Now who would have ever thought of that?

2011-01-25T15:37:00.001+08:00

I HAZ MOVED TO http://44millionfriends.tumblr.com/

yes, i have succumbed to the elegance and chic that is tumblr.

2010-03-11T22:43:00.002+08:00

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” - Buddha

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” - Jim Rohn

“No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.” - Seneca

"The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly." - Proverbs 5:22-23

Now is the time for discipline.

2010-02-16T17:33:00.002+08:00

it's been a while since i've last been here.

"Enlightenment is like a horizon in the distance - you see it and become convinced that it is there, beautiful, so you move forward to achieve it, but the horizon can never be achieved and the more you move forward for it, the more it moves away, and then one day you have to understand that it is the game of maya. Then you understand through experience that there is no enlightenment and in that moment of no enlightenment, enlightenment is there experienced." - Lord Sri Akshunna

hmmmm.

2009-12-21T00:45:00.002+08:00

Let me tell you how you measure a man. When his world starts to fall, see how tall he stands. It matters not how many times you fall down; what matters most is how many times you rise. Mistakes build character, and character takes you places money can't. -T.I.

2009-10-10T00:06:00.002+08:00

i've been wanting to blog since baybeats, can you frickin believe it!? anyway baybeats was awwsum with the boobs, beer and beats. ok fine, beer and beats, just needed another one to throw in there. anberlin was frickin awwsum. and moshing should be a way of life.

anyway promos are over now. and now i find myself without much to say really. well, i've started a twitter account, which beats blogging really. watched surrogates and fame today. surrogates was ok, but fame was pretty good. and i bought these lime green cyclops-esque shades from cine. for $5 ZOMG. nais. ok ciao.

2009-08-16T00:23:00.000+08:00

i've always known what the problem was. now i just gotta bring myself to remedy it.

2009-08-02T18:38:00.000+08:00

going for session and just being with my acts ii community again just makes me feel happy.

i know i'm pretty screwed up,
i know i'm a hypocrite,
i know i'm two-faced,
i know i'm not a very good witness to You,
but yet i love you Lord,
and i know you love me too,
no matter what,
and that keeps me going every day.

to those reading this who might call me weird or whatever, i dont mind, because i'm doing it for someone much greater than you are and who cares about me, and even you, much more than you will ever know.

2009-07-11T21:28:00.008+08:00

hey all. we've all been starting to get back our ct results in drips and drabs, and we've all had our fair share of surprises, both good and bad. to everyone who's reading this, i hope you read it to the end, especially if you were affected and felt upset in any way about your results. to put it all in perspective, our results only function to help us get promoted. i mean, if we get an S or A, it makes no difference as long as we meet the promotion criteria. that is unless you wanna get on the dean's list, in which case getting an A would be the least of your worries, but instead how high of an A you've gotten. anyway, doing well is of course what we aim for, but if we dont, so what? dont beat yourself up about it cause it's just a letter. if you've done well, good for you, but once again, it's just a letter. there's more to life than studying, but you'd probably be rich if people gave you a dime for every time they've said that to you. and furthermore, if you can be honest with yourself and tell yourself that you haven't done well enough cause you havent worked hard enough or left something to be desired, you have no reason to feel upset cause your mark is probably what you deserve. and lastly, this ct is only 15% ZOMG. i know promos are gonna be infinitely harder but cmon, we'll all be aight cause we all make things out to be bigger or more difficult than they actually are. so pls chill everyone, relak one corner and lepak-lepak pls. there's more to come, so relax while you can. ciao for nao.

I thought I might trip over a stone, or even my own laces,
But I ran into a brick wall, and thankfully so,
Cause now I run no more.
(This is NOT meant to be poetic. Just sums up something I've been through lately. Tata.)

2009-07-04T01:04:00.004+08:00

cts are over dammit! suck on it biatches. haha okok, anyway i just don't wanna have to think about it again until we get our results back so DON'T REMIND ME or i'll frickin kill you.

anyway in other MORE IMPORTANT news, it's seriously saddening that michael jackson, the king of pop himself, has passed away. all the negative press he's received in recent years has been pretty unfair. most of the so-called 'victims' of his 'molestation' are money-swindling crooks and most people have duly recognised the fact that he probably hasnt harmed anyone else other than maybe himself. but with all the negativity aside, there has never been a bigger phenomenon than michael jackson. his soulful singing, his insane dance moves, his immeasurable stage presence and his humility above all, captured the attentions, imaginations, hearts and souls of millions worldwide. cmon, which other artiste have you seen that had the power to send young and grown women alike into tears and even fainting spells at the mere sight of him, let alone a handful of grown men. his record sales are unmatched and his signature pieces of clothing such as his hat, silver glove and white socks have become iconic images of the whole sensation of mj magic. as a kid, mj's music was the only music for me. and i used to pretend to dance like him, and what a sight it must have been presumably. we've all tried to do the moonwalk and either ended up looking like idiots or falling flat on our asses. we've all been enthralled by his music videos, which were all like mini-films in and of themselves. think about it, we had stuff like thriller and smooth criminal and remember the time. his movies were great and out of the 3 that he did, i've watched the whole of 'moonwalker' and can only remember some parts of 'ghosts'. there wont be anyone who will even come close to matching him in any way, and he will forever remain, one thing and one thing only - a phenomenon. well, the king of pop as well. RIP Michael Jackson 1958-2009.

on a somewhat related but unimportant note, white people should seriously not attempt to dance. i was watching some of mj's live performances and white people seriously can't move or dance. leave these things to coloured folk, honestly.

2009-06-26T22:43:00.002+08:00

SHIT CTS ARE IN 3 DAYS TIME. haha actually nvm la, no biggie. not that i'm gonna ace it or anything, i'm somehow feeling nonchalant about it all. i cant bring myself to study and i need to remedy this bad habit, which has been carried over from last year. i honestly applaud all of you who can study, let alone cover EVERYTHING that's tested. anyway, today i watched transformers. HOLY SHIT IT IS FRICKIN COOL TO THE MAX. all the autobots and decepticons just look much cooler than in the first movie, i dunno how. and the whole thing was action from start to finish. nearer the end it started to get a little disorienting, not in a way where you get nauseous or shit but when you get a little bit confused as to what's actually happening cause there's SO much goin on. but it was awwsum, and might even be worth a second watch.

anyway the story is about optimus prime and a female decepticon falling in love, but torn apart due to their allegiances. the autobots and decepticons fight until they realise love conquers all and then they put aside their differences and join forces, or so the autobots think. megatron then makes use of their newfound trust to his advantage and kills the autobots one by one by waxing off their paint jobs and making them die of prolonged pain. so then the decepticons start celebrating and the female decepticon, seeing her dead optimus, then kills all the decepticons. then she sells all the autobots and decepticons as scrap metal, becomes a millionaire and laughs her way to the bank. END OF STORY SORRY TO SPOIL IT FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVENT WATCHED IT.

2009-06-21T00:10:00.002+08:00

lloyd banks is frickin awwsum. and so is young buck. and so is tony yayo. and we all know fity. G-UNIT. ok sorry, my recent downloads of gangsta stuff has been mildly putting my brain into overdrive for drugs, sex, money, guns, and well, sex.

class outing on wed nite was not bad. first ever class thing and like 13 people showed up, so not bad for a first attempt. eugene, i'm holding you to your word for when school reopens. anyway, dinner was at marche and karan, liyoung and i managed to get some german beer. konig ludwig weiss beer from the tap. good stuff. and geri also had some, and karan and i were watching her drink in amusement. the meal and the company was good so overall it was a good nite. and then liyoung and sujin went off to watch some horror movie. faizal and i stood our ground. yes we are scared so shoot us. then after a while we all left. took the train back with claire and got home at abt 11pm. dayyym, that's early.

studying in school on thurs failed miserably. sean and i played soccer with some j2s after that. barefooted, on the hot astro. we came out after abt an hour of play with severely blistered feet. we were walking like ducks. but i still managed to put on plasters and play soccer the next day at the east coast cage. took a bus all the way down there just to play. i mean cmon, it was a no-brainer between that and studying at home. then chilled at ryan's place till we finished his altar servers meeting then we all went for dinner at cafe cartel. then godpa sent me home, with the cousins in tow, in his convertible merc. frickin awwsum. then today played soccer in the morn in school with what kristian terms at j6s. 22 yr olds. then we showered, had lunch, and played pool at his house, all the while having a heart-to-heart talk. i'm just glad imma able to help in some way. then just had dinner at grandmother's house and twas frickin awwsum as usual.

AND I NEED TO SLEEP EARLIER. I'M FALLING ASLEEP AT MY BOOKS DURING THE DAY. BADBADBAD. PLS LET THE HOLIDAYS BE EXTENDED.

and i've put up my first note on facebook, and this the 1st-2nd line from a song quiz thing. and not many have been guessed. so either my music tastes are so eclectic that they cant guess or they're so unusual that they've never heard of the stuff. i think it's the former. and i created the how well do you know me quiz thing also. haha retarded sia. everyone got taken by the last question. spastums, in the words of haikal. ok BAIBAI HERE'S TO SLEEPING EARLIER.

2009-06-11T23:41:00.002+08:00

dayyyym.
one degree 15 is damn cool.
the insane number of yachts there is damn cool.
the yachts are damn cool.
relaxing at the top of a yacht is damn cool.
dancing in the yacht in the dark with some sort of a lame strobe light with nigga music is damn cool.
drinking in the yacht is damn cool.
leaving the yacht at 1am is not so cool.

and lido is somewhat cool.
and finishing pw there in 1+hr and eugene arriving just shortly after we're done is even cooler, though probably not so cool for him.

and falling sick and missing acts ii retreat is DEFINITELY not cool at all. cyall when the fountain from my nose ceases to flow anymore.

2009-06-09T21:31:00.003+08:00

dayyyym this blogging thing is hard to keep up. and so it has been for many before me, and those who will continue to do so. ok now what the hell am i saying. this is what the holidays do to ya.

shit, i thought this june hols would be a great break from school. well actually it is, since a break is better than no break at all. but then i realised we hadda lotta stuff to do, fo shizzle ma nizzle. i mean think about it. first there's obviously revision for cts. then throw in all the pw interviews and surveys and stuff. i mean once you add this to all the going out, sleeping and chilling you have to do, i mean the hols are packed man. haha. anyway, just kidding, it ain't as bad as it seems. and somehow, these 4 weeks are passing by slower than any other holiday i can remember. which is awwsum obviously. anyway revision hasn't been going too well. distractions are everywhere, honestly. IT AINT MY FAULT. haha. and pw aint moving either.

and i want to go on this like journey across various malls and take a look at everything that's there, even though i've been to some of them quite a few times. and shop, possibly. well i'd start with what qayyum calls the trinity of malls - tampines one, tampines mall and century square. i've never been there, so shoot me. then i wanna go to peninsula plaza and far east and heeren and other places in town. then onto queensway, cause they actually have some decent stuff there. all in one day. so who's with me? haha seriously if you also wanna go, just holla. anyway, other than that. cyall around. hopefully soon.

2009-05-24T00:28:00.002+08:00

recently, i've been bombarding myself with thoughts about who i am as a person and i've been trying to consider things pretty objectively, or at least as best as i could. the first and most obvious thing that i've realised is that i've changed a helluva lot since sec 1. well basically in sec 1, i was this short, dumpy, mugger dude who was way too conscious of the rules and basically did everything he was told by both parents and teachers; almost never submitted work late and tried to do everything right and as best as he could.

now, even tho i ain't particularly tall and all, i have no qualms doing things that ain't right. also i'm in no way any academic superstar. i have no qualms not doing work and submitting shit late. and something that may surprise some of you is that at the start of the year, after orientation and all, i was SERIOUSLY considering going to poly, because i saw no value in the stuff we were doing in school. i saw it as merely trying to achieve a meaningless grade and going after it blindly without really knowing what its purpose was, and is. call me shortsighted or whatever, but i can bet that you would have felt something similar at one point or another. i didn't tell my parents cause i honestly didnt want to know what their reaction would have been to my suggestion of going to poly. so i just stuck it out, hoping that i would find SOME sort of meaning in the process that countless others before me have gone through. at some point this year, a seed of motivation to do well was planted on a monday morning and began to grow promisingly, but has since withered. thoughts of going to poly have resurfaced but i suppose i'll stick it out again.

another change is that the friends i hang out with more often now are different. most of my 4k chihongz have gone to hp and are segregated from the rest of the normal folk and sometimes i wish it were still the old days of the 4kers. anyway, i'm still happy with the people i hang out with cause they're all damn fun people too. but at the end of the day, i still know who my true friends are.

i've also realized that alot of the time, i like to be quiet. sometimes i'm just lazy to talk and just wanna watch the world go by. but when i'm doing something i like, no matter how crazy, i'll be putting everything i've got into it. call it wierd or whatever, but it's just me.

and other than all of that, i've been asking myself about other things, to which i havent yet found an answer or come to a satisfying conclusion.
are the things i'm doing really me?
have i lost touch with some of my friends who used to mean more to me?
what do i really want at this point in time?
what is it that's missing in my life right now?

haha you might think i'm thinking too much. way too much. i think i agree. but as of now, i need to get this sorted, for myself if not for anyone else.

2009-05-03T22:13:00.003+08:00

DON'T BOTHER READING THIS. I JUST NEED TO GET IT OUT.

i'm disgusted at the person i'm becoming and all the shit i'm doing. and i can't seem to control this seemingly vicious cycle. i guess only a handful of you will know the full extent of my predicament, because the rest of you would just freak out cause you can't imagine the stuff that i'm doing.

2009-05-01T23:59:00.002+08:00

haha ultrasound yesterday was damn awwsum. at first i thought it was gonna be mediocre. and since it was at the pac, the area to mosh was quite small, so i thought it would be a non-event. even after a few songs, it couldnt be said that the crowd standing in front of the stage was full of energy. but after the intermission (which said thought was a band name), xd got things going and i joined the crowd and more people also joined and it seemed to be more energetic. and after that we started moshing to max and it was only this group of us in the centre that was moshing. and a few of the girls nearly got eaten alive in the mosh. and jermaine's moshing is insane. and she and mariel can swing their hair around like true rockers. awwsum. but the moshing was friggin awwsum. and near the end, we were moshing and these two dudes were telling us to stop it. seriously, two pussies man. if they didnt want to get caught in the mosh, why stand in the centre all the way in front? seriously dumb. anyway, all the more we smashed them. fun shizzle. supper after that at the food court near the interchange and then got dropped home thanks to shyuan's mum. at 1am. nais.

2009-04-26T00:23:00.002+08:00

CLASS CAMP

well class camp was awwum. too bad karan and joey and anthea and eugene couldn't come. they missed out on a great time. to begin, the hike was not tiring and it was quite short since it was only 5-6km but it was tedious la. but we had fun along the way, esp at the jetty near chek jawa where we had a lepak session. we didn't wanna leave that spot really. then cooking and pitching bashas in the evening was great also. everyone was doing something and it was great to see. then after dinner, sitting around in a circle playing 'i've never/i have' was awwwsum and funny and SICK at times. haha. and the hopping-over-the-rope=if-you-agree game by mr shukor was very eye-opening as well. there were some things i would never have expected. next day the games were awwsum. firing cannons, skipping rope and playing with numbers & letter was more fun than any of us expected. then we left the camp feeling quite satisfied, hiked back to the ferry point and left. quite a cool 2 days really.

SCHOOL

well as of monday this week, i found motivation for school again. well i was coming to school and attending lessons (and ponning some of course) without a sense of purpose because i saw no value in the stuff that was being taught. well now i still find it hard to find meaning in the lessons, but inexplicably the motivation to actually do well has returned. and i'm glad it has. and i think i can only thank God for that.

and generally, i don't like rj. the timetables are weird and you don't get to see your friends as much as you would like to. i still dislike the lecture-tutorial system. and i totally hate the way we're taught; it's so obviously result-oriented and exam-directed. they tell you what you should think basically. URGH.

ME

well when people look at me, they don't expect me to be the sort to do certain things. and they're quite surprised when i tell them that i do indeed do them. some are ok and some disapprove with some of them. and for those who disapprove, i'm sorry if i continue to do the things i do. but give me time, i probably need it for something to hit me in the face and knock some sense into me. but until then, forgive me.

2009-04-04T22:38:00.004+08:00

fuck it. don't come and tell me 'next year'. i've tried for the good part of 2 months and to have it just all come to nothing makes me feel like crap. seriously.

2009-03-29T22:33:00.002+08:00

well like evelyn points out "it's been 20 odd days sicne your last post!" yep far too long. anyway school of late has been tiring, but fun i suppose. i'm lagging in econs, history and maths, which aint good considering it's still quite early on. but i'm already catching up for maths so there's a start right there. floorball has been great also, but i always feel damn pressured to perform when coach is there cause i seriously wanna make the team this year, tho i know it's counter intuitive to feel pressured and then expect to perform well. k anyway moving on, my birthday was positively fantastic. sharing it with HODBOI eugene made it all the better obviously. well from people wishing me happy birthday, to the presents the 4kers gave me which were frickin awwsum, to lunch with them, to a great dinner at home with family and the oreo cheescake (NAIS), to belated birthday wishes up till even 2 days after it. haha it doesnt matter how you wished me and how you remembered, be it from memory (THANK YOU), your phone, facebook or cause other people told you, if you wished me in any way or form, THANK YOU SO MUCH. really appreciated it. sexy seventeen now.

anyway i cant really remember what else i wanted to talk about but here are two things i've learnt about my blog's readership:
1) there are more people who read my blog then i expected
2) there are people whom i would least expect to read my blog who actually do (HI NORMAN)
well thanks for reading anyway and thanks for allowing me to interest you with my life, however interesting, or boring, it may be. and thank you for allowing me to take away precious productive homework time.

2009-03-06T23:02:00.002+08:00

hey all. school of late has been really tiring. training ends late and getting home even later to face the prospect of homework isnt always the most exciting and motivating thing. and when there's no training, school ends late and it seems to suck the energy out of everyone.

i cant bring myself to do work during free blocks, which is BAD. if i dont break out of this habit now, last year will just repeat itself. and i already told myself that aint gonna happen.

and everyone seems to not like pe now. back in ri, that's the one thing we'll look forward to. but now it's damn boring and everyone seems to dislike it. hopefully it'll get better after napfa.

i love my class. 10A01D, you guys are da bomb.

today a'lvl results were released, and seeing people get straight a's n all just scares me. will i be able to do it when the time comes? dayyym, i really dont know. but with God at my side, anything is possible.

and i really hate it when you tell someone something and they promise not to tell anyone, but end up accidentally blurting it out. just screws you over.

an incoherent post? you bet. but i cant be bothered to organise my thoughts. stream of consciousness.

2009-02-17T23:15:00.002+08:00

it sucks to know i could have had it so much better. it also sucks after you hear certain things that make you question why it happened to another person and not yourself. am i just being sore? don't think so. just disappointed in what i'm missing out on.

on another note, if all teachers were like ms kuang, students will be a helluva lot happier.

2009-02-16T23:30:00.002+08:00

this post will be full of incoherent thoughts. if you agree with any of them, in or out of context, that's great. if you think it's crap, well it's understandable.

i hate knowing i can do something to a pretty decent standard, but am somehow not able to match that standard for some reason. it just sucks.

rj pe attire sucks.

i still cant decide whether i like the rj way of things or not.

i'm neither here nor there. languishing somewhere in the middle of everything.

sometimes i wish people wouldnt say things over and over again. and sometimes i wish people were just a tad more appreciative.

people should just say whatever they want to. never hold back. dont leave people confused.

there are more than i expected.

and lastly, bar refaeli is HOT.

cyall soon.

2009-02-15T00:19:00.002+08:00

valentine's day in school yesterday was interesting to say the least. and flowers are an expensive biznez, but once a year seems aight. and i honestly wonder if girls really appreciate the flowers or whether they think it's cliched. anyhow, giving flowers was nice. let's leave it at that for now.

2009-02-10T21:33:00.002+08:00

alot of people are unhappy with their classes and some are seriously unhappy, like hating their class. some are fine with their classes, and some are genuinely happy with their classes. my class is pretty cool. got eugene hodboi and liyoung. there's WAYNE haha. A01D all the way. i think we'll get to know each other properly in time to come la. now time with the class has been pretty sparse. anyway school's starting and we're all already into the whole maths thing. here goes i guess.

and i seriously hope what happened today never friggin happens today. makes me sick.

2009-02-08T22:09:00.002+08:00

hey all. o'tiero was a blast. it was damn fun la. when i first heard our grp name, O$P$, i was like ZOMGWTFBBQLOL. i thought our ogls were some clowns who came up with a name like that. i was hoping our group wouldnt be a bunch of stoners or weirdos. we started off a bit slow but in the end, i gotta say our og was absolutely fantastic. and our ogls were da bomb like seriously. hodboi skoh, koolboi stuart and awwsum cherie. our group seriously laughed more than we could handle. quang and i laughed the most and somehow both of us were laughing at stuff we were saying to each other. and the rest of you are seriously fantastic la. thanks for all the jokes, racist or not, and seriously spasstic moments. ALL THE WAY LA O$P$. here's hoping that my class will be as awwsum, but that'll seriously be asking for a lot. anyway, our jc lives begin tmr proper. DAYYYYYM i aint ready fo shit.

2009-01-30T22:59:00.001+08:00

as much as you'd like to say that you can learn from mistakes, screw ups aren't an option.

2009-01-29T22:32:00.002+08:00

oh shit today damn fun. stupid project work(shop) was damn stupid. our group was the best la. all the other groups damn stone but we were laughing all the way. and in the end bryan folded our mahjong paper into a big boat and then on of the girls handed it up to the teacher at the end and she looked at it with a wtf look. but bryan and i had chaoed by that time, laughing our asses off. then i felt the urge to ponn the 3hr maths elective. WHICH I DID haha don't laugh this is the first thing i've ponned in a DAMN LONG TIME. as in lesson wise. so then i had a shitload of fun with qayyum, saiful, maskil and the dsa guy. farid i think. BABOONEZ. then raffles rock audition. HOLY SHIT IT WAS THE FAIL THANK YOU EVERYBODY CHAPTER CLOSE FULLSTOP. then in the end missed fitness. so stayed back to watch the soccer training. then cabut home. end of quite a fun day la. pls 9am to 4pm doing shit. that is da bomb ok.

2009-01-25T23:20:00.002+08:00

it's been a while since i last blogged but i wont bother to recount the stuff that's happened since. cause they're more important things, and of late, i've become much more aware of them.

In Memory of Cao Yuanchi.

I can't say that I knew Yuanchi very well, but I knew him well enough to know that he was probably one of the most enthusiastic guys in his batch. He joined later than everyone else in his batch, but it didn't stop him from leaving an impact. I remember he was always smiling and though quite a quiet guy, he tried his best in everything he did in the company, be it on the pipes or at AQ training.

When I went for his funeral, one of his relatives was really torn by his passing and her shouts are something I never want to hear again. They really just rip through you. Seeing him in the coffin with his school uniform and tie really just reminded me that he was a student - one of us. When his coffin was in the hearse and the pipes sounded, it was just a tribute to his whole time in the BB and our pipeband. When the hearse was about to finally leave and we all saluted, I was really about to cry because it was like all of us saying like a final goodbye to a fellow BB boy. All this just shows you how awesome a fellow Yuanchi was. To all of you who are reading this, pray for him that he may be in a better place now. Pray for his family, that God may provide them the strength to carry on. Lastly, live life like as if you'll have no time to make up for regrets. Yuanchi lived his life to the fullest, and I hope you will too.

Rest in peace, Yuanchi.

2009-01-09T23:55:00.002+08:00

HEEELOOOO. the first thing i must say is that i have a new favourite word but it's NSFW. i think. maybe. ok if you wanna know ask me in private. though 4k knows. chidiots. ok i was at CHA-LET (pronounced CHA-LET and not SHA-LAY) since wed and it was da bomb.

wed: checked in, played wii-pes which was damn fun and damn diffuclt, played xbox, played phailed game of soccer limping since i already had a sprained ankle and still scored a goal, had barbecue with jy at the helm and this was definitely the best bbq ever, then GOT DRUNK. this has to be the my highlight of the chalet, and i think for some of the other 4kers as well.

so it started with brain bringing his concoction of 2 flavours of absolut and glucose and red bull which was insane. had 2.5 cups of that. then had 7 shots of vodka. feeling high was damn cool but when we went to the beach i died. i was practically going mad. then jy and brain helped me back to the chalet. you dont wanna know the rest. woke up the next morn with a hangover and felt like crap. some of the things i said when i was drunk:
"Stop laughing at me! I know I'm drunk."
"See I can still walk in a straight line."
being drunk damn fun i tell you, must try.

so next day after hangover had breakfast and could still imagine the sick smell of brain's concoction. went pool and bowling and lunch and then the 4 of us went to meet the apcg peeps at east coast to cycle all the way to changi. walao damn fun sia. too much to talk about but let's just say everyone was pretty damn tired after cycling. went to subway for dinner where at the end where we laughing at amanda's monologue abilities. went back to the chalet after that. i joined them at the arcade and played the retarded basketball game and watched this insane little kid play on the drum machine. crap he needed 3 stools to bring him up to the right height and his feet were dangling in the air but he was damn sick and hit a score with like a million digits. insane. any hopes i had of trying to play that machine were dashed. then we went back to the chalet and played indian poker with beer. which was damn fun and spasstic. and had a great talk with damnear and brain and met up with the rest at the beach where who knows what they were doing besides freezing in the cold. then went back to the chalet where i played xbox with rich and lonny till abt 5am when i slept. then we all woke up at abt 9am or thereabouts and began the ultimo clearup or our damn messy and dirty rooms. clownshows we are. then went for brekkie and chaoed.

thank you 4k, for an awwsum chalet. thank you for probably one of the best things we'll ever do as a class in the near future. we're all hoping that we'll still be really tight. as brain said, somehow everyone in our class is different from the standard dude in our batch. as a class we have some friends who we know better than others but no matter who we're with in class we always have a great time. that's why i love this bunch of mofos so much. we're all hoping we won't really change and we'll still do stuff together. i really hope this will be true though we won't know till school gets underway. but anyway, love you guys man. you are the biggest bunch of clowns the world has ever seen, and that's why i'm proud to be a part of it.

***

YM thanksgiving mass today was quite cool in the chapel and all. and the dinner after that was damn fun. it's great to be a part of such a huge ym, and esp ACTS ii. you guys are da bomb la.

2009-01-02T22:02:00.003+08:00

well the whole new year's celebrations were definitely awwsum, but definitely tiring. it all started on new year's eve at 1.30pm when the dogs and i went to settlers cafe to have a great time of laughing, spilling drinks, have everyone looking at us, and doing forfeits that were embarrassing as hell. thanks to yong qian, lamzy, cheeks, seah, dong and frog. then at daniel's house it was the 4k gang that made my new year's eve a really great one. it's the first new year's eve not with family and i guess it's an interesting change. hell i slept at 6.30am at daniel's house and woke up an hour later. it was just awwsum. visited paternal grandma in the afternoon and went back home to SLEEP cause i was dying after 1hr of sleep. and went to maternal grandmother's house for a usually awwsum dinner and was damn stone. went back and slept like a log.

but after all this, i still realise what a fantastic year 2008 was. hell, it flew by real quick and i suppose none of us could really keep up. but that's what kept us on the edge the whole way through i suppose. sec 1 orientation (LASAIR), march camp, p&d festival, apcg, oip, and lots of 4Kers stuff to punctuate all of that in addition to the countless projects, assignments, tests, exams or whatever you want to call them. you could call them sleepless nights. but throughout this fantastic year, there have been people constantly at my side. and i couldn't have done it without you.

first of all, GOD. this might sound cliche, and somehow a little ironic. cliche because you hear it so often at award speeches. and ironic because i'm definitely not the most exemplary catholic boy you'll ever find. but you know what? i know sometimes i may seem a little bit vulgar and all, but i dont mean it. i'm not perfect and that's the way i am. but one thing i'm sure of is i'm proud of my religion and the God who has given me everything. thank you God for all the blessings, challenges, hope, joy, sorrow, pitfalls you've given me this year, for i have emerged the better person.

secondly, to my family, who've helped me through everything. scoldings, advice, happiness and most of all love. rachel, my dear sis, and mum & dad. thank you.

thirdly, to all my friends.

to the friends whom i've been able to talk to, to the friends who've given me advice, to the friends who've probably given me the best time ever, to my bros: jun yong, daniel, brian, shan zhi and shoij. thank you guys so much. bros before hoes, always.

to EVERYONE in 4K: thank you so much. this has been, is and probably always will be the best class that i'll ever be a part of. you mofos are one solid group of lil chihongz.
-to my classmate of 7 yrs: zaki, thanks bapakkau. your like bloody awwsum.
-the interleches: burg and timo, thanks for the retardedness and going all the way with me.
-to those whom i've had almost IMTIMATE (LOL) relationships with: lonny and zix, thanks (can't say for what).
-the interclass team: rich, burg, daniel, jarrell, theo, seen, thom, shoij, lonny, rich, koon, timo and hern. thanks for a great season. we could have won a few more, and we had our fair share of luck. it was damn awwsum.
-to my fav aneh: sagar, brown>yellow. screw the munjens. thanks for becoming a singaporean la. now you can go eat your poli bhaji in peace. gedega.
-to the litras of 4k: hoho, bumchee, wayne, theo, lonny, damnear, rich and mooty, thanks for all the productions we put up together be it in sec3 or sec4. i've always had fun with your guys around.

to my bb dogs: thank you. we've spent 4 years together in pumping position, hiking and camping during march camps, waking up for fire drills and rushing during bag checks, doing drill at the raffles square in full u and laughing at one another for retarded mistakes, countless fall-ins and fall-outs, planning our own march camp and other retarded things and having a blast throughout. going out to do things outside of parade and eating at s-11 and bubbling. we are the dogs, nuff said.

to my pipe band, what an awwsum year it's been. sec 1s, you guys own your own practice instruments and you all are participating in competition and performing already. you've already surpassed everyone before you. awwsum job. the sec 2s, you guys know where you stand, and thank you for the effort you've already put in. sec 3s, i know the band is in good hands now. to the primers, thanks for all the guidance. and all those who were a part of p&d festival 2008, we made history. open cat FTW. thank you.

to the sec4 prefects, esp the winning eleven exco, thanks for a great 2008 where we all pulled our own weight and carried one another through all the stuff this year. to the exco especially: personally, i think we've tried our best and given our all and most importantly had a blast doing what we do best. to the winning eleven: bumchee and zongz, theo and kang jie, jian xiong t3h gedega and zhuo yang, wayne and chay t3h gedega, biq and last but most importantly, my BOSS SOH YU DA. YU DA man.

to the litra pioneer class, thanks guys for all the fun lessons, working together, cracking jokes witty and retarded alike, and being the best litra class there has been and will ever be. and THANK YOU MS KUANG. you have been the most awwsum teacher ever. we honestly couldn't have asked for anyone more caring and concerned for our well being and development.

to the mats, thank you for making all my free time and lepak time in school awwsum. playing soccer, sitting at the stadium steps or on the tables in the canteen or in the mat room, thank you for letting me be a part of it and just treating me as one of you. you guys are awwsum.

to the apcg facils, thnks fr th mmrs as isaac and i say. the 5 days and everything before and after that were awwsum. and esp to my awwsum grp, banzai: joy, eli, yenlin, theo, yenyee, shoij, wencen, zhuo yang, joce, darius and jean hui. thanks so much.

the oip grp of malaysia '08. you sec 3s are awwsum la. you guys are a bunch of characters and you'll do really well this year, trust me. and my co-facil abhinav, i think we did well la. well done. and all of us will always remember CSI: Kuching.

to acts ii, i don't think any of you guys read this, but i just wanna say thanks. every sunday is always a blast. we always have a lot of fun together and thanks so much. acts ii is the awwsumest ym grp haha.

well i really hope i haven't missed out anyone here, because if i have, it would be a travesty because the year would just have not been the same without you. to everyone, thank you for a fantastic and memorable 2008. here's to 2009. bring it on biatches.

2008-12-27T00:45:00.002+08:00

hey all. hope yall had a good christmas. i know i had. power to the gedega. anyway christmas eve we did the usual. 9pm mass (yes i dont attend the midnite one) then SCRUMPTIOUS dinner at my uncle's house. my grandmother made her usual awwsum stew with a pastry covering, then we had beef, ham, chicken, potato salad, salmon and bread. feckin awwsum as usual. yea, we dont eat turkey on christmas which most people do. i mean there's like nothing special about it other than the fact it's just considered like a staple christmas dish. anyway this like the first time my dad actually gave me my own glass of champagne OLE! and my mum didnt say anything. IT BE XCITE. anyway then exchanged presents and all after dinner and then i played xbox with my cousins in their room while the adults talked and all. when i see the youngest member of our family, becky my cousin, who's about 5, get so excited about opening her presents, it really reminds me of how i was so damn excited about opening my presents when i was that age. haha miss those days man, miss those days.

anyway next morn, we went visiting the usual peeps. then afternoon lunch at other grandmother's house. then dinner again at first grandmother's house. the dinner on christmas day itself is like always equally awwsum. rice, curry devil, ham, t-rex (beef dish which we call t-rex), and so much more i cant even remember. anyway, then ryan and i did our usual of emptying a can of jolly shandy and pouring beer inside so that our parents wont see. (yes they dont allow us to drink a whole can ok, so shoot us) anyway christmas day dinner always damn fun cause the extended extended family there, like uncle daryl and all. and aunty p's baby is like DAMN cute. she tried to grab onto my face and nearly hooked my mouth by my teeth. just imagine how cute the baby is: aunty p is eurasian (duh) and her husband is german. haha damn cute la. anyway that was that for the two most awwsum days in december.

today went for the christmas play/musical thing. it's like the first one in a few years so i didnt expect much. but honestly, i was really good. and joce was damn diva. and john and justin carry this black cloth across the stage at every scene change to block the stage crew moving props. so one scene supposed to have an ambulance so they come on stage with the black cloth and make ambulance sounds. best la. love IHM YM. and there was this line that i thought really made sense. "Our parents always have our best interests at heart, but sometimes they don't know what our best interests are." cyall soon.

ps:anyone wanna partayye on new year's eve?

2008-12-24T16:55:00.002+08:00

i gotta say that when i was much younger, i got excited about christmas like a whole month or so before the actual thing. now, i'm still excited about it, but in a much more reserved manner and i definitely don't start getting into the christmas mood until about a week before the actual thing. anyway on sunday, i went to jun yong's house to stayover and watch the liverpool-arsenal match. he's a damn gd cook la. so to all you women out there, GOH JUN YONG IS A HODBOY WHO IS HOT LIKE HOTCAKES AND CAN COOK. he better damn well thank me for that. he cooked some pasta with chicken broth and some white wine in the sauce for supper. then during the match, we were drinking beer. the only thing i hate about beer is that it makes you feel very full very quickly. haha and liverpool and arsenal drew. bummer. at least liverpool didn't win. anyway, then we stayed up for about another 1.5hrs talking about shizz. then next morn, he cooked scrambled eggs and sunny side up. he should just go become a chef already. anyway, then we went to far east to meet damnear and ate some chicken rice and walked around and were retarding around and got my sister's xmas present. better not say lest she should read this. then we somehow ended up going back to daniel's house and screwed around for about 2 hrs before he left for training. and that was that. nothing beats hanging out with friends la.

tues was football for like 3hrs la. shacked by the end of it. bumchee got jacked wholesale (as usual :P). he wanted to play a one-two with shoij and shoij just held on to the ball while bumchee ran ahead. comical to the max. and i hit the right post from the same spot 5m out 4 TIMES. champion. aiya the rest of the day damn spasstic, esp us following shi min to ntuc cause he wanted to buy some food. "shi min buys stuff cause it's cheap". retarded can. going for mass and then partying into wee hrs of t3h morn. hopefully we can sneak the booze like the last time (haha uncle daryl). anyway, to all of ya, here's wishing everyone an early MERRY CHRISTMAS.

2008-12-20T23:33:00.002+08:00

today was damn lazy day. had breakfast at like 11am, watched mtv chart attack then till 1. then watched some xmas-love-comedy type movie halfway till mum and sis were back with lunch. then went to continue reading edgar allan poe's tales of mystery and imagination. serious overload of imagery and symbolism. and that's about basically all i did today. but quite a few things stuck with me today. watching the 'live your life' music video (t.i. feat rihanna), there's this part at the start where t.i. says this about life:

Life is an interestin' journey, you'll never know where it'll take you. Peaks and valleys, twists and turns; you can get the surprise of your life. Sometimes on the way to where you're goin', you might think 'This is the worst time of my life'. But you know what? At the end of the road, through all the adversity, if you can get where you wanted to be, you remember whatever don't kill you make you stronger, and all the adversity was worth it. On your way to the top you'd do anythin' but how do ya get your life back when you get there. Yea, that's my dilemma. What you need to do is be thankful for the life you got, ya know what I'm sayin'. Stop lookin' at what you ain't got, and start being thankful for what you do got.

i couldn't have put it better, bar the grammatical mistakes. he's a hip-hop artist. but i love that song.

and this is from one of edgar allan poe's stories called 'Berenice':
"...evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been."

awwsum line(s).

now i just gotta deal with this stupid hamstring strain tomorrow. till then.

2008-12-20T01:10:00.003+08:00

i just love our bagpipe band. i may have left already, but they'll probably be the main reason why i'll come back and help whenever i can. whenever i go for practice, we always have a good time and definitely some good laughs at either something idiotic someone says or something spastic someone does. and we all share the same love for a unique type of music. it definitely is an acquired taste, if you could put it that way. but all of us enjoy it tremendously and nothing anyone says about it will change our minds. i was a bit worried about our performance today outside plaza sing (yea if you heard it, it was US) and i wondered how the crowd would respond to it. when we got off the bus, and we walked to the little xmas village with our instruments, we undoubtedly received countless stares from the public wondering what in santa's good name we were doing there. but we're use to it whenever we first arrive for a performance. anyway we were told that we had to perform on top of this float in the shape of noah's ark i think it was. anyway it was damn shaky so we were all damn worried. so the piper's started to tune their pipes and surprisingly, no one went into 'run-away-because-it's-a-bagpipe-and-it's-frickin-loud' mode and instead watched curiously. it gave me a bit of hope that our actual performance would be well received. true enough, when we got up there and played our tunes, quite a lot of people stopped to watch us play our whole set and that was pretty encouraging for me, knowing that nearly half the performers were only sec1s. then and there i realised that our foundation (sec1s) is stronger that it's ever been, and the band can only grow stronger now. being the drum insructor until we find a new one, i really feel pressured to do the best i can with the drum corp. although it cant possibly be much, something's better than nothing. anyway back to the performance, after we got off the float (FINALLY) we decided to play our signature tune, REBEL PIPER. it's a frickin awwsum tune and it's really represents how we feel about bagpipe music. we just wanna have fun playing it because that's the only way we're gonna do better each time. everytime we play it well, we all start feeling orgasmic. honest. so anyway, next time you hear a bagpiper playing or bagpipe music in general, dont diss it immediately. after 5 minutes, then maybe you can.

well here's one tune that's really damn cool. it's called 'clumsy lover'. the people playing may look spasstic, but that's cause they're enjoying themselves. and if you're wondering what that drum thingum, being slapped with a deflated balloon-like thing by the woman, is, it's called a bodhran, a traditional scottish instrument.

ok these are the kinds of drums we use. this drum corp is a performance drum corp. you can obviously see why. frickin insane. and that's why we always say the drummers are WAYYYYY cooler than the pipers. and if you still dont believe me, check out the last one. even aravind was like WTF!?

his name is jim kilpatrick, arguably the best pipeband snare drummer in the world. you can obviously see why.

anyway till next time.

2008-12-18T23:37:00.002+08:00

dayyyym body is aching after floorball yesterday. even shoij said he was aching. said he tried to play tennis today and dieded. haha that makes floorball all the more s3x0nf1r3. anyway today went out with grandparents, mum and my baby cousin. well i can't really call her a baby anymore, she's gonna be in k2 next year. but she's like the cutest ever. and in the toy section she was like in dreamland, esp in the barbie section. haha and it makes me wonder what i was like in a toy store when i was that age. anyway, then i went to sicc to play pool (yes, more of it) with brain, damnear and bryan koh. damn fun la. so in the end, damnear had to go for training and bryan had to leave for a wedding dinner he forgot abt. so brain was like teaching me some stuff (thanks la bro) and then the uncle behind the counter was like "chalk your cue, if not the ball will jump". haha i thought he was just there doing his job, but maybe he was some pool god in his previous life or something. haha ok imma being damn stupid.

anyway, to all of you who wanted to watch our rs video (the interleches), sorry but it's been taken down. apparently, it was school's orders or something but anyway, to all those who watched it or want to watch it, thanks so much. the vid received 1200+ views the last time i checked before it was taken down, and i was super happy that any video related to me in some way got that many hits. anyway, till next time, LOVELOCKDOWN.

2008-12-17T22:52:00.002+08:00

today was damn fun. again. floorballed in the morn for like 3 hrs. damn bloody tiring. after 3+ hours of it we seriously dieded. my skills are okay la. and mr azmy is t3h ownage. he just owned all of us. national floorball player, what to do. anyway quite a few of us are thinking of joining floorball next year, so hopefully we'll be able to improve by then. then after resting, a few of us decided to play again but with a much smaller area. and we were all like almost walking, too tired already. but floorball is t3h sexbomb. still need to learn how to airhook. ARAVINDINHO teach me nao. haha anyway after everything we eventually left for lunch at abt 1.40. helluva late considering we originally wanted to stop at 1215. there were like 8 of us so we had to sit at two round tables at s-11 and lunch ended with us shooting ice at each other. YES WE ARE CHILDISH RETARDED 4Kers WHO DO SPASSTIC THINGS. then decided that MAYBE we should watch a movie so headed to j8. on the way, i provide the quote of the day. seen tells me something and then i go "I'm serious!" then seen stares at me then i think that doesn't sound quite right. then i realise i wanted to say "i'm sure" and got caught between that and "are you serious". and suddenly we all burst out laughing like idiots. thanks guys, my brain probably took a hit after yesterday's headbanging. then we proceed to the theatre and decide, hmm we could watch bolt. then someone points to the poster of bolt and lo and behold, we see this on the poster. "MILEY CYRUS" and we're all like "YOKAY NO THANK YOU" and all walk away and start laughing again. haha so we went down to decide what we could do, meeting thom on the way. so we decide to go play pool at amk. and that was another round of spasstic fun, esp with hern. then some of them left, and zix, jarrell and i went to koonz house to play table tennis. and here is where i introduce them to my five different types of serves:
1) curve serve
2) fast serve
3) backhand topsin serve
4) backhand slice serve
5) CHAR KWAY TEOW serve
the last one is obviously the one they were most impressed with. this unique served, invented by yihao aka giant and thereafter perfected by yours truly involved a big swing of the hand from right to left, starting with the wrist cocking outward and finishing with the wrist cocking inward. you have to see it to believe it. and everytime i 'aced', they agreed it was char kway teow with extra chilli. ZOMGWTFBBQLOL. then we played some spazzo king of the hill which was super retarded. and then i had to leave to get home for dinner. and there ends the spasstic fun for the day.

tmr imma meeting brain and bryan koh for pool at sicc. first time imma actually playing in the pool room there. and i've been addicted to love lockdown and i've played it at least 10 times in the space of 2 hrs. awwsum song. too bad SOME PEOPLE don't like it :P haha personal pref la. cyall soon biatches.

2008-12-16T22:46:00.004+08:00

today is music 101, cause it's the 101st post!!!!!111111 ahahahahahaha. FARNY. haha no but seriously today was a good day for music. so after lunch i slacked around in my room. i always like to think of my room as a lounge cause i've got like an ipod docking station speaker thingum so i play music and just relak one korner on my bed. anyway blue continued playing from yesterday so after that i decided to blast metallica. DEATH MAGNETIC baybehh. honestly that album is so good, when i play it i don't know when one song is ending and the next one is beginning. the continuity is fantastic. and the quality never falls at any point. anyway, i basically turned it on and jumped around like a maniac and played air guitar and drums and all. you would have been floored if you had seen it. SPAZZZO TO THE MAX. and i was head bangin all the way. and i did all that for half an hour straight. my head felt a little bruised after that. at one point i decided to spin around like MUNJENGAME and then i nearly died and crashed into my cupboard. basically i just decided to go ultimately crazy. and it felt damn good. anyway then i was in my mum's car and i heard three songs in a row from like a long time ago. the first one was "Life" by Des'ree. awwsum song. then the second one i don't know the title but the only phrase i can sorta remember is "i just want to hold you" or something like that. then the third one was this song called "Conga" by Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine (yes that's how old the song is). i only remember hearing these songs when i was much younger and i seem to have remembered them. and thankfully so.

Life - desree

Conga - Gloria Estefan

oh then they played love lockdown which is an awwsum song, but when i first heard it, it sounded nothing like kanye so i checked to see if it featured anyone else and when i realised it was just him, it was damn obvious that his voice was put thru a helluva lot of layers of manipulation and distortion. and jean danker, who was the dj, said something along the lines of "he was so-so in concert when he sang that song, and it sounds much better in the album". OBVIOUSLY RIGHT CAUSE HE CAN'T POSSIBLY HAVE A VOICE MANIPULATOR ON STAGE RIGHT. he'd have to sing thru something the size of jupiter for it to work. haha honestly that comment was so daft i burst out laughing. honestly, just watch this song live, he sounds like he needs an inhaler. badly.

Kanye West - Love Lockdown - MTV EMA 2008 Live - Click here for more blooper videos

then in the evening i heard the neigbour playing the piano and he/she, not sure which kid it was, was playing "My Heart Will Go On" and there's a song that i haven't heard in a while as well. then he/she started playing Fur Elise crappily and i was like zomg not the song that everyone plays if that can play a little piano. haha pretty 'musical' day.

OK FINE I HAD NOTHING BETTER TO DO TODAY SO SHOOT ME.

but we floorballing tomorrow. OLE.

2008-12-16T01:10:00.002+08:00

POST NO. 100.

haha a century of posts. amazed that i got to this number really. i'd like to think of my blogging style as a pretty good reflection of myself. my humour is not as dry and sarcastic as mooty's, my posts are not as deep as theo's, not as visually appealing as qayyum's, not as nostalgic as shanchee's, not as cryptic as shoij's, not as entertaining as ruijie's, not as varied as nigel chua's, and plain and simply not in any way similar to the millions of bloggers out there. my blog is pretty much as area for me to just put down all (ok fine, some) of the things that i have seen, heard, tasted, smelt, felt and experienced. i cannot but say that this blog has been a great outlet for me, be it to rant or rejoice. either way, somehow, there is always an apprehension, or rather just plain laziness, to blog everytime i see the link in my favourites. i always have a lot on my mind which i want to blog about throughout the day, everyday, but when i turn on the computer, i just never get down to clicking that link to come to the dashboard and start a new post. but you know what, once you start, you just keep going and it feels good. i share in a very matter-of-fact manner, not refined by any means, but i would say somewhat humorous, with my usage of personal vocabulary. many of you have probably not heard, or seen my expletive repertoire (:P), but go ask jun yong and he'll tell you i'm a great exponent of such savoury language. but discounting my limited use of such words here, some of the words you often come across are, for example, 'gedega', 'shizzle', 'nais', 'awwsum', and the like. i love using them, and i hope you love reading them as much. and to just end off this short section to commemorate my centenary post, i hope all you silent readers will come out of the woodwork and leave tags. I HAVE NO LIFE AND ALL I LIVE ON IS THE SUSTENANCE PROVIDED BY THE GRACIOUS COMMENTS LEFT BY CERTAIN READERS OF THIS BLOG ON MY TAGBOARD. THANKS YOUS FORS CONTRIBUTINGS TOS THES TAGS KIERANS'S BLOGS FUNDS.

anyway the past few days have been great. thurs had a great dinner at grandmother's house again. she's an awwsum cook la. friday had band prac again and the score i wrote was perfect. joshua chan said it was cool okayyyyyyy. and he, being the music prodigy that he is, and i having no knowledge of music theory, said that my score was written correctly. awwwsum shizz, fo shizzle ma nizzle. anyway after then had lunch and bubbled with them. was havin a good laugh with jinfu, arun and john. sat had dinner at grandmother's house with more gd food. zomgwtf it be xcite. sun went to church and in the afternoon went to centrepoint and then chinatown after that for the opticians. mum and sis got new specs cause their power went up and i got frickin ray ban shades. they're bloody awwwsum. i think aravind will faint if he sees them. haha so today had band, and in the afternoon went out with some banzai peeps. haha damn fun la. so shoij, theo, jean hui and wencen all waiting for me at dhoby cause i was late doing dunno what. anyway we went to meridien cause we wanted to play pool but no place so we walked aimlessly around till plaza sing and then to cathay, where on the way they dared me to ask some stall owner whether i could try on some girl tshirt. which i did, but they said cannot try on. and the rest were all laughing damn hard. so by the time we got to cathay, slacked around and decided to watch a movie but shoij had to go cause his bro just came back from lawndawn. then dari the dog came. neway, we watched nick and nora's infinite playlist. not bad la, but a bit random. haha then met joy for dinner at manhatten fish market. their fish and chips is bloody lot okayyy. we were dying trying to finish it. anyway then dari and i were thinking of pooling then, at abt 10+, but everyone going home so we chaoed also la what to do. haha and that was that. but it was more fun than i make it sound.

oh btw, i hacked my iphone FINALLY. no i don't have a 3g one, mine is the original. and i have a helluva lot of apps on it now. there's even a zippo lighter where the flame flickers when you blow into the phone-mic. iphone is t3h sex.

and here's to alot more things for me to do during the holidays. if you're feeling bored, LET'S GO OUT PLS.

2008-12-11T23:47:00.004+08:00

hey all. you know, i always have the urge to blog but normally i'm just too damn lazy to get started. but when i do, it doesn't seem all that tedious. weird. well mooty's surprise party was GREAT SUCCESS. basically then plan was as follows:

1) all go bowling at marina square
2) then all have to leave, but mooty stays behind cause his parents say they'll meet him for dinner there
3) mooty is alone in marina square
4) everyone goes home gets ready and goes to mooty's house to prepare the surprise
5) mooty is called to come home cause they're going for dinner at a coffeeshop -cue drop in morale-
6) enters the house and is surprised by 4k

well basically it all went to plan perfectly. mooty was right pissed when he came home and he marched into his room where we were all waiting in the dark to surprise him. the look on his face, which i was tasked to capture with a cam, was priceless. you need to see the photo to fathom it.

AWWSUM
i basically joined them at step 4 cause i had something on earlier in the day. but it was awwsum la. orchestrated by sister, it somehow all went to plan without anyone really giving the game away till the final moment. how 4k did that is beyond me. anyway we ate and joked and watched tv they listened to HSM3 MUSIC zomgwtfbblol. i was threatening to break the disc if they continued playing it. his sister can cook and bake and everyone died eating the chocolate cake cause it was damn big. anyway after that we all left at about 10+ so it was still pretty early, so brain, hern wei and myself went to play pool at amk. haha damn cool, when we got out of the lift at the pool place, there was this lian who was shouting at her beng and 2/3 of the pool hall had gone out to watch. haha the 3 of us just walked thru it all and went it. it was damn funny. so we played and played and and hern's phone was screwing up so his father couldn't call him. once he got it working, he left at about 12+. then brain and i continued and left at about 1am. awwsum shizzle.

next thing i tell you about is prob engerland. damn cool, or rather damn cold. went down to abt -1 once or twice. haha and it was snowing on one of the days. everyone there is really quite friendly. haha that sun after the city-united derby, there were drunkards on the street and like there were police vans going everywhere around the city. one of them was shoved onto a pillar, body searched and then questioned. haha damn cool. and i went to old trafford! haha it's like every man utd's supporters dream. it's like our temple or something. the sacred place. and the statue outside the ground of law, charlton and best read "the holy trinity". awwsum shizzle. went into the changing rooms, walked down the players tunnel saw the munich clock, everything. you could possibly imagine my face from start to finish. haha. anyway, you can get alot of stuff there which you can't get here. i bought a kilt! haha nais. i need the socks, shoes, and definitely a sporran. well i don't wanna go too much into the rest of it other than it was a great trip. if i think of anything, i'll let you know ;)

oh and yesterday we went searching for our exco jersey. we're the winning eleven, as we call ourselves. walao damn hard. biquan dowan a lot of designs but that's ok. zongs is the best. "if no brand in front, i dowan. must have brand." "the logo in the centre, so got balance." he's the king la. in the end we settled for a black one with a bit of white. $19 incl. printing. haha. i didn't think it would be that hard. then after that, brain and i played pool near parkway for like 3hrs. then we had dinner and i went home. on the way home in the bus, i fell asleep and hit my head on the window once. ouch damn pain. but thankfully i was sitting at the back in the corner. MINIMAL embarassment.

well i'm in the bagpipe band and imma snare drummer. and a while ago, our drum instructor walked out on us. he's done it before but this time permanently. so now i'm the drum instructor until further notice. haha so while yall are working and EARNING money, i've got a job that doesn't pay. haha nah, it's damn fun being the 'drum instructor' and i couldn't care less abt pay. i couldn't have asked for a better job. cyall around.

2008-11-25T16:21:00.002+08:00

to all my FAITHFUL readers out there (total: 1), apologies for not blogging since...forever. anyway since my last post, lotsa shizz has happened. let's see

1) won rs
2) mediocre hmt o lvls
3) graduated
4) ave q/GRADNITE
5) oip
6) banzai outing

1) ok well i've talked about our pre-finals journey many a time. but it did not prepare us for the actual thing. all the groups were perfect and really stepped it up. so all we wanted to do was make the crowd laugh, we realised that we may not win. but when we went on, we just enjoyed every minute of it. the crowd laughed at every joke, including the ones we weren't expecting them to laugh at. apparently they loved my sexy legs as well, so that's an added bonus. we just loved it. we won the open category in the end, so that was really the icing on the cake. the laughter from the crowd was really what made our day. so here's thanks to all those who voted for us, and all those who didn't but laughed anyway. so here's the vid. it's gotten 1k+ views already and two pages of comments so that's great. and thanks to amanda for putting it up on her blog out of her own will!

2) well hmt o lvls could have gone a little better. i forgot 1 peribahasa. i was confused by the kefahaman and the vocab was difficult. but on the other hand, i wrote my best ever karangan perbincangan in my opinion. but that still doesn't say much. so mt at h1 next year for me is 'unlikely' and not just a straight 'no'. :(

3) grad ceremony. what can i say. it was bittersweet. the feeling of finally holding that black folder said so much. i've survived four years here. but when we sung the batch song, institution anthem and unite, it showed me how much i'm gonna miss. i'll still be singing the same institution anthem and doing the unite in rj (sorry, RIJC), but it'll be different. you can't describe how but you'll just know and feel the difference. thank you RI, thank you for so much. thank you for everything.

4)ave q with apcg peeps. haha it was damn fun. ave q was damn DISTURBING. sat next to my gedega, ISAAC CHAY. we were both like wth at THOSE parts. yes you know which ones imma talking abt. and outside ms kuang was 'what did shanzhi bring us to watch!?' or something along those lines. haha. then after that a small grp of us were walking around marina. haha then juan and i were trying on hoodies. she has dared me to wear the purple one on the first day of school next year. i'll think abt it. so then we went for gradnite. zomg everyone was dressed awwsumly man. well at least most of us have a sense of style. haha. saiful seriously looked like michael jackson. timo looked positively cool. damnear and his pink shirt + skinny tie. jun yong, clinton and me were all wearing vests haha we looked damn cool. kristian looked damn smooth. so we spent the whole thing camwhoring basically. when the band played we all went to front, jumped around, moshed abit till TWS told us not to, formed a train and went around incl on the stage, bodysurfed biq and nic gerrard and basically had a blast. we didn't really eat much. then batch song was like super awwsum and emo combined. and after that i was on the verge of tearing. awwsum shizzle. so we all lingered around for abt 30mins to 45mins after the whole thing ended and we all parted ways. i went with the mats and balu into town trying to find something to eat. we spent ages la. i eventually left for home at 2am when mum called. oip the next day at 630am see. but it was awwsum la. ri batch '08 - you guys are the shizzle.

5) oip was dam fun. esp with aravind, parry, daryl, abhinav, wei chuan and co. mckk was awwsum and the guys there even better. thank you mckk guys, you really made us feel at home. in sarawak it was damn cool also, esp staying at the longhouse. and thank you to all the guys and girls from st thomas and st josephs in kuching, you were awwsum. and thank you all the oip malaysia '08 dudes, you guys are da bomb. so much happened that if you really wanna know, come and ask me. the last day was the most interesting. we call it 'CSI: Kuching'. come and ask me if you wanna know. awwsum time guys. spinning belts are the shizzle.

6) haha this was some spasstic fun. bowling the surprise bday present for yenlin was a super stone affair zomgwtfbbqLOL. anyway bowling was fun. first round i beat everyone with a measly 116. then second round i purposely screwed around and lost to everyone with an awwsum 56. darius bowls extremely slowly. dog. anyway we milled around and thought of taking pics with the sesame street characters but decided against it. WHY!? haha then joy came and we all went to this pitstop cafe in boat quay. taboo was damn fun. yenyee + shoij = retardedness to the max. lol. awwsum time.

oh i'll blog abt mooty's party when i get back. FROM WHERE? engerland. 25th-7th. cyall.

2008-10-31T00:50:00.002+08:00

so today i signed next to my gpa of 2.84 before moderation, and it sucks knowing that that's what we're leaving ri with. but i'm gonna think about all this next week, when i actually have to choose my subjects. rafflesian spotlight (rs) finals is tomorrow, and i can't believe how far the 3 of us, timo, burg and i, have come. we knew a while ago that we wanted to go for auditions, and timo came up with a basic script and we never touched it until we realised it was a bit too late to make changes. and on the day of audtions, timo and burg we're saying how the script was damn fail and we would only lose face if we went for the auditions. i kept coercing them and after an hour, with a little help from thom, sean and zix, we went. and we made jaryl laugh like mad and him calling us the 'most fun audition yet'. we came out smiling and timo was like 'sorry kie' and all that and we all we really quite optimistic simply because it turned out better than expected, but still did not expect to get into the finals. and lo and behold, we made it to the rs finals. we were stunned and pretty happy so we started preparing after eoys at first it seemed like it would be good. but along the way, difficulties in coming up with the right script, phrases and words kept us saying that it was damn 'fail' and 'gg' and 'cmi' and 'screwed'. and when we finally acted in front of lonny to find out what he thought, he essentially said it was FAIL. and to hear it from a 3rd party left the three of us shattered. but better to hear it before the finals then from the actual audience. so we just kept on trying to work at it, no matter how 'sian' or 'fail' or 'screwed' we thought it was, or we were. but during today's rehearsal, once we got most things pat down, those that were present actually laughed. and now, the three of us are ready to bring the house down. we only know one way to do it, and that's our way. i can't believe how far we've come and how much we've done since then. le grand finale is tomorrow. ole.

2008-10-30T00:27:00.002+08:00

i was actually quite nonchalant about getting back our eoy results, but now that i've gotten them all back, i feel like shit to be honest. to put it simply, i fucked up, pardon the language, but that's the only word that can possibly describe how badly i did. and what bites even more is that i mugged like a dog for the eoys. so basically now that we know our overall grade for the year for all subject except eng and lit, for our class at least, it looks something like this. i had only ONE 4.0 which was ss. the next jump is ONE 3.2 which is history. then one 2.8, two 2.4s and two 1.6s. now look at that and try NOT saying wtf. essentially i'm screwed. with the probability of my gpa not exceeding 2.8, this is an all time low for an end of year gpa. and it had to come in sec4 of all years, where gpa plays such a big part in determining your subject combi in rj. i can kiss my humans scholarship goodbye, and at this rate i might not even get into the humans prog. i can only take h1 maths now, and since most university scholarships only consider those taking 11units or more, i gotta now take KI to make it 11 units. WTF i don't want to take KI. this is really crappy. and after all that, knowing how screwed i am, my mum gives me this lecture reminding me abt how screwed i am and how my options in terms of subjects in rj is screwed and how it will determine how well you do in alevels and all the crap about your future and whatnot. honestly like i don't know already. WTF this has got to be the BEST day of my life. looking at how i've basically screwed my options in rj with these results has left me feeling rather shattered. i know it's not the be all and end all, but for those of you who don't have anything to worry about, it's easy for you to say. dammit la, i'm in no mood to think about rs like this.

whywhywhy?

2008-10-21T00:38:00.003+08:00

hey guys. finally EOYS ARE FRICKIN OVERRRRRRRR! it was really fantastic after mr tan weng seng congratulated us on surviving the eoys and after telling us we could leave, everyone just jumped up and there was this united roar in the hall that the whole darn thing we had been worrying about since dmp was over. for good. i don't really wanna cover all the papers, but in general imma ok for my humans (as usual) and i'm so-so bordering on screwed for sciences and esp maths (as usual, again). but i wasn't expecting much from sciences and maths anyway. but thanks joce for trying to calm my nerves on sun night, appreciate it. anyway, cikgu then called for us to meet to tell us the intended 'plan of attack' from now till eoys. and when we heard it, our hearts all sank because we were thinking of having a good break, but cikgu is starting HARDCORE on thurs already urgh. wed-fri are marking days so no official lessons. so malay schedule:
thurs - 9-11 | fri - 1030-1230 | sat - 8-12 | tues - during sch time | wed - 2-4 | thurs - during sch time | fri - during sch time | sat - 8-12 | mon - after school | tues - BREAK ON THE DAY BEFORE HMT WHOOP lollipops.

walao die already. gone case. no need to talk already. so anyway while we had a break today, i went to pool with the buggers that went for pool at meridien. and it was like a ri pool den la. abt 5 tables of ri sec4s haha. when i get the pic from sz of my stylo knees on the ground shot, i'll post it for sure. style. then, i went to daniel's house where his sis was making some nutella cake, where we played table tennis, where we watching rj own ac in A div of this year's swimming nats, where we watched 'according to jim' and where we chilled to music while daniel was talking to a tutor in china he didn't even know. NAIS. then i went home and i'm here after a long absence, but a justified one at that.

so basically in the time of my absence, our grp came in 1st for the lit comedies both in terms of marks (88/90) and in terms of performance. and since we won the performance, our marks got boosted to 90/90. and we thought we'd get owned :P
for my essay on man, i had 27/30 but since it was like, -10% so it was 24.3/30. but i'd still like to think of it as a 27 mark effort. ms kuang liked it and wants to keep and and ms kuo also said she likes it. nais.
i was in the newspaper and everyone keeps calling me newspaper boi. wth. and i know what you're thinking and i WON'T PUT UP THE ARTICLE.
and i've been using my speakers every day. they're NAIS.
and i've been thinking what to wear for gradnite. dilemma.
i changed the song on my blog AGAIN. it's my new favourite song from my new favourites band. and the title is so dam cool. gotta love it.
argh i better go sleep. gymming tomorrow with koon chong, mooty and bumchee. then going to cage with the other 4kers. 4Kers4Life.

2008-10-06T23:24:00.003+08:00

haha i'm back dudes and apparently dudettes. here's for day 6 and 7, at long last! thanks for being ever so patient and waiting for yours truly to lumber back to his blog and post something of relative coherence. so here goes

day6: we were still high from the pub crawl the night before so we could get up late. and this was where the fun began. ok basically in our room, there's two doors connecting to the bathroom, cause they're two section of our room. anyway there's basically a sliding door which is locked by a hook/latch from inside, but the door can be pushed while it's latched so that you can see into the bathroom. VOYEUR MUCH. and the other door is just a normal door. so basically one day while jonathan lian/jonny/lonny went in to shit, kristian daniel and i peeked through the crack at him and said 'hi jonny!' and he was like 'aaaaahhhh!' and screamed. haha so this sunday morning when he went it, he drew the shower curtains across the sliding door so we couldn't see him, then he was like 'ha!' in a defiant mood. then with my ingenious idea, i used a playing card, slipped it through the opening between the sliding door and wall and flicked the latch open. ingenious or what. then kristian daniel and i walked in. haha it was damn funny. but he hadn't started yet on the LETRINE so he decided to defend himself by putting a towel over the latch so that we couldn't get in easily. then he started shittin. and he said 'i'm enjoyin my shit'. so kristian daniel and i were cackling. kristian took a pen and flicked the towel off the latch, i took the playing card and flicked the latch open and the 3 of us walked in on lonny while he was shittin. and he screamed! and he quickly pulled his shirt down to his knees. haha owned. and we took pictures next to him. i have them but i'll stop short of actually putting them up. but they're hilarious. funniest thing we did on the whole trip. lonny was perpetually traumatised.

then the day actually started. we went to the noongar storytelling. it was damn cool. they're basically the aussie aborigine people, and their stories of struggle amidst a white community was really quite inspiring. so after that when we went back to the vac, i bought a copy of the book written by one of the noongar people.

(pic of the book up later. the uploader is being a biatch.)

then after that it was sort of like readings by tobsha learner, amanda curtin, elizabeth honey dan dennis haskell. and they all talked abt how they got into writing and whether they faced any surprised while writing and through the whole process of publishing a book. so during qn time, i thought i would be itchy and ask a qn. so i asked "have you ever been surprised by your own work when you went back to read it even though you weren't surprised while writing it?" and tobsha was like gd qn. and then after the session, everyone was like saying to me 'that was a gd qn' n all. haha i CAN ask INTELLIGENT qns. beat that.

then for the FINAL event at sprung :( it was called 'sprung sung'. so apparently it's how they end all sprung festivals, with music and like a party where you say all the farewells n all. so we walked in to some music, there were these two girls on stage. then i thought i recognised one of them. she was wearing black and a pink sweater. it looked like kat. i knew she wore these sort of middle cut brown boots and i saw her wearing it so i knew it was kat. coincidence much. she was playing the ukelele and her partner was playing something that LOOKED like a banjo and they both were singing. it was pretty good. so we just continued to mingle around. shanghai and geoff and joshua decided to take the trays and help serve food. and we tried to coerce ms kuo into driking even more alcohol than the first party but she declined. the highlight of the party is think was like this guy named geoff waldeck playing some blues. he's amazing. he transformed vivienne glance's poem about traffic into a song and it was damn good. so basically it all ended on a high la. what an amazing end to an amazing festival, and i might be the last time we see those people. so i think it was a fitting and happy, in the spirit of shanghai, conclusion. so we basically we had a wrap up with mr pang and all shared what we would remember most about this trip. i think i said something like we were just boys from singapore, with both the sprung people and us not knowing what to expect, and we came to sprung and have left an impact on everyone who has interacted with us or experienced our works in some form. or something to that effect lar. i think it's quite true. i don't think anyone at sprung knew what to expect from a bunch of mere 16 year olds, i think certainly nothing much. and i think they were pleasantly surprised, with words such as 'wonderful', 'brilliant', excellent', 'fantastic' and 'great' following anything that had to do with sharing our works or insights. i think we'll be remembered as the 'boys from singapore' who came to sprung '08.

and on the last day we left for SINGGAPOOOR. goodbye albany. goodbye WA. goodbye perth. goodbye australia. goodbye SPRUNG.

2008-10-01T00:43:00.007+08:00

haha i'm finally back. now for days 5-7.

day5: well most of us went to the poetry masterclass by prof dennis haskell. it was really quite informative and refreshing, but not enough to prevent me from nodding off a few times. seriously throughout all the sessions at sprung, i think all of us nodded off at least once. dunno why, we're just not morning people. haha and neither are we afternoon people. anyway, then we went to this place with alot of smooth rocks. it was just rocks everywhere. my description is pretty weird, but really it was just as i described it. visuals:

told ya it was a place full of smooth rocks.

but i forgot to tell you it was by the sea. the waves were crashing against the rocks, it was really quite something.

and the water rose to quite a height after crashing against the rocks. there was even a rainbow amidst the mist. IT'S NAIS, HAI FAIVE.

rock bridge much?

the view. IT BE XCITE.

haha we really didn't wanna leave, we could have watched the waves crash relentlessly but ever so calmly against the rocks the whole day. but we had to go whale watching so we left. and on the bus, kristian and daniel were showing off. i'll let the pics do the talking.

kristian workin it.

daniel workin it. deltoidstricepsbiceps zomg.

then we went whale watching. it was really very cool. although the whales didn't like saddle up alongside the boat or anything, this was probably the closest i will ever get to a whale. as an added bonus, there was this seal on a rock which was really cute. it was just lying there, chillin on a cool spring day.

cmon tell me that isn't cute?

it's comin...

and that's the best shot i could get of it. it's got a weird looking head.

bye bye whale.

see, everyone was obsessed with taking shots of whales at every opportunity. but i figured, we've come here to enjoy the whales, so i just took enough shots of the whales and stopped so that i could just admire them. because what's the point of bringing so many pics back but not rememberin what it was like to actually see and just look at the whales. exhibit a:

classic. anyway, then we headed back to the vac for the meet the poets session and it was basically a reading la. shang hsuen was sleeping dam obviously, it was hilarious. gulshan even had to stand up twice and wake him up. embarassing much. i can't remember anything other than that so we headed back to the inn to get ready for the pub crawl. oh the long awaited pub crawl. we were told that the grp of 200+ people/poetry enthusiasts/sprung attendees would move from pub to pub where at each pub, people will be able to read their poetry. sounded really cool. unfortunately, the only difference for us was that we couldn't drink the beer DAMMIT.

so anyway we arrived at the first pub and it was already full. people were on stage reading already and everyone was just packed towards the stage listening and being so supportive. and drinking beer of course. gerald and i wanted some so bad. and glenn swift, ever so effusive and lively, was the mc for the whole thing so it was bound to be good. so after they read the poems at the pub, they were given 5 mins to finish their beer before we were off to another location. so the next location mr pang told us it would be our turn. so it was this museum looking thing. pretty cool looking one. so to kick off our lot, jonny, ashish, gerald and i were gonna sing acapella. stand by me into beautiful girls. we, or at least i, was scared shit, since i was the one singing. jonny was beatboxing, pretty good aight. ashish and gerald hummed the tune. and everyone was like mouthing along and we received rapturous applause at the end. great way to kick off a few reading from the SINGAPOREANS. so joshua, conan ashish, geoff and can't remember who else went on. and they loved it. we were really the only teens there, other than this guy named brenton, who was the son of one of the volunteers. cool guy. anyway then there were a few more readings by others and we moved on to another pub. along the way we passed this drunken group of youths who were screwing around with one of their mates. they taped him to a trolley kinda thing. quite funny. anyway, this was the last stop, and the most fun one. the poets here were the most funny, and vulgar. f-words all coming out, and glenn swift said "for the singaporean boys, what you just heard were some australian colloquialisms". haha dam funny. so then after a few readings, the rest of us clowns who wanted to read went up. so i went as well, performing my "and we run" poem. (if you want to see it, ask me personally, too embarrassed to put it up here) so i gave a humorous intro which got them laughing and read my poem. and then the applause after that was really morale boosting. i heard a "very well done" from someone in the crowd too. that's what i, and the rest of us, love abt these people. they're so passionate about their literature and are so supportive of each other, it's amazing. so the rest went up, gave humorous intros of their own and read their poems to loud applause. shanghai was really the best. and everyone was just telling us how good we were. it was really a night we all enjoyed tremendously and really the highlight of the whole trip, well at least for me, i guess. amazing.

daymm this post really took some effort. day 6 and 7 coming up i guess. sorry to disappoint.

2008-09-26T00:02:00.004+08:00

wawaweewa. the continuation of the australia trip coming up right after this. at this rate, you'll probably not know what's goin on in my OH SO XCITING LIFE for like the next 3 days. but anyway, lit play judging is tomorrow and hopefully we can make it to the finals on sat. that's what we've all been doing this past week really. anyway, day3.

day3: well day3 was pretty much lots of travelling on the bus from perth to albany. lots of screwing on the bus doing multiple things, though now i can't remember exactly what. so basically along the way, we stopped at this petrol station as a rest stop. and there were toilets there as well. and in the toilet they had this dispenser for condoms and this thing called a french tickler each for 1 aussie dollar. so wang liao bought the french tickler, and i just had to buy the condom for fun.

"Evening Magic" anyone?

oh then when we reached albany, it was raining and more windy and generally colder than perth. so we walked around the town and it was really quite a nice and quiet one. we walked to one end cause there was an info counter there. but they gave us a map, showed us the main areas which were worth visiting and we trudged right back to where we came from, popping in and out of different shops along the way. and that was it for the day really. oh and we raped jonny that night. and we tried doing the same to wang liao but since raping someone is response motivated, it was a failure since wang liao just stoned. and we made gulshan say "i'm sorry kristian. you're the boss" multiple times until we decided it was loud enough. sufficient for one night.

day4: aha finally the day of the festival. but we first went to albany senior high school for this conversation between mr alvin pang and mrs barbara temperton. and it was supposed to be a combined session with some of their students of the same age. kool. so when we went into the room, they were all already spaced out through the room on chairs so we sat in between them. i was seated next to this girl named kat and she's a really great person. although a bit shy, she was really friendly. with purple fingernails and brown boots n all, she said she was a prefect. and we had a really fun conversation before the thing started. the session was quite an eye-opener really. so then there were refreshments, we took a group pic and said goodbye.

then we went to this hill/mountain where the wind was blowing like there was no tomorrow. here's a pic of jun sean holding his hanky in da air.

*insert jun sean maniacal laughter*

and we saw our first glimpses of the whales from along the road that went up the mountain. and then lunch and then the festival.

it was held in the vancouver arts centre (vac), which was quite small and provided this very warm feeling and tight atmosphere in a sense that everyone felt close to each other. so i decided to go for the performance poetry workshop with wang liao, geoff, anurak, jonny, daniel, gulshan and kristian. was really quite fun. and that was when we first met some of the sprung attendees. OH AND IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW, IT'S CALLED THE SPRUNG WRITERS' FESTIVAL. they're really passionate about literature but they're all just so unassuming. and during the session everyone was really supportive of each other's efforts when we all took turns to go up to the mike to try our hand at performing our piece of poetry. i really felt comfortable there, and i've never felt so eager to participate and throw all apprehensions about getting dissed or laughed at for stupidity out the window because i knew simply that it wasn't gonna happen. and once again, the session was held by ms vivienne glance. and justin and i agree she oozes sex appeal baybeh. so when the workshop finally came to a close we went to the albany campus of uwa for mr alvin pang's reading. i was trying real hard to keep awake, and failed at points. and his poetry didn't disappoint, as expected. a truly singaporean flavour, but an altogether sophisticated one. then we went back to the vac for like the opening party. it was a really lively atmosphere. and that's where we were first introduced to the marvellous sprung mc, glenn swift. he is the epitome of spontaneity and fun. and shanghai just koped a silver tray of finger food and started serving everyone. brilliant. shanghai is just so full of energy and happiness. he calls happiness a disease, and a great one to have. gerald and i wanted so badly to kope a bottle of beer at the end and we were so close but in the end we just couldn't. and we were beating ourselves up over it on the bus. oh and midway through the celebrations, we firmed up plans to perform acapella for the pub crawl. it was just jonny, gerald and i at first. and we were scared shit. so that was the end of that xciting day.

days 5,6,7 coming prob tomorrow. gotta do my assignment from the trip which i realised 2hrs ago is due tomorrow. oh ya, and i finally got the qns for that meme which has been making its rounds round the net. i just wanted to see the qns and apparently, SOMEBODY called me a popular guy in school. hmmm, that's kool i guess. and theo, the provider of meme qns has made me do it, so here goes i suppose.

1. theo, shan zhi (sz), jian xiong (jian), yoda, amanda (i think)
2. ZAKI. 7 years and counting. oh wait i've known alot of peeps for 7 yrs but he's been in my class for 7 years straight so there. oh wait, maybe fiona. i've known her for 13 years technically. and jared as well.
3. daniel, eugene. well that's if i had to choose.
4. theo! cat protection.
5. sz. fail jokes, fail lines, non-stop.
6. me. ok besides me, timo and jonny.
7. erm, eugeneleeHODBOY. isaac? haha biq also. pathy? haha.
8. jeremiah. nat.
9. joce.
10. jisuan. shoij.
11. can i say nazyra? haha.
12. LIM ZONG YI.
13. sz. hurhur.
14. manly: DAMNEAR.
15. jonny. juan min.
16. jun yong.
17. mooty? nah.
18. dunno. i'm bad at this eh. oh wait. chrisanda? she'll kill me.
19.
20. burger.
21. huh?
22. huh?
23. yoda. respek.
24. geoff?
25. isaac you wait long long. eugeneleeHODBOY ownz you.
26. haha that would be jonny. no really, since half the world knows the qns, i shant say.
27. theo, jun yong.
28. SAGAR.
29. kat.
30. if you're here, it means i thought of you, which means you owe me one. BIG TIME. nah just jk. no, fer real.

cyall soon mofos. days 5-7 comin up soon.

2008-09-25T00:04:00.015+08:00

hey all. i know yall missed me. australia was da bomb. perth was great and albany was the sex. i don't know of any other way to blog about this than to go day by day. mammoth task but let's go. so let's see.

day0: report to airport at 11.20pm. daniel's late cause he can't find his 185 shirt. gearld is late and is 'on his way'. could be anywhere between sentosa and the airport (yes he lives in sentosa). shanghai is late cause he's at terminal 2 instead of 3. champion. okok blablabla daniel and jonny try to do cartwheels on the way to the boarding gate and look like clowns. we board the flight. i watched The Happening by M. Night Shyamalan and it was great and much less scary than i thought. only like 1 min of suspenseful shizz. and then we land in PERTH finally.

day1: the weather was great. not too cold but a constant breeze. i thought it was perfect shorts and tshirt weather. most of my friends thought otherwise. and we met aunty kathy and uncle lipson, who basically organised most of the shizz for us throughout the trip. and our coach captain, allan. cool guy, but i thought he sounded like a new zealander. anyway he was like a walking, sorry make that driving, encyclopedia of australia, or at least perth and albany. and we got to our hotel, or serice apartments apparently. it was a rather small but quaint one. and the rooms were nais. then we went to some war memorial. the view from the top was great. anyway pics.

i just thought that this was a decent photo of some of the flowers at the memorial.

then we went to university of western australia for a lecture by prof dennis haskell. daymm it was a brain overload. actually it was an overload because we were trying to keep awake while absorbing his interesting talk. it was really good. then we were taken for a tour round the campus by one of the students who said she failed the year before lol. it was quite scenic campus albeit a small one by university standards. anyway more pics.

and that was the end of day 1. slow start, but an interesting one.

day2: we were given supplies to make our own brekkie (breakfast you n00bs). we were given bread, ham, eggs and tuna. and daymm was a it a good one, thanks to jonny/lonny.

then we went back to uwa for a lecture by prof neville bruce. interesting one on technology. then a session by vivienne glance. she prepared like some food, plants and aussie items as sorta like stimuli for us to get our minds going. and daniel loved the lemmingtons, if that's how you spell it. and he answered one qn at the end correct and won the rocky road stuff and he celebrated fervently. all of us were laughing cause we'd neva seen someone celebrate over food like that. priceless.

then we went to the poetry park, where we met the mayor at the house next to the park. the park is really quite beautiful, next to a lake. so there are basically panels of poetry and there was this last section of one of the last few poems that really got me.

how right it is.

just some of the scenes from the park.

cute duckies eh.

us at the house.

ooooooo and joshua's flower-patterned tie. every item of clothing he owns has a flower pattern man.

so then we went to fremantle prison. it's basically this prison that was shut down a few years ago. the stories about it are really intriguing. more pics after the drop. i'm lazy to type more, so i'm letting the pics do the talking.

holykao. prison entrance. imposing much.

the actual prison. massive building.

the gallows. and the drop was pretty far, so there's no chance of escaping that one. there were 44 people who were hung there in total. HAHA I WAS PAYING ATTENTION.

and that sums up day 0 - 2. oh man. keep coming back for more. the main shizz hasn't even begun.

2008-09-15T17:34:00.002+08:00

it all started on sat. i went to school for our gt rehearsal and i had a bad stomachache. i couldn't recall anything i ate that could have possibly gone bad. anyway then after that my body felt weak. you know, that weak feeling where your limbs just don't wanna move and you don't feel like doing anything? i dunno if you've felt it before but it sucks. anyway at lunch break we played soccer. somehow when you're actually doing some shizz you don't feel weak, it's only the before and after. anyway then went for lunch and came back. and rehearsed. with breaks in between. much like this post. ok that was random. anyway midway through the rehearsal pathy asks me whether i want to sit with the mats also for gradnite. so now i have like a major dilemma. 4k wants me to sit with them, bb dogs want me to sit with them, now mats also. crap whowhowho? anyway then by the end of rehearsal, my body felt really crappy. anyway there were these indian old-boys who were playing soccer at the astro, so i played. as usual my body didn't feel weak while i was playing but only after that. then we proceeded to DAMNEAR's megazord mansion to watch liverpool vs. manutd. so we showered there. and i forgot to turn on the heater. and his water is unaturally cold. so with my body feeling like shit, i bathed in that freezing water and couldn't feel my limbs half the time. damn weird. then i walked out of the shower and it felt like my head was hit against the wall or something. then we went to watch the match and i was beginning to heat up. and the match ended with united losing 2-1 to those mofos and we brown scoring an own goal in the process so that didn't make anything better. so i went home and took my temperature. haha 39+ degrees. stupid fever so i thought maybe i'll just sleep it off.

the next morning my mum woke me up for church and i couldn't even stand up properly. when i stood up i had to wait there for like 5 seconds before i could move cause my head was screwed up. my temperature was 40+ degrees. ok fever > kieran. then it went back to 37.6 degrees by noon. i've never had such a wierd fever in my life. then by evening it went up to around 38.5 degrees and today i'm totally fine like wth! fluctuation much. anyway, imma off tonight to australia with the litra dudes till next monday. our room is da bomb. kristian DAMNEAR jonny/lonny/lianathan and me. nais. it's gonna be cool there, as in literally and figuratively, so IT BE XCITE. HAI FAIVE.

and lastly, which gang should i sit with for gradnite!? dilemma they're all pressuring me.

2008-09-13T00:09:00.003+08:00

haha shan zhi told me he saw the video on how to write a joke, and that he's very greatful for it. see now the whole world knows that you actually saw it even tho you is be a silent reader who don't tag. and during recess, shanchee, isaac, jian, aaron, zhi xuan, and i were seated at one table after everyone had left. aaron and jian wanna join our 4kers gradnite table sialabanana. that's how kool 4k is. kooler than you. and speaking of gradnite, the dogs are all sitting at one table and the 4kers will also be sitting together. and i'm equally close to both of them. any ideas where i should sit guys?

and chem was champion. becoz mrchong is champion. and he was a damn sick student. ok la quite sick. 2 points for o levels (if i can remember right), a1 for cca (npcc), twice on nus dean's list. siala i got new respek for him. and then mr wong ponned hist. haha so we were screwing around. i was challenging mooty to some stupid table tennis game on my laptop. then timo and i were playin the most spastic soccer game you have ever seen. timo, burg, wee ping and myself were laughing our heads off. but now all the sessions have been used up on the trial version and i can't play it anymore! noooooo! argh actually who cares. and then after school is where the 'fun' began.

basically we were gonna audition for rs with our 'elitist' sketch. so basically we knew it wasn't fantastic la but we performed for some of the 4kers who stayed back just to gauge 'audience' reaction. and we concluded it was a bit fail. but i was convinced we should just whack anyway since we had a script. but timo dun wan cause we dam fail and burg was neutral. actually i think he also didn't wan la. and we spent like 1hr deciding. in the end we trudged to the jamming studio to audition. and the student judges, abhi and jaryl, loved it. they said it was their favourite audition so far. nais. then after that we were dam happy and mou was apologetic that he was so pessimistic and all. we were basically all smiles after that la so that really made me happy. THANKS TIMO AND BURG. and to thom and seen and zhi xuan who came to support.

and then i went for band prac. i now know i've left the band in good hands. the 3 fellas know what they're doing. i just hope they'll keep it consistent. then i went for lit 'script read'. it was a dam clown session la. i think all our sessions are destined to become epic fail bullshittin sessions. tomorrow we gonna rehearse from 9-5 can you beat that. gonna ask mum whether i can go to DAMNEAR's house after that to watch manutd - liverpool. i hope she'll agree. and that's basically that for today. and next week is DMP! hurrah. and we leaving for australia on tues. IT BE XCITE. HAI FAIVE.

2008-09-11T22:05:00.004+08:00

JAGSHEMASH. borat makes the world go round. brain and i were watching it again on my phone during english. FREE PERIOD so it ain't bad. and we sorta confirmed the lit script today. gonna be da bomb yo. but today was pretty non-event la. well, pe we played tennis again, and ASK-ME taught us how to serve, and i can serve pretty good ayye. jonny attests to that. and i think i got b4 for my hmt prelims. daymm. could have done better but at least i improved from the beginning of this year. that's how bad i was. and timo and i kept singing the BOXMAAAAAAN song today. holy crap it's DAAAAAAAAAM funny. and timo, burg and i are settled. we going for rs auditions tomorrow with our sketch. oh and on the subject of all things funny, this video is dedicated to shanzhi. can't remember how i came across it but anyway.

hehe.

oh and i realised that milo is the best thing to dunk any form of biscuit into. they say oreo and milk go together. go try oreo and hot milo. da bomb man. there're even these chocolate coated digestive biscuits. plan of action: dunk into hot milo. result: da bomb. go try it NAO mofos.

and i officially hate hw to the core. and i passed maths cct. LIKE WHAT!? I PASSED!? 21/30 summor. holy crap thankyouthankyouthankyou. and i changed the song on the blog to dragonforce's 'through the fire and flames'. haha i know it ain't everyone's cuppa tea, no wait make that HOT MILO, but heck. respek the guitar riffs by herman li and sam totman. peace out.

2008-09-11T01:15:00.003+08:00

the last two days have been really quite cool. yesterday jun yong, brain and i were screwing around at the back of the class as usual. we were making jokes about PEMEHLA. and OREOS. dammit we were laughing till we nearly died. and during the stupid nie survey shoij, brain, jun yong and i had the english test to do. so we split up the work, each did a few sections each and shared the answers. teamwork. seriously, it's some stupid nie thing and i have absolutely no clue what they derive from it. so we helped them by standardising our oas. then after school was the rjc human prog/scholarship talk for the humans ra dudes. jamie reeves is damn funny. "football, beer, and sex. what more could you ask for?" haha. anyway i think there's only like 20 places for the humans scholarship or something so it's gonna be super competitive. i really dunno how imma gonna make it. jian and jun yong were worryin with me also. argh anyway the time will come when we all go for broke in our application. and today was more of pemehla and oreos with brain and jun yong, but not so much. "real men shoot real guns and enjoy ____" haha. and we were screwing around with the summer games on everyone's handphone, tryin to get the lowest scores and all. funny shizz. then our discussion for our lit script was basically a 1hr session where half of it was spent on talking about stuff sex-related, courtesy of JUSTIN. and jun sean said the f-word like WTBOMB. after he said it he was like "NOOO! NOOOOOOOOOO!" jokes. and after school was chem remedial. it was good, and i finally know what we're doing for organic chem. i didn't know a shizz before this. ok la abit only. and today i FINALLY watched borat. sorry guys i took 8724720740284208740283 years to finally do it. but it was good. like mofo kind of humour haha. anyway cya around mofos.

2008-09-08T18:32:00.004+08:00

whoa i edited html! now my words aren't so cramped and the youtube vidoes fit nicely. i hereby order you to clap for me and my 1337 html editing skillz. anyway, i recently had this idea that the clucking of a chicken should be used to censor vulgarities. you know, when people verbalise an obscenity, they use the beep sound to cover it up. my idea is that you should use a chicken clucking sound to do it. it will sound much funnier.

normal beep sound: What the -beep- do you think you're doing!?
clucking sound: What the -puckehh- do you think you're doing!?

daymm just imagine it in your head, sounds damn funny. i think i shall make a youtube episode on it soon. gonna be a hit like the usain bolt spoof. oh talking abt the usain bolt spoof, it's been around for a while nao, but for the benefit of those who have not yet witnessed the magic of usain bolt, here it is.

haha dammit, funnyiswhatweaimfor aight.

anyway, surprisingly, yesterday after dinner, i suddenly felt quite excited to come to school today. i realised it was the first day of my last term in ri, and as much as i don't really wanna leave this great place, the feeling of a last term is quite something. i really felt excited to give it that last whack for what it's worth. i know these next 7 weeks until the end of eoys are gonna be something, and not just for me but for all of us. but we've all got this sense of determination to do exceedingly well for our last eoy. let's gogogo. and today zhongren, judoka of the century, lifted me up while i was carrying my bag but he didn't get a good hold of me so while i was in the air he dropped me and i fell on my back while my bag was still on. ouch dammit. damn funny. funnyiswhatweaimfor.

and i shall reserve this last part for uncle jack, my granduncle who was living in malacca. he passed away yesterday afternoon and when i heard the news, i was actually a bit sad. we rarely get to see them except for our trips to malacca probably like once every 2 years so we're not really that close. but he was a good man, that's for sure. so here's to you uncle jack, rest in peace. i'll be praying.

2008-09-06T22:27:00.002+08:00

sup mofos. that's my new word. it's been used by countless souls before me, and it will continue to be used by countless others after me. but in the mean time, the word is the in thing. you know why? imma usin it. yep. take that mofos. yesterday was apcg gatherin. and it was fun. NAIS. well met a bunch of them at macs at around 1.30 and then headed over to the bbq pit, which zongs and biq were planting their asses on, with fik, joou and wencen. then we got there to find the two clowns playing some sorta 1on1 basketball with the dustbins. the retarded game looked quite fun so i played against zongs. and i owned him and biq respects my dustbin-basketball skillzdatkillz. then we played volleyball with a line in the sand and an imaginary net the height of biq. and the ball went into this one tent 3 times and the woman scolded us saying that we got nowhere else better to play and that one more time it goes in she gonna keep the ball and cut us up and eat us for dinner kinda thing. so then we planted zaki somewhere between where we were playing and that tent so that we won't get owned again. and it was fun. bao's serve of death. and wayne's serve of death. and charles and biq trying to serve olympic style. and shoij and i only using our feet. and jian producing a bicycle kick when he can't connect with the ball properly 100% of the time when it's on the ground. haha beach volleyball = retarded game when played by us. but FUN retarded game. and then they played frisbee while i played this retarded rugby ball game with jian, kenneth, haiwei and xuewen at the pit. that was some clown shizz. and then some of us played beach soccer. zomg girls can play soccer, and they're not bad too. and joho is more aggressive and shoots more powerfully than some boys i've seen play soccer. hohoho (no pun intended). then we chillaxed for a while.

if memory serves me right, after that most of the peeps came and then we went cycling. destination: changi airport runway. so we set off. and early on chay and jean hui had bike problems. but chay's took damn long to fix and everyone pangseh-ed him so i waited for him. then both of us gedegas cycled like mad dogs to catch up with the rest. we had like 5+ mins of cycling to recover. fun shizz. so basically it was cyclecyclecycletalktalkcycletalkcycletalkcycletalktalkcycletheoget'sinjuredcycle wait like WHAT!? theo get's injured? again? haha can't remember what happened to theo but his toe was bleeding like there was no tomorrow. and biq and i were cracking jokes while all the girls were like super concerned. well if yall dont know, that's how boys show concern. biq and i agree that laughter IS the best medicine noshizzabtthat. then basically we realised that the runway was still mutha far away so we cycled back. then after that aarongoh and i were practicing our daredevils of singapore moves. and we're gonna be cycling motorbikes with smoke in ndp '09 so watch out for us. and then shoij aarongoh and i wanted to jack jeanhui by overtaking her cause she screams whenever anyone overtakes her. and then up the slope shoij and aarongoh went zooming ahead and jeanhui was struggling up the slope cause of her knee. there's nothing to be embarrased abt but she said it was damn embarrassing. holycrap she'll kill me if she sees this. and then we all went back and then we passed by this damn loser party at one of the chalets. and then we returned our bikes and went to have dinner at burger king. and biq says "we come to east coast to eat burger king". and then we hatched this devious plan to forcefully move this one dude who was taking up a table for 18! our plan was to all sit around him and pressure him into moving. but then amanda goes to tell him and charm him with her smile to get lost. then we move in STEALTHILY to occupy the 18 seats. and chay biq and i went to bathe.

holy mother of sons i shan't describe it but it was damn exciting. as biq said "this is how we bond". and then we formed the "it be xcite" klub. loser club only for me and biq so had to create a new one to include chay. so then we got back to burger king, ordered our food and the 3 of us became kings. and we started the trend. nelson, charles and aarontiong wanted to become kings also but failed. the game was damn xciting. got advanced gameplay all. then after that we all left. then chay biq jian myself and JUNSEEEEEEN went one direction. and junseeeen was damn farny. anyway i boarded 196 alone to parkway parade and then got off and boarded the 76. and who do i see there but yuda. haha boss. and we had an interesting chat all the way until he alighted. and then my stop much further away and then that's it end of story chapter close. cyall apcgers during the dec hols! friday was fun.

2008-09-03T23:37:00.003+08:00

zomg today was a boring day. i was supposed to study chem today from 10am. but i slept at my desk from 10am to 12pm can you beat that. and i can go for apcg gathering on fri. and then more chem 'mugging' in the afternoon. dammit. i don't think i got through even one whole topic today. then dinner. then after that, the maths qns which were given as hw from the maths tuition session yesterday. the next one's tomorrow. then i told my mum i gotta go to school tomorrow to discuss gt comedy script. then she berates me for not telling her that i have this gt comedy thing and that there was the possibility i might have to go back to school. then she asks me what i've completed this hols so far. i've started on maths and chem, but have FINISHED neither. then she berates me again. wth she expects me to finish one whole year's worth of work for a subject in like one or two days during the sept hols? then what, forget everything by the time eoys come round? like seriously get real man.

2008-09-03T00:09:00.004+08:00

cage today was damn fun. and i finally got back into the groove, i think i need to relax. and the music at the cage is something that i've always enjoyed. yall call it nigga music, but whatevva. it helps you get yo freak on. and quote of the day from seen's bro, "Is spencer coming?" holy cow nais one. and then i played some sorta prank on someone and he reacted dam badly to it. i didn't expect him to react so adversely to it, but i suppose i've been so desensitised to so many of these things that i don't expect others to be so sensitive as well. he admitted later on that he overreacted but still my fault la. haha sorry bro. anyway went to have lunch and wayne was king. he ordered his meal and didn't look at the price. when he found out it was like $13+, he was like 'crap'. and hearing that from wayne was da bomb man. then rushed home to get to my first ever session of MATHS TUITION hohoho. it was really gd la, i finally understand more abt trigo nao yesyesyes.

anyway now moving on to a totally different issue. i listen to alot of hip-hop and r&b music. alot of yall ask my why i listen to such 'nigga music' and just can't comprehend why i listen to seeming crap. to all the haters, whatevva you say. i like alot of it because of the beats and the style. but most of the time the lyrics aren't always the most meaningful. alot of these rappers who've made it big from the hood have a sorta standard formula. rap about money, guns, gangs, sex, women and alcohol. and in your music vidoes, just include a lot of skimpily clad women dancing seductively. but there are always those who rap with a little more flair, whose music is a little more refined and those who really wanna SAY something with their music. one of the greats is tupac shakur, who was killed under shady circumstances. he definitely wasn't a saint, he definitely wasn't a refined character. he was from the hood just like the others, but he really wanted to change society, esp the black community. i don't care what yall think about his language, his clothes or his general disposition. he was different and he used his talents to try to make a change, and that is why he is one of the most respected rappers in the industry, and even today altho he's passed on. respect.

in this speech, he basically talks about how black teens identify with thug life and then grow up to be irresponsible and have a family but leave them starving because they're bums. they're essentially not 'men' if they can't provide for their families.

here he talks about respect for his mum who raised him to where he was, and i respect anyone who tells the world abt how much their parents did for them. then he goes on to say that there's no point in telling black youngsters to go to college, when they don't have things like money to do so. they need to be real and solve the problems in the hoods and the ghettos. he talks about these problems amongst black teens as a collective responsibility of the community. then he also says that they shouldn't diss the pimps and drug pushers, because they are the ones who teach youngsters like tupac how to survive and that the white man was not to be feared. it was things like these which irresponsible parents did not teach their youngsters.

well that's all from me. tupac is really inspirational and i just had the urge to tell yall abt him after watching his speeches again.

2008-09-02T00:05:00.002+08:00

verdict on first day of one week break: not bad. well to be honest, this is prob my first sept hol where there really isn't a pile of hw to be done. and even tho we gotta mug for eoys, it's at our own pace, so it's great. anyway today i started with maths holycrap. i got like my first ever emergency session of maths tuition tomorrow so i thot better at least be a bit prepared. then went for lunch at sakae with mum and sis. and at heartland mall there was this mother gay guy wearing short tight pants with a long sleeve shirt and tie. ultimo-gay. and then at cold storage, i was looking at the alcohol as usual. i didn't realise the bacardi rum, etc only had like 5% of alcohol in it. dammit gotta try it soon. then i went into town to meet my dad cause he was supposed to bring me for some medical check up. then after that went to make new specs. FRAMELESS finally. i think the brand was like topshop or something. hell i neva knew topshop made frames. then came back and chilled for an hour before going to run at the stadium. haven't run in 7 weeks! fell sick twice and no time dammit. so at least i eased into it today with 4klicks la. and apparently chrisanda was running at the same time also! haha i saw this person in a shirt which said raffles on the back but i only noticed the shirt on my like 3rd round and didn't think much of it. and she just told me it was her and she wasn't sure if the guy she saw running was me. coincidence much. and that's that. cage tomorrow with the 4kers. NAIS one bodoh. cya.

2008-08-31T16:08:00.003+08:00

daymm it's been 982040293582085 years since i last blogged, but at least i didn't close down my blog with a long and emotional goodbye post, and then open another blog simply because i couldn't help but resist the urge to blog. haha i've been bastarding sz like nobody's biz cause of this, and apparently jarrell as well. nais. anyway alot has happened since the last time i blogged, both good and bad. let's run it down.

well basically, chong han guang called my mum, told her i'm the lowest in class even though my mark is still a pass, that i need to work harder and such. then i basically got a screwing somewhat like the one after she came back from ptm1. i can't really blame her though, i've been passing up the chances to score well in chem by not paying attention and you can really score easily in chem if you study. but i'm like that, and it's time to change. so she lay down the ultimatum: better do extremely well in eoys. i dunno how i could possibly tell her believably that my desire to really ace the eoys burns. anyway that's that.

then stayed up till 4.30am on wed nite, sorry make that thurs morn, finishing up the term paper. it wasn't easy. and surprisingly i didn't fall asleep in class on thurs. then after school i was playing table tennis outside the kemama shop. that really is the latest craze in school. for a small group of people that is. ri will be ready with a gold-medal winning team of HOMEGROWNTALENT by london2012 i tell ya. joel and i managed to beat everyone in our round and we were like damn happy we beat the munjen-munjens. yihao was the char kway teow man. $5 packet with chilli serve. i was the prata man and joel was the satay man. then played soccer with the mats. every shot i took caused my foot to cramp. ask said, it was a joke. then played singaporeans vs. viets. fun like what. then at night was the rlp2 games nite. i think we actually did a better job with this lot. and tj, justin and i now possess a highly valuable secret corroborated by evidence about the sexual orientation of a certain munjen. don't bother asking me. or tj. or justin. tho justin is prob the one who's most likely to give the secret away. then, leaving school, the tennis court gate was locked, so the four of us climbed over the gate. damn fun. tj and i went to the gate beside the main gate cause it's out of sight of the security cam haha. so we went to eat at the coffee shop with hern and seen also at abt nearly 11pm. once again nasi goreng ikan bilis and icemilo which i DID NOT spill this time. got home late and dieded.

friday was another day ALTOGETHER. it was mightyfun. or DAMNAIS. teachday celebrations were actually pretty cool. chay&biq were fantastic emcees. briefman and boxerboi. then waited dam long with some 4Kers for the rest of the 4Kers who were in the teachday comm. then we played tabletennis outside the kemamashop. funshizz man. mooty and jarrell are some bomb. and then we got changed and FINALLY left for dhoby/meridien. then walking on the way to meridien there were a helluva lot of policemen outside the istana. and then this mercedes with police escort drives in. DAMCOOL. i dunno why but DAMCOOL. then when we got to meridien, it was still early so we were checking out the shoe shop. dammit the shoes were damn nais. on the way out i saw this box of iron maiden vans. IRON MAIDEN VANS zomgwtfbbq nais. and then there was this trail of shit, as in seriously shit, from the entrance of meridien to the toilet. somewhat prob couldn't control DISGUSTING like what. then we went to the foodcourt to wait. some enjoyed milo dinosuar, while some got scammed by normal milo, while some enjoyed and hated this purple jelly. then waited summor for the pool place to open. the uncle was late. and rich was training his calves while waiting. rich is damn random. and so is this blogpost thanksthanks.

then finally went in to play and koped two tables. and we ascertained that mooty's face contorts no matter what kind of sport he plays. then we booked another table for damnear and lonny. and then paul, shihang, and amit came and i played with them also. was damn fun. SHARK haha. and then after damnear and lonny came, burger! came and then jason and kristian and andrew came. so in the end the 4kers left first, while i remained with paul, mit, and shihang. then they left so i returned to play with andrew, kristian and jason. haha jason you angmoh whiteass. played some 9ball also. i rarely ever do. then damnear calls me and says he's got tickets to some mgs talentime dunno what concert and he wants me to go. jy also going. so i call my mum expecting to hear an outandout 'no', but she said 'yes'. zomg. so i quickly went home, slept, showered and took taxi to daniel's house, but instead i went straight to mgs cause i was too late and i got off at the wrong place. so i met daniel and jy and his sis there. and his sis, ros, was begging him to give this girl the flowers so at first he said no and we went to sit upstairs. this talentime thing called 'aloud' includes primary section also, so there were these like p1 girls singing. they were dam cute and jy and i got helluva lot of respek for them. they're like 7 and they can sing in front of a whole audience like that. and nish was the emcee. and i was wondering if i would bump into her. then during the break i met nish outside the audi, where they were selling the food at scam prices. and then dan's sis was begging him like nobody's biz to give this girl the flowers. ok this girl is a sec3 drummer in one of the bands. so in the end after his sis persuaded him with my help, he relented. and in the end, he did it yo. DAMNEAR GOT BALLZ RESPEK. then after the whole concert, we went back to damnear's mansion to eat and then we left. and i got home damn tired. and then i slept. the story ends there. this week will prob be somewhat fun also. let's see how things pan out. oh and i had a dream on fri nite. i don't know why i had that dream, and i esp dont know why it included those people. but it was gd. and it wasn't a sick dream thankyouverymuch.

2008-08-12T23:41:00.002+08:00

i didnt study for chem and i screwed up. the paper was damn easy, but only if you studied. i totally regret it, but now what's the point. dammit. anyway seeing the prefect speeches this morning reminded me when i was up on the podium. the podium is definitely MUCH scarier. you're looking DOWN on frickin everyone as opposed to now, where you're looking at them but since they're all sitting down, it's not half as intimidating. anyway, i just hope these candidates dont do the usual things that turn people off. from personal experience all are promising so i hope they do themselves justice. and i think my head was bobbing like some dog during history. i thought i would be able to stay awake, but no, once again, history, one of my favourite subjects, put me to sleep. wth. anyway, after school played bball and then soccer with the dogs. fun as usual. during bball jason ole-ed me, then i ole-ed him back. return jack siol. anyway then went up to the room where long kuan was sorting out john's reed problems. finally did it i think. and max slept thru all the tuning and my drumming. and i'm now writing my testimonial. you SERIOUSLY need an ego to do it honestly.

and today i progressed twofold. from 3, now 6 and i finished one. i did it damn fast, faster than the 'veterans'. he said my technique quite good. anyway, i feel quite satisfied and accomplished but at the same time, unsure.

anyway i came across this, well actually courtesy of ms chew but anyway.

:)

2008-08-11T22:14:00.002+08:00

you know i realised that adults can be like kids, and sometimes even worse. and, disclaimer, I AM NOT referring to my parents. some people automatically think one is referring to parents when talking about how bad adults are, etcetc. anyway, sometimes if they don't get their way they'll just go out of their way to try to make your feel guilty about you getting your way and them not getting theirs instead of just accepting it as a result of a logical and mature discussion and consensus. then, some may even use their greater authority as an adult in a certain position in the same organisation/framework that you are also a part of to manipulate the situation or even long standing structure in order for them to get their way. and no matter how much you try to convince them otherwise and no matter how many people are on your side (even as much as 70% or only 3 people opposing you), they'll still get their way by virtue of their stubbornness and position of authority. in this situation, that 70% of us were infuriated to say the least. anyway, that's that.

today's interviews lasted till 2.30pm. zomg. and they were supposed to finish at 1230. and the discussion was only supposed to take an hour, till 1.30, which meant lunch after that. but no, the discussion took form 2.30pm to 4.30pm. zomg. and we had frickin lunch at 5pm. zomg again. and on the way back i saw timothy with his bunch of friends sitting around at the bubbles tea place. they just epitomised what life should be like - truly chillaxin' on a given holiday. daymm. anyway walking back from the busstop to home, i saw bro. alphonsus running at the stadium. he looked damn cool. and he actually recognised me and waved to me. nais. and nao i'm supposed to me mugging chem. BULLSHAT. and it just hit me that handover is on saturday. reflections on my 4 years in bb will come later because that's another long but great story. 1week1week1week. zomg.

2008-08-10T17:35:00.002+08:00

ndp last night was soso la. i dunno, it had all the usual elements but that extra oomph was missing. i couldn't put my finger on it. but the fireworks really rescued the whole show. it was honestly brilliant. i was imagining sitting on the esplanade rooftop and watching it from there; it would have been spectacular. the only thing that i hated about the whole thing were the two commentators on channel 5. they couldn't stop bloody yakking. commentators are supposed to add to the show not overshadow it by talking more than is required. 1) they were talking rubbish 2) they were explaining the obvious 3) the theme song had started and they were still talking so the song was not clear at the start. basically just downright obnoxious. i suppose nothing beats watching it there and then. i still remember the preview in p5, that was fun.

anyway this morning was quite clown. jocelyn didn't attend mass and session for goodness knows why. and then during mass there was this super loud lady zomg. and then michelle was showing me how her handbag could be big and store everything including the kitchen sink and could also be folded up and be damn small. damn coolio and damn clown. then not much nice food at the canteen after that. and shiam came for session which was cool. then session was quite ok today. and everyone's exams are like around the corner scary shit. and then during pnw, beatrice and i kept looking at each other cause she was making stupid faces at me zomg. and then now i know that there are other people such as john who are also as distracted by the laptop as me. and michelle is and aunty. and beatrice can't blow bubbles properly.

and i did it again after session today. felt good.

and all my efforts in experimentation last night till 3am paid off. i'm really quite satisfied. i gotta keep trying this shit out. AND NO I WAS NOT WATCHING pr0n WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WAS SLEEPING YOU SICK PEOPLE.

sec 3 interviews tomorrow. and to think just a year back i was there havin it good.

2008-08-10T00:09:00.002+08:00

you know it's real tough when you've been a little bit disrespectful and inconsiderate to someone, never in a malicious way, but still to just wind the person up a little bit all in the name of fun, and then something happens to the person that just leaves him/her absolutely destroyed. and then you realise that the person's seemingly smiley demeanour just hides a more complex truth that would be hard for anyone to bear on a daily basis. and then you just feel like shit for all the things you've done to that person who's just taken it with a smile even though it was just in the name of fun because you realise how strong the person has been throughout that whole period. i can't possibly reveal too much because no one else, except those who already know, should know about this, but 4K, you guys understand what imma sayin. to put it simply in terms of how much the whole shizz affected me, i just broke down after that. and i just could not believe i was like that all that time and that he/she was going through all of that in that time as well. i just could not fucking believe it. pardon the language, because that just sums up how i felt after the whole thing. now i pray, for that is the only thing i can do.

after that i had to play interclass, and i dedicated it to him. i had hoped that would give me motivation to play a little better. drew 1-1 against L. match was so-so. then played against Q. unbeaten and led by the most fearsome striker in the form of quang, we weren't expecting much. we just hope not to get trashed really. we were hoping for a draw but just went out there hoping for the best. they took the lead from a quang rocket. then we drew level when i split their defence with a pass and thom got on the end of it to level the score at 1-1. then we had a glimmer of hope when we were awarded a penalty. but unfortunately it was missed. then quang hit another 3 rockets, taking his tally to 4 in that game. weemeng capped it off with a long range lofted attempt that went it off the corner of the crossbar. we simply lost to quality. 5-1. then we faced C, pretty much drained. we lost 2-0 i think. can't remember the score. sucked. anyway we had a gd season of 16 matches, with many troubles in differnt forms along the way. form players with season, with illness, with injury, with suspension, with who knows what else. 5th out of 17 teams. not bad. came home aching after that. and beijing olympics > all. not bad ah, munjens.

then today was basically all work and no play made kieran a smart boy not. i surfed net more than i did work. which sucked again. and hopefully can have lunch with the gang after acts ii session tomorrow. and hope yall like my new skin. there was one skin which i like better but i just couldn't find it the second time. shat.

anyway one last thing. my cool words are: GEDEGA | ZOMG | OHMYSONNYDAY and jean hui's are: PANGSAI | STUPS | QUEER. tell me whose is better? obviously mine right. there we go.

2008-07-30T22:29:00.002+08:00

daymm felt sick as a dog last night and didn't go to school today. woke up at 9 (yes jean hui, 9am) and my nose was so blocked i couldn't breathe properly. i really hate how the lack of sleep is killing me more than ever this year. my tolerance sucks. anyway today was a great day for me to catch up on my backlog of work. i think i will be able to clear it up in the next 2 weeks XD . anyway, i remember how in the past, even tho i was sick, i was always raring to go to school and merely ignored that small bout of whatever it was that was bugging me. nowadays, every instance of flu is making me feel worse and i now have no qualms about staying home because i know my body just needs to rest a little. it also occurs to me how i'm enjoying lessons less and less and am more willing than ever to skip school when i'm sick. it just irritates me that this is the case. i still need to do well but have no interest/motivation to do so. it's gotten a bit better from the last time i blogged about this but the spur i need to be paying attention in each class and doing my homework conscientiously is nowhere near my sec1 and 2 level and my gpa is nowhere near that 3.83 high at the end of sec 2. we all came upon the realisation that it's merely another 3 months left and i'm still not giving myself a final push to make the most of the shizz that's left. hope this'll change sooner rather than later.

2008-07-22T23:42:00.003+08:00

dammit. can't go for dramafeste on sat night. worst still, i can't go on the night hullett is performing wtcrap. stupid founder's award presentation ceremony. not that the ceremony is stupid; cmon man, i'll be receiving the highest award you can get in bb with some of my other batchmates and this is really what epitomises our commitment to the company these last 4 years. but the fact that it clashes irritates me. argh nehmind, we'll win anyway XD sorry buckleybayleymoormorrison.

and lately, i've been really having a problem with my own attitude. everyday, when i start doing work at night, it'll last 5 mins before i start trawling through the internet and using msn. no work will get done. in school, i'm sleeping frequently cause of these late nights and it's damn screwed up. i don't pay attention during physics and chem. i don't see the value in those 2 subjects anymore. i mean what they're teaching now is stuff you'll only really need to know if you're gonna go into those specific scientific fields in the future, and i sure as hell know i ain't going anywhere near that kind of work. unless someone can prove me wrong, since i don't see the value in it, i don't bother listening even though i should be. i've got a bucketload of backlog of work and it ain't getting any better. i can't seem to pull myself together even though all i have to work for are these last probably 2.5 months worth of academics in ri. somebody help me. knock some sense into me because i can't seem to do it myself. please lord.

2008-07-20T00:10:00.002+08:00

hey all. apcg's over :( and on friday, i really couldn't believe that all our planning during that 2 month period had all been put into action in the 5 days and that it was all already over. it still didn't really hit me. i'm so glad that i was part of the process, and more importantly, part of the big gang of facils that really made the ride that much more enjoyable. thanks guys, yall were GEDEGA. from facilitation, to preparation, to sweet-consumption (thanks jocelyne), to playing the MUNJENGAME, to just being in the presence of everyone and having a chat, i don't think I could have asked for anything to have unfolded differently. all the challanges and obstacles were there to make overcoming them all the more satisfying, while the seeming failures occurred for a reason and that was to teach us more than we could ever learn from an easily achieved success. and thank you BANZAI, i couldn't have asked for a better group. and to think that we were grouped depending on which table we decided to sit at. NAIS ONE guys. to theo|yenlin|zhuoyang|yenyee|shoij|wencen|darius|joce|jeanhui and of course JOY, it was a privilege to be part of the same group. thanks for everything. i grown much closer to a lot of people and i'm glad for that. this experience couldn't have gotten any better. and as chay and i like to say, THNKS FR TH MMRS.

2008-07-07T22:15:00.002+08:00

looks like my plan to blog when i have time is still intact because i have not had time to do much recently. these past two weeks, our pipeband has been practicing fervently for the Pipes & Drums Festival and i'm so glad for everyone because i think we did really well. to the junior band, even though yall didn't win anything, i'm so happy and proud of yall. luther you're the first sec1 in the history of the band to take part in a competition in your sec1 year and you really worked immensely hard for it and i'm very happy for you. zekiel, i pulled you in 2 days before the comp and you were frustrated and i totally understood, but i'm still so glad that now you've got this under your belt. well done. to dom, joshua and walter, yall have proven that you three have got what it takes to teach the future generations well. snare and bass drumming COVERED. well done. to the senior band who won 3rd place, well done. this was our best chance at winning and we got 3rd. we lost to better bands and i'm still very happy for us that we won something. northland was back this year, we knew it wasn't gonna be easy, and yet we still won something. fantastic. and lastly the open band, the band i'm most proud of. we played the best medley we could ever have possibly dreamt of. every practice and everytime we played it there would always have been one mistake or another, but on saturday up on stage, FLAWLESS. i was shaking for 5 mins after i came off the stage and it was just immense. thanks for making our first medley my most memorable performance yet. to arun, congrats on your solo. the best 4/4 i've heard anyone play. to the band in general. well done. luther, joshua, dom, walter, zekiel, arun, JOHN (played in all 3 bands superbly!), darius, ben, nat, kenneth, long kuan, yong qian for the support and jinfu, who still practiced so hard even tho you were sick. i'm proud to be a band major of such committed players. thanks. P&D Festival '08: what a blast.

2008-06-24T00:21:00.002+08:00

new semester. new term. hopefully a new me. well ok hopefully not too new, that would just be weird. anyway, i'm also gonna try to keep this blog alive with as many posts i can muster during this busy last semester of my ri life, as a few of the teachers put it. it just makes you think n' all but let's not go into that shall we. well anyway, i didn't die today thankfully. well except during malay which was the last period. was falling asleep then cikgu told me to wash my face. then i came back and started falling asleep again. BAD. and today's only the first day. (pipe)band practice was good. competition in less than 2 weeks time. 5th JULY OHSHITNAIS. anyway i be off now to catch much needed sleep. i need to sleep more during the school term. and i ain't thinking straight now. stream of consciousness. or unconsciousness. toodles.

2008-05-21T21:36:00.001+08:00

One tight slap. One tight bloody slap I tell you.

2008-05-18T15:33:00.002+08:00

first of all, it's been great to be back here recently blogging again after who knows how long. secondly, to 4k: i know many of you have been having a rough week for very different reasons and all and many of you have taken alot of shit from different people. but cheer up, heads up. what are 4kers for?

anyway, friday was slack. and we lost to 4I 2-0. they put me on in the second half and i managed to intercept two defence splitting passes. not bad. hopefully i'll be starting the next match. everything else was fine, till during band i found out that brendan and gang weren't gonna play soccer at 8pm. dang, was looking forward to it. then i played soccer till late. ahmad got injured after he tried to scissors kick russell (it's damn bad but i think russell deserves to be smacked) so we were around him for a while trying to help. then i had to go home and was super tired. was dying that night trying to finish my malay compo which was due the next day (yes, saturday). after interjections of 5 minute bouts of sleep, i wrapped up at 1.30am.

on sat morn went for open house. was fun la with my dogs. shan't say the things linus and i did during open house lest any juniors be readin this. then i went to play soccer. the new astro is exactly like my hair! holycrapNAIS. then playplayplay, nonmunjens against munjens. then i injured my toe when i was on the attack. my toe got caught in the new thick astro's turf and it remained there when i tried to run forward. motherpain. then it bled like some dog. went to wash and it just continued. after i went home, it was still bleeding. blood was dripping as i walked upstairs to the bathroom. bathing was FUN to say the least. and for good measure, after opsite (a motherbig plaster) was applied, i stubbed that same toe. holyshitPAINZZ. so it bascially bled from 6pm to 830pm. wonder how much blood i would have collected in a bucket. then this morning couldn't gor for actsii :( cause i went to doctor's to get it checked cause it was still bleeding a little bit. then went for haircut. i look a bit like mooty after his first haircut. NAIS. and there's damn little hw for this weekend. gonna try and convince mum to let me stay out after apcg meeting. hope she won't say no yet AGAIN.

and i've realised how obvious the gap is between our parents' generation and our generation in terms of how we look for info. our generation is so savvy that technology is always our first option. so today my dad had to check on a story published by bloomberg. he took damn long to navigate the site and search within it. then he wanted to find the name of the golfer that looked like fred flinstone. so we went to the pgatour website and coulnd't find his name there. my dad knew he was the 2004 ryder cup captain so he went to the ryder cup website and tried to find. so i was like "why don't you just type in '2004 ryder cup captain' in google?" then he did that and viola first hit, there the name was. HAL SUTTON. then on the way back from serangoon gardens we passed this new restaurant and my mum was like "all we need now are their operating hours and their menu" and my first though was like, they may have a website. not that my parents are dumb or anything, cause they most certainly are NOT. it's just that sometimes we take for granted how lucky we are to have grown up with technology such that it's always our first method of searching for info. interesting.

2008-05-15T23:16:00.002+08:00

yesterday was a really teruk day for quite a few people emotionally. damn tough seeing your close dudes breaking down for one reason or another, and that nothing you say or do can really help them or make sense to them in that moment. and VJ didn't make it any better for anyone. i just ponned the 1st period of re to comfort these dudes. and then we were having a chat in the project room with sz originally, then dan walked in followed by wayne and then weeping. emo sial. then went to re and screwed around. what a polar opposite. i suppose i also had to release some of my bottled up emotions in a positive way. making jasper laugh during his interview making them redo it about 3 times was clown. then being interviewed myself, i owned jasper the co-interviewer. poor zi jie. then tj and i were having a sentence vs sentece battle against each other while trying to come up with a kokster story. we NEVER get anything done during re.

today was ok. during hist, i was just saying obscenities like nobody's business, much more than my usual. i couldn't explain why really. sorry zaki. and i've been damn bad to shoij also la. sorry gedega. then after school slept 30 mins before chem oba. i was in a daze la. i had to leave when the cleaners came in. then chem was quite easy, with the clowns from 4I trying to look at the paper, with isaac and biq trying hopelessly to pull them away. then went to play football at the field, NOT THE ASTROTURF WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE READY TODAY AFTER 2 DELAYS. clowns sia. "balu is on fire" jokes. whoa and there was nearly a face-off between 4t and 4b because of some stupid racist comment by a munjen after qayyum said something factual. stupid munjens, don't know when to stop.

and i'm done studying maths. i can definitely pass differentiation, but my carelessness might kill me. please say it won't be so :| and tomorrow will be chockablock full of shit. at least imma playing soccer with brendan's gang at 8pm at lorong ah soo. NAIS. ciao.

2008-05-13T21:39:00.002+08:00

relatively normal day of sorts. and now prob all the sec 3s and 4s know linus, darius and i are slow-marching in the school colours on founder's day. and they've also heard and been taught the whack song that we're marching to. the song in itself is ok, but the fact that we have to SLOWMARCH to it, considering the marching in of the school colours is supposed to be a serious procession, is ridiculous. when the 3 of us first heard it, we were like "wth! we gotta slowmarch to this!?" anyway, we'll see how it goes on founder's day. unfortunately i had to reject an offer to emcee the founder's day ceremony because i really felt that it was an honour to be given the responsibility of marching in the school colours. see everyone wants me to be a part of the ceremony in some capacity or other. i'm goooood. ok just forget i said that.

and like 2 people seemed to be having withdrawal symptoms after apcg training la. no girls for them means change in attitude. zong yi, at our failed meeting during recess, was like day-dreaming. when ms chang asked him something he didn't respond. only on the 2nd try. case no. 1. in case no. 2, i saw biq almost angry. can't remember for what reason specifically. haha. anyway that's case no. 2. these boys like they've never met girls before. OK THAT PARAGRAPH WAS TOTALLY RANDOM YOU CAN TOTALLY DISREGARD IT AND YOUR DAY WOULD STILL NOT HAVE BEEN ALTERED SIGNIFICANTLY AS A RESULT. jokes. and sean just called shoij a loser. and i HAVEN'T WATCHED IRONMAN OHMYGEDEGA. someone drag me into the theatre now!

today i went gymming with weishen. clown i tell ya. but then he started doing 10kg bicep curls, and chuan hong was like "i like your biceps. they're round." "i like round things." okayyyy NAIS. then i bench pressed and guan lin was like "ooh that looks difficult. i must try." then he got under it and couldn't lift it. jokes. and i nearly lost my phone in the space of 3 mins. then went home, showered and slept(yes! i slept for an hour. legally.). and fast forward till now. not quite sure what i'm SUPPOSED to be doing but, anyway. whoever really knows? anyway, peace out.

2008-05-12T23:22:00.002+08:00

i just had to come back here after such a long absence. well like as if i don't leave for long period of time and return just when everyone thinks the blog's about to die. for good. anyway, firstly i've just gotta say what we did on army daze night. firstly, when i told my godfather that i was going for army daze that night instead of watching man utd play chelsea, he said "so now REALLY, who is she?" joker la. and i also couldn't believe i was going to watch army daze instead of man utd-chelsea. anyway, it was worth it: united lost 2-1 and zaki, sagar, mooty and ms goh were off the charts man. superb. anyway after that it was taking coolioshit photos with us being mooty's subjects. as usual. then we all went out after that. some didn't wanna go chijmes. make that most of them.

so in the end it was dan, sean, shoij, hern wei, jun yong, myself, thom and zhongren. and immdiately after we walked in, the benevolent waitress, dumb as it were, asked us if we wanted tiger. TIGER. BEER. we were like wth. us, all of 16 years old, underage as could be, having the chance to buy beer. LEGALLY? screw that man, the rest didn't have no balls, so thom, zhongren and i ordered two bottles for us to share. and NAIS it was. we drank, ate the wedges we ordered and left at half time during the liverpool-(insert crappy team here. arsenal will do, but it wasn't them unfortunately) match. we went to rinse our mouths cause the alcohol smell was still on us. then we went home, GUILT FREE.

fast forward to friday and today. went for apcg workshop, which the ri dudes only knew about on thurs :P it was quite fun on friday in rgs. the clc is damn cool la. and i found a PERFECT lepak corner. as in PERFECT. wanted to climb over and all to get to it, but zongyi and isaac instructed me not to. there were TEACHERs apparently. ooh. whatever. then there was today. clowns. in rgs, when the ri guys are with the rgirls, fellow rgirls who walk by don't make a fuss. but today when they came to ri, every ri boy i knew or the rest of us knew were like "whoa whoa (name of ri boy)" or "eh kieran what's that ah? why all the rgirls here?" crazy dudes man. and i think the highlight of today was when we had to talk about the changes in males and females during puberty. we were all like "WHAT!?" when we were given the task. well we were talking about youths. anyway, it was damn funny la. our drawing, courtesy of jean hui was farny. bigbiggerbiggest*deflate*. jokes la.

and these are 2 more clown stories in my life chronicles. CLOWN.

2008-04-26T00:00:00.002+08:00

hey all. i'm back after a gazilion million 12345678910 years. ok only 11 days la, but it's felt like forever. and the thing that has been keeping me REAL busy over these past 3 weeks is exactly the thing i'm missing right now. SHAKESPEARE 24. let's start at the beginning shall we. it all started in a project room on the 2nd floor of raja block. shou jian went to audition for it and i went it to watch. so there he was reading his lines in front of the sec3s involved in it and ms chew. then they asked me to audition, which i really did NOT want to do. i didn't want to add something else to my already full plate. so i reluctantly got up to audition. i had thoughts lingering in the back of my mind to purposely screw it up, but i knew they would know seeing how they would have seen me act at literally literary the year before. and they were considering me for macduff, one of the more major roles. so there i was regretting my decision to even step into that audition room in the first place.

a few days after that, they called me to confirm my part as macduff and i was now part of S24. burger was actually part of it, but pulled out. i also had second thoughts about remaining in the production but i just decided to stay on a bit longer to see what it had to offer. so as the first few rehearsals went by, i didn't really find myself enjoying it. i didn't know that many of them, until ish, jaspal and jasdeep came along. then rehearsals began to drag till about 9pm, which really began to piss me off. ms johnson and chris were really coming down hard on us, which didn't improve my mood. at least i was with ish, jaspal and deep, which made my time more enjoyable.

but in the last 1 week leading to the production, i really began to feel part of something which could be big, something which could be important. and i really felt like i was part of a group of people who were all going through thick and thin together. i also felt that whatever i was doing was not for nothing. and i could sense a general ascendancy in everyone's spirits because we all came to terms with it and not treat it as merely another mundane process of try-and-try-again. and it really culminated on wed and thurs nite. we were great. so what if the audience laughed at certain points where they shouldn't have, most of them said the performance was all right. we knew that those were the best two runs we've ever had, and we were proud of it. wait, make that we ARE proud of it. and now it's all over.

i'm already missing sitting backstage behind the curtains waiting for my turn to go onto the stage during the rehearsals. we all had so much fun together. be it cursing in punjabi and tamil, to making fun of GULCHI, to doing push-ups, to eating CHICKEN RICE almost every day, to enduring the many screwings from various parties, it was all worth it. it was fun, but more importantly because we went through everything as a cast & crew, one unit, which came closer together through all these. i'm proud to have been a part of this process and of such a wonderful group of people. and to think that i thought of pulling out initially. just imagine if that had happened...

2008-04-15T00:03:00.002+08:00

today has been a bad day for many of us. first killer: maths cct. this one was of an academic nature, but really dashed our hopes and just plain and simply put us in a sour mood. daniel and i were doing chair360s and frisbowling. the only way to relieve tension and stress. went to the doctor's after that; me chest was hurtin like hell whenever i coughed. that's why i hated it whenever i felt a cough coming on. then i went back home to sleep for an hour. then later on, closer to dinner, i found out the ruggers lost 15-11 to acsi. my heart literally sunk. now i know how much i feel for the school and for those who are striving for it. i know quite a few of the ruggers as well and to just imagine what they must have been feeling was disheartening enough. then later on in the evening, i heard that the softballers had also lost to peicai. and i also was just imagining how they must have felt, remembering timo clowning around this morning, giving me foot's banana to bring back to class and all.

today was supposed to be the day raffles stood up to be counted. but you know what, raffles DID. i believe that the ruggers and the softballers, and all the other sportsmen that have competed this year, have stood up to be counted as rafflesians, FOR RAFFLES. they would've fought their hearts out, to the death. and that is the embodiment of what raffles is all about: fighting not just for yourself, but for the people in the institution as well. we fight for each other, we stand up for each other. this is one family, the raffles family. so if any group or individual loses, the whole school loses. but when they go down fighting and they've given their all knowing that they do not want to let anyone in the family down, the rest of us stand up and applaud them. we console them if they're in tears and we comfort them if they're dejected. we do this in the knowledge that they fought for us too. and we stand together. rafflesians unite.

cause we're for, we're for RAFFLES

2008-04-12T18:39:00.002+08:00

getting owned on my own blog for not posting :P that's the worst of the worst. anyway sorry dudes (and dudettes) for not posting, i've been super busy of late. well, isn't everybody? i choose sleep over staying up even later to blog :) but i still sleep in class. GREAT. anyway, now i've changed position in class to the back to help me pay attention better. yall must be thinking that's the complete opposite of what people would normally do to concentrate better, just like what brain said. anyway here's the situation. cause i was sitting in front, i used to continually turn behind to face the trio (shoij-jy-jonny) and do lotsa stuff. so now i've moved to the back so that i won't have to turn around to face them and can now face forward abit more. and honestly, imma paying attention much more. call me wierd or whatever, but that's how this dude named KIERAN works.

anyway s24 is killing me la. i didnt even ask to be part of it in the first place. i was just in the room when shoij was auditioning and they asked me to audition. ms chew, no less. so i got up and did it. i had half a mind to purposely screw it up, but they would have known i was purposely doing it after seeing my performances at the lit parody judgings, literally literary and lit sem @ rgs. damn. then i got a part and shoij didn't :P wth. anyway now i'm effectively leaving school EVERYDAY at 9.30pm, half the time without having had dinner. it's draining me. after that i gotta go home and do the pile of work waiting for me, and the constant flow of malay work. damn. i'm falling behind in my work BIGTIME. then i fall asleep while doing the work and then make a decision to finish the work in sch the next day, which i never do. then it just piles up. thankfully during the rehearsals, i've got ish, jaspal (aka JAS) and jasdeep (aka DEEP). us 4 indians have a great time together la. as jasdeep said, if you wanna have a serious production where you're fully focused every rehearsal, you can't have indians in it. we're jokers la, or at least the 4 of us. from body waves to punjabi obsceneties to our favourite word (which i can't spell) to laughing at some of the acting. we love to have fun, SO SUE US. haha.

anyway, everyone seems to be emo these days. life's too short to be emo THAT often. thankfully i'm not emo 80% of the time. sometimes i break down, like the other day, but most of the time imma smilin'. heads up dudes. and i can't blog abt today for another 2 weeks. you'll find out later. and if that keeps you in suspense to make you come back in 2 weeks time, AWESOME. haha ok imma jokin. come back EVERYDAY. even if i don't update. TAG.

2008-03-21T18:15:00.002+08:00

i've just been thinking, and i've realised that this has been the most meaningless lenten season for me. it's quite ironic how as i've become more mature, i've been wanting to make my sacrifice a more meaningful one, but in the end, i end up not giving up anything at all. we're supposed to sacrifice something during lent, something that would be a bit difficult to live without. that is the point of sacrifice after all. in the past, when i'd never really thought abt it, i'd give up the usual things like chocolates and maybe some tv. then this year i thought abt it and realised that i could easily live without these. but what about something more pertinent to me now? like time on msn, which i value alot because my friends mean alot to me as well. in the end, i didn't give up the usual. but at the same time, neither did i give up the things that mean more to me now. and last night during the walk to the serangoon district churches, i realised that this is the 1st lenten season where i havent done anything. literally nothing. and i felt really bad abt that.

and looking at some of the crosses that the parishioners carried, i realised that i could identify with quite a few of them. more than i expected. and there i realised that even if you havent done your part with god, he'll always be there and will never let you down. he'll always be doing his part for you. "come to me, all ye who are burdened, and i will give you rest". i really take solace in that phrase everytime i hit a difficult patch. and in the famous story about the footprints in the sand, he said "during your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints it was then that i carried you". these are reasons why i never really hit a DIFFICULT patch. i know my lord is there for me. i merely have to ask him for his help.

and one more thing that has become clearer than ever is the meaning of community and friendship. why is it that we have so much fun when we're with the people we know and love? it's fellowship. and i realised that god's way of giving me support through tough times is through my friends and family. to lift a burden of my chest, i just have to talk to them, and i know alot of them who are willing to listen, but more than that, help me to carry my cross with me. god really showed me that i'll never walk alone, and it really touched all of us when we looked into the early morning sky at sfx. clear sky, though still dark, was filled with stars. hope. god speaks to us in ways you would not think possible. the only question is, are your ears open to his call and is your heart ready for his presence?

2008-03-18T22:47:00.002+08:00

ohmygedega. damn dog. there is no way to describe how i'm feeling now. i don't understand it myself. i'm not feeling sad or anything, but yet there's this heavy feeling in my chest that's bugging me and is close to driving me frickin nuts. i honestly don't know. don't know what to do and how to move on with what i've got. shud be easy by the look of it, but i think i'm just confusing myself. damn wtf.

ps: sorry sz for the jack today. didn't mean it to upset you as much as it did.
pps: well done shoij :)
ppps: well done ri & rg tennis :)

2008-03-07T22:41:00.002+08:00

fuck. i just bloody lost it. sorry about the obscenities, but i just had to let it all out. don't bother asking why. i hope it never happens again. dammit.

2008-02-28T00:22:00.002+08:00

feels good to finally be back here again. alot has happened since my last post, and i can't possibly put everything in here. but there's just one thing which i thought was funny. when the indon oipers came, we went to the night safari. so amit, halim, wee meng and myself decided we'll jack all the tourists that were there. since it was gonna be dark, along the trail, we'll randomly point into the trees and all stare at it intently and say that there's something there. and it worked. there were at least 5 grps of people who got taken for a ride. there was one grp which was cool. along the trail there was this sort of 'junction'. at this point, there was a person explaining something to 3 other tourists, and an indian couple walking towards us. then we suddenly something like 'eh look in the trees there's something there. can't you see it?' then everyone just stopped and looked at the trees trying to find the non-existent animals. it was a joke la. they were looking for abt 1 min. then we just walked away as they continued to try and find it. we got quite a few ang moh tourists, indian tourists, unbelievable man. YES WE SURVIVE ON CHEAP BUT GD QUALITY THRILLS :)

and pi is finally over. went for sli the week before and i gotta say it was pretty darn gd as well. well, now after all that, the exhaustion is getting to me. i'm falling sick :) ok that's absolutely nothing to be happy abt, but anyway. stupid assignments and projects keeping me up. i'll be so glad when this week's over. i'll cya then

2008-02-09T16:53:00.000+08:00

today was weird. and it's only been half the day. it started with lunch @ thai express. in my sister's soup there were these chillis. and no chilli/group of chillis have defeated me in recent memory. my grandmother makes special sambal belachan for me, in which she uses 20 chilli padis, when the one she makes for the family only has 4 to 5. i eat chilli padi for fun. and today, when i took one of those chillis plain, i went through the roof. i thot maybe one off la so of course must test the thing again right? i won't lose to some bloody chilli. then i took another one. ok can tahan, normal standard. then i took a third one. same standard as the first. went through the roof again. RESPECT man. i wonder where the hell they get it from. i'm now gonna hijack that chilli field in thailand and kope all. SETTLED.

so cannot tahan right? buy 60c ice cream from macs 2 doors down (not 3, AHAHAHA) to cool off. i never remembered the ice cream being so big. anyway, who's complaining? then as i was walking away from macs, i saw this:

WTH. no offence la, and there's nothing wrong with it, but it just sounds like the person is BI. "Male OR female". funny se. no offence meant :P and now i have another number to add to my repertoire of prank call numbers. i've prank called people named edmund sia, lynn, ricky and ELANGO (yes THE elango) by requests from friends. time to polish my "yvonne-basketball" conversation, pioneered by SIABINGXI. thanks bingxi, if you're reading this.

then got into mum's car as she drove to the petrol station to fill up the car on gas. on my way there i licked the ice cream to get this:

Retarded looking 'tail' or 'hook' or whatever. looks like some crab coming out of the icecream.

then in the petrol station, i remained in the car. then two of the station staff (petrollers? petrol fillers?) were shouting random things in chinese. one guy would shout something, and then the woman would shout something while raising her hand like as if it was some sort of cheer. from what i could make out, they sounded like numbers. and i don't learn chinese. so i could be totally off the mark. maybe they were shouting their 4d numbers. i dunno. then i licked the letter k in the icecream. anyone who saw me must have thought i was some complete retard. la. just try to imagine it. *imagine* yuck.

boredom strikes again. and i dunno how the hell chris brown can take off his cap like that. i tried it and got it 50% right. the other 50% which i didn't get is what makes it look coolio. therefore me=fail. wait fail>me. whatever. KISSKISS. now just waiting for it to be time for me to leave to go for dinner with 4k. and he is bringing her along. OKAYY. should be interesting. dunno how 4k will take to it.

2008-02-08T22:57:00.001+08:00

going out with class is FUNFUNFUN. so it was after CNY. half of them had left for lanning while the other half who waited for theo went to eat at j8. so i was part of the latter grp. then after that, if memory serves me right, we went to plaza sing and met shoij and shanz. we didn't see both of them at first. weird. then in no particular order we did the following:

check to see if there was place at the pool hall. there was none.

walk into the shoe shop and check it out.

walk into another shoe shop to check it out.

walk back to the pool hall and on the way i happened to stop, sticking my leg backward causing shanzhi to stop right in front of some shop were there were like 7 chij girls, who thought he stopped in front of the shop to look at them. JACK. then they all waved at him. so since there was no space at the pool hall, we walked back, but sz had no BALLS to walk by the same shop so he walked one big round.

i asked the uncle in a shop outright whether i could buy beer. he nearly said yes.

we went to plaza sing and played at the arcade. wayne is an imba driver. omg.

met seen and jonny and went strolling around.

saw mr vetuz with his friends and made a joke of ourselves trying to get his attention.

discussed chiobu watching, going to kbox and jonny producing his own football team from age 12.

bought fried mars bars with ice cream and sat around talking cock.

i THINK we all left at that point.

WAIT! koonz dan theo and i went to a graphic tshirt store. we made daniel try on a pink shirt. he looked awesome i tell ya. but he was too embarrased.

we went to flesh imp and saw some semi-pr0n tshirts. koonz and i looked at each other knowingly. we also found burger's probable prezzie (not a semi-pr0n shirt, unless he wants it)

koonz dan and i followed theo to bishan to buy shoes. unsuccessfully. i finally bought a decent wallet.

my mum came to pick me up and brought a pair of shoes so that theo could have something nicer to wear instead of his almost-falling-apart shoes. i saved the day. THANKYOUTHANKYOU.

and there ended the fun. i bought these:

new shirt from flesh imp

new billa wallett. finally. after the $3.50 one from indon collapsed 2 weeks back.

*lousy phone camera sia*

and today i finally realised i could do this to my shoes. both of them actually had red and white laces and so had two sets of laces on each shoe la. then i used my brain and did this. looks so much better. see this is what happens when you have nothing to do for 2 days of chinese new year simply cause you don't celebrate. and share with me your new found wealth pls!

2008-02-04T23:31:00.000+08:00

it was an ok day today i guess. i'm really happy that i finished my maths ta. it's probably one the handful that i've actually finished and am confident of at least passing. don't laugh ok. i'm trying my best, i felt really shitty when i failed the last one. and then vj says i'm not putting in enough effort when i failed that assignment which wasn't counted. i felt like shouting that i did put in the effort, it's just that i didn't understand. when i checked it again after i got it back, it was a bit of carelessness and pure blindness actually. i tried la, but wth. i hope i can actually get a grade above 3 (>3, not <3. but >3 would be <3)

Your view on yourself:

You are down-to-earth and people like you because you are so straightforward. You are an efficient problem solver because you will listen to both sides of an argument before making a decision that usually appeals to both parties.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Don't give up when you haven't yet even started! Be courageous.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are full of energy and confidence. You are unpredictable, with moods changing as quickly as an ocean. You might occasionally be calm and still, but never for long.

hmm, most of it is true i guess. i dunno if i'm an efficient problem solver tho. i don't necessarily like serious, smart and determined people. and i don't really undergo mood swings. other than that, it's pretty much accurate. and i'm tired now. sleep a shit lot in sch today. BAD.

Purging emotions

2008-02-01T23:38:00.001+08:00

ah, back again. it's not that i didn't want to blog, it's just that i couldn't find the time to do so, and each time i thought about it, i've always had a lot in mind that i wanted to put in words, so i never found the time to actually do it. but today's a FRIDAY. so that means there's time. and even though i'm tired, thanks liting for waking me up!

was watching the ri ruggers take on the rj ruggers in a friendly. ri outplayed them la. 2 tries to 1 i think. rj was stuck in their own 22 for a lot of the 20-30 odd mins that i saw. and saiful got tackled hard by chris fang. chris flew into him la. i literally saw saiful 'fly' abit backwards. scary la. and avinash is damn fast. and alimi is a damn smart kicker. as in seriously, intelligent player. i just like watching rugby i guess.

and in a totally separate incident having nothing to do with that match, i saw how difficult it is for a sportsman to take the fact that he's been told he's not in the first team. i'm not a sportsman but i can guess how bad it must feel la, but today i really saw it with my own eyes. he was crying la and was really quite upset. he wasn't his usual self. well, if that guy is reading this and he knows who i'm talking about, i hope he's alright, and continues to just try his best for himself and for the school. it won't go unnoticed.

and lastly, in something totally irrelevant. i feel that my mum restricts me a little too much. i just wanna tell her that i am old enough to decide what my own limits are and what i can do to keep within them. she says i can't go out for this, can't go out for that because she's afraid i won't have enough time for schoolwork. but i think that i WILL have enough time. look at sz, he can do it, and he's got more on his plate than i have. surely i can do what i need to do? well i don't wanna give people the impression that she's a dictator. FAR FROM IT. she's caring and loving and everything that a mother should be, but what i need now is freedom. like the other day, i was feeling fine for pe, but i was still on mc. she deemed me not well enough to play because i had a slight cough so i couldn't do pe even though i felt fine. and then when i told mr azmy, he asked "so who rules your life, you or your mum?" and that really hit me in the face. even when i tell my friends i can't go for this or that, i hate having to tell them that "my mum said so", but that's the plain reason. then sometimes they say like "your mother's quite strict". then i feel like they've got the wrong impression of her. I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW. i don't know how to tell her without possibly making her angry. and if i keep quiet, i'll just be missing so many things. help me someone. but i still wouldn't exchange my mum for any other at the end of the day. ironic, isn't it?

not everything is where it should be
it's just not even there
i'm looking for it, i know what it is
but no one knows, they wouldn't care

2008-01-17T22:48:00.000+08:00

today was a tiring day. BUT IT WAS FUN. had soccer for pe, so that was ok. bng being goalie was a joke la. even spencer scored against him. okayyyy. then after school, played soccer, 3on3. damn lame and retarded sia, but that was the fun of it. then went to gym as promised and poor jy was working out w/o me all that while. he cancelled tuition to go gymming w/ me. i'm honoured. today was crowded, but still can. then at 4pm we were chased out cause it was the timeslot for the staff to use the gym. 4-6. wth. ok nvm. then still had an hour to burn before board meeting. so the mats were playing soccer. so what choice did i have? PLAY LA. fun sia. my partnership w/ paul was imba la. and paul is not a mat btw. and nas never fails to make us laugh every time we play soccer. today he slipped again. clown. then went for board meeting. so-so for 2 hrs, then celebrated birthdays. said and theo kena. we sprayed them with confetti and i sprayed said down the back of his pants cause his shirt was up a little. and the way said screams is...damn said. haha. fun la, and theo kena cake in the face by me. as usual. wonder what will happen to biquan and me when march comes around. ah, here is a good time to remind every one that my special day is the 25TH OF MARCH. there, go get me something.

2008-01-15T23:20:00.000+08:00

i'm really disappointed with myself because i disappointed my mum yesterday. shan't bother to explain why, but in any case, don't betray the trust your parents place in you. you might not always agree with them, and for some, you might not always like them, but always respect them and listen to them.

anyway, today was a rather gd day. cle was pretty gd. i learn something new every day, and today, i learnt more about my 4k. it's great to hear a personal story from every one. it just adds another dimension in terms of your perception towards them, and sometimes, whatever they've shared could COMPLETELY transform your impressions. i brought me jester hat and i continued to wear it thru litra lesson and after that while watching the aq guys train. everyone was rather intrigued by it. i was standing at the steps at the end of raja block towards rj side waiting for my mum, then these two rj girls and a guy walked pass. they were obviously j1. and one of the girls said "nice hat". haha. i didn't think the hat would be so cool as to warrant random people who don't know passing that kind of comment. now i know.

the JESTER hat

Jappy & I

so the litra welcome party went well. the class is, AMUSING. should be gd. then after that went to watch the aq guys training. they ran with my jester hat after i accosted them. and while doing suicides, frog took my advice and said THEWORD after each segment. welldonefrog. and then i went home. then when i reached home, i realised that i actually had enough time to go to the gym (why do people laugh when i say i sometimes go to the gym? fine GO AHEAD). WASTED. anyway, today was a great day. should wear my hat more often. it'll capture the attention of rj girls...

update: this is blogpost no. 52 - opposite of 25, which is my birthdate. 25/3. ok wth that was just stupid i've got half a mind to delete this update. but nvm, let's leave this here for fun.
update 2: jy had a gd CLE lesson. trust me. right jy?

2008-01-14T23:32:00.000+08:00

ok today was a blast. chem was once again the highlight of the day. not because of anything new that we learnt. can't remember what was taught actually. i remember sparsely things to do with bromide. CHG was ultimate best again. we laughed until there was no sound that came out when we laughed. timo squirts water at sz. and CHG says that timo shouldn't be surprised when he sees 1 or 2 demerit points for being 'late'. CHG also says that the funny colours are a MYSTERY. and then he pulls up the projector screen and points to the clock shown from the computer and says "oh no, i only have 1 min left." then he promptly does the same thing 2 mins later and says "now i only have negative 1 min left". you can just hear it, you have to see him say it, and then you'll realise why we laughed so hard.

then during english, jun yong got a perfect example. he asked ms kuang for an example and couldn't have gotten a better one which he could RELATE TO. singing. CHOIR. then my head shot around to look at him and he looked at me and we began to laugh. he got owned. and sz realised it only 2 mins later after i told him. lag.

on to more serious matters, ok la not so serious yet, drill theory test was a joke. 360 degree turn: i stood up and did it. and my favourite command is turn to the right, but the command in malay has a variation. just ask frog and linus and dong and ken. NICE.

ok now seriously more important matters, it's great to know that i have great leaders around me who share the same passion and want me to do well. thanks to yq, ben, jiao hua, kenneth, nat, joshua and pan aka retarded. thanks guys, the support means alot. cya around soon. and i hope i can go to brain's party.

2008-01-13T23:40:00.001+08:00

POST NO. 50! AMAZING. haha whatever. Friday was JRIC, which was cool. HALLOBRUDDER, titus, paul, tom, tian kai and linan all came back and we were sitting up in the gallery screwing around. titus then found out that we call yiwei burger even though they've been in the same cca for 3 years. and we were trying to digest "soporific". mr joseph wong would still have been able to manage that. 1-2-3-4 syllables. anyway then the comm ics went on to stage to cheer and sing batch song and institution anthem, the usual. atmosphere was great. the sec 1s damn enthu la. even tho some of them were getting the unite beat wrong and looked a bit stupid, they looked intense, and that's gd. anyway, jing yuan's freestyle dance was imba and we decided to do shit behind him. "sweep the floor", "train" and "titititi" (meant to be read as ti-ti-ti-ti and not tit-tit-tit you dummschweins). anyway after jric it was madness outside. frog, kau, myself and linus had half-dinner from the reception. frog kena own by coffee/tea from kau then come and whack me. haha frog.

then we prepped for night hike. i can't say where we went, lest some sneaky sec1/2/3 looks at me blog. so we took some bus and walked. when we finally reached there, on the last stretch, i was so tired that i was falling asleep while walking. i would close my eyes and sway in different directions. once i though i saw a couple but i was imagining things. another time i only saw a woman walking straight at me just before she reached me so i had enough time to get out of the way. i knew i shouldn't have slept at 1.30am the night before. anyway camping at bk, macs and then bbq pits was retarded and fun. at the bbq pits (all the shelters were taken up), we put our bags on the tables and rested our heads there and slept for 2 hours. continue in the later part of morning. slept from 3am to 5am. actually can't remember the timing. i was too sleepy and blur.

anyway we saw the sunrise as we set off again and i was in the sleepwalk mode for a while too. then we took bus to x location and had breakfast. i fell asleep at the table and they were laughing at me. wth. then 5 of us finaly went to the final destination and were shown around. looks NICE. then we had a great time trying to get out. had to go back the route we were trying to avoid in going there. DAMN. anyway, we suanned max cause he was the only one among the five of us who was gonna be walking the route during march camp. frog needed to shit BADLY. we were saying gd morning to random people and shouting 'chiobu' when there were random girls in the distance. we were planning to hijack a few peeps of their bicycles/skates but to no avail. then when we finally got somewhere, we trudged thru mud to get to the other side and then i realised there was a dry concrete path 30m ahead. i tracked back to take the path while the others bashed thru and got their shoes owned. haha JACK. then dari and i slept while max and ken played in the water, goodness knows what they were doing. i dunno what the hell frog was doing. i think he went to take that shit. then after that we left. we bought ice cream from a vendor at the roadside. i went to nanny's to bathe and have lunch and all. that was that.

in the evening something happened that i wanted to mention, but it's slipped my mind. today there was something also but i've forgotten. anyway, i watched avp on channel 5. retarded movie but wth. the aliens look quite cool until they take of tthe mask. and predators are useless. it drained me of my intellect i tell ya :p then i watched the season finale of the noose. wasted la. i find it quite funny, tho i think quite a few people out there would call it cheap or lame. i'm just accepting it was what it is and it gives me a gd laugh. jacques ooi = "jack-ess ooi". acdc@noose.con.job.windy miao. HAHA. whatever you might say about the show, i say it's gd enough for what it's worth. watch it with the right mindset and you'll see. anyway i wanna go sleep now. TIRED.

and i love gymming, esp with jy in his attempt to get his 6 pack for _____ . cya :)

2008-01-11T00:33:00.000+08:00

damn i'm super tired now. had pe today. SOCCER AGAIN. NICE. then played during recess, where i slipped twice on the astroturf which is in appalling condition. then the rest of the day was so-so. after march camp meeting, i went to the gym where i went to meet jun yong. he was completing his last bit of his 5+km run under 30mins. OKAYYYY. felt gd to gym again. then went for exco meeting. fell asleep halfway. now i know i really need more sleep. 1am mornings are killing me. like mr teo said, zong yi doesn't count. he's not human. then i got back home to my grandmother's fantastic dinner, which she cookes every thursday when she comes home to visit. then after they left, my parents kept fussing over me and this nearly drove me up the wall. i'm still a little annoyed. and now it says it's 1239 on my clock. just turned 1240. 20 mins to 1am. i'm so gonna die for overnight hike tomorrow. shit, no sleep till like dunno when. dammit. wish me luck, i'm gonna need it.

2008-01-09T23:50:00.000+08:00

Today nothing much happened. SERIOUSLY. Ok a few things. I now know that FT1 has horrible pronunciation. Theodore became 'theo-dor-EEE' and Mr Azmy became Mr 'Ass-me'. OkAYYYYY. And I like all the films we've been watching during lit. NICE. And then RE was damn boring as usual. Today mass lecture somemore. Then went to have lunch with avi, eugene, bryan, shannon, nicholas, andrew and i can't remember who else @ rj. all the rj1s were out and about. I think it was their CCA showcase or something. Bumped into a few familiar faces. And that was that. Then Muster parade was moved to rajablok since it was raining. Ok la. Well we couldn't do much anyway seeing how each person barely had a 5m radius around him. Then it was drill. Highlight of drill: frog gives timing. Eyes left: "check, up". So naturally, when heads face front again he gives the timing "check, down". We all burst out laughing. Frog is king man. Half of you probably wouldn't have understood that anyway. And during slow march, frog purposely kept stepping on me and prodding me to take bigger steps. Blaaady fool :) Not my fault I'm short. That's abt it I guess. Another uneventful day at school.

2008-01-08T00:09:00.000+08:00

Lasair - Orientation camp for the sec1s was a blast. There's no other way to describe it. Their discipline was sometimes a bit trying for us to deal with but their enthusiasm and spirit was the best I've seen since our batch. I hope that flame won't die out. To all the PSLs, thanks for making the whole ride a fantastic one. I couldn't have asked for anything to have been different. Esp to the 1A PSLs: Thye Jie, Kristian, Yin Rong, Rashidi, Haran, Sean and Burger, you guys just rock la. Best grp of PSLs to me. The whole orientation can be summed up in one word really. And that's RAFFLES. Everything I love about the school I saw in the orientation. Friendship, spirit, passion, just everything. And the enthusiasm even extended to today's recess where we were doing Raffles Jam, Samba and Mat Rock in a random spurt, courtesy of Douglas and co. WELL DONE. IT'S NICE.

4K - If yall dunno by now, this is the best class ever. Mr VJ got suanned again due to Liverpool's sterling result against Luton, which he once again took with great humour. I seriously think he's a fun guy la honestly, after all that's been said about him. And chem lesson was better. Me and SZ think that we'll fail chem but we'll be laughing all the way. I've never laughed so much in a lesson before, and that's the most I've laughed in ages. Seriously, from Zaki getting everything wrong, to Koonz switching identities with Weeps, to the best lines ever.

"You all take turns being retarded issit?"
"Whoa, you very cheapskate. I like your style."

AMAZING. 4K FTW LA HONESTLY.

Muster Parade - Today all the UG CCALs and ACCALs came together and finally decided once and for all that we shouldn't have it and that it serves no purpose whatsoever. It wastes our precious time, requires us to bring and POLISH uniform every week, standardise drill timings, and teach the whole coy all the commands required. Daniel said it best when he said we were appointed CCALs to act in the best interest of our cadets/boys so we should do what is necessary. Hope all this turns out in our favour. We all feel strongly about it. Tomorrow we meeting him. Let's pray and hope and keep our fingers crossed.

That's all for now and I really hope I'll have more time to update this more regularly. The joy of blogging has returned.

2008-01-01T22:45:00.001+08:00

ok school starts tomorrow. dammit. after 2 months worth of holidays, our last year in ri will begin tomorrow. we NEED more holidays. and when i say holidays, i DON'T mean the kind of holiday where the only difference between the holiday and normal school days is that there aren't NORMAL/FORMAL lessons but you still gotta go back to school anyway. no, we want holidays where we just stay at home and go out with friends and have fun. maybe the december holidays at the end of this year will be the closest we'll ever get to that state but that's a whole year away. anyway for now, let's go 2008! 2008ftw! ok, the inevitable new year's resolutions. here goes:

1) stick to my new year's resolution
2) just get fitter in general
3) get into Ortega Cup team
4) get a 3.2 AT LEAST for maths
5) win a few photography competitions
6) MAKE MORE TIME FOR MYSELF!
7) when it more ideas come to me, i'll let you know

so there. 2008 begins here. i'm up for it. you with me?

2007-12-31T01:33:00.000+08:00

damn, to think that 2008 will be here in less than 24hrs time. seriously the thought's scaring me. i'm as afraid as i am excited to take on the new year. orientation to kick it all off, then pb work and BAND (pipeband for the uninformed). it's seriously making me think abt everything all over again. add that to the fact that it's gonna be our last year in ri :( to the guys that have kept me going this past year, thanks a lot. you guys are seriously the best. to the guys who will keep me going in the next year, you guys will be the best. to the following that have made this year a great ride:

60thBATCHof08 (esp Pan) + BAND
3k'07!
RIPB (esp Exco 07/08)
me Church mates like Jeremiah, Timothy, Wilson, Christian, Nathaniel, BRENdan, Wilmer and the peeps like Matt, Darius, Jared, Charmaine, Vanessa, Erica, Joshua who have made me feel a part of their 'gang' in a sense
(sorry if i've missed out anyone :p)

thanks guys. '07 was a blast. let's make '08 the frickin' biggest bomb you've ever frickin' seen in your entire frickin' life. ok whatever. see you in the new year. or earlier if you happen to be aarontiong or zhixuan or my family. let's face '08 head-on. all the best guys.

2007-12-24T01:58:00.000+08:00

damn, it must feel good to have enough money to contemplate buying a maserati but choose an open-top bmw 645 cause the new maserati is a 2-seater and was not suitable considering you have a family with 2 kids. captain is a damn nice and cool guy man. he's a high-ranking dude in a logistics company but he remains very humble. RESPECT. so he drove ben, yq and myself home after the meeting at his house. damn, he was only going at abt 80km/h but yet in an open-top the exhiliration is unmatchable. fantastic. i had a smile on throughout the ride. NICE. this is roughly what his car looks like, if you need a visual to augment what i've just said.

thank goodness my dream car, ie. the aston martin db9, has an open-top version. it's the db9 volante.

but the vanquish s

and the v8 vantage

look nice as well. anyway, in 15 years time, i wonder if they'll still be around. they'd be considered vintage by then. ok for the guys who appreciate cars, you know what i'm talking about. for everyone else, this probably seems like a meaningless block of text supplemented by visual aids with the sole purpose of achieving absolutely nothing. you're probably spot on as well.

anyway, it's 2.20am on xmas eve morning. i gotta get some sleep before supper tonight which will be into the wee hours of the morning at my uncle's house. damn christmas rocks your socks and my socks and the stockings that santa's gonna fill. ok damn you santa for not coming every day of the year. ok see that was way meaningless as well. and today's outing was fun. thanks guys, you guys rock.

2007-12-16T00:43:00.000+08:00

haha damn I'm bored. performance today went ok. they've offered us another performance next year around the same time at orchard rd so that'll be cool. 60th pipe band FTW man. by that time the next bm would have taken over already and we would have finished our time in RI. i don't want RI to end cause these 4 years will be the 4 best years of our lives. but as arun said, we move on to bigger and better things. i don't know if our time in rj will be as fun and crazy as it is in ri. we'll just hafta wait and see. it'll be different, let's put it that way. anyway, i've had a few thoughts recently.

1) i wanna work as a photographer for the rest of my life, photographing everything possible. i just wish i had more time and more money to invest in lenses (a new and better body even? that's camera body you muppet)
2) i'll remain single forever (zaki knows the extent of this very well). or then again maybe not.
3) i wanna start on that music project i've thought about recently about mixing sounds of the everyday with some cool beats or maybe remix songs for fun (mash-ups, anyone?)

yea those are some random thoughts. i'm sure you musta had some random thoughts like that as well. well anyway, thankfully i didn't bother to go for the noise singapore launch, my photo wasn't featured. only shortlisted. well like what my mum told me, at least i was shortlisted out of 6000 entries, that's a gd start. well i guess. but seeing your work up there is taking it to a whole new level man. anyway, heck.

"Dear Noise participants,

Congratulations! It is our pleasure to inform you that your work has been short-listed for showcase in the Noise Singapore 2007 Festival! Handpicked from a pool of over 6,000 works by our panel of judges, comprising professionals in the creative industries, your work will be seen by the public on numerous platforms, including the Noise website (www.noisesingapore.com), The Heeren Shops, the Noise magazine and other electronic and print media!"

yea and in other news, i finally got that elusive VEST dammit! NICE. and now for united to totally own liverpool's scouser ass tomorrow. rooney to score a hattrick at the kop end!

2007-12-13T16:50:00.000+08:00

damn, haven't been here in a while, let alone posted. anyway, about a week ago i was feeling a bit lost amidst everything. i didn't know where to begin and how to proceed. screwing around didn't help either; it only made me feel worse. guilt; in basic terms, the shitty feeling after doing something equally shitty even though at that point in time it didn't really seem shitty. contrary to shitty, actually. anyway, i think now i'm back on track. i've thought about it and realised that if one never gets going and never chooses a point at which to start, he'll never get anywhere beyond his own self-pity and that bottomless pit full of brown stuff. indulge me a while, won't you? life here ain't about what i think is right, comfortable or easy. it's about what's right in the eyes of God. yet, i could just choose to ignore what God thinks is right and go my own way. but in the end, i know i've screwed up. i know it cause in the end, that shitty feeling rests in my heart, instead of my arse where it should be. haha, whatever. in the end, i return to the straight path, the path where the streetlights never go out and where even at night, darkness is afraid to show itself. God pushes me through times where i'd think i'd never make it, he wraps me in his arms when i've been knocked down and my heart has taken a beating, he raises me upon his shoulder when i feel like i'm on top of the world. and even after all this, i never seem to be a person with moral fibre good enough for my own expectations, a person with the willpower short of my goals. disappointment in my own eyes, and a bad example of a catholic. God is always there, and i let him down. it's like what my uncle said. praying in church and all that is important, but it's what you do outside church that's more important. it's what is seen by everyone and it's what they judge you by. this post is going nowhere; some of you might understand it, some of you may not, some of you may be just too religiously apathetic to care. but that doesn't matter. all that matters is that God is with me, every second of my life, everywhere i could possibly go, in every person i meet, in everything i do. why? he loves me, and you, and everyone of us. are you gonna show him that you do too? i know i'm gonna try. even if you don't believe in God, do what's morally right. everytime you do something wrong, in its process, there's just something telling you that you shouldn't. it's more than just your consciousness. go figure.

Many happy RETURNS

2007-11-01T23:21:00.000+08:00

my gosh i'm actually updating it! unbelievable. anyway, literallyliterary was great. thanks guys for making our production the best one we've had. the audience loved it and i surely loved performing with you guys. haha saw fiona and shu mei for the first time in ... an uncountable number of years. anyway, now i'm practically sick of acting as lear in deaderthanfiction. 2 umbrellas have been destroyed and who knows what else. that will be the last. but i don't think jonny will get sick of it. the crowd loved the bimbo and they also loved mooty the cute, whose skirt dropped off! thankfully he was wearing pe shorts underneath. and geoff the emo. haha slitwrist!

tomorrow's the last day of school and i'm emceeing the sec4 grad ceremony. now when i think about it, it'll be only one year when we'll be the ones there, and one year is too little. ri will be the best 4 years of our lives cause of our friends and the senseless fun one can only have in an all-boys school. it just won't be the same in rj. there'll be girls and what not and it'll be good, but it just won't be the same. here's to our last year in ri. let's make it count. it starts with orientation i guess. and to think that it's in about 2 months time. holy cow 2 months!? damn... anyway kristian, yinz, sean and i are taking 1a next year so that'll be damn cool. can't wait.

and in other news, i'm getting closer...

2007-09-29T22:23:00.000+08:00

ok class debates today damn funny. when we went in at 1030, 3c still hadn't finished and one whole debate couldn't be held cause all the team members of BOTH sides save for one were not there. they were all PRCs save for that one guy and all stay @ boarding. clown. then our turn.

our debate didn't go as well as planned for us as prop but heck, funny. THB that artists are more valuable than scientists.
Mo, as 2nd opp: "If there's no light, you can't see the artwork..."
Me, as 3rd prop: "If there's no light, I say just take it outside."
BEST.

In the following debates, we have Rich giving his teammates xtra points WHILE they're making their speech; Bng getting a standing ovation PRIOR to his speech and promptly living up to it; Bng POI-ing a reply speaker; Shihang saying that his debate cannot be debated and that there should be a tie; Koonz saying 'Byebye' to Rich after Rich made what seemed to him as a nonsensical POI; and other funny shit. BEST.

Anyway, this evening watching All Blacks vs Romania. Blacks' play is damn sick. The imba try with Collins' pop behind his back to Rokocoko. Then I was watching 2nd half of Man City vs Newcastle. Elano's freekick was some bomb man. RUGBY + FOOTBALL = BEST.

And I'm sitting here. Waiting, hoping.

2007-09-28T23:55:00.000+08:00

yeah, lzy and tsz got owned today man. and lzy bought the cake which was promptly smashed into his face somemore. BEST. damn funny, jon lim (HALLOBRUDDER!) comes running behind lzy and pins him down, then i proceed to rub cake all over his face. then got one big piece between his eyes. then i took the happy birthday sign and stuck it into that bit of cake. BEST. then TSZ also got owned. obviously if one boss gets owned, the other one must also right. then damn funny. he had the cake knife in his hand and begins to chase theo. then theo chases him back and tsz runs away, forgetting that he still has the cake knife in his hand. of course in the fracas, i took lzy's stylus ala library style and took tsz's glasses. OWN. that was fun.

then after sch, play soccer. not bad la, our 3k side quite good. play for until 2 then have something to eat. after that i walk onto the astro again, sec 4s abt to play wit us. jiahao run to me and tried to pull my pants down. he half succeeded but no one saw anything since i was on the floor. i was damn clown playing with them man. pass the ball to opponent without realising, nearly caused loss of possession in front of our own goal, then dunno what other rubbish. BEST la.

all this time i was supposed to have been studying but screw it. then discuss class debate till 530 then went for investment dinner. quite fun with wei shen and co. haha wei shen vs shi min rubiks challenge! stare at cube for 3 mins and both got no closer to solving it than 3 minutes prior. BEST.

class debate tomorrow. OWN. and sagar = sulphur+silver+argon, according to him. I LOVE 3K MAN! BEST.

2007-09-27T00:51:00.000+08:00

omgwtfbbqlol I'm back man. BEST. anyway, i'm not posting anything tonite, or rather early this thursday morning. this is just to let my large fanbase, *pauses and reconsiders*, ok maybe not so large, *reality prods*, ok fine i have no fans! anyway, i'm back, so watch this space. And i direct this qn at one person, and i wish that person knew. Would you?

of kings and clowns

2007-08-11T14:59:00.000+08:00

wa bomb, damn tired man. played inter-ug soccer against 01 scouts today for about 45 mins, 2/3 astro. king man, final score 6-0 to us. yes and i missed 3 1on1 chances near the end, hitting the post damn hard on one of them, and screwing up two assists for jappy. but who cares if we won 6-0 right? king. so after playing the whole match, annual parade rehearsal! 2.5 hours of drill under the sun, and with the drum attached to me with the harness somemore. VERY NICE! then went to have lunch at s11 AFTER more damn clown soccer AFTER rehearsal. then as we were leaving lunch, jinfu picked up his back and swung around and the tray of bowls and stuff went flying. the woman at the opposite table was shaking her head so hard that i tell you it could have flown off her neck lah! i think also because we were making a helluva lot of noise during lunch. that's what 60th boys do, see. then came home and went up to rest for while. i was reading harry potter (yes i read HP)(yes i'm STILL reading deathly hallows)(no i do NOT want any spoilers) and was falling asleep. i think i read the same paragraph about five times because after each time i woke up, i couldn't remember where i stopped. and i still cannot remember that paragraph. yes, fruitful. and now, i'm doing what i usually do. SUPPOSED to be doing work but not actually doing it. all of you lack of skill people who get caught switching from your msn messenger convos and unrelated internet windows, learn from me. i have virtual desktop so i just switch desktops can already. n00bs!

so close yet so far

2007-08-09T23:03:00.000+08:00

OMG i'm blogging! after a long hiatus of contemplating whether to blog or not, i'm finally back. that fact that i had to report on like about 1-2 weeks worth of news kept me from blogging, but i'll ditch that idea. well maybe i'll talk about dramafeste. i was dragged into the crew on the morning of the production and went on the rollercoaster ride till the last performance and it was a helluva lot of fun being with the df people. i was helping abhinav with the slideshow so i didn't really do much but hey, i can say that i was part of hullett df'07! unfortunately we didn't win anything, which is frickin unbelievable really. judges must have been sleeping. anyway congrats to daniel, greg, zaki, nabil, anish, kau, sasi, shawn and abhinav! you guys rock.

ok from the not so distant past to yesterday. first there was the national day celebration. speaker was boring, then during the concert, we couldn't hear the guitars from rige and the national day music videos for the official songs were cringe worthy. anyway, then we went for dramaOFhistory rehearsal. i beceame the tengku in place of justin (overseas). after rehearsal, i chionged back to sch for our last prelim interhouse debate. but we lost by 0.5 points. was a very disappointed but we're in the finals anyway! then rushed for my handover interview only to realise that it had all been delayed by 1 or 1.5 hrs. anyway interview went well and came home at 6++pm while the whole world was out doing fun stuff since 10am. it's like what brain said, sch is like my second home. i told him it's probably my first.

then today. was fun. went to museum at then slacked around and got dressed. then we acted and put on a good show. did the same at 3pm. the in betweens is when we slacked around talking, playing bridge, learning techniques of throwing wallets courtesy of ashish and other RANDOM stuff. playing bridge, SOMEONE bet 5 dimes. they conceded after 2 turns. and that SOMEONE's cards were all dimes. king man. bridge > all. oh then jarrell's friend's friend wanted andrew's no. the person turned out to be the guy who was with her. he's gay, confirmed. from eyewitness accounts, we was constantly staring at andrew also. he also continued to follow jun yong cause he wanted andrew's number. jun yong said he was andrew's manager and anyone who wanted his number would have to ask him first. OMGWTFBBQGAY! and that was that for today. we saw a bit of singfest from the outside and it looked quite cool. damn. so close yet so far. sounds familiar...