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man, working on a sunday sucks. but i guess that's what you get for totally not working on friday and saturday.
and my blogging frequency has been dropping like crazy! been feeling too lazy and tired to blog recently.
anyway, the past week has been more of the same, with night study everyday and waking up feeling dead the next day, enduring till the weekend then recover to chiong for another week.
though i cheated on friday by not staying to study cos really no mood sia. though is mainly cos got no one to study with that day.
someone pei me study leh. study alone really, really very sian and like no motivation de.
sat was kinda weird cos never go for training.
not my choice though, there was geo lessons and akagi( hek ming) didn't tell mr lee about it so mr lee never change the time and then had to go for the lessons lor.
and i heard that the training was fun lor. damn... to think i wasted the time sleeping in the geo lecture instead.
anyway, after that, we went to buy the teacher's day present with 4e4 ppl. long time never see them le but most of them didn't change much, still the same old bunch of people. walked around abit before buying some presents for the teachers then the guys excluding jy and hk went to hougang plaza to play pool le.
pretty fun game cos everyone is in a pretty good mood. went for dinner after that and had a nice time chatting. quite looking forward to the usual chat on teacher's day eve!
decided yesterday to go to the gym today with yj but man plans and god forbids.
in this case, it took the form of a rain.
so we waited for the rain to stop before going to the gym.
for some reason, the people in the hougang gym are like always very nice and polite de sia. after going there so many times, i don't think i have met any rude people there. everyone is always polite when asking if you are done or stuff liddat and are always willing to help.
nice place!
after training, we went to the coffee shop at hougang plaza where i proceeded to try and tempt yj into eating the hot plate by choosing a seat that's directly opposite the stall cos he was trying to lose weight. quite alot of temptation cos it's like every table around us was ordering the hotplate western food. i like the hotplate there!
but due to recent budget constraints cannot eat anything i like liao. sian!
if only money grows on trees or drop from the sky.
i think there are something that i am really stupid at but i can't seem to do anything about them so i guess i just have to bear with them until i discover some miracle that can make me better at them...
wohoo! pretty great couple of days. not sure why i am feeling good but i feel much better then on sunday la.
we had a trash talk on mon which didn't amount to much cos nothing much was said but then the fun started after the talks when the guys went out to wait for the girls to finish.
you see, it so happens that 3 of the db guys had birthdays very close to each other. wei ji's on the 18, mine on the 20 and bonn on the 21.
and so we got tortured.
wei ji got taupoked and shoes hidden so he had to run around looking for his shoes.
i got semi-pillared, as in i managed to protect myself sufficiently so that the only part that hurts is my thighs and stripped.
bonn got stripped and then taupok.
ahhh... these are some traditions i can live without.
can't wait for ikitia's bday next year so i can get my revenge...
anyway, we had quite alot of fun in school during that time and it was pretty good.
then stayed for night study, as i promised myself to do everynight.
then 0607 celebrated my birthday today!
funny place though, at the coffeeshop. they got me a pair of billabong slippers and cakes that they tried to smash onto my face while i was eating it. thankfully, it was already halfway in my mouth so there's wasn't much damage done apart from the shock.
i love 0607!
ps: sorry for the hurried post. couldn't get myself out of rome: total war so i didn't have much time to blog this entry before going to sleep.
ok. got over it. from now on, i am going to try and stop hoping that anything nice will actually happen on my birthday because it won't. without hoping anything, at least i won't feel so pathetic.
but i think that is somehow impossible cos humans are a creature of hopes to begin with. but at least doing that will somehow minimise the impact?
had a talk with wenqin eariler in the afternoon and it was kinda funny with the two of us comparing whose birthdays was worse. felt better after that.
the past two days weren't too bad actually so it would have been a pretty good weekend if it wasn't my birthday.
the class celebrated my birthday with the usual two one person size cakes that everyone gets. come to think of it, there's really alot of people born on august isn't there? i think the time 10 months before august is a good time to do something?
anyway, it was pretty funny cos they got me the trick candle which would reignite after blowing it out. pity was that i already knew what it was cos i saw it once on my uncle's birthday where he blew 40+ of them out and got a shock when they all relighted.
tip: if your candle looks very thin and the flame is super strong even in the wind, chances are that it's a trick candle so prepare for it.
sat was kinda packed. went for the film forum thingy cos i couldn't find an excuse not to cos the teacher already asked mrs koh for leave. it was pretty interesting though, with film makers talking about the process they went through when they made a film. there were a few guestspeakers like a horny old man who made a movie 30 years ago when where was still wilderness in singapore and the author of talkingcock.com. it was pretty interesting to hear a lively q&a session for once although they were mainly by outsiders.
felt pretty bad about not going for mrs koh lecture though... especially as i even went to ask her if we could join the lecture halfway cos i didn't want to miss the whole lecture but in the end also nvr go. but really could find a good time to go la.
then after eating a hurried lunch, took cab down to sdba and had to like almost immediatly jump into the boat.
rowing was quite ok that day and it was pretty fun on both the mixed boats and on the guys boat but for different reasons.
after we got on shore though... it was horrible. i got pinned down and tortured. shalln't mention how i got tortured here cos it's too embarrasing. it was freaking painful though.
went to golden mile to eat with some of the guys and then went to some super ulu place to play pool that no one would have expected to exist if someone didn't bring you there. had a pretty fun time there too.
after that though, i made a bad choice. i saw suntec city de building in the distance and thought we were quite near it and convinced the others to walk to there instead of walking to lavander station which was near there. turns out that what you can see isn't always very near cos we walked for like 50 minutes before we got to city hall? lol... walked from kallang to city hall lor. win liao.
luckily, the others were nice ppl and didn't blame me for it. had an enjoyable time walking through a part of the CBD that we wouldn't usually see. and there was alot of great looking food on the way too! pity we had already ate...
there's this steamboat shop that spans a huge stretch of the street with full tables all the way and loads of ppl queuing. and i really mean a huge stretch cos there were 3 seperate long queues for the steamboat. though the food didn't look that great to me la.
walking long distance in slippers is not good for your feet.
anticipitation brings hope. hope brings you to hope about surprises. and hoping for surprises that never comes makes you feel like shit.
if i can have a wish, i wish that i can forget my birthday so that anything that happens will be a pleasant surprise instead of having to hope for something that never comes.
zhu wo shen ri quai le
I hate it.
for me, it's just a day that makes me feel pathetic.
because, unlike most ppl's birthdays, my one is not a happy and jolly affair but is instead a day where i am sianed out of my mind.
this is the second year running where i am spending my birthday all alone at home doing nothing but rotting.
"hmm? your family don't celebrate your birthday with you meh?"
nope. i don't think my family has celebrated my birthday since i was like 5 and i only remember that cos i saw a photo of a young me when i was still cute with a birthday cake. can't remember any other occasions that my family celebrated my birthday liao.
at least last year i still could use prelims being 2 days from my birthday as an excuse to console myself but kinda hard to find a reason this year unless i wanna use everyone studying like mad for the promos in 1 month+ time.
infact, the only time i remembered my birthday was celebrated was in sec 3 and that was cos i was desperate enough to want someone to celebrate my birthday with me to treat half the class to kfc cos i didn't think it would be celebrated otherwise.
pathetic la. that's the only word for it.
i simply hate my birthdays. and worse of all is when i see msg that tells me to enjoy my day cos it's like the top 3 worst day of the year for me every year.
birthdays? PUI!
however, with that being said, i still gotta thank those people who still actually remembered it and wished me a happy birthday.
from the order i received them, hankee, charis, yinning, kudin, wenqin, caiying, yongjun, yuanting, soonheng, gwen, jesslyn, weiying, sebestian, sarah, eugene and yongliang, zheying
thanks alot to all these people who remembered my birthday and took the effort to wished me! love you all.
i finally acted on what i said i would do for once! acted on the motivation i had yesterday and tried out the night study thingy.
which wasn't too bad, kinda like the stuff i did in sec four that time before o level, studying till night time in school.
at least it's a better use of my time then doing something stupid like wasting time doing nothing.
which i seem to do alot of.
anyway, i am gonna get going while the going's good and chiong for a while.
i decided to work hard towards my goals liao le!
first act: stay in school and study everyday i am free. i.e: everyday except for wed.
second act: stop wasting time doing nothing.
however, i am not gonna do what mr quek said and dun do the stuff normal teenagers do.
infact, i am gonna work hard and play harder so i am gonna relax completely and recharge during the weekends and chiong on weekdays.
after all, i will die if i just work and don't play.
so i am still gonna go for movies and outing and all those stuff to relax and spend leisure time chatting with friends and so on.
and i am gonna work hard during training too!
infact, while i am working hard, might as well make myself a new goal.
get into the honours roll at the end of the year! i need a lot of hard work to do that but since there's like nothing else to aim for, might as well aim for that. at least if i don't make it into there, i will still be doing alot better then i would without a goal.
prepare for a brand new eric! of course, most people won't notice any changes since most of the time i am gonna spend doing all those stuff are gonna come from the time i spend doing- nothing-and-waiting-for-nothing-to-happen now.
so now i gotta maximise my private benefit in the shortest time to the the most possible marginal utility!
*hopefully this is not a san fen zhong re du or else i am gonna be so embarrassed when ppl ask me about it if it is after talking so much crap.
today, mr mao came to our table and sat down and started talking with hj and sheri. for some reason, the conversation drifted to what they wanted to do in the future(hj wanted to be a taitai) and he started talking about various jobs and what they are about. that got me thinking abit. what do i want to be in the future? currently, i am on the idea of journalism and economics. if nothing goes wrong and provided i am able to make it to almost any job i want, these are the two i am most interested in. of course, if all else fails, there's still the normal office jobs, which can be interesting or not, depending on the position i take up and the company i work for. however, if i can, i still want to go into either journalism or economics. i have always been fascinated with the idea of journalism. when i was younger, my dream job was to write for a games mag. after all, i loved playing games and i love writing( at times) and what could be better then to get the best of both world and get a job that allows me to do both at the same time? however, i gave up that idea as i grow up due to pratical reasons. i still loved the idea of that job but there is no market for such a job in singapore so i had no choice but to give up that idea. however, i still liked the idea of writing for a job and i came upon journalism. it's not an easy job to pursue. i know that my writing skills are not there yet and my spellling is still horrible but those can be overcome in time. however, the main problem is that the market for journalist, while there, is rather small due to the limited number of publication companies that there is in singapore so it would be a rather risky choice. i would love to be able to get such a job sia. at the very least, you would be learning about new stuff everyday and do not have to do repeative, mundane stuff. i think the idea of asking me to do the same thing over and over again for like 40 years is enough to bored me to tears so being in journalism would solve that problem. after all, the news is different everyday. of course, i would prefer to write stuff that are of a more light-hearted nature like those you see in Life! and on sunday times though. i think it would be a pretty suitable job for someone of my character if i know myself well enough. however, recently, i also got interested in the idea of economics, mainly due to the two great economics teacher i have had. mrs chong was a very nice, motherly teacher who taught pretty well while ms ho is like one of the most hardworking teacher i know so far. i can really see the effort she has put into teaching us and how much she is doing for us so that got me interested in economics. another reason would be that i was always interested in money of course :X economics is a pretty pratical thing to take in uni as well, because of the large number of jobs that you can take up, for example in the banking sector. doesn't seeing so many reports of rich bankers in the newspaper makes you interested in banking? of course, getting the job is the hard part. then there is the numerous host of other jobs you can take up, seeing that just about everything has some relation to economics so it's a pretty safe choice as well. if i am not wrong, it allows you to deal with a large number of people too so that should be quite interesting. i think it boils down to two factor for me. interest or praticality. oh well, i guess i will decide when the time comes seeing that i have like 3 more years to decide. (guys gotta go serve ns remember?) in the meanwhile, i shall try and find out more infomation about them so i can make a better informed choice. of course, there's also the work-hard-and-make-sure-that-you-can-do-what-you-want-to-do part. so i shall work hard towards my goal! (hmm...for some reason, i think saying out what i want to become and setting a goal for myself gave me some motivation to work harder. let's see how long this drive can last me) what about you? what are you interested in becoming in the future?
sat was fun!
rushed down to marina south for steamboat after training cos i was late le and played arcade there for a while.
pretty fun, though the only arcade game i am any good at is those shooting de nia.
soon, we went to have the steamboat le. i think i have been having steamboat at that particular stall for the last few times i went for steamboat le. well, the surrounding is among the better one cos it's open air and more suitable for steamboat i guess?
steamboat is more like a chatting session then actually eating cos well... let's say non of us are superb cooks? and chatting with my old ct is fun!
oh yeah, i forgot to mention why we were there in the first place. it's a farewell for alex who is going to US on a scholarship to study.
cool sia! imagine going abroad to study and being in a totally new enviroment! everyday would be a totally new experience and you can learn something new everyday instead of doing the same thing over and over again everyday here.
though i guess a new experience can be both good and bad, i am guessing that alex will have a pretty good time there.
however, he's also giving up alot la, like his family and friends as well as his gf. i think i would have some problem giving up everything and going elsewhere alone cos it's like ren sheng di bu shou and you go there le encounter any problems also dunno who to find for help like abit cham too.
still, i wish him all the best!
anyway, back to the steamboat.
for some reason, i ended up being the soup refiller and kept going to the place where they put all the kettles of soup and more then once( actually alot of times), i ended up being stopped by ppl who thought i was a worker there and asked me to add soup for them.
-_-''...
hello... all the workers there are wearing yellow and i am wearing white???
right when we have finished eating and were about to leave, the fireworks started!
it's like everyone left their tables and went to watch the fireworks lor. and there were alot of sound effects apart from the booming of the explosions of the fireworks, all the ooooing and the ahhhing so there was a pretty nice atmosphere although there was a stupid tree in the way.
fireworks are beautiful though when you think about the hundreds of thousands that just went boom, you might wonder if it's a good use of the money or not.
oh well, as long as the government is making so much money and our economy is doing well, i guess it's ok.
how the heck the maintain this kinda growth anyway. it's like there have been growth of more then 5% for dunno how many years liao.
not that i am really concerned about it though.
i think i quite enjoy steamboat, though i always end up with a feeling that my hand is cooked from all the hot spurts of oil. and if it's steamboat with ex-0607, i love it!
what i wouldn't give to have the group of the more outgoing 0607 ppl to be in the same class again sia...
why is it always when something is gone do you start to treasure it?
human is a species of funny animals.
wohoo! The trip to sentosa was fun!
it didn't start off too well though, because more then half of the people suddenly decided not to go. didn't bother me too much this time round since i wasn't the one organising though.
so me, ben heng, jiayong, kobe, huijeen and sarah went in the end.
i think it's like a record or something for an outing with e4 ppl to sentosa cos we managed to get to the beach before 12!
normally, by the time we get there, it will be like 2 or something.
so we had a long time on the beach that day!
before we got there, we thought that the beach was gonna be super crowded but it wasn't all that bad, at least we had a decent amount of space to play our games on.
something i wanna comment on before i start on all the photos though.
there was alot, ALOT of ppl who are working in singapore in selected industries but are not born here who got featured during the christmas/new year count down period doing stuff they are not supposed to there in full force at sentosa in their long sleeve shirt and long pants and cameras that day. i think you all get what i mean and nothing racist was said right?
well, they pissed me off to no end cos they obviously wasn't there to enjoy the beach for what it is but are there for some of the other attractions. and who in the world goes to the beach in that gear? they were like standing at the beach for hours on end not doing anything but walking around and taking photos of the other attractions and staring at them. wth lor, can they like stop doing this kinda stuff? it's not that we are racist or not but it's what they all do that irratates us lor. heck, we would be pissed if any group of people did that, not just because they are of a certain race.
with that out of the way, lets get on to the more fun stuff!
we played some ball games at the start but then we quickly grew bored of it, especially it was a little too crowded to play safely. so we proceeded to playing card games! well, small groups and big groups naturally play different games de ma.
first of all, we started with Dare, thinking that it will be a short game but it turns out to be the highlight of the day. most of the dare revolves around the carama huijeen happened to possess so you can just see what are the dares we did.
the first one to lose(we played a game where we simply drew 5 cards and see who had the biggest hand according to poker rules) was jiayong!
classic pic lor i tell you. to all of us this dare was damn easy so we started with this one but it turns out to be a tough dare for jy.
here is us playing our game of Dare.
sarah's dare was to take a photo with a little boy but she got rejected twice before she managed to pursude this boy to take the photo, with much help from the boy's sister, who was more then willing to take the photo.
ben heng's was an easy one, though the hidden catch was that the owner was a jap who didn't understand english so he got by with sign language. LOL
stupid kobe is so lucky. his dare was to take a photo with his hot girl whom we all picked specially for him.
stupid kobe is so damn lucky again. this time is with a caucasian.
however... i got stuck doing stupid dares like this...
and this...-_-''....
kobe wasn't so lucky this time round and had to become a koala bear.
huijeen was very lucky and only had to sing out the ABC song out loud while ben heng got one that got him to say the xinmin's student creed aloud.
we ran out of things to take photos with so we turned to the next best alternative.
ourselves!
here's how it goes. we decided that all 6 of us will keep doing this dare until only one survives. sarah was that lucky one while the other 5 of us had to take 5 act cute photos. mind you, here is 4 guys not used to acting cute so it's kinda gross.
prepare yourself for the act cute pics by the 4 guys! (hj left hers out when she blogged so i couldn't get the photos.
feel like puking yet?
lol... lucky it was only a small group of us, all of whom we all know very well so it wasn't that bad.
i think alot of the dares wouldn't have been done if there was a large group though.
finally, our group photos!
ahh... it was a fun day indeed! we also played some touch rugby on the now almost empty beach, which was pretty fun too!
then we proceeded to habourfront center for a not-so-nice dinner at pastamania. hmm... the food here isn't exactly very nice is it? oh well, at least the ham and sausage rice i had this time round was better then the caborana i had the last time, which i totally couldn't finish. i think pastamania food's taste is a little too stong for my taste le la. eat abit then feel ni liao.
great day out at the beach!
today wasn't so nice though, it was filled with pw, pw and more pw, which i hate. at least there isn't that much more to go on though so hopefully it will finish soon...
here's another thing i love about national day
the songs!
wah, i love national day songs lor, loved them since pri sch when "Home" came out. My favourite national day song sia. and i don't think i am the only one after i heard the ppl singing it in the hall today! though the gp teachers keep saying it has propaganda meanings but who cares? as long as it is nice and comforting can liao.
today was a fun race together with a fund raise. though the fund raise was kinda crappy since it was two person to one tin and they gave us a very short time where we had to travel to 3 places and answer qns from the fun race. plus the locations they gave us were both crappy and saturated with ppl asking for donations cos in addition to the like 4 or 5 classes at one location at anytime, NUS was out in full force in their blue t-shirts asking for donation too. and they were everywhere i tell you. after we were dismissed i took the bus like every single major point got them de lor.
kong bu...
still, it was rather fun walking around the heartlands and exploring. and for a wonder, i didn't get lost even though i walked around alot around places i pratically haven been to before! for a lu chi like me quite a miracle liao.
after that went to shunjie house to continue with the podcast for geo thingy. man, i speak like a freaking machine gun. didn't realise how fast i was speaking till i heard it myself.
oh well, at least ppl huhing at what you say beats people sleeping at what you say.
sometimes i can't stand myself...
did i ever mention that i love national day?
great timing lor, exactly the right time to give us some rest before chionging for the promos. if we get actually get the full rest without having to do the stupid pw that's due on fri that is...
still, at least it will provide some time where we can go out and have some fun!
plan: mon come back chiong some work so the other days dun have to work.
tues:slack and relax
wed: sentosa!
thurs: chiong pw
looks pretty ok, work and play looks pretty even though i wish that pw thingy isn't there...
sentosa!!! i just love going to sentosa and lay in the water. hopefully no one tries to drown me this time round.
best of all, can meet with people i haven seen for a long time le.
*wondering how they have changed.
pity some people couldn't make it though, cos gotta study for tests. evil teachers give test on fri to take away our holidays.
there should be a rule or something that disallow tests and exams right after holidays.
oh well, i can dream, can't i?
ahh!!! what a week! thank god it's finally friday. i can't remember the last time i was so happy at the end of the last period of the week.
super long week with tonnes of things to do and not so many actually done. thankfully, it's over le.
had a couple of tests these week, most of them quite ok la.
now starting to feel the drain more le since i have actually started trying to do some of my hw at home but i am still surviving fine so that's all ok.
if there's one thing that i want to learn right now, it is how to conversational skills.
god, it's annoying when you want to talk yet dunno what to talk about in the end never even talk.
honestly though, is there way to learn it? and quickly?
another thing i wanna do is to learn to like running more.
currently, i hate running unless it is at my own pace but i gotta face it cos i am in a cca that needs to run alot and hating running aren't gonna help.
to myself: let nature take it's course and stop wanting stupid things you idiot! it's not gonna happen just cos you want it and you dun wanna stupid stuff to happen again right? so control yourself!!!