just a quote...

Got this from zi xin who got this from mrs tan choy ping...
"It is better to be a something in a nothing than to be a nothing in a something..."

and i added this part...
"...this is so that u can make a something out of that nothing and not remain a nothing in that something."

basically the idea is that one does not learn much if he does not get himself involved in whatever or whoever he is working for. so folks, in whatever u do, make sure u put your heart and soul into it, otherwise it ain't worth your time!!!

Cheers.

looking forward & thinking back...

a whole new year will start tomorrow, and a whole new school year will start in 2 days time. i'm looking forward to a new experience, since i've been out of a co-ed system for 4 years. there will definitely be a different way in which i view girls in jc, especially since in primary school we were quarreling most of the time :p haha primary school was fun... from playing hopscotch in primary 1 and 2, to playing table tennis in primary 3 and 4, and finally playing soccer in primary 5 and 6. in secondary school....sec 1, 2 and 3 mainly soccer, sec 4 mainly basketball, soccer, badminton, some tennis now and then. wonder how next 2 years will be like. most probably have less time to play all these sports. wonder what kind of drastic effects being a CI will have on my life. will definitely be more busy, since i've gotta take 2 CCAs next year, but at least we're taking less subjects :p only 5, GP, chinese, and hopefully maths econs and physics. will be seeing numbers in my sleep in a while. wondering how messy the place will be on friday. hopefully i don't end up with a bunch of irritating IJ girls in my OG, otherwise i might just flip out and go nuts....hmmmm.....

Cheers.

last saturday of the holz...

woke up at 10.10, then rushed to tanglin to meet up for a 2 hr badminton game. played 2 hrs non-stop again, but this time was more intensive. got people like ben tay, victor and zhi hong, all quite good. also got brian, ian yap, pradeep and donovan. played in 2 courts. played one doubles match with donavan, against brian and pradeep. lost that set 2-1, was really funny the way we'll played.

after that, played with victor, in another doubles match against zhi hong and ben tay. that one we won, but because victor is school badminton team lah, but not that i didn't play :p my smashes have improved, especially my backhand one, only that my netting still sucks. as in i can return when the shuttlecock's at the net, but i cannot hit the shuttlecock to near the net. guess i'll work on that in my own free time.

after the whole thing, came home makan lunch. after lunch my right shoulder blade started aching. guess overstretched a few muscles. spent the rest of my afternoon playing GTA 4 and going ntuc shopping. quite a sub-standard day lah. fell asleep on the sofa after dinner. woke up at 10+, and now typing blog entry.... watching a WWII movie on the german invasion of russia. mainly about the birth of snipers. quite cool, considering it's a movie about WWII. come to think of it, i like all movies about WWII. there was a movie during the CI BTC which was the life story about hitler, couldn't watch it, wasted :(

oh well looks like the 1st holiday in 4 years without holiday homework is coming to an end. next time will be in 2 years. less than a week to go. before i know it i'll be writing an entry here about my 1st day in JC. whoosh............Cheers.

christmas & boxing day...

i wonder why they call this day boxing day....maybe some time back alot of people got involved in some bar brawl or something, boxed the hell out of each other or something :p maybe over some christmas presents... hmmmm....

anywayz christmas eve dinner was nice. had ham, beef and turkey. baby back ribs, potatoes. meaty food.....all i need to put on weight again :) so eat eat eat, stuffed down the food, bloated, but a good feeling :p left house at 10.30 for midnight service. was an ok service, sang sang sang, dozed off during the sermon AGAIN...ahem ahem. got home at about 1, watched CSI and ate more, some rasin cookies, filling stuff. realised that i'm the opposite of alot of people, people wanna lose weight while i wanna gain it, i'm a rare gem in singapore society!! :)

christmas morning got up at abt 9.30. ate mee pok for breakfast, then slacked arnd until 11.15, left for aunt's house for christmas lunch 1. the cuttlefish balls were great, i ate like 10+, nearly 15 i think. then got curry puffs, nor hiang (or however u spell it), mee siam, bee hon, chicken wings, some funny desserts tt i didn't eat. eat tok eat tok until 2.30, then left fr my dad's cousin's house for christmas lunch 2. there got spagetti, ham, garlic bread, durian cake and cheese cake. but i was too full from all the cuttlefish balls, so i only ate the ham and garlic bread. it was good, mixed them together, got an interesting taste. night time had spagetti. the sauce was nice, could've eaten it alone, with no noodles, but too bad there wasn't enough. slept at 2.30 in the end, playing computer and watching godzilla on axn and the ending of shallow hal on star movies.

boxing day morning, woke up at 9, due to a certain incident i shan't mention. later on going for meeting. won't write here what i feel about it, got alot in my mind about the whole thing...kinda worried. oh wells looking forward to next friday. new environment, which also means new challenges. at least i have quite a few familiar faces that i'll be seeing. should make the experience less....frightening shall i say? or just uneasy.....

Cheers.

been a week...

long time since i updated me blog. since then, nothing too special has gone on. on saturday went to He Yao Shan's live concert at city harvest church with cindy. apparently brendan went at the same time as me but didn't see him or his hair :p after that went out her and some of her church friends to jurong point eat yong tao fu...spent 5 bucks on it, but didn't feel 100% full.

sunday my cousin came to stay over at my house. he's still staying over until january, as his dad wants him to study damn hard for his GCSE exams in june next year. so he's been going to my aunt's house everyday to study there, as there is absolutely nothing that can distract him in their house, and that completely sucks. thank goodness my exams are over, or else i might be joining him!!!

monday went to school for 1st training and meeting as a PCI. not much of a different feeling. improvements in every department, although sense of urgency is still leaving me a bit worried. flagpole team is doing good, just gotta tighten their lashings a bit more. clocks are fine, but tension still lacking and time for securing is taking way too long. tent pegging team currently taking 20 seconds to start pegging, gotta cut it down to 10, and they gotta figure out their twine snapping problems, both of these through experience lah.

yesterday the basketball pole arrived. shortest height is 7.5 feet, tallest is 10 feet. right now playing with 9 feet. tall enough for me lah... after that went to meet lizz and becca at clementi sports hall for a round of badminton. ended up playing for 1 hour, 2 hours short of my previous longest time. well since becca was tired and there was no way that lizz was going to play, so came home and played basketball with my new pole :)

ah yes finally got my music back, still sticking with my james bond tune, as not much else really interests me, unless u want me to put the metallica version of the star wars theme. christmas is tomorrow, christmas tree not up this year in fear that zen my husky will chew it up, since she's already destroyed the rubber mat outside my house. going to collect turkey and what not with my mum later, not that i'm complaining. following my 16 year tradition i didn't buy any christmas presents for anyone this year.... but i haven't sent out any e-cards this time, maybe i'll get down to it later if my mum doesn't have any more things for me to do. most likely going to midnight service tonight (or tomorrow morning, whichever u fancy), been trying my best to catch up with my sleep debt, but the holz has wizzed by so quickly, must sleep more!! have a merry christmas to all reading my blog :) Cheers....zzzzzzzzzz