so far so bad...
after 5.5 hours in a freezing air-conditioned hall, getting a numb ass from sitting down for too long, leaning from cheek to cheek from time to time to get the blood flowing again... all i'll get from it is probably an O and an F. O for econs, and F for physics. econs if i'm really lucky i can get an E, but i don't see that happening very likely... for all i know i might get F for both. in case u haven't noticed... i've haven't got much hope for physics.
maths tomorrow... going to start some last minute chionging soon. try to salvage it, and hopefully get an E out of it. so i won't have like an FFF... but an EFF... won't look as bad. physics practical on friday... shouldn't be much of a problem. just gotta go through all my practicals again, and be more alert. but haven't done practical for over 5 weeks, thus the rustiness sets in. hope i don't forget anything :(
think i'm going to go on a testimonial spree soon... just feel like writing all of a sudden hahaha but of course certain people that have already gotten alot from me won't get anymore lah... afterall being greedy just isn't good for the soul ;)
mecks... feesyx... and echans... the combination to DIE for... Cheers.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Sunday, June 27, 2004
it is upon us...
realised haven't written a proper entry for almost a week. just been filling up my blog with quizzes. well mid-years start tomorrow... some call it common tests, others call it block tests, some call it term exams... i'm just sticking with what they called it in secondary school, and that is mid-year exams. guess i don't exactly have a very good "relationship" with mid-year exams... i mean afterall of all the 4 wonderful years i spent in SJI, i never studied for a single one! of course that culminated in me getting 31 points for my sec 4 mid-year, but it all worked out in the end. but i don't think i want to take that risk again, after all they say that you can't mug for A levels the way you mugged for O levels, basically because there's too much content. yeah sure there's too much content, but how much of this content are we really going to use in the future? is it all applicable? depends on the occupation you get into... will you remember all of it? definitely not! hahaha
anyhow yesterday night had area 15 campfire at NYGH. before that had 2 meetings. the first one lasted longer than expected, and so got to the second one late. wild cards, problems with the good ones, problems with the mediocre ones... all part of coming up with a list like that i guess... after the meetings went to coro to have dinner, saw our SJI guys playing lan there hahaha, typical SJI guys :) at the campfire, the J'04 people just stuck with their schoolmates, understandable i guess since that's what i did when i first started. some new CIs from other areas came along, presumably from J'04. unfortunately the WCIs from NY were in a world of their own... well at least the people from amanda's squad. saw them doing some rather funny stuff... just that they weren't exactly communicating with the area CIs. oh well, guess they were just excited as it was a campfire in their school.
anyway when it came time to do THE dance, THE dance that SJI was famous for in the past, all thanks to a person called jack, of course SJI guys put up the best performance lah!!! hahaha... bargav and jian long got saboed to go up in front to do it, and so did glenn... 3 of them stole the show sia!!! after that when all the CIs went up to dance, at first about 5 NY WCIs actually used bananas lah, with one of them dropping on the ground. but when we all went to do a proper one... guess what happened... the 5 SJI CIs ended up standing in front of everyone else loh!!! well at first big red was hiding behind, but we managed to drag him in front. well i don't think we'll ever be as good as jack, but at least it's still part of SJI :) too bad we can never EVER do our sexy rendition of THE dance... i bet the girls would absolutely LUUUUUURRRRVE it! WAHAHAHAHA... of course some might feel repulsed by it, but that's why we only do it within the 4 walls of which is known as SJI.
we shall strive to keep the SJI banana spirit burning!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Cheers.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
memes...
that's good to know i guess...
wtf!?!? rub what shit!?!?!
wtf is wrong with this damn quiz!?!?!?! school children??? I AIN'T NO PIDO!!!
oh my goodness... i was a tormentor!!! but look at it this way... I RULED!!! WAHAHAHAHA
right... a small fluffy animal that talks...:| but wait... it seems i can talk to animals which means that it doesn't actually talk!!! where's doctor dolittle!?!?
eh? no way loh...
mutilated all my statues?!?! that bastard!!!
?!?!!? guess i was trying to help the AVA, but it backfired :p
woah cool gold wings!!! any gold card to go along with that?
wah this is damn cool!!! steelblue hair sia... wonder what kind of revolvers though... magnums? S&Ws? how many calibre?
Friday, June 25, 2004
imagine this...
SJI guys can most probably understand this... but even if you're not from SJI you would feel the awkwardness oozing out from this as well.
someone: "hey what school are you from?"
girl: "oh i'm from SJI!"
that's all i'm going to say...
hmmm... something freakingly true about this. not sure about the outsmart your attacker part... but the rest... woah... freaky stuff man!!!
Monday, June 21, 2004
out of complete boredom...
Athena
?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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often excel in most things academic??? that's encouraging!!! hahaha
You are... WAIT! - you're none of the Sins you're
an Angel!
Perfect, or close enough, and annoyingly so! Did
you always
behave so 'just right'. ARGHHH . You can annoy the
hell outta
people with your attitude, but no doubt your church
is real happy
with you. The positive side certainly outweighs the
negative,
after all, you do chores, are smart, are cute, do
charity work.
Least you know what a perfect saint you are. You
just make the rest
of us sinners vomit. Perhaps you could break the
rules once in a while, go wild - Eat an extra
cookie or something.
However - congratulations on being the most pure,
of the entire human race.
?? Which Of The Seven Deadly Sins Are You ??
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yah right... someone slap me...
You're like a Dragon!
?? Which Mythical Creature Are You ??
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hahaha that's interesting...but strangely true... yikes that's freaky!
Crab
?? Which Creature Of The Sea Are You??
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hahaha i'm a crab... full of crap :p
Waterfall
?? Which Natural Wonder Or Disaster Are You ??
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oh dear me...
Youth
?? Which Angel Or Demon Are You ??
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hmmm i seriously doubt the last line is true hahaha...
Beer
?? Which Alcoholic Drink Are You ??
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woah beer... which brand? carlsberg? tiger? heinekken? or maybe root beer :p
a small barrier... not a problem
went to PA this morning to get my probation form signed. hoping that i could slot it into ms lee's pigeon hole, and hopefully get my letter in less than a month's time. mr chan was in his office as usual, slowly sms-ing away. got it signed without much hassle. he remembered me (quite obvious lah i mean i was marching for the damn parade) remembered my name and school. got alot of SJI peeps in NPDP in quite important positions. me and big red as flagbearers and HO alger... who was the emcee. anyway that covered my parade component. as for my function, zachia wasn't there!! damn it! apparently she was overseas, so i asked mr chan if he knew when she'd be back, then he said as ms lee, so i went to find her. her office lights were on but she wasn't in. i probably go again on saturday morning before meeting at nanyang... hopefully she's in... want to get my rank before national day, so that i can wear at both CJC and SJI!!! don't want to be walking around with that damned white cloth that will probably be black by then :p
i'm THIS close to my rank... all that's standing in the way is a signature... a letter... and a trip to the PA store. Cheers.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
failed attempts...
recently faced a few... glitches. yesterday morning supposed to meet xin, gc, shaun and neo at bugis at 9.30. and guess what? xin called me at 9.45 at home and i was still sleeping loh!!! felt so damn bad :( anyway after that rushed down as quickly as i could, got there at about 10.45. after that while we were walking into bugis junction, mei moey called me and said she saw me, and i didn't see her lah. found out at night that she was hiding so that i wouldn't see her :p tt's a really really minor failure on my part lah coz couldn't see her hahaha. anyway after that played an hour of lan... after damn long. realised i cannot snip for nuts anymore... die!!! hahaha another minor failure... after all that went to bang's house to study lah, didn't manage to study much also, like about an hour only... THAT ONE IS ABSOLUTE FAIL AH!!!
today went to raffles place and airport to do my group's PW survey. this one sad to saw was absolute failure... didn't manage to get anything good done. wasted plenty of time... hopefully tomorrow will be more rewarding.
anyway with failure always comes successes! and i'm proud to announce that both ben and bren are back as CIs!!! YEAH!! WOOOHOOO!!!!! 2 MORE TO JOIN THE BUNCH!!! after all 3 are leaving, if only ian went as well, then there'd still be 4! :( oh well 3 is better than 2 i guess. looking forward to working with these guys... after all 4 years passed... 1.5 more to go!!!
the 3 things i need right now... more discipline... more decisiveness and more self-control. well i guess the last one goes under discipline as well... but just to spell it out for myself! i'm degrading again... deteriorating... falling down the pit again. either because i'm sleeping too much, or letting other irrelevant things bug me... they shouldn't be bugging me lah, but somehow they are... why are you acting this way? :(
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
new pics...
uploaded new pics from sec 2 ATC and NCOTC, go take a look. won't see much of me in NCOTC coz i was only there for the last day :p Cheers!
it has begun...
and high time it did too!!! so damn late already still haven't done ANYTHING!!! anyhow supposed to go to school today, but woke up kinda late, like 10 hahaha. so just stayed home for lunch, after that went to bang's house. lounge was clogged up with RJ people who were making a hell lot of noise! so just sat outside the cafe. then after a while they came out to play on the pool table, made a hell lot of noise again. thank goodness i brought my mp3 player with full batt, could more or less block out the noise hahaha.
started studying at about 1.30, and bang came down at about 4. at 5 played a game of pool which cost $2, never going to play again hahaha. after that just sat and talked lah. i managed to finish about 3/4 of trigo... but no practise lah, all memorising and going through examples. die die die still got alot of maths to do!!! haven't touched econs or physics yet... feesyx ah!! die already lah feesyx feesyx feesyx!!! Cheers.
Sunday, June 13, 2004
fascinating bunch of people...
had an area CI meeting on yesterday, basically for D&D of NCOTC and sec 2 ATC. buggers went to kallang to kayak and were damn late lah... by like 50 minutes!!! anywayz the meeting lasted for like 2 hours, after that went to pasta mania at PS to eat. took quite a while just to get in though, towards the end at the purely guys table, i heard a name popping up, and seeing their body actions... i kind of had an idea of what they were doing. they've done it before lah, but nice to see it in action hahaha. went over to have a look... quite interesting man... top few are really hot favourites!!! i agree with most of the choices lah, actually all i looked at were the top few hahaha, but really quite shocking when u compare to what we said as cadets. i actually have no problems with the top 3 lah... unlike glenn and big red who wanna switch 2 and 3 hahaha... the girls kept bugging us asking what on earth it was we were talking about, and our dear chairperson ivy with her sick mind came up with something very weird about the human anatomy, as though we would have bother to actually compare that stuff!!!
after that went arcade for a while, watched people playing air hockey and some other funny funny games. laughed like hell and made a lot of noise... unbelievable the amount of noise we created. after that just headed out of PS, and after a while everyone decided to go home to watch the portugal greece match :p the people there... jie long, jun yuan, jay jay, julius, ta hoong, glenn, ming zhou, kah wee, leong woon, thomas, hadi, hong yi, ivy, vivien, ying yuan, karen and mei moey, all a wonderful bunch of people. having gone through ATC with them, it was truly memorable! they made the transition all the more comfortable for me, that being my first ATC as a CI and all. got 2 more to go for now. vivien was group instructor with me for echo (coincidently the name of my CIBTC squad as well). all i can say is... she's good! hahaha she looks damn good when she smiles too!!! can get kinda high though... but i think all NY girls are like that hahaha. experienced and proven! the way she explains things to cadets is just different somehow lah, the kind of voice that would make you perk up and listen. i don't think i can achieve that kind of tone lah... i mean u listen to me talk will know already lah, i'm more suited to shouting at people loh hahaha.
ben and bren just finished their CIBTC ATC... after september all SJI CIs in area 15 will be from CJC WAHAHAHAHAHA, and they're all from my batch too :) but sadly... i've been told i'll be considered the lao jiao coz i've been with area at least 6 months more than them. hahaha... feels kinda funny... but being lao jiao doesn't make a difference lah, at least 3 of us will be working together for 2 more years... that totals almost 6 whole years man!!! woah...
charity night has been cancelled, but i'm now involved in planning logistics for sec 3 ATC. wah planning 3 ATCs in a year... xiong man. logistics twice... i hope i don't get stuck there forever... it's not a very pleasant place to be in hahaha.
unlikely to see the above mentioned people ever again as one big group... i really thank those whom i'll never see again for making ATC a success and helping me learn from it as well. oh yes... and jun yuan still has my sandals... damn it! Cheers!!!!
Thursday, June 10, 2004
a little insight to SJI NPCC cadets...
this is just how i saw SJI NPCC since a sec 1, and how i see our cadets seeing it nowadays. when they first enter as cadets... after just leaving primary school, where all CCAs were taken by teachers and never by senior students, they tend not to respect the older students, as in primary school they never had to. i feel that teachers should be present right at the beginning of the trainings for sec 1s, so that the feeling of having a teacher watching over them still exists.
when they hit sec 2, they finally start to perform better, because the idea that they've got juniors hits them. and just the basic ego of performing worst than your juniors helps them improve i guess. still playful as usual, but the general squad discipline improves. mainly because they've been together for a year, so the squad chemistry is there. unfortunately this is the year where it gets kind of boring, mainly because there is nothing big really happening at this point of time for them.
sec 3, the time when the word leader comes into play. they hear it alot more times than the previous 2 years. they mature more as the environment not only at training, but also during school hours is more "leader" crazy. they see their classmates and schoolmates getting positions that grant them greater authority over the juniors and even their peers, and they eventually understand what is required of them and what the school and their seniors expect. this is also the time when intensive training really begins, but not really on the body, more like on the mind. pushing them to the limit mentally, seeing if they can really make it, and making them stronger. of course on the training side, more is expected of them, as it is with every advancing year. eventually some of them start to act, giving off false images of themselves just so that they can get the position that they want. what some of them do not realise is that the outstanding ones... have been spotted since early on, even in sec 1. past experiences have shown that those who do well since sec 1, eventually become even greater leaders in the future! but on the other hand, some become even more reserved, fearing the amount of work that they might have to do in the future. they shudder at the thought of becoming leaders, and are afraid that they'll screw up. rarely are there cadets that remain the same during this period of time.
at sec 4, hohoho the show really begins. finally they become the "bosses", and some of them shine in these circumstances. however there are a select few who become, in a way, engrossed with all this power available to them. they become egotistical, ignore their peers, try to suck up and act smart. some merely do what is required of them, but as long as it is done well there are usually little or no complaints towards them. if they seize the opportunity, they will really grow from the experience of being an NCO. they get thrown into all sorts of situations... problem cadets, planning functions and normal trainings, meeting teachers after school almost everyday of the week, basically having to do alot of other things on top of normal school work. if they let the time slip by and not do anything, they would overall have wasted their time as a sec 4, and might as well have just stayed in sec 3, where they are forced to learn.
well that's a look through of SJI NPCC life... of course it varies from cadet to cadet, but that's just an overview. it gets more interesting when u look deeper into it. Cheers.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
NPCC Area 15 sec 2 ATC 2004...
basically i'll just leave statistics here again, because if i were to type out all my thoughts... you'll probably get bored and die!
number of days - 3
number of hours of sleep - 6 (buay tahan ah!!!)
number of cadets - 144
number of CIs - 19
number of TOs - never got down to counting all of them :p
number of jerry cans - 70
number of puddings eaten - about 15 i guess...
number of sets of tents - 25
number of pegs - 350
number of dowel poles bought - 120
cost of dowel poles - $72
number of candle 6-packs bought - 20
cost of candle 6-packs - $38
number of balls of twine bought - 20
amount of money ta hoong owes me - $6.80 (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)
number of pushups in the ENTIRE camp - 70 (during PT only...)
number of josephians who fell out BEFORE my PT - 4
number of josephians who fell out AFTER my PT - 10 (don't know what's wrong with them)
well a few first time experiences for me...
1. raising flag
2. bringing cadets on walk about ubin (i actually knew where to go!!! hahaha)
3. spending a whole hour holding tripods in a stupid game called candle warfare (thanks kah wee!!! :p )
4. sleeping on a BED at a camp...
5. bringing such a small bag for ATC (never imagined that i would one day bring such a small bag to ubin :p )
oh wellz that's all i can remember with the current amount of braincells in my head... see if i can muster the discipline to start studying this week. right now the only thing on my mind is sleep... in about 60 hours, i've only slept 6 hours. so shiok man... such shiokness until i could just fall asleep on my keyboard now, but i won't because i might end up drooling all over, which would cause problems for many people. i'm making typo errors and grammatical errors everywhere, got to keep backspacing... damn it i need braincells.
over the last 2 days been discussing with comrades the prospect of someone working with me next year... to be honest the idea of it is just scary in itself. nobody... and i mean NOBODY likes him... out of nowhere this person suddenly thinks that he can be where he wants to be, and know everything that is required of this job? i don't think so... his entire working style is wrong, and i can anticipate that he won't be able work well with ANYBODY at all...
oh lookie... mosquito bites are beginning to show and itch. hahaha... oh well surprisingly not THAT many. 1 on my leg... and 3 on my right arm. probably more will show up later, just see how lah. bed... i... need... my... bed... che... *snore*
Sunday, June 06, 2004
out of reach...
won't be in Singapore (well mainland at least) until wednesday... don't bother sms-ing either... coz u might just end up sms-ing to malaysia. wonder how it will go... hopefully it goes fine... getting thrown into the heat of things rather quickly i feel, not too sure if i've got absolute control over whatever it is i'm supposed to do. don't intend to snap or go berserk... shall stay calm and focused for the benefit of the cadets. cya'll on wednesday... Cheers!!!
Saturday, June 05, 2004
SJI NPCC UTC 2004...
well i'm almost to the end of my "xiong" week. 4 more days only... anywayz first time in UTC in such a free moving role. could go where i wanted when i wanted, so felt rather different for me. some of the more "exciting" and "interesting" events that i went through.
Day 1:
first day... was overseeing drills with the sec 1s... then suddenly huishan and shu fang show up for judo, and they start laughing at me :( johnsten pointed out to me coz my back was towards them. then soon my dear ronald and johnsten were going "marcus where are your gfs?" then i just gave them the diao look lah... nothing more to say. before that gave the sec 3s a planning lecture. HOPEFULLY it helped them, have no idea about that, gotta get some feedback. in the evening gave the sec 2s their PT. all stationary for them... 130 pushups, 130 situps, 100 knee ups, and 32x8 jumping jacks. did some sprints and some jumping lah... quite a number of them fell out... don't know if they're really injured or what, maybe they just cannot push themselves. anyway i think they enjoyed it. at night 4 hours of interviews... about 12.30 to 4.30. slept for 1 hour and 50 minutes that night.
Day 2:
woke up at 6.30 the next morning... dear NCOs overslept, so did the rest of the unit. anyway PT started late... wanted to whack them already. anyway left to CJ for lesson at about 9. couldn't stay awake in either chinese or econs lesson. no matter how hard i tried. once i leaned back i fell asleep... when i leaned forward my hand naturally found my head and i was falling asleep again :p rushed back once lessons ended, and i mean rushed! had my lecture on leadership and 7 core values to the sec 3s... they more or less know about the core values already lah... read the cadets manual can already. ian, chew yi, brian, ben, shawn and inami came along for the campfire. good to see that some of my squadmates still band together for outings and stuff... don't see that with other squads before mine. campfire wasn't as long as i expected, as NCOs wanted to have more times for other activities. sec 3s took their sergeant test at 11.13... was invigilating them and stuff. well all of them passed, but those i expected to do well didn't do THAT well. but well enough i guess... slept at around 2 that night.
Day 3:
got up at 5.30 for a meeting with the NCOs, jack went through some stuff that i found extremely relevant. after the meeting, absolutely could stay awake so fell asleep on the LT floor. 1 hour later i woke up when the sec 3s came. when i stood up my right leg suddenly went numb and i collapsed!!! hahaha luckily the LT chairs were there otherwise i'd have been on the floor already. sat through the lecture... HO's new system for NCOs, going to affect me greatly next year as i'll be one of the older CIs in the unit then. after that went down to our room... brian, shem, inami and shawn playing cards with a packet of chips... i gulped up quite alot of it hahaha. but it was only after tt tt i realised that breakfast was waiting on the table :p the rest of the day was rather subtle and mellow for me.
some figures for you in indulge in...
number of CITs - 1
number of PCIs - 3
number of CIs - 2
number of ex-CIs - 1
number of HIs - 1
number of times i bathed - 1
number of times i brushed my teeth - 2
number of days of camp - 3
number of hours i slept in 3 days - 8
number of CCAs having camp at the same time - 3 (hockey and SJAB too)
any other details you'd like to know... just tag me hahaha! most probably goin to NY tomorrow for last day of NCOTC, that's if i can wake up tomorrow morning lah. Cheers.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
4 days down... 8 more to go...
days saturday to tuesday of my "tiring 1.5 weeks" are over. yesterday and today, lessons in the morning... really quite sian lah. felt the same level of fatigue as before the holidays, but felt more like just falling asleep. many many people in class were lying on table falling asleep. guess the words holidays mean rest, but we can't get it. physics and maths lectures on both days were... informative yet boring. fell asleep during maths lecture on both days, but somehow managed to stay awake during physics.
volleyball training on monday was ok i guess... hot and extremely windy day. digging balls was a hassle lah, go too high and they fly everywhere :p kept receiving spikes and services from coach in the cave. and just kept digging as usual. both days did more or less the same thing lah. coach taught us how to hit balls backwards... could be better i guess. did some PT right at the ends... ok lah been through worse i guess. actually to date almost any PT is better than mass PE :p hopefully my sec 2s can survive my PE during UTC... should be interesting to see how far they can push themselves... hopefully my first proper training session with them since January goes ok.
hopefully can fulfill my probation requirements by the end of next week. going to get my 50 hours in less than 3 days, and most probably going with jay jay to PK course... that means i'll be done!!! YAY!!! i want my rank by July!!! :)
still got to prepare my lectures, get ready my stuff for 2 camps, prepare my uniform, and get my bag back from cindy. somehow i think i've offended her though... ain't replying smses or msn msgs... sounds rather familiar... hmmmmm...
8 more days to go!!! after that back to books... as glenn so elegantly put it.. CHIONG SUA!!! Cheers!
