Retrospectare

In lecture

2009-07-15T13:12:00.000+08:00

In lecture
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BAG for SALE @ SGD$30

2009-03-01T22:06:00.003+08:00

LIFE SPIRIT BAG FOR SALE @ 30 Dollars. Prices negotiable. Contact me at tianjun1991@gmail.com or 93266693 ( SMS ONLY ) if interested.

2009-01-20T19:46:00.000+08:00

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MUMBO 08 !

2008-12-15T00:11:00.002+08:00

Mumbo is over once again, and this is already the 9th year i'm with the camp.

Played the role of the Programme Coordinator for this camp, which offered me a very different perspective of the camp. A rather unique one i would say.

As programme coordinator, i am rarely with the camp. When the camp is having breakfast at 8 oclock, jeremy and i would be running around ensuring the program at 9 oclock is ready, and preparing for the program at 10 oclock. Didnt get to see much of the campers this year, and i didnt know any new campers =(. Only campers from my group the past years know me, still am glad they remember me. It never fails to warm the heart to hear a camper call " Tianjun gor gor ..", especially if the camper is from one's previous years' group.

At the end of the camp, when all the groups were bidding their children goodbye, for a moment i felt rather lost, and empty also. lol. For the past four years, after the campfire, i would be at the group corner bidding the campers farewell, looking into some of their teary eyes, asking them to come back again next year. But for this year, i had nowhere to go when they were saying goodbye, so i went to the projector screen and sat there watching the picture slideshow. Soon, the committee started seating around too. Lol. Guess we have no where to go, no kids to say goodbye to, no kids to ask if they will miss us, no kids to ask if they would come back for next year's camp.

Back to coaching

2008-11-22T02:27:00.001+08:00

Back to coaching with AKLTG. Did two camps so far, St Patrick's School and Changkat Changi Secondary school.

Both camps are of a new theme, stadium, where the campers would have to walk like hell for the second day.

For my first camp, ST pat's. We set off on the second day at 5.30 am and started walking.

Walked from Campsite ( jalan Lekar ) to Bollywood vegies which was a good 12km away, walked for 2 and a half hours with hardly any break.

The Original route was

1.Campsite

2.Bollywood Veggies

3.Kranji Reservoir

4.Kranji War Memorial

5.Ten Mile Junction

6.Chestnut Avenue

7.Bukit Timah Hill Carpark

8.NgeeAnn Poly

9. Xiao Guilin

10. CCK Stadium

11. Campsite

however, we werent able to make it in time as it was a good 70 km route. So we skiped xiao guilin, and reached campsite around 12am.

Next camp ChangKat Changi, i would say this is my smallest camp i've done so far. Only 6 participants per group, a stark contrast to the norm of 20 per group. Moreover, i had an A.coach attached to me ! Haha, feels like so long since i had an A.coach, but i realised that i had an A.coach for the last camp last season, the camp before st.pats

Yep, an a coach certainly lightens the load. Most importantly, there's someone to discuss with about the camper, and steps to take to help the camper stretch himself/herself, or the personality of campers and what style to take to handle them.

Am personally quite happy with the arrangement of having smaller group although i understand that this would put a strain on the company's budget. Having a smaller group allows us to understand each camper better, forge closer bonds and notice the small things that the silent worker does that would other passed unnoticed.

Sentosa 1/10/08

2008-10-03T11:15:00.001+08:00

For memories....

2008-09-28T20:19:00.001+08:00

Promos OVER !

2008-09-28T20:06:00.001+08:00

Haha, its the end of the Promo exam on Friday.

Immediately after exam, rushed home. Met dear for an hour to play pool at the games room.

After that, rushed down to VIVOCITY to meet some of class people to celebrate the end of exams.

We had a steamboat buffet at VIVOCITY, before walking around vivo, shopping and just slacking around.

Oh yea ! There's a table soccer in the Addidas' shop, and we spend a good ammount of our time playing, quite enjoyable and exciting xD Apparently, edwin made so much noise playing, to the extent where the staff printed a notice and pasted it on the table. It read " Please keep your volume down while playing the table soccer "

Anyway, we just sat down and chatted our way till twelve. Went to Macdonalds at Harbourfront centre for supper before catching the train home at 12.45 am.

Next Day, Woke up at 9 am and arrived at Angmokio around 10.20. Supposed to meet jeremy at 10 am, but apparently he was alittle late too. Went shopping for a pants, before ehading over to teckghee CC

Met jeremy there, meeting started around 12om.

Didnt prepare much for the meeting, because we planned to prepare for the meeting when we met early, but we didnt have much time prior to the meeting.

Anyway, at around 4 pm. the 12 of us drove to the Henderson Waves for recee, spend an hour there before driving over to Haw Par Villa and west coast park for recee.

Seems like the 3 placed recee was not suitable for us. Guess we may have to recee it another day. Have to come up with the confirmed 2nd day venue soon.

Anyway, Jianshun dropped me off around bukit timah where my parents were, and we boughed pizza from tenmile before returning home.

Watched the first ever singapore's F1 Night race, i must say, it was a really hypnotising experience xD Guess i didnt know how to appreciate the fast moving cars. On Tv, it was very repetitive, nothing too exciting or "out of routine" happend, A minor bump here and there.

anyway,going to watch the Grand Finals now.

2008-09-23T19:28:00.001+08:00

Edited Blog header

2008-09-22T21:09:00.004+08:00

Changed my blog header again. Decided to change the words from " A blog of his rants " after realising the actual and accurate defination of "rants " -To utter or express with violence or extravagance

Also changed the blog title from That guy to Retrospectare, the latin word for " look(ing) back"

Naturally, scanned the online dictionary for more 'Chim' words to bomb in the title so i will APPEAR as a highly intectual individual with a exceptionally good command of the english language =P lOL!

For people who's english are just as 'unchim'/'not chim' as me, here are the the definations for the words i 'bombed' ( also for my future reference )

1. Poignant - Profoundly moving; touching: a poignant memory.

2. Cogitation - Thoughtful consideration; meditation.

PS- I simply used the definations that i use the word for, poignant can also be a word with negative connotations.

PPS - I hope i used the words correctly, especially cogitations. LOL! Whats a better way to spoil the image of an intellectual invidual than the incorrect usage of words.

New Blog Header

2008-09-22T18:21:00.003+08:00

I have no idea why i suddenly have the urge to do so much for my blog. Designed a Blog header, the picture might look awfully familiar xD Yep. Spent about 20 minutes doing it because was getting used to the new software gimp. Anyway, thats it =

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Photos

2008-09-21T23:59:00.000+08:00

Some random photos i took with my lousy Sony Ericson K770i Phone.May have done better with a DSLR but this is what i managed with a camera phone.

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Teachers day Celebration @ Sentosa

2008-09-21T22:55:00.000+08:00

Supposingly a teacher's day celebration@ sentosa, it turned into a 4B gathering because the two teachers were not able to make it for sentosa. So anyway, had a fun time with 4B at sentosa. 4B is really one of the closest class xD

Dont think i have any pictures for the sentosa trip itself, but we went for steamboat buffet dinner at Vivocity where the teachers joined.

Teachers Day 2008

2008-09-21T22:48:00.001+08:00

Was officially ' Sick ' from AJC on the sept 1. However...... i arrived at Kranji Secondary school at 6.30 am. lol. Supposed to meet the rest of 4B but they were all still at Lot 1's mac, so i just sat in the foyer. Before long, met many juniors and caught up with them. Just slacked in Kranji foyer soaking in the atmosphere since i was rarely in Kranji so early ( I usually arrived in school at 7.20 am, right before the school bell rang )

Teachers had games against students, quite interesting, really wished that we had something like that during our teachers day in kranji. Oh, and apparently Joseph quit school ( few months before o level -_- ), and theres a new head for our school/

And naturally, tried to assert his power i guess. Jieheng accidentally threw a frisbee which hit them ( i failed to catch, his aiming was way off xD ), got into a little confrontation. Nothing happened

Oh yea . I went into the teachers room, and omg, how lame can the teachers get. Look at their automatic door made of CARDBOARD ! its even fingerprint activated !

Mentioned that i was from AJC to a couple of my teachers who asked, and some of their reactions were," How? Boring or not ? "

Naturally, my reaction was " Eh cher ! how you know ? "

They would reply " Aiya, AJC always had that boring mugger school reputation.Even since our time, you should have went to (they stated their jc ) xD" ( Something along this line )

Crappy teachers xD havent seen much AJC teachers crap like that. Only exception i can recall is Ms Kat ( Who's, incidentally, brother teaches at kranji secondary school ) who just transfered from Pioneer Junior College, shes a really nice teacher to crap with when she first came in. But i think the stress of AJC taking a toll on her, she has becomed less cheerful, less crappy and more serious.

After teachers day, we went to limbang for lunch, and came over to my house to play Pool and slack around in my games room before leaving.

Promos !!!

2008-09-21T21:19:00.002+08:00

Promos is here !! Haha, in a week's time and its freedom !!! xD Well, not really, but i guess i will be rather happy because there's no more GP lesson.

Realised that my GP teacher can be considered the biggest factor contributing to how badly i feel about AJ. Was quite suprised at the realisation, didnt realise she impacted me so much ( with negative connotations )

Anyway, when i reflected, excluding anything to do with my GP teacher ( i still like english quite abit ), AJC is actually quite a okay place to be in. Boring no doubt, but its not that bad. Still not as fun as Kranji, but just NOT THAT BAD. xD

Looking forward going out with tzeyang and all to play again after promos.

AND ! Camp mumbo is coming again this year.

Committee is has been set up already, instructor meeting will commence on the second week of october. Interested people, contact me =) tianjun1991@gmail.com

2008-08-24T22:56:00.002+08:00

Life's been a blur,
living life day by day.
Not a great way to live life,
but at the very least, the clock ticks faster this way.

Especially pessimistic recently,
dont want it to be like that.
Yet whenever i start to become optimistic and cheerful,
something will happen at home which reminds me of the struggle that is hidden from me.
The struggle which i have every right to know,
a struggle that tears my heart.

In yesterday's chinese lesson
when Mr Tan was going through the story Bei Li De Gu Shi,
lol, found myself trying hard to keep the tears in.
Trying desperately not to let others know xD

I think i've been living life behind a mask these days,
a mask of faked enthusiasm,
a shield to hide my emotions from myself.
A shield growing thicker each day
harder and harder to reach my emotions these days.

"Be OPTIMISTIC" is the first thought that comes to my mind,
i guess thats what i've been doing
pushing the worries aside, trying to live life.
Yet, there will still be an uncomfortable feeling that i'm just running away.

Thankfully, i've found an extremely good friend an AJ.
This sounds freaking gay, but somehow or rather, i just know that when i'm faced with problems,
he will do all within his ability to help.
his name is Edwin =)

I miss all my secondary school friends,
i miss the time i spent with tzeyang chongren james.
Humans are ironic, they can never seem to really cherish something until they lose it.
Miss the times where i would went skating with tzeyang,
watching the videos we took while skating always brought tears to my eyes.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Lonely, Not Alone
by Stephanie Shimerdla

it pours on my life
this freezing rain soaks through me
lonely, not alone

No matter how much we may feel as if it's just all not worth it - no matter how lonely and afraid we may feel, we are never alone.

2008-07-07T00:56:00.001+08:00

Looking through my archives now.....

and i just want to say

really miss the past...

If only we could travel back in time

to have the chance to treasure what i was then too immature to treasure.

A little something during Math Lecture

2008-07-05T12:43:00.001+08:00

Tigre : Hey Piglet ! Come take a look ! Its AJC's reowned math deptmartment's lecture in AJ Auditiorium

Piglet ; Really ?! I waannaaa SEEEEE !!!!!

PIglet; OH NO!!! i dont get a thing !!!!! ARGH!!!! I 'm so confused... NO MORE !!!!!

Piglet : Argh !!! thats it for me !!!! Going to get RETAINED !!!!! WAAAAAH!!!!!

Tzeyang Birthday

2008-07-02T20:48:00.001+08:00

Celebrated Tzeyang birthday on 30th June, monday. We planned to give him a suprise, and a suprise did we give him.

Ending at 5.12

was

the rather monotonous chinese lesson ( not the teacher's fault though... I really like the teacher as he makes alot effort to teach and he's a really really nice guy. can see that he cares alot for his students. its just the subject that gets boring at times ), ending 3 minutes early which was rather rare in AJ context, i went on to Yio Chu Kang Mrt where i met Xia Chen who is studying at Nanyang Poly.

Came over to my house where Janicia joined us where we gave a pathetic attempt at wrapping up the guitar. Then at 6.40, Wei Xun called me to tell me that Wiley, Huiwen, Yu Hui, Shermin , Tianfeng and himself were already at L ot 1. Rushed over with Xia Chen and Janicia after meeting cheehow at yewtee mrt with guitar and amplifier.

We met at LOT 1 basement where we discussed. Group 1 is to first appear, until tzeyang got so depressed because so little people turned up, before group 2 came out with the guitar and cake.

We agreed that Group 2 should wait at CCK Library as thats the least likely place that tzeyang would go should he venture into LOT 1 early than expected xD

At 7.30, he arrived. Seeing only 4 people - Me, Jill, Janicia and Xia Chen , could really FEEL his disappointment despite his feeble attempts to cover them up xD LOL!! We went into pizza hut which we made reservation for 15 people 30 minutes before hand and the 5 of us sat down on a long and empty people.

Guess tzeyang was really dissapointed by now xD LOL! 5 of us sitting on a table meant for 15. So we dragged time, saying we have no idea where they were and started to make fake calls to people ( i was just talking to myself most of the time while pretending to be on the phone xD )

Deciding that he was depressed enough, we told the rest who were by now waiting outside pizza hut with the cake and everything to come in. So they came in with the cake singing the birthday song before giving tzeyang our birthday gift for him, an electric Guitar.

So we had dinner, took some photos, enjoyed ourself before heading back home as it was a school day the next day and many of us had uncompleted assignment and projects due the next day.

If Tzeyang reads this, he may want to know that the Electric Guitar was actually ordered from a shop in Kuala Lumpur, and my mother went there to pick up the guitar when s he went for a 2days getaway in Genting.

I think i wrote quite a emo message on his birthday card because i saw tzeyang emoing for a few seconds after reading my message on the birthday card. LOL. No idea why i wrote that, just guess that that's what i felt at that moment.

" Inevitable that friends drift. Its the effort to stay together. Friends Forever. Tianjun "

VoyAJe 2008 : Notes on the Road

2008-07-01T21:35:00.001+08:00

AJ Choir Concert 2008

3 down 1 to Go

2008-06-25T23:05:00.002+08:00

3 papers down, 1 go to. Physics Tomorrow
Today's Math was a major disaster - to think i was counting on math
Physics tomorrow, studying hard now.

Primary School Class Gathering

2008-06-22T23:53:00.000+08:00

I had my primary school class gathering on the 16may08 at Yew Mei Green, after 4 years since we graduated, everyone has changed. DUH! xD

Quite glad to meet them again, including my teacher Mr Alvin Woo, havent met him since sec 3 when our last gathering was held. Nothing much to say, just really glad to be able to meet up with my primary school class after so long because most primary school classes dont meet after such a long time. Yep, seeing how everyone has changed. From Guai one to not so guai one, and not so guai one to guai one xD After the gathering, Mr Woo sent out an email, i picked out some excerpts below "

Just wanna thank all of you for the gathering last night. It was really great seeing all of you again and it made my day to see all of you growing into young ladies and gentlemen.
This is what teaching is all about and I am thankful that I was able to be your teacher in Primary 6."

ANYWAY ! This isnt all the photos. Will upload the bulk of the photos next post when i get them from Mr Woo ! Seeya pple. Gotta study for my Econs common test which starts at 1 pm. Its not 11.30 am =X

How Wide do we cast the net

2008-04-08T23:21:00.000+08:00

Newspaper Review

Today Newspaper, April 3, 2008.Page 3.

“How wide do we cast the net?”

The search for a new Prime Minister had mostly been restricted to only local born Singaporeans who have not migrated or gained the citizenship of another country, but with many of the country’s young talents heading overseas, the task of finding a successor soon enough has become much more challenging leading some to ask if search efforts should be stepped up to include Singaporeans who have went abroad and ,horrifyingly, even foreigners .

Ideally, Singaporeans who have migrated to other countries should not be considered because they have mostly probably turned their back on Singapore when they chose to give up their Singapore Citizenship, searching for a better life in another land. However, given a choice between a foreigner and a migrated Singaporean, I would definitely choose the latter.

The idea of a foreigner leading Singapore as the Prime Minister irks me, never mind if a foreigner becomes the Minister of Education or something similar but in my opinion, the Prime Minister position is a definite No-No.

The role of the Prime Minister is not just being a leader, being one who makes decisions for the country. More than that, he is also, in some sense, a “national icon.” It would reflect badly on Singaporeans if we have to resort to a foreigner as our Prime Minister, the most powerful man in the government next to the President.

Also, I feel that the search for the new leader should not include just top A level performers, but also achievers from less recognized institutes such as Polytechnics and the Institute of Technological Education ( ITE ).

Potentials coming from such educational institutes have often been overlooked, because they are deemed less capable then their Junior College counterpart. Truth is, they are definitely less capable then their Junior College counterpart academically, but in terms of morals and other qualities, I think they should seriously be considered.

Thus, in conclusion, I would say that the Singapore Government should not consider including foreigners in their search so quickly, instead they should hold their horses and spend some quality effort in sifting through people in less recognized institutes. Who knows who they might find.

Math Prodigy has ‘no regrets’ being a prostitute

2008-04-08T23:19:00.000+08:00

Newspaper Article Review

The Straits Times Monday, April 7 2008 ,Page 17.

Math Prodigy has ‘no regrets’ being a prostitute

Upon completion of the article, the first question which went through my mind was, “Is it really her fault?” Sufiah Yusof is a math prodigy who passed her A level math at the age of 12 before enrolling at the Oxford university, studying math at the age of 13. At 15 years of age, she ran away from her studies blaming her father for giving her excessive pressure to succeed.

Although a very obvious fact that she has “matured” erm, physically, I have the impression that she might not to too mature as a person when she claimed that “[She] always had a high sex drive – and now [she’s] getting all the sex [she] want – and guys are much better in bed with an escort than a girlfriend”

Although not covered in this straits time article - a simple web search will yield numerous websites with articles on her situation, a www.thestar.com.my article titled “ I have no regrets” published on the 7^th april 2008 said that “Sofia recalled studying maths all the time. She did not have any friends or allowed to join any activities.”

Clearly an example of a child who had been ‘pushed too much’, Sofia may have excelled in the math due to her rigorous training. However, her parents have forgotten that educating a child does not include only and solely academic education. They have forgotten that Emotion Quotient ( EQ ) matters just as much as Intelligence Quotient (IQ )

Deprived of the chance to develop her character and not being taught morals, it is not too surprising for me to see such a person turn out this way.

I guess this aligns well with my feelings and thoughts when I see AJCIANS studying their heads off day and night, stressing themselves so much over academics. Of course academics are important, they are very important. At the same time, one must not forget to neglect the other things that make a human human.

To sum up all I’ve said, Sufia is one of the few cases I would say who should not be held heavily responsible for her actions. Although she herself has blames to take, I think majority of the blame should be taken by the intensive study regime imposed by her father, or even her father himself.

2008-04-02T22:33:00.009+08:00

It's been a month since i last blog, exactly a month loL! I really feel that i've lost the passion for blogging, although i still want this to be the person diary of mine.

Things have definitely happened, good, and bad, things.

With the recent... Buzz of the hectic JC life, i realised that my time spent in Secondary school was much more relaxed and well, fulfilling. But HEY ! Give JC a chance, u havent even been through half a year of JC yet. Well,its just my thoughts as of now, maybe i'm going through the equivalent of home-sickness, Sec sch sickness.

I must admit that i do miss Kranji Secondary School quite abit, except perhaps the disallowing of handphone bit, a privilege i indulge in in JC after being deprived of the right to bring Handphone to school "legally" for the past 4 years of my life. I miss all the teachers that i had, namely my Form teacher Ms Ng Hwee Chun. xD

Thinking back, i must have gave her much headache with the "slightly" over inflated ego of mine xD. Really miss her style of teaching, refusing to teach us theorems by writing us the formula, but instead wanting us to remember the steps to it, instead of remembering some complicated formula. I agree to her rational because, now in JC, i am relearning the Binomial Theorem and they are teaching it using Formulas and all, making it much more complicated then it should be. COME ON! We have enough things to memorise already. Have already learnt 5 topics in JC MATH. And of these 5 topics, there are at least 3 formulas to memorise for EACH topic.

I went to Riva Del Garda, Italy for the "Concorso Chorale Internazionale" 10th International Choir Competition with Anderson Junior College Choir. We had quite a powerful repertoire.

1st Song " Cantate Dominum" by Claudio Monterverdi,

2nd Song" Owls " by Edward Elgar

3rd Song " Kucinta " by Zechariah Goh Toh Chai

4th Song " Kasar Mie La Gaji " by Alberto Grau.

With this repertoire, we got a GOLD LEVEL 5. Also, we were awarded the GRAND PRIZE, PUBLIC/AUDIENCE PRIZE, CATEGORY CHAMPION and CONDUCTOR PRIZE.Thats the Grand Prize Trophy xD
I dont think i will be writing alot on the trip, but i would say that got alot closer with the people in choir xD Theres now a stronger bond within the people who went for the competition. In this comeptition, the competiting is made up of 60+ J1 and J2 and 10+ seniors who have already graduated. About 20 J1 and J2 didnt get to go for the trip and for that, i keep reminding myself not to leave out the rest of the 20 people who were not as fortunate.

Pictures tell more than words, so i will just upload some of the photos i took while in Italy =) and speaking of Italy, the FOOD there is OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE. An average meal will cost about $20. Most of the money i spend there is on food xD And i was already trying to cut cost.

Anyway, on the 25th of March when our plane touched down on Singapore's Changi Airport Runway, all of us were thrown back to reality xD For the past 12 days, we've been living in a fairy tale, without the stress of school work and lessons. Moment we touch down, could feel the different atmosphere, people asking each other if they completed the homework they supposed to bring along on the trip.

Speaking of school work, i am SERIOUSLY DYING. Cant catch up. Dont understand the Mathematics at all. I miss O level Amath, so much easier and fun xD

Anyway, thats all for post. Going back to study. BYE PEOPLE ! and Please TAG !

2008-03-02T20:34:00.002+08:00

Time really flies and in a blink of an eye, am already into the next phase of my life already.

Receiving a raw score of 12 for my L1R5 O level, i wasnt too satisfied with what i got - was hoping for a l1r5 of 10 and below.

English - B3
Chinese - C6
Emath - A1
Amath - A2
Physics - A2
Chem - A2
Comb Humanities - A2

I cant say that i'm disappointed with my results neither can i say that i was happy with it.
Wasnt too happy with my Amath and Physics results xD Was aiming for a A1 instead of A2.LOL! Mr Koh ( Physics Teacher ) wasnt happy too, he was going like " See la.. Play somemore.." K la, i guess i was quite disapointed with my physics results. Really should have gotten a 1.

Amath too. Right after the exam, was quite confident that i could score a A1, but ended up with a A2 only.HOWEVER ! am really happy with my humanities results. LOL! Mugged like crazy since prelim 2 where i got a F9 for comb humans. After that, was doing humanities everyday-bugging Ms Maybelline Tan and Ms Ratna to mark the papers i did.Haha ! Guess i managed to save myself for humans last minute.

Anyway ! I ended up with 12 for Raw and 10 after deduction.

Long story, i appealed into Anderson Junior College using Choir. So will be stuck in choir for another two years. Not that its a bad thing, just that i've initially planned to join a CCA where i can actually be outdoors and do something new. Not that its such a bad thing after all, will get to go Italy xD

YEP! Will be going to Italy for competition in 11 days time on the 13th March with AJC Choir. Coming back on the 24th March. Sadly will not be able to attend Kranji's Choir very first concert. loL!

Some publicity here! Kranji Choir will be holding its very own concert on the 20th March at VCH. Tickets going at 12 dollars.

Simultaneously, AJC Dance will be having its performance on the 20th march at Victoria Theatre, right beside VCH. LOL!

Met alot new people in AJC. Dont really enjoy the mugging culture here, but i think the bunch of people that i've found are just as crazy.

Tired tired!

2008-01-08T13:22:00.000+08:00

Just back from camp yesterday and going for camp again today.

Yesterday's camp was the sec 1 orientation for jurong west sec, luckily its only a one day event. An introduction for me to get used to commercial camp. Initially, i thought it would be as tiring as camp MUMBO since we handled little kids there. BUT I WAS SO WRONG !

I forgot about the fact that one instructor is assigned to a group. Only ONE. So by right yesterday, i was supposed to handle a group of 20 sec 1s yesterday myself, making them high. Conducting all the activities since coaches doubled as station masters too. No time to relax and take a break.
Unlike MUMBO where a tired me can take a step back for 10 minutes to catch a breather while other instructors take over, there was no chance in yesterday's camp. Thus even though its only a one day program, it felt alittle more tiring then usual.

Going for camp later again. The actualy camp starts tomorrow so we will have to go one night before to prepare. IN camps ! to me, sleep is very impt xD Because everynight on the average, u get onl four house of sleep - in addition to the hours of highness u have to do. LOL!

K guys, going off already. Have to pack my bag for tonight for tonight's camp.

HELLO PEOPLE !

2007-12-23T18:21:00.000+08:00

HELLO PEOPLE ! Guess it's been a really long time since i've posted WORDS on this blog of mine. Something like 4 months and 6 days. So much for attempting to keep a diary here.

Well many things has happened that kept me busy. Barely been able to spend the night at home, much less the day. Been through a few camps and chalets.( camp mumbo, OLIP, AKLTG Camp, Class Chalet ...)

Grad night too.

Graduation Night

Lets talk about grad night first. Well personally, i felt that the grad night has not really met its objective. I never had a " Good Bye Kranji " feeling in that grad night. It was just taking pictures and eating, more like a year end party that a graduation night where the cohort sees each other for one last time before bidding farewell.

Despite, lol. I will miss the people in kranji, the many friends and all the teachers. Lastly, its all the experience and the memories that i will miss. Well, life has to move on.

Will definitely miss the choir and i hope they are doing good right now. Have faith in YEEGIN to take over, after seeing how much she have grown while in the president position. lOL!

I think theres something she said that i wont forget. She was on the phone asking me how to go about writing the proposal for the choir camp, and there i was listing out the things that needed to be included in the proposal. Safety Considerations, Safety Procedures, Caterer's list and contact. Detailed programme sheet etc. And she asked me something that not only made me laugh xD, but also indicated to me that she was starting to fit into the role of a president. " Got so many things to do one meh ?!"

LOL! YES YEEGIN ! ALOT OF THINGS TO DO ONE xD( PS : to the next president after yeegin. YES ! alot of things to do one . ) Well i guess i am actually looking forward to seeing yeegin after she stepped down from her position. Because i think that is when a different yeegin will face me xD she is still changing now i guess

Anyway, i've side tracked. Grad nite!

WEll nothing much to talk about it anymore. More of a photo taking session then anything.

The MIB ( man in black ) From LtoR. James, Me, Billy

Hoikkaido, Sapporo, Japan.

In November, my family and i, with my family's friend family, went to Hoikkaido for a holiday. We took a flight to Tokyo , before taking an hour bus ride to their domestic airport before flying to hoikkaido. Our plane took off at Changi International Airport at 11.30 pm 18 nov, and we were travelling all the way from plane to bus to plane to bus until finally, we reached our hotel on the 19nov, at 6 pm Spore time.

I still remember the 'PIKACHU ' Boeing 747 i was in for the flight from tokyo to hoikkaido.

The entire plane was covered with POKEMONS! Even the interior, the Curtains and head rest were pokemons ! Publicity indeed!

I think the trip was quite an eye openner as it was my first trip to japan. By the time i returned to singapore on the 23rd nov, i was quite sick of the japanese language. We had so much trouble communicating there !

Let me give u an example.

I was at this 5 Star hot spring hotel. I could not find janicia's camera ( whose camera i borrowed from for the trip). The last time i remember using the camera was in the hotel lobby so i called jamie ( family friend ) to accompany me to the lobby where we had 5 minutes of laughter due to some silly animation of mine.

LOL!

I started by approaching the hotel's lobby staff .
" Excuse me, have you seen a red digital camera at that chair over there. I was using the camera there just now"

The staff gave me a blank look.

Concluding that he didnt understand my language, i tried again in 'SIMPLE' English

"Red Camera there you see ? " pointing at the couch i was sitting on half an hour ago.

Smiling at me, he gave me an apologetic look and spoke in japanese -_-

Perseveringly, i tried once more with much more animation.

" Camera ! ( my hands taking an imaginary picture ) YOU ! ( pointing at him) SEE! ( Pointing to my eyes) THERE !? ( Pointing to the couch)

Thinking that i was a tourist who wanted him to take a photo of me and Jamie in the hotel lobby, he raised his hands out, as if to take a camera from me.

LOL! Feeling well, i dont know whats the word to use. I TRIED AGAIN. " CAMERA ! THERE ! YOU ! SEE ?! "

Finally he got it, he said ' Oh no no no! NO see NO see "

There , communication barrier.

2007-12-23T18:10:00.000+08:00

2007-12-21T01:00:00.000+08:00

Class Chalet

Olip ( Outdoors Leadership Instructors Programme )

Graduation Night

Sentosa

34Days, 15 Hours, 41 Minutes and 0 Seconds to O level.

2007-09-17T22:48:00.000+08:00

Hey people, just 34 days to O Level, the day we've been preparing for is getting closer and closer.

The Preliminary 2 Examinations ended with Physics Paper 1 today, and the very next minute. We were already going through our geography paper. We can really see that the school is trying to push us by not letting us slack and relax huh..

Anyway, i failed Elect Geog again, but i made an improvement of 11 marks. From 8/50 to 19/50. k la... overall improvement in the class.

LOL. The MSG increased from 9.something to 8.something. i think the level's MSG increased from E8 to D7. LOL. Terrible Results. But heard from alot of seniors, that thats the way Kranji's Humanities Department does things, give you extremely lousy prelim results. To make you study, then when you reach Os. you should get satisfactory results..

Amath paper 1 was a disastrous killer paper. I got a 56 Percent for paper 1, a far cry from my normal standard. I didnt perform to my hundred percent for both the prelims, and i know it. Its time to pull up my socks and bring myself to my hundred percent in time for O levels..

There are quite a few things going on in my life too, other than studying which probably account for my performance , or lack of performance this prelims. I will be doing my best to eliminate these distraction.

One thing holding me back-though not their fault, is actually my class. The majority of my classmates are actually aiming for Polytechnic, with a minority aiming for a JC. And only a small minority of this minority, is aiming for a 10 pointer and below i believe.. So its easy to get complacent when you see your classmates playing pool after the prelims, simply because you want to join in the fun.

I guess it takes quite abit of will power to tell yourself ' NO! You are aiming for a 7 pointer, you must not play with them'. Yet, the temptation is simply... well.. irritating.

My gang has become more dispersed as each of us focus on our own studies simply because everyone of us recognises that it is next to impossible for any of us to study while together as a gang. Recognizing this trend, we have agreed to meet every friday after school to just chill and relax alittle bit, not playing, but not studying either. I would also like to encourage James, i can see that he has been working extremely hard. Spending his time studying alone either in school or at macdonalds till late at night for most nights and even though he might not get the results he want, he is definitely getting closer to his targets.

Also, its has been more then three months since i've been with her. Though not for very long, you have to admit that its quite crazy , insane and difficult to start and maintain a relation at this point of time.Although we have only been together for three months, it feels extremely long because quite abit have happened between us. Even then, we never had an arguement yet.Of course there are disagreement, but never arguements because both of us( especially her ) control our tempers. Am guilty of losing my temper at her and scolding her, but never once has she retaliated. Making me feel even guilty, and apologising in the end..I really want to thank her for rarely , infact never losing her temper. Infact, i cant remember a time where she vent her frustration, although deep inside i knew she was a little bit. I also want to thank her for always being there for me, accompanying me through the night when i felt really down.I can see that she is starting to really study hard-i thank her for that, and i pray that it is not too late yet. I believe that she can make it in time, only if she work to her 110 percent every single day from now till the exams.

I really look forward to the days after O levels where we can just play like siao without feeling guilty , and also when i can spend as much time with her.But ! FOR NOW !
O LEVEL !! WHEEE ! I LOVE STUDYING !!! ( -_- ) ( Is it that obvious that i am a hypocrite trying to say things to psyco myself ? xD ) Till then people! Seeya

Marketing Concept in the Dating World

2007-09-07T23:31:00.000+08:00

A post i saw off my friend's blog, well.. Not really friend. Lets just said i knew him while he was in Kranji. Quite interesting, so decided to post it up here. haha. OR you guys can check up his blog at www.yandao.com

A Professor at the SMU was explaining marketing concepts to the students

1. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am
very rich, marry me!” - That’s Direct Marketing”

2. You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a gorgeous girl.
One of your friends goes up to her and pointing at you says: “He’s very
rich, marry him.” -That’s Advertising”

3. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and get her
telephone number. The next day, you call and say: “Hi, I’m very rich, marry
me - That’s Telemarketing”

4. You’re at a party and see gorgeous girl. You get up and straighten
your tie, you walk up to her and pour her a drink, you open the door (of
the car)for her, pick up her bag after she drops it, offer her ride and
then say: “By the way, I’m rich. Will you “Marry Me?” - That’s Public
Relations”

5. You’re at a party and see gorgeous girl. She walks up to you and
says: “You are very rich! “Can you marry me?” - That’s Brand Recognition”

6. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am
very rich. Marry me!” She gives you a nice hard slap on your face. - ”
That’s Customer Feedback”

7. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and say: “I am
very rich. Marry me!” And she introduces you to her husband. - “That’s
demand and supply gap, do your market survey first”

8. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you
say anything, another person come and tell her: “I’m rich. Will you marry
me?” and she goes with him - “That’s competition eating into your market
share”

9. You see a gorgeous girl at a party. You go up to her and before you
say: “I’m rich, Marry me!” your wife arrives. - “That’s restriction for
entering new markets”

10. You see a few gorgeous girls at a party. You go up to them and ask them for their e-mails. The next day, you e-mail them: “I am very rich. Marry me! In case you don’t want to, please send this email to 10 other gorgeous girls.” - Internet Marketing

Woodland to Esplande !

2007-08-06T22:24:00.000+08:00

Hey people, went for night skating on saturday night. Thought i talk about it in this blog of mine.

Well, we set off from woodlands mrt ( Causeway point ) at 8.30 pm, and arrived at esplanade only at 2 am. I reached Woodland's MRT station at 8.15 pm, only to realize that the main group of about 50 people had already set off.

So i set off with the late commer's group, 21 people.

Quite alot to talk about, but dont think i wanna spend time writing down. Basically, a very tiring skate. Havent skated so far since december 05 when i skated from Yewtee to Esplanade. Yep.

Definitely fun, and definitely the last skating event i am joining until O levels.

James had quite a bad fall, he cut his hand and needed got three stitches.

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May i introduce my second girlfriend !! The GIANT IGUANA DISC !!! xD

Got a new bike, Giant Iguana Disc. Bought it at a few hundred bucks. Think its a third hand, my father's colleague got it from another colleague.

Relatively good condition,took a few days to tune the brakes and gears, change some parts and its as good as new. Spend another 50 dollars on the bike so far.

Going to really bike after Os, now just cycle around the area first.. xD

Cherish

2007-07-28T15:52:00.000+08:00

Hello people, i'm going to start this post on a rather solemn note.

It's been awhile since i posted something other then my daily life( which is quite boring to read, i know ). So decided to write on this post.

I realized just a few moments back, then when i mentioned that i had nothing much to post about in the last post, i was actually very wrong.

Within few months, many things have happened. Fortunately, not to me, but to the people around me.It made me realize how sheltered my life is, as with other people.

I would like to say this before i carry on. People around me, some of you might guess the identities of the people i mention in this post, but i plead for you people to not speculate, guess, or spread the identities of these people.

Just last night, i saw something which frightened me. My friend (Friend A ) called me at 12 am, and asked me if i can meet him/her immediately. Hearing the tone of his/her voice, i rushed out immediately, arriving beside him/her side.

When i arrived, my other friend(Friend B) is already there and he/she was pleading " Tianjun.. Quick .. come and help.. i dont know what to do. "

Looking into the face of my friend ( A), i realised that his/her face was totally pale, and he/she was shivering. Right away, i knew that the chill came directly from his/her heart. He/she was cold on the inside, in the heart, and thus cold physically.

Immediately, i asked him/her if she took any drug, medication, drink, or smoke. He/She said that he/she merely smoked a cigarette. Not totally believing that the chill was coming from his/her heart, i repeated the question 3 times, just to check if he/she was lying.

It turns out that he/she didnt take any drug or medication at all, and that the chill was really coming from his/her heart. It is and was the first time i have seen someone, devastated to the point where he can actually feel the chill from his/her heart physically.

His/her face was totally pale, staring blankly ahead and shivering vigorously.

This is what happened to one of my friend, and he/she has gone through quite alot in life, thats why i am so surprised that he would react this way.

I have seen real life bastards too.

I know of this acquaintance, who had sex with a primary 6 girl when he was sec 3. It really enrages me to know that such a person exist, with such low crappy bullshitty morale values. Primary 6 girl you know ! Thinking not even matured yet, and you do such a thing.

I know this other acquaintance, who had sex with his girlfriend. Still wrong, but at least in this case. My acquaintance and his girlfriend were 16 years old, so at least its not that bad. They agreed to do it together, and perhaps, well. at least it is not like cheating the girl, taking advantage of her immaturity.

I know of this acquaintance, who was sort of forced to join a Secret Society. And i mean secret society, not those secondary school play gangs etc 639. I was shocked to hear of this at first, and agreed that getting him/her out was the first priority. But in the process of gettingher out of the secret society, the person who is "looking after" this friend of mine was whacked up badly because he refused to give the secret society the contacts of my friend.

This person who "looked after" my friend, was whacked into Coma, laid in hospital for a month or two before finally passing away just a few months back. Honestly, i never knew such things happened in Singapore.

The person who passed away was only 17 years old. God knows what the police are doing .

I have two friend right now, whose parents are well, their cases are somewhat similiar. The father wants to divorce, the mom is already devastated. But acting pragmatically, the mom refuse to divorce, if not all the property would fall to their father and the mom and the child will be left with nothing.

I have this friend, who came so close to being raped by her so called friends, and thank god she was not.

Just during May , i didnt not believe that people can actually change from being straight to being lesbian. But here, i found myself consoling this friend of me, who used to be straight over this lesbian girl too.

The thing that surprised me, is that the tears of this friend of mine. Her tears were genuine, and she is quite hurt over this other girl. Its the kind of tears that a girl would cry over boy, the same tears. This friend of mine used to be straight btw.

You may ask me,"Why in the world did i posted all that i have posted above?"

" Is it just for fun, just to boast how much i've seen ?"

I will give you a very definite NO for an answer.

I posted that, because i would like to urge the people around me not to take the things they have for granted. Do not wait till you have lost it, before you regret not cherishing it in the first place.

I am not saying that one has the ability to cherish EVERY SINGLE thing they have, but try.

Having seen all these things happen to the people around me, people who are acquaintance, and people who are close to me.

I have matured to a certain extent, recognized and appreciate the very much sheltered life i have right now. I am given not the best, but a very good family. One where i can have almost everything i have ( When my father deny me things, its because he doesnt want to spoil me ),one where i can concentrate on my studies without being distracted by all sorts of problems around me.

I also urge all my friends to remember, that whatever they are going through, always remember that somewhere out there in the world, theres is probably another person going through something twice as bad.

Yep people, cherish whatever you have. Dont regret only after you lost it.=)

See ya people, till next time.

Prelim 1 Results

2007-07-27T22:10:00.000+08:00

Hello people ! xD Just thought i post up my prelim 1 results here, since i have nothing to do at the moment.

I did badly for prelim 1s, not too bad. But not too good either.But extremely far from my target for O levels.

English - B4
Chinese - ( dun even wanna remember)
Comb Humanities - F9
Amath - A2
Emath - A 1
Chemistry - B3
Physics - A1

L1R5 - 20

-_- Going to continue working towards prelim 2 already.. No more slacking for me till its after the Os.. =)

have been coming online less often recently, busy mugging xD Nothing much to blog about too anyway.

Will not be coming online too frequently till the end of O levels !

Bye people , till then .

End of Prelims 1

2007-07-22T23:01:00.000+08:00

Its the end of the Prelim 1 today with only physics paper 1.

The paper is quite easy at first glance, but if you read the questions carefully. You will realize a lot of traps inside the paper.One example is the D.C Transformer question. They ask you how many volts is the output, normal people will use the formula and put 400 V. But they failed to read the question carefully to realise that there is no such thing as a D.C transformer. So the output voltage is 0V.

Alot more other traps, not sure who spotted them. Good luck to those who didnt see the traps =X

I actually intended to go visit choir after school, but decided to play pool at Kpool, so didnt visit.. Guess next week.

Well, on friday. My entire gang splitted up. James went to Clementi for a chinese physician; street soccer for chongren ; tzeyang waited in school for ___ ; and i went home to change for Kpool..

At pool table, was suprised to see Alloysius there. So the 7 of us played lor.. Me, cheng yang, Alloysius, Rachel, Jill , Joan, cherie.

xD The table we played on was alot bigger than the one at my house, so i missed alot of shots because i was not used to the big table. And i tried for the first time ever, to use one hand to take a shot.

I tried taking the shot cause the table is like so big ! i cant stretch across table, so i thought i tried for fun.. And i scored ! xD The feeling is damn shiok man .. xD

After pooling from 2.30 to 6 oclock, went for dinner with tzeyang and chengyang. Went home for tuition which lasted till 9.45.
Went to meet Tzeyang chongren munkit downstairs after tuition because they were coming to my condo to ton ( stay awake through the night ).

K la.. it was quite okay. We stayed throughout till roughly 2 am, when we went for supper at yewtee mall. We walked back to my condo and as it was starting to rain, we went to the clubhouse. At the clubhouse, Billy, Tzeyang, Chongren and james went to sleep. Cheng yang, derrick, munkit and me stayed awake throughout the night.

At 7 am, we opened the game room and went for some early morning pool. After pool around 9, they went home and i went home to take a short sleep.

Went to Jan's house at around 1 oclock because her sister needed my help with some computer things. Went home for dinner, and thats the end of my long DAYS. xD

We are going through the prelim papers tomorrow. Hope i do well...

2007-07-11T00:05:00.000+08:00

Sorry people, have been M.I.A for quite sometimes. Busy mugging for Prelims right now, so dont have much time to blog. Will update after my prelims when i can come online and slack for hours, but only for a short period of time, before i have to mug for prelim 2 again.

Bye People !

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Urban from East coast to Somerset

2007-06-26T21:47:00.000+08:00

It's been a long time sinced i skated in town, i think at least a few months. For the first half of the year, i looked forward to the June Holidays because it is the correct time to skate;School holiday, with little rain.

LOL! But rather disappointingly, this holiday. Went URBAN ONCE ONLY ! WAH PIANG EH !

It was a rather fun urban la.. from East Coast to Somerset. Went with BILLY TZEYANG and JAMES. Was supposed to meet Ziwei there, Ziwei and JAC. BUT THAT STUPID GIRL HOR.. lOL! pangseh lor... waaaah !! damn unhappy liao.. RAAH !!

SHE WAS AT ECP, but she didnt want to skate -_- thanks hor Jacinda. xD

One of the place we skated by is the National Stadium; the stadium where last year's NDP was held. We played with the 2/3 story high stairs there. Stairs ride. THe stairs there are the best man. LONG, WIDE ENOUGH and place to land. NOT TOO STEEP TOO.

Skated to town afterwards. We reached down only at around 11 pm. The entire group of 30 people went to esplanade to slack/skate ( not the underpass ). Its a good place to skate, reasonably big space. Good atmosphere, tolerable number of pedestrians.

Next, the group of 30 skated towards TAKA, but along the way, we stopped at somerset skate park where the urban "officially" ended. But we stayed around the skate park till about 1 am in the morning before taking the NIGHT RIDER Home. NR3. And it is super expensive can ?! 3 BUCKS ! omg -_- Yep

2007-06-18T22:31:00.000+08:00

2007-06-15T23:36:00.001+08:00

I know i have not blogged for like half a month. haha. still not in the mood to blog right now, but i think i should give Marianne a big thank you on my blog xD

Her birthday present came in yesterday as a registered post, and i am really grateful that someone actually took the effort not only to buy the present, but to take the trouble to send it through registered mail since we have very little chances of meeting ( she lives in the east, i live in the west)

Nevertheless, i wish to thank you Marianne my fellow EX- Choir president xD I dare say that she is the first person to buy my present xD But also the last person to actually send the present to me xD. Thanks alot again.

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Life has been pretty interesting so far, very interesting infact. But am not really keen on blogging them down, so erm.. sorry ! xD

Second note, anyone interested in SEASPORTS such as KAYAKING, SAILING, WINDSURFING, SCUBA DIVING. Please keep me in mind if you are looking for anybody to learn the sport with you =) Would really appreciate it.

Yep, i think thats all for now. Apologies to those who asked me to update for giving you such a short post =X paiseh la.... haha

Mt Stong

2007-05-31T21:18:00.000+08:00

The very second i type this post, the mount stong expedition team should be returning to singapore already. On their buses. I think i half regretted not going, but no point regretting, just move on because i made the decision of putting my studies first.

On monday, i was teasing amelia for not being able to finish the climb, also her body weight to load ratio because she is of erm... a not so big build =P That girl, proclaimed so loudly that i will be the first person she will call when she comes down the mountain to prove that she could do it. LOL! its thursday night already, and i still dont get a call from her =P lOL!!!

SYF Showcase rehersal was yesterday, and i think the choir messed up for the 8 minutes we were on stage. Before we went on stage, we were at the loading bay warming up.

I'm telling you ma, that loading bay has a very nice accoustic. We were singing omagnum mysterium and could really feel the eerie effect LOL!

Anyway, not much mood to blog recently. Writer's block i believe =P going off now

The world of a Seven Year Old

2007-05-28T18:56:00.000+08:00

The world of a seven year old people, enjoY !! =)

Message: Little Johnny was 7 years old
and like
other boys his age rather curious.

He had been hearing quite a bit about
'making out' from the older boys, and
he
wondered what it was and how it was
done.

One day he took his question to his
mother, who became rather flustered.
Instead of explaining things to Johnny,
she told him to hide behind the
curtains
one night and watch his older sister
and
her boyfriend.

This he did. The following morning,
Johnny described EVERYTHING to his
mother.

"Sis and her boyfriend sat and talked
for a while, then he turned off most of
the lights. Then he started kissing and
hugging her. I figured 'Sis must be
getting sick, because her face started
looking funny.

He must have thought so too, because he
put his hand inside her blouse to feel
her heart, just the way the doctor
would. Except he's not as smart as the
doctor because he seemed to have
trouble
finding her heart. I guess he was
getting sick too, because pretty soon
both of them started panting and
getting
all out of breath.

His other hand must have been cold
because he put it under her skirt.

About this time 'Sis got worse and
began
to moan and sigh and squirm around and
slide down toward the end of the couch.
This was when her fever started. I knew
it was a fever, because Sis told him
she felt really hot.

Finally, I found out what was making
them so sick......-a big eel ;had
gotten
inside his pants somehow. It just
jumped
out of his pants and stood there, about
10 inches long, honest, anyway he
grabbed it in one hand to keep it from
getting away.

When Sis saw it, she got really
scared-her eyes got big, and her mouth
fell open, and she started calling out
to God and stuff like that. She said it
was the biggest one she's ever seen; I
should tell her about the ones down at
the lake by our house!

Anyway, Sis got brave and tried to kill
the eel by biting its head off. All of
a
sudden she grabbed it with both hands
and held it tight while he took a
muzzle
out of his pocket and slipped it over
the eel's head to keep it from biting
again.

Sis lay back and spread her legs so she
could get a scissor-lock on it and he
helped by lying on top of the eel. The
eel put up a hell of a fight.

Sis started groaning and squealing and
her boyfriend almost upset the couch.
I guess they wanted to kill the eel by
squashing it between them.

After a while they both quit moving and
gave a great sigh. Her boyfriend got
up,
and sure enough, they killed the eel. I
knew because it just hung there, limp,
and some of its insides were hanging
out.

Sis and her boyfriend were a little
tired from the battle, but they went
back to courting anyway. He started
hugging and kissing her again. By
golly,
the eel wasn't dead! It jumped straight
up and started to fight again.

I guess eels are like cats- they have
nine lives or something. This time, Sis
jumped up and tried to kill it by
sitting on it. After about a 35 minute
struggle, they finally killed the eel.
I
knew it was dead, because I saw Sis's
boyfriend peel its skin off and flush
it
down the toilet.

Energy OVERFLOW !!!

2007-05-26T16:40:00.000+08:00

OKAY ! Finally after quite something, i manage to find a time where i can blog properly, instead of being monotonous and to earth =P

This post is to advertise that me, Lim Tianjun is available for any activities stated below :

Badminton
Skating
Cycling ( Prefer Terrain Biking )
Kayaking
Sailing
Archery
Air Rifle
Bowling
Outdoor Camping
Expeditions
Photography
etc etc.

So if any of you people lack of Khakis to do the following stuff, feel free to ask me along =) Infact, its a request. Invite me along !!

2007-05-22T21:43:00.000+08:00

No mood to blog much recently.

Things in my life had been going past pretty quickly, like a VCD on Fastforward. Barely have time to breathe, and much less organize my thoughts for this blog.

However the reason i am here blogging today in a rather dead and monotonous tone is to record down the events happening to me currently. As many of you might already know, this blog was meant and still retains the purpose of a online diary for Mr Lim Tianjun.

Chinese intensive has been a nightmare, but slowly becoming less torturous since i found that long lost motivation to do well for my Chinese. It came from a post script written by MDM YONG MTL HOD in ENGLISH ! because she knew i wouldn't be bothered to read a comment which is written in Chinese. Two Post scripts actually.

Erm, also. I think its the end between us both already. I waited not long, only for a week when i made the decision before informing her; just to check if the fickle-minded me will change my choice. I dont think so this time, i am really sick of it, and also through with it. I've gave up trying to keep the relation going since for almost the past one year, it felt as though i was the only one putting in the effort. Or at least , the only one putting in a significant amount of effort.

We have dragged long enough as Tze Yang puts it, just end it here.

Moving on with my personal life too. I doubt i am going to look back this time, and i am not going to allow myself to look back. Also, the last time we will meet would be the SYF Showcase and after that, it should be relatively easy to keep apart , since we will probably not be meeting each other again other then bumping occasionally in school.

I know i have been saying for the umpteen time that this will be the last time we will be with each other, so i guess i wont say that again this time. Just see how it goes.

SYF SHOWCASE COMMING UP. Everyone lost their choir voice during the one month break and everyone is back to square one with throaty and dead voices. Need a few sessions to find the FULL CHOIR TONE BACK. Really want to spend more time with choir during our last performance before the sec 4s are officially out of Choir.

Am going to miss every single person in the choir, and also i would really love to see the new leaders lead the choir. I believe that is the wish for every single sec 4 student leader who is leaving this year, we would like to see you guys maintain the standard of the choir and seeing you lead hopefully gives us that confidence.

Also, honestly. THE SLs and I myself, we are seriously totally unthinkingly sick of leading, scolding and maintaining the discipline. We would really appreciate just sitting back, relaxing and following for a chance. At the same time ! we can give u some pointers and tips too ! xD haha.

All the best people for O level, all the best choir. All the best everyone.

WEST SKATERS

2007-05-17T22:59:00.000+08:00

SOME RANDOM VIDEOS WE TOOK AND COMPILED xD

Poignant Memories

2007-05-12T23:14:00.000+08:00

Looking through the" Graduation CD" that my primary school teacher gave to my class when we graduated, i felt really... well, i really missed the times we had then.

Also, it made me realised how difficult it has been, had been and will be to remain in contact forever. All the empty promises of " Friends Forever " made when we graduated made me realize that no matter how much you try. It is always difficult and requires alot of effort from both parties to keep a relation alive, be it friends, BGR , Parent and Child.

Have you asked yourself, why is your current best friend your best friend, or even best friends. I think besides everything about " having alot in common"and " having similiar personalities" blah blah, i think it all comes to having alot of free time together.

What i mean by that ?

In layman's term, it means "SLACK TIME". Time for you to talk cock, to talk about your beliefs, to talk about your problems, your relation and your life.

Also i believe, for most people. Your best friend or friends would be people who are "easily accessible" , perhaps in the same class ? Same school ? Same CCA ? There will usually be some thing which gives you and your best friend time to spend together.

Thinking back to my primary school days where we wished each other all the best, stepping out of the school compound for the very last time as a Yew Tee Primary School Student uncertain about our future.

I remember wondering who my best friends would be in secondary school, if i would find one best friend or a group of them. I wondered how they would be like, how they would look like and what kind of family backgrounds they will come from.

It was a scary feeling, leaving your life behind and starting a new life in a brand new enviroment but it is something you just have to get used to.

An experience i would have to face again in 6 months time. How time flies.

I still remember the first day i stepped into kranji secondary school, 2nd January 2004. I was extremely blur and not-so-street-smart at that time, i remember standing in the foyer and waiting just because every sec one seemed to be just standing around in the foyer.

At this time, the school's system worked differently. At that time, early in the morning. One is supposed to proceed to class ( where most people would copy each others homework xD ) and wait for the first bell to wring at 7.15.

When the first bell ring, the school is supposed to proceed to the parade square for flag raising. Till now, i prefer this old system because it facilitated copying of homework LOL!

Whatever, i side tracked. but HEY this post IS about memories right !

Anyway, back to what i was saying very much earlier on. My class 6B. I would remember you guys forever haha !

All the times we spend mugging like siao, doing tons of worksheet as compared to the other p6 class.

Oh yea, btw people. I just want to erm, clarify and inform you. That i do have a box where i keep all things that are memorable to me. So if you write me a card or something, it will not be thrown away !! loL! everything will be kept in that box... yep

Tags 6 - 12/05/07

2007-05-12T02:41:00.000+08:00

Sat, May 12th 2007, 10:33 PM

gin: omg .. can you like UPDATE?!?!

Sat, May 12th 2007, 06:59 PM

pq: T_T stop bully-ing mi! mi hair v nice hor..! humph.!! *blehs*

Fri, May 11th 2007, 10:43 PM

da: TIANJUN! dunno u still rmb me not.. you da from mambo lol! how u ? lols!

Fri, May 11th 2007, 04:05 PM

!germain: actually those "goals" thing right, i would never put them up . but is you tell me put up one ... =.-

Fri, May 11th 2007, 10:53 AM

mindy: HEY HELLO. uhm. don't you think ít's a bit risky posting that up in case terrorists decide to break into our school and steal the loot?

Thu, May 10th 2007, 12:03 PM

Renee: thanks forbeing a really good president....

Wed, May 9th 2007, 05:08 PM

LYNN: hahahahaa... nice joke. go tianjun choir gang leader boss man! i choose you! LOL.

Wed, May 9th 2007, 02:00 PM

WAN TING!: orange rocks! yay! ;D

Wed, May 9th 2007, 10:45 AM

iffah: yes I do...how did you know?

Tue, May 8th 2007, 10:55 AM

iffah: pikachu, I CHOOSE YOU!!

Mon, May 7th 2007, 10:50 PM

Y0NGJIA: HELLO! i know there's a firing range LOL but nv been to there too! LOL. WHAT IF there's like KRANJI MASSACRE! LOL TIANJUN GOES oN KILLING RAMPAGE! 35 were KILLED!

Mon, May 7th 2007, 08:36 PM

JIAYING: HE IS SO DUMB ==' Pikachu?? Lols . hahas .

Mon, May 7th 2007, 05:14 PM

!germain: LOL! THAT WAS SO DAFT!

Mon, May 7th 2007, 04:26 PM

JILL: hey, link me (:

Mon, May 7th 2007, 04:10 PM

jie heng: olx... my sis's friend oso did dat... damn stupid lor...

Mon, May 7th 2007, 01:01 PM

marianne: i know la please! and that joke is damn funny. LOL

Sun, May 6th 2007, 11:35 PM

JAC: next time you go army you say "ball ball! *ahem ahem* i dont want you!!" then throw your own ball out. WAHAHHA. i think only you get my this kinda weird humour.

Sun, May 6th 2007, 11:05 PM

meiqiao: why change blogskin suddenly?

Sun, May 6th 2007, 10:25 PM

wrong: Heng ah! thought big mistake

Sun, May 6th 2007, 10:24 PM

wrong: Heng ah! thought big mistake

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:54 PM

-Eekie'x: one day i really SPAM then you know. >:/

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:53 PM

-Eekie'x: WAH LAO. EVERYTIME NEVER REPLY MY TAG ONE. XD

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:46 PM

Tianjun: munkit - sure, created blog again ar xD

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:46 PM

Tianjun: wrong - LOL! actually, its not a big mistake. only one note which was sang a semi tone higher =P

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:46 PM

Tianjun: wanting - -_- I did it because i was so sincere and eager in wishing you happy birthday !! xD

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:45 PM

Tianjun: Lynn - linked liao ,dun call m =Pe mean again

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:45 PM

Tianjun: Marianne - Of course la xD those tags precious u know. EH NOT URS ONLY, its the content

Sun, May 6th 2007, 05:44 PM

Tianjun: Jieting - THANKS ! all the best to you too ! Bluey -__-

Sun, May 6th 2007, 04:53 PM

w3nj13™: hey...relink leh. thanks

Sat, May 5th 2007, 07:27 PM

-Eekie'x: i have an urge to SPAM your TAGBOARD. *trying hard not to* BLAH.

Sat, May 5th 2007, 07:26 PM

-Eekie'x: AIYO ! tsk tsk ! =D

Sat, May 5th 2007, 01:02 AM

wrong!?!: Janger parts!?!? she dunno??

Sat, May 5th 2007, 01:00 AM

wrong!?!: den how come instructor ong dunno??

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:50 PM

WAN TING!: OMG, THIS IS FUN, NO WONDER YOU DID IT TO ME. ;DDD

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:50 PM

WAN TING 5: HELLO 5 TIMES!

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:50 PM

WAN TING 4: HELLO 4 TIMES!

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:49 PM

WAN TING 3: HELLO 3 TIMES!

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:49 PM

WAN TING 2: HELLO TWO TIMES!

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:49 PM

WAN TING 1: HELLO AGAIN!

Fri, May 4th 2007, 06:49 PM

WAN TING!: HELLO TIANJUN. ;D

Fri, May 4th 2007, 02:22 PM

LYNN: link me up too! i noe i small player la.. but dun be so mean can. hahah..

Fri, May 4th 2007, 02:21 PM

LYNN: don't make me deaf with ure super ultra singing power ok, choir gang leader!!! LOL.

Thu, May 3rd 2007, 06:24 PM

-Eekie'x: its me loh ! -_-

Thu, May 3rd 2007, 05:37 PM

marianne: wa touched! you wanna PRESERVE my tag =P

Thu, May 3rd 2007, 04:42 PM

!germain: i think it was eli..

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 09:55 PM

-Eekie'x: LOL !! no need sorry lah xD

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 06:06 PM

whaiee: oh isit ?? i thought it was eli cause she always think of all this lame lame and funny funny things . sorrie ..

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 05:57 PM

-Eekie'x: whai ee !! silver with honours was started by ME okay !! XD

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 05:22 PM

Prabby: link me yah ?/

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 05:14 PM

Prabha: yao link me kk

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 05:08 PM

whaiee: even if the tenors got their tune correct , we will not have the ' silver with honors ' now ... kinda love it already ' silver with honors ' hahas .... XD

Wed, May 2nd 2007, 03:40 PM

iffah: link me...

Tue, May 1st 2007, 02:52 PM

`jieting: although it MIGHT b late... but i still WISH u riite. XD

Tue, May 1st 2007, 02:51 PM

`jieting: wahhs MR PINKY!!!!!!!!!! go luck fer MYE.

Tue, May 1st 2007, 12:34 AM

Jared: hey link me.. thanks

Mon, Apr 30th 2007, 11:39 PM

Dickson: You never see NPCC go in take their rifle for training before meh? NDP always go in and take one...

Mon, Apr 30th 2007, 11:38 PM

Dickson: Oops, It's a Rifle range. Those rifle in the Shelter are real rifles but are old and muted ones. Means they cannot shoot already...

Mon, Apr 30th 2007, 10:07 PM

JIAYING: got such place meh?

Mon, Apr 30th 2007, 05:55 PM

-Eekie'x: OMG YOU PERVERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XPP

Mon, Apr 30th 2007, 05:55 PM

-Eekie'x: ;O TIANJUN !! YOU MEAN, YOU HAVE GONE TO EVERY PLACE IN THE SCHOOL?! EVEN THE GIRLS' TOILET!??!?!

Sun, Apr 29th 2007, 11:52 PM

meiqiao: I OSO WONDERED WHAT IS HIDDEN INSIDE THE BOMB SHELTER!!! I heard its very stuffy inside though, ventilation sucks. But, I still wanna see it for myself!!! >.<

Sun, Apr 29th 2007, 10:17 PM

Tianjun: Dickson - Air rifle ?

Sun, Apr 29th 2007, 10:06 PM

Dickson: Yes, there's a Rifle Range in there but I never seen Live Fire in it before...

Sun, Apr 29th 2007, 12:00 PM

-Eekie'x: munkit.. -.- TIANJUN UPDATE !! ;DD

Sat, Apr 28th 2007, 09:15 PM

Ultimate Sai Kang Warrior: hahax... sry for all the things ur have done when i shuld do them... much appreciated =)

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 11:41 PM

WAN TING!: HELLO TIANJUN! THANK YOU SO MUCH, I WILL BLOG TIANJUN1-10? LOL. ;DDD YAY! TIANJUN ROCKS. I WAS SO TOUCHED. AHHAHA! ;D

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 07:05 PM

whaiee:

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 07:05 PM

whaiee: quick quick quick post up the continued version of the ' to - kranjichoir '

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 07:04 PM

whaiee: ya lor u wanted to like make it less visible for everybody to see then it is like soo danm obvious hahas XD

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 05:57 PM

iffah: i'm so sad that i missed SYF...it sucks to be sick on an important day for our choir...I couldn't hear all your goodbye speeches...and *Ahemahem* you are a good choir president...

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 05:53 PM

-Eekie'x: and dont worry. the choir will do well. [with or without you, lalalas. jk! ] we'll get a gold for you guys ! ((:

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 05:52 PM

-Eekie'x: XP

Fri, Apr 27th 2007, 05:52 PM

-Eekie'x: EH ! why i see a dono what symbol after your dedication to yeegin ah? what's that?

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:39 PM

Tianjun: Chien Hock - EH, ! the proposal how ?! xD

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:38 PM

Tianjun: Jac - HAHA ! yes slalom queen, i have been quite active in skating unlike your highness -_-

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:38 PM

Tianjun: germain - loL !

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:38 PM

Tianjun: marianne - huh, why cucumber ?!

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:37 PM

Tianjun: Lynn - lOl -_- LAME ! YES Netball xiao player -_- xD

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:37 PM

Tianjun: Yong Ting - Opps . Didnt see ur reply here, so i asked u again in msn. well, like what i said. Standard raised slighty,and i believe ur choir did ur best too xD

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:36 PM

Tianjun: eekie- Updated

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:36 PM

Tianjun: Iffah - yea, we did everything we could. Just little more time, 2 weeks perhaps..

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:36 PM

Tianjun: jieting - Yes bluey -_-

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:35 PM

Tianjun: Gin - xD

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 10:35 PM

Tianjun: cat- lol. Thanks ar . xD whats that suppose to mean :p

Thu, Apr 26th 2007, 12:27 AM

chienyhocky: skating rawks! lol..skate or die, don't ask why!

Wed, Apr 25th 2007, 08:07 PM

JAC: i agree man. skaters rock on. though you've been so alive still, i'm like way dead from skating. Ooops >.<

Wed, Apr 25th 2007, 05:59 PM

JIAYING: link mi!!! xD

Wed, Apr 25th 2007, 04:28 PM

marianne: EH WHAT PUMPKIN LOR. I KNOW. I SHALL CALL YOU CUCUMBER -_- LOL

Wed, Apr 25th 2007, 04:17 PM

!germain: our choir gang leader RAWKS ! xDDD

Tue, Apr 24th 2007, 08:56 PM

-Eekie'x: so fast wOr.. XP

Tue, Apr 24th 2007, 08:56 PM

-Eekie'x: *AHEM* one.. year. *AHEM* =D

Tue, Apr 24th 2007, 08:25 PM

JAC: Haha... what's the recent post about huh

Tue, Apr 24th 2007, 07:44 PM

`dani: hey! relink miie kay?!=D

Tue, Apr 24th 2007, 05:11 PM

LYNN: choir gang leader! *salutes*

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 10:56 PM

taiyi: yo! tag u back! lol. =D

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 09:59 PM

tingys: freaking judges lol, or should i say my choir isnt good enough

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 09:59 PM

tingys: our choir dropped to bronze

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 08:05 PM

-Eekie'x: no lah. you alrdy gay from the beginning. =x

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 08:05 PM

-Eekie'x: and you look gay when you do this -> =)

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 08:04 PM

-Eekie'x: heyys. update about SYF ! =]

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 07:45 PM

iffah: everybody did their best...plus silver is good...going to miss all the seniors..

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 07:33 PM

`jieting: see mr pinky. i so good. u todae ask me read ur tag i now come read lerr. XD

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 06:05 PM

%gin [: BEST PRESIDENT EVER?!~ AHEM MAN!~

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 05:03 PM

Cat: Jia you for your Os

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 05:03 PM

Cat: yo Mr P . have to stop calling you that soon. lol. enjoy it for the last few days bahs xP Thanks for being our P really and scolding us xD don't think the new P will teken us like you

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:30 AM

Tianjun: Marianne - HAHA! Yes pumpkin, thanks alot =)

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:30 AM

Tianjun: Cindy - HAHA ! thanks alot ! honestly, i was alittle pissed when i heard u have to go for NPCC even so close to SYF, but i realised that u really had a heart for choir, and yep =) Thanks alot man....

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:29 AM

Tianjun: jiamin - haha ! thanks thanks, yea.. everyone will remember cheehow. Of course man, the joker of the choir who never fails to bring the spirit of choir up =)

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:28 AM

Tianjun: tingys - oh, reply to ur blog

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:28 AM

Tianjun: Tingys - haha, thanks ! We got a sliver,

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:28 AM

Tianjun: cheehow - ehh. LOL! xD i am super touched man.

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:27 AM

Tianjun: kimberley - HAHA ! what never have said this !! that u meant man ! i decided a pos tto u =P yep i will mug hard, and i dun think i wanna join choir in JC animore. Will join a outside choir perhaps

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:27 AM

Tianjun: Jiaying - GEEE !! must u say that i have a GL face here, xD Thanks alot =) i really really appreiciate

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:26 AM

Tianjun: Mandi - Thanks !! xD u are our future generation, its up to u guys now to keep the fire burning

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:26 AM

Tianjun: Yanni - EH !! i didnt know u read my blog, haha ! thanks !!

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:26 AM

Tianjun: jieting- yes bluey? xD ;p thanks xD

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:26 AM

Tianjun: germain - ThaNKS THANKS !!lol, really really apprieciate..

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:25 AM

Tianjun: eekie - haha !! thanks !! i replied to ur tag !!!! =)

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:25 AM

Tianjun: jiaying - linked

Mon, Apr 23rd 2007, 12:24 AM

Tianjun: Yong jia - LOL! ur friend ar xD Thanks alot sia ! it was all the choir's effort xD

Pikachu, I CHOOSE YOU !!!

2007-05-06T17:29:00.000+08:00

Over last night's dinner, my sister ( younger ) told us a little joke which kept me chuckling for pretty much the rest of the night.

We were actually talking about Army, no idea how we arrived at the topic but when my DAD mentioned Confinement period ; my sister remembered that little joke of hers which she shared xD

It happened to her friend's brother's friend in the army. They were practicing grenade throwing with dummy grenades i assume, and you know. When you throw a grenade, you have to shout somethings to warn your platoon-mates that you are tossing a grenade.

Normally, people will shout stuff like " GRENADE !!! ", " FIRE IN THE HOLE " stuff like that ya..

But this friend's brother's friend of hers, being a joker shouted while throwing the grenade " PIKACHU !! I CHOOSE YOU !!! "

LOL !!! NEEDLESS to say, he was confined and not allowed to go home for the rest of the week xD

Random stuff

2007-05-01T22:33:00.000+08:00

My digital camera is lost -_- Sony Digital, 5 MB. Wonder where it is, that means no more picture shooting for me.

OKay, that was totally random, infact the content of this post is going to be very much random.

One thing i would like to highlight, Chongren realised that the entire tenor section has been singing a part of JANGER wrong ! xD And nobody realised it, it just went pass everyone's eyes, or ears in this case unnoticed. LOL!

And how we came to realise it.....

One Fine Day, chongren and rest came over to my house to slack after the english prelim paper. They had nothing better to do, so they took out the janger score and tried to play it on my Digital Piano. They were playing the tenor's " Ngi ring me jang er randi jabah tenga " part, when chongren felt that it sounded different from what they were singing.

So they played again and again and finally chongren exclaimed in chinese " WAAH !! The entire tenor section has been singing this part wrong ! " LOL!

No wonder we got a sliver only =P =P

The tenor section leader ( AHEM AHEM ) must have made a mistake while teaching the section this part of the song, a mistake that he didnt even realise xD

And, i totally hate my aggressive skates. Its twice the weight of my SEBA FSK, half as maneuverable and half as pleasing aesthetically.

Live Firing Range ? In Kranji ?

2007-04-29T16:18:00.000+08:00

Recenetly, i heard from some people around me that there used to be a live firing range in kranji secondary school. Inside the bunker , under the basket ball court which is originally designed as a BOMB Shelter, and still serves its purpose today.

Sadly, in my four years in kranji. Its the only place in the school which i have never been to, and would really want to explore the insides.

LIVE FIRING RANGE ?! IN a school ? It sounds kind of ridiculous because of the safety issues related. I mean, anyone can come into school, break into the Ammo Store and steal the arms. Yes , of course there will be layers of security, but it will probably be alot more easier to compromise an ammo store in school then one with the Military. LOL

I heard that there are 3 doors per gate also before you can actually enter the compound. There are four entrances to the bomb shelter, and in each of these entrances, there are three doors you have to open before you can enter. 1st the metal grill we see at level one, a wooden door which is below ground level and a metal door again.

My cousin , who claimed that he entered the bomb shelter once in 2005 with NPCC seniors, told me all this..

Can someone Verify ?

To - Kranji Choir

2007-04-26T22:24:00.000+08:00

This year, Kranji Choir achieved a sliver the SYF Competition. While waiting for the results, i had roughly the same emotions and thoughts i had 2 years back ; Knowing that we probably didnt make it for a gold,yet hoping for a miracle to happen.

Upon receiving the results, some of the choir broke down into tears while i remain rather impassive. The emotions just didnt came, i dont know. Perhaps i was already expecting the results. Nonetheless, i was and am still extremely proud of the choir.

I will not pretend that i am not a tiny bit dissapointed, sure. I am just a little little bit disappointed, with a hint of resentment; i find it unfair that my choir has put in so much effort and yet we achieved only a sliver. But i guess life is unfair most of the times.

BUT yet ,as many of them have said, the SYF competition has really bonded the choir together and i think many teachers are touched by the KRANJI CHOIR SPIRIT.

As Ms Yong said, " Although i have only been in kranji choir for a a year or so. But something i can see in this CCA but not in others, is the desire to achieve. The hunger for success."

The thing that touched me most was our final moments in Kranji Choir, where everyone was crying, hugging each other. Looking around, i could see faces filled with tears, tears of sorrow i hope. =) The seniors were extremely unwilling to leave choir, and the juniors didnt want us seniors to go.

Looking around, i saw faces that i thought didnt really care about the choir crying and this was the one which touched me the most. Those who joined choir in sec 3, i believe regret that they joined the choir only in sec 3 instead of sec 1 as quoted from Tze Yang.

I must say, i am not regretting the time i spent serving as president anymore.

I would like to thank all my fellow HEAD COM, EXCO and MUSIC COMM members for supporting the choir, giving everything they have for the choir. And this part is specially dedicated for them.

Cheryl Ang ( Vice Pres ) - Thank you for dedicating so much effort in leading the alto section and managing the admin part of the Choir. Without you, the choir really wouldnt have function and the altos owed alot to you. You have given up so much for the choir, then whenever i felt like giving up. I would think about how much you put in and persevere. Thank you for sacrificing not only your time, not only your energy but also your studies for the choir. The choir, i, sincerely from the bottom of my heart, thank you. You are really the one who deserves the Colors Award.

Yee Gin ( Vice Pres ) - Thank you for helping to discipline the Sop section and also helping kimberley to manage her section. Also, thank you for managing the choir when i am seriously tired and too shagged out to lead the choir. Thank you for all that you have done, the attendance list which has to be so frequently updated because of many changes to the members in choir. Also, sorry for always throwing my tantrum at you when i and feeling super frustrated, while u absorbing and tolerating me quietly ( MOST OF THE TIME !!! xD ). I really shouldnt have.Sorry<3

Kimberley ( SOP SL ) - This girl, extremely stressed up. I think among the entire committee, she has one of the most demanding responsibilities. She has the largest section in the entire choir with 30 to 40 members, and she is solely responsible for the attendance, discipline, conduct of her 30 people. Not only that, she has to make sure that every single one of her members knows the songs, note for note, beat for beat. Definitely tiring and demanding, especially the her main responsibility as SECTION LEADER. I must plead guilty also, for on several occasions i have asked her to fork out valuable hours of her time to call her section to inform them about some last minute annoucements. She takes almost 2 hours each time i pass down a message, while i have the easiest job. I just need to call two people, yeegin and cheryl where they would call the 4 SLs and the SLs would do the dirty work. Thanks alot for sacrificing so much for the choir.

Chong Ren ( TENOR SL ) - One of my best friends, one can actually see the instant change in attitude and behavior when he steps in and out of choir. Outside choir, he would be a really carefree joker/ clown who never fails to make us laugh at his silly expressions but yet the moment he steps into choir, you can see the dramatic change on his face. From a face which was free of worries, to a face which was full of worries. Right before the SYF, as we were standing right outside Victoria CONCERT hall, listening to the choir before us singing and waiting to go in, it was probably his most stressed up time in choir. ( pardon my english )

SEAN ( BASS SL ) - A perfect example of how choir can change a person =P From a soft spoken guy to one who stands infront of two sections and conducting combined sectionals. It was quite touching to see him actually cry when we received the results because i didnt know he cared so much. In the past, he didnt really care and worry for the choir, infact his life mostly revolved around the church. But last friday, for him to walk up front of the choir while the seniors were saying good bye speech and giving his blessing, it was... no words can describe. People who know him will understand =P especially when he said, i love you guys. LOL !! sounds so damn gay coming from a guy, but from a guy like him. Dun think so.

Hui Sian( Treasurer ) - Loan shark of the choir, this girl here is extremely efficient when it comes to collecting money. She collects the money step by step and always make sure that not even a cent is missing. Whenever there is money to be collected, i know i can rely on her to do her job. Thank you for all the help you have given to the choir, really appreciated. And thanks for the letter too .

Germain ( PUBLICIST ) - The noticeboard in charge of the choir, she is also "officially" incharge of this blog since it is supposed to be a replica of the noticeboard, if not better. =P Must thank her for taking the initiative to decorate the noticeboard, and updating the noticeboard when required also. its not really her fault that she didnt update the noticeboard too often since i never briefed her properly on her exact duties, so she have been living in the shadows i think. But then again, thanks for decorating and updating the noticeboard, writing up some of the goals of the choir members although you know that the noticeboard is only used for official announcement. Thank you

Munkit ( Librarian ) - The ultimate Sai Kang Warrior of the committee, munkit here does one of less interesting job in the choir. His duty is to ensure that there is always a sufficient amount of scores available for the choir as well as to keep the cupboard in check. Not too appealing, so i must really thank him for putting up with the position for the past 1 year without any complaint. I think if it was me doing this duty, i would have complained like.. loL. well, i wouldnt be very happy with it. Thanks alot for all you have done.

TAGS THAT I WANNA PRESERVE
marianne: you know what? I'M PROUD OF YOU =D haha so weird right.

Sun, Apr 22nd 2007, 05:13 AM

CIN: By the way, u're the greatest choir president on earth. TRUE! We'll miss ya and ya gang! Take care. ^_^

Sun, Apr 22nd 2007, 05:11 AM

CIN: I joined choir later than the sec 2s, but yet I get used to the choir life easily. It muz be becoz it's really fun. I've never seen a bunch of 70 ppl in a CCA so united. I hope this can last... (=

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 10:06 PM

jia min: and chee how...u dun need to get jelous...i am sure everyone will rmb u...haha

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 10:05 PM

jia min: and thank you tianjun for bringing the choir together to be united like one big family

jia min: mandi...i agree totally with euu...i will nvr forget all the sec 4 seniors of 2007...i will always rmb them...

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 09:45 PM

tingys: TIANJUN!!!! sorry, i didnt noe it was your bday haas, i update my blog le, what you get for SYF ahh? replies to my blog(: happy beeeeeelated bday btw! haas

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 08:32 PM

cch: i am starting to get jealous

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 01:16 PM

kimberley: i thought i would never have said this but you were great as a choir president, now mug hard for the prelims and o lvls and get into a jc (choir) you REALLY would want to go. JIAYOU (:

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:52 PM

JIAYING: Though you always pump us and put on a GL face , but , YOU ROCKS!! MR P!!! xD

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:31 PM

[Mandi]: ThankYou PRESIDENT!!! For bonding the Choir together, keeping our passion going strong! WE WON'T FORGET 2007 CHOIR's PRESIDENT AND SENIORS!!!

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:29 PM

[Mandi]: Although I am only in Choir for 4months, I felt the joy, laughter and bonding here. Tianjun, you really are a GREAT PRESIDENT! YOu won't be forgotten by US! ROCK ON, YEA?!!!

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:27 PM

yanni: THx President for Everything!!!

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 10:20 AM

`jieting: CNGRATS CHOIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 10:08 AM

!germain: YEAH! YOU ARE THE BEST PRESIDENT KRANJI CHOIR CAN GET! YOU NEVER BE FORGOTTEN !

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:43 AM

-Eekie'x: you'll always be my BEST Kranji Choir President FOREVER. rock on GOR. (x and i don't care ! you MUST reply to this tag ah ! xD

Sat, Apr 21st 2007, 12:43 AM

-Eekie'x: MR. KRANJI CHOIR PRESIDENT SIRRRRR ! =D

Fri, Apr 20th 2007, 11:11 PM

JIAYING: Link me ! xD

Fri, Apr 20th 2007, 09:43 PM

Y0NGJIA: KRANJI CHOIR I MEAN!*

Fri, Apr 20th 2007, 09:42 PM

Y0NGJIA: KRNAJI CHOIR DID AWESOMELY YAH! =)

Fri, Apr 20th 2007, 09:42 PM

Y0NGJIA: hey! i was there during the CONCERT TOO! =) LOL.. my friend FARHANI thinks you're HOT! LOL =) she's my classmate! LOL

Fri, Apr 20th 2007, 09:16 PM

nathaniel: yo yo yo. sry i couldn't stay to hear your touching speech.. haha! it's okay.. you can visit us anytime in choir again right??? =D see ya..

Thu, Apr 19th 2007, 10:28 PM

-Eekie'x: GOR ! FIGHT FOR THE GOLD ! ;D

Thu, Apr 19th 2007, 07:24 PM

xuan*: its tmr it tmr!!~ jiayou jiayou jiayou!!~~~ ^^

Thu, Apr 19th 2007, 07:16 PM

WAN TING!: CHOIR - GOLD! JIAYOUUU! ;D

Thu, Apr 19th 2007, 06:40 PM

jiaying`: hey! jiayou for SYF tmr! get gold huh. or else don come sch find me!

Wed, Apr 18th 2007, 07:15 PM

swee: tianjun happy belated bdae!!! hope u haf enjoyed urself on dat special day!!! syf vry soon all e best!!!

Wed, Apr 18th 2007, 07:13 PM

swee: eekie: sry 4 not being able 2 tok much 2 u guys...wanted 2 tok 1 but cannot find time when both pjc n kranji choir free..haiz hopefully next time will b able 2 c u all again!!!

Tue, Apr 17th 2007, 08:31 PM

!germain: just realised that this is the first time i tagged sooo much. haha

Tue, Apr 17th 2007, 08:30 PM

!germain: RELiNK !!

Tue, Apr 17th 2007, 08:30 PM

!germain: DAAAAAAAAAMMIIIIITTTT !!!!!!1

Tue, Apr 17th 2007, 08:29 PM

!germain: TIANJUNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AH!! like.. 2 days to SYF?! JIAYOU!! AND WE WILL ALL MISS YOU GUYS AFTER YOU ALL STEP DOWN ! =3

Skating Scene in SG

2007-04-24T22:54:00.000+08:00

In recent times, i realized that the Singapore Government has been supporting the development of Inline Skating as a family sports. This is definitely beneficial to us skaters now because more facilities will be erected just for inline skating =)

Changing the mindset of the people is one of the challenges that we skaters face while promoting the sports. LOL ! In the 1980s, the sport if inline skating was associated with gangs and hooligans who hang out through the night just to skate. Big challenges indeed. Perhaps thats one of the reason Parents restrict and ban their child from skating, claiming that the sport was "TOO DANGEROUS".

Oh well, it is a definitely a big challenge, and one of the thing i have been doing consciously while skating. I'd like to just remind my friends to consider the pedestrian's safety before , err.. Doing anything stupid.

Well, not very sure myself why i actually posted about this anyway. I would really like to introduce all the friends around me to this exhilarating sport.

Go skaters.
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Just met a few skaters who lived in Bukit Panjang while skating around at LOT 1. We got to know each other and ended up skating together, that was on Sunday Night ! xD We did quite crazy stuff together at Bukit Panjang Plaza, would really love to skate with them again.

Also, just as i was coming home from Limbang Mcdonald where i was studying, i met a couple who was learning how to skate !! How rare ! They were about 40 to 50 years old, and to see such erm.. Not so young, not that old people picking up the sports really, well. haha, you get what i mean.

So naturally, i just sat around and taught them the proper turning method.

2007-04-24T00:06:00.000+08:00

Happy 365days/12months/1 year. LOL! Time really flies.<3

Happy Birthday to ME !!!

2007-04-15T23:48:00.000+08:00

xD haha ! i must admit la, this is one of the best birthday's that i have although nothing much happened on my birthday itself.

Yesterday 14th of April ( one day before bday ), we had our concert with PJC CHOIR and wild empire. Although kranji choir was invited only to sing 2 songs as a whole choir, i think the choir did really well and impressed the audience quite abit. We gave them one hell of a scare too.

Yea.. I wanna thank all those who gave me birthday wishes sia. I am quite touched that some people who i never expected to give me something to actually do so ( there goes my english ). Ms Cherie Ong wrote me a card and i was quited suprised, i think she is the first teacher who actually gave me something. Oh yea.. And Maryann too. a bar of chocs xD Totally unexpected ! i still havent thanked her enough yet, no idea how she knew.

Oh and Jiamin, for that specially made keychain. It looks professional, and i have no idea where u got it made. thanks alot for the effort sia ! Going somewhere to have something specially made..

And my sister too ( blood sister ), she got me a original NOKIA handphone pouch, and i think it must cost bomb. Mum and dad gave me hong bao.. xD

Yea... Thanks for the birthday wish especially..... xD

I did receive a special sort of present from someone though xD It was something i have always wanted, and have almost gave up wanting it. Just really glad that i finally got it in the end =) <3 u

K ! thats all ! bYE !

Expedition Flash Back

2007-04-13T23:57:00.000+08:00

During this time where the team is preparing themselves physically for this year's expedition, i begin to have some flash backs of last years expedition; old movies playing through my head. Some of my most valued memories came from that expedition, and i would definitely remember it for the rest of my life.

One of the minor thing i remember which left me feeling rather stupid is our pre-expedition training last year.On our check-list, it stated that we were supposed to do 50 push ups, 40 incline ( i think, cant remember ) and 40 sit ups. So naturally, not wanting to malu myself infront of the rest of the team, i went to train for my push ups.

I can still remember, the time where i linger at 40 plus push ups and about to die already, but keep telling myself not to give up. Struggling, shouting, grunting. I always made sure i did those 50 push ups. Eventually, i got better at the push ups. 50 push up to me was not much of a challenge, so naturally i felt extremely proud of myself. The feeling damn was damn shiok la.

Until we had our first combined training, where i realised that we didnt need to do 50 standard push ups ! The push ups were just leaning on the incline pull up bar, with our leg a distance away. HOW CHEATED I FELT xD. It was super dumb xD

Well, in the expedition itself. I did something which i should never have, i lost my temper at a team mate. Well, i still dont like this guy till this day because i find him rather selfish. Well, basically this guy was super fast and we didnt want him to lead because for some reasons with him, he cant control his speed and always go too fast until the formation is broken. We had a total of about 14 kayaks, 3 single, the rest doubles. WE were suppose to keep in a diamond formation for safety reasons.

Well, the distance navigator ( lead boat ) and the sweeper ( last boat ) must not be more then 100 metres apart, but when he leads. He would often pull the distance up to 300 to 400 metres. And the kayaks are usually very dispersed. This is quite dangerous la, because in open water. There is a limit to how far your sound can travel in the day, we would use a echo system to transfer messages. But ohwell. Anyway

We wanted this guy to go to the back as sweeper, we asked super politely, and slowly the team became more insistant. He refused and insisted on leading ( we removed him from navigator ), and we just ignored him. And during this time, he just whined and whined that we were going too slowly. I finally lost my temper and since i was one of those suicidals one who went on a single kayak and he was also on another single kayak. I keep ramming into his kayak, shouting at him , erm scolding vulgarities i think.

LOL! I was really super super pissed, i really lost it. I just wanted to capsize him and shut his big mouth up. I was thinking, perhaps when i capsize him. He would understand the importances of "we" instead of "i" since he will not be able to get back on the kayak without surrounding pple help.

LOL, it was kind of violent. Now when i think back, it was quite dangerous. If i ramed into his body instead of his kayak, he would have been injured. And i came close to capsizing his kayak, his kayak went ontop of my kayak and, well. If he capsized and knocked his head against my kayak. LOL.

Whatever, those were the memories. I will make sure similar accident wont happen this time round.

Quite intimidated by this upcoming expedition, i mean. If MR Yeo can get cramp at the top of the mountain, how the hell am i going to go up without training. ( singing daily in choir without doing much physical isnt going to help much. ) Haha ! Even Mr Ong Sin Teck is slightly worried and he admited that he has been training on his own regularly. Climbing up and down 12 stories 5 times. Thats about 60 stories in one go.

The team is going to train next friday though, 20th april. Choir's SYF, which means i cant join them la... SAD ! Oh , they will be carrying dummy bags ( bags loaded with stuff to simulate the weight of equipment ) and the requirement of them is to trek to bukit panjang xD Climb up and down a 30 story building for 3 times with that 8 to 10 kg bag, and back to school. LOL! ALL THE BEST XD

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CHOIR SYF

Still not at a gold yet, which is leaving me rather worried. I think i have to talk to the choir tomorrow.

Updates

2007-04-08T22:10:00.000+08:00

Nothing much to update recently, lol. Or rather, many things but just cant be bothered to.

Sister's and Mum's birthday yesterday and today respectively. Gave them their presents .

CHOIR'S SYF in 2 weeks time, 11 more days. "Judgement Day " We are definitely not at a gold standard yet, at only a high sliver. The thing that is lacking is the WOW factor. IF we are not going to be able to WOW the audiences, we are not going to achieve that gold.

I thought of some stuff the choir can do to Janger to hopefully create that wow factor, and my friends agreed that i should get the choir to do it and immediately because it is too late.

My only worry is for those choir girls, who are much too erm.. " Composed " and i have a question to their willingness to act alittle bit. Lets just see on tuesday. But i still strongly believe that this is one of our best and easiest way to gain a step towards that wow factor we still lack currently.

Not going to hide my mood, not feeling in the best of mood recently which explains my relatively ( i hope ) moody blog post. Thats all people, ciaoz.

AND JIETING ! stop calling me PINKY ! xD

Nintendo !

2007-04-01T23:02:00.000+08:00

EXTREMELY HUMOURS ! ITS A RIOT MAN ! WATCH !!!

NAPHA Tests

2007-04-01T19:50:00.000+08:00

Personally, i've been dreading this year's NAPHA test because instead of inclined Pull Ups now, i have to do those dreadful Pull Ups.

I checked the NAPHA TEST STANDARD FOR MALE chart which states that a 15 year old male would have to complete 5 pull ups to attain a C grade. SIAN AR !! There goes my gold for this year, still i will do my best on the DAY itself and pull as much as i can.

The NAPHA TEST's PULL UP grades are defined by the number of Pull Ups one can do in 30 seconds. Now now, how many of us can actually hang up there for 30 seconds. SURE ! i can ! without doing any pull ups at all =)

Finished my 2.4 km run with a measly timing of 10Min 33 sec. Barely scraped through an A grade for a 15 year old ; 10Min 42 sec.

LALALA! Napha gold !

Three Blind MICE !

2007-03-27T20:43:00.000+08:00

Now admit it, how often do you see a bunch of Long pants guys from kranji Secondary school playing blind mice at the playground outside school. MEET ME ! and my gang ! xD

One fine day, we decided to relive the memories we had in secondary two where we would run off to playground to play blind mice almost everyday after school ! HEY! i guess thats explains my lousy sec 2 result :P

Hey ! but we were really good at it okay, we could jump around and hop around like monkeys, everyone of us had our own specialty and weakness.But usually, we cover up our weakness so that others wont spot them.

Here are some of our strength

Chong Ren - Amazingly agile, you would find this guy jumping and climbing the playground so fast that you might think he was practically flying xD

James - As a catcher, he makes alot of sounds to intimidate people, but thats just about it :p

Chee How - All rounder player, not very good any anything, but not weak at anything.

Tianjun - I think i am quite good on the monkey bars( Note that i said ON the bars, not WITH the bars because i am literally ON the bars ) I have quite a good balance so can run across the bars.

Tze Yang - Yet to be noticed

Oh whatever, i also heard that the guys from 4 C played blind mice with some of their class girls too xD LOL! apparently initiated by charles who used to play with my gang too.

Blind Mice will always hold an important place in me xD
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Choir practices have been crazy this few weeks. 2 weeks back in the march holidays, we had choir on Monday Tues Thurs and Sat. Last week, we had choir on Tues,wed Fri, sat Sun. This week, we have choir on tues, wed, thurs, fri, sat. WOOHOO ! we better get gold man

Chorale Exchange

2007-03-19T21:57:00.000+08:00

We had our Chorale Exchange last Saturday, Co- organized by the South West CDC and Vocal Consort. Originally, the choir intend to only start practice at 11 but after Thursday's Practice, the The S-A-T SLs wanted sectionals to clear up some mistakes in the song, so thus entire choir was to come at 8.30am. Am rather pleased with the attendance, everyone came relatively on time.

We arrived there slightly late, and i think all the other Choirs were waiting for us to start. Well, it wasnt our fault. The choirs present there were " Commonwealth Secondary, Nan Hua High, Clementi Town and SUPRISE SUPRISE, ShuQun Primary."

Mr Nelson Kwei brought the choirs through a short warm up, and dispersed the choir for us to have some final preparations before we sang for each other.

i shall cut the crap and make this short. I felt that Kranji Choir performed relatively good. No doubt, we rushed, we didnt sing as well but the sound quality was there, so was the energy and strength.

I heard from Conductor Ong that even Nelson Kwei was suprised, nono ! Sorry the exact verb used by Ms ong was shocked. SONG BO !!! xD

I was really encouraged with the effort everyone placed in singing properly, (i know everyone in the choir now is thinking, waaah we sucked and we suck. But really, it is a SO WRONG mentality. ) or rather, with energy.

I was very very shocked and impressed when i heard a omg-so-strong echo from our finishing touch of janger, that shout we had to do. When the choir shouted JANGER , there was a very loud and strong echo comming back ! And judging from the size of that hall ( it was a school hall with totally sucky accoustic ) , to get such a strong echo was, wow.. LOL! IT shows that we were really really loud, and we also shouted at exactly the same time.

It's kinda cool, it was really a big hall xD Anyway, that all aside, singing like that will definitely not get us a gold in SYF. We were blasting all the way without any change in dynamics.

Also, we did the pieces at almost thrice the usual tempo that i found myself attempting a really complicated Balinese and Latin tongue-twister on stage.

Choir, our sound quality is almost there, if not there already. I think what Mr Nelson Kwei commented about the commonwealth definitely applied to us. The only consistent thing about us is also our inconsistency. 1 final month, and a gold with honors is very very possible.

2007-03-16T23:54:00.000+08:00

I would like to use this post to apologise xD Recently , i find myself being rather anti-social. So if i have attitude-ed u in one way or another, my sincere apologies xD

2007-03-15T20:06:00.000+08:00

Just today, i heard from Cheryl that in the Band's exchange Kranji Band had yesterday, people commented that they had a high chance of getting Gold with Honors. And after listening to them a few times here and there, i personally feel that it is possible too.

Sian ar... Choir has now shifted its target from Gold to Gold with Honors. Which = i have to be more strict and not let those late commers get away Scott free. GOLD WITH HONORS ! HONORS HONORS!. And honestly, i think its possible. If we pia even harder. Quite encouraged with the choir's attendance recently though, except for 3 or 4 regular pon-tanees. We have full attendance. Some of our sec 1s are pretty good too. Going to have to push the choir even harder.

I just completed my Reflections for the Beijing Twinning Programme 2006, thought i put it here to just fill some space.

A self-introduction of myself before I continue, I am Lim Tianjun from Class 4B (2007) who participated in the Beijing 2006 Twinning programme with the Beijing 54 Middle School.

I would like to start this reflection first by saying that this trip has taught me to be much more appreciative of the little luxury that we Singaporeans take for granted. Simple facilities we students have such as our school canteen in all primary and secondary schools is considered luxurious in Beijing, China.

The absence of a school Canteen was the first thing I noticed which totally surprised me. In Singapore where I literally “Grow, Eat, Shit and Sleep” for the sixteen years of my life, every Primary, Secondary, Pre-U and Universities is equipped with at LEAST one FOOD Canteen. I was brought up thinking that it was the norm, “every school all around the world should at least have a canteen”. Maybe not third world countries, but definitely developed Capitals such as Beijing herself.

This realization lead me to reflect upon myself, reflect on what other luxuries we Singaporeans and even myself have taken for granted. If simple luxuries such as a canteen is not provided in a relatively good Middle School in Beijing, what else do they NOT have.

Singaporean, both working adults and students often complain that the lifestyle in Singapore is “ Too Hectic and competitive”, but how shallow-minded we can be. In Beijing; even though I was only there for 10 days, I could feel that the lifestyle there is much more fast-paced and stressed then what we have in Singapore.

In the morning rush-hour, the streets are filled with uncountable number of bikes, coupled with a road which was totally jammed with cars. You could almost see the fast-paced life the Chinese we leading. Class rooms which are relatively smaller in size when compared to Class rooms in Singapore are packed with an average of 50 students instead of the usual 40 we get in Singapore.

In conclusion, I would like to firstly recommend and encourage all interested participants to go for this exchange programme; it will definitely be an eye-opener for you. Secondly after witnessing the competitive edge that these Chinese Students possess personally, I feel very much intimidated by this and worry for the students in Singapore such as myself. With such a competitive work force near our doorstep, how many Singaporean students will be able to win the competition with them in future.

Abit Crappy, wrote it in half an hour....

2007-03-11T19:21:00.000+08:00

It was Kranji Secondary School's " Meet- The - Parents " Session on friday;two days back. My session with the teachers was at 5 oclock after practice and expectedly, i was not looking forward to it.

I long knew that i would not perform too splendidly this term as well, i allowed myself to " slack " this term. lOL. I didnt pass up majority of the homework with english being the only exception where i passed up every single assignment.

Not feeling too afraid about my poor results though, because i knew i didnt put in any effort so this result is justifiable. Its only when i put in 100 percent of effort and still my results .. , then i will get worried.

Got 2 As only, and failed 3 subjects. SUPRISINGLY, i failed a math ! xD But, not too worried because on my most recent common test, i got a 19/22. I guess, no real big alarm. Probably some assignment or test which i did not pass up or did badly for.

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Yesterday, went to Pioneer JC for some Choir stuff. Was there from 1 till 5. Did a combine of Dashing away with the smoothering Iron followed by sectionals of that song.

Oh, we will be singing with PJC Choir and Wild Empire for that song.

Went down to East Coast park and reached Eunos mrt around 6.30, bought Jill's birthday cake with James and we skated with the cake in our hand from Eunos to East Coast park xD

Had our BBQ there, and i left the place around 10.30, took bus 966 before transfering to 960 at Bukit Panjang home. Reached home around 12. Wore skates the entire time xD

And also, am abit dissapointed ? no, i dont know what word to describe the emotion. Its more of a mix of dissapointment, resentment, blah blah xD Alot more ohwell. Wadeva.
To love someone is to give that person the ability to devastate you, but TRUSTING them not to.
I trusted you..., but not anymore...
i will never allow myself to be degraded even further when i already am to a extent of choosing between me and another.. Good bye.

2007-03-09T19:28:00.000+08:00

Everyone wants the best for himself, but how much a person wants it.

How much a is a person willing to sacrifice for the best for himself, thats a very big question mark.

I want my 8 points in o level VERY BADLY.

2007-03-08T22:04:00.000+08:00

Phew !!! Time now is 10.05 pm Thursday. Just back from a session of night skating !

Night Skating alone !!! Wasnt feeling at my best just now, so decided to "release" some of the frustrations and all with skating. And WHEE! it works for me !

I dont know for others, some people's de-stressing technique might be listening to music la, playing piano la.. reading.. But for me, its only skating that has worked so far. The sensational " High " you get from rushing across the ground, as pillars, trees people zoom past you and the wind howling in your ears is simply unbeatable.

Speaking of the wind howling, it explains now why i can never seem to hear how "noisy" my skates are. The sound of wheels being burned off, sound of rubber against concrete.

Also, since i bought my Seba FSK like, 2 weeks ago i think. This is the first time i brought my new girlfriend through such intensive, sharp and vigorous corners. Personally for me, i really dislike skating on a flat piece of ground, especially East Coast Park. OMG !!! How boring can that be ! Just push push push on a boring, flat piece of ground. On and on and on and out of sight xD I can literally fall asleep while skating.

I brought my girlfriend to high speed skating under HDB blocks, where sharp and unexpected corners are always there. Its very thrilling, especially when you skate without thinking of where u are going. I just listen to my heart and turn where my heart ask me to turn. So its quite a face paced thing, one corner, another corner and SUDDENLY YOU HAVE THIS PILLAR COMMING RIGHT UP !!! YOU HOCKEY STOP !!!!!!!! and desperately try to reduce speed in the 0.5 second before executing a very sharp corner, hoping that you will it without crashing into the wall.

WOOHOO !! the Adrenaline RUSH !!! But, naturally, the excitment level drops together with your andrenaline level as you begin to grow and become used to these high speed skating under the HDB block. Thats where people do even more extreme stuff! xD

I still dont see the need to progress into aggressive skating yet, partially no balls also. I just dont feel in the mood to fall down every time i skate. SO i just dont want to try new stuff out, and when i dont try new stuff out. I usually wont fall.

SKATING ALL THE WAY !!! LIKE THE WIND!!

2007-03-04T20:42:00.000+08:00

God xD How difficult is it to vent some anger on this supposingly personal blog of mine xD.

2007-02-28T19:22:00.000+08:00

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2007-02-27T21:46:00.000+08:00

I got my new girlfriend !!! SEBA FSK ORANGE ! xD She cost $290 bucks and i definately love it alot. Going to spend lots of time with her. WOOHOO !!! SEBA FSK ORANGE !!!

Today was definately a bad day with a couple of not so pleasant things happening all at once.

Before i carry on, just like to warn people that this post might offend people , but i will grit my teeth and try to blog this as calmly as possible xD

Started off last night with my dad coming into my room at night giving me a very big scolding, asking me to see the doctor the next day. I was coughing very badly that night and i think my dad couldnt take it any more because it is those full volume coughs that keeps on going.Trust me, it is not a very pleasant one. Definately spoilt my mood, a scolding right before you sleep. You TRY.

Didnt sleep well at all throughout the night as for all the nights for the previous few months with tonight's cough being particularly bad. The COUGH just kept coming, again and again and believe it or not. I coughed so hard that my back muscle, the muscles at the kidney area cramped. ALSO, my abdomen muscles are aching as though i finished 20 push ups and i think if this carry on, i can get a 6 pack from just coughing alone =) xD

Woke up feelings grouchy and frustrated, initially planned to wake up slightly earlier to complete my math homework but feeling too tired i just slept through the alarm leaving my math homework undone.

Went to school feeling better and looking forward to something i had in mind for choir practice later that day and spent most the time walking to the bus stop grinning to myself like a chesire cat.

It was only when i walked past the AVA room before i remembered that BASS had morning sectionals today. " Thats it, third time i forgot to come sectionals " were the thoughts i had as i walked towards the parade square.

I will not blog about how i saw the stinky black face of one of my friend because i missed sectionals. Well, i cant complain too. I am in the wrong.

Thankfully, English lesson came and went without any drama today. Well, quite interesting also. Every english lessons, theres something to look foward too. Some student attitude teacher and so on.

PE lesson came up next, and LOL!! Tianjun's POWER !!! We were playing street soccer above at the basketball court above the bomb shelter and there was a time where i had the ball right infront of me.Just then, i was thinking of the unpleasant things and face which happened today and raised my leg high to ram the ball with all my might to vent my frustration. I was already quite pissed by this point of the day and its not even the best part yet. lOL

Anyway, about 0.2 seconds before my leg came in contact with the ball. My classmate, esmond kicked the ball away and left his leg in place of the ball. Already too late to react, my leg went full strenght into his ankle . And this injury left him wheel-chair bounded for the rest of the day.

The moment my leg contacted his, i knew that it has got to hurt for him partially because of the sound of that impact. It was bone and bone kind of sound. The pain i experienced on my foot also reflected how hard the impact was, but it wasnt really painful for me. Just a irritating nagging sensation in my leg that left me limping for awhile only.

Math lesson was okay, Then Chinese Lessons.

God, how much i hate chinese. Its really so difficult to motivate myself to learn my chinese although i know that it is simply for my own good. It doesnt help with un-engaging lessons which left almost half the class of 14 pple sleep. Naturally, i was one of them. Good time for me to catch up with my sleep and to recharge for physics period which came next.

Physics lesson ! Quite okay overall, we had this class test which left me rather.... Well, we had about 20 to 30 minutes to complete this class test. And i did the class test as per normal, refering to common sense and general knowledge for questions i dont know the answer to before about 5 minutes later. I noticed that most of my class mates have their text book open and i ask my classmate sitting beside. "EH !! OPEN BOOK TEST MEH !!!!" HE said " yea, now den u noe ? " -.-

Good job tianjun .

Choir practice. LOL!

We had our time at VCH yesterday. And honestly, i find the choir sounding pretty good. Just the sound, in terms of tonal quality. It was better then what we had the last SYF in my opinion. But then again, the song has no dynamics and everyone is just singing the songs without emotions.

For a check on where we were standing now, Conductor rated us section by section and the Alto, Soprano, tenor and bass were rated a low sliver, middle sliver , middle sliver and high sliver/ low gold respectively.

Quite an encouragement for me , though not yet satisfied with only a sliver, we have definitely came a long way since last year where i think we were singing like a COP choir. LOL!

Am definately encouraged xD I think most of us agree that if choir CHAO PIA this 6 more weeks, we will be able to get a gold for the first time in Kranji's Performing Arts History xD

GO CHOIR !!!! xD PIA !!!!!

Jige Long Tong Qiang Tong Qiang !

2007-02-22T20:10:00.000+08:00

This lunar new year of mine was not as eventful as my previous years, but definately not the worst.

This year, my family will not be going over to Malaysia where we would play with firecrackers ; something i always look forward to annually. Every year, my cousins and i would travel across the causeway to play with firecrackers around the house of my cousin's maternal grandparent.

We would spend the entire afternoon to evening playing with all the various firecrackers we bought, and it really hikes up the atmosphere of our Chinese new year. Never had a year gone by without an exciting or dangerous incident which never fails to bring adrenaline following through out blood stream.

SAD.

SADDED

SADDEDDED

SADDEDDEDDED.

With less then 2 months to SYF , I begin to worry for the choir's progress. 2 months of SYF and we still have a majority of the choir members unfamiliar with the song. Hais, have to bring it up to the choir.

I believe that the Sec 2 this year do not feel the urgency simply because they have never sang any song properly before. Since the previous year, i do not remember singing a song with all the polish, dynamics and tone.

Ohwell..

On a lighter note, am definately glad to see full attendance on every tuesday practice xD Definately encouraging, shows that we have been putting effort to come for practice. Now its up to Ms Ong to perform her "magic".

xD !!

OH YEA !!

WE created a skating club ! SkateVelos, and acronym for skater's velocity. Current, it has a grand total of four members. James Tan - Executive Officer xD ME !- Master Trainer Tze yang - Trainer and Munkit - Trainer.

We noticed that the popularity of inline skating is definately increasing and we hope to encourage more people to pick up the sport despite myths that it is dangerous and all. I must say that it is definately safer then picking up cycling.

In cycling, when one falls down. He or she risk the fact that the Bicycle might fall on them or cause some serious injury. However in skating, that is not possible at all.

OH well, matter of perception.

START SKATING ! xD

OH, and som publicity for our new skate velos xD

If Anyone is interested to pick up the skating sport, feel free to join us and we will share with you or even teach and coach you on the basics of skating.

Skate Velos -.- LOL! i still find the name disgusting ! Any new and creative ideas for the skating club ? xD

2007-02-20T21:15:00.000+08:00

I recently had this whacky idea of creating a blog on unexplained happenings in kranji secondary school since we have many experiences xD Just to share so others might be alittle more cautious when in school at night

Books Wishlist

2007-02-19T23:15:00.000+08:00

LOL! I've just created a book wishlist on my blog for me to keep tracks of the books i want to read. Its always the same scenario, when i am at the Bookstore, i dont know what to buy. But when i am at home, i can think of a thousand and one books that i want to purchase.

And also, abit thick skinned to say this but if any one hor planning to buy a present for me, can i ask of a favour and purchase the books on my wishlist for me instead of some other presents. There are simply too many books i want to buy.

I can go to a bookstore with my dad and he have to control the amount of books i buy, i usualli spent about 100 dollars a trip to the book store. AND LOL! The books i purchase arent comics! i dont really like comics, find the pictures a waste of space and time.

How irony humans are, Other parents would gladly purchase any books their child want to buy ( because the child rarely reads ) but in my case where i am a book fanatic and simply love reading, parents have to restrict my purchase of books xD

Just follow LAW !! xD

2007-02-19T21:32:00.000+08:00

Just finished that new JACK NEO's movie, Just Follow LAW ( just follow LOR !! ).

Though not as touching or funny ( In my opinion ) as the previous movie "I am not stupid too ", but it definately retains the humor which Jack Neo has been so succesfully creating. His strength in addressing issues and problem in the modern day Singapore, issues which people can relate to combined with his wacky sense of humor is a killer combinations which leaves Singaporeans and even foreigners ROFL and coming back for more, literally.

Issues raised are those easily related both from the "Upstairs" and "downstairs" in a company's or organization hierarchy. So if one doesnt have a very restricted schedules or pocket, i would recommend people to watch "Just follow LAW".

Creative guy jack neo is.

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion:

You have medium extroversion.
You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.
Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences.
But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."

Conscientiousness:

You have low conscientiousness.
Impulsive and off the wall, you don't take life too seriously.
Unfortunately, you sometimes end up regretting your snap decisions.
Overall, you tend to lack focus, and it's difficult for you to get important things done.

Agreeableness:

You have medium agreeableness.
You're generally a friendly and trusting person.
But you also have a healthy dose of cynicism.
You get along well with others, as long as they play fair.

Neuroticism:

You have low neuroticism.
You are very emotionally stable and mentally together.
Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly.
Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure.

Openness to experience:

Your openness to new experiences is medium.
You are generally broad minded when it come to new things.
But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it.
You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Senior Citizens, Liability or Asset

2007-02-11T19:39:00.000+08:00

Last Friday in the single period of Social Studies, my class 4B had a debate whether Senior Citizens are a Liability or an Asset to Singapore. In this rather heated debate where opposing teams ended up shouting across the classroom after the end of lessons and some rather unhappy faces too. LOL

The Class was divided into 2, Assets or Liability before further sub-divisions where we have 2 sub-groups supporting a point. My group, being the unlucky one was selected to support that Senior Citizens are an Asset to Singapore.

The points raised by the Liability group were pretty much expected,well, at least they were pretty much expected by me so i wont be blogging on their points. But i think the Assets part raised up some points what i wasn't expecting.

- Senior Citizens train younger workers and impart skills.
exp. - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew

I cannot remember the points we brought up already, but i do remember a few of my rebuttals to the opposing team's points.

Point - Old People cant fight , therefore useless in army as they cant defend singapore.

Rebuttal - Generals and high ranking officers who make the decisions in times of war are mostly in their 60s.
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Point - Old people are useless because young people can be trained to be a professional and do not need Senior Citizens.

Rebuttal - Who will train them ? xD
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Still, i find that some of the rebuttals and the points that the ASSET people make are not exactly addressing the Senior Citizens because trainers and senior of the company are mostly made up of Senior Workers, workers aged 40 plus, NOT 60 70 ! xD

I was there thinking, if the LIABILITY team exploited this loop hole in our argument, well, i am not able to think of a rebuttal already xD Because to me, its true that OLD PEOPLE are a Liability.

But it would be cruel and harmful to the country in the long run if they treated old people badly because then the younger and current workforce will think " Why do i need to work so hard for, in the end when i grow old, the country is also going to treat me like sh*t".

And that would be a mortal blow to the countries economy and workforce, also, it wold be against human moral to do such a thing. I would definitely feel bad when i am forced to treat the people who helped me previously badly.

2007-02-10T01:21:00.000+08:00

Beginning to miss the Photography Club and the time we spent crapping while shooting. I wanna go back for training sometimes, the sec 3's batch this year are amazingly great. Everyone's shots improved, and frankly, i am really impressed with their shots when i look through them. Hope they wont forget this yandao photographer here :P lOL!

2007-02-07T21:48:00.000+08:00

You Are 50% Left Brained, 50% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning.
Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others.
If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic.
Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet.

The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility.
Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way.
If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art.
Your right brain prefers day dreaming,
philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

Photo from the past

2007-02-04T23:15:00.000+08:00

I was clearing out my computer and i found some rather interesting and cute photos xD ENJOY!

From Left to right to bottom ( Chengyang, Weeyang, Charles, James, Chongren, Me ! )

MuNKITTTY

From Left to Right ( Zhi Jie, Chongren )

Left to right ( Billy, James )

Kranji 10 Anniversary Dansical, Yee Gin!Look how silly she looks! xD

Dansical, Choir final prep.

Choir Performance.Highly successful one from my point of view

Terrorism

2007-01-29T22:50:00.000+08:00

Recently, i have been reading a book titled Angels And Demons by Dan Brown and in this book, they have mentioned a very short paragraph on terrorism or rather the goal of terrorism which i thought was rather interesting.

The paragraph says that Terrorism has a singular goal, meaning all forms of terrorism the 911 crisis, bali bombing for example happened only for a reason.

Some people might think that terrorist are only a group of sadist who enjoys taking the life of other people but, i strongly disagree. I believe that actually terrorist are a group of rather smart people ( People at the top of the hierarchy, like Osama For Instance. ) who takes life in order to serve a higher purpose. Its not all about killing as many people as possible.

The paragraph says that Death is only a Byproduct of terrorism. It is something like a side effect for example; when one is given a vaccine , he or she might suffer from side effects such as fever when the body reacts towards the vaccine.

In the same way, Death is not intended but is also needed to accomplish its higher goals which i will touch on later.

Some might think that terrorism is a show of strength, a display of what they are capable of. True and correct to a small extent, a display of their might serve no purpose other then to cause terror.

Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to undermine faith in the establishment, it undermine faith citizens of a country have in their government by creating terror and Fear. When people of a country lose faith in their government ability to protect and lead them, they will start harboring resentment against the government. And this very act weakens the country, its an attack on the country from within, causing nrest in the masses.

Terrorism is NOT an expression of rage or dissatisfaction. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.

Terrorism is a Political Weapon.

Of course, this are merely my views and please by my guest to make your stand if you disagree with them.

Presenting to you !! 4 B !!!

2007-01-25T22:03:00.000+08:00

This are some videos we took in class today after the Visit to Nanyang Polytechnique with erm.. A camera phone xD !! :p OPPS ! Super retarded ! Go ENJOY !

2007-01-24T18:32:00.000+08:00

finally convinced that i dont care about her animore, but why must such a thing happen. i thought i didnt animore..
LALALALALALAL !!! loL !

2007-01-22T19:01:00.000+08:00

Do not know what to update today. Friends who never used to bother are now studying hard for their A Math in a battle to not Drop A Math. Things has been pretty discouraging and yet, i cant let it show on my face incase it affects the others, getting rather sick and tired of it, of the problem with her, of them. Hoping for April to come quickly.

Direct Translation

2007-01-15T01:15:00.000+08:00

I have come to believe that my use of English language has been severely affected by Singlish, as i read through my own previous post and sentences, i can spot a rather noticeable amount of direct translation from Chinese.

But however, one of my biggest problem currently is the difficulty in differentiating between direct translation from Chinese to English, or English to Chinese.Being one who writes Chinese Compositions first in English on a rough piece of paper before translating it to Chinese ( My thoughts and ideas just cant flow when i am writing in Chinese, resulting in a lousy plot ), i believe those pieces of paper i hand up to the invigilator contains evidence of direct translation.

As i compose this post, i can feel my use of the English improving rather drastically. How weird and mysterious can it be. Over a period of three months, i have been trying to improve the use of my language by blogging in proper English ( Or rather, regain the standard i used to have ), and suddenly with this post. It seems that all the proper English sentences are flowing to my head instead of those corrupt direct translation.

Amazing. I do sincerely hope that from this point onwards, i would be able to blog and of course write in proper and fluent English whenever i need to do so.

And fret not my friends, Tianjun the Great has not transformed into a walking dictionary who speaks only proper English. He still keeps with him one of his country's most unique... Culture; Singlish....an unrepairable shattered trust is all that is left besides memories.. e...u slam the door of a heart you have slowly and carefully open shut right in your face when it has finally opened fully to only you...you made her unable to trust another guy again.... you make it harder for this heart to open again, not only for you, more importantly,for everyone else... (reading through chat logs, with tears in my eyes/traces of you in me... )
Woah !!! Shiong ar !!! Have to type carefully for those para graph, do hope that they are in proper english of course xD Okies ! its late !! Got to sleep ! NITE !

Targets of the YEAR !!!

2007-01-13T19:12:00.000+08:00

Presenting !! Targets of the year !! From Chongren and JAMES !!

Am posting up the targets James and Chong Ren made when they felt motivated to study for this year's O's and with their consent. Or rather, they almost asked me to post it up. What for ? To motivate them indirectly, how ?

Imagine this senario, you promise everyone you know including yourself that you are going to get this results, but what if you dont ? You will fill rather guilty, erm.. Paiseh, embarrassed and all right ? So thus..

Chong Ren's Target
EL - A2
Cl - A1
E.M - A1
A.M - B3
Phy - A2
Chem- C5
C.H - B3

L1R5 -12

James's Target
EL -B3
CL -C5
E.M -A2
A.M - B3
Phy - A2
Chem-A1
C.H -A1

L1R5 - 12

Please do them a big big favour and embarrass them ( with permission from them ) if they fail to achieve any of their results, or if they are playing instead of studying during exam periods , or doing anything that might stop them from achieving their targets.Ultimately and hopefully,it will help them in achieving their grades.

After checking the the past entry level for my target JC, i realised i have to revise my targets, so thus.

my target .

Eng- A2 ( omg... even more reasons for me to blog in proper and fluent english )
CL- C5
C.H - A2 ( omg ... no more playing and skating and slacking )
math and sciences - A1.

When i hopefully achieve my targets, lol.. L1R5 of 8 points.. Minus 2, 6 points. Bare Minimum for the Science Course in that JC..

Study Study STUDY !!! But first until April, SYF GOLD SYF GOLD SYF GOLD !!!

hais. I guess i sort of understand how, you feel ... I mean, not really understand. i dont know how to express myself... I know i did wrong, yet i dont feel THAT guilty for some reasons and i kind of dislike myself for it. Anyway, i am starting to realise why you are so disappointed with me when i placed myself in your shoes.

a person who you trusted more then anyone else, the person you trust most in your life, perhaps next to your parents, perhaps the same as your best friends.. yet this person... betrayed u. what a lousy friend he is...

i do feel bad for betraying you.. the girl which means the most to me ? i.. i didnt mean for things to turn out this way... and when you first confronted me..

i didnt offer an explaination i guess partially cause i would look like i am, i dont know.. i think i was just more concerned about finding out how the information leaked..

Of course, i do blame everyone who passed the message on abit, why cant u just keep your mouth shut. but i do not blame CH at all, he didnt mean to at all .. it was purely accidental.but after that i dont know, why cant u all just shut up ? is it that fun to glossip about people ? whoever that person is, or persons...

But still, ultimately, i was in the wrong to have even burped it out to CH, and break the promise. oh wadeva. Its all over. I dont know how to save it anymore, i dont know how to help repair it anymore... Its over..

HAPPY 2007

2007-01-07T22:24:00.000+08:00

After missing in action for almost a month, i decided to come back to blogging before my blog drops to the (YEEGIB) Standard where YEEGIB is the syllabic abbreviation for the YEEGIN BLOG Standard. Where updates come at a monthly or sometimes bimonthly intervals despite protests from blog readers.(I believe i am about to get some major protests from mypinktiara.blogspot.com :P:P )

So in order to avoid such a situation, finally decided to give my blog a little update.

During the the time where i was MIA, have no idea why but suddenly lost the temptation to keep a blog till recently where i reminded myself why i created a blog in the first place.WELL ! During this fun filled one month, i basically rotted away not that i mind really. I kind of treasure this time where i dont have to do anything for the two weeks after CAMP MUMBO before choir practice resumed.

My Kind of Vacation i guess. Of Course, rotting for too long does, well, rot you. Dont really know what i am talking about.

Its a new Sensation being in Secondary 4, although i have only been through 3 days of it, and non of them includes lesson. I can see the change in attitude in my classmates. Many of them are starting to buck up, thinking for their future, wanting to study and all.

I guess thats the effect the O lvls have of students.

Personally for me, have decided to go all out for studies after i step down from my position in CCA because i concluded that with such hectic practices comming up ( 3 days a week ), there would be no way i would be able to juggle full on studies plus full on CCA.

Am not totally satisfied with my SEC3's end of year result, but i find it only okay, not good. Long way from my target xD Am rather dissapointed with my A Math Result, only got a B3 which i find totally unacceptable because my Math and science is where i am going to score in, and a B3 is far too low. Got a A2 for chemistry too, not too bad, but still, need to buck up.

My Killer where i really need to buck up, thats where i will spend majority of my efforts from april to june at; Comb. Humans and English.E8 for Comb.humans and C5 for english. OMG !!
That E8 is totally unacceptable man ! But given the fact that i barely studied for Humans after reasoning to myself that humanities should be an easier subject to catch up with as compared to math and science so , i didnt really pass up the homework for Humanities. I think i passed up only 3 out of 10 ? Something like that.

English.. Well, nothing much to say. Must pay more attention in lessons instead of just sleeping through it.

Target for O's
English - B3
Chinese - C6
Amath - A1
Emath - A1
Physic - A1
Chemistry -A1
Comb.Hum-B3

So if i do succeed in meeting the target, i should get 10 marks for O's. Minus 2 marks i will get from CCA , 8 marks. Quite a good result i guess, quite reasonable as a target too. Do pardon me for always posting my targets and grades on my blog, i use it as a motivation for me to study. I mean, imagine, if i tell everyone reading my blog i will get A1 for all math and science and i end up failing all, i would be, well, very unhappy with myself.

So yep ! Do pardon me :p ANYWAY ! its MY BLOG ! So i post what i want :p

Camp Mumbo 06 Day 2

2006-12-12T22:20:00.000+08:00

Day 2. Was woken up at 6.30 by a bunch of my campers who were sitting around in a circle around me talking about me " CI is sleeping, sshhh!!! dont make noise" ( -.- )

Fine, what a great way to start the day. Woke up and walked to instructor room to take my toiletries and went to wash up.

Got the kids to pick up their sentosa bags with the help of my instructors and off we went to the foyer to gather after breakfast.

This year sentosa's game is relatively different as compared to before because last time, we had a amazing race kind of thing over the entire Sentosa and feedbacks stated that it is too tiring for the children, so this year the Game Masters tried something new. We stationed at the beach playing games.

Next, the instructors formed a human barrier in the sea where the kids swam inside. While the CIs having no particular responsibility just fooled around with the kids and joining the barrier at some point of time.

I think Mumbo is one of the camp who would allow about 100 children aged 4 to 12 to be at the Sea all at once, especially Sentosa's Sea where it is notorious for the few cases of death on its beach.

Infact, i believe that Mumbo is the only camp available for Children as young as 4 years old. Many other camp simply dont have the time, logistic , manpower and experince to handle very small kids.

Brought my group up the Yellow Line Bus where we went all the way to Sentosa. Instructors were still wet from the session in the sea since we will not have the time to bathe until the children is asleep around 12 - 2 am.

We arrived at the Ferry Terminal and had our group time thinking of our Camp Fire Item. We taught them a dance that will be included in the Skit.

Next we had our sing along at the Ferry Terminal ( Kranji Choir members, it is the building where we were preparing and warming up for the performance ).

After an hour of sing along, we brought them to the Musical Fountain. At this point of time, my energy level was at all all Low already and i managed to doze off while siting up right.

Brought them to the bus, which went back to school. On the bus ride home, Jeremy and I were sharing what we knew about photography ( Camp's Photographer ), by the way, Camp Mumbo has quite a few Photo Enthusiastic.

Send the kids to bed and instructors had our debrief until about 1 am, and we took another half and hour practicing the Instructor's Item Dance. Next i called for a group meeting which dragged till about 2.30.

Took a half an hour nap until 3 oclock while waiting for Chongren's Group to finish their group meeting before we went to the hall to sleep.

James and Cheehow Group went out for supper so i have no idea what time they came back because i was already dead asleep.

Day 3

The last day of the camp. I divided my team into Two Shifts for the last day, 1st shift waking up at 7 oclock along with the campers and the 2nd shift waking up at 9 oclock while the 7 oclock shift took a nap from 9 am till about 11 am.

I, myself was in the 9 oclock shift as insisted by my instructors after witnessing that i had trouble thinking straight the night before in the group meeting xD

Woke up at 8.50 and washed up alittle before looking for my group in the hall.Next we had the Mad Scientist Activity where the kids are taught some fun facts about science. Quite educational i must admit.

Finally, after lunch is the Obstacle Course. The most looked forward event in the entire camp , at least in my opinion. Also the place where i got all the whacky ideas for the CHOIR CAMP such as Butter Hill ( Modified to Soap Hill in Choir Camp because Butter is too dirty ), Tunnel Crawl ( changed to night activity in choir Camp ), Caterpillar walk .

And anyway, i have a new inspiration for a game i would like to try out either in camp mumbo or the next choir camp. Going to be quite fun xD

After Obstacle course, they campers took a bathe Mumbo Style and went to group corner to relax. The instructors took shift to bathe at this point of time.

What is MUMBO style bathing anyway. Very interesting :P Very much like a Japanese Firing Squad one might find in World War Two, however this time the Machine Gun is replaced by a water hose instead.

The Campers were made to strip and stand in a row while the instructors used a hose and hose all of them. Then all will apply soap, then another round of hosing. Then finish, settle. Very fast, Takes only like 10 minutes to clear all the boys .

Thats why we manage to squeeze in so much activity into camp mumbo. In Choir Camp, i allocated alot of time for bathing because previously i hated to be rushed when bathing in camp.

CAMP FIRE. Not too satisfactory this year, the volume was too soft. Campers not participating. When bidding good bye, only like 3 of my campers cried, quite dissapointed at this. Felt that i didnt perform my ROLE of Chief Instructors Well Enough.

After the campers went home, it is time for the Instructors to PLAY AND RELAX !!! But of course, we had to do the standard area cleaning. This year's area cleaning relatively easy, took only about 3 hours to clear up the camp. It took until 3 to 4 am the previous year while it lasted until 1 am only this year.

So after the clearing up and organising and packing of the Logistic equiptment, we went to Thompson Road for Supper.

Took us two lorry trips to ferry 50 people over. Its quite a intimidating sight, 40 pple sitting in two long rows wearing the same Camp Fire Shirt.

Came back after supper and played games.

Played Line catching ( amusing to see all the 20 year old playing like they were 10 ), Red Indian, Crocodile, and Finally the most interesting and exciting dodge ball.

We played till 7 am in the morning and i took a small nap till 7.30 where we went off packing the logistic equiptment, bringing them up the lorry and putting them back in the store.

Very dissapointed to see so few instructors helping out in the CC. Many were already gone by the time the Lorry reached the CC.

Conclusion :

Felt that in between the instructors, something is and is still missing.The Bond ? The Zi High ? Basically just the chemistry between the instructors. Instructors were sticking to their own clique of friends this year, leaving little or no chance for outside interaction between the other instructors.

Given my 3rd year as instructor in the camp, i must say that this year's instructors were really not bond, maybe the lack of free time to bond because this year's camp was a very rushed one.

Sincerely hope that the instructors will grow closer together since this batch of instructors will most likely form the new generation of instructors, all the best to mumbo.

Camp Mumbo 06

2006-12-11T20:46:00.000+08:00

I would like to start of the post by stating that Camp Mumbo this year was only a okay camp, but i think its forgivable because majority of instructors are first years.

I also found out that i made a mistake regarding the history of the camp. Camp Mumbo has been around since 1975, for 31 years. When my Dad was 13 years old and My Mum was 11. So i believe now the instructors for then would be about 50 years old now.

Wonder who they are.

On thursday, met up with Meixuan, Chongren and Cheehow to go down to TeckGhee CC. Arrived slightly early and we went for lunch. End up arriving at CC slightly late because by the time we arrived, the other instructors were already starting to move the logistic equipment from the Store into the Lorry to be ferried to ANG MO KIO SECONDARY.

Went there on the first lorry trip with 5 other instructors and started unloading and organising the equipment while the Darren drove the Lorry back to CC to ferry the 2nd batch.

Nothing in the afternoon happen, basically just made up our group corner, finished our Campfire ID and crapped around. Around 6 oclock, we gathered at foyer for Dinner and sing along.

Next, we had a instructor item dance rehersal and some briefing plus filling. Was free to sleep at 12 am.

I brought my instructors to group corner to conduct a group meeting because i wanted to share with them what is expected of a instructor since i felt that it was not emphasized enough in the camp meeting.

Went to sleep at around 1 to 2 am.

Friday.

Finally, the 8th December 2006 has arrived. Met my group campers for the first time, organized some games. I am sure glad i didnt mess it up, i am also super appreciative of my instructors because all of them were doing very good jup as instructors, taking initiative as i mentioned the day before, leading cheers without being asked.

But sadly, lunch was conducted badly as a whole camp. I think the Camp Commandants Ah Ling ( Pei Ling ) and Jianshun were really tolerating. I think Ah Ling practically gathered the instructors and shouted at them. I dont exactly know what happened because i am the Chief Instructor and all the Chief Instructors were left to control the group while the other instructors gathered.

We had Camp Craft and Outdoor cooking after lunch which lasted until roughly dinner time.

Dinner was quite a memorable one. I had this kid who refused to eat dinner because he said he called Jianshun LAO GAO instead of yandao,( Jianshun playfully stated before that ) basically just showing attitude. I refered him to Jianshun and told him to settle the mess he created ( LOL ) and Jianshun brought him aside and talked to him nicely, telling him that he was only joking and playing and he had to eat his dinner. ( camper is 10 years old by the way ), he still refused to eat.

I think he reached the limit of Jianshun's temper , bad choice of Eugene ( camper ) to choose that time to show pattern lol. Jianshun practically scolded him ( something jianshun rarely does to anybody in camp ).

After dinner we had sing along, and then night activities where alot of young kids were crying and there i was busy consoling them.

They had supper and then was finally was lights out. Lights out was at 11.30, instructor Debrief will start at 12.30 so i allowed my instructors to bathe before they went for debrief.

This debrief was a rather negative thing. The instructors were all scolded. First thing said was " what are you all doing instructors. " by a senior instructor who rarely comments. He also stated that he didnt want to comment by he was too " ji Dong " already after witnessing what the instructors did.

So then the Jianshun debriefed, stating out all the things we did wrong which lasted for quite awhile. Ah Ling cried when she was apologizing for shouting at the instructors after lunch time, saying that she felt really bad. I believed she did.

Instructor debrief ended at 2.00 and we had our CI devriefing with the CC and PCs, Jianshun, Ah Ling, Ah Han and Sin yee.

So the 8 people were there talking about what went wrong today, and stating out individual instructors and the problem they have with them. I must consider myself a very Lucky CI since my group instructors was relatively the better ones in the camp. Even the first years instructors were good.

They mentioned about James and Cheehow, said that if they did not talk so much crap, the would be very good instructors. LOL. Of course they mentioned sometimes that the craps that they crapped were beneficial for the group.

Believed the other 3 CIs were really stressed, the other male CI willie looked super stressed and the other two CI Wen Yee and Chen Yu ended up crying. All of them were more then 20 years old.

So CI debrief ended somewhere about 3 am and i brought my sleeping stuff to the hall to sleep with the kids. Founded cheehow and accidentally woke him up ( not exactly accidentally, i purposely dropped my sleepingbag beside his head :P )

Last minute Updates.

2006-12-07T09:31:00.000+08:00

Time now is 9.33 am. Suddenly have the urge to blog about the current stuff that went on before i go for my camp where i will end up blogging all about the camp again.

Recently, actually no, just two days before. Was finally able to contact Marianne after a few unlucky days of " i online ; she offline ", " she online, i offline ". Oh yea, Marianne is the President of Haising Secondary School Choir.

I originally intended only to check if her choir has finished the MIDI files for Everyone Sang, the SYF set piece. What originally planned to be a rather official rendezvous became informal rather quickly xD

Soon we were chatting about our choirs, problems we face, equipment we have ( we TWO clavis :P ) , basically thats it. Haha, probably because she is a fellow President so it kind of makes it easy to spill out the problems of choir, and help solve.

I mean, of course i have friends, and Gin. Lol . But still, its different to share with someone who is going through the same thing.

Yep, i believe thats all. Am still going to ask her where she brought her choir out for her outing.

OH YEA ! Haising Choir copied Kranji Choir ! xD Copied our pumping thing. Just like us, it sort of became fun instead of a serious and solemn thing.I still can remember the grins in choir face when i had to push up too. LOL. EVIL !!!

They tried doing the fall in thing too, but heard from Marianne that it failed terribly. Just a short note here to marianne incase i forgot.

( If you really NEED to implement that system, i dont mind helping, as long got abit ahem ahem, lunch or dinner, ahem ahem :P. But my advice is, dont. Dont do it unless you really need to do it like my choir. I think its about time i can abolish the system already. My choir is Junior-Dominated, about 3 quaters of the choir joined only this year so i was forced to do it to control and discipline the choir because we lack the seniors to do it. )

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Aunty Joyce came over to Singapore on saturday with Chermaine and her bro, zhen hwei ? I not sure, i just call him Boy Boy.

Nothing much really, they came over to our house to swim on monday with their cousins , Valerie, Joel and Weslie. jokers they are xD

Went for sushi buffet again on tuesday. TWO SUSHI BUFFET IN A WEEK. I am gonna be so fat..

Wednesday, they came over my house to play pool again, snooker. came up to my house then to just slack around, play games and watch movie from 7 till 11 plus pm.

We played that super pervertic game, not in the sexual way i would always emphasize. But rather, in the concept of the game.

First you have a deck of cards. So basically, you will take turns to draw cards. If you draw a spade, you will drink 2 cups of water, hearts, 1 and a half, flower, 1 cup, diamond, half cup.

If you sway, get a KING . you will have to drink four cups of water.

There are three jokers and 4 Queens, these 7 cards are the toilet cards, ONly by using these cards may you go to the toilet. If not, u will just have to control it.

Its pervertic, it may not sound alot, but you try. We all felt super bloated after that.
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Going to push the planning for the Choir outing to one of the committee member for these few days i am in camp. so see if you lucky or not committee :P I will brief whoever i choosed on the phone.
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Going for the much awaited camp mumbo now ! just finished packing my bag at 9.30.

Another 3 days of fun with the campers, and 2 extra days of fun with all fellow instructors !

First year as chief instructor of group, really hope to do a good job.

Okay, cya guys ! Be back only on monday afternoon, where i will probably sleep until night time.

2006-12-02T12:56:00.000+08:00

Your Candy Heart Says "Hug Me"

A total sweetheart, you always have a lot of love to give out.
Your heart is open to where ever love takes you!

Your ideal Valentine's Day date: a surprise romantic evening that you've planned out

Your flirting style: lots of listening and talking

What turns you off: fighting and conflict

Why you're hot: you're fearless about falling in love

What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

2006-12-01T21:38:00.000+08:00

Finished about half a bottle of red wine, and now i am starting to feel the effects of the alcohol. Very interesting feeling, you need to pay attention or you cant walk in a straight line. Something like just waking up,except, you dont feel tired.

I am still able to blog, but i feel like i am floating in the air, like the world i am existing in is virtual reality xD. Thats enough for today. Trying to finish that bottle of wine i opened, was suppose to share with the family, but none of them want to drink. -.-

2006-11-29T19:41:00.001+08:00

Beijing photos 3

2006-11-28T21:37:00.000+08:00

From Bejing Immersion

Photos From Beijing 2

2006-11-28T21:21:00.000+08:00

Felt abit bored and tired recently after looking at those few photos posted on my blog, so decided to share some of other informal photos inside. Oh yes, this time. There are people included in the photos xD

From Bejing Immersion

Choir Practice Today

2006-11-28T19:47:00.000+08:00

Must admit that today is one of the better choir practice so far. Was only informed by Ms Ong that she only wanted Choir to start practice at 10 oclock at 8 oclock last night, so i was telling her that it was too late for me to inform the choir. So, she suggested playing games, team building games.

So i was a little bit stunned, wondering what team building games can be played within an hour by 60-70 people that will not be so boring and lame and does not need much planning and preparation.

I went to school with some post its in hand, having a rough idea of the game i was going to conduct. When i reached school at 8.50, the first thing i did was to call for a meeting with the committee members and i told them that we were to play some games and my plan. So we discussed for a few minutes and started preparing for the game.

As the committee was preparing the game, of i went to explain the game to the choir. Slips of paper will be hidden around the school with the words Kranji Choir on it, to win, find and collect as many slips of paper as possible.

The losing team will do 20 push ups and the 2nd last team will do 10 push ups xD

The team to give me a solid cheer first will get to set off first. Am really glad to see that none of the groups were lazing around, every single grouped came up with a cheer, even in those section without a senior. Am pleasantly suprised. Maybe its the choir camp which helped them and provided them with cheers.

For the first game, the teams were Soprano 1 combine Alto 2, Soprano 2, Alto 2, Tenor, Bass.

After dispatching the groups according to the quality of their cheer and observing them for about a minute, i got my inspiration for the second game and hurriedly gathered the committee to brief them about the game and let them prepare.

The game is some sort of a treasure hunt, with a clue leading to another, and to another and to another until they finally reached the ending point. Because of the lack of time, i only have 10 minutes when i got the inspiration to actually implement the game. I assigned each committee to a group and told them to create 5 clues of their preference. However, the last clue must all contain the same words. ( Danger !! Corrosive ). I believe this is a really obvious clue but since it is only a 20-30 minutes game, 5 of such clues will be enough to keep them busy.

So off went the committee to create their own clues and then go around the school sticking the clues while i tried to buy time for them in the ART room by taking my time to announce the result and crapped a little. But still, i dispatched the teams before the committee finished setting up their clue and THUS, confusion occurred.

I realised that i forgot to brief the committee how to put the clues and basically some of them just sticked it in obvious places where passingby groups can see them. The idea is for a team to not be able to find or see the clue unless they know that it is in that particular area.

So i have no idea what happened, but i must thank my committee alot because they were really proactive and went out to the groups where the clue were and helped them along the way. Thanks alot guys. I really needed those help xD Thats what being a leader is about to me, able to judge and make decisions and adapt to the situation , then bring your group of people to the decision u made xD

Anyway, the first team will get extra 10 minutes or lunch, the second team will get 5 minutes extra for lunch, the third team will get 1 minute extra for lunch ( a very lame suggestion from the choir ), the fourth team will get extra 30 seconds for lunch ( another very lame suggestion from the choir ) , the fifth team will get extra 10 seconds for lunch ( another very very lame suggestion from the choir), and the Sixth team will get extra one second for lunch (the lamest suggestion from the choir -.- ).

We had sectionals for about 2 hours before the lunch break came. To create the ultimate effect of 10 minutes extra lunch, i made the choir fall in at the foyer. Just like any other fall in, you must set the standard of conduct if not fall in for what. So all those talk, whisper, fidget alot, stand with hands infront of them, all pumping.And also to make the choir remember a recently implemented requirement for them to take dressing automatically when they fall in since we do not kekanan lurus anymore.

So i started the stop watch when i released the first group alto 2, 5 minutes later, i released the 2nd group, and according to the time i released the groups.

I think the PJC people were rather shocked at this system xD Xian Ming was going " wa lau.. fall in sia !! "xD

Pretty much used to all the criticism already, but i still stand by my belief that this falling in achieve a few purpose.

1. Allow committees to organize things better when things are chaotic. ( example sentosa -.- )
2. Set the discipline standard ( some how, of course they are not required to stand with hands behind their back and keep quiet all the time during practice )

So i guess until i am step down or am replaced from the president post, this system is to stay. No idea if the next president or committee is going to continue this system. Its totally up to him or them.

Also, unnoticed by me, the committee has grown to be really close and we are able to work very well as a team and handle last minute crisis ( thanks to the unintended training from Miss Cherie Ong with a relative delay in completing task). I think i am definitely going to miss the committee when i step down.

Also, i really hope that the last minute way Ms Cherie Ong handles situation would change. I also hope that Ms Cherie Ong will realise that her last minute ways of handling things will definately implicate the committee because she makes the committee solves the problems caused by her last minute options. Maybe she does have reasons for being so last minute and i really hope they are valid ones, but from our point of view, it gives us the IMPRESSION that she is somewhat irresponsible. Ohwell, who am i to talk about others, i am irresponsible too. xD But i try my best to make sure that my irresponsibleness wouldnt affect others too badly.

Like not handing up homework, i still think that it will only affect me and the teachers slightly ( when they chase me to hand up homework, so from time to time. i will conviniently excuse myself from the assignment xD )

Also, you might ask why i dare to blog such things about teacher with the recent developments of students being sued by teachers for defaming them.

But after asking the committee for alot of times and some of the choir members, and ex- committee and observing the response of the teachers ( since they arent supposed to give direct indications xD ), i decided to post it here .

I do hope that if Ms Cherie Ong stumbles upon this blog, she will read about the not so positive feedbacks we have about her and hopefully try to change abit of her work attitude and hopefully understand our displeasure. Of course, they are positive things about Ms Ong but i cant really think of any solid examples now since most of my mind is filled with negative things.

OLIP

2006-11-26T15:49:00.000+08:00

Of course, after participating in the much anticipated Camp Instructor OLIP, how can i not blog about it and share with everyone :p

Before i start the rest of the post, i should intro you to the four groups of the camp. Mok Mok ( chongren is inside this group ), Gora ( Cheehow's, james and michelle lim's group ) , Shiora ? ( no body you guys know ), Wakka ( YOurs truely :P )

Arrived outside at 1 pm CC for my group meeting where we completed the ID, went down to market for dinner at 5.45 with my very fun very cute very creative group.. WAKKA !

Waited for the rest of groups to arrive before we started playing some simple games, but as usual. Mumbo can make very boring games very fun, laugh until u stomach pain eyes got tears xD

Cheehow ! Good job xD " I want to bottle to punch me ! " xD

Then at 9 oclock, we started learning our instructor's item dance. Which is.. KRANJI's SECONDARY SCHOOL SEC 2 CFN 06 competition dance, "Pretty Woman "
As usual, another couple dance like all the previous instructor's item dance.

It was quite fun learning the dance actually xD lots of confusion and humor as u see other couples including urself twisting and turning wrongly, trying to figure out how to twist and turn for the dance. xD Fun ! xD

Also, after figuring out how to twist ur arms, the feeling is like solving a math question. xD Except it requires team work with your dance partner.

Oh yea, Meixuan and Michelle taught the dance. Proud to have kranji secondary school culture included in Mumbo xD.

Finally, at 11 pm. We started on the actual OLIP activity.

MY group was the last to leave the CC because we lost the game played, so the first group had a 30 minutes head start. (Cheehow's, James' and Michelle's group ( Michelle Lim From 2E 0 6))

Our first clue was simple, it spelt " Thompson ". So we assumed that it was the prata place there, but we took the wrong bus and had to change bus halfway and ended up arriving there at 12 oclock. Something like that.

Spend about 40 minutes at thompson our first station, playing game. First task - Find Used cans in order to stack it to the height of the tallest person in our group. XD So we went around like those Auntees you see at the hawker centre going through the rubbish bins to find cans except the only difference. We used our bare hands. It was super gross.

Second task is a little bit harder to explain, so i shall not bore you with a long and pointless explaination xD

So at 12.40, we got our clue to the next station. Orchard towers. One of the rules states that we are not allowed to spend a single cent on transport, so there goes the idea of taking Taxi or the Night Rider bus.

So, with no bus around, we decided to hitch hike. Not exactly anyway. We saw a minibus driver stopping because he wanted to have his supper at the prata place we were, the girls begged him and plead him until he finally agreed to send us to Orchard tower. Very nice guy xD He packeted his supper and fetched us there.

When we boarded the bus, James' Group saw us boarding and they wanted the driver to give them a ride too. So my group was like " UNCLE !! CLOSE THE DOOR !! THEY ARE OUR ENEMIES !!!!!! CLOSE CLOSE !!!! " in chinese,so in the end, the nice uncle closed the door right in their face xD.

Anyway, i found the group abit dumb :P You all could have just rushed onto the bus and what can we do, carry you out meh xD I was like, please, dont rush into the bus without permission :p

So, being a very lucky group to have found a transport almost immediately, we were the first group to arrive at orchard towers xD Go WAKKA ! xD

The game there was rather obscene, we were suppose to hang a banana between our legs using raffia string and swing the banana with our hips to knock an orange which is on the floor. So you might not be able to visualize, but the action resembles someone having S*x, or se*, or *ex. xD

I believe that Jianshun, sean and all choosed that location on purpose to play such a game xD You know, those half type. NOt a girl, not a guy. Have boobs but have man's voice also...

Completed the station as Mok Mok arrived at the area. bided farewell to them, after another 15 minute of flagging, we flagged down a Lorry this time, and begged him to fetch us to our next station, Pasir Panjang Whole Sale Centre. Nice guy again, they agreed.

Arrived and went around looking, walked the entire area to look for the station masters there. After walking 15 minutes to the other end of the place, and searching around, the game masters finally smsed us a hint and we found out where they were. ( I later found that the game masters havent arrived at the Whole Sale centre yet until they smsed us the hint , and they still told us to look for them !! )

First task - Obtain 5 uncommon and eatable when raw vegetables from the market. Rule 1. You are not supposed to spend a Single Cent.Rule 2. You are not allowed to pick the vegetables from the floor ( because we are going to eat them later ).

After searching, we found 6 types of vegetables such as bitter gourd to finally arrive at task 2. Eat them all raw -.- Without using ur hands.

It was really gross, i have a phobia for the smell of raw vegetables, and i really couldnt swallow the bitter gourd. I tried to swallow it whole with hundred plus but i ended up choking on it and it just came out. IT was really disgusting, you can see everyone in the group, enduring it and trying to finish and get over with it. The taste is still in my mouth... -.-

So at around 3.30 am, we left pasir panjang wholesale centre and started on our next station, Bukit Timah. After looking in vain for 30 minutes to hitch a hike, we finally found one. A van, nice and cute malay guy. Keeps telling us not to call him uncle xD Because he said " i know i might look old, but i am only 22 ! " So we called him " Brother ! " xD

Arrived at bukit timah at 4.30. 1st group again. This station is night walk, and it was not really scary. Not scary as compared to Pulau Ubin.Although there were no lights at all because we walked 15 minutes deep inside the trees, but still. Didnt really feel too scared because, well, personally because i have experinced worst. Pulau Ubin. 15 to 20 mins solo walk , and a area where a major battle took place when the Japanese attacked Ubin as a decoy.

This night walk wasnt too scary, 5 minutes walk at a slightly fast pace.

Finished this station, and went on to our last station, west coast -.- Right beside pasir panjang.

This was the station where we had the most trouble with, couldnt hitch a hike at all at first. We walked from bukit timah to clementi, about a 45 min walk before we were able to hitch a hike from a passing by lorry heading towards PASIR PANJANG WHOLESALE CENTRE. loL. The irony..

He dropped us off near west coast and we walk another 10 to 20 minutes to the Mac Donalds at West coast. IT was about 6 to 7 oclock already. The sky was getting bright. Arrived at Mac and did our last station, simple really. A simple obstacle course at the playground there.

End game, went to MAC for breakfast as we waited an hour plus for the rest of groups to arrive and finish their game and eat. During this time, i was drowning myself with coffee to keep myself awake for the trip home.

4 to 5 cups of coffee and 2 cups of tea. xD

Arrived home at 10 oclock ,took a quick bathe and sleep until 3 oclock.

A few interesting things which happened to other group. Gora, James, cheehow and michelle group took at 2 hours walk from Orchard to Ikea. They were super unlucky and unable to hike any vehicles. xD Shiok ar ! But then again, from the last group at Orchard, they became the second group at West coast.

Actually, this game, being first second and third, doesnt really matter because it has alot to do with luck if you are able to hitch a hike. The age and numbers of girls in our group helped us pretty much.

Didnt get to hitch some funny and weird vehicles too like a tow truck for instance xD Or those SBS bus which are off service.

2006-11-22T19:26:00.000+08:00

In a few months time, the Sec 3 Committees will step down and get replaced by a new committee. And for that very reason, i am currently urging all Section Leaders to appoint Sec 1s who they think is capable to lead the section.

And for THAT very reason, within a section. More than one person will be "trailed" to see who does the job of a Section Leader or a Assistant Section Leader in this case.

Having this kind of selection system, i fear for one thing to happen within the choir.

Backstabbing.

I really do not wish to see Choir Members backstabbing each other for position and all. lol. I do hope that the Choir remembers the meaning of the choir logo, which is to unite because everyone needs each other to exist.

To all choir members, remember. Stay united xD ( i sound like some old granny nagging ).

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Choir LOGO

Four lines each representing one of the four main voice part in kranji choir; Soprano , Alto , Tenor, Bass forms a C symbolising the need for all 4 sections to work together in harmony.

The Circle which surrounds the C furthur emphasize the point that all sections must work together.

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MY english language sucks ! I cant type in proper english anyMORE !!!! omg..

Brainpower over load.

2006-11-22T00:20:00.000+08:00

I still remember first instructor meeting, i was complaining for the lack of man power i had in my group. I had only 6 of us including me in the first camp meeting at that time.

In my group's 1st group meeting, only 4 of us including me were around, one backed out and one couldnt make it.

But now, i am suddenly flooded with the new instructors being assigned to me xD It seems that the camp this year has a lack of male instructors. In my group, there are 3 male instructors and 9 female instructors.

Also realised a lack of experienced instructors, i wonder where all the lao jiao went to ? Seems like new generation. More than half my group are first time instructors and it seems to be the case with other groups.

Personally after discovering these daunting facts, i see the challenge that is placed in front of me xD which honestly i am rather nervous about xD

I have 8 first time instructors who mostly never attended the camp before and thus dont know how the camp is run.

I have to lead instructors who are at most 11 years older then me whom i never seen before.

I am the freaking youngest CI. ( thou equally experienced in terms of years )

xD Am looking forward to taking these challenge on really xD Will be super fun.

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Feel bad at how i treated the choir just now. Sorrieeeee :p

No idea why, but i had a very short fuse today and i was trying my best not to lose my temper at small and insignificant things today. Looks like i have to try harder.

Anyway, Ms Ong would definately be happy to hear that we completed and combined O Magnum Mysterium in just two practices. Two long and tiring practices anyway.

I think this is the first time the sec1s had solid 6 and a half hour practice, with an hour lunch break inbetween.

Pupils from Pioneer JC Choir came over to help today with the practice, requested/Sent by Ms Ong.After today's experinced, i realise i really need to pay alot alot more attention to the pitching. I never used to notice if any part went off pitch, probably because i wasnt paying attention. My Bad.

Soprano, like most other sopranos tend to go sharp xD I had to listen to closely and carefully because i could pick it up but those PJ students, didnt even seem to try and they suddenly said " Soprano went sharp " and i was like " Eh, got ar ?" But of course, i just kept quiet so as not to MALU myself xD

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Had a weird dream last night, it was a combination of all the things happening in my life now, or just happened.

Everything was rojak into a dream, dreamt of Choir, Skating, Beijing, Mumbo, Photography, rabbit. Still roughly remember parts of the dream, but nothing too interesting in the dreams xD

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Mumbo 06

2006-11-20T12:13:00.000+08:00

After another long year of waiting ( actually, the year passed very quickly ), here comes Mumbo 06 !

Details of the Camp

Date : 8 -10 December 06
Age : Children 4 to 12 years old.
Venue : Ang Mo Kio Secondary
Time to report : 8 am sharp at Ang Mo Kio Secondary on the 8th December.
Where to register : TeckGhee CC.
Cost : 37 ( members ) 40 ( Non members )

A annual 3 day 3 night camp held by the Teck Ghee CC YEC

If any of you are interested in letting ur kids or baby brother or sister join this camp, please feel free to contact me.

If you find travelling down to Teck Ghee CC just to register for the camp too troublesome, feel free to contact me too. I will help u register and you will only need to appear for the camp :)

Just like any camp, you will feel uncomfortable and glad to be home, after a while. You will start to miss the camp and wished u treasure it more :)
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As the camp approaches, the Camp Commandant, Logistics, Program Coordinators, Chief Instructors(CI) and instructors are all busy preparing for the camp in their own ways having lots of meeting.

My group has completed our Group's Banner, moving on to completing our Group ID and Campfire ID this Saturday.

Olip is comming up next weekend, and i must keep reminding myself not to shout too much because of choir concert, oh wait. ! What for ! i can just shout all i want and lose my voice since choir concert is postponed ! xD

Any people interested in being an instructor, contact me. Need to be committed to group meetings, camp meetings and the camp itself. INstructors need to be there from 7 Dec to 11 Dec.

Am Back

2006-11-17T12:14:00.000+08:00

Am back after being MIA for so long xD.

Been super busy since i came back from beijing. Only got last saturday to relax.

Sunday was Instructor Meeting, took up almost the entire day.

Monday Lessons, followed by choir practice, reached home at 7.

Tuesday lessons, followed by choral exchange at victoria concert hall which ended at 5, rushed down to queensway to settle choir Polo Shit, reached home around 9.30 pm , after bathing went to sleep since i had lessons the next day.

Wednesday, lessons from 8 oclock till 12.30, choir from 2 till 5 plus. reached home at 6 plus.

Thursday Science Pratical Assesment ( SPA), o level practical, then followed by choir until 5.30. Reached home around 7-8.

Friday ( Today ) Pontang lessons, skated to school to return camera since they had events today, skated around. Conductor Ong called and discussed for about 10 to 20 minutes . skated home, blog.

Saturday ( relax time again ) Havent plan what to do yet xD

Sunday . 9 am group instructor meeting at Ang Mo Kio, 12 oclock camp instructor meeting till probably evening time.

Tues 21nov. Choir from 9 am till 5 pm.

Friday 24 nov, Rehersal at Singapore Art Musuem till 8 pm

Saturday 25nov. Camp Instructors OLIP " Outdoors Leadership Instructor Program" , something like this. after 3rd year as instructor then i realised what the hell OLIP stand for xD

Sunday 26 nov, still OLIP till 6 pm.

Mon 27. Possible Choir practice, have yet to decide.

Tues 28. Possible choir practice, have yet to decide

Wed 29, Concert.

Idi*ts doing Crazy :p

2006-11-14T22:03:00.000+08:00

Heres some people doing the slalom move crazy xD The move i was unable to learn because my wheels were too small xD Btw, the people inside is Jac and some guy from Inline Khaki.

Photos From Beijing

2006-11-11T10:42:00.000+08:00

Presenting to you the pictures i took from Beijing !
Of course, like any other smart photographer, i only showcase the ones that appear okay and of course rated (G ) since many of my viewers are very much underage including myself :p

Do tell me what you think of the pictures though, one request. Please post your comments on comments instead of the tagbox for this post. I would like the comments to last.

Titles of the pictures are under them( if Any ), open to all who has better inspiration for better titles since a good title titles are also play a part in the making of a good photo.

If i find that i like them, i will update with your name placed beside xD Not that it matters much anyway, but it just for me to show my appreciation

Anyway, for Statistic Sake. I had 166 attempted Artistic Shots with only 20 showcased. So you can actually see, i am not such a good photographer after all and not all my shots are usable :)
Not sure if this is the case with pro photographers too.

1.Fantastic Four
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/100s | f/13.0 | ISO:100
This picture was taken just for fun, only when i came to the computer and decided it looked quite okay.

2.Love
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/125s | f/13.0 | ISO:1600

3.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/160s | f/18.0 | ISO:100

4.Dragon Legion
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/160s | f/14.0 | ISO:100

5.Way Home
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/125s | f/14.0 | ISO:1600

6. hm......Yandao :P:P:P
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/125s | f/8.0 | ISO:800

6.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/200s | f/10.0 | ISO:100

7.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/160s | f/14.0 | ISO:100

8.Yandao Again
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 25.0mm | 1/80s | f/4.0 | ISO:400

9.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/200s | f/10.0 | ISO:100

10.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 21.0mm | 1/80s | f/14.0 | ISO:100

11.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 53.0mm | 1/80s | f/10.0 | ISO:100

12.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/80s | f/16.0 | ISO:100

13. One Fruity Experince
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/250s | f/8.0 | ISO:100

14. Traffic Leaves( Lights )
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/200s | f/22.0 | ISO:400
Do notice the colors of the leaves, Red Yellow Green. Just like a traffic light, thus the name.

15. The Window
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/80s | f/3.5 | ISO:100

16.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 160.0mm | 1/400s | f/14.0 | ISO:800

17.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 21.0mm | 1/60s | f/4.5 | ISO:100

18.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/125s | f/4.0 | ISO:400

19.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/1250s | f/20.0 | ISO:800

20. The Other Lock
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL| 18.0mm | 1/80s | f/4.5 | ISO:800

Yours Truely

2006-11-01T21:52:00.000+08:00

Yours Truely, blogging from beijing, china . xD

Using my buddy's computer to blog right now, a rather short day. Reached bejing at 3 pm local time. Got out of airport at 4 pm, reached the school at 5. Left the school with family at 5.30. Went for dinner, came home.

House is a half an hour drive from school. Equivilant to Kranji Secondary School to CHangi airport.

K ciao ! Going to sleep.

The temperature here, toleratable. Except for the toilet. THe floor is so freaking cold, i was shivering inside the bathe room when i took a bathe. Try being wet and naked in an aircon room, you will know what i mean. xD