liang is as usual complaining and procastinating. hmm liang doesnt run away from her problems?? ahah ok shant suan liang ahaha but you ran away from your 3k last yr! crappy liang and doesnt come for trainings and ok blarblarblar. but liang still in track huh. ahaha hmm anyway everything is not going as planned!!! mich and her common tets still havent finish. boo. i wonder if mich is still studyign now. anyway good luck for her.

ok and i hope that there are no major tests coming up AGAIN. when blocks are just over.
series of events planned
29 july: derek tan's potluck (listen out all 402!) it is pot luck this time not BBQ ahaha so you all dont have to stand and BBQ all the food and then not enough food or whatever. hmm and then the time should be 4+pm. issit possible to meet around that time??
(wonder if any 402ers still reads this blog. ok anyway yes settled.)
16 july (tentative): come my house to swim (suet and ming kinda confirmed leh. the others??)
oh my goodness like very busy like that ahah! and there are so many hw. dish.
15 july (tentative): kskp gathering. wanna swim?
is mich free on the 15th???? like really i think liang and cherylim should be free. we better pray that mich can make it.

PASS PASS all the tests (: ! to all.

demoralised! haven't gotten back most of my papers, but this is enough, not even a single BEE lol. i should be glad that i'm leaving huh? but i'm not one who like to run away from my problems. anyway if i continue to slack, i'll face the exact same problems, no matter where i go. thinking about it, i'll be entering U at the end of next year, but i'm still like.. THIS. i've absolutely no idea what i want to be, what course i want to take, and i've no plans on how to achieve what i want. moreover, i lack time management, self-discipline, independence, responsibility and every single positive trait necessary for success. except maybe optimism, which is kinda useless. i should start a 5-year plan, to mug hard! for my future. at least, even if i don't know what course i want to take, i'll be able to choose the uni and course that i want, instead of the other way round. like for Os, i didn't know which jc i wanted to go to, so my aim was to do well so i could choose the jc, instead of the jcs choosing me. and it worked, right?

3k on mon, wonder if it'll just be another demoralising day??

YAY!!! BLOCKS ARE OVER (:(:(: oops i think i repeated this at my class blog too. ahaha anyway so happy that it is over actually, and i cant wait to meet up with liang mich and cheryl (:(:(: but mich still has her common tests until next week?!?! what crap is that hai ok so i see we have to postpone our gathering. to play cards and block catching again!!! ahahaha so fun! i still remember all the fun times (:(: anyway yes jiayou mich!!!

and i wonder if she still patronise this blog ok. hmmm

whee mid-years officially ended this morning! with physics being the last trial hur. section c was a KILLER, for me at least. cos my physics is lousy i know. but anyway this whole mid-year exams have been terrible for me. i don't even have a single subject which will guarantee me a pass.. that pathetic! slacked too much, studied too little, and apparently staying up till 2/3am the night before the exam to mug and squeeze infinite information into my tiny and saturated brains doesn't help (saturated with air and cotton). but at least it's over for now! we'll see how everything turns out. i think i will fail math arghhh =x MATH! i will have a wonderful report card to take away with me.. great!

resumed training (first in 2 weeks) after phyiscs paper. i still feel so slow and lousy, and unprepared for the race but ready to get owned. i shouldn't have stopped running at the middle of last year and start of this year, the least i could have done was to go jogging once a fortnight or something. but all i knew was to slack and i didn't run at all for almost a year, totally lost the momentum. i wonder if i've deproved to my sec 1/2 standard yet? anw 10 more days to my race, nothing much can be done now. what is done cannot be undone.

ok enough of unpleasant stuff. went out after training with sk, zj, zy, alvin, tt and their friends alford and some other guy. actually it was supposed to be a class thing i think? but the turnout's quite terrible, so lol. went lanning - i've finally been introduced to DotA - Defence of the Ancients! DotA terminology is amusing, CREEPS are computer-controlled little monsters. and there's a practice called FARMING lol. and mana power reminds me of maple. i'm such a noob XD sk, zy and i are all noobs, and we always occupy the bottom of the score chart thing, but i've never occupied the last row before! =p anyway i think it's quite fun ahaha, it's not hard to understand why some pple are so addicted to it. been ages since i last played comp games, the last comp game i played is maplestory, and that was last year! had so much fun today! made me forget about whatever worries i had for a while =) long weekend ahead! perfect for slacking pia-ing gp and pw!

PASS! PASS! PASS!!! HERE I COME!!! YES!

boo outing yesterday!! yay thanks to all who went, which is actually only smint, cheryl, yiting and me haha. as there was a last minute change of plan from kbox-ing to a study session, yingjie and steph didn't want to come. sorry! maybe we can have a relaxing session after common tests!

we spent the whole afternoon at mos burger eating, talking and attempting to study in between more eating (esp fattie of cos), talking and taking pictures. took so many photos of stupid fattie.. stuffing food into her HUGE mouth =x shall upload them soon haha! anw thanks for the fun time, though it wasn't a very productive session. i managed to finish 5 pages of my econs notes in 4h? yiting did 5 pages of her physics notes. cheryl and smint progressed at about the same rate too lol o_0 jiayou and study hard for your common tests!

had primary school gathering today, reminiscing about the "good old days" back in dazhong. climbing the "hill", playing catching and mushroom at the tiny pavillion and ecopond area, puppet show at my house, making the gardenia snoopy.. really treasure all those beautiful memories. even though i can only recall bits and pieces now. will never forget the 6 years in dz, one of the happiest times of my life.. and i finally told my pri school friends about my leaving. they looked so shocked haha. since we've managed to keep in touch for the past 4+ years, i'm sure we can continue to do that?

distance won't matter if the hearts are linked. if you want to keep in touch with someone, there's always a way. that's what i believe.

ok going to zao now, so much work to do! and i may have a race tmr! =x btw you all should make a trip to woodlands regional library some day =)



i like this song's melody haha.
为了抢快乐搞得不快乐
为什么人总那么傻呢 (change encoding to unicode)

jiayou liang! you can do it! ahaha one year without me. its your turn! it was mine last year and i clocked my pb. so you will clock yours without me ahah!

my chess (nats) is over (: hahaha

block tests COMING!! AHHH

the holidays are almost drawing to a close, and i'm still what you'd call yi shi wu cheng! sigh- there're still so many things to be done and so many ongoing activities! currently, the rest of this week is totally packed for me while i have no activities planned for next week yet. so i'd better make good use of the last week of my hols, or i'd regret when it's time to get back my "wonderful" results. i hope i won't fail physics and econs =x

last official holiday training today! woohoo? or maybe not. i still feel pretty unprepared, the result of slacking for the past 4+ years =( who to blame but myself? oh well. having been in track and field for almost 5 years, nationals have always been very important. and this year will be my last year taking part in nats, thus i just hope to do my best and perform. hx, give me some power!! hmmm, had the toughest training of my LIFE on mon.. 10x200. since when have i done that?! not even in nygh i think, the most we did was 7x200? and i survived =') i'm sure i'll improve if we train like that every training LOL. that'll be crazy though.

quite busy this hols cos of the many reunions i have.. for apparent reasons. i've always liked this kind of gatherings, cos i'm a nostalgic pig. bleh. it's not good to be too sentimental sometimes, holding on to past memories and people, whom you may no longer be significant to. over-sentimentality will lead to the downfall of man. is it? well anw, last week was sec 1/2 clique reunion, and there's BOO OUTING on fri! yay, possible activities are ice-skating and kbox! smint said she'll be treating us =D can't wait!

had better retreat to my cozy haven now! have pw meeting at KOVAN at 9am tmr. means i'll have to travel more than halfway across singapore again -_-" and finally going to watch da vinci code haha.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. - Stone, W. Clement

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. - Jones, Rufus M.

Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition.

The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.

A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants....

The race began....

Honestly:

No one in crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as:

"Oh, WAY too difficult!!"

"They will NEVER make it to the top."

or:

"Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!"


The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one....

Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher....

The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up....

But ONE continued higher and higher and higher....

This one wouldn't give up!


At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?


A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?

It turned out....

That the winner was DEAF!!!!


The wisdom of this story is:

Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic.... because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you -- the ones you have in your heart!

Always think of the power words have.

Because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!

Therefore:

ALWAYS be....

POSITIVE!

And above all:

Be DEAF when people tell YOU that you cannot fulfill your dreams!

just got back from china last night, after a 2-week trip to beijing to visit relatives. it was a fun and meaningful stay, as i managed to catch up with quite a lot of pple. haven't been back for 5+ years, and it's so much different, so many changes have taken place during my absence. my family shifted once, from the city to the suburbs, in consideration that my grandparents prefer the slower-paced life and less polluted suburbs. and time gives no one leeway, people have aged.. really fast..

oh and it's also my first plane trip ALONE!! though i encountered some rather stupid problems on my way back, i managed to overcome all the trials and tribulations and reached singapore in one piece. so proud of myself ahaha =D

i also visited the great wall of china for the first time of my entire 17 years of existence. a magnificient and stupendous ancient structure! almost died climbing it though, literally. something that left an impression on me was the many locks stringed together along one of the walls. my uncle said it's something like: you can put your lock there. years and decades later, your descendents can come and unlock it. for what i dunno, but it's just pretty interesting.

and of cos, i'll never let my mouth rest, wherever i go. so we tried many things.. peking duck, local buns, korean bbq etc. i still can't get enough of the buns. well and on my first night there, i actually managed to eat 3 bowls of rice during dinner! =o

enough about my trip lah haha. had training today, still about the same standard i think, neither deproved or improved. sigh, at least i didn't deprove in these 2 weeks huh. and surprisingly, i actually went jogging thrice on my own when i was overseas haha. stayed back to chalk out the track banner design. dunno why 4 figures took us 3h+ to draw?!? well at least we got some bountiful "harvests" hoho XD

look forward to track camp next week! it's a 3-day camp, from mon to wed. sadly it's not an overnight camp but i hope it'll be fun and memorable anyway. well we will make it so =) and i'm in the food comm, just to my liking AHAHAHA. there'll be a total of 8h of study sessions though.. i must aspire to utilize the time fully and catch up on my schoolwork!!

indeed, i agree with hx that simplicity is irreversible. and sometimes, it isn't a bad thing leading simple lives and having simple minds. my grandfather's memory is deproving (exponentially?) and he's becoming really senile, to the extent that it's a little shocking. but my family has accepted the fact that it may not be that bad a thing. at least he doesn't remember all the sad things in his life and doesn't constantly worry about them. his mind is like a small treasure trove, where all his few most precious memories are stored.. at least he's a happy old man.. we, who have relatively such good memory, remember most of the things we want to and need to remember, as well as those which we don't want to recall. and doesn't this add to our sorrow and pain?

hmmm. 2 more weeks of the holidays left, so much to do and so much to catch up on. and in response to huixiang's post on 17 may: YEAH, can we find time for a boo/kskp outing? i miss you all too. and hx, mich and cheryl: seriously we should consider having a macritchie outing/hike, i kind of miss mac haha. relive those wonderful memories (and trainings x.X) we had there! and our first inter-school medal haha, i'll never forget. yes ny will rock track this year, they'll burn the track with their wonderful timings and standings! =)