Sunday, January 18, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
damn its so busy and its only week 1. venturing has begun and it isnt easy, so many different avenues and so many things to do. theres just so much expectations and so little time, and i have to cramp everything into the small brain of mine. it just makes me so angst at times and yet i try my best not to be cos i know its not anyone's fault that things are like this. sometimes, like last time, i wish people were all like me and all thought like me, then things would be done much quicker. but i guess the thing is to accept each other's differences and live with it, and also to make full use of everyone's niche area and capabilities.
on another note, school has started and most teachers are the same, except for hist ss english and maths. really happy that chem is the same, not so happy that physics the same, quite ok that chinese and bio the same. oh and ms tang seems quite ok, at least she can mange the class better than mr koh and doesnt SEEM to not hold back on calling of parents. guess i need to be a guaiguai boy and not screw up.
like i said last year, this year will be started anew and who really cares about your last year's gpa. mine wasnt very good, keeps dropping each year but grades arent everything. but yea i hope that it goes up thisyear, and i hope that i dont have to do anything yet it goes up =)
RT tmr, good luck
on another note, school has started and most teachers are the same, except for hist ss english and maths. really happy that chem is the same, not so happy that physics the same, quite ok that chinese and bio the same. oh and ms tang seems quite ok, at least she can mange the class better than mr koh and doesnt SEEM to not hold back on calling of parents. guess i need to be a guaiguai boy and not screw up.
like i said last year, this year will be started anew and who really cares about your last year's gpa. mine wasnt very good, keeps dropping each year but grades arent everything. but yea i hope that it goes up thisyear, and i hope that i dont have to do anything yet it goes up =)
RT tmr, good luck
Friday, October 24, 2008
from now, my posts will be less of narrating, more on what i think. yes, emo, whatever. still will have day to day accounts tho, dont worry.
before eoy, i was so looking forward to after it. after eoy, i feel so empty. every day there is nothing to do, just stoning at home doing random stuff. theres more time, but to do what? i feel brainwashed, as if school has made me think that life is just about work. Yet if i play the whole day, I feel like I just wasted a day, not doing anything productive. Maybe the best time is when there are no exams yet it is normal school. At least you have something to do that will make time pass quicker.
Sec 3 coming to an end really soon, and it has gone by really fast. I still remember last December holidays, coming back to school for GTC stuff and passing by the atrium with others from 01-2006. Then we saw the centralised notice boards with all the classes for everyone from our batch. Saw some names that I knew, some that I didn't; some that i liked, some that i disliked. Then it was OBS after that, still remember the long walk from our gear shed to the main area where most activities are. Also remember Seejay, or CJ, our facilitator. Details wise, forgotten already, but yet OBS didn't seem that far away.
And of course, scouting. What a big part of Sec 3, or any other year in RI for that matter. This year was the year of leadership, and I am quite glad the competition between patrols didnt affect our batch bonding that much. I am quite confident of saying that our batch is the most bonded of all, even possibly the j1s, despite their longer time together. Next year will bring that to an even greater height, and I am really looking forward to venturing. No more patrol stuffs, no more trying to get people to cooperate. We will be having acts within our batch, and I can imagine how fun that will be.
Leading Falcon this year has been a fun time, although now after EOY and the long break from scouting it seems that we didn't have much time together. Come to think of it, most of our members do not really like to stay around after act much. Sec 1s go home after saturday acts, missing out on patrol lunch. Sec 2s aren't there half the time. In the end, it is always the Sec 3s who eat together. Not sure if this is the case for the other patrols, but it isn't a good sign.
Now that EOYs are over, I have a lot off my mind, and a lot of time to think about stuff around me that is happening, think about myself, think about schooling, think about the future. Wouldn't it be fantastic if everyone is just like you, and you would be living around people who think exactly like you. No one would get on your nerves, no one would reject what you say. Life would be much more peaceful, albeit boring.
Reason I had that thought was maybe because I'm getting to feel something. I'm not sure if I have changed from the start of the year, but people seem to not like me. Not sure if it is something I did, or something I said, but I just have the feeling that people hate me. Have I become too arrogant? Too showoff maybe? I don't know, but I wish someone would tell me whats wrong. Hate it when people laugh, yet I don't know what they are laughing about. I hope that people will treat me the same as before, CCAL or not. I hope that that post won't make people change how they see me, for it is but a position.
Also had thoughts for venturing next year. I'm quite sure it will be a whole new and different experience, and I hope that I'll be used to "VU Sedia" soon enough rather than SU. For one, Mondays won't have activity as often for us. We will also be under VTL, rather than STL. We won't have SUTC, and AC. And most of all, we wouldn't have a patrol. Hopefully, getting used to all that wouldn't take too long, as venturing is only 1 year, and after that would be GC. Next year would be fairly challenging, first because it is 01's 75th anniversary (YAY!) and also because we have quite a bit of planning to do next year. Our meeting standards will need to be much higher, for anything productive to even be done each meeting. Fun is fun, but theres a time for work and play. I myself might have a problem staying focused, but I'll try. Most importantly is to remind each other, and we would all have a much easier time. While I am not in much a position to say it, having been in 01 for 3 years only now, but can see that the discipline standard is dropping, compared to when I was a Sec 1. Maybe something can be done about it next year, or even this year. SUTC wasn't good at all, so GTC better be excellent, or it will be hard to change the discipline in future.
That was quite a bit. Don't worry, I'm not emo. Just typing out what I feel. =)
before eoy, i was so looking forward to after it. after eoy, i feel so empty. every day there is nothing to do, just stoning at home doing random stuff. theres more time, but to do what? i feel brainwashed, as if school has made me think that life is just about work. Yet if i play the whole day, I feel like I just wasted a day, not doing anything productive. Maybe the best time is when there are no exams yet it is normal school. At least you have something to do that will make time pass quicker.
Sec 3 coming to an end really soon, and it has gone by really fast. I still remember last December holidays, coming back to school for GTC stuff and passing by the atrium with others from 01-2006. Then we saw the centralised notice boards with all the classes for everyone from our batch. Saw some names that I knew, some that I didn't; some that i liked, some that i disliked. Then it was OBS after that, still remember the long walk from our gear shed to the main area where most activities are. Also remember Seejay, or CJ, our facilitator. Details wise, forgotten already, but yet OBS didn't seem that far away.
And of course, scouting. What a big part of Sec 3, or any other year in RI for that matter. This year was the year of leadership, and I am quite glad the competition between patrols didnt affect our batch bonding that much. I am quite confident of saying that our batch is the most bonded of all, even possibly the j1s, despite their longer time together. Next year will bring that to an even greater height, and I am really looking forward to venturing. No more patrol stuffs, no more trying to get people to cooperate. We will be having acts within our batch, and I can imagine how fun that will be.
Leading Falcon this year has been a fun time, although now after EOY and the long break from scouting it seems that we didn't have much time together. Come to think of it, most of our members do not really like to stay around after act much. Sec 1s go home after saturday acts, missing out on patrol lunch. Sec 2s aren't there half the time. In the end, it is always the Sec 3s who eat together. Not sure if this is the case for the other patrols, but it isn't a good sign.
Now that EOYs are over, I have a lot off my mind, and a lot of time to think about stuff around me that is happening, think about myself, think about schooling, think about the future. Wouldn't it be fantastic if everyone is just like you, and you would be living around people who think exactly like you. No one would get on your nerves, no one would reject what you say. Life would be much more peaceful, albeit boring.
Reason I had that thought was maybe because I'm getting to feel something. I'm not sure if I have changed from the start of the year, but people seem to not like me. Not sure if it is something I did, or something I said, but I just have the feeling that people hate me. Have I become too arrogant? Too showoff maybe? I don't know, but I wish someone would tell me whats wrong. Hate it when people laugh, yet I don't know what they are laughing about. I hope that people will treat me the same as before, CCAL or not. I hope that that post won't make people change how they see me, for it is but a position.
Also had thoughts for venturing next year. I'm quite sure it will be a whole new and different experience, and I hope that I'll be used to "VU Sedia" soon enough rather than SU. For one, Mondays won't have activity as often for us. We will also be under VTL, rather than STL. We won't have SUTC, and AC. And most of all, we wouldn't have a patrol. Hopefully, getting used to all that wouldn't take too long, as venturing is only 1 year, and after that would be GC. Next year would be fairly challenging, first because it is 01's 75th anniversary (YAY!) and also because we have quite a bit of planning to do next year. Our meeting standards will need to be much higher, for anything productive to even be done each meeting. Fun is fun, but theres a time for work and play. I myself might have a problem staying focused, but I'll try. Most importantly is to remind each other, and we would all have a much easier time. While I am not in much a position to say it, having been in 01 for 3 years only now, but can see that the discipline standard is dropping, compared to when I was a Sec 1. Maybe something can be done about it next year, or even this year. SUTC wasn't good at all, so GTC better be excellent, or it will be hard to change the discipline in future.
That was quite a bit. Don't worry, I'm not emo. Just typing out what I feel. =)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
re congress
yesterday re congress, boring as usual. this year had a slight change tho. first, its before eoy. boo for that. second, i have a booth. i wouldnt really say yay, its an extra responsibility. thankfully theres others to set it up =) my shift for the booth was the first one, when everyone else is in the hall listening to Dr William Tan, the one who made a record in 2005, before I was in RI. Thats really all that I know of him. Its good that my shift is then, which means I dont need to do anything at all hehe. After my shift, stayed in den till 11.40 before going to the hall for the sharing session. Expected turnout: 2 batches. Actual turnout: 1/2 batch. Cool. Cant say that its unexpected. After all it is RE Congress which actually spells "Day to Pon". Poor Cheryl Yap tho, for thinking that people really care about the booths. to be honest, people only care about the keychain.
After congress, stayed in den playing bridge till 2.45 for prometheum day rehearsal. its on tuesday, yay. get to pon 1 period of CHINESE. COOOOOOL. apparently the shield which jeremy will pass to me was given by Jin Fu's tuition teacher, Simon Eio. What a cool name. But such a coincidence that he was from RI and a teacher of 01. So the rehearsal was a waste of time, just hope i dont screw up on tuesday. Like turn at the wrong time, fall down, or drop the shield. That would be the worst thing to do.
Today was soo unproductive except for tonight. Morning played tennis, afternoon literally slept throughout, from like 2-7, which also means i did not go jogging. X_X il make it up tomorrow.
oh some good news, mugging is started and underway! gonna mug maths with amos tomorrow. haha surprising. i thought i wouldnt start until thursday or something like that. but still quite disappointed that i started so late. at least i started tho. the first step is the hardest to take.
After congress, stayed in den playing bridge till 2.45 for prometheum day rehearsal. its on tuesday, yay. get to pon 1 period of CHINESE. COOOOOOL. apparently the shield which jeremy will pass to me was given by Jin Fu's tuition teacher, Simon Eio. What a cool name. But such a coincidence that he was from RI and a teacher of 01. So the rehearsal was a waste of time, just hope i dont screw up on tuesday. Like turn at the wrong time, fall down, or drop the shield. That would be the worst thing to do.
Today was soo unproductive except for tonight. Morning played tennis, afternoon literally slept throughout, from like 2-7, which also means i did not go jogging. X_X il make it up tomorrow.
oh some good news, mugging is started and underway! gonna mug maths with amos tomorrow. haha surprising. i thought i wouldnt start until thursday or something like that. but still quite disappointed that i started so late. at least i started tho. the first step is the hardest to take.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
after the whole of RLP
holy im not even going to defend myself for not blogging. im just lazy. lazy. had plenty of free time as its dmp but yea im just lazy =p
heres a list of things that has happened:
1. OIP Hue over (2nd to 14th September - http://www.oiphue2008.wordpress.com/)
2. RLP over
3. DMP (almost) over
4. spamming of carrom + spore + civ 4 + dota + whatever else
thats quite a bit, about 1 month since ive not updated. most significant thing that has happened is 1 and 2. RLP OVER! Good and bad news. Good news: im back home in the comfort of my lovely bed and computer. Bad news? No more waking up at the time when people are already at Raffles Square waiting for morning assembly and no more burning the midnight oil to la-, oops i meant study.
as a pioneer batch of RLP, it certainly went quite well. 6 weeks in total, 2 weeks overseas. fantastic time to bond with the other leaders in RI through living together, and i have met FAAAAANNNNTASTIC people. thanks for all the memories, and it was nice meeting new and amazing people. the boarding experience was also new, quite cool living around all the scholars and finding out the amazing talents they have (like in pool and piano. i do not mean swimming pool btw). and of course not forgetting the lanning sessions in shaun choo and chin jie's room every night since OIP ended.
OIP Hue 08. First oip trip of the year, amazing. Met so many new people from Vietnam, found out all the scandals of Sec 4s who went there last year, lived with Vietnamese and eating with them every day. walking to NTP, taking the coach, talking cock with the Vietnamese, hearing Bhargav's rubbish, storing photos on my laptop; i'll miss all these. thanks Thinh and family for being amazing hosts to me and choo. i'll never forget all of you. to find out more about what we did there, the blog would be useful. http://www.oiphue2008.wordpress.com/
woah DMP. first time and 2nd last time i would have this amazing 2 weeks of slacking and plenty of free time to spam carrom and pon morning assembly with all the scouts in den. going to den every day for the past week just to play carrom and i must say i have improved quite a fair bit. hopefully catch up to zunjie. well, maybe by next DMP. anyway i took only 3 modules, as we all needed minimum 42 hours, and RLP gave 18 hours. so my modules were: 1. Understanding theories through playing computer games (aka having fun and slacking) 2. Sports Injury and Management 3. Nutrition for Sports. haha no real mugging ones, all very slack. but i must say the history course is really good, people enjoy it as there are games, and the theories are also learnt much easily. i myself learnt quite a lot of theories, like marxism, economic virtualism, MAD etc. and of course the games: Spores, Civ 3 and Rise of Nations. Spore was a big fav due to being a very very new game, released early September. And now almost everyone i know plays it or wants to play it. hehe i myself have it, and i played till Space stage and didnt feel like continuing. Anyway for the other modules, the nutrition was quite interesting, learnt some stuff that would be relevant to my training. sports injury had a bit of relevance, but it was mostly meant for those in sports CCA as they had more injury, especially judo, right chin jie? tuesday, DMP will end and proper lesson will start again. BORING!
whats coming up next? EOYs of course. most people are mugging like siao now, im still enjoying myself and playing a lot. havent studied at all, believe me. played spore, civ 4, dota. civ 4 quite fun now that ive played it, wanna play again =p but i have the feeling of uselessness and zibei, when im not studying and EOYs in 2 weeks, everyone else studying. hate that feeling, but then again im soooo detached from school that i cant bring myself to study. have to wait till school starts proper. i know that its an excuse, but i need to believe in that so i wont feel so bad.
sorry for not having pics, dont feel like finding which to upload. have a good day!
heres a list of things that has happened:
1. OIP Hue over (2nd to 14th September - http://www.oiphue2008.wordpress.com/)
2. RLP over
3. DMP (almost) over
4. spamming of carrom + spore + civ 4 + dota + whatever else
thats quite a bit, about 1 month since ive not updated. most significant thing that has happened is 1 and 2. RLP OVER! Good and bad news. Good news: im back home in the comfort of my lovely bed and computer. Bad news? No more waking up at the time when people are already at Raffles Square waiting for morning assembly and no more burning the midnight oil to la-, oops i meant study.
as a pioneer batch of RLP, it certainly went quite well. 6 weeks in total, 2 weeks overseas. fantastic time to bond with the other leaders in RI through living together, and i have met FAAAAANNNNTASTIC people. thanks for all the memories, and it was nice meeting new and amazing people. the boarding experience was also new, quite cool living around all the scholars and finding out the amazing talents they have (like in pool and piano. i do not mean swimming pool btw). and of course not forgetting the lanning sessions in shaun choo and chin jie's room every night since OIP ended.
OIP Hue 08. First oip trip of the year, amazing. Met so many new people from Vietnam, found out all the scandals of Sec 4s who went there last year, lived with Vietnamese and eating with them every day. walking to NTP, taking the coach, talking cock with the Vietnamese, hearing Bhargav's rubbish, storing photos on my laptop; i'll miss all these. thanks Thinh and family for being amazing hosts to me and choo. i'll never forget all of you. to find out more about what we did there, the blog would be useful. http://www.oiphue2008.wordpress.com/
woah DMP. first time and 2nd last time i would have this amazing 2 weeks of slacking and plenty of free time to spam carrom and pon morning assembly with all the scouts in den. going to den every day for the past week just to play carrom and i must say i have improved quite a fair bit. hopefully catch up to zunjie. well, maybe by next DMP. anyway i took only 3 modules, as we all needed minimum 42 hours, and RLP gave 18 hours. so my modules were: 1. Understanding theories through playing computer games (aka having fun and slacking) 2. Sports Injury and Management 3. Nutrition for Sports. haha no real mugging ones, all very slack. but i must say the history course is really good, people enjoy it as there are games, and the theories are also learnt much easily. i myself learnt quite a lot of theories, like marxism, economic virtualism, MAD etc. and of course the games: Spores, Civ 3 and Rise of Nations. Spore was a big fav due to being a very very new game, released early September. And now almost everyone i know plays it or wants to play it. hehe i myself have it, and i played till Space stage and didnt feel like continuing. Anyway for the other modules, the nutrition was quite interesting, learnt some stuff that would be relevant to my training. sports injury had a bit of relevance, but it was mostly meant for those in sports CCA as they had more injury, especially judo, right chin jie? tuesday, DMP will end and proper lesson will start again. BORING!
whats coming up next? EOYs of course. most people are mugging like siao now, im still enjoying myself and playing a lot. havent studied at all, believe me. played spore, civ 4, dota. civ 4 quite fun now that ive played it, wanna play again =p but i have the feeling of uselessness and zibei, when im not studying and EOYs in 2 weeks, everyone else studying. hate that feeling, but then again im soooo detached from school that i cant bring myself to study. have to wait till school starts proper. i know that its an excuse, but i need to believe in that so i wont feel so bad.
sorry for not having pics, dont feel like finding which to upload. have a good day!
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