Divine intervention

Ah hah, boring, boring, boooooring week. Alas the class - me, jr, gh, jc, ykm, gab and yc went to comex tech fair at suntec after our morning gp paper. Congrats jr joined us for the 1st time. Good workout, although it was relatively crowd free, we did get a glimpse into the crowd conditions that will most probably be present on the weekends. Was literally sardined when passing through certain areas. Got my new earphones, decent quality. As with class tradition, any visit to suntec/ city area must be accompanied with a topman visit. Gab bought shades ( again ) while jr and 1 both got shirts, owe him money because i did not anticipate coming.

Hamstring is hurting after yesterday's soccer game, my 1st in 2, 3 weeks. No idea why. Pain got worse after the shopping spree. Maybe too much standing. I seem to always have some part of me hurting some time or another. Why is that so. Thursdays isnt good man, last thursday got wacked in the nose and today, leg is hurting. Got another game scheduled on saturday if all goes well. If my leg does not heal by then maybe i wont go. Dont wanna risk my nike 10km timing. Saving 2 packs of energy gel for that race haha. Tomorrow the class people participating are wearing the nike human race tee shirt to school. Going to be cool. For your information, i was NOT the instigator of this idea, although i show my support for it haha.

On a sadder note, my new adizero lt is stained brown!!!! after its 1st competitive debut for the army half marathon, where we had to walk in a mud pit that is the padang after crossing the finish line. I swear the mud was at least an inch deep. There goes pristine whiteness. Timing dropped 2 minutes this time, from 1:53 in standard chartered last year to 1:55 this time round.

For the 1st time i cared not of myself, what a pity haha

Grant me strength, for i am weak
grant me hope to keep me going
grant my wishes to realise my dreams
grant me miracles, for they spur me
grant me myself back.

August nights, august days

Fine week. School is getting boring, thank goodness it ends this week. Lectures have been reduced to doing and going through papers ( sleeping ), and tutorials well somewhat like a group consultation slot. It is getting pointless, lame and totally draggy. No offence to the teachers though, they are a great bunch of people. Mr pun unleashed his classic quick witted *artillery barrage* retort on that poor photographer when we re took our class pictures, pity that guy. Exams are within touching distance now, and i feel so unprepared and vulnerable. Starting my studies soon (tomorrow?) Wish me luck.

Played touch rugby on thurday with the class. Participated in inter house. This is like the 'real' version not the modified one we played during the sports carnival. Although we went out in the 1st round, we had a great time, despite some initial misgivings. Lost the 1st game 2-0, all the intricate tactics we thought of fell apart. Regrouped for the 2nd game and managed to win it 4-2 by just keep pushing forward and ignoring any tactics. Against a stronger team too ( they had ruggers ). Lost the final game 2-1 ( i had 2 freaking nice tries disqualified, i DID touchdown the ball with my hands in contact but oh well, referee's decision is final and its not easy for them too ). Went out in the end. At 1st we only thought the 1st team in the group will qualify, but turned out it was the top 2, for 2 different categories so we lost out in the end haha. During the course of the competition, got hit on my nose towards the end of the 1st game, bled alot. 1st time in my life got nosebleed, and its not like the girls there are hot. Dont feel any pain though, everyone was probably more worried for me than i did for myself haha, thinking bad, maybe a stream of blood trailing down your nose does look scary.

Saturday, yesterday, 23rd august. Sweet 18. Thanks.

Ran army half marathon today. 21km. Energy gel really works. 1st 10km was a breeze, minimal fatigue. After hitting the marina barrage area, then all the muscle tightness, sore legs start to set in. The ground is damn uneven, and you have to constantly hope around mud puddles because it rained last night. Feeling primed up for the nike 10km next week, put it up here now, i WANT a sub 50 timing, and no one is going to stop me from getting it, i'll crawl if i have to. Got a free ticket to the post race concert, anyone wanna go?. After the army half, queued for 4 hours, 4 FREAKING HOURS!! to collect my race pack. Lucky some guys from class already started queueing early, so i and the rest of the army half runners did not start totally from the back. took turns to eat lunch. The rain started and stopped x3 and poured while we were queueing. Had thai food for lunch, as that was the most edible and reasonable priced food we could find at liang court. Nike seriously have to get their act together, if not i've got a bad feeling about next week's run. The race pack isnt bad though, nike water bottle ( 1 litre! not those small ones ), nike shirt. Ok for the 27 bucks we paid, but NOT worth the queueing time. Legs actually ached ( not boasting or being funny or whatever, stating a fact ) more from queueing than the half marathon, after i sufficiently recovered lah. So sick of 100 plus now.

Gone, no quotes today, come back some other time haha. Tired

ITS MY DAY ! :)

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Grass no matter how green, will turn yellow and die if left alone.

Idiosyncrasy

Why celebrate my birthday if it is just a matter of obligation or formality and just to 'get it over and done with'. I dont think i deserve that, i would rather not have it at all if you all find it such a chore. I am not being shallow or materialistic but it seemed like friendship just went out the window. Since it is done already then well, i wouldnt be as thick skin as to ask for another one right. Just dont pull it on someone else again, because the feeling sucks big time. I'm sure he (BN) feels the same way about it.

( Dont worry, pigs or anyone else that is thinking 'isit me?' its most probably not you )

Tired tired

Firstly, congrats to those class people who ran the 5 times of 400 meters just now. Although we had a resting time of about 15 minutes per rounds, still well done and good job. Try again soon haha ( yay ran under 75 seconds for all my rounds =), personal best, although rested alot but didnt take water ). Class is getting nuttier and nuttier, 5 of us just signed up for inter class touch rugby on next thursday. We are supposed to be J2s mind you, mugging our life to be, but then again life is there to be enjoyed. Between me and weihan we probably joined every single inter house/class event that we are able to take part in recently lol. Still pondering whether to accept ykm's offer of joining dragon house for the debates next week. If i do go, i'll dread to think what Mrs Lim will have to say.

For inter house soccer last friday. Rats came in 4th ( out of 16 teams ) but considering we were never even in the running for any placing before the competition, its not a bad position. Great job to the team. Well done yea, breezed through our group stages won 2 drew 1 conceded 0. Owned the quarter finals as well 3-0 ( unexpectedly, the opponents were strong on paper ). End up losing the semis and 3rd/4th placing match. A moment of lapse in concentration killed us in both the games. well, everyone was probably tired out by then, and the team was more like the walking wounded by then. We didnt have any subs too for the final game because jing han our keeper had to leave for his band performance ( not your fault haha, u did stay till your limits already ). I got scrapped on both my knees, got kicked in the toe, but my teammates got it alot worse. weihan got scrapped 10 times worse than me, eugene came into the game with a semi sprained ankle and daniel got his ankles knocked and also headbutted in his face. So you see, 4th is an achievement already. When daniel became keeper, there wasnt anyone left to feed off me so tried to chiong my way through but sadly the goals didnt come. Overall scored 1 and assisted 2. Good effort guys. Special thanks to the class for going late to econs and coming down after econs to support us all the way. Thanks lots ^_^.

I still have no idea what i have to do for chemistery tomorrow. Olympics is interesting. Watching sports like weightlifting and diving which i never thought of watching before. The standards there is superhuman. Till next time then. Oh, i really need my new vapours soon. The holes on the sole of my current pair are getting too wide for comfort.

star

If wishes were wings, pigs would fly - Wheel of Time VI: p.233

Glorified dismay

Long weekends are hear =). Although there is bound to be homework, i would not mind some extra free time. Nanyang badminton open on wednesday. Skipped chem remedial for it, and mrs lim did not bother to check in the end whether we did our work today ( suppose to finish a full paper ), lucky. Lost in the 1st round to weihan and jieyang 22-20. Forced the tie into a duce. Much better than when we played them in practice. John ( my partner ) was great lol. Sad i lost the last 2 points, but no team from our class had any substantial hope in the competition anyway. Good fight though.

Skipped maths and gp remedials today to go with some of the class guys to watch 'the mummy 3'. Decent movie, paid 6 bucks for it only. Nice graphics and maybe some comic moments, but the plot was rushed and abit off. Does not really make sense. Brandon fraser was a joy to watch as usual but pity there isnt any rachel weisz. Think she is a damn good sophisticated actress. The replacement looks alot less good, and acting skills are a notch down too.

There is inter house futsal 5 on 5 tournament tomorrow. Team has decent qualities, jing han, eugene peter, wei han, qing wei and daniel are the others in the team. The draw has been kind to us, putting us in group D, supposedly the easiest among the groups. Not too many school team players in there, only know of chang and chun besides myself. Hope can get a good result haha. I'll be at my best tomorrow, just watch. Out goes the headless chicken.

You have no idea

A good friend will bail you out of jail and lecture you about how you messed up. A great friend will be sitting right next to you laughing about it saying "damn, we really screwed up!" - unknown

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Its friday night everyone, hello there. Dont face the usual work pressures this week, for once my maths tutorials are done somewhat on time. Just chem stuff and econs test on tuesday to worry about ( should i bother studying? ). Next week is going to be hectic, before the long weekend kicks in. Joined eugene peter's team for the futsal tournament on friday after school ( after the national day celebration ). Pairing up with john for the badminton tourney on wednesday. Hope to have better luck than last year, where me and jem drew the eventual champions in the 1st round, consisted a school team player and an ex school team player. Held them to 12-11, then it became 21-12. Out in the 1st round.

Class or isit maybe gab, me, guohao and jc abit crazy today. Started singing muneru valliba ( spelling ) after physics. Nutters haha. The class forum is a nice idea btw, love the 4-word game haha, but need to make sure people actually visit that thing. Forgot who today in class didnt even know it existed. Start of teh chinese 7th month, people start burning stuff again. Going to irritate my sensitive throat/ nose. Mom asked me to turn on the air con, but it is tantamount to turning on a tap on my nose haha. The white vapours are supposedly comming out next week ( according to http://www.prodirectsoccer.com/ ) but dont know if they are going to be available in singapore as well.

Speaking of soccer boots, something interesting i found regarding how the colour of you soccer boots represents what kind of player are you, apparently done by a leading sports psychologist. Listed the white ( my field shoes: white predator powerswerve ) and the silver ( my street soccer mercurial vapours, well it was silver, now it looks more like some silvery white, grey, brown, black thingy ) for your reading pleasure. You all be the judge. Accurate? haha.

The Maestro: White Boots
Wandering into the Boot Room comes The Maestro, his white boots lain out ready to be slipped on, left before right, in an orderly fashion. In many societies white represents purity and light and The Maestro, a name he gave himself without any prompting from his tabloid ghost writer, is a player who shines brightly in any arena.
He is oozing talent and class, and has everything except sweat inducing work rate, but the gaffer has given him a special dispensation to not track back, so he says. He strolls around the pitch and thinks with his feet, which is better than trying to use his brain; and he always finds time on the ball. He has good instincts and he knows he is good, but he doesn’t mind other people reminding him. When he demands the ball he expects to get it and guarantees to use it diligently with the minimum of effort. White should be worn by players with class, who can give us a few footballing lessons, however expensive. He will be our white knight, rescuing us in times of trouble.

The Headless Chicken: Silver Boots
Silver has the lustre of moonlight, it offers light and balance, and the footballer who wears silver boots will bring stability to the team, if they let him. They may be suspicious of his shiny footwear. He has speed and pace to burn, but they think he does not always use it wisely. Unkindly known as a headless chicken by his merciless team-mates as he runs on everlasting nervous energy. Passing and distribution can be erratic but aesthetically pleasing. On their day, they are unstoppable. But when is their day?

Credits: www.footy-boots.com , the rest of the descriptions can be found here http://www.footy-boots.com/colour-football-boots-4673/

I wish, i wish, i wish

If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection - Gunnar Björnstrand