Friday, March 23, 2007 | 3:15 am

the old lie

sighz, u noe, after all dese stuff, i've finally come to realize one thing: the thought never counts, the saying dat its the thought dat counts is a lie.

at least in reality.

Monday, March 05, 2007 | 10:44 pm

the wkend! + mondae

ok s***, dis is yet another long overdue post. )= when i begin to procrastinate, sometimes e momentum's so great i juz cant stop. n i've been rather gd at dat lately. but dats another story.

okie, e wkend! woke up at 6am n checked my hp, to find a reply frm t, stating dat she cant go out dat dae cos cts r comin up n she had ta mug. i do hope she does rmb to take care of her health too.

hmmm, sat went down to FM to train as usual, lesson an hr earlier at 7am, which also suits mi as i had ta go 4 skool trg as e sabreurs r takin a foto 4 e skool newspaper so i was considerin not ggin down to FM. well, as it turns out, it was on dis veh sat dat all e sabreurs decide to turn up. n not juz e usual peter n mongee n even e rare nadiyrah, i mean, even morgen came lor! damn )= quite sad, cos i could onli fence a few round robin rounds b4 i had ta quit e mini tourney n go 4 skool trg. )=

in skool trg as usual, till dis stupid game which was supposed to mimic a real tourney. i had ta face off against kok siong in e 1st round lor n we took e longest cos both of us were exp fencers. den at 3-2, he was up by a pt, e others had alrdy finished, while we were still fighting 4 e first to 5 pts. den i made it 3-3 n e coach gave up n said final pt. which was crap cos in e final pt, i lunged, missed, n my front heel stepped on a wet patch on e ground, prob sweat, n slipped, so my weight was half placed on my right knee which hurt l8r, n e other half on my ankle which i slightly sprained. so he juz walked up to mi n touched mi n scored e pt. lyk, wth. damnit la. neways l8r he fenced benedict hu won him n in e end benedict lost e semis. so e exp sabreurs effectively knocked each other outta e thingy. great. brilliant. 'nuff said, i stopped trg after dat cos of my knee n rested. right toe was also bad as usual )= e other coach hus in charge of foil n overall in charge, henry, told mi to take care of my toe n to stop fencing for at least a wk, sth which i cant afford to cos of msian open comin up n inter skools comin up. hell la, i tink i'll juz train till i drop. dun care liaoz. neways after dat e sabreurs took fotos, nth much, except dat we used 1 trophy cos keith 4got to bring his. n he was holding e teacher's rainbow blade sabre which looked damn cool, cos he din own a sabre. oh, on a side note, i found someone else hu does salsa, n surprisingly too, cos i din expect it. joel, a yr 5 foilist, does salsa at bt timah cc. quite cool. apparently he's been learnin 4 quite some time too, so yeah, at least i've got someone to take pointers frm. (=

after dat, went home to crash, play some com, crashed again. den went out studying wif tim wee, gab n xh again. actuali i was supposed to stay home n do my ee draft n tok 2nd draft, but well, i guess i love e company, n opposed to lugging my laptop dere to do my essays which will kill mi cos e laptop's so heavy, i chose to bring a lighter, maths tb n notes to prac maths 4 e upcoming test which im so gonna die in. )= hahaha, neways was late la, overslept, got dere an hr late, as usual. gab n wee were alrdy dere, i tot gab was gonna kill mi cos i made him a lightbulb again lyk i did last wk, but thx God xh wasnt dere yet. so when i reached, wee had ta go off to look 4 xh hu went to skool 4 trg or sth. so mi n gab mugged, rather silently. till xh came. yeah, den we started tokin abit. wee n xh got sth to eat, yadda yadda. den dere was a pt where dey started behavin veh intimately, so mi n gab exchanged looks n immediately n rather noisily made off for a 'short walk'. off course e couple paid no notice la, but nvm. lol. better den glowing a 100 watts. when we came baq, dey were still at it, so we were lyk, 'not done yet arh? okie nvm we'll go off 4 another short walk'. l8r i told gab dat we were appearing gay. nvm la. small stuff. after mugging for wad seemed an agonizingly long time, we went to play pool. was okie la, i managed to pull off a few nice shots, but yeah, e lack of prac was apparent. )= i cant even do a 3 wall bank shot accurately lor... nvm.

okie la, after dat xh wanted to play e arcade, while i wanted to get some sweets for t cos when she next replied mi at arnd 6pm while i was mugging (i replied to her earlier msg askin when her cts were) n told mi when her cts were, i suddenly had a brainwave which was prob e most brilliant one i ever had, which was to get her chocs or sweets or sth cos she was prob mugging at home den, to cheer her up (=. told e guys abt it, xh said it was sweet, which was e greenlight to go ahead. neways so mi n gab made our way down to candy empire at millenia walk while wee n xh happily went over to e arcade. yeah, when we reached dere, e place was closing, but thxfully not closed yet. so i rushed to grab a plastic bag n grab some chocs paying attention to flavour n variety (i dun reali noe wad kinda chocs she lyks, must rmb to ask her next time). den i rushed to e counter, paid 4 it n walked out. but yeah, by dat time gab alrdy received a call frm wee n xh sayin dey're ggin home liaoz la. so okie lor, mi n gab slowly walked to e mrt. at e mrt, i tried callin t to find out whether she's at home n whether she'll be free if i were to drop by e guardhouse to pass her sth. unfortunately, t's hp was off, so i tried goin e round-a-bout way by callin keegan n ask him to check him msn to see if she was online. which became an even bigger loop in e 'round-a-bout sense', cos i couldnt get keegan by fone, so i called ryan to poke keegan on msn to pick up his fone. so i off course spent time tokin to ryan, den keegan hu den said dat t was not online )= bleahx. meanwhile, i boarded e train wif gab towards marina bay cos we reasoned if we took it frm marina bay it'll be less crowded, n neways if i reali couldnt contect t, it'll be on e way home 4 mi. okie lor, it was on e way home 4 mi, albeit a few wrong turns (i took e wrong train on e east west line n had to take e train baq in e other direction, bleahx). when i reached redhill, a stop away frm queenstown, i received a msg frm t askin mi wads e matter. so yah, told her i wanted to ask her if she's at home cos i wanted to pass her sth, n she asked mi whether i was in e area. bleahx. i said i was kinda in e area but i moved away frm it liaoz )= oh well.

got home, was feelin down n tired, started to bitch to angie online abt how wrong her theory abt e gd sweet guys winning in e end is so wrong, cos of stuff lyk dis. i was juz tryin to be sweet, n as gab put it, i ended up being a victim of circumstances. i guess circumstances must reali haf sth big against mi eh? n yah, 4 once angie couldnt defend her theory. so much 4 mi aiming to be e sweetest guy in e world. bleahx.

sundae, nth much la, went to church, went home so slack n play com 4 awhile (was supposed to go gym, but oh well, did i mention i procrastinate? :P) den discovered it was time 4 mi to wash up n prepare to go out 4 dinner. god-grandma's fam havin dinner, somehow we're involved. which was fine wif mi la, cos we noe their fam, n she was e one hu gave mi chi tuition (yes i do haf chi tuition, how do u tink i got a 7 for chi for ib? no it din fall frm e sky or i'll haf a beeg concussion on my head now). had abit of a fracas at e gantry for entry to e carpark. basically, dis car in front of us was havin trouble as e thingy juz wun read her transponder n raise e bar, so yeah, my dad was using dese large hand gestures n shouting at her to move forward closer to e bar so e thingy might perhaps read her transponder n raise e bar. basically he was looking lyk n idiot. my sis n i started shouting at him to shut up n calm down, cos its not as if we were late or godzilla's chasing us or sth. my mom also joined in. but my brilliant dad instead started soundin e horn in an attempt to get her attention. in e end he got fed up n turned into e other lane when dere werent any cars dere. sighz. n pple lyk rng can sae my dad's cute. bleahx. okie, parked e car. next, as if i havent had enuff drama for a nite, mi n my dad started shouting at each other over where e lift lobby was. cos i saw where e lobby was when he was parking, but he saw a sign which was at an angle n hence veh misleading. damn stupid. usuali when arguing i'll shout u wanna bet? i'll bet 10 bucks its blah blah blah, n he'll agree. dis time however, after e prev incident, i was too tired to shout more n gave in, which led to e discovery of e misleadin sign n him turnin baq n walkin to e correct direction which i pted to in e first place. lyk, f*** la, y cant nu be in e wrong 4 once? (4 e record, my dad has nv ever admitted himself to be in e wrong. n.e.v.e.r. dunno la, but when i grow up, i'll def onli keep e nice side of him wif mi, not dese stuff *mental note*) finally got to vivo flustered n everything. found e place. next. even better. mom called my aunt to ask her where she was, onli 4 my aunt to not ans her fone (mom did call her b4 dat when we were looking 4 e restaurant to ask her where e restaurant is, onli 4 her to shout over e fone dat she doesnt noe. apparently she was at e end of her patience too. dunno y, until...). neways mom called her mom, my grandma, n she said dey dunno where e place was, still looking. so yeah, aunt got e fone, said dey were lost, e 2 old folks din wanna listen to her etc etc (i'll elaborate l8r)... neways, in e end i told my dad to tell dem to stay put, tell mi e shops arnd dem, n i'll go look 4 em. it turns out my hunch was right, dey were at e other end of e mall. so mi, feeling rather hot (pun intended) in my long sleeved shirt, walked all e way to e other end of e mall to look 4 em. when i found dem, my aunt den proceeded to explain dat at e veh start she missed e turn into e carpark to vivo city n ended up at pasir panjang. so when dey reached e mall, instead of looking 4 e place demselves, e 2 old folks, my grandparents whom my aunt was also fetching dere, decided to trust e shoppers dere. which led dem to tour e whole mall. dat is, e wrong part of e mall. dey even went across e link to e harbour front part n baq. lol. n dey even considered searching e upper floors even though dey were told e restaurant was on e 1st floor. all dis, instead of listening to my aunt hu said e restaurant was at e other end of e mall, in which case dey should haf found it over 30mins ago. sighz, wads it wif old pple finding it hard to listen to e younger generation 4 once? yes we've made our mistakes, but we do learn ok? we do grow up. wth (when the hell) r dey ever gonna accept e fact dat we've grown up??? aside frm dat everyone cooled down b4 dinner. i even managed to get a pair of new shoes b4 dinner started (e fam members havent even arrived yet, lol), a pair of walking shoes, puma, light brown, chosen by my sis while shopping a few wks ago. (= love my sis, she's my personal fashion adviser, n a reali gd one. though she doesnt wan mi ggin arnd tellin others dat cos most of my wardrobe's still chosen by mi n she tinks my sense of fashion sux )=

after dinner got home dead tired, but wif still enuff in mi to cont my argument wif angie over y e gd guys go extinct in e end. she also brought up e other side which is y gd gals go extinct. quite interesting, though i do agree wif her on some pts.

slept, woke up wif my right eye reali reali dry, reali reali red )= oh no, not again. yes. bleahx. same trip to e eye specialist. again my dad rushed mi, insisted ono ggin early despite e fact dat i reminded him dat e last time we had ta wait over an hr cos e surgery he was performing b4 dat in mt elizabeth hospital went overtime. true enuff, though we got dere haf an hr early, 130pm, he was late, n i got to see him onli at 250pm. (appointment's at 1pm laa). bleahx. sighz. went home n crashed. played com. watched hana kimi etc etc, e usual. sighz.

i do hope dis isnt dat angsty a post (believe mi, if i'ld posted on sat nite it'll be much much worse :p)

on a lighter note, mani thx to nic wee 4 sending mi 专属天使 by tank. i've been searching high n low 4 e song ever since i first heard it on radio in dec last yr! yes its dat long. bleahx. e reason y i took so long to get e song is cos i din noe e title of e song, i had ta tell nic it was e song played at e end of hana kimi, e show of which she was waiting for her fren in taiwan to send her e last episode which juz finished. lol. poor gal, hope she did receive it b4 she's too tired to watch it.

cutefish (=

Friday, March 02, 2007 | 9:13 pm

dis week...

ok dis update post is wayy overdue. dis wk...

firstly, i'ld lyk to thx all of ya hu haf wished mi well 4 my TOK representation, esp kh hus help n advice was invaluable, thx man, i owe u one. even though i dunno e result, i dun tink i fared dat badly la. okie, mani of u r askin how e presentation went, so yah, i'll juz sum it up briefly. dat dae, mondae, was quite a waste cos we had 2hr 20mins of free period first thing in e morn rite after chapel, n if not 4 dis presentation i would've asked everyone to go play soccer )= but yah, thx to some classmates hu kept encouraging us, we went down to eat, came up, den played 2 rounds of bridge b4 e guys told mi to stop n go over my presentation. so mi n my partner did, though we realized it was too long n would go over e time limit. furthermore, in e morn rush to get to skool (damn, my dad always, ALWAYS rushes mi n my sis even though in e end we get to skool on time, n usuali earlier den e dae b4 where we woke up late, but yah, sighz, dats my dad) i 4got to bring my laptop charger )= so we went down to e library to edit e ppt onli to find out dat we couldnt print due to network probs. so we used e coms to edit, n thxfully isaac was in living waters methodist church which used e skool compound 4 its services on sundae, so we were able thru his links to borrow e printer in e church office to print out e revised script. whew. okie, fine. now's my turn to flop. initially i deleted e animation to all e bullet pts. okie. after e library n everything, i realized in e script a pt which i wanted to sae was under e wrong slide, n tot e pt on e ppt was also on e wrong slide, so i quickly borrowed ronald's mac (yes dere's a pun, but hey, almost everyone in e class seems to own an apple) to look thru e slides n edit it, but thxfully e prob was onli in e script which was probably a mistake committed when we were rushing to edit e slides. urgh, i tink i musta did sth though, cos durin e presentation when we first opened e slides e 2nd n 3rd slides were mixed up, n l8r on to my HORROR, e animation was dere. so i was DAMN SCARED dat e edits werent saved n dis was an old version, as e animation was still dere. thxfully it wasnt, though its veh weird. mebbe e mac did sth, cos i def did not do anything to reset e animation for e bullet pts...
neways durin e presentation, my 'brilliant' partner hus parts were first spent too much time on his parts n caused mi to rush n eventually cut short my parts, effectively cutting short my score too (e crappy thing is we're graded individually, so yah, in dis case tok time is impt) though in e end i tink i made up for it by e Q & A (= a hell lot. thxfully. so presentation over.

a few pts to note abt dat dae. we werent e onli ones wif technical difficulties. shane almost couldnt open his ppt cos sth was wrong, tried opening it on bose's laptop onli 4 it to claim dat his files r infected by a virus. quite scary, but luckily as shane's last, he went to e library etc to try n rectify e prob, eventually managing to open it on one of e panelist's coms. but besides dat, it was quite slack, as we were e first to present, n l8r on were veh bored. thxfully, bose was joker enuff to play dota against ai coms on his laptop durin e 2nd half of e presentations (his grp was 2nd, juz after us) n us sitting behind him watchin his game had a field dae criticizing his lousy dota skills :p

hmmm,tues was okie, e highlight of e dae was pe where instead of doin e usual run e pe teacher decided to let us haf some fun n we all trooped up to e indoor air conditioned tennis courts. i mean, air conditioned!!! woot! okie, besides e indoor tennis courts, e new sports block has showers wif hot water (located juz beside e new squash courts). shirok! neways baq to e story, yah, we played vball wif dis BEEEG pink exercise ball! (yes angie, pink n cute n very beeg squishy ball, bet u'ld love it if u were arnd) one thing, though, e ball was not dat soft n if u tried to wack it wif one hand lyk wad i did initially, ur arm, esp ur wrist, will hurt lyk hell )= oh well, dats tues.

weds had maths n phy test )= also had tuition cancelled by tuition teacher n piano lesson (piano's on thurs, phy tuition on wed) pushed baq to fri afternoon (= had fencing trg too but was quite tired, trg lyk s*** bleahx. haf ta bring equipment next lesson. 2 new members,both gals, surprisingly, mgs, one of dem quite cute :P damn, y din i at least being my cool visor mask? also 4got to bring my glove dat dae cos i was rushed in e morn )= urghhhhhh... thxfully though, i din get blisters.

thurs. founders dae! okie, went to skool, almost late as usual, but as it was raining, i was wonderin wad was e plan as dey din brief us on any wet weather plan (dere was a parade to be held!). so yah, first went up to e new audi, onli to find NO ONE DERE! lyk, wth is my class??? so okie, walked arnd abit, bumped into liz hu also was clueless as to where our class is, l8r on she called someone hu told her e teacher (i dun wanna name names laaa) announced over e pa system dat all students r to wait in e sac (student activity centre, aka canteen, its juz a funkier name, or mebbe its called dat way cos its e onli 1 in s'pore to be air-coned?:P) till further details abt wad to do. so i went in to get my bag, came out, liz was gone. nvm la, called haoyi hu said dat everyone was in class. went to class, everyone was doin nth, apparently dey din haf a single deck of cards n were waiting 4 mine. LOL, i mean, wad a disappointment! juz a few daes ago dere were 3 decks of cards in class! apparently e owners of e decks all brought theirs home at e same time, except dey all 4got to bring theirs again todae except mi... okie played a few games, den e announcement 4 us to proceed to e artifical turf n follow e usual plan was sounded over e pa system, so we went down, despite e light drizzle. in e end, e omnious black clouds which still hung overhead despite being dere an hr alrdy (dey must be reali bored...) started pouring again, n all of us started opening umbrellas. was quite nice, cos we all huddled under 3 umbrellas (1 frm some guy, 2 frm ronald, i mean, 2???!! hu brings 2?! nvm, thxfully he did). n yah, when e rain got heavier, we were urshered quickly to e nearest block where we proceeded to e audi. except 4 e contingent members hu had ta endure e rain in their lovely starched uniforms now wet, polished boots shining wif a layer of raindrops, n creased berets all soaked. oh well, kudos to dem 4 braving e elements.

though while walking quickly into skool so i wun melt in e rain i did note dat dis is e first founder's dae in 6 yrs where it was washed out. nv frm sec 1 till now in e skool haf i exp a founders dae parade where it washed out. e other daes did, npcc dae washed out a few times, national dae celebrations washed out b4 too, so did honours dae when dey presented all e awards on e same dae. but not founders dae. oh well, so much 4 our last yr in e skool.

neways in e audi we noted dat dis was e first event dat dis class has a full attendance, aka, NO ONE PONNED!!! lyk, AMAZING! n dis was all thx to our guest of honour 4 dis yr's founder's dae, mr chiam see tong. dats rite, our old boy n opposition mp of potong pasir was coming to give a speech todae, which generated much hype when e news was first announced, esp amoung e class some of whom alrdy went tog last yr to e opposition rally to watch n listen to wad new stuff dey haf to sae. i mean, it is interesting to see how dey attempt to garner for votes. neways e speech was quite a disappointment, hardly any political stuff behind it, if any at all )= boring. urgh. we were all expecting something wif more political overtones. oh well...

e rest of e stuff went as usual, except dat we din noe yeong wei won an award for his academics, lyk, wth, we're his classmates n he din even tell us???!!! but we still gave him a standing ovation which he din notice cos his back was turned while receiving e medal frm e guest of honour.

after dat, despite e looming chem test on fri which e other classes took on wed n, after taking e test, came to my class n politely informed us to expect to get at most a 0 for e test. lyk, wth, is e test dat hard??????? everyone was saying studying e notes n not studying at all wun make much diff... bleahx. thx God i din listen to dem, as e test todae was okie la, though whether i pass or not, dats a diff story, but i def wun get juz 0 for e test!!! (no, i wun get neg marks either) okie, neways, despite e chem test, we went out for lunch @ carls junior n bowling l8r on at marina square. usual stuff la, had fun, though its a pity dat so few class pple went (9 pple total includin myself, 6 frm our class, 3 frens frm other classes also tagged along). also a pity dat its e chem test e next dae if not we woulda gone 4 a movie n done more stuff as well )= one thing though, did see alotta grps of acjc pple arnd, also taking full advantage of e early dismissal to hold class outings. wheee... my sis was out at orchard too wif her class.

fri, well, nth much, took e test first thing in e morn )= also got informed to bring e fencing trophy tmr as dere will be foto taking. got my own trg frm 7-8 plus den skool trg frm 9-11. damn siong... urgh. will be sleeping early tonite i guess, since amy's not free to go shop wif mi )= oh yah, 4 those of ya dat got baq e A lvl results, congrats if ya did well! if ya din do well, cheer up yah? smile (= or mebbe =), depending on whether u lyk tilting ur head to e rite or left. off course pple might give ya dis 0.o but dats beside e pt.

wad a wk.

cutefish

*disclaimer* my brain got fried frm playin dota to destress juz now, dis post, e diction, language n grammer will all be screwed )= sowie, will edit it if im bored enuff, if not, u'll juz haf ta figure out wad im blogging... :p