3 down 2 to go

living one day at a time =)

promos

Promos starts tomorrow and I feel under prepared. =(

I could really use a wish right now

mugging madness

1 week to start of promos, and the WHOLE WORLD is mugging. like seriously, no hyperbole used there. me included, although im failing most of the time.

and 3 weeks to race!

I LOST THE GAME

http://ilostthegame.org/rules

HAHA WHOEVER READS THIS PLAYS THE GAME NOW =) Yay more people to lose with me.

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Enjoy the last few days of holiday!

Day of thinking and talking

Alternative titles "Nike hike" or "Life is no Nintendo game"

Last few activities as a GC...it's been a fast 1 year. Today's night hike was really fun, especially stoning at Macs with Hiok and his suanning haha. But before that, let's talk about the hike!
Started off eating an early dinner at BK at Tiong Bahru, and was reminded of the Wayne's funny incident at Carl's Jr where he ordereduts a Whooper Jr...The route brought us east from tiong bahru through city area, kallang, and finally ECP. Total distance was close to 20km, and surprisingly we didn't have to cut short the route or didn't reach the end point super late. Guess GTC won't be too easy for us...it was cool to see the teachers keeping up with the super quick pace!
Along the way talked a lot to various people about various stuff. Leadership, 01, sports, random stuff, it was really cool to just be walking at night and reflecting in the year that has passed and also what lays ahead. Thought a lot about certain pertinent issues, and reminisced about the past. 5 years seem short, but a lot has been learnt and experienced. And of course more importantly there was growth.
I counted the number of scouts camp I went for over these years, and it tallied to a total of 31, and counting! 5 overnights, 4 SUTCs, 4 ACs, 4 night hikes, 4 GTCs, 4 first classes, 1 Vcord, 1 VC, 1 PLTC, 1 VLC, 1 NPC, 1 group celes.
Life is gonna be soooo empty after this year. Need to find something to fill the void

Youth Olympic Games

The YOG came and went, from 14 to 26th August. On the local news and television it looks really great, with fantastic media coverage on almost all the sports (but none on triathlon ): ) and lots of hype generated. However, on closer look, how worth it was the $387 million really?

There have been reports of poor volunteer food at some places, sold out tickets yet empty spectator stands, compulsory support from students…all these from here, here, and here. Very interesting reads there.

There have also been very little report in international newspapers, so it got me thinking just how good was it really? If the whole point was to generate tourism and interest in Singapore and to showcase Singapore to the world…seems like it isn’t working that well.

Sometimes I really wish sports would be a huge thing in Singapore, like in Oceania, but honestly the climate and environment is a huge put-off. And I also wonder whether it is possible for Asian countries, not just Singapore, to ever do well in sports that do not require as much technique but more of innate talent, such as (obviously) triathlon and long d track events. For some reason we are way way off the top (look at the YOG triathlon results). Is it because of poor training methods, lack of training, or genetics?

Anyway, its really interesting to read newspaper, as well as sites like temasekreview.com. Shows you all the debates on current issues in SG, such as the extra NS $$.

Race is in 5 weeks. Promos in 4. Holidays in 1!!