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| T I R E D. the only reason why im still awake is because my hair is still wet at 1230 am (this is a relatively late time for someone like me btw)
ohhh one more reason to sleep early : apparently your hair only grows when you're asleep. (the moment jarrod heard this, he wanted to sleep at ding's house XD)
i guess bathing at 1230 is not as shiok as 3 am but im not complaining.
i shall narrate about TODAY!
basically two things happened, movie 2012 and singapore vs thailand.
2012, as a movie was (i felt) your usual kind of thriller movie. fast paced, CGI, explosions here there everywhere, some sub plots like those of family, themes like selflessness, selfishness, your romances here and there, bits of nobility (like the USA president staying back to face the dust cloud only to get squashed by a US aircraft carrier) your usual kind of apocalyptic bring-out-the-best-in-humanity bits.
there were funny bits. ESPECIALLY THE BENTLEY JOKE! inexplicable bits. like the guy on the radio forecasting the doom. the totally random bits. like the "ships" being "arks" a la noah's ark. but overall, a lot of special effects. but personally it was okay-ish to me because i was never much into the special effects thing. if its computer generated then it loses its appeal (somehow for me) but there was no way this film could've done without the special effects and there were tons of them here.
not sure how accurate the film was with reference to the real nostradamus maya thingies but if things really were to pan out the way it did in the movie, well then, ggxx. quite spectacular, the way the whole place was just shredded apart, the waves were diaoz but the way bits of earth rose so high and leaving the rest down into some lava thingy. yeah.... u get the point?
NEXT! singapore vs thailand!
sigh i realise of the few times ive actually caught singapore live in action, they end up losing. pretty disappointing really. LIKE C'MON SINGAPORE LETS WIN A FEW TIMES. FOR MEEEE D: the stadium atmosphere this time round wasnt as electric or funny i guess. not like the vietnam match. maybe it was the rain, maybe the rest of the crowd was feeling the same lethargy and weariness i felt. but somehow it didnt click. it didnt help that people forgot their horns until it was too late --> after the match.
throughout the match, the horn guy was MIA and it was only after the match where we heard the loud chorus of the malay expletive yelled after a series of coordinated hooting sounds from the horn. guaranteed to provoke giggles! and its really fun to join in as well, even though i dont really know what the word means (tho im VERY SURE its some expletive or erm... coarse and unpleasant word. i mean theres no other explanation for those reactions right?)
overall i felt singapore was hopeless at finishing. they had a couple of good chances that they failed to put away and thailand duly punished them. even though the singapore brand of football isnt the most attractive you will ever find, i find it endearing that the team were all strong physical players who were industrious and hardworking (except the wingers, who i felt had a nonexistent game, or well at least a low key game that failed to live up to most expectations)
i would advise anyone who has yet to catch a singapore game at the national stadium to give it a go! if you need company i hope you have my number! XD i mean you dont need to a sports junkie, or a football mad person. i think its pretty sad if you didnt go witness a proper live soccer match at the old national stadium ONCE before its torn down (and it seems to be taking its time to get torn down. the reason why i went for my first live game there was to catch a game there before the stadium was torn down anyway)
hmm. i shall end off with something more reflective. i shall reflect about company. i read somewhere (ok, its called guan lin's blog) that sometimes, the activity or the venue isnt important. its the company.
we all lament and moan about the activity being not inclusive enough, fun enough, exciting enough, cool enough. and likewise for the venue. but we should really be focusing on the company.
hockey munjens/the whole team lah (is this how u spell it?) even though we might very well split up into different cca's. hope the camaraderie and such outings will continue! you have always remained approachable and out going, especially in times of dire boredom. (and of course it helps that some of our interests coincide, and the convenient but unfortunate truth that holidays CAN get boring)
even though we dont have the mass gatherings or special events/whatever that some other ccas have, i had a blast! really cant imagine what ri would've been like without all of you! :D hockey wont be the same without all of you but heck thats life. | | |
| and im back to winning award winning/shortlisted for awards fiction.
ive been feeling this unmistakable urge to blog about what has happened the past half month. this is due to two main reasons. one, boredom and the second, so much has happened. yet i cannot seem to find the words to explain that lethargic-ness that seems to engulf me at the most inopportune of moments (or basically when i find myself lifelessly staring at a computer screen, and with the weblog entry window hidden behind other windows or tabs)
so yes, back to the shortlisted for awards fiction.
i now realise that my reading speed has dropped dramatically. i have a vague feeling a slim 200+ pages book is read-able in less than a day. yet somehow this sluggishness has permeated that aspect of my life as well.
okay. the above is the result of spending the whole day "bumming at home" in the words of some people.
i shall talk about the more happening past.
lets start with the most recent three events.
4L PARTY AT DING HAO'S HOUSE.
alright, those of you who have never ever been to the sentosa cove houses part of sentosa, dont, because u need to pay 2.50 apparently. (ok fine this entry fee extends to the whole of sentosa thats why) but if you do, the houses there are AWESOME. so basically AWESOME HOUSE DING HAO. the teachers who came (mai lao shi, mrs lim, sorry mrs tay!) were pretty much stunned and agape.
there were projectors and tvs everywhere. so basically the class was clustered in the basement level for the most part of the afternoon to evening. there was a pool table complete with many cue sticks for people like niccol to get practise to a new sport/game. an air hockey table for nick ng to show his formidable swiping prowess. a ktv room complete with chairs, carpets and those ktv systems you see in ktv (this room also doubled up as a place to play guitar hero so daniel had a whole night and early morning to get into the groove)
quote jarrod : life is unfair (uttered and echoed many times over the course of two days)
but it was fun :D spent the late evening having great food for 10 bucks (compard to 60 for....) spent the late night singing english songs with the entire class (and getting a horrible throat) spent the wee hours chatting with classmates at the front deck/porch of ding hao's house overlooking the sentosa golf course. (watching ships moving slowly out of the port of singapore). spent the early morning talking nonsense with everyone in the first of ding's 2 guest rooms (and being entertained by vishaal's sudden really horny spurt.. i mean of randomness) showering at 330 am in hot water (and sparking of the mass exodus to the toilet to try out first hand for themselves how shiok it was) falling asleep on a huge bed with jarrod, gerald and vishaal (yes, somehow there was space for him as well) for company.
then waking up in the morning to breakfast and a trip to school to collect our APRs.
4L WE NEED TO PARTY AGAIN SOON! :D
and the second event.
GRAD NIGHT
truth be told, for 60 bucks, the food wasnt that great. i think most ri guys would agree with me. but to be honest, we didnt pay the 60 bucks for the food alone, it was about the venue and location.
but above all that, the price tag of the company : priceless.
ok im not out to copy the mastercard slogan (was it? or was it some other credit card company) but we were there, not for the food, the performances (i know im sorry, but thats the truth, and although there were some funny and entertaining moments, it wasnt THAT great) WE WERE THERE FOR THE PEOPLE!
yes there was alot of looking (and the weirdness of it all was compounded by the fact that we were all guys wearing clothes that most of us wouldnt normally wear otherwise. except ME :D or well thats what i think. REALLY. ok fine maybe the others would wear THAT out too. when i see it ill acknowledge it) but when we got over all that,
PHOTOTAKING :D everywhere lightbulbs went off (except my camera because flash is a no-go with me ;) ) i felt that perhaps they could've left the lights on(and set it brighter if that was possible) because most of us were taking pictures. having to resort to flash in a dark room wasnt very fun, and for flash-less people like me, it notched up the camera's ISO (i think thats what its called) so a steady hand was necessary for shots to turn out satisfactorily. (and since most of the people who ended up helping me take the shots decided one hand was enough, i ended up with many duplicates and failed attempts BUT HECK THANKS ANYWAY!)
and for me,
TOSSING :D:D getting tossed into the air is fun. tossing is also fun. LOVE YOU HOCKEY GUYS. sigh another thing that i guess i will miss in RJ (especially if i end up in hockey in 2 months time) is the people who won't be walking alongside me. i understand their reasons. to be honest, i empathize. heck, i am feeling the very same reasons. it really is a quandary, and to quote jarrod, well "life is unfair". i hope things pan out well, or well, i hope i reach a decision that i will not learn to regret.
and last but certainly not least,
HIGHER MOTHER TONGUE O LEVELS
i felt that over the course of the past weeks. during the leadup to the eventual exam, i really put in effort to prepare for a chinese exam. perhaps it seems so foreign to me because ive never ever really prepared that hard for a language or chinese paper. but come january when i receive the results, i know i will get that certificate knowing in my heart that i really did try somewhere close to my best thus far. even though one could argue that my best came a year late, 4 years late, 10 years late, it did come.
in life where we keep climbing new mountains (i know it sounds cliched, but...) this was a new mountain for me. i successfully managed to write a composition a day (albeit with the help of reference books, and that almost every essay was exactly 4 sides (and maybe a bit) long) since the... end/a week before the end of dmp i think? i guess more work could've been put into practising paper 2s, especially since i only started doing a paper 2 a day in the last 5 days or so. but the point is, i really hope that the (very very very very belated) effort will be translated into actual results that i can be proud of. i guess maybe some people will lament and complain that its unfair someone who crams only in the last 4 weeks shouldnt hope for great results when others have been putting in constant effort throughout 356 days or longer. but that's the whole point about hope isnt it?
and i hope i gave a good account of myself in paper 1. paper 2 zhong he tian kong was a landmine, the first 2 easier passages should've been error-strewn but my fingers are crossed. very crossed.
whew that was a long post. | | |
| nawwww now we only have till the 16th of november to decide on what we're gonna spend our next 2 years studying! perhaps for those who have already made up their minds, the deadline couldnt come any sooner. BUT for incredibly fickle people like me. its a NIGHTMARE.
someone give me the direction i need now.
for me, its really a question of biology or physics. economics or some random humanities subject. ok the above sounded rather biased towards humanities subjects. but really. to me, history was fun and relatively stress free pre EOYs. hearing from joel, my trusty j1 friend who's turning out to be a major source of my jc advice (indirectly or directly) history sounds like a whole different ball game in jc.
biology vs physics.
everyone says physics is the more "applicable science". biology is just studying and mugging and time and what have you. well, i agree. and thats the whole problem. today the jc deputy principal advised us to marry interest with ability. way to go mdm. :l ok fine i understand that's the ideal situation. to follow soon hong's example or not to. thats the question.
economics vs humanities subject.
economics. the subject where 900 rj students take and 100... PASS (according to deputy principal again if im NOT WRONG) how encouraging. yet people still take it. what a headache.
dilemmas. the dreaded d word. and theres the S word.
Should.
i should be studying. i should not need too much time to decide anyway. i should just follow my heart. i should just decide based on my interest. interest works interest rocks.
i should be practising chinese. D: | | |
| ok i shall edit the relegate my rant to the back. the copy and paste is so useful *gushes*
i SHALL start off with something HAPPY (see the caps and the apparent effort needed?)
SUNDAY NIGHT :D
synopsis - went to shaun's house with alvin, royston and ling fei to catch liverpool vs man utd. not that i couldnt watch it at home. BUT ITS JUST THAT MUCH MORE FUN AND EXCITING TO CATCH IT WITH FRIENDS! watching liverpool vs man utd was alot more nerve-wracking than watching man utd vs arsenal with alvin and wai choong. somehow watching other teams, theres this sense of detachment.
sure, you jump up from the couch and start hollering at every opportunity. you shout you do fistpumps you laugh you criticise the ref and let hell loose on underperforming players. but its not "YOUR TEAM" whether van persie scores an offside goal at the last moment, you just jump up and abuse the pillows around you, but after all of that, you settle down and go to sleep.
BUT when its "YOUR TEAM" the result matters. thankfully it didnt turn out to be that bad a morning :) and it was hilarious as well.
whoever shaun and i cursed and put down, that player would somehow do very well. eg. we were lamenting about lucas's lack of pace, strength, passing ability, basically everything except his running. turned out, he didnt play that bad (ok he played quite well XD) shaun was laughing at diamanti, and he popped up to create and score both goals. hmm shaun we should do this more often ;)
alright that was SUNDAY. who needs a chalet when you have choo's house? ok alvin next big match we're crashing your house :P
alright. time to think happy thoughts :D lets just throw brooding, moody, gloomy out of the window!
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and all i want to do now is rant.
dont u think its terrifically unbecoming if someone starts hitting you and kicking you? i really didnt know what got into me today. why didnt i just hit him back? damn it. maybe it would've helped with the scorn i feel now.
but somehow i suspect, if i did retaliate (and with good reason) it would've turned pretty ugly.
some people just arent worth it.
and neither am i going to mention names since theres zero chance he's gonna chance upon this and hopefully realise what a complete. *insert vulgarity* im almost too glad that i dont know him that well. but at the same time, i feel horrible that im going to the same school as him.
there. the rant shall end here. | | |
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doesnt this irritate you to death? i hope singtel comes up with a more comprehensive package than starhub. this is what happens when you try to find out if starhub screens carling cup matches between liverpool and arsenal when uve just paid a whopping 25++ bucks per month for sports group subscription.
they say content is king. and you pay for content. now why didnt the price go down when champions league moved over the starhub. i dont need to watch how portsmouth lost their latest game 3 times in a day. or multiple games to be shown at one time when really, all that you would care to watch and would be able to watch is just that solitary match.
ugh grumpiness. | | |
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