Sunday, January 27, 2008 . 21:01

bloody overprotective parents.


fuckkk.

anyway on a separate note, i had a marathon today.

sucked balls zomg.

we came in like 14th. out of like 20 or something boats.

and my legs hurt like shit after that. yeah not my arms my freaking legs.




ok fuck i have no mood to blog right now. damn annoying.

Saturday, January 26, 2008 . 19:54

JOIN OUR FANCLUB.


or die

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 . 19:51

i changed blog skin. yeah big deal right.

and theres this problem. when i post 2 posts in a day. then end up getting merged into one. (see below: the perseverance thing and the "what immature idiots they are" got merged together)

so anyway. whatever.



i hate school



and i detest training.


and kallang.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 . 22:07

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARA!! :D

hope you had a wonderful day today and heres wishing you the best of luck for sec 3!

Sunday, January 20, 2008 . 21:24

i think the word persevere is overused. and over-rated. and misunderstood.

well first of all, persevere means to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, or to be insistent in a statement, request, question, etc. therefore, it means having a goal, and pushing to get it no matter what. and from the definitions, it is fairly obvious that these goals are of your own. and thus we can say that if we push without our own purpose, its not perseverance.

an example would be, you want a gold medal for canoeing but the training is tough as hell. but. you persevere and get the medal.

a non example would be, you dont really give a shit about the medal, but you push through that training anyway. this, is called endurance, or tolerance.

A person who equates endurance to perseverance might wrongly accuse someone as someone who does not persevere. but he doesnt understand that his goals are different from the other persons goals. for example, a parent might scold the child for giving up in school because the parents goals for the son is to be sucessful and earn money. but the childs goal is to have fun. therefore, the parent is wrongly accusing him. in fact, he does have perseverance, hes just persevering towards having fun.

to make it more clear that endurance=perseverance is wrong, look at it this way. imagine you are doing something wrong, like say, robbing a bank. half-way through you realise, that its not the right thing to do. you dont go, oh well, since i have already put on my cat burglar suit, and my mask, and am halfway up the side of the building, might as well finish the job.

doesnt make sense right? but thats exactly what the faulted perception of perseverance is saying. its saying, no matter what you think, whether the end product is desirable to you or not, if you have started it, just finish it. someone with this idea of perseverance would probably not know when to stop enduring a certain circumstance or situation.

example: halfway through a course for a degree, you realise, its not the one for you, you hate this subject, you shouldnt be doing this. you should be getting a degree for say, psychology. but, you persevere, thinking, that opting out of the course would say you lack perseverance.

to most people, this would seem noble, courageous even. but to me. its folly. its like, you know you are going down the wrong road, but you refuse to turn around. truth is, you end up in the wrong place, and you are stuck with a job you hate. and then you call this 'preseverance'

but its not. persevering is when you have a goal in mind, and no matter what obstacles come your way. you continue towards that goal. endurance is not perseverance. endurance is PART of perseverance. endurance is perseverance minus a goal.

this is endurance: tolerating mockery
this is perseverance: tolerating mockery to prove a point.


this. is also random what immature idiots they are.

Friday, January 18, 2008 . 20:05

IM BACK YO.

everyone can stop missing me now :D

anyway, i wont go into a detailed description of what we did, but ill just roughly talk about the trip.

basically, the trip itself was pretty boring. i mean, elephant shows? prosthesis foundation? chiang mai's history? yeah i know.

but, of course theres some balancing out. some stuff like the visit to monfort college was enlightening, fun and a good exposure. the interacting with the Le Refuge girls was also a new experience for most of us and im sure everyone would agree that we learnt more than a few thai games (which are damn fun) from the activities.

but most of all, the company was awesome+great+fabulous+wonderful. seriously, 3.11 totally rocks. people like kenneth, leon, zach, cal, jaira, koon min, even others like reuben, gideon, jang, nicholas and kevin, among others are the real reason for the immense amount of fun we had.

thai food sucks though. weather too. but thats besides the point.

anyway, as the Brain people from our class said, i think the greatest thing we can take away with us from chiang mai isnt a cheap shirt, or jewellery, or even the metal, magnetic balls everyone is so totally addicted to. but its the lesson that we should really be content with what we have. after observing the education over in thailand, and the le refuge girls, and after hearing the story behind the prostheses foundation, we really learn to treasure our protected, pampered lives here in singapore. and i think im going too deep here.

so, on a seperate note, our class totally owned the balls of 3.5 and 3.18, winning the class of the year award. even though we only won the Brain competition, got second for our hilarious dance, second for our pac man pamelo or however you spell it, and second for the photo taking, overall, we trashed them.

and the dance was cool yo. cause i was in it. shuddup.

and pictures another time.



i heart room service.



GO MIKE!!

Friday, January 11, 2008 . 21:21

derek is pissed.

at the stupid barber for cutting my fringe to half its length even when i said. dont cut my fringe.

fuck.

GRAH.

i took like how freaking long to grow my fringe la. then the stupid b*tch went to happily snip it.

dumbass.

gosh.

on a seperate note. IM GOING THAILAND TMR.

despite the trip being horrible long, i have decided to disregard that and have a optimistic attitude towards the trip.

and uh. my luggage is really stuffed now. but thats besides the point.

hahahh yes and bffn, i swear, we are retarded.

byee! (oh yeah ill be back on friday so till then,

MISS ME! ;D)

tata.


fucking barber.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 . 20:36

i love our year 6's'07

they gave us holiday yesterday :D

HAHA to all you other schools.

anyway we spent our time...

training.

which sucked cause it rained so we did 14+4 instead of 18

i know i know, it sounds as though its better.

thats what i thought too. but its not. cause you get cooled down and our muscles get stiff and all. i took 22+ mins for the 4km which sucks considering that i just rested.

anyway. we spent some more of our time watching a dumbass movie. called the darjeeling limited. i thought it would be funny since the trailer looks quite good. and i like adrien brody and owen wilson. so anyway, the movie sucked, and so did the popcorn.

oh and we smuggled in chips and 1.5 litre bottles of drinks. and uh, 1 carton of fruit juice too. courtesy of nick ng.

then we played LAN :D

i owned k? fullstop.

like serious, 100 kills in aim_map which was really fun.

overall the best was the company. damn funny.

today went to cut hair.



and im temporal secretary.

Sunday, January 06, 2008 . 21:55

yay more tackle camp photos.

Spartan guys
fear factor :S


SPARTANS FTW
wet games racee : D
those are lemons. and, dont ask.
all 125+ of us.
everyday, ill follow after You
sec 2s plus leaders! ackk i forgot.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CELESTE!! (:

Saturday, January 05, 2008 . 20:58

oh man im really going to miss 2.12. it just wont be the same with more than half of you guys gone.

Friday, January 04, 2008 . 17:56

ok so the first week of school has passed.

well i must say it was better than expected.

the first day was mainly spent doing admin stuff and having all these useless talks.

for example, the ip/ib program talk we have every single year.

but besides that, our class had much fun. cause well, its our class. 3.11. full with all the cool people.

anyway, we have good and bad teachers as well. i wont name names though.

second day was lessons plus helping out at sec 1s sports bazaar. hahah freaking fun.

kneeling on the ball hurts your leg hair.

anyway, we also had some stupid pc talk with i slept through half of. :D

and training was slack: like 10 km cause the bus came (really) late and we only had an hour to train.

and today.

we found out who our larts b teacher is. um lets just say. not an ideal teacher.

we had the most fun history lesson i have had in months. and then me and ken stayed back with nick for the sports bazaaar thing again. fun :D

Tuesday, January 01, 2008 . 19:56

went vivo countdown ystd. had vip passes :D but due to leons sheer stupidity of not asking me to bring camera, the photos here are of shitty 2 megapixel quality.

gurmit, michelle chia and taufik
Backstage muahaha :D
leon and shuana simon
me and michelle chia zomg zomg :D
Leon and Nicole and Tabitha. (the twins from the gymnastics team singapore)

i took one with jade seah too but i got to like alter the contrast a bit cause leon told me to switch off flash. then later i forgot to switch it back.

anywayy.


Church camp photos :D more when i get all of them.

fear factor Dx
hahahh bgr talk.
um "what attracts you to the opposite sex" section.
altar call.
worship.
hahah our retarded group during ice breaker.

amazing-race-murder-mystery thingy! (which got cancelled in the end)
haha the pathetic number of sec 2s at the camp. ok so 2008's here. the first 2hours 45 minutes or so have just passed. well before i go on and embrace this year. i wanna reflect. cliche i know. so sue me.


well last year was quite a revealing year for me. i think i saw a lot of the world, and i matured in terms of my thinking.

academics wise, i realised that we couldnt mess around like we did in p6 or sec 1 anymore. theres a time for play, but when studies come, we should focus and not be so carefree, like i always am. and i also began to think about my future. though it stemmed from the comparatively small decision of subject options, i started to think of what i wanted to be. so many people around me had a rough idea of their future career options. but for me that was just a big huge blank. i guess its just my nature to just think about the next week and not so far ahead, but it prompted me to start thinking of what im going to be when i grow up, both emotionally, work-wise, and spiritually.

as for my attitude and emotional life, etc, you get what i mean. it was quite a rollercoaster for me. well for one, i started off the year with below average self esteem. not low, i just didnt have that much self-confidence. but then as i, well, not to be blunt, but as i improved my looks, and told myself that i wasnt all that bad. i began to be to full of myself. even now, i know im too proud sometimes. and also at the start of the year, i wanted to DATE. ok i dont know what got into me and all, but i guess it was peer pressure and all that. but then i soon realised dating now is a really dumb thing. seriously. listen to me. if you are my age. dont date. yet.

as for my walk with God, for the most of this year i wasnt a really good christian. i didnt read the bible at all, i rarely prayed, i didnt pay attention for some of the sermons, etc. etc. but then came tackle camp. i mean, before this i felt, that yeah i was bad christian and all that, and i tried to change sometimes, to no avail, but i still felt that, well yeah but im still christian right. thats all that matters aint it. well wrong. the camp really touched my heart and really motivated me to really be the christian He wants us all to be. to be of the word the spirit and of faith.

well overall i think 2007 had its tough times, but i think i came out of it a better person. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE :D