im back to reading again! and this time its a book called good omens! if you're bored at home with nothing to do, log off facebook, stop stalking other people's blogs (and re-reading those same few posts because others dont bother to update) and stop searching youtube for that ever elusive funny video and READ SOME FICTION! :D

k, im saying this because 1. that was what i WAS doing, except the youtube bit (i think im one of the very few teenagers whose web history doesnt consist predominantly of youtube) 2. i really cant take non-fiction at this point in time. OR semi-intellectual books with sensationalistic titles (yes wu, im referring to you)

but i think im doing a pretty good job of NOT rotting at home (read: bumming around using the computer 24/7 or watching sports the entire day) reading counts as productive. but lets recount the past week! (and take a break from seoul)

MONDAY!
rest and recharge day. reaching home after 14 hours of transportation (1 1/2 hour car ride to seoul airport, 3 hours in transit in korea, 3 1/2 hours flying to hk, 2 hours in transit in hk, 3 1/2 hours from hk to sg, 1/2 hour car ride home) is really trying and tiring.

TUESDAY!
attended first hockey training in a week and a half! felt the effects of 10 days of holiday-ing. it wasnt so much the fitness training that was tough, it was the drills that required you to run and run. and run some more. but i admit, i havent been training for some time (partly due to my hesitation over my jc cca choice. fine, im still hesitating) but i guess ill just give it my best shot and see how it goes? besides, hockey is really a fun game.

hey all hockers! i wrote a narrative/short story about you guys (altho its based on my first person perspective!) will post it up here soon? (wai choong u would've read it before i think)

WEDNESDAY!
played tennis with ewan vincent and dewin! haha vincent has some wicked racquet head speed, so if he connects with the ball properly its really fast. and dewin has some sick first serve skills, when he actually gets the first serve in that is ;) hahaha... ewan was handling the muscles aches of the previous training ALOT better than me. couldnt really move quickly so ended up leaving the short balls alone. :P

then it started to rain, as it usually does in the late morning/early afternoon so went underground to play table tennis! ewan started to show off his incredible table tennis prowess, especially in singles :) guess he was saving up his energy for table tennis huh!

then wai choong and royston gatecrashed the billiards after lunch. told wai choong to bring his disc because somehow or rather, i simply knew he would end up somewhere around my house (uninvited of course, as is usually the case with him)

*true enough, when i called to ask if royston/he wanted to join us for a game since dewin was leaving us to gym, he was already outside my door.

as yet uninvited of course.

and we were given a lesson on what muscles can help you do (i.e vincent hitting the cue ball really really hard) and how math and angles are terrifically important (ewan with his aiming skills, even though this was quote "his first time playing"), how a good thing isnt necessarily a good thing (i.e how wai choong manages to hit the cue ball into the hole everytime he gets a free ball. *note: he positions the cue ball in hand in line with the ball he wants to hit, and duly hits both in) and how royston can almost never lose with his partner ;)

then karaoke! we learnt about what ewan listens to everytime he plugs into his mp3. suffice to say, if u were to sing (in this case "sing" is euphemistic) the same songs he listens to, you'd end up with a very hoarse throat.

THURSDAY!
GOLF! haha will upload the videos my dad took of me playing XD it was really quite fun. (of course, not having proper golf coaching helps, as to the logic of that u can ask me sometime later :D) the video shall be entitled

"how you bounce back 2"!

then more hockey training! this time, i felt i did a better job of adapting to the conditions (it helped that it was very cool in the afternoon with the slight drizzle)

went to ji-yi's house at night and stayed till 1 AM (no thanks to waiting for mcdelivery!)

i was about to post more about how many people seem to find a direct correlation to not rotting at home with going out with friends. but i shall elaborate on that more later. hopefully. time to see if the rain stop sso we can go cycle :D

BACK!

there are a few things ill miss about korea. but i will type about it here soon.

i typed down my daily thoughts over in korea into my trusty phone. (and its even in chronological order! each active note even has its own date stamp and thoughts in point form k!) so i will figure out how to stuff it into the computer without typing it again into this space.

and there are loads of photos and videos. CHECK OUT THE HILARIOUS VIDEO OF ME PLAYING GOLF ON FACEBOOK VIDEO :D hahaha super embarrassing first part, but i think its a good video for people who mess up the first time round ;) HAHA

will vet through the mountain of photos and upload the relevant ones soon! (most probably on facebook because xanga and macs dont really work very well together in my opinion, facebook just lags. just.)

stay tuned!

had a few first's today. lemme list them here

attended my first hockey training in months! watched my first NC16 movie? (ehhh i know its like 11 months overdue, not my fault that PG films somehow appeal to me more right?) eerrr... then there were the more regularly occuring ones.

E.G.

BLISTERS! owww i have this horrid blister on my left hand. huge gaping spot where there was (previously) skin. and since you play hockey with both hands, i basically had a not-so-fun first training after the halfway mark or so. sigh. EH and whats up with drama club? O.o" WELL anyway training was cut short halfway. the good weather couldnt last and soon it rained before LIGHTNING struck. to be honest it WAS pretty scary. gulshan walked all the way to the ri(jc) bus stop just so that there was minimal risk of lightning strikes on his impossibly tall frame (touch wood)

BEING AN UNFORGIVABLE BLUR KING. SORRY EWAN AND WAI CHOONG. i honestly saw a 1.50 pm movie!!! just that well, maybe i wasnt exactly paying attention to which cinema!!! well anyway, paranormal activity was.... okay-ish as well?

i shall talk about the movie! to be honest, it really wasnt AS scary as i thought it would be. the last part was (i would assume) your usual horror stuff with all the sudden/unexpected action (i am assuming because, yeah, i dont watch!), but the whole thing was just too jerky for me. and this is coming from a person who survived 5 minutes of ju-on before escaping into the neighboring room, and was rather freaked out by the TRAILER of drag me to hell (like it was just SNIPPETS in the theatre adverts!............. ok wait. i should stop dissing myself) BUT REALLY it wasnt THAT scary.

lets talk about MONDAY (and sunday)

MONDAY :D had a wonderful tennis game with moses. followed by the wet and wild board chalet!

i didnt know it was so much fun to dump pails-ful of water on unsuspecting victims from the 2nd floor of the raja block. im sincerely apologetic if anyone was drenched. it was all in the name of good fun. REALLY. haha omg and kaiyang was really crazy. we tried to hook up a hose with a tap so we could spray the rest of the prefects with water. alas, it wouldnt fit. but heck it was hilarious and comical! you should've seen the look of concentration on han kun's and josiah's face as they racked their brains to connect the hose and the taps.

oh and had a blast playing tennis with moses. PLAY AGAIN SOME TIME. it truly is awesome when you play with someone whos around the same standard as you. i.e they dont own you and frustrate you, but yet their good enough to not bore you! FUN :D moses has a wicked back hand slice and cross court forehand :)

and SUNDAY :D

SHOPPING! hahaha shopping for winter wear or clothes you wear to winter climates is not VERY fun. for a start, you look at those jackets etc and you go woooh! i want one! but then you think about the price tag and how you're most likely going to use them once a year if you're lucky.

so in the end, we more or less decided on jackets and sweaters that are more.... practical in the singaporean climate (sounds weird since we're talking about winter wear but YEAH). so if we do upload photos, dont forget to check out my dad and i in XL winter wear (courtesy of my mum's friend's husband whos, you guessed it!, much larger than people who wear size Ms)

i wonder, do people usually buy the "last piece" for clothing?

OMG revelation. the stock market can actually crash and companies can actually disappear or "vanish" in neopets. courtesy of ewan chee XD