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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Starting from now. More songs. Less laziness more work less facebook and tv and more books:@


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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Hi!

Ages since the last post! It's back to basics then. One year had just whoosh past and many eventful stuff had happened. Happy ones, anguish ones, lonely ones(tons of them actually), etc. Yeap, oh well at least i am been through them and i cant wait to get out of school>< i know some skeptic ones would probably rebutt me:" i will die to go back to school!","i miss school and work sucks!" But still, it's not that i cannot empathise with you all, but we are really in a very different situation whereby all my close friends are either working/in army while i am in school like a prisoner(not saying that my current school friends are not close please dun misunderstand, you guys rock as well.)

Oh well, the purpose of this post is not to complain but rather to talk about 2 recent issues:

1. YES I FINALLY WON MY FIRST SINGAPORE POOLS TICKET! :DDDDDDDDD
yess suck it, big time money sucker Singapore pools!8D haven won a single ticket before until the match between Argentina and Germany. All thanks to Muller. And Klose. Oh and another scorer. Forgot your name but nontheless kudos to you as well(: Lovely 30 dollars to spend later with my AA team:D

now to the melancholy post:

2.Shittiest common test ever!

Disclaimer: this post will be super boring. It was actually meant for me to refer back and remind myself of the agony i went through and a slight boost to the morale of any egoists out there who love to step on other people. Skip it if u want!

HELL common test my foot. More like Uncommon test, in the sense all e questions were unbelievably not familiar. Gosh, I was even aiming for AAABB when i was meeting up with my teacher-mentor b4 CTS. I would be secretly buying fruits to pray and turning vegetarian for 1 week if i can just pass everything-.- I would never forget how tough it is, sleeping at wee hours of the night (1am or so), and then waking up at even wee-er moments(if there was such a word) at 4 am to continue to study. Some of you may have been thinking it's no big deal i have been/am doing that all the time, but HELLO me != you so if you are that godly, please continue to do so and see if you contract some disease and die off after u get ur straight A's :P

It was quite disastrous though,seeing how i crammed that much topics to study the day b4 the exams. Not only was it painfully stressful and unmotivating, it was super ineffective as well since the concepts could not really sink in as well. During the exam, when others were FURIOUSLY (yes furiously) writing, i was furiously panicking. I remember READING it b4 somewhere, but where and what was it about i was totally clueless. Felt immensely disappointed after every single exam, disappointing my teachers whom have high expectation for me , in myself for not starting earlier (i started in June Holiday Week 4 Thursday-Friday) and then having to go through that cycle again at night for another paper on the next day. Extremely thankful it is finally over now, and that experience of a short five day and seemed like a month. The worst will come soon when the teachers finish marking.

Here's a short summary of how terrible i have done and also a slight boost to your ego to whoever that's reading my blog:

28/6: First paper: SEA History, didnt study Decol, didnt study SEA economy, didnt study National unity and policy towards minority. Only glance through Asean. I was only banking on political structure, pre-war nationalism and JO. Hence, i could only answer 2 out 3 essay question. GUESS WHAT. I was so demoralized upon receiving the paper, that coupled with my acute stomachache i happily left the 3rd essay BLANK 0/25 marks. It was pretty difficult to concentrate with an uncooperative stomach and i realised i went on to go the gents for the next consecutive exams as well. Immensely torn after this exam, felt like awoling every of the subsequent exams. IF ONLY I STUDIED earlier. screw myself

30/6: 2nd paper: ECONS CASE STUDY, never read any lecture notes ever since the start of inflation = effectively means Inflation, Unemployment, Economic growth, Balance of Payment, International trade lecture notes UNTOUCHED til the dawn of common test. Got a rude shock when i first open the notes on 29/6 NIGHT/AFTERNOON. was really tiring and i tried to absorb as much as possible. thankfully Sean was there at night to summarise each topic for me and i had a set of summarized notes downloaded online. But then it wasn't enough to save me i must say. Just pray for the best that whatever rubbish i wrote make the tiniest bit of sense. reach home and prepare for thurs paper. Felt like burning everything.

1/7: 3rd paper: MATHS, complacency must have killed me. I was overestimating my ability and didnt touch statistics until the morning b4 the exam. Completely forgot about CLT/CC and alot of other conditions. Hell as it was, the air con have to add to my trouble. THe hall was FREEZING. I was shivering like an idiot behind and i couldnt even concentrate with the need to hold my pee in. Wasted alot of time on simple questions, letting my pride getting the better of me and ended up with a rude slap in the face due to leaving up to 20 marks blank-.- I couldnt hold it in anymore and went to pee, wasting another precious 5 min or so. Gosh, such a wasted paper which i could actually do way better.

1/7: 4th paper: COMPUTING, my all-time weakest subject. I was about to cry just studying this subjects, with ton of alien languages. Out of 20 topics, i managed only about 4): (file organisation, BNF, networking and was it OS? hmm) Combined with extreme fatigue both mentally and physically, this is a crazy subject to study. Seriously, i cursed and swear after reading each line of words. Google is my best friend here. I used it almost every line of revision and i still could not understand. Practical was horrendous, Theory part was more like a story-writing competition for me. Just throw in any random phrase that came into my mind, wanting the exam to end and looking at the clock more than the paper. SIGH

2/7: 5th paper:International History, terrible loads to study as well, skip china's economic growth, extension and end of cold war. Only glance through UN. This paper was way better than the SEA one. At least i did all e essays, albeit i didnt finish one. The questions was answerable, but it could have better if i studied earlier so that i wont spend half the time recalling that inflation due to oil crisis was 5.9 % to 15 % in 1965 to 1980, etc and actually writing out my essay. Was crying in my heart when the paper was over; really relieved not because of the good grades i will get like duh, but of the momentarily mental torture i am released from.

2/7: last paper: Econs essay, this was by far the worst out of the lot, upon receiving the question, i totally blanked out, couldnt rmb wht to write and how to write. I was seriously contemplating to just sleep and hand in a piece of blank paper, seeing how tired i am.5 days x 3 hours of sleep = 15 hours. A normal healthy kid would have been sleeping more than wht i slept in just 2 days. I hanged on though, writing random rubbish i could recall and thinking of what could have been better if i have actually spent my time studying than slacking the entire june holiday away. The paper was over in awhile and my rubbish wasnt even wrapped up as i simply dun have the strength to continue anymore.

Pondering over what i could have done now, the very least is to blog this experience down, and that could draw strength for this experience for subsequent exams i know a lot of you all there (yes you, stop pondering who) are really expecting me not to do well but i WILL prove you wrong. Will set plans to improve my scores and wait and see who gets the last laugh. I will MUST work harder. will update this post again once i received my results and after my teachers screw me upside down. So long cya!






Friday, April 24, 2009

Trmw marks the last Saturday of guitar practice.

Sadly or not, it going to be the last time we will ever don the blue collar guitar shirt. The way everyone train, the mental strength everyone gave was tremendous. Tremendous to the point that i expect myself to do so too or even more. It will kinda be the last Saturday trmw where we play our 2 songs yet again. Ever since November we have been playing these two songs, but weirdly we just dont get bored of it. Time flies and although it was really eventful, inevitably full of ups and down. I still remember fondly the times where Kimberly failed me for both pieces. to think back then i get 31/100. I still get 31 now though, but somehow it progressed to 31/40. I still remember hw we used to complain that we, the guys, always have to carry stuffs all around. I still remember how we used to scream/shout to each other in excitement that omg we have 30 year 5's. 5 GUYS! or something. I still remember the day i cried terribly upon notification of my retainment. It was christmas eve. I still remember complaining how impossible it was to play such nice songs. I still remember the Ghim moh Duck rice. Frankly, there's so much things that i remember but cant seem to put it in words.

All the memories we shared, everything we gone through was really too fast. I am reluctant to let go of the past, love to reminisce about it. How i hope SYF was abit later, not because i am afraid we cant play well nor didnt prepare enough. I have full confidence in everybody as all of them have work 110%, juggling everything in life with their hectic schedule. I am reluctant because of the fact that after SYF, my friends are going to step down. Yet I dont want to let go, running away from the fact that i will be stuck in limbo, that there will be no more training, no more sitting together and playing a song together anymore.

Guitar training have become such a routine that i really think i will feel weird without playing.

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Jiayou dhsGuitarists. Leave behind a legacy for the rest to follow


Sunday, January 18, 2009

Long time since i blog!

Let's recall. Had ogl briefing on last friday. Was pretty content heavy for me since i didnt came for all e trngs. After that watch 赤壁ii with all e guitar peeps. it was definitely worth watching, and although we sat at the 1st row straining our necks, we were all smiles when we left(: Saw Jason and his friends too. Went home after eating with Dejian and prepared for Saturday.

Saturday was a tiring day. We went to volunteer ourself in this painting CIP and clean this old man house thoroughly! Although we took like a long time (around 8 hours), it was pretty satisfying to see the house turned from black to white(: Going back on feb 7 , interested ppl pls tell me(: Went back home full of aches and paint and bruises.


Finally ORIENTATION 2009! this was my 1st time being an OGL and i thought the experience was definitely memorable(: began camping in school on Sunday night, ate kfc for Sunday night, macs for Mon breakfast, kfc for Monday night-.- Ghim Moh's still e best for food): Met my OG along with Roy on Monday. At 1st thought they were pretty dead, and i was thinking "oh god. how am i supposed to rah-rah them for the upcoming 5 days" Fortunately, my fear was unfounded as i have several great year 6s' to help me- Roy , Ming Quan, Wei Cheng, Kian Hong, Xiaoyou, etc(: All of them are humorous in their own way which have unknowingly shaped our group into what it is now- a weird K11-.-

Day 1!
This was a tough day for me, practically still living in e shadow of the past, it's really really hard for me to act happy. The feeling of standing in the crowd along singing the national athem sucks. When i look around, i felt so lost and absolutely hated it when ppl start staring at me. Kept telling i just have to get used to it, but trust me, it is NOT easy at all.
Started with housebreaker when there is only 10 mins for one game. I thought it wasn't really effective at all. Went on with 31 legged race which i really have to thank weicheng for coordinating the movement for me while i am still in the hellish mood. Manage to shake it off gradually and was really really proud of them when they got 12.8 seconds. It may not be e best but seeing them smiling together warms my heart(:

After that was school tour, it was a terrible mistake by me): i sincerely apologise to my og! i thought we were to get 5 yellow envelops, but didn't realise we are suppose to complete 5 real stations.. thus when i got the 5th envelope, i happily told gladine last station and thus she say if last station dun have to take at all.. and i stupidly gave it up to her. Returned to the LT happily as 3rd-.- Slack for like half an hour b4 realising something went wrong and then went on to do the last station. Return last): SORRY OG!

Only up til here, i realised Imelda is Joanne and vice versa-.- ended day 1 with sort of low morale due to the sch tour):

Day 2!

Today was alot better! Dragon Boat was plenty fun due to sharon nicknaming us as kaobei(: Actually i think we are really kaobei-.- super noisy at times hahaha. This is what orientation should be like(: We emerge 2nd at the race! After that went to leisure park, tried Who am i?- a spicy Korean sauce on the chicken. My voice went to the moon after one mouth. Still can rmb the churning feeling in the stomach. Strongly nt encouraged for the weak-hearted- and also the weak stomach. Telematch was great for bonding! Kinda shocked that they were so bonded that they hugged together to protect Roy(: However, roy still got pretty wet. Oh well everyone had fun!

After that was og interaction time. Played loads of stupid game like polar bear and tuki-tuki. Absolutely hate polarbear, nvr got past the 1st stage. PPL KILL ME COS THEY FEEL LIKE IT LO!unfairness. Haha(:

Day 3!

Last day of year 6! dread this day as i fear when they go we will be super quiet again. Went to KSC in high spirits. Played Look-Out and emerge as champion! went to play the watafest letter hanging and got last-.- See how inconsistent we are. Played water polo too. Won too:D
Taught them a stupid game of huh, what. Was very amazed they are so entertained by it-.-
Went to ECP for other games. Played this digging game. Hell we are super stupid. we never answered any of the question correctly until the last one. And when we did, we dug nothing but forfeits. What " jump into the sea 3 times". LIKE WE WILL. Bury the forfeit back again quickly xP

Went on the the next game and won again:) the fastest ball- Kirin own. Painted ourself like caterpillars and wanted to challenge the last game. It was cancelled due to the violence. although we are totally prepared, none wanted to play with us. We happily announced we win then-.- Went for og dinner at Mos! Mq being himself again. Remembered i was totally shagged then on the verge of fever. Say good bye to the year 6's and waited for cluedo.

Cluedo was quite boring i must say. Everyone was sleepy and groggy. haha. i pretty much seen much of the scarers so were prepared for some scares. Nonetheless i guess it manage to bond all of us tgth more(:

Day 4!

this is the day whereby we have hell loads of pictures!(: started the day with hse activity- proving that we are true kirinmons. Had algor dance after that was pretty funny to see everyone doing the same thing:)

went for pac monster race after that. 1st food was at downtown!#%^&. unfairness again. haha went there for Mr bean. Was supposed to complete e task of passing rubber band for 5m.
Passing rubber band

K11!

Next food was supposed to be 水粿 but we couldn't find and skip to the 3rd food as Yuru allows. On to Kway Chap! Task was to take photo with 4 diff race with e kway chap.
Petrina pose(:
Caucasians
Malays
Chinese
Japanese

Went on to 水粿(: Couldnt find it at 1st so went to buy frozen one to pose with it. The task was to ask tourists to try it. We found the real one soon enough!

Petrina's the model again!

Last food we went to is @kfc. We order Cheese fries. Task is to do e chicken dance. So we or rather they did(:



Went back to the school after that. We've got 23rd out of 39th! Not bad at all, given that we went to Pasir Ris where others went to like Marina Square(:

After that was finale night!IT WAS AWESOME! Kirin rocks! Have plenty of videos but posting some which is more interesting(:



<3imelda and Wei Hong

Before that was the burst balloon game,Kirin sent Ashley and Candice. They've done pretty well too! Pingteck Ray and Chak's pure awesomeness(:

Went to the hall for the tealight thing that form I love SH.

After that was some Kirin initiation ceremony, where we turn into true kirinians. Since we are all from Oryx, us ogls have to participate as well(: the night gaze was beautiful. Lying down at the 正心园looking at stars was great. Too bad for ppl who missed it(: Took several group photo at the hall then(: If u realised,e poses all consist of games we played(:

Day 5!

Woke up earlier to play sparklers!
Look at smart Imelda
Pray that this year will be better please..
Chinyi's group (k8!)
Kirin
Kirini 11
Kirin! 11(:

Went to 正心园 for closing ceremony. KIRIN CHAMPIONS!!! Good job ppl(: We did our super seh war dance which goes:

Kamatei Kamatei Kirin Kirin
Hanna Hanna Haa Haa
Holsha Holsha Kill Kill
Hahhhhh KIRIN!

e action's seh. Took some group photos
From Top left: Joanne, Petrina, Imelda, Vanessa, GengZhi,
From Bottom left: WenFang, Felicia, Jiajia
K11!
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have to thank everybody who really made this a success, OC, participants, teachers etc. Thought it was really fun, knew many more people through this orientation, hopefully the wish i made on initation night will come true. So long... School officially start tomorrow.. i really dread trmw...new class here i go..


Friday, January 9, 2009

probably blog trmw. Mood got detroyed.


Squad Chalet
Thursday, January 8, 2009

time flies and this is the 3rd squad chalet we had. Although we have all passed out for around 1.5 years now, it's kind of weird we are still tightly knitted together, like a ball of wool. The way we communicate, the way we express ourself is just so sincere, like we know each other for a good 10 years. Noisy and disgusting as we can be, i could still proudly say i am from this squad, the one with the least guys in history (hopefully still is) but nonetheless achieve great heights.

Some photos from e chalet:
Yahui and her birthday cake and her middle finger:P Happy 18th!Look what 18 years old can bring you- alcohol, cigarettes-None of the good stuff.
Out at e beach at 3 am. Hell freezingA clearer one. Shunjie was the cameraman for both(:
Zhiying
Cheryl
Guys
Girls
Couple #1
Possible couple #2?
Xinyi
Biqi Wanting
Other half of the table
Weisong
Shunjie's gigantic steak
The people who came for dinner
Shunjie
Sir Chinyang
Zhiying Jocelyn
Guess who's below the blanket?
Got it?
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That's all i guess. Look forward to the next chalet! By the way street rove was super boring, Junyang, Nicholas, Simin, Junyang's Cousin (Yi Jun) and me decide not to go for the second day as it was to us a waste of time. So much for promoting. Oh well at least the flash mob was pretty cool.

Did some taxi surveyor job on Monday too. Job scope? Sit down somewhere comfortable and count taxi+passengers at the taxi stand for every 5 min. Pay? A good fat $7/hr :D haha did from 11~ 2, was pretty boring though. I remembered my taxi stand was E09, outside Keck Seng building at Tanjong Pagar. Met up with nicholas for lunch and saw Simin, Suat Teng, Jocelyn at Funan IT mall. Stroll awhile and went home. Shall go i guess since there is guitar trmw. Soon in like 4 days, school will start and the real test begins...


Friday, January 2, 2009

1st post of the new year!

but chose to reminisce the past..haha some pictures of recent outings.Enjoy!

Mongo Countdown:

on the bus to Keith's clubWalking into the clubGroup photo #1
Singing SessionKiddish Xiao YouSwings

Guo Xiang stuck in the playground tires
Out of the club,on our way to Vivo
Dhoby group shot #1
Dhoby group shot #2
Keith
Group Photo #2
Beautiful Scenery

Guitar Settlers Christmas Outing:

Many Games
Group Photo

Street Rove tomorrow, hope it will be interesting. Bye


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