it's exactly 2 weeks before i last posted.. and that really shows how exhausted and busy i was.. study break started on week 9 of term 3 but i self-declared it ever since the 2nd day of week 8 ended.. totally saw no point of going to school.. and yea, i've just got to mug since i made such a choice.. but i tried to go for every training the j1s still had because i really miss touching the ball.. it's something that make me see the meaning of my life.. ok, enough said.. since last week till, it's all about mugging.. everyday will be all mugging.. if i were to find a category to differentiate them, i would use location to categorise them.. i tried national library, bras bersah macs, kallang leisure park, t3 coffee bean, t1 burger king and my room.. i would say i loved t3 coffee bean the most on weekdays and KLP starbucks on weekends.. of course i do always have study partners.. the NLB group normally consists of zp, zh, dex and jon, sometimes qt too.. airport mugging, it's adri most of the time, sometimes zh.. in fact, for the past few days, i've been mugging with adri all day.. it's at least 5 hours a day man.. that's tiring.. the days that i'll be studying in tj are gone unofficially.. 2 years really past so fast.. 9 more days and prelims start.. wow.. and november 3rd will be the first paper for 'a's.. damn.. how i wish i could turn time back.. ugh..

well at least there were some things that obviously brighten up my gloomy days.. one would be visiting the arcade.. lolx.. personal best of 883 now/daytona semi-pro/ID4 addict.. burns money but it always help me by reminding me that it's time to start doing something fruitful - mugging.. and well, yesterday, i also did go back to chung cheng.. took hell lots of pictures there.. only me and zh turned up due to the timing of the visit.. will post those pictures some day, i'm lazy now, and my computer is somehow infected by some virus.. zzz.. in short, i just want to say, i love the breeze around the lake and the slackish days i had there.. i won't mind giving up a portion of my lifespan to enjoy the 2 again.. hai.. and lastly to wrap things up, i received a "commando invitation letter".. the reason i used those inverted commas - i don't know how should i phrase it.. wow, commando for me? cool shit.. it's worth a try but i thought i will just land into any average unit, the infantry.. haha.. just see how things go first.. have to report to hendon camp one day to decide my fate.. it's late now and i think i should go get some rest.. life is pretty boring these days..

it's been 5 years since i've longed for one
and everytime i met each of them, things didn't turn as i hoped
5 years since then, the search is still on
but the journey gets tougher and tougher each time
seeing others embark on such a sweet journey makes me wanna explore the taste of it
damn, if onli i were good enough..

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and oh yeah, checked the results today for the olympics basketball championship.. USA thumped Spain 119-82! American opponents, please watch out.. and China won Germany too and are through to the next round..



okay, think this is all.. i shall go for some rest because tomorrow will be the start of the last week of school..

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friday is the most slack day in my timetable all this while.. lessons end at 10.50am.. maybe 2.10pm due to extra economics lessons.. went to the court with dodo and adri to shoot some hoops.. mr sim appeared and apparently challenged me to a shootout.. with some luck, i manage to win 5 bowls of ice kachang from him! woots.. i thought he would only be owing me but he called me instead and gave me a 10-dollar note! "na! 5 bowls, then return me the change".. wow.. can you actually believe mr sim did that? i can't, but it actually happened! haha..

after that was extra lessons for economics.. ended at 2.10pm.. had originally decided to hang out but apparently, singapore's table tennis women's team was about to engage in a fierce and exciting battle with korea's table tennis women team.. kudos to singapore for winning the semi-finals anyway.. it's been 48 years and the dream is finally fulfilled at last.. watched the entire match that laste nearly 4 hours at opposite's kopitiam.. the atmosphere was very funny due to the uncles' analysis and comments for every situation that happens in the game.. and the audience were very high too! (especially those from my class, haha.. and yes, we sat there the longest!) singapore could have won very early but just couldn't take further advantage of the lead.. however, the korean team must also be credited for their efforts as they proved to be formidable opponents for the singapore team..

Game 1: Singapore drew first blood winning 3-0 against Korea..
Game 2: Korean leveled up with a fierce and victorious battle against Lee Jia Wei and triumphed 3 sets to 2..
Game 3: Singapore's doubles seemed too strong for Korea, thumping them 3-0 and regains the 2-1 lead..
Game 4: Not giving up hope and giving all the best, Korea stunned Singapore by leveling the series with a stunning 3-0 victory..
Game 5: Singapore's dream of a medal came true after a hard fought battle that Singapore outlasted Korea 3-1..

48 years, it's really a very long period of time.. once again, congratulations to team singapore! i was very happy with the results but my mum apparently disagreed with that.. she really hoped singapore will lose because they were all based in china after all and they get loads of money for winning that medal.. money given to non-singaporeans, that's what she thinks.. i'm alright with it though.. but can't deny the fact that a medal was actually won for singapore after so long, something to rejoice about..

feeling so happy and high, i self-declared a holiday today and met adri at e!hub to play the arcade.. me and my basketball shooting machine and he with his taiko machine.. my aim was to break 700 and his goal was to pass the hardest song.. apparently, only i achieved what we had each actually aimed for.. it took me 8 trys though.. i had one on my 5th try a 698, super close but i couldn't hold onto it.. but it was fun.. the crowd behind me makes it even more fun.. adri also drew quite some attention with his skills.. all the songs were like so simple to him-.- but too bad, the hardest song just caught him.. lolx @ adri! then went home an reached at around 12am.. hope to mug full day tomorrow because today is wasted and please let time be on my side..

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tuesday wasn't a day worth mentioning.. zh was still in the hospital till that day.. went to see him together with yh, whom i psycho-ed to accompany me.. yesterday was NAPFA.. sian.. guess i'll get in 4 more weeks earlier, can't help it.. did all others well but not for the run.. my ankle's really feeling the pain.. shall start to train again now! saw miss sim after that, quite glad to hear that i did not bad for my essay questions, so it's a very good thing.. went for dinner at cavanna with aloy, fad and des.. had some time chilling out there before heading home..

today was similar to what it was like 2 days ago.. i'm freaking tired.. i just want to have some sleep.. luckily, tomorrow's friday.. phew.. oh ya, i've got some great songs these days and i'm so in love with them! go FABER DRIVE & FM STATIC!

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HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TO ...... SINGAPORE!! it's singapore's birthday on august the 9th for the 43rd time.. didn't bother to watch the parade though since it always similar to those in the past.. didn't go out to watch the fireworks also.. this might be one of the lowest ever national day i've ever had so far i guess.. but guess what, instead of making my way to chill with my friends, i ended up visiting czh at CGH-.- together with his classmates (shane, teck kian, samuel, vincent, cherylnn, suzanne and shee ping - sorry to those if i've spelt wrongly =X ) apparently, that zh was trying some stupid dunk from a chair and broke his left forearm unfortunately on national day's eve.. don't know what he was thinking then but that was definitely something foolish.. hope he doesn't harbour any thoughts of an encore-.- pictures of him hospitalised can be found on shane's blog anyway.. well, this was my 4th time knowing that he is hospitalised, so i wasn't much surprised and he was still the way he used to be whenever he's hospitalised and nothing much to worry about.. knowing that he's doing well, the 7 of us, after suzanne left, went for lunch at eighteen chefs @ eastpoint.. had curry chicken sausage cheesy baked rice.. shared some laughter and headed home shortly.. nothing much after that for the whole day.. yesterday was so slackish for me.. went to 7-11 as usual.. oh ya, i went for a night jogging session to realise that my stamina sucked big time -.- total sian-ness.. heck le la.. the highlight for yesterday was actually the basketball match between team USA and team China.. USA was on super ownage mode right between the 2nd quarter.. dazzling dunks by lebron, wade and kobe.. all of them were sick.. and yao ming even hit a 3 to start the game.. what the heck?! yao shoots in a 3? lolx.. USA won eventually, duh.. went to sleep after that.. today is chiong-ing homework day and i'm so tired of it.. i guess i should start doing something now..

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it's been 5 days since my last post and i realise i don't really post on weekdays.. today's an exception because it's national day eve! singapore is going to be 43 years old tomorrow! ok, i haven't found anything much interesting to blog about this week.. had my chemistry mock prelim on wednesday afternoon.. should be pure ownage (hoping for at least 60/80 =] ).. then thursday was a super tiring day as i always say.. reached pasir ris but it rained so so so heavily till i was stranded at 7-11.. -.- the rain was one of the heaviest i've ever seen so far (an effect of global warming?).. ah, finally about today.. today was national day celebration in school.. the parade was so noob-.- (ok la, but i admire those people for their courage).. loke was like wrapped in a table cloth and looked as if she had got no money to buy more decent clothes.. headed for the concert in the hall promptly.. the first performance was by ARCANESOUNDS! it's a new local band formed in june last year.. they're not bad.. i love the progressive sounds of the electric guitar especially.. then there were some videos in between here and there until i can't really recall what exactly was the program.. but one more highlight of this concert was bryan's singing together with mahadir play the guitar.. i was kind of freaked out at first because i really didn't know bryan could sing so so damn well.. no, that's no sarcasm here, i really meant it.. i didn't mind him having an encore seriously speaking.. hmm.. after that i can't recall what happened but as usual, there was a sing-along-session but a group of my classmates and i ended up playing 'tau-pok'.. it was dam fun! hahaha.. the concert ended at around 10am..

sportsman appreciation ceremony was next and finally, the year 2s have officially stepped down with great honours.. it was fun watching all the videos that all the pdp(s) have made.. to think of it, i've actually completed my 2 seasons in tjc.. time really flies.. hoping all the best for my juniors also and that includes hui san, shan min, clara, ruby (girls), wei yang, chee siang, sin lek, big sam, dave, mu ye, xuan zheng, denie, tian yu, gabriel, david and joel (guys)..

the ceremony ended at 12+pm.. supposed to meet up with my brothers but apparently they couldn't make it and i didn't even bother to find out where my class was going (i doubt they will be going anywhere).. of course i do have other friends but they were all going out wit their classes, going out with them is like so extra.. in the end, my destination was home-.- felt abit low at first because i really hate being alone, especially on days that you could actually go out with your best friends and have fun.. went to the arcade and chill.. man, it was crowded at white sands, imagine how e!hub will be.. played my first game 709.. not as good probably due to the crowd behind me.. it was pressurising ok.. haha.. more people came when i played my second and i scored 726.. went to sit down to rest awhile until an auntie came to ask me to join her to play together.. i had mixed reactions when she approached me.. first it was, 'huh? you got play this machine de ah?' and later 'me? my double play sucks, you really want to partner me?' but it was more of the later one.. she was really dam zai! she competed in 2006 arcade competition and actually got second! oh my.. and so we teamed up.. first game she sponsored, 752.. not bad for me in a double play because it requires synchronisation.. i suck at that because i've never practice much of that before and that last time i had a double play was with si ying and we actually scored only 330+.. second game, i offered to sponsor this one.. we did better 805.. everyone behind got their jaws dropped but the auntie told me we should have gotten 900+ instead for a double play.. haha.. super ps, i think it was partly my fault because i've never played a doubles for ages! luckily, the auntie was encouraging and she guided me throughout.. she was actually playing to my tempo most of the time even though i did try to follow hers.. she was really zai.. haha.. i'm saying that one more time.. i hope she will come again though.. anyway, played one more game solo and left.. got home with lunch and kept slacking.. tons of homework are piled up in front of me and there's another few tons of revision awaiting me too.. i just hope to clear them all as soon as possible.. i'll try my best but hey let's enjoy national day tomorrow first! haha..

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it's been very packed this week as usual - all the protected time and the screwed-up timetables.. seriously, i don't know how long i can handle this anymore.. i tried self studying in school for a day at the TRC last wednesday.. i must admit, it's not a bad place there provided it's not very filled up.. i think the school should change those protected time to self studying, it might be more productive.. well, maybe for me at least.. and last friday i just realised one thing, protected time on this day is a total waste of time.. it was my first time going to friday protected time though but the wait was not worth it.. i end school at 10.50am on fridays and the first protected time starts at 3pm? it's like what the heck la.. well, i guess that will be my first and last time for i'll go for protected time on fridays.. i would rather go home at 12.30 and do my own work.. i guarantee i would turn out to be more productive =) ok enough of that.. reached the national library at 3.30pm yesterday to meet zh, zp and jon.. thanks dex for leaving that seat to me even though he really had to leave to watch the last national day parade rehearsal.. by the way, it was my first time there to the national library and i must say the atmosphere there at the level 5 study lounge is abit weird to me.. i don't know why but it feels like lots of people are eyeing for your seat and you can't study peacefully.. that's the case for me but i still managed to mug quite a portion for my chemistry.. jon left abit earlier and that left me, zh and zp.. we purposely waited till 8pm so that we can witness the fireworks because the view from the study lounge is spectacular.. however, there were this bunch of inconsiderate beings blocking the view while everyone was enjoying it.. i did cough very loudly to drop some hints but they refused to budge.. that's so singapore la-.- luckily they were "dumb-f***s", they didn't know the fireworks came in waves and they left after the first wave was over.. the second wave was much nicer, too bad for those people.. those bunch of people really pissed me off.. but there was one funny incident that happened.. when the second wave started loudly, another group of people made their way to block my view again-.- however, this group wasn't as big as the previous one, so it was alright.. then there was this guy who realised that he could use his cellphone to take a picture of this beautiful night.. ok, so he took out his phone, turned on the camera and paused for a second to see if it's the right angle and just when he was about to press the 'capture' button, the second wave stopped! hahaha.. the look on his face, oh my god, i really couldn't describe it.. it was damn funny because i couldn't think of anything to describe this guy except 'LOSER'! lolx.. after laughing enough, the 3 of us made our way to have some steamboat near zh's house as suggested by him.. i shall not talk much about the steamboat because the experience was totally unpleasant and i will never go there again to witness such a terrible atmosphere.. i would rather pay more to go to a more civilised and higher-class place to have steamboat, seriously.. that's roughly about this week..

ah! and i've been tagged by shane-.- and so, i have to do this since i'm so steady.. let's spread the love of being tagged! hahaha! ^^V

RULES:

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

B) Tag eight people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by and cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

so here it goes!

1. What are your reasons for having a LJ?

even though after seeing some answers to this question, i still strongly believe that LJ in this context is 'Live Journal' and not er-hem! quite obvious right? haha.. ok, for this question, i don't have one leh.. i never tried LJ but i feel that blogger is more user-friendly, isn't it? it's also common and easier to link people using blogger.. even if i had used LJ, i guess it's more of the uniqueness bah..

2. What do you do before bedtime?

man, i do a whole lot of things before going to bed because i hate lying on the bed and waste alot of time trying to sleep.. i normally try to tire myself out by browsing through the internet till i'm really exhausted or maybe have a quick shower to feel cooler and relaxed to start sleeping.. brushing the teeth and visiting the toilet to answer to nature's call are needless to say..

3. What will your dream wedding be like?

i guess i'm still quite young to answer this question but my dream wedding? hmm, i do like the idea of marrying underwater or in a very nice rural place.. shouldn't be very noisy and the place must be very, very romantic to make it the most most memorable and lovely day i've ever had.. actually, i'm quite ok with anything as long as my bride loves it.. haha.. so wait for a longer time then i'll revise this question again.. haha..

4. What is the city of your dreams and why?

no preference though.. i just like any place that has winter and a very nice environment.. it also depends on uniqueness of the city.. any city that captures me can be the city of my dreams..

5. Are you an introvert or extrovert?

i would say extrovert.. i love the company of friends and i'm also very outgoing.. even though there might be times i wish to be alone, i will definitely still choose to be in a situation to be in company of my friends..

6. Which is more blessed, loving someone or being loved by someone?

definitely being loved by someone.. being loved by someone can make you love someone more and i think it's just a matter of time both can come simultaneously..

7. Do you trust easily?

yes, but only to those that i think that i can.. so far, my judgement hasn't brought me any betrayal yet..

8. What person, dead or alive, is your role model?

i don't have any actually.. i mean every role model is unique in a sense and there's no specific role model for me.. as long as someone who achieves something through sheer determination and hard work/overcoming all odds, can be my role model.. chris gardner in the pursuit of happiness is a good example.. donald trump, al gore too.. it's hard to say for me..

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?

of course there will be but i guess these days, it's more on the stress that 'a' level is nearing that is making me unhappy.. otherwise, i've been really enjoying myself these days..

10. When's the last time you had fun?

i forgot when, but every moment out with your clique/best friends is very fun because we are very close to each other and can associate very well..

11. Is being tagged fun?

it's quite troublesome but i can't deny there's some extent of fun factor is this game.. haha.. sometimes it's also fun to see how different people come out with different answers to these questions..

12. How do you see yourself?

very emotional, sociable and outgoing.. i tend to express myself very freely and i will also be myself and not put up and act in front of others.. i really feel uncomfortable with putting up an act, it's so not me and unnatural.. i'm also very righteous.. haha..

13. Who are currently the most important people to you?

family and friends, quite a typical answer i guess.. my family supports me and my friends show me all the love.. what's more that can be more important than them =)

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?

it was shane right? i haven't known shane for quite long but we are like good buddies now.. he's very humorous and always full of laughter.. also a very cheerful guy.. and one thing i must say is that his laughter is very unique.. it has got the quality of the joker, seriously and i mean it.. take that, shane!

15. Would you rather be single and rich or married but poor?

single and rich.. that's so obvious.. i mean if u got the money, do you think being married is hard? come one, this is a killing two birds with a stone man.. haha.. being poor is not a good thing for anyone either, given that marriage is optional..

16. How many children do you want to have, if any?

i think i will have to say 3.. any permutations of the number of boys and girls is fine with me.. 3 is a good number because my parents also had 3 and we're doing well as a family.. i see no problem with having 3.. anyway, it will be up to my wife then, she's taking the pain after all.. can't just let her bear it all the way right..

17.What's better, to give or to receive?

this one's tough.. i would say giving.. i'm a guy who loves to show care for others, that's why i chose to give.. i really value my friends alot too, that's why to give is very important.. seeing the happy faces when giving makes my day..

18. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?

i don't think i would do that in the first place but it's hard to say given human's so unpredictable nature.. if that happens, of course i will pick the one that loves me more.. but i am sure i won't make myself land into such a difficult situation in the future.. it seems so bad and probably lose the meaning of love..

19. What would you do if you (or your girlfriend) became pregnant unexpectedly?

be a man and take the responsiblity.. it mighy suck to become a dad so unexpectedly but it's only
right for me to do so.. afterall, it might be part of me that she's pregnant.. this question doesn't ask if the child is yours or not? if the child is not mine, i really don't know what i'll do then.. disown my girlfriend? be a good guy and accept the fact?

20. What are you waiting for right now?

my driving license and a wonderful life ahead =)

that took me quite some time to finish the 20 questions.. phew..

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