 at max :x) Didn't do much but was realli happy with my distribution and also my defensive line commanding :D and we won 1-0. So we got 3rd :D Nice one lar 4A! (as i always shout during the matches haha :D)

ok this is getting really long... just 2 or 3 mre things to go tink :P

K so after that it was HMT prelims last friday. Did reasonably well i guess, paper 2 was quite easy, but i scared my 报章报道跑题 :( although i think it shldnt be :P

now...TEACHERS DAY :D Celebration at RI this year was quite different, cauz Mr Paul Lim was the teacher-ic :P (which sorts of explains everitin :x) I actually got a bit high for one of the first times for celebrations in RI.

Went back to WDP aft that. It was realli great to see the 6 dil peeps again after so long although quite little ppl went bak :D some are still as short as ever (*ahem dun kill me haha), some as loud as ever (*ahem, once again dun kill me), but some ppl changed alot oso :D (dickson is like as tall as me now omg...)

Met Mrs Ong n Mdm Chiam. Was really quite surprised that some teachers which i nvr realli talk much / have totally no impression of actually recognized me :x

Went to Woodlands lib to mug with hans linjian al joyce n charlene aft that :P went to find some books on hitler n china haha :) but ended up chatting quite a bit oso haha.. hosy came aft tat also, but quite late :P haha mugged/chatted until like 6.30 then zaoed.

Realli can't describe how heart-warming it was to meet up with my p6 classmates again. It really brings back those great memories of WDP, the memories we shared, and the years when we were all still carefree n young :D (and when i was still this round fat nerd haha)

but its teachers day, and so its not all about meeting up with the 6dil peeps although it really made my day haha! HAPPY TEACHERS DAY TO ALL THOSE TEACHERS WHO HAVE MADE ME WHO I AM OVER THE PAST YEARS!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH :D

ok i think that concludes my veri veri veri long post. More pics on fb :D

10:18 PM

posted : Sunday, August 15, 2010

title : Interclass + NY FunFair

Spent almost the entire day today chionging oral defence PPT, but now that its done i feel great :D

Haha had interclass last wed. All 3 of our group stage opponent (4L,4J,4F) were good, and we drew all 3 games 0-0:( We were so desperate to win against 4J(the last match) that we were totally exposed at the back and could have lost :P We should have been knocked out cauz 4L W1D2(so top of table 5 points), and 4F like us drew 3 but they scored 1 goal. So by goals scored they should have advanced. But we got REALLY REALLY REALLY LUCKY as there was no goals-scored rule, so we went to penalties :D I let in the first 1, but 1 went wide and I saved another 3, and thank god RuiLiang and Minh Anh scored, so we got into the quarters :D I forgot 1 of the saves, but the other 2 were quite nice :D (too bad no photos D:) But then i injured my left wrist saving those shots :(:(

The quarters were not bad, against 4C. Scored 1 goal in the first few minutes, but i DROPPED A CROSS :(:( n so they equalized :(:(:( but at least we scored another goal and so we won 2-1. But dam lar im sure i fumble a cross again :( some pics here, the rest are on facebook :P

Pre-match warm-up. My face is spastic i noe :x

Me shouting during the game haha.

4A class team :D

Gonna play 4R for the semis sometime this week I think. They're realli strong, so hopefully we'll be on-form for that day :D n hopefully my wrist gets better by then. It was ok for the past few days then suddenly today its starting to kill me. Gonna buy tape and tape it tmr if it doesn't get better:x

Went to the NanYang fun-fair thingy on fri after archives with zeqing, but met many other ppl there oso. Didn't realli walk arnd in ORA b4 so not gonna compare haha. It was quite interesting at the start, but after a short while it got kinda boring cauz thr wasn't much to do. The group of us ended up walking to a place, talk for a while, then walk to another place, and talk again :x We went to Janessa's class' dunking game after a while cauz we wanted to dunk her, but in the end yu xuan, tammie and I got dunked oso. It was actually quite fun haha, and very hilarious to see each-other getting dunked and missing the target:P

Everyone after getting dunked :D

Oya, something dam funny happened last week. When updating the CCA records, I totally FORGOT that i was ZhongHu Principle last year, until zeqing reminded me then i was like, oya hor, i was zhonghu shouxi :x im getting dam blur haha

Well, Oral Defence is on wed, hope i'll do well. I really wanna do it with point-form cue-card at max, but I'm scared i'll stammer a lot :( gonna hard core prac after i get home on mon and tues rawr!!!

Tats all for now. BB :)

10:27 PM