TAIWAN, NAN HU ROCKS!

Its been damn long since i last updated my blog and the reason is simple--too freaking busy! Shit, Im already 3 quarters into my holidays and i have not even flip open i single page of my notes. Die sia, think next year would be an uphill task to overcome my workload. I can't even remember exactly what holiday homeworks i have.

Anyway, thats beside the point, i've finally come back to singapore after spending 18days there. It was so darn fun and honestly i have no wish to come back to singapore so soon. The 18 days in Taiwan was an eye opener for me even though it was my 3rd trip back there. However, this time was different--it was a lot more special. I really count myself as being damn freaking lucky to be selected for this taiwan immersion programme and i am grateful to be part of this 'nan hu' story with the rest of the people who where sent to nan hu as well.

During the 18 days, i was able to experiance 1st hand how the locals live and how their school life is like. and i must say its a damn stark difference from singapore. First thing first, the entire country is freaking environmental! its damn hard to find a single trashcan there cause almost everything have to be thrown into the recycling bins which were damn hard to find! I was also impressed by their school as the students have to split their rusbbish into the various types of materials and discard it into their respective places.

i shall now try recall what happened during my past 18 days there. In the first day when we touched down, we were immediately sent to nan hu senior high for a mini welcome reception. the moment we arrived at the school, i was totally blown away by the reception that was givemn to us. All the Taiwanese students that were involved in this programme were flanking both sides of the corridor leading up to the hall and were cheering loudly at us while we entered the hall. After the reception, we went back to our buddy's house to stay for the 1st night before we head for the 4 day tour the next day. Thank goodness Bo lun's house is only a 5min walk away from school as my luggage was freaking heavy and i had to drag that super dua ling gong all the way to his house. My first night in his house was funny and quite embarresing at the same time. I was given his elder brother's room to sleep in as he was staying in the school hostel. So i changed out of my school uniform in his room, not sensing anything was amissed. lo and behold, the moment i left the room and went into the living room whicvh was just beside it, i was stunned. the 'walls' of the room which i had just changed in and would be sleeping in for the most of the nights in taiwan were actually transluscent glass! Shit sia, i had actually given a free show to the whole family on the first day! Maybe they were being nice or maybe they had not seen what had happened cause they seemed to not know what had happened.

The 2nd day we gathered at Nan hu in the morning to be picked up by the travel buses and so begin our 4 day 'educational trip' of Taiwan. We went to Sun Moon lake where we had a superb view of the place. As the bus was traveling along the sides of the hills overlooking the lake, me and nicholas were like some idiots leaning into the bus window and snapping pictures of the scenery. We spent like the whole afternoon going around the lake so that 'we could have a good view of the lake at various angles' diao... We spent the night in some resort where we lived in little wooden cottages. Shannon was hao lianing when we found out that his room would be a VIP room. but damn i would not trade places with him cause his roommates were 2 other teachers. HAHA. My roommates were mao chian and 2 other tjc ppl (guan jie and winston). Guan Jie i hope you dont mind me if i call you snorlax cause you snor rather loudly during the 1st 2 nights of the tour. You have no idea how much suffering you have caused me, haha. As im a light sleeper, i found myself not being able to fall asleep easily. Do you know how did i manage to fall asleep on that night? I actually used my plug in earphones as earplugs to sleep! lol, but anyway it was fun knowing you and winston.

The second day, the itinery stated that we were going to some (jiu zhu wen hua chun) 9 tribal cultural village. I thought it would be a mundane trip as i imagined it to be museum filled with tribal relics. But it turned out that i was wrong and that the whole place was a freaking theme park! In the afternoon, we went to Xitou forestry park where we spent several hours walking pass hundreds of trees just to see one tree that had been struck by a lightning! The tree was called a shen mu because its a damn old tree. But seriously ah, we were freaking suay cause the moment we reached the tree and before i could take out my camera and take a decent picture of the tree, the fog closed in so fast that it almost completely shrouded the entire tree. Piang eh, so much so for trekking so long to take a shot of the tree. From a nature guide perspective however, i rather enjoy the trek as it was very refreshing for me to trek in such a condition rather then the ones back in singapore. There were also a lot of flora and fauna that i could not recognise and i think that it would be cool should there be a proper guide for the entire trek. We spent the night at Ming Shan Da Fan Dian where me, Nicholas and some of the vjc guys went to try out their sauna. It was freaking funny when i think about it. The place contains 1 normal pool which does not have a heater and 2 warm pools. When we went into the pool area, we saw some njc girls occupying both the warm pools. As we were shy, we didn't dare to enter the warm pool so we went into the normal one instead. IT WAS IMBA COLD. The pool was 17 degrees only! I think the njc girls on seeing our plight took pity on as they went to share a warm pool instead. The moment we saw one of the warm pool was available, the group of us immediately jumped out of the artic pool and dived into the warm pool. DAMN SHIOK AH! At night, it was reported on the news that a typhoon was coming and that all civilians are advised to stay away from mountainous areas. My first thoughts was pang sai! We tmr going up to ALISHAN, good game.

Dissapointingly, the typhoon never came. I was quite looking forward to it actually cause i have never experiance a typhoon before. The bus ride up the mountain was long and there was a period where we drove through a thick fog--or so i thought. However after like 30mins of drving through that thick layer and when we reached the top, i realised that what we had just drove through was not a layer of fog, but a freaking layer of clouds! That was so f***ing IMBA! We went to the peak of the mountain the next morning to watch the sunrise but the weather was so bad that we couldn't see shit. So we ended up freezing our butts off there in the 8 degree celsius chill.

After the 4 days, we went back to Taipei to stay with our buddies. But before that, there was a welcome dinner on the 5th night where we had to stage a performance during the dinner. VJC did a trio of singing, dancing and cheering. I was in the 3rd one and believe it or not, i was lifted up into the air and sitting on Nicholas's shoulders. For the sake of not breaking his shoulders when i land on him, he banned me from eating too much of the food before the performance. The cheering was executed smoothly and for that i wanna thank the vjc cheerleading ppl for giving us helpful tips on how to do some stunts. If not for your help, i think i would need to tap on the insurance that i bought for this trip. LOL.

On the 6th day, we were introduced to the entire school on stage. The way the students were organised in their hall are so much different for us back in vjc. Instead of lining up in a single file, they have to fall in macam army style like that and they would be scolded by the jiao guan (army officer--their version of our DM) if they were out of formation. The rest of the day was the school tour and the giving out of the school uniforms. Their school campus is hugh! It totally thrashes VJ. The school is 11 stories high, the track in on the 5th floor, they have a swimming complex and they own an observatory! Its called the Remote Observatory of Taipei (ROoT).

Everyday, we would sit in for the 1st 2 lessons of our buddy's class before we would go for the other classes that was specially made for us. We tried out various activities such as paintball, culinary class, mug making, astrology class, water aerobics amongst a slew of other activities. i think one of the activities that i would not forget is the water aerobics. It was freaking funny in the changing room la! Nicholas, Kennenth and Chang Yang were wearing knee length trunks and they laughed the moment they saw me cause i was wearing a pair of trunks that was damn short. This is not the best part, the moment Jun Bo came out of the cubical wearing his trunks, we laughed our heads off cause he was wearing a pair of T-shaped trunks. But sia la, he ps me, didnt go down in the water in the end cause he said that he was sick, lol. I initially thougth that the water aerobics would be slack but it turned out that i was wrong. It was damn tiring as we tried all these funny moves where we had to kick in the pool and such. It was fun nevertheless.

Their lessons are so much different from ours. For one thing, its conducted in CHINESE! I almost died in their lessons as i was completely lost from top to toe! Those who know how jia lat my chinese is would understand how much suffering i've been through, lol.

During breaking time, which is from 12 to 1, the students woould all buy their food and bring it back to class it. During the few days there, i was able to run a bit even though it was not the proper training which i had hoped for. Nevertheless, training in their school was a novelty for me as one round of their track is only 200m, haha. It was very cooling to train there too. And for once, i dont have to immediately take a shower after training cause i did not perspire a single drop.

While there, our buddies brought us to various places like Shilin, Rao He Jie, Miao Kou at Jeelung, Ximenting, Taipei 101, Mei Li Hua, Mao Kong and so much more. It was damn shiok and my appetite was bigger then usual while i was there. Maybe it was because of the fact that Taiwanese food are IMBA nice! Me and Nicholas gobbled down about 15 food snacks when we were at Miao Kou, which is this place were it sells tons of food!

The trip to Taiwan proved to be very enriching and its a petty that the 18 days just whizzed by so fast. During the mini farewell in Bo Lun's class, he cried when he wanted to say a few words to his class regarding the past few days. Even though i did not cry then, i must admit that my throat felt like there was an apple stucked in it. After that, Xiumin (she is a girl from tjc whom was in my class also) and I had to sing solo in front of the class. It was so freaking embarassing cause I am musically retarded!

During the farewell dinner, it was a bittersweet affair as we all bade a final goodbye to our buddies for the last time. We took every opportunity to take photos with our taiwanese counterparts and new singaporean friends. When the moment come for them to leave, dunno why, me and nicholas started crying. Then Bolun started crying also! haha. Freak la, practically everyone was crying!

If given the opportunity, i would definately come back and look for you guys again! Thank you everyone!

Bo Lun, thank you so much for giving me such wonderful memories of taiwan to take away back to singapore. Having been back home for 4 days already, i still could not totally get ues to life bak here. I miss waking up in the morning to go to school with you, i miss saying ZAO (morning) to everyone in class, i miss your form teacher telling his jokes in the morning, i miss talking to your father late into the night, i miss your mum's constant wanting me to eat fruits before i sleep, i miss your younger brother's revising his english, i miss seeing your elder brother watchign tv and most of all--i miss you company and guidance.

Taiwan rocks

Nanhu rocks

Birdwei rocks

Superman rocks

Xiao Hua rocks

Ming Kai rocks

Zhixin rocks

Ming Yao rocks

Chang yang's other buddy rocks

Ao Hong rocks

Camel rocks

Tifanny rocks

Xiumin's buddy rocks

Xiao Pei Lao Shi rocks

Yang Zhu Ren rocks

The rest of you guys rock

and most of all...............

BO LUN YOU ROCK!

Nationals is finally over

Its been a long time since I updated my blog properly. So I shall try and cover as much as I can over what happened lately. I screwed up my hurdles final as I hit the 4th or the 5th hurdle which caused my speed to slow down a lot. As a result, I came in 8th overall and I have a nasty bruised ankle since then. Quite sad about it actually but oh well, at least there is still next year. As for high jump, I came in 4th which was a pleasent surprise to both the team and me as I seldom went for jumps training and the height I was clearing then was only 165cm. So you can imagine the adrenalin that was pumping through me when I cleared a personal best of 175cm on that day. Hopefully I would be able to go for jumps training more regularly for next year and I hope to do well for both my hurdles and high jump.

This year's Nationals final was the most intense one I had ever been to. Even though I was the reserve runner for the 4 by 100m relay, I still felt pumped up and excited as though I had ran the race. Although I did not run in the finals for the relay, I still felt damn happy for the guys when they came in 2nd-despite falling short of our aim to bring back the full 9 points. Overall the guys and girls team put up a credible performance despite being plagued with injuries prior to Nationals by both coming in 3rd.

After the final, the team went to Jumbo at Serangoon Garden Country Club for our track dinner. We had a lot of fun as we bade farewell to the J2s, gobbled up the food and sang songs. I thought the singing part was freaking funny and lame at the same time because we were singing to songs like Happy Birthday (even though it was none of our's birthday) and Old Macdonald had a Farm. I was even sabotaged by Rong Hua to sing a duet with my teammate-it was so awkward and embarrasing. To make matters worst, it was a chinese song and I dunno how to read the lyrics as it was another version of chinese characters and Rong Hua had to actually read the lyrics out to me and I had to repeat after him. I swear that my face blushed damn red. Thank goodness I'm quite tan, so it was not that obvious.

On a seperate note, I'm glad that I did not get SUSU for my mid-years and instead I fared rather decent by getting AABCDE (a royal flush) for my chinese, chemistry, economics,, maths, GP and geography respectively. Oh well, I gotta hit the books soon as promos would be earlier then I had anticipated and I think I would have to balance my time well as my Taiwanese buddy would be coming to stay over with me from the 28th july to the 8th august. I think I've typed enough for today, chiao.

ok i'm updating, lol

Its been quite a while since i updated here cause i was not able to find time to do so. Anyway nationals is coming to an end and i had my ups and downs for this year's nationals. Screwed up my 110m hurdles final race where i came in last for that race as i smashed into a few hurdles. Oh well, at least i managed to get a point for the team. As for high jump, it was an unexpected 4th place finish. I think i was lucky this year as the rest of the jumpers had a bad day on that morning and i was on form, so i managed to set a pb and got 5 points! Hansen said something about I damn bastard sia, cause i went for so little jumps training yet still come in 4th. Haha, was damn lucky la, he coined me as a part time high jumper, hopefully i can become full time next year, haha. Oh well i gotta go now, going out to catch harry potter later.

the not so pleasent mount pleasent cemetery

for more info about the title, please go to http://immonesmich.blogspot.com to read up about it. This way, I dont have to type so much about it. I think it was quite fun cause i was talking crap to michelle and we were bitten a hell lot by the freaking mozzies. Now i think my legs look more crappy then Sam Poh's ones, OMG. Oh ya. its freaking itchy too and i gave up counting how many times i was bitten after i reached 40. Oh well, gotta look for another place to recce.

TAXI

I took a cab home after training today cause by the time I finished having dinner with my dad at parkway parade, it was already 745pm, so he passed me some cash to catch a cab back instead of taking the bus. The cab ride was about 45min long due to freaking bad traffic everywhere but the ride was the most pleasent one I ever had.

After boarding the cab, the cab driver asked me which way I wanted to go; after telling him my preferred route, he all of a sudden asked me how come I chose to study at VJC when I stay at Yishun. I was quite taken aback at first cause I have never expected a cab driver to strike up a conversation with me. However we began talking about a range of stuffs ranging from how's life in jc to army life. Time seemed to fly by when i was on the cab. I shared with him my experiances at old changi hospital last week and the next thing I knew was that we started talking about the supernatural. He told me about his 'ghostly' encounters when he was back in the army--something about hearing the sound of soldiers marching on the parade square. He also told me how tough army life was back then and how their generation suffered during that time.

That prompted me to shed to him about my slight desire to sign up for the army (yes, please don't be too alarmed). After that he began to talk about making the right choices in life and he told me that owing to the fact that I'm still young, I should keep an open mind and be receptive to new ideas and perceptions--perhaps my desire to join the army may change in the future. That was the most 'educational' taxi ride I ever had and just before alighting the cab, he turned around and told me that I should do what is right cause it is right (sounds like the phrase from the movie Letters of Iwo Jima).

a follow on the previous post

HAHA, that url in the previous post is damn funny caused Hansen also tried the test. This was what we said over msn:

_hansen:
you bastard sia put Thiru as chocolate

art of hurdling:
you bastard too sia

art of hurdling:
also say he chocolate!

No offence Thiru :)

SO NOT ACCURATE

Hey guys, I was at this page www.blogthings.com/whatdoyoureallythinkofyourfriendsquiz/ doing some random quiz as the url imply. I'm damn amused by the results and it is so inaccurate for almost the whole thing--especially for hansen and freddie!

This is what i got:

Shiang Nee is my soulmate

You truly love Freddie (WTF?!)

You consider Jolinita your true friend

You know that Hansen is always thinking of you (WTF?!)

You'll remember Michelle for the rest of your life

You secretly thinks Thiru is creative, charming, and a bit too dramatic at times

You seriously think that Teresa is colourful, impulsive and a total risk taker

You secretly think that Ming Yi is loyal and trustworthy to you. And that Ming Yi changes lovers faster than underwear (OMG!!!!)

You secretly think Samantha is shy and nonconfrontational. And that Samantha has a hidden internet romance (the first part is SO NOT TRUE)

Those points that I have no comments do not mean that its true, its just that the few which have comments are nowhere near the truth!!! HAHA

PLEASE DONT LET IT BE A SLIPPED DISC

Freak man, I have been having this slight sharp pain in the left side of my back since last thursday but i didn't really think much about it cause I thought it would be one of those occasional muscle tightness that would subside after 1 or 2 days. But the pain persisted untill now and it had been affecting my training as I found myself not being able to be at peak performance. I went to see Chooks today as a precaution as nationals are just around the corner and I wanted to nip the problem at its bud before any ramifications set in. After examining my back, the doctor told me that my back was slightly tilted to my left. He said its most probably due to muscle tightness in that area but he was more concerned by the fact that it was slanted as if the next few physiotherapy sessions prove unfruitful, it may be a slipped disc instead.
I was honestly damn stunned when he told me that as I thought that it would be something minor only. I do hope that its not the latter cause if it is so then chances are I would be out of action for quite somtime. Die man, I dont want to train so hard for the past few months only to see it go up in smoke just like that. Even as I'm typing this post, I can still feel the pain fluctuating in the affected area. Freak Man!

TRANSFORMERS

Transformer--robots in disguise. I managed to catch the movie at Lido today with Hansen, Nic and Johnny. The show was so freaking IMBA, the graphics are awesome and the sound effects would blow your mind away; I have no idea why some people said that the movie is soso only. Oh well, perhaps the story plot came across as to shallow to some people. As for me, I couldn't care less, got action can liao.

SONG BO!!!

Had a long but fun day today. I was in school in the morning for jumps training then headed down to my alma-mater (cat high) for Homecoming Day. Its an annual carnival like event for old boys to get together. This year's was pretty much the same as previous years except for one very big difference--there were a lot more girls present at the Homecoming compared to previous years. Isn't Homecoming an event for the old boys, what were girls doing there in the first place? Its sorts of undermined the whole purpose of the Homecoming. Anyway managed to caught up with some of the teachers today. I basically grumbled to them about how life was so slack then compared to jc life where everyone is so super smart and hardworking.

After that some of us went to macdonald's at J8 to grab a bite and talk nonsense like in the good old days. It was rather liberating to see all the old boys back at Cat high cause I dint have to restraint myself from using too vulgar words. Our choice of words was rather colourful today. After the catch up session with the guys i went back home to do a bit of research for the highlight of the day--Old Changi Hospital walk, yeap, i went back in there again. This time i went back in there with Michelle, Hansen, Ray Rin, Neh Neh, Edwin and Teresa. Edwin was asking for trouble; he wore a red polo shirt in. Luckily nothing out of the ordinary happened to us. The walk was very fun and nothing much happened actually except for the part when we sunddenly heard some old country song being played from downstairs. There were mixed feelings among us as some were a little freaked out while some were startled by the sudden melody that we were hearing. To be fair the song was quite nice actually; its just that the setting and atmosphere then made the entire situation damn freaking scary. So of us were quite convinced that the music originated from the lower floors but we decided to be oblivious about it and carry on with our walk as teresa was already showing a bit of distress then. I think its because she is very sensitive to this kind of stuffs, maybe thats why the music did not go down well with her, lol.

The rest of the walk was mainly centered on trying to locate the mortuary cause the earlier time which i went in, me and the other people mistook another building for the mortuary. It was only when i went online today to research a bit about the hospital did i realise that i had mistaken the building wrongly. The mortuary is actually situated at the back of the hospital near the flight of stairs leading up to the back wing of the hospital. It was rather small amd it seemed to have specific platforms to place certain stuffs or machines. I think its the fridge and those stuffs. There were also drains in the room as well which sort of confirmed my believe that the room is the mortuary as i think that the drains are there to drain off the blood that dripped onto the floor during the olden days.


you guys can also go to immonesmich.blogspot.com to see michelle's account on the walk. I'm quite sure it would be more thourough then mine and her english would also own me as well, lol.

After the entire walk we even had time to head down to Changi Village for a chow then we headed back home. Overall I think today was a great day and I'm looking forward our next "ghost walk". Untill then, i would have to start researching where we should go for the walk. Most likely it would be the abandoned Ford factory in Bukit Timah.

mid years is finally over

actually its not, but i don't count chinese as an exam. i think i'm just going there waste my time and my pen ink. so far i think all the papers that i had were rather ok. ok as in i think i wont end up having SUSU. hopefully i would pass all the subject but i'm not so confident about that as i was smoking my way through papers such as geo and econs. honestly 3 hours for subjects like econs and geo are way too muct time man. its good cause i have more time to finish writing my answer but on the other hand, my hand was dying after the paper from all the writing. what made it worst was that i have sweaty palms, so the pen kept slipping away from my grip and also the sweat on my palm caused some of my answer to be smudged as well. oh well, at least i'm finally over with it.

halfway through geo paper yesterday i could not help but to chuckle whenever i turn to my right only to see edwin stoning there. freak sia, he was scanning through the lecture theatre to see who else was stoning as well, haha. oh well i think mid years more or less is screwed.

on a seperate note, hansen and i went to thaddeus's wake on tues evening. the group of us agreed to meet at serangoon mrt and dressed in any cat high related clothes cause we will be going down as team CH. as we made our way towards his place (walking), the mood among us went from being rowdy (we were walking on the street as if we got pay road tax and own the place) to being very solemn the moment we saw the white tentage structure outside his house. as we walked nearer towards his house, some of the guys whom had reached there earlier in the afternoon were practically stoning and seating around the table outside the house. their stoning was not edwin's kind of stoning but it was more of a depressing stoning. we went into the house after writing our messages in the condolences book; he was rested in a white coffin and he seemed to be at peace. the pair sunglasses which i almost always saw him wore was rested on his chest. all this while im sure everyone there was in depressed state as i saw some of my friends tearing up. i still can't believe his gone just like that man; exactly one week ago he might be somewhere happily eating prata and now his body is cremated in mandai crematorium. hansen and i weren't able to attend the cremation session yesterday as our paper ended too late, its such a pity that we could not bid farewell to him for the last time. my friend, nicholas tan, who went to the cremation session messaged me this after it ended: That's it, its over.
damn

Goodbye my Friend

I first met him during the secondary 2 camp at Jalan Behtera where he was both my group mate and bunk mate. Initially when he introduced himself to me, I was very intrigued by his name as it was very unique, perhaps even more unique then mine. Up till now, whenever I see him (or should I say saw him), the image of a teddy bear would always spring into my mind, like it was synonymous to his name. During the camp I found that he was a nice chap whom was full of nonsense, like every other guys and the entire group of us had lots of fun. The camaraderie that all of us shared is something that would linger in my mind for a long time to come.

I still remembered during the Secondary 3 overseas trip to Penang where he thrashed everyone in the 42km cycling activity. He was already quite a triathlon enthusiast then and it was made apparent when he was decked out in his cycling suit and gears with that thousand dollar bike by his side. During the cycing journey, he was way ahead of the pack--he was so good that he was actually keeping pace with the patrol car that was supposed to lead us througout the 42km. After the activity most of us were suffering from sores and aches (especially around the groin area) but he on the other hand still looked relatively fresh. I was thoroughly impressed by his fitness and I'm sure the other guys in my group would concur with me too.

Back in school I knew him as the kind of person who was rather laid back in his studies and he really knew how to slack, which was the norm for us then. After that I would sometimes chat up with him along the school corridors as we are not classmates. If memory serves me right, i think we had ran race together before, should be the 4 x 100m relay I guess. We came in 2nd that year. I didnt really catch with him during the graduation year back in Cat High cause I guess everyone was busy with their own commitments. I heard from Hansen that the last time he saw him was at Macritchies reservoir when he was there for a morning jog with Shaun. I originally intended to join them for the run but I was a no show in the end as I was dead tired on that day due to a late night the previous night. I'm beginning to regret a little for not being more deciplined and go for the morning run.

During secondary 3 for chinese lesson, our first chapter had something to do about cherishing those around you as you would never know when they would depart. The significance of that message had never made a lasting impression on me--until yesterday morning, 24th June 2007. That day was a day of solemn for most of us who knew him on a personal level as I'm pretty sure everyone was taken abacked by the sudden news of his departure. I for one is certainly one of them. Even though some of my friends thought that i was apathetic to this tragedy as I seemed to be ignorant of the event in school, but trust me, I am not emotionless. I'm more inclined to masking my feelings with layers of bravado which may cause me to appear uncaring in nature.

Yo if you can hear me I just wanna tell you this:

I'M PROUD TO HAVE KNOWN YOU, MY FRIEND

This posting goes out to you

Thaddeus Cheong

Ex Catholic High Gentleman

RJC Student

Friend to many

the more i study the more i dunno

HOW IRONIC!

crap, been studying with hansen they all lately. not really effective actually, its not their fault or whatever but i think its becuase i started mugging a little too late. SUSU now seems a lot nicer then UUUU. haha.

sarah is now on msn telling me all those freaky things about old changi being haunted and everything cause some of my friends and i are going back in there this coming saterday. watched 2 horror flicks lately--bout some abandoned old bulidings, like old changi hospital like that. then now she telling me all those stuffs that happened there (girl kena possesed, someone leg got grabbed), now my head got all the funny funny thoughts liao.

oh well, chances are i think we would split into smaller groups, like 4 ppl per grp but i think what will be most awesome if we go in 2s instead. but i dont think any of us including me would dare do so. i just wish the week would fast forward to this sat so we can go can guan the hospital; and hopefully we wont end up becoming permanent residents there. hansen, im damn sure you will find a lot of mistakes in this post, lol. gotta go, ah-di-os

teresa siao eh (joking only)

yeap i think she siao liao, fancy going to jump off the bridge at singapore river there. who with a sane mind would actually go and get drench in the singapore river for the sake of it. i was dumbfounded when she told me that just now during dinner after we left hansen's place earlier to study.

it was quite productive studying at hansen's place today, managed to cover a few chapters of econs. oh ya, hansen told me that my command of english in the previous postings damn jia lat. die sia, i think my gp also screwed liao. basket, i think this would be my results for mid years:

chem geo maths econs

S U S U

singlish

BAGUS

jia lat, lets hope that i'm wrong. oh well gotta go watch movie with hansen and his bro at northpoint there now. chiao.

SCREWED

yeap you heard me, SCREWED. i think i'll be damn freaking contented if i can pass all my subjects for mid-years. honestly most of my time had been robbed by reasons unknown to me and all i can say now is i gotta do some serious studying man.

anyway, i was rather dissapointed that i could not compete in last friday friendly track meet at vj cause i busted my left ankle again over the earlier weekend at the SEA junior when i hit the 4th hurdles in the finals. the ankle was already rather swollen prior to that knock cause i had already injured it quite a number of times during trainings before that race. so whacking the hurdle on that day only served to give me excruciating pain for the first few minutues after the race and a big fat swollen ankle (or i would rather call it a pig trotter instead). if not for the persuasion of my track team mates calling me to go and see the doctor, i would have actually waited for the track season to be over first before i seek any medical help. so i went down to Chooks last fri and he told me it was nothing much except an inflammed ankle. so he gave me some medication to bring the swelling down.

the ankle looks better now and hopefully i won't knock it again during training cause i can almost safely say that it would swell up big time again. after seeing chooks i head over to tangs to buy the father day gift for my dad ( i got him a wine cooler) and then rushed down to suntec there to meet up with him and my sisters. thank goodness i bought him the wine cooler cause he would need it since he bought a whopping 24 BOTTLES of wine from carrefour. freak, i have no idea how long he would take to consume all those wine. besides that, he already has about 120 plus bottles of wine in the wine fridge so i don't really see the point in purchasing another 2 dozen bottles of wine. oh well its his prerogative if he wants his house to be highly flammable. lol, just joking pops.

oh yea, almost forgot, the week after the mid year me and some of my friends would be going back into the old changi hospital. it would be the first time for some of them but it would be the 2nd time for me going in there at night. i want to go back in there again cause i did my research and i found out that there is actually a torture chamber in the hospital and apparently we missed it when we were there the other time. so i thought it would be more thrilling if we know some background knowledge of the hospital first before we go scouring the place again as our minds would be filled with all the funny thoughts. its amazing how one's mind can scare the shit out of the person in a seemingly harmless situation. maybe, just maybe, we actually head down to the redhouse after touring the hospital cause i heard it another 'haunted' spot by my friend. but i think we would only go there if time permits as i dont want to catch a cab after midnight as the ride would definitely burn a deep hole in my pocket even though it would also make my wallet much lighter, lol.

oh well gotta end off here. have to go back preparing to die for mid years, lol

continuation on previous posting

i mentioned in my earlier posting that i would continue sharing my experiances i had at the track chalet but after reading the blog posting of my friend, i think you guys should just go to her blog and read what happened at the camp (cause i freaking lazy to type it out). her blog is immonesmich.blogspot.com. LOL, doing pw now, signing out.

back from track camp

just gpt back from track camp. it was really fun and the track team manage to bond together through a series of activities with my favourite being the night walk to the old changi hospital. the original one was just a walk the back entrance of the hospital which was about 300m in. i must say the walk is a little sppoky cause the only light source apart from the torchlights that we brought in was the glow of the moon. the walk itself was rather short as we did not venture into the hospital building. so after the initial walk, a group of us decided to go for our own 2nd night walk and we went back in to the hospital complex and tried to look for the entrance to the mortuary as we so happened to walk pass it on our 1st walk. i must say the interior of the hospital was rather spooky as there was no light and the walls are vanderlised by grafitties. anyway im freaking ytired now so i shall continue about the camp another time.

2nd and last day of SEA junior

i saw some imbar races today down at gombak stadium. i must say, the standard was freaking high and i witnessed runs that left my jaw wide opened. lol. anyway i was practically stoning in between the races cause the organisers took very long to prepare for each race, so on average the waiting time between each races was like 15min. wasted the afternoon sia cause i had no race today, finished mine yesterday. the only reason why i'm down at the stadium was because the team manager said its compulsory to support our fellow runners. its not that i'm some anti social person who could not care less about the other runners but i dont see the point in surpporting people whom i dont even know, lol. i would have much rather stay at home and prepare for my mid years. oh by the way, i think im screwed cause i ahev not seriously started preparing for ythe mid years.

the races finished about 5 plus and i headed down to my pre-u seminar friend birthday party. crap man, i was a little regretful that i turned down the offer to go to the farewell dinner for the SEA youth team cause i only found out today that the dinner would be at ah yat seafood restaurant.

today was rather mundane actually cause after the birthday party where the group of us just stoned, ate and talked for about an hour plus then we went to causeway point for dinner then go home. sia la, tmr would be the first day of track camp. hope the camp would be fun. i'm freaking sleepy, gonna hit the sack, chiao.

2nd South-East Asia (SEA) Junior Athletics C’ships 2007

this is my 1st time blogging. i don't even know why i'm doing this all of a sudden but heck it. i think i'll just post something once in a while when i wanna kill time. anyway today was the SEA junior; got whipped by the thai and malaysian runners. its a good experiance though. ran the 110m hurdles, came in 7th overall but there was only 9 runners competing. so i don't think that would give me any bragging rights, haha. im quite satisfied by my timing as i cut down my previous pb by 1s to 16.27s. its credible timing but i think i would have to train hard and bring down the timing below 16s if i want to have a shot in getting a medal for nationals( any colour would do). some of the trackers came down to gombak today to support me, freddie and james and i think it was very nice of them to take time off to watch us compete. so if you guys are reading this--THANKS A LOT!

the cat high NUS geo challenge came in 6th, same position as the previous 2 years. basket! the teacher in charge of the team mrs goh said that if the team came in top 3 i would get a dinner treat as well cause im sort of the 'trainer' for the team (i didnt really train them actually). but my dear juniors came in 6th, so they end up going for a sakea dinner compliments from their teacher without me. jia lat sia.

anyway i'll end off now cause my arm is aching from all the typing, lol.