saturday

one week since i last updated. quite a bit happened as usual. i have such a colourful life.

school was the same; boring. monday had racial harmony day celebration and all i remembered was ted waving his arms in the air and for a couple of days after that he keep getting suaned. then tuesday had free period for PE cos it got swapped with monday and we couldnt do PE at the 5th period and Mr Quek also wasnt in school. Wednesday's RE was a lecture at first then meeting Ms Goh after that. Continued with RE until like 5+ as we didnt have act cos of mini olympics on saturday. Felt quite enthu and upbeat about RE after wednesday, but sort of died down now. Going to meet Mrs Povil on Wednesday for RE (pon muster parade). Thursday didnt have anything special, did ropes and we finished it. Friday was really cool, 1 free period and went home straightttt after school ended. First time this year if im not wrong. yup i didnt go df. yup i didnt support morrison. yup i heard it sucked so i am happy i didnt go. sorry haozhi =D

saturday was a mega long day, out from 6.45am to 9.30pm. First we had mini olympics from 8-1. We reported at RJC track as the den was being renovated, and as you should have guessed, it was the track events first. Had a short PT session before that, with a short jog, short pull ups, short phantom chair, and short abs exercise. Events were: 100m, 200m, 400m were all to be ran by 1 sec 1,2 and 3 from each patrol. For 100m, Wesley (3rd), Kevin (1st) and I (3rd) ran. 200m, Haixiao (cant remember), Kevin (1st) and Tak Wei (cant remember). 400m, Haixiao (1st), Ming E (cant remember), Jack (1st doh). Then there was 4x100m, Tak Wei, Kevin, Wesley and I ran. We got 3rd, narrowly losing out to kingfisher even though their last runner ran first. Then for 800m, Ming E ran and got 2nd, losing to Sup. 1.6km was cancelled, so Ziwei and Jack ran 2.4km. Jack got 1st, while junjie got 0. jj timing was 9.53, jack was 9.51.

after that we had tennis/badminton. it was played like this: badminton in the hall, tennis in the court (what else). badminton had the doubles first (or single in Falcon's case) while tennis was singles first. For tennis it was split into East and West, and the 3 patrols in each team play against each other first. Then, there was the 3 matches for 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 placing. Singles I played for Falcon. Up against Sup first, lost. Then straightaway next game up against Eashwar, lost. So that meant we were either 5 or 6. Went to the hall to have a look, Tak Wei and Daryl were playing for 1st and 2nd placing against KF. Actually it was just Tak Wei solo-ing the whole thing, and he won. Then went back to play 5-6 placing, and won Kestrel cos they didnt know how to play at all. Right after that game was the doubles, Jack joined me. Same thing happened, lost to both owl and kf again. and won kestrel again for 5th place. for badminton singles we got 4th, tak wei losing to alvin. so overall for tennis and badminton was: 5th, 5th, 4th, 1st

by now it was 12.20, and the RLP briefing was over already. o well missed it, nothing much anyway. then we had basketball. same 2 team concept, just that our team was now Kestrel, Hawk and Falcon. Other side was Eagle, Owl and KF. So first match was F vs K, we won. Then K vs H, H won. Then H vs F, we lost. Hiok/Hawk just too imba, with edmund and his spasm movements that scared everyone away.

then for finals it was hawk vs owl. guess the results....









hawk got first...runners up. even though hawk had imba teamwork, sup was just too imba. 2 consecutive goals, and 1 3 pointer. sup dam funny when he play, see edmund then very scared and dribble the ball away. but ya owl deserved to win. oh ya btw they had 5 people for the whole mini olympics. imagine the track events lol.

after mini olympics, went to kfc and dabao shrooms burger meal with cheese fries, then went to watch Dark Knight with Fancis and Zhong Jun, 2-4.40. Quite sad only 3 people, all the rest were influenced by Alvin and watched already. quite a nice show, joker dam funny/cruel. wanna know how he got his scars? watch the movie then!

after the movie we went around looking for the shop that sells PE attire, then i bought a pants. <3 the pockets. then went to HQ to get a woggle, and took 55 to my cousin's house. was the 2nd death anniversary of their grandmother, went to pay respect. stayed there from 6-9+ then went home after that. the fake house was super big, and super ex, like 10k for a house that was going to get burnt. overall the whole thing costs like 30k. why give the 30k only when shes dead, not when she was still alive?

sunday didnt go jogging, legs were aching from mini olympics. today was sian, school was boring and there was the chinese CCT which i think i will do badly again. just hope i wont fail, again. act was also boring, Patrol Meeting. They should just rename it to SU Sailmakers' Whipping; everyone was just spamming that. Went home after that.

Tomorrow will have Chem OBA, think it will be as difficult as the previous one. Gonna jog tmr, to make up for sunday's slack.

For those interested, here is my route:
3.3km: http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/sg/bishan/8113760
8.2km: http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/singapore/hougang/377871667
10.3km: http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/singapore/hougang/92229991

Current PBs
3.3km: 20:01 to 17:01
8.2km: 52:25
10.3km: 1:08:32

10km run

just did the longest run ever done, around 10km in 1:08:32. Never stopped at all in that 1 hour and 8 minutes, very proud of myself for even completing it. Although im still 8 and a half minutes off my goal time, pretty sure i can make it with 5 more weeks to train. oh ya and my shirt and pants were totally wet. normally the shirt and the back of my pants will be totally soaked, but today the back and front of my pants were wet as well, then looked like i peed on it so whenever i run past anyone i sprint so they cannot see it =D

today had the first aid thing for the special olympics event. reached school at about 7.20 and lala-ed with zhongjun all the way till 12.30. for most part of it we just sat at the canteen and i spammed knots while zhongjun spammed gameboy/knots. i was mugging for tomorrow's test taking, quite sure i will pass after spending like 4 hours doing knots. did not have much people come to us for first aid, just 2 people. 1 had a cut which zhongjun treated, and the other had a cramp and i had to massage for him. pretty sick but, o well.

exactly 5 more weeks to go, and in about 2 weeks ill be in boarding i think. wonder how it will be like there.

NYAA

today was nyaa and here are some things for recording purposes

duration: 3.30-5.00
attendance: kenneth, alvin, anurak, suphasak, zhong jun, joel, amos
things done: started with doing 3 sets with 10 pullups, 30 pushups, 20 situps then moved on to 40 ipu, 50, then 60. this part was called phoenix pt, cos we are meant to die after doing it or something like that. the real phoenix pt is something like 10 sets of the earlier thing, then 40 ipu, 50, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10. something like that, also not too sure. this was the canoe PT session, of course without stuff like running and sphinx. then after that did A SHORT PART of rugby training, henny millers or something. what we did was run the length of the field, then diagonal, then length, then diagonal back to the start point in 2 minutes. the full thing is 2 sets of 27 minutes of something like that. i think we would be doing 1 set of the full thing next session, which should be next saturday. im dreading it =s

then after that got 02 campfire. wasnt even a campfire just a performance. i would say performance by 02 scouts, cos more than half of the performances were by other people. to all the 02 folks reading this, sorry but it was a real failure campfire. i dont think its meant to be a campfire anyway, so you guys should be ok with me saying this, right? timeline was something like this:
1. opening of campfire by DHM Mr Kenneth Kwok
2. introduction to the storyline about a time machine called iMagine
3. suan jack about something
4. performance
5. suan jack about something else
6. performance
7. suan jack about yet another thing
8. engrossed with chu yong's performance and slept at 02's hiphop dance
9. you can guess this part
10. clap when it was over
11. refreshments!
12. go home

and then after that jeremy once again needed me to call people. lazy to call and waste more money, so smsed instead. something about a carnival on sunday from 6.30 to 12 which needed first aid ready people on standby for some emergency or something. needed 6 people. supposed to tell him by tonight the names, but right now only can confirm 2. o well i dont want to go as well la 6.30...

o yea and i got my running gear! some reaaaallly short pants that shows my fat and fair thighs and shirt that looks nice and feels nice. gonna run tomorrow morning =) i cant wait

after first class/avsw

as i promised, hike log is over and here is an update of everything since last weekend.

5th to 6th was first class, and in case you still didnt know, my patrol was zhongjun, yiming, raga and me. there were 5 patrols in all, next was francis, tak wei, kai jun and ming e followed by anurak ruiliang amos minglun then sup yenter jon ed edmund and last patrol is alvin sherman rong jun and luchen. first day was quite killer, around 36km. i was expecting to get blisters/abrasion, so i put plaster at my thigh area and powder in my socks. the plaster came out a few hours after the start of the hike, most probably due to my sweat. So in the end i still got abrasions, but not as bad as last year's first class. The powder in the socks were amazing and i only had one blister and the heel of my left foot. now i know how to prevent blister, next is to prevent abrasions totally. im thinking of getting skins, but its too expensive, although it will help in running as well. first day was really degen, first was tampines road, then was some mega long 10km south from one checkpoint to the next. anyway the rough area walked was like this:

pasir ris>tampines>kovan>ang mo kio>yio chu kang>bishan>kallang>katong>east coast park

in the end, we reached the night point 3 hours late, but at least we had the maps well drawn and the description written.

day 2 was not as bad. we rushed the first checkpoint, like 4.5km in 1 hour. Next few were slower than the first, but faster than day 1. reached the endpoint on time, but still the last patrol to reach. at least we completed the whole hike.

hike log was rushed as usual, 1 week to do it on top of AVSW games booth. monday was for rest, so didnt do log. tuesday was for games booth, wednesday for 01 cup, thursday for games booth, friday for games booth and hike log, saturday was gone, sunday was rest, monday was chiong all the way. yesterday was totally for hike log.

woke up early in the morning, printed everything i could, did some checkpoint maps, went to school to meet zhongjun and yiming. then chiong all the way, although our effeciency at the start was as low as flo rida. we were rushing all the way, even buying back lunch to eat. then the last few hours totally rushed like mad, and last 1 hour was frantic. actually i had thought we had already done most of the maps, but turns out the route map were mostly not coloured/labelled. and the checkpoint maps had a few missing that i did not know how to draw, like the scout HQ, start point and night point. anyway we completed the log at about 5pm, late by half an hour already. then went to bind it as well as print the reflections, and waited for 1 hour for some guy to finish using the computer as we had to print some reflections. so ended up putting the log in
dropoff point. have a feeling we going to get pumped cos no one handed in on time. but i think our hike log quite zhai, maps all very nice and we got the nice cover page thanks to zhongjun's imba drawing skills. hope we dont have to redo.

last wednesday was 01 cup, some ripoff activity from last year. almost exactly the same, even the stations. basically the idea was that there were station games - frisbee, soccer, dodgeball, sudoku, word search and charades. play against another patrol in that station, then move on to the next station. pretty ripoff but i guess it was fun, especially the charades. surprisingly we did not get owned as much as we usually do for sports type activity.

friday was very busy although there was no school. in the morning was hike log, then went to lunch and go to tanglin APSN to meet mrs povil for RE. then came back and rushed the games board that were not complete yet. then went to pathlight for the stayover, and helped out here and there. after we could go to sleep, we went back to the attic where we were to sleep and we just lala there. some played cards, some worked on the board, some pokemon with zhongjun's comp. at first i did the board, then at 1am i went to sleep, i think im the first one to sleep. it was so noisy in the room i had to sleep while listening to music. then woke up at 4.30am on saturday to help out. then at 7 went to our hub, which was at the courtyard at a hawker center near pathlight. no idea why we went there so early as we just stoned there for 1 hour+ before the first few walkers came. anyway it was quite funny, all the scouts at my hub (yan wei, wee kien, me, sup, jon ed, vj, yiming) were sitting down on the bench, while the red cross from chong boon were like perma senang diri. the npcc from chong boon were just standing around, and when we asked them go and sit they said they would get punished if they were seen slacking. so in the end scouts just hogged all the sits.

finally when the walkers came, it was really quite a sight. all of them were carrying balloons, with the other party items from previous hub. we were the last hub (5) so they just had to collect the last item, a face mask, from us. the walkers came in waves, most probably because of traffic lights along the way. but the walk was really effective in raising awareness cos it was just so easy to see this big group of people walking with balloons and all that. anyway saw the GOH, ms eunice olsen, MP. she was quite tall, and her hair made her about 1m taller or something.

after all the walkers came and went back to pathlight, we packed up and went back too. on the way back saw a balloon in the HDB void deck. so sup tried to jump and get it down, but couldnt reach, so he stepped on my thigh, then jumped up and got it. then when we were near pathlight, shi de somehow let it go. =(

back at pathlight, it was reallllly crowded. the carnival atmosphere was really there, and it was quite amazing how big scale this project really is. went back to our games stall, and it was quite a good business, however the dunking one totally owned everything else. got some free coupons from jeremy, and spent it all on the various stalls throughout the day. anyway the top prize for our stall was some imba big remote control car, and to win it one must complete our hardest level within 20 seconds. apparently some guy spammed our stall and managed to win that along with hell lot of other prizes. could see that they really wanted the car.

however, the best part of the whole event was the dunking. the 01 scouts who were dunked were (in order): zhi, hiok, francis, me, sup, anurak. as his msn nick says "Dunking j1s makes supernormal profits". i think he earned about $50+ for the stall as all the 01 scouts just keep spamming him. i was kind enough not to dunk him. hiok did not earn as much, as most people were already broke by then. i tried to dunk him once, but missed it totally. then francis turn, and i managed to get him with a tennis ball on my first shot. hehe. when it was finally my turn, there were not many people left. then zhongjun dunked me twice out of the five times i got dunked...must be hating me cos of the hike log. was the first time i got dunked, and quite a nice experience.

at about 1pm went around to spend my coupons, ate a bit here and there, then went back to the attic to sleep. slept about 1 hour, 2-3 before it was clearup time. nothing much to talk about for clearup, just the usual stuff of being a man. then wenjun and i played mercy and he totally owned me lol. anyway, heres the link for AVSW: http://www.autism.org.sg/avsw08/

oh and im in RLP =D

well thats quite a bit to read, have fun

ps. should i change blogskin? its a bit hard to read with the current one, i realised.

saw some pics on francis blog, decided to post what i have. all are from gtc 06. the good times
at the endpoint


ubin



just look at the bread...how did i manage to survive it (part 1 of zj foaming)

part 2 of zj foaming

the mega foam! - okok that was all in the past. hes as tough as steel now


first to reach "long petty jug" aka punggol jetty


at the endpoint







at ubin - day 1






for some reason it feels nice to think about sec 1 gtc. maybe its cos thats when we grew the most? both individually and as a batch. its really good memories that might stay with me forever, things like these. seeing how we were all short and cute and fat and teddy bearish and now all grown up and big. all this over 2 years. isn't it amazing what 01 does to you?

ps: dont worry first class update coming soon!

week 1 + 2

ok so sorry for neglecting, ive been busy. this post will be a short one, ill TRY to get a detailed one when i have the time. or when i can be bothered. dont expect it anytime soon tho, theres hike log to do after first class.

ok week 1 went through quite well, managed to hand in most stuff on time. Got new maths and chem teacher, both of whom im very happy with so yay! although the maths teacher looks a bit like bishan gay/adi and talks like jlim. O well at least he can teach well and control the class. Patrol fun on monday wasnt really fun, just slacked around, played basketball, waste time, go home. wednesday was very cool, no scouts cos of NSW. however, had to chiong prehike log, which was due on friday. the whole week was pretty much occupied by prehike log. in school, after school, at night was all about prehike log. and yet we all still had to redo it. friday there was no school due to staff training, but we had batch meeting for AVSW games booth. Plan to do the aMaze game on iPhone, but going to be quite hard to construct. after the meeting went to register for SBR for me, zhi and haliim. those 2 dam cunning la ask me register for them while they go enjoy with their class cos exam over. haiz people these days...weekends were spent lalaing, didnt do much but play. =D sorry for not updating then, not in the mood. played some dota, some lotr, yea it was fun times. cant wait for lotr again lol

monday this week was patrol (not) fun again. Had a prehike log talk for 1 hour so we reached act at 4.30. just discussed a bit about NPC, talk cock, then dismissed them liao. really waste of time la also not sure what the sec 1s and 2s want to do. then today we had poetry slam, quite interesting this year, better than last year i find. well there was this guy with the canadian accent...=)

this weekend will be tough. hope i can survive till week 4 which is a break after the hike + hike log. at least week 3 has monday and friday off, but that means no PE until week 5, which by then will be NAPFA retest. aww man im gonna miss volleyball.

look forward to an update around week 3 weekends. the weekdays will be spent chionging hike log. poor us