Saturday, January 27, 2007
Haha yesterday was fun. We were late for PE in the morning and so we got some sarcasm from Mr Koh our PE teacher for being tardy. Walk some more walk some more. Since it was raining we got to play in the Indoor Sports Hall, and haha it was quite a relief to be able to play soccer for once rather than do circuits. Fun match, one bookended by me getting tackled accidentally by plan and failing to deflect benlow's shot. OWNGOAAALL.. Haha at least i can find some consolation in the fact that it was still a goal! ^^
And econs lesson was a bummer for me.. Mrs Ng owned the class for not handing up work on time, and i sorta got part of the blame coz i didnt collect from Qing Yuan, Mam and Shane even tho *i think* they finished it on time. And Qing Yuan was like "Well Done." in a sarcastic sort of way which made me feel like bursting out with some insensitive comment.
Like wth you're blaming your rep for not collecting your essay even tho the teacher SPECIFICALLY TOLD everyone that it was due after school, and he shouted it out a gazillion times to the class; if thats the case then anyone can like "forget" to hand up his math assignment and blame it on the math rep la. Blardy take the initiative.. But in the end i chose not to. It takes more courage to keep silent ._. Got some flak from mie and charissa too.. so haha i guess i'll take their advice and ask around more next time.
But the rest of the day was great. The first ever official training for the new j1s, and i think they're quite a colorful batch. Really guai and nice as opposed to our rowdy ever-quarelling-amongst-themselves-for-the-fun-of-it batch. Haha guess every cohort is unique in their own little way. Was watching the pistol guys struggle with holding the gun up for 1 min+ haah so i decided to join in to demo or correct their mistakes or man the 1 min with them. And lulu wasn't helping by "groping" their shoulder muscles to force them to relax or taunting them for not being steady enough, althoo hahaha mental strength is always good =)
GOGO j1s.. Hopefully i wont be so lazy that i forget to add them all to msn!
And one last thing... Happy 18th Bday Wilson! It's been a great 1 year getting to know you, in the truest sense... Hope you like the card, and the extreme room makeover.
You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world.
Chris LOLed @
ABUNDANT PEACE :)
8:27 PM
Friday, January 19, 2007
How time flies… the first 3 weeks of school are already a blur in my mind. And orientation seems like something that happened so long ago. I think that things have started coming so fast and furious that it’s been real tough trying to manage them all, but for some reason I’m coping. Coolio.
On about orientation! This orientation IMO totally rocked my own… I think that things really went smoothly since everyone knew what they had to do and everything was like rehearsed and set up properly. Ah what to say about my OG. Haha they’re a really nice bunch, all super duper likeable. I had a lot of PAE people so I was kinda worried at first that the RG and RI people wouldn’t mix with them but phew luckily my fears were unfounded. Obviously there’re cliques, but I’m really proud that they took the initiative to mix around with each other.
They were super super GUAI during dance prac and games too, no complaints and everyone was eager to learn, as long as we demo’ed to them first how to play/dance. HAHA that’s human nature isn’t it. And there were some really quirky people too! Like these two girls Eugenia and Sarah who wouldn’t dance with the guys and Clare and Li Ying whose names I always mixed up coz they looked sooo alike, and Lixing and Rui Lin the two troublemakers who like would’ve totally destroyed everything RJ stood for during External Activity if we hadn’t all been wearing the Laudeamus shirt. And I won’t name any names here, but one of them had a gf who was in my buddy OG, so everytime during the activities they’d like run to some secluded corner and lol…gao man but nvm its not nice to get into the specifics. ^^
I remember the nights before orientation when I was preparing the little gift cards I’d be presenting to them on the last day… wondering whether I’d be able to live up to my own expectations of what an OGL should be. And looking back on orientation now, I think somehow I fell short of the mark. Maybe an OGL is supposed to be this hyper-ball of fun and enthusiasm and brashness mixed with daring rolled into one, but I frankly don’t think I fall into that category. Thankfully Gen was (sometimes) there to save the day; I don’t know what I’d do without her seriously. She’s always the topic starter and the loudest, so most of the time I was content to let her handle the socializing while I took care of the admin work. And since I was with games comm, which was practically running 2 days of orientation, I was constantly away, so she’d be left to babysit. Thanks for riding 4 days of highs and lows with me. But HAHA I think I’m much better at the mano-e-mano aspect… hopefully long after the j1s have settled in I’ll still be able to chit-chat with some of them now and then.
Much love for Limone. I don’ think I could have asked for a more endearing OG than you guys. Watching you guys blast your way through the activities we took two months to organize still makes it worth all the blood sweat and tears that we put into making them. Seriously, thanks for making orientation 07 one to remember… <3
And after orientation it seems like the whole world was upside down. I felt so upset taking down the structures for war games that we'd painstakingly put together using poles and twine, and stashing away all the logistics for good. Past 2 weeks i've been trying desperately to fit back into class and lessons and shooting and catch up on school work. No easy task. I had to borrow notes from classmates and see tutors for clarification all the time, and the past 2 weeks I’ve been sleeping on average 4 hours a day. So everyday when I turned up at the OG table in the canteen I’d look like some zombie. And I’ve been having trouble staying awake in lectures, esp. if its math. But hmm somehow I still manage to survive. =)
First PE lesson of the year, and the teacher makes us do sprint training (leap-frogging across the sports hall, sprinting to and fro) and right after that both my legs cramped thrice. I remember I was walking to the gym when Simin walked past, and I cramped in front of her -.-. GJ chris. And outside the gym preparing to step on the weighing scales to take my wt measurement when I cramped again and fell off. Thankfully Lawry Kenny and Samuel were there to help massage my calves till I could stand up again… I’m beginning to think that my mind and body are starting to be affected by this hectic lifestyle.
It’s been just one angsty day after another. Last tues, we were having a regular GP lesson, then Mrs Toh interrupted her own lesson 20 mins before break and we were like “OMG, we get to go off early?” Then she dropped this huge bombshell on us when she told us she wasn’t going to teach us anymore. Sigh… and to tell you the truth, I don’t much like our new GP tutor. She’s nice enough, but her style isn’t concrete at all and she always goes on about this philosophical stuff that sounds good when you hear it, but is totally worthless when I’m trying to write an essay. Sigh… there goes one more reason for why I enjoy going to school. RESPECT for Mrs Toh. You know you respect a teacher when you don’t call him/her by their full name, or when you make an extra effort not to be late for their lesson, or when you actually voluntarily raise up your hand when they ask a question. She’d always come for every lesson fully prepared, and we’d always have plenty of laughs in between all the heavy stuff. She was sort of a guiding light for me after my horrendous experience in RI getting humiliated and dissed by Eng teachers (stuck up a$$es), and without her, I probably wouldn’t have done as well as I did for promos. Hope to cya around in school Mrs Toh.
Man… I’m just glad I’ve caught up with school work. It's like the only ray of light in a tunnel we've been traveling in for a year. A fresh start: let’s make the best of 2007!
Chris LOLed@
ABUNDANT PEACE :)
9:59 PM
Thursday, January 11, 2007
1 week (+-1 day) after school reopens, and homework is ever mounting. We actally had 5 essay outlines to do over the last weekend. And, the new aircon installed proves to be both a blessing and a curse. Blessing coz we don't have to go library/LT to enjoy aircon in hot weather, and would help keep us awake. Flip side of the coin is that we would be unable to adjust the on/off and temperature (virtually all functions except fan speed-_-). They had our timetable keyed into the main system so everything is automatic. I wonder which idiot's idea it is, totally stupid. When we have to use the aircon (before/after sch, breaktime etc) we won't be able to use it, and when we are using other locations for tutorials, the aircon will always be on. Talking about saving electricity -_-. And, even when it is FREEZING in class, we won't be able to turn the temperature up and end up dying in class. Perhaps we should set it to RI style, where switch is controlled by us but not the temperature settings. Still have homework to do, so got to go.
Matt, signing off.
ABUNDANT PEACE :)
7:26 PM
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Happy New Year *woo*.. wow another year has come and gone. 1 more year and we'll all be in army sigh..
Every single year before this i've always made resolutions that included getting decent grades and losing weight... Hehe for some reason the latter has never come true for me ^^. This year i resolve...
To be a good OGL. In some respect I'm kind of surprised that I've actually made it this far, since i didn't expect to become OGL in the first place. And like being upgraded from a 3-man OGL team to a 2 man one, Gen and I. Wow talk about surprises...
And sometimes i wonder to myself whether by earning this privilege, i may have deprived someone who perhaps had more passion/energy/ability of the chance of serving the school. Yeah like Mam...saw him in the canteen today and he said he regretted not going for befriender's. I think he'd have made a great OGL.
And we had this OGL training camp thingy some time back where we sat around with teachers and asked ourselves questions about our goals for orientation and ways to reach out to the j1s. (I keep thinking sec 1s -.- like they're so innocent haha) One of the questions really stuck out and that was "How are you gonna be a role model?" Am I a good role model? Academically? Emotionally? Am i gonna be able to keep the OG spirit burning bright long after orientation? I rmb my OG like died after 1 month or so coz the OGLs didnt even turn up sometimes, whereas hehe some OGs are still gathering for lunch nowadays. Or maybe the OG spirit wasn't strong enough to keep everyone together in the first place so after a while we kinda drifted apart. I don't want that to happen again...
Sometimes i feel something along the lines of resentment (so strong a word) for my guy OGL (even tho i appreciate all he's done) coz after orientation he just let the whole thing drop, like orientation was orientation and after that it'd be (chop) the end. Wasn't really enthu about stuff, just very sui bian, as tho he was just fulfilling some duty or obligation. And to top it off, he couldn't dance well haha.
SO! Hopefully I can find the strength to rise up to the challenge; hopefully everything we've prepared so far goes according to plan: the food, the presents, the activities and games... Haha after all, if one fails to plan, one plans to fail right? Comon Chris, it's all you..you can do it.
Here's to tomorrow. Cheers.
ABUNDANT PEACE :)
7:00 PM
