daily musings of rubbish.

2009-11-29T05:34:00.001-08:00

how strange,
i saw 3 funerals today!
the one downstairs my house, another on my running route just now and another near the bottom of a nearby block;
either singapore's ageing population is really increasing, or bukit batok is a really really suay place to live in.

and screw it, my back's acting up again after playing ball with yangsheng yesterday. veli the painzxzx.
k, maybe i should reaaally stop for the moment and let it rest before i regret it during NS or something.

so what've i been doin?
lemme see.
friday was gym and a wee bit of ball, ohh yea it was cos of this that i started to screw up my back again....
and studying for bio of course. hehh i refuse to let cambridge take away MCQ marks again, not after how horrible chem paper 1 was.
went to clarke quay with deb and sherrie to celebrate the latter's belated birthday, became incredibly broke after that ._.

saturday: as usual, balled + loafed around the house, woke up at 10-ish and cursed the hwachong bio prelim MCQ setters for being so sadistic. poor poor HC bio students. went to mustafa to look for my NS phone, ohmy discovered that you can get a phone in singapore for like 38 bucks?
(without plan of course. greyscale, ultimate basic functions and everything, but still that's quite cool)
din find anything really nice, either the screen was kinda small or the better phones all had camera.
today: woke up, went church, came back, ate, ran, tv. what a fulfilling life indeed.

and ohh yea, MY WATCH GOT STOLEN YESTERDAYYY.
curse the cheenabastards who took it.
hope a middle finger forms on the screen and asks them to screw themselves.
why'm i always so suay to kena retarded ppl with kleptomanic tendencies that love to pocket my items -.-
first it was my phone 3 months back, now it's my watch.
200 plus leh, the watch!

haii, oh well.
time to get a new one.
on a different note, i wanna work for a month!
considering if anyone'll hire me, that is.
since i've got 2 months effectively, might as well work 1 month and play the other month rite?

after Os was horrible enough, i think i'd be better off doing something productive with my time rather than spending it doing absolutely nothing other than eating and loafing and growing stubble; so if 2 months gets cut down to 1 month it'd be just nice fine i think?

hopefully i'll get the admin job that jason's office has. plsssss, i could use some extra monehh to buy things.

see how, see how.

2009-11-25T21:13:00.000-08:00

just one more paper
to the end of the As and i'm already celebrating my ass off 7 days away from it.

wooo, went back to the range after lit paper 3 yesterday morning (which was definitely decent, greaaat stuff) and slacked around with the shooters and watched their internals; great to be back yea :D

me and gerald've got alot of work to do sia..........
but anyway.

after that went for leejing + jeremy's surprise 18th bbq at jeremy's condo, had a friggin great time with about 20+ bukitbatok peeps;
my gosh man, i don't think i've laughedoutloud that much in the past donkey months or maybe years.

pics should be up on facebook soon, i'll steal them here when then they're up (:

but for now,
to ze gymmmmm!

2009-11-17T08:16:00.000-08:00

how cool,
i'm sitting at home in front of the comp at 12.17AM when the physics/econs ppl are stressing over studying.
the benefits of a BCML student, 6 days to the next paper(:

wooo only 4 more papers to go, (lit p3 bio p3 chem and bio MCQs) of which lit p3 hopefully won't be anywhere as killer as my lit today.
damn cambridge, of all the context passages they could've set for Duchess of Malfi and Great Expectations they chose some random ulu bits that weren't anywhere as juicy as what we were used to, and i left out 4 points of analysis in my unseen! no time to add in or vet cos i was trying to squeeze in as much stuff as possible into my 1 hour per essay;

so damn shingz can :/

but then again i've only got myself to blame for putting faith in the standardization of questions, it's abit far fetched to think that for the last year that cambridge is using this syllabus they'd set us the ending parts of our texts just like prelims.

aye, why wasn't mr.whitby born with the ability of foresight.

destressed after lit by balling with chris, ziyi, yangsheng and puonen and realised that my new shooting form's improving my shots but killing my left back;
PAIN sia!
feels like an elephant sat on it or something. hmm, my jumpshots more consistent i guess? at the sacrifice of my back though.
went to KAP after that where me yangsheng zy got drinks and talked bout tons of stuff until 9 something, it's a great feeling to go home and not have to wake up early tmr~

tetris awaits.
at least before i get too tired to continue and sleep, and it's back to mugging tmr.

where to mug?

2009-11-09T04:36:00.000-08:00

it's time,
the last night before the first paper.

all the best people!
finally the start of the end's coming, all we need to do is to tahan like 3 more weeks of this stuff.
and it's freeeeeedom!
chiong this final lap and that's it.

alrite, let's do this.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. -Philippians 4:13

2009-10-29T20:16:00.000-07:00

oh my,
abit unbelievable that i'm gonna go for NS in 4 more months ._.
but its quite cool i think?
not the torture and everything, but the fact that you don't have to think for the next 2 years and just follow orders and i know quite some ppl who're goin the same BMT sch as me.

fun sia, it's gonna be like NCC all over again.

and the mood for the day is:
BORED.

2009-10-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

coooool,
finally figured out how to transfer stuff outta my phone!

somewhere near changi village after prelims with kuanloong and yangsheng

more changi village

nice dinner that my mom made. yummm :d

daybreak outside my house, the sky was a whole lot nicer than this just that the cam couldn't catch it.

2009-10-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

what to do
before the As really come;

bring my chem from fail to pass!
hopefully that is. it's the only thing i've got left that's failing.

finally had the last day of school yesterday, the last day of 2 years wearing full grey.
abit weird, considering that in sec 2 one of my reasons for wanting to come NJ was cos of the uniform but who knew the material was so horribly uncomfortable ._.

wanted to blog about something but i can't really remember it in its entirety, something along the lines of living life now.

like, there's so many things happening around the world like all the typhoons earthquakes etc etc especially around the SEA region but we're so lucky not to get hit by any.
maybe cos we singaporeans haven't really experienced these things therefore we don't appreciate the little nuances in life as well as others?

like waking up with a shelter above us or having a proper meal.
i mean yea, now it's the A/O levels for students and stuff, but that doesn't mean that academics are gonna be everything that's important in life rite?

people say that ohh well, i'm sacrificing my time with friends/enjoying myself for the greater good, when i've gotten good grades and got into my dream uni i'll make up for it.
after that i get my first class honours and secure a good job, of course.
and after i climb up the corporate ladder.
and after i make my first million.

before you know it, life's over.
and the time that you thought was always there never waited for you.
of course, it's an incredibly exaggerated example but nevertheless it just shows all of us that time really does wait for no one.

all in all i'm not asking everyone to pon sch and go mad enjoying life la, but to, y'know, just appreciate the things and people around us a little bit more?
life's really beautiful, but only if you slow down enough to take a look around.

ok enough about my random musings about life hahaa.

went out with a bunch of the S16 people for a meal and played pool after the last day of school!
(namely grace jingxi yangsheng runchao me leena saradha caleb)
grace wanted her squid ink pasta so we went to timah food centre purposely for that ._.
abit sian cos i eat there almost every weekend for church, but was fun looking at her eat it cos it looks abit like the strands from a mop that's been used for like 23784342 years.
pics are up on yangsheng's facebook i think.

ohh yea, went to watch surrogates and funny people last week, i think both were abit of a flop.
could've had better plots but at least the funny parts in funny people were really nice :D

time to go work on work.
(the english language, a guailan one. just like how fingers don't fing and hamburgers don't have ham in them)
hmm feel like getting new jeans.

2009-10-03T04:04:00.000-07:00

10 nov,
aye.

hmm, feel like playing pool.

2009-09-20T08:23:00.001-07:00

what strange dreams;
2 bizarre dreams in a row.

i remember in one of them i was driving around in a really horrible car (was a honda getz or a hyundai picanto) with ximing, junyang, shaz, geokpoh and brenda liew i think;

the funny thing was that we were looking for a restaurant in bugis that didn't exist and we went down this weird path (that i've never seen in bugis either) looking for it.
but amazingly we found it and i then woke up -.-

can't remember the other one, but it made me think that either,
1: i'm missing batok people like crazy, or
2: dreams occur for me when i sleep at 1am or so due to a result of incredible boredom during the daytime.

bio was fine, maths was stupid (or rather i was stupid), lit and GP was decent, and chem was passable for the first time in my life ^^

thank God.

"hm?"

2009-09-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

and so ends GP and bio P2;

(my post today starts in small letters cos my blogger interface is spoilt for some reason, i can't enlarge the font size. just thought i'd wanna share that incredibly random bit of info with the world)

i thought GP went pretty well, at least for paper 1 where i wrote like a madman for the sports question, the longest i've ever written for a GP essay. hahaa just hope that it'll make sense to mary lim and that she wun give me some weird mark for it. i thought the compre passage was kinda irritating cos the Sachs guy doesn't understand the importance of punctuating his sentences -.- like, 1 sentence was 4 lines long so you have to read and read and read and read to find out what he's actually trying to convey.

but the questions were alrite i guess, nothing too amazingly hard.

and bio! damn, i could've written so much more and for the first time i left something blank in a bio paper; auto -3m. heng it's not an essay question.
i was thinking i'd have enough time to come back and do the question, but i think i screwed myself by writing too much to secure those 2m-3m questions when there were so much more heavy questions at the back.

thursday, yesterday:
finally woke up early at 8 (yessss) to do a day of chem. well if you call 4 hours of work "a day", then yes i did finish a day of chem (:
went to popular at nite to hunt for a chem study guide cos half the time i've got no idea what the physical chem questions are saying, but i realised study guides are more or less like our chem notes, just compiled.
definitely not worth 31 bucks buying it for only 6 physical chem topics that i need when NJ's organic and inorganic notes are fine.

today:
maths and bio to do;
chiong arhhh.

2009-08-31T23:57:00.000-07:00

a routine/process:

routine: a regular course of procedure.
process: a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result; a continuous operation or treatment especially in manufacture (heh yea, the manufacture of 4As)

i don't think i've actually posted a proper post in quite a long while eh?
anyway life's been more or less a routine for the past 2 weeks, just going in and out of school and chaining myself to my table and doing chem/bio/maths.
(along with the usual basketball gym and running, but a whole lot less though.)

maybe it's just me who's feeling this, but i actually feel pretty darn lackadaisical about prelims and the fact that it's starting tml ._.

this morning:

mom: "prelims tomorrow eh. can anot?"

me: "orh, k lor."

waking up at 12 in the afternoon and walking to get roti prata, coming home and reading for the next 1 hour or so doesn't seem like the life of a j2 student a day before prelims. and yeaa, my morning prata rocked (:

hahaa don't get me wrong, i'm incredibly thankful that i'm feeling an almost negative amount of stress but at the same time it might mean that i THINK i've done enough work when i actually haven't.

or at least i feel that i've finished a relatively decent amount of revision and work that'll get me okay grades, then again i definitely could've done alot more; you can't really do too much revision, can you?

maybe it's cos i've been putting alot of faith into my routine, that since i get A B C accomplished per day for 1 week X N weeks it'll more or less add up to a quantity of work done, the question is whether or not that quantity is enough.

hmm, see how la hor. i've improved on my studying techniques since CTs and kinda found out what i did to screw up my grades, so i'll find out whether what i changed makes any difference after the 24th.

on a different note:
i ran 4.8 in a new PB timing last nite :D
22:51 whoooo~
roughly a min faster than my old timing, 23:54 i think? can't really remember.
i'd upload a pic of the timing from my watch but nooooo, omnia2 is ironically the stupidest smart phone on earth.
i can't even upload pics or transfer any sai from my phone to the comp, and vice versa it's super mafan to get stuff into the phone.

okayyy, gonna go read abit of bio + read the bio prelims 08, look through GP essays and maybe attempt abit of maths.

last random bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVDfIxUjDeQ
Underdog by Kasabian live, ownage live performance. great song to be driving along to :D

2009-08-26T07:33:00.000-07:00

staying in school to mug is;
good?
well, depends on what good entails.
good that i actually do get work done, but it ain't good that it makes it easy to be sick of school pretty quickly.

random: hahaa for some reason i'm feeling abit detached.

finally ponning tml :d

2009-08-15T10:01:00.000-07:00

forgot what i wanted to say,
but i wanna watch G.I joe! and up.

man, there's like so little time left between now and prelims. (amazingly not like i'm feeling it just yet. hahaa no idea if that's a good thing)

woke up at 10 odd today, went out for breakfast when i felt like sleeping more actually cos i went gym last nite and kinda needed more rest.
reached home and did abit of maths before i ate abit, used comp and went back to doing; found myself asleep like 1 hour later on my bro's bed ._.

lazed around abit more after that, ate dinner, watched abit of tv, finished up that maths paper and did like 2 more questions of chem and here i am.

so interesting hor?
LOL.

off to watch top gear.

2009-08-07T07:06:00.000-07:00

super suay nowadays, after getting my phone stolen by some retard i got a fever just yesterday -.-

FML.

man, it's been quite a long while since i've had a fever, somemore one at 38.5 degrees.

really thank God that i'm recovering quite well ;D

on a very random note,
happy national day Singapore! (or at least soon la, in 2 more days)

2009-08-01T06:34:00.000-07:00

curse the muthaf_cka who stole my phone.

hope his children get born without assholes,
hope his house burn down,
hope he trips and falls down the 18th floor and breaks both his legs and his nutsack.

DAMMIT

2009-07-25T00:13:00.000-07:00

mann, it sure sucks big time to get grades like mine.

STUDY ARHHH

2009-07-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

choices, choices.

sports science, law, or lit?
or all 3, get a triple degree :D

hmmm, kind of thinking bout what i might do in uni.

sports science; my interests/strengths i guess. knowing how to lead and manage people and there's the aspect of actually doing a pretty interesting job.
sports scientist, coach, gym trainer, working for nike or adidas (hopefully), PE teacher, corporate trainer, manager and alot more.

law; what i wanted to do ever since i was sec 2. but then again, i've never really had a real passion for it or at least not yet. i like the idea of arguing for a living hahaa, but of course the lawyers that you see on TV are a hell lot more overglamorized than they really are.
crazy working hours and a job that becomes your life along with a huge pay, that's what a lawyer's life is ._.
still quite cool though!

lit; my backup. LOL.
if mr whitby heard me he'd gimme that look.
narhh, my ultimate backup's still coaching shooting or being a PE teacher.
or dropping out and becoming a bum (:
interested in it, yes. enough to take it on as a career? no.
hmm, doesn't mean that if i take a degree in literature i'll have to do lit though. it's still applicable to any old office job or a management level occupation.

why so cheem.

2009-07-08T06:25:00.000-07:00

haha whoa,
i don't get how some people are so contemplative/can think so much mannnn.
like in blogs and stuff, its as though they're constantly thinking of so many things at the same time and they've got so many opinions on things.

maybe i'm too simple?
LOL.
man, all i nid to make me happy are sports and a great meal with friends ;D

(or bachormee, of course.)

contented can liao larh.

2009-07-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

gym and shooting;
6 years and counting.

kinda coincidental that i picked up both these things in sec 1 and they're my 2 biggest passions ._.

idk, when i've been mugging for a real long time (like during Os and promos) i always feel really really great when i go back to the gym and start working out;
feels great to feel the ache the next day.
shuangggggg!
kinda theraputic i guess?
knowing that your muscles are growing, HAHA.

and i've never lost my passion for shooting, even after 6 years of the sport.
i mean yea, sometimes it can get incredibly boring/horrible when you shoot horribly, but when you shoot well and get great groupings its the best feeling in the world!
its great when you see your personal bests go up and up and up.
from 543 to 547, to 555, 563, 567, 574.
(and my theoretical 580, i dun care. dammit laaa)

up to now i still do feel passionate enough for these 2 things to consider a career in them, maybe that's why i'm choosing to do sports science in uni. (cos both these aspects are sports related and i kinda like nurturing ppl)

see how la hor,
let God guide me ;D

and i hate my blocked nose.
heng its going away!

2009-06-27T07:40:00.000-07:00

hmmm,
life's a tad meaningless nowadays.

hahaa the past 3 weeks've been great for my studies but horrible for anything else;
i think i haven't left bukit batok/bukit panjang for the whole while, i haven't realised my bus pass expired cos i didn't take bus for so long.

and the stupid MSN virus is making blogging real hard, cos when i type halfway the stupid virus comes out -.-

shit thisssssss.

then again, it's like showing so many people i haven't chatted with in a damn long time!
man, gotta go meet them up soon.

hmm i feel like watching the AYG shooting events but it's during CTs i think.
and i wanna buy some new stuff.
and get a new bball.
and 4 As.
:D

k i have no idea what i'm writing.
LOL.

2009-06-18T05:35:00.000-07:00

shooting end of season chalet!

a whole bunch of the shooters met at pasir ris MRT before walkin to aranda, and its a pretty nice chalet eh!
there's a pool and stuff, great location cos it's walkable distance from a whole lot of things.
tons of seniors came back, man its like a reminder that i'm gonna be bald in less than a year's time like hanxiao johnathan hanson alex and the rest.
dammit.

but then again NS very horrible meh?
nid to experience it to judge, i guess.

had handover after the bbq, and i'm officially retired after 6 years of shooting!
mannnnnn.
can't believe it's over so fast, that was 6 years?!
didn't feel like it.
its kinda nice to know that i don't need to send out tons of team messages anymore though ;D

hahaa as usual, shooting chalet ends up being a giant LAN fest on the first nite with a whole lot of ppl goin;
and andy's a great source of entertainment when he's sleep deprived.

got only 2 hours of sleep before goin for breakfast with cheryl zhongyi and jeremy, caught ghosts of girlfriends past before eating with a whole bunch of them (shengrui chok kee julie jiapei, can't rmb the rest)

man i remember getting damn tired around that time after lunch, decided to go home cos i think i'd get knocked down on the way if i went night cycling with the dudes half-awake.
crashed like a fool on the mrt, slept from city hall all the way back to jurong east before sleeping another 16 hours ._.

daaamn, i think it's the longest i've ever slept so far or at least one of the longest.

more mugginggggg, chem GG liao la

2009-06-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

whoo update
hahahaa whoa.
quick one, im pretty lazy to elaborate ._.

my life's still gym + bball + mugging as usual, but its cool that shooting's finished our elections!

(i'll update later on, i wanted to write a whole chunk about elections and stuff but i kinda forgot while watching TV bout what i wanted to write. blame my short term memory.)

top gear rocks.

what a random update.

2009-06-03T08:40:00.000-07:00

i'm legal!
:D

18~
hahahaa thanks to everyone who wished me yeaa, really appreciate it!(:

(coolshit man, i can finally buy drinks on my own HAHA.)
gosh i feel mature.

lotsa thanks to (not in order):
rae
norman
zhongyi
paul
yihuai
changjie
karthik
henry
ben lee
guiyen
brenda
rafidah
kenny
deyan
shuyan
jiani
cherie
shaz
weecheng
ximing
chyiwei
hanafi
gavin
lim min
andy
keson
xiong
yanhui
qiaowei
cheryl
weishuen
saradha
kailing
safa
michael kevin
nick
geokpoh
diyana
gary

sorry if i missed anyone out yea ._.

and of course the most thanks to God(:

2009-05-31T06:00:00.000-07:00

cool shit, more rotting.
tons of stuff to write about, but i'm just too lazy ._.

CIP+dinner with haocheng, (and yangsheng safa grace jingxi)
slacking around and trying to study during the 9th week of term,
and NJC Archery Invitationals. where i got my sexayy chaota look.

i look like a canoeist now, cool

retaking A lvl chinese tml!
ok suddenly i've got not much idea as to what to write other than the fact that I SHOULD BE STUDYING more.
(not studying chinese that is, as in overall studying for CTs.)

i'm hating the pressure.

2009-05-18T06:36:00.000-07:00

incredibly random dream.
like the title says, hahaa.

i had like, 3 really weird dreams in a row last week?
one of them i imagined i was in some building/club/hotel with shaz and sodi and weecheng and we had to go to some place, i think it was a room on the 4th floor.

andd, to go to that place we had to crawl through tons and mounds of garbage (i've got no idea why the only way through is through a rubbish heap, ask my subconscious.) and sodi pulled out a hot pink rugby skins from the trash before we entered the heap.

from what i remember it was something like this:

*sodi digging the trash*

me: dude, wtf you doing?

sodi: since we getting dirty later might as well wear this ah.

and i remember i gave him a totally ehm. are yououtofyourmind? look.

the thing is that the rugby skins were totally disgusting! there were like covered in trash and semi black in some areas and he was still brushing the dirt off and wearing it OVER his normal clothes like a retarded superman.
HAHA.

now that i come to think of it, it was really funny when i first dreamt it and woke up.

the other dream i can't really remember, but my last dream was BIZZARE.

ask me if you're curious hahaa, its just totally wrong though.