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Monday, February 28, 2005
12.20 am in the morning and somehow I'm still awake. Thinking. About many things.
Do you see over a thousand students? Dazzling in their white uniforms? Green badges, each bearing an eagle riding on their left side of their chest. Do you see the hall? Row upon row of tables. The students stare with trepidation.
Do you see the other people. Stern and composed, sharp contrast to the nervous students. Do you see their papers? Papers that would decide the next two years, possibly their very careers. Nestled in their hands. Emotionless pads that could bring joy or sadness.
The students step in. Some with quick eager steps. Some with calm measured strides. Some sidle in, unwilling to face the fight in front of them.
Do you see their happiness? 19th November 2004. Its raining. Rain pours down like tears. Those of laughter or those of sadness? Who cares. Relief is shown visibly. Students laught. Cry. Hug. Elation. Joy. Rain. The students step into the open. Freedom. The sky darkens. Rain pours. But everyone celebrates. A new chapter of life will start. They forget. So fast, they forget what they have just completed. It seems so far away just 10 minutes after its over.
Do you see over a thousand students? Resplendant. Uniforms of white, just as it had been just a little while before. Green. Blue. Khaki. Beige. Beige. Beige. All eyes turn to the new crest. Gold. Red. Nil Sine Labore. A new home.
Do you hear their cheers? Do you see them dancing? Do you see them bonding? Such bonds that are only uniquely tied in this time of the life. This is where they belong. This is where they want to belong. They want to stay. Can they stay?
Do you see their anxiety? Not many do. It remains hidden. Mentioned once in a while. Not often. No one thinks about it. No one would. Its too early. Do you see them split up? The calender shows that the first week has ended. Another environment to get used to. Do you see them survey each other. Studying and sizing up fellow classmates. From different backgrounds, different schools. SJI. AHS. RGS. TKGS. VS. DHS. MSHS. CGS. NYGS. Do you see them making friends? The ice breaks. The first day. Already they begin to bond. The third day. Already they begin to go out together. Friends. New friends.
Do you see them interacting? Do you see them cooperating? Do you see their enthusiasm? The fire of a smouldering barbeque. The lapping waves at the Esplanade. The crowd of orchard road. The hushed silence of the aiport. The wooden stage of the concourse. The canteen at 10.25 am. Do you see them having fun? The silence of the lecture theatre. Broken by the odd chuckle. The odd guffaw. The tuitorial classrooms. Interacting with the teachers. Having a good time. Learning. The field at mid-morning. Running. Sweating. Lungs bursting. They did it together. Do you see them learning and developing?
The calender wheels towards the end of the second month. Do you see them threatened? Do you see their fear? Do you see the class pull closer? As a flock does when it is threatened with seperation. Do you feel the tension in the air? It is tangible. A cold fist that squeezes and wrings the fear from your heart. Do you see the tears? The laughter, reassurance. More tears. And so the cycle goes. They cannot reassure others if they themselves are not assured. Promises. They will stay if it is humanly possible. They talk.
And they pray. God will help. He has done so. They have seen it. In the lives of others. It is rare that a class can stay together. It is not impossible. God brings peace of mind. He brings reassurance. He picks out the best path. He will help.
And they will rest. It is late. It is now 12.44 35 sec. am. February 28 2005. Possibly the worst, and yet, the best night that they will be having. Not many will sleep well. But know that God is with you. He is always with you.
They call themselves S15. S15. The best class that could ever be formed. So many memories have they given. So many have they been received. They will receive many more to come next time. So many friends. The best friends. Friends whom you miss just over a single weekend. Friends whom you can dream about at night.And with God's grace, they will.
Dear God, please give all of us peace and the courage to face tomorrow. You are always with us, you will always decide the best path for us. Thank you for all the memories you have let us have in these 2 months. We appreciate so much the time you have let us spend together. Give us the faith to always trust in you. No matter what may happen tomorrow.
In Jesus' Name, Amen
Do you see over a thousand students? Dazzling in their white uniforms? Green badges, each bearing an eagle riding on their left side of their chest. Do you see the hall? Row upon row of tables. The students stare with trepidation.
Do you see the other people. Stern and composed, sharp contrast to the nervous students. Do you see their papers? Papers that would decide the next two years, possibly their very careers. Nestled in their hands. Emotionless pads that could bring joy or sadness.
The students step in. Some with quick eager steps. Some with calm measured strides. Some sidle in, unwilling to face the fight in front of them.
Do you see their happiness? 19th November 2004. Its raining. Rain pours down like tears. Those of laughter or those of sadness? Who cares. Relief is shown visibly. Students laught. Cry. Hug. Elation. Joy. Rain. The students step into the open. Freedom. The sky darkens. Rain pours. But everyone celebrates. A new chapter of life will start. They forget. So fast, they forget what they have just completed. It seems so far away just 10 minutes after its over.
Do you see over a thousand students? Resplendant. Uniforms of white, just as it had been just a little while before. Green. Blue. Khaki. Beige. Beige. Beige. All eyes turn to the new crest. Gold. Red. Nil Sine Labore. A new home.
Do you hear their cheers? Do you see them dancing? Do you see them bonding? Such bonds that are only uniquely tied in this time of the life. This is where they belong. This is where they want to belong. They want to stay. Can they stay?
Do you see their anxiety? Not many do. It remains hidden. Mentioned once in a while. Not often. No one thinks about it. No one would. Its too early. Do you see them split up? The calender shows that the first week has ended. Another environment to get used to. Do you see them survey each other. Studying and sizing up fellow classmates. From different backgrounds, different schools. SJI. AHS. RGS. TKGS. VS. DHS. MSHS. CGS. NYGS. Do you see them making friends? The ice breaks. The first day. Already they begin to bond. The third day. Already they begin to go out together. Friends. New friends.
Do you see them interacting? Do you see them cooperating? Do you see their enthusiasm? The fire of a smouldering barbeque. The lapping waves at the Esplanade. The crowd of orchard road. The hushed silence of the aiport. The wooden stage of the concourse. The canteen at 10.25 am. Do you see them having fun? The silence of the lecture theatre. Broken by the odd chuckle. The odd guffaw. The tuitorial classrooms. Interacting with the teachers. Having a good time. Learning. The field at mid-morning. Running. Sweating. Lungs bursting. They did it together. Do you see them learning and developing?
The calender wheels towards the end of the second month. Do you see them threatened? Do you see their fear? Do you see the class pull closer? As a flock does when it is threatened with seperation. Do you feel the tension in the air? It is tangible. A cold fist that squeezes and wrings the fear from your heart. Do you see the tears? The laughter, reassurance. More tears. And so the cycle goes. They cannot reassure others if they themselves are not assured. Promises. They will stay if it is humanly possible. They talk.
And they pray. God will help. He has done so. They have seen it. In the lives of others. It is rare that a class can stay together. It is not impossible. God brings peace of mind. He brings reassurance. He picks out the best path. He will help.
And they will rest. It is late. It is now 12.44 35 sec. am. February 28 2005. Possibly the worst, and yet, the best night that they will be having. Not many will sleep well. But know that God is with you. He is always with you.
They call themselves S15. S15. The best class that could ever be formed. So many memories have they given. So many have they been received. They will receive many more to come next time. So many friends. The best friends. Friends whom you miss just over a single weekend. Friends whom you can dream about at night.And with God's grace, they will.
Dear God, please give all of us peace and the courage to face tomorrow. You are always with us, you will always decide the best path for us. Thank you for all the memories you have let us have in these 2 months. We appreciate so much the time you have let us spend together. Give us the faith to always trust in you. No matter what may happen tomorrow.
In Jesus' Name, Amen
~JcZw~ at 12:17 am
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I've never been aware of sustaining a sustained number of injuries... except when they actually interfere with my physical activities. Like, you know. Haven't updated for some time... mainly because there was little time, or, fine, I was lazy. Anyway here goes:
Fingers still aching from friday. I really think soccer is a high risk sport. "Sports with risk of severe physical injuries should be banned". Fine, ban soccer and see what happens. On Monday maths test went pretty fine. Should be able to get a double-digit number. If its single digit at least it won't be a ROUND number anyway. We hung ard in LT3 after that to discuss about music fest. Then we scared each other by telling ghost stories.... hehe.... Oh yeah, I passed my NAPFA test.... yay! Finally could take off without flailing about on the line.
Fingers still aching from friday. Same sentiments as written above when tuesday came. And boy was it reflected when I went for fencing in the night. I couldn't hold the pistol grip properly, could not make a strong parry and generally could not move my fingers fast without causing extensive pain to my thumb. Nico alone, whom I can beat usually, already showed me a hard time when he was leading me 7-6. The coup de grace came when he lunged at me so fast and so hard that his sword was bent at a 45 deg angle from the horizontal. As he withdrew it from my jacket (and from the dent which he probably implanted on my sternum) and bent it back, the blade broke. Thats how hard he hit. Boy can he hit. The match was called off, but he was leading 8-6 so I guess its consensus that he won...
The next few matches were not less disasterous
vs. Judith, lost 15-14 (I had been leading 14-12, but just couldn't withstand her last few attacks! And while conducting a stop hit by bending close to the ground to avoid her blade, her weapon flicked past, caught on the rim of my mask and whacked the unprotected back of my head. Ouch. Luckily its force had been spent or I would be sporting an extra hole from the head.)
vs. Joseph, lost 15-5 (Usually he can beat me one. My finger just about reduced my chances of winning to that of a snowflake surviving summer in in Sahara... or present day Singapore, its about the same. And I throughly jealous of his ability to do his CQC dueling =Pp And during the match he flicked my unprotected left hand, opening a small incised cut and adding to my steadily-becoming-more-impressive list of injuries.)
vs. Brenda, lost 15-13 (So close! thats the best score I've had against her before. But my finger was kind of dropping off, and my blade was going everywhere except her scoring jacket)
And last. Versus my father. My left-handed father. No joke, he is a very good fencer. He used to be fencing captain when he was in NUS last last time. But presently, I could still beat him my sheer stamina. Last night however was different. I had been leading 8-3 and was already dying of fatigue when he got his second wind, pulling off 5 parry-ripostes in a row and making the score equal. Then I started to get desperate, because every lunge and every fleche that I pulled off he just parried and countered. So I started every flick, side hit, and tried to hit him everywhere but his chest, not easy considering that the main parts that foil hits are scored on are the chest, under the armpit, and back.
I won 15-12 after 25 minutes, nearly 3 times the standard time for a match. Sighz
So I thought I could give my knocked about systems some rest today... oh nooo.....
Bio practical. A session which I actually quite like, but which I'm not particularly good at. So I was sucking hydrogen peroxide into my syringe and getting ready to discharge into my test tube. Not very funny considering the 2 mol / dm^3 concentration. And along came Gerald Phoon who inexplicably POKED me in my ribs asking if I could move aside. The spontaneous reaction from my ribs to my arms was instantaneous, reactive and volcanic in nature. I discharged the syringe faster than I've ever done in my life. Hyrdrogen peroxide sprayed out from the test tube, onto my hand and the table. Heheheee... thats two bio pracs in a row larr!!! So it was like wash wash wash and wash somemore... pah.... hehe.... but actually not damage done, except that my hand was kinda itchy for sometime.
I think Jonathan ChuaH is right. I think I'm really accident prone. Or I'm just unlucky. Anyway whatever lar.
Yeah.... to round off today we had dancing (which suddenly became VJ mass dances, but I don't mind that) after school... yeah... met Michelle from fencing on the way home... yeah, talked a bit... then came home lar.
Haha..... oh man, results coming out on monday! Its more or less confirmed anyway... All the best and God bless everyone!
SJ n OSSIS rulez!
Fingers still aching from friday. I really think soccer is a high risk sport. "Sports with risk of severe physical injuries should be banned". Fine, ban soccer and see what happens. On Monday maths test went pretty fine. Should be able to get a double-digit number. If its single digit at least it won't be a ROUND number anyway. We hung ard in LT3 after that to discuss about music fest. Then we scared each other by telling ghost stories.... hehe.... Oh yeah, I passed my NAPFA test.... yay! Finally could take off without flailing about on the line.
Fingers still aching from friday. Same sentiments as written above when tuesday came. And boy was it reflected when I went for fencing in the night. I couldn't hold the pistol grip properly, could not make a strong parry and generally could not move my fingers fast without causing extensive pain to my thumb. Nico alone, whom I can beat usually, already showed me a hard time when he was leading me 7-6. The coup de grace came when he lunged at me so fast and so hard that his sword was bent at a 45 deg angle from the horizontal. As he withdrew it from my jacket (and from the dent which he probably implanted on my sternum) and bent it back, the blade broke. Thats how hard he hit. Boy can he hit. The match was called off, but he was leading 8-6 so I guess its consensus that he won...
The next few matches were not less disasterous
vs. Judith, lost 15-14 (I had been leading 14-12, but just couldn't withstand her last few attacks! And while conducting a stop hit by bending close to the ground to avoid her blade, her weapon flicked past, caught on the rim of my mask and whacked the unprotected back of my head. Ouch. Luckily its force had been spent or I would be sporting an extra hole from the head.)
vs. Joseph, lost 15-5 (Usually he can beat me one. My finger just about reduced my chances of winning to that of a snowflake surviving summer in in Sahara... or present day Singapore, its about the same. And I throughly jealous of his ability to do his CQC dueling =Pp And during the match he flicked my unprotected left hand, opening a small incised cut and adding to my steadily-becoming-more-impressive list of injuries.)
vs. Brenda, lost 15-13 (So close! thats the best score I've had against her before. But my finger was kind of dropping off, and my blade was going everywhere except her scoring jacket)
And last. Versus my father. My left-handed father. No joke, he is a very good fencer. He used to be fencing captain when he was in NUS last last time. But presently, I could still beat him my sheer stamina. Last night however was different. I had been leading 8-3 and was already dying of fatigue when he got his second wind, pulling off 5 parry-ripostes in a row and making the score equal. Then I started to get desperate, because every lunge and every fleche that I pulled off he just parried and countered. So I started every flick, side hit, and tried to hit him everywhere but his chest, not easy considering that the main parts that foil hits are scored on are the chest, under the armpit, and back.
I won 15-12 after 25 minutes, nearly 3 times the standard time for a match. Sighz
So I thought I could give my knocked about systems some rest today... oh nooo.....
Bio practical. A session which I actually quite like, but which I'm not particularly good at. So I was sucking hydrogen peroxide into my syringe and getting ready to discharge into my test tube. Not very funny considering the 2 mol / dm^3 concentration. And along came Gerald Phoon who inexplicably POKED me in my ribs asking if I could move aside. The spontaneous reaction from my ribs to my arms was instantaneous, reactive and volcanic in nature. I discharged the syringe faster than I've ever done in my life. Hyrdrogen peroxide sprayed out from the test tube, onto my hand and the table. Heheheee... thats two bio pracs in a row larr!!! So it was like wash wash wash and wash somemore... pah.... hehe.... but actually not damage done, except that my hand was kinda itchy for sometime.
I think Jonathan ChuaH is right. I think I'm really accident prone. Or I'm just unlucky. Anyway whatever lar.
Yeah.... to round off today we had dancing (which suddenly became VJ mass dances, but I don't mind that) after school... yeah... met Michelle from fencing on the way home... yeah, talked a bit... then came home lar.
Haha..... oh man, results coming out on monday! Its more or less confirmed anyway... All the best and God bless everyone!
SJ n OSSIS rulez!
~JcZw~ at 7:31 pm
Friday, February 18, 2005
Dear readers, please forgive me if this post is incoherently written. First, because I want to go back to maths, and second, because I'm suffering from slight concussion, which happily is fading out even now.
Today went back to St. John after school. And after St. John we played soccer. Long time we haven't played soccer with each other, due to a combination of a lack of balls (please think straight!), bad weather, lack of players, blarblarblar...
Hmmm... soccer... one of my favourite sports I suppose, but then again, one that I don't play very often. First played in primary school where I found out at that time that I hated it. For once the ball was heading straight for my face when I was sandwiched between two gigantic classmates (last time everyone was gigantic to me. Cos I was like a tiny kid. Strewth, in sec. 1 I was still 14-something cm okay!). The resulting impact sent my glasses flying across the field (because I didn't have the cow sense to shield my face properly) in a twisted mangled mess, and left me with bright flashes for about 5 sec. in my vision. From then on I hated playing soccer, and dodged away whenever the ball was struck. Which is stupid cos the ball is being struck all the time.
But in sec. 3 I came to a class where all the guys loved playing soccer. For me, it was sort of evolve-or-die kind of thing. So I played. And I decided curiously enough, that the safest place in the field to be was the goalkeeper. Why? Because I reasoned that I could use all four limbs to protect my face (I've been forever terrified that something would happen to my eyes). So I did... and I found that I liked it. Although it took me about 2 years to learn the various moves, punching the ball, catching with the W-formation of the hands, and the all important lateral dive, I improved slowly (until today I'm still highly inconsistent!). Especially during st. john, where you played while not under pressure. For one year I was the number 3 'keeper in my class, behind xiao quan and wei chao, and the number 1 'keeper for St. John.
There is something unique about being the goalkeeper. Because although you're in a team sport and must organize your defence blahblah, you also possess skills which are unique to you only. So you are kind of set apart from the rest. Just recalling a few memorable games we played in the past year:
St. John vs BB (Lost 7-2. Sorry lor, I was like inexperienced)
St. John vs NCC/Scouts combined (Won 11-2)
During farewell 2004, the NCOs even gave me a pair of goalkeeper gloves to use... Haha... they didn't fit all that well, but I've used them, and they're seriously not bad =)
So today we played again, against BB. Wei Lun, me, Xuan Ming and his team. Don't ask me how the match went. But today was a nasty reminder about a goalkeeper's occupational hazards. I HATE the boys' brigade's long range fast balls. The game started well enough. Within the first 5 minute they already breached our defence and fired a shot that happily was badly kicked, so I managed to secure it just as it rolled past. The next came when one of the opponents lashed a fierce shot from the centre line of the the street soccer court. Fully extending in a lateral dive, i stopped the shot successfully, and whacked my pelvis into the floor at the same time. No wonder soccer is played on grass.
Lets say that their scoring was a matter of time. In a 2 to 1 attack on our goal, I got faked and a tap-in made the score 1-0. Then came the *ahem* best part of the game.
Two things happened within minutes of each other. The first was in a one to one situation. I came off my line n tackled the attacker, kicking the ball from under his feet while keeping my body in my semicircle. So he fell on top of me sort of, and hit my elbow very violently. Which is actually not bad. I recall in one of the first games I played, an attacker marked by a defender was running towards my goal. I tackled my own teammate by mistake, who fell on top of me leaving us all very dazed, while the attacker had all the time in the world to gently roll in his shot.
The next was even better. A through ball from the other side placed an attacker right in front of my goal with no defenders to guard. So desperation for desperation, I dived at his feet even as he kicked at the ball. The result was that he missed (luckily he was barefooted) and I took the blow in the right mandible of the chin.
I don't mind telling you that my vision turned black and white, following which I took a short trip through the constellation and saw a lot of stars. Yeah. But I stopped the ball. In retropect that was extremely stupid, cos it is not worth it to get your spectacles stove into your eyes just to guard one ball. But honestly, I thought that the attacker would give up since he saw the goalkeeper with his body already wrapped around the ball.
Yeah... can't really remember the rest of the match, except that we missed a FABULOUS opportunity when xuan ming faked the opposing keeper into a dive that left his goal open. From 2m away from the goal Kok Keng proceeded to send the ball whizzing over the goal post. Boy, all the seniors immediately started threatening to demote him... haha.... no lar... we were only joking...
Yeah.... anyway today's match was satisfying. For once all the goals I conceded were not my fault in any way. Although it has left some aftermath. Which include a bruise on my left thigh, an aching right thumb, and a concussed brain.
But it was fun! Hope that we can do it again soon. Minus the injuries, of course.
Today went back to St. John after school. And after St. John we played soccer. Long time we haven't played soccer with each other, due to a combination of a lack of balls (please think straight!), bad weather, lack of players, blarblarblar...
Hmmm... soccer... one of my favourite sports I suppose, but then again, one that I don't play very often. First played in primary school where I found out at that time that I hated it. For once the ball was heading straight for my face when I was sandwiched between two gigantic classmates (last time everyone was gigantic to me. Cos I was like a tiny kid. Strewth, in sec. 1 I was still 14-something cm okay!). The resulting impact sent my glasses flying across the field (because I didn't have the cow sense to shield my face properly) in a twisted mangled mess, and left me with bright flashes for about 5 sec. in my vision. From then on I hated playing soccer, and dodged away whenever the ball was struck. Which is stupid cos the ball is being struck all the time.
But in sec. 3 I came to a class where all the guys loved playing soccer. For me, it was sort of evolve-or-die kind of thing. So I played. And I decided curiously enough, that the safest place in the field to be was the goalkeeper. Why? Because I reasoned that I could use all four limbs to protect my face (I've been forever terrified that something would happen to my eyes). So I did... and I found that I liked it. Although it took me about 2 years to learn the various moves, punching the ball, catching with the W-formation of the hands, and the all important lateral dive, I improved slowly (until today I'm still highly inconsistent!). Especially during st. john, where you played while not under pressure. For one year I was the number 3 'keeper in my class, behind xiao quan and wei chao, and the number 1 'keeper for St. John.
There is something unique about being the goalkeeper. Because although you're in a team sport and must organize your defence blahblah, you also possess skills which are unique to you only. So you are kind of set apart from the rest. Just recalling a few memorable games we played in the past year:
St. John vs BB (Lost 7-2. Sorry lor, I was like inexperienced)
St. John vs NCC/Scouts combined (Won 11-2)
During farewell 2004, the NCOs even gave me a pair of goalkeeper gloves to use... Haha... they didn't fit all that well, but I've used them, and they're seriously not bad =)
So today we played again, against BB. Wei Lun, me, Xuan Ming and his team. Don't ask me how the match went. But today was a nasty reminder about a goalkeeper's occupational hazards. I HATE the boys' brigade's long range fast balls. The game started well enough. Within the first 5 minute they already breached our defence and fired a shot that happily was badly kicked, so I managed to secure it just as it rolled past. The next came when one of the opponents lashed a fierce shot from the centre line of the the street soccer court. Fully extending in a lateral dive, i stopped the shot successfully, and whacked my pelvis into the floor at the same time. No wonder soccer is played on grass.
Lets say that their scoring was a matter of time. In a 2 to 1 attack on our goal, I got faked and a tap-in made the score 1-0. Then came the *ahem* best part of the game.
Two things happened within minutes of each other. The first was in a one to one situation. I came off my line n tackled the attacker, kicking the ball from under his feet while keeping my body in my semicircle. So he fell on top of me sort of, and hit my elbow very violently. Which is actually not bad. I recall in one of the first games I played, an attacker marked by a defender was running towards my goal. I tackled my own teammate by mistake, who fell on top of me leaving us all very dazed, while the attacker had all the time in the world to gently roll in his shot.
The next was even better. A through ball from the other side placed an attacker right in front of my goal with no defenders to guard. So desperation for desperation, I dived at his feet even as he kicked at the ball. The result was that he missed (luckily he was barefooted) and I took the blow in the right mandible of the chin.
I don't mind telling you that my vision turned black and white, following which I took a short trip through the constellation and saw a lot of stars. Yeah. But I stopped the ball. In retropect that was extremely stupid, cos it is not worth it to get your spectacles stove into your eyes just to guard one ball. But honestly, I thought that the attacker would give up since he saw the goalkeeper with his body already wrapped around the ball.
Yeah... can't really remember the rest of the match, except that we missed a FABULOUS opportunity when xuan ming faked the opposing keeper into a dive that left his goal open. From 2m away from the goal Kok Keng proceeded to send the ball whizzing over the goal post. Boy, all the seniors immediately started threatening to demote him... haha.... no lar... we were only joking...
Yeah.... anyway today's match was satisfying. For once all the goals I conceded were not my fault in any way. Although it has left some aftermath. Which include a bruise on my left thigh, an aching right thumb, and a concussed brain.
But it was fun! Hope that we can do it again soon. Minus the injuries, of course.
~JcZw~ at 10:40 pm
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Oh man... haven't written anything for a few days, and so many things have happened in them too... But on the other hand, a lot of things happen in VJC... haha.... which is what makes it great anyway.... I've harped on that so many times already.
A post dedicated to 12 very special people. From a very special class. With a very special chromosome combination.
14 February 2005
A day that will have to be counted as one of the most memorable in JC, whether I stay in VJ or not.
Friendship Day, or, as others prefer to call it, Valentine's Day.
We were aware of it. Mainly because from the odd reminder from the odd girl (to be exact, in my memory, one very pretty one =Pp). So for the weekend we had worked. From cross country to monday, most of the guys were tying friendship bands, buying roses and ribbons, or helping to draw cards. The cards in question... each one had a very unique history behind it... By sunday night we were all done. Everyone was tired, but satisfied. It might interest female OSSIS readers that some of their cards came very close to disaster at my hands =X
Monday morning was one of the most exciting I've every had in school, dodging around after assembly trying to think of how to present the stuff to them. We were seen though.... haha.... Prap appeared so fast that we were staring stupidly at her for a short time before we took evasive action.
But we were not the only ones who had done stuff. Oh no. Others had put in effort. Probably much more than we did.
Because in these situations there seems to be nothing that guys can do that girls can't surpass, let alone equal. I'm sure many XX chromosomed homo sapiens would agree with me there.
Presents literally poured in from all over. I use the analogy of water because my bag was kind of overflowing with them. Flowers, sweets, exquisitely decorated cards, the odd brownie, chewing gum, paper hearts, home-made cookies. Each neatly arranged, folded, made, baked (continue to find more adjectives). I don't know how to describe what I felt (Seems I don't know how to describe a lot of emotions. I use this line a lot. But its true). I think the emotion was a sense of belonging, of being a unique individual to this class. With it was a reassurance that it was in this class where I could find friends. Not because of the presents. But the sincerity and the obvious effort that they put in touched me beyond measure =)
We finally gave out ours during the break. The fatigue and the effort of the past weekend was more than worth it to see the faces of the girls during the break. I think they reflected what we ourselves had been feeling. It was just pleasant to see everyone happy. It made our class feel more bonded than ever.
And came one of the best gifts I can remember receiving. After Bio tuitorial, the girls read a speech and sang a song for us! Haha.... oh man, our flowers etc seemed to pale in the wake of this. Its very hard to write about these things... Some of the best gifts can only be retained in memory, and cannot really be written down. Oh man! So touched by them lar... I think the class girls are really fantastic (I know a few of them who would say "of course!" ;) )
Seriously, thanks so much for the wonderful day and even more so the better memories you all gave us on monday. I really think that you all are fantastic classmates! And to the person that baked the cookies for us, thanks so much for that too! They tasted quite nice =) you can be assured of that.
Yeah. The day rounded off with going for class lunch at East Coast Macdonalds. Although I had to leave early due to CCA.
To: Li Ling, Dawn, Stella, Xun-Ai, Dory, Pei En, Trina, Po Ying, Vibha Jia Min, Geraldine, Prap: The feeling that we have the best classmates in the world is mutual. No matter how nonsensical or whatever I may sound in school, but seriously, thanks so much for all the stuff you all did for us! As we wrote in the cards, really hope our class can stay intact and repeat this again next year! You ppl are the best!
Happy *belated* friendship day!
OSSIS rulez!
A post dedicated to 12 very special people. From a very special class. With a very special chromosome combination.
14 February 2005
A day that will have to be counted as one of the most memorable in JC, whether I stay in VJ or not.
Friendship Day, or, as others prefer to call it, Valentine's Day.
We were aware of it. Mainly because from the odd reminder from the odd girl (to be exact, in my memory, one very pretty one =Pp). So for the weekend we had worked. From cross country to monday, most of the guys were tying friendship bands, buying roses and ribbons, or helping to draw cards. The cards in question... each one had a very unique history behind it... By sunday night we were all done. Everyone was tired, but satisfied. It might interest female OSSIS readers that some of their cards came very close to disaster at my hands =X
Monday morning was one of the most exciting I've every had in school, dodging around after assembly trying to think of how to present the stuff to them. We were seen though.... haha.... Prap appeared so fast that we were staring stupidly at her for a short time before we took evasive action.
But we were not the only ones who had done stuff. Oh no. Others had put in effort. Probably much more than we did.
Because in these situations there seems to be nothing that guys can do that girls can't surpass, let alone equal. I'm sure many XX chromosomed homo sapiens would agree with me there.
Presents literally poured in from all over. I use the analogy of water because my bag was kind of overflowing with them. Flowers, sweets, exquisitely decorated cards, the odd brownie, chewing gum, paper hearts, home-made cookies. Each neatly arranged, folded, made, baked (continue to find more adjectives). I don't know how to describe what I felt (Seems I don't know how to describe a lot of emotions. I use this line a lot. But its true). I think the emotion was a sense of belonging, of being a unique individual to this class. With it was a reassurance that it was in this class where I could find friends. Not because of the presents. But the sincerity and the obvious effort that they put in touched me beyond measure =)
We finally gave out ours during the break. The fatigue and the effort of the past weekend was more than worth it to see the faces of the girls during the break. I think they reflected what we ourselves had been feeling. It was just pleasant to see everyone happy. It made our class feel more bonded than ever.
And came one of the best gifts I can remember receiving. After Bio tuitorial, the girls read a speech and sang a song for us! Haha.... oh man, our flowers etc seemed to pale in the wake of this. Its very hard to write about these things... Some of the best gifts can only be retained in memory, and cannot really be written down. Oh man! So touched by them lar... I think the class girls are really fantastic (I know a few of them who would say "of course!" ;) )
Seriously, thanks so much for the wonderful day and even more so the better memories you all gave us on monday. I really think that you all are fantastic classmates! And to the person that baked the cookies for us, thanks so much for that too! They tasted quite nice =) you can be assured of that.
Yeah. The day rounded off with going for class lunch at East Coast Macdonalds. Although I had to leave early due to CCA.
To: Li Ling, Dawn, Stella, Xun-Ai, Dory, Pei En, Trina, Po Ying, Vibha Jia Min, Geraldine, Prap: The feeling that we have the best classmates in the world is mutual. No matter how nonsensical or whatever I may sound in school, but seriously, thanks so much for all the stuff you all did for us! As we wrote in the cards, really hope our class can stay intact and repeat this again next year! You ppl are the best!
Happy *belated* friendship day!
OSSIS rulez!
~JcZw~ at 6:18 pm
Friday, February 11, 2005
This is the second entry I’m writing for cross country. Where’s the first one, you might ask. I don’t know. Ask the computer. I wrote it when I came home and the computer went and wiped it out. I was so disgusted that I immediately did what I came home to do – sleep. Anyway, this one will probably making more sense rather than the ramblings of a half awake, aching poor old nut of a fuzzball.
Today was cross country. Like duh, I said that just now. Came to school, slung my bag into the locker. Went to meet the OSSIS people. Assembly as per normal, then into the run proper. The girls, according to tradition, ran first. We guys were hanging around the start line waiting to see them off. Whoo… almost missed them, saw them only at the last minute. Their departure came, and it was an amazing sight to see I don’t know how many hundreds of people running for the gate, all in different colours.
The first girl came back so fast that she scared us, left the guys gaping in astonishment. The rest filed in soon after, about 15 minutes? on average after the start. Trina was the first girl in our class to arrive. Prap and Li Ling arrived soon after. Not bad what, our class girls came in relatively fast. Everyone arrived within the first half of the runners. All our class girls did well yeah =)
Next was our turn. We started at the 400m track of which we had to cover one round before we started the route at east coast. At the starting cue, my thought processes began to flow past in the following manner:
Ears: Starting horn detected
Brain: Legs, keep running until you’ve covered 4.8 km, no stopping
Eyes: Outside of the track. Legs will have to work more to keep up
Brain: Speed up slightly if you want to keep up. Reaching end of track
Ears: Detect people cheering for you. Sounds like the OSSIS ppl.
Brain: No distraction, don’t look
Eyes: Tracking competitor coming close behind. Close up the gap
Digestive system: Nausea! Nausea! Slow down, too fast
Legs: Slowing, slowing
Eyes: Out of the gate, along the pavement. Track too narrow
Brain: Onto the grass now
Eyes: LAMPOST! EVASIVE NOW!
Legs: Swerving. That was a close one, ankle nearly had it there
Brain: $^^&(*#&^!!!!!!
Legs: Grass to uneven. Nearly sprained the ankles a few times already
Brain: Back to the pavement. Speed is good, maintain maintain
Eyes: Overhead bridge coming up
Legs: s***
Brain: Maintain speed
Legs: You think lactic acid very easy to counter one arh
Brain: Whatever. Maintain speed.
Eyes: Tracking distance. Overtake now.
Brain: Take advantage of everyone slowing down
Eyes: Down the bridge. Along the path
Legs: The last run was too tiring
Eyes: No spots
Lungs: No breathlessness
Digestive: No nausea
Brain: Not tired, continue. Focus on the next lamppost. Just concentrate on running to the next lamppost
Eyes: Round the pond, upslope
Legs: Tiring, maintaining speed is not easy.
Brain: Slacken off if you wish.
Eyes: People overtaking. Maintain speed if you want to keep your position
Ears: More people closing behind. Footsteps detected
Eyes: Oh boy. They are close
Legs: Sighz, speeding up
Eyes: Along costa sands. Not long now. Endure
Brain: Report fatigue status?
Eyes: No spots
Lungs: No breathlessness
Digestive: No nausea
Brain: Not tired, continue. The problem of being a first-aider is that you become hypochondriactic.
Eyes: Back to the bridge now
Legs: S***!!!!
Legs: PANT PANT PANT!
Eyes: Down the bridge
Brain: Not long now. Endure
Ears: Detect Phoenix people cheering…
Eyes: Looks like its Sheen Yee n friends….
Brain: Haha, thanks! Legs, just a final effort, round the corner
Eyes: Geraldine and Li Ling
Ears: Cheering
Lungs: No breath to reply, continue
Legs: Not much more to give. Can’t move any faster
Brain: Open up your stride?
Legs: Trying, trying, not easy
Eyes: Dawn Xunai, Prap, finishing line
Ears: Behind behind, warning warning
Eyes: Green. Its Lynx and a year 2 to boot
Legs: I’m trying!
Eyes: He’s past
Brain: Across the finish. We’re done
That’s about how my brain worked, in disjointed, incoherent bits. I’m not bluffing. When you’re running the heat does funny things to you. I neglect the part that after the run I felt like emptying the contents of my alimentary canal, but luckily I didn’t. Went back to the gate to sit with the girls.
The boys in the class streamed in over the next 20 minutes. Apparently my position was 127, the first in the class, and the same position as Trina’s had been…haha….
We registered our positions, and then there was mass dancing. Again. I nearly dislocated my shoulder while cheering. At the “It’s Victoria! Yeah” after the “Yo VJC” cheer, when we punched the air, I distinctly felt my shoulder go “Click clack”. Ouch.’
We had lucky draw (no one from OSSIS won anything though), and prize presentation. The top 2 runners from the girls and the top runner from the guys were all from Phoenix! Haha.. On the other hand we didn’t win the champion house cos mebbe our average was too high. Haha… what does it matter, everyone still did really well…
After the whole thing ended, then OSSIS went to TM to watch movie… I followed them to TM but didn’t go for the movie… I was like really tired…. So went home to type in the blog, got it wiped out, n went to sleep as I’ve mentioned.
Yeah…. An eventful day, and I don’t need to say that it left a lasting euphoric effect on me, even though I was tired…. =Pp… VJ really rulez! OSSIS also… haha….
Today was cross country. Like duh, I said that just now. Came to school, slung my bag into the locker. Went to meet the OSSIS people. Assembly as per normal, then into the run proper. The girls, according to tradition, ran first. We guys were hanging around the start line waiting to see them off. Whoo… almost missed them, saw them only at the last minute. Their departure came, and it was an amazing sight to see I don’t know how many hundreds of people running for the gate, all in different colours.
The first girl came back so fast that she scared us, left the guys gaping in astonishment. The rest filed in soon after, about 15 minutes? on average after the start. Trina was the first girl in our class to arrive. Prap and Li Ling arrived soon after. Not bad what, our class girls came in relatively fast. Everyone arrived within the first half of the runners. All our class girls did well yeah =)
Next was our turn. We started at the 400m track of which we had to cover one round before we started the route at east coast. At the starting cue, my thought processes began to flow past in the following manner:
Ears: Starting horn detected
Brain: Legs, keep running until you’ve covered 4.8 km, no stopping
Eyes: Outside of the track. Legs will have to work more to keep up
Brain: Speed up slightly if you want to keep up. Reaching end of track
Ears: Detect people cheering for you. Sounds like the OSSIS ppl.
Brain: No distraction, don’t look
Eyes: Tracking competitor coming close behind. Close up the gap
Digestive system: Nausea! Nausea! Slow down, too fast
Legs: Slowing, slowing
Eyes: Out of the gate, along the pavement. Track too narrow
Brain: Onto the grass now
Eyes: LAMPOST! EVASIVE NOW!
Legs: Swerving. That was a close one, ankle nearly had it there
Brain: $^^&(*#&^!!!!!!
Legs: Grass to uneven. Nearly sprained the ankles a few times already
Brain: Back to the pavement. Speed is good, maintain maintain
Eyes: Overhead bridge coming up
Legs: s***
Brain: Maintain speed
Legs: You think lactic acid very easy to counter one arh
Brain: Whatever. Maintain speed.
Eyes: Tracking distance. Overtake now.
Brain: Take advantage of everyone slowing down
Eyes: Down the bridge. Along the path
Legs: The last run was too tiring
Eyes: No spots
Lungs: No breathlessness
Digestive: No nausea
Brain: Not tired, continue. Focus on the next lamppost. Just concentrate on running to the next lamppost
Eyes: Round the pond, upslope
Legs: Tiring, maintaining speed is not easy.
Brain: Slacken off if you wish.
Eyes: People overtaking. Maintain speed if you want to keep your position
Ears: More people closing behind. Footsteps detected
Eyes: Oh boy. They are close
Legs: Sighz, speeding up
Eyes: Along costa sands. Not long now. Endure
Brain: Report fatigue status?
Eyes: No spots
Lungs: No breathlessness
Digestive: No nausea
Brain: Not tired, continue. The problem of being a first-aider is that you become hypochondriactic.
Eyes: Back to the bridge now
Legs: S***!!!!
Legs: PANT PANT PANT!
Eyes: Down the bridge
Brain: Not long now. Endure
Ears: Detect Phoenix people cheering…
Eyes: Looks like its Sheen Yee n friends….
Brain: Haha, thanks! Legs, just a final effort, round the corner
Eyes: Geraldine and Li Ling
Ears: Cheering
Lungs: No breath to reply, continue
Legs: Not much more to give. Can’t move any faster
Brain: Open up your stride?
Legs: Trying, trying, not easy
Eyes: Dawn Xunai, Prap, finishing line
Ears: Behind behind, warning warning
Eyes: Green. Its Lynx and a year 2 to boot
Legs: I’m trying!
Eyes: He’s past
Brain: Across the finish. We’re done
That’s about how my brain worked, in disjointed, incoherent bits. I’m not bluffing. When you’re running the heat does funny things to you. I neglect the part that after the run I felt like emptying the contents of my alimentary canal, but luckily I didn’t. Went back to the gate to sit with the girls.
The boys in the class streamed in over the next 20 minutes. Apparently my position was 127, the first in the class, and the same position as Trina’s had been…haha….
We registered our positions, and then there was mass dancing. Again. I nearly dislocated my shoulder while cheering. At the “It’s Victoria! Yeah” after the “Yo VJC” cheer, when we punched the air, I distinctly felt my shoulder go “Click clack”. Ouch.’
We had lucky draw (no one from OSSIS won anything though), and prize presentation. The top 2 runners from the girls and the top runner from the guys were all from Phoenix! Haha.. On the other hand we didn’t win the champion house cos mebbe our average was too high. Haha… what does it matter, everyone still did really well…
After the whole thing ended, then OSSIS went to TM to watch movie… I followed them to TM but didn’t go for the movie… I was like really tired…. So went home to type in the blog, got it wiped out, n went to sleep as I’ve mentioned.
Yeah…. An eventful day, and I don’t need to say that it left a lasting euphoric effect on me, even though I was tired…. =Pp… VJ really rulez! OSSIS also… haha….
~JcZw~ at 11:40 pm
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Okay! CNY is tomorrow. So today we had all the celebrations n all that.
Went to VJ at ard 7.27. Earlier than normal by about 3 minutes. I spent the night thinking about mass dance and about the sorting of the partners thing. Somehow I didn't think that whatever we said would be able to be stuck to when we really started dancing.
CNY celebrations was quite okay. The performances themselves that is. But the moment I stepped into the hall I had a sudden and extremly painful bout of stomach ache. Usually the kind of stomach ache induced by a collection of stomach gases. Whatever. Had to gasp my way through the national anthem and pledge.
As mentioned, the performances were good. The dikir barat one, although a bit tedious, had really funny bits inside. Dance was performed by year 1 members and really came off quite well. CO etcetc put up the usual stuff. Then there was also an orange-eating competition (now I know where Li Ling's oranges went). Simultaneously was a 春联 drawing competition by the non-chinese stuff. Really amusing I guess. Although I couldn't see the humour in it at that time because of stomach pain.
OH! The wushu team was fantastic! espcially the girl wielding the short sword and morning star. She twirled the mace so fast that it looked like the asteroids orbiting Saturn. How to describe? You must see it for yourself to really appreciate. There was also another guy who could do splits, high kicks etcetc. I remember that in AH a certain party (NOT ME) tried to conduct a high kick and ended up splitting his pants from end to end (not wei lun either).
What can we say? Phoenix won the overall competition for the day. Haha... our house rulez! Cos it has 05S15 inside? hahahah... oh man... that sounds so much like my pretty classmate =)) Yup. But we did. Didn't win anything for the banner though, but it didn't lack for anything when compared with the other banners. Woohoo! Credit to Dawn, Desmond, Po Ying etcetc ( <-- That is, the whole class lar, but the three of them really were important) for making it what it is.
Then the moment we had been waiting for:
When the performances ended everyone was just straining for the expected mass dance. We were not disappointed. The moment the words "Hold it stranger" rapped out of the PA system, hundreds of students fairly leapt to their feet in excitment. Never in our entire history has OSSIS formed a circle so quickly before =Pp. Whiney Whiney, Tribal, La Bamba, Neutron, Friendship and finally I Want You were played one by one. Hmmm.. realised that doing up-down-kick-down with a stomach ache is not very funny actually. But it was fun! haha... unique to VJ indeed. I managed to find Li Ling for friendship dance anyway... Hmmm.... ChuaH said that he got traumatised? haha... maybe Dawn was just too tall... Oh man... after all that staring at the mass dance things last night I only could remember how to dance friendship, neutron and whiney whiney. I'm still thoroughly blur at I want you.
Dances and cheers flowed past in that 20 min, or was it half an hour? What did it matter, everyone was having fun =) There's something about shouting [It's] "Victoria!" together that brings a rush of blood to the brain. There's something about every member of VJC causing the hall to shake and the window panes to rattle that causes adrenaline to surge like the waves on the coast not 400m away. Its like everyone in the hall was of one mind, coordinated together in one entity. Wow.
After recovering from the rush of euphoria I managed to recover from my stomach ache, rendevous with the other Anglicaners and return back to AH. As the crow flies, AH isn't far from VJ. Unfortunately as Singapore's LTA travels, it took 45 minutes. By the time we had reached everyone had left or was leaving. Saw wong li ting and ying min, karen and viki, jasmin and sock hwee on the way in. Few teachers were still there... although I saw Ms Ow and Mr Peach. No others though. Wanted to find Mrs Ong, Ms Chan CL and all the chinese teachers, but no go.. Sad.
Then. We started dancing again. In the AHS concourse. Well, no one was there, everyone had left school already. So while the sec. school students went back to re-occupy their primary schools then we re-occupied our sec. school. Hahaha.... Led by Zu Hao we danced Whiney^2, I want you, Neutron. yeah. Haha... The TJCians also danced theirs. Then both sides cheered for their own JCs... It finally culminated in everyone cheering their different college cheers for AHS as well as singing our school song. Which we have kind of forgotten, since, as Anglicaners would know, we have *ahem* 2 school songs? Haha... if we ever get a roadshow back to Anglican High like our seniors last year we are going to dance again. For the school. Maybe during recess? hahaha.... hope so... more people must come to VJ...
After everything was over I went out with the 4F people... ZhengXi, John, Kan Yu, Qi Xin, Janice, Fu Jing and were later joined by Yun Hong. Gerald tagged along until we'd reached TM before breaking off to join 4K which was apparently kicking about somewhere also. Yup. Saw a few Mt K people on the way... Aloysius, Natalia, n erm... Vanessa, yeah... The "are you okay" girl.. haha... Ate at cartel, walked about a bit and came back.
Yup. Fun I guess.... now being hit my terrible sense of anti-climax... its like being brought back to earth suddenly, confronted with the fact that o-level results are like 3 weeks away. Times passes so fast. So do we have 22 months left in VJ? or 3 weeks? I'd rather not know. But no matter what happens, rest assured that in these few months I've found the best classmates that I can recall in recent times. "S15 S15! Yeah!" hahaha.... Seriously... I don't know what my reaction would be if I knew that I or any other member of our class would leave.
Because everyone in the class is unique, and provides a certain aspect of ossis that wouldn't be there otherwise. Would you tear away a portion of what seems to be part of your life for such a long time? (even though its only been a month and 7 days) Really hope everyone stays yep. Stays in ossis.
Funny and sombre way to end a post that started so cheerfully isn't it? I don't know. Maybe I'll just leave everything to God. Things are much less complicated that way.
Yup. Thats all for now... Happy CNY guys!
Oh, n get well soon to: Stella, Xuan Ming, Desmond, Jia Min, Melissa, Jin Hao
Went to VJ at ard 7.27. Earlier than normal by about 3 minutes. I spent the night thinking about mass dance and about the sorting of the partners thing. Somehow I didn't think that whatever we said would be able to be stuck to when we really started dancing.
CNY celebrations was quite okay. The performances themselves that is. But the moment I stepped into the hall I had a sudden and extremly painful bout of stomach ache. Usually the kind of stomach ache induced by a collection of stomach gases. Whatever. Had to gasp my way through the national anthem and pledge.
As mentioned, the performances were good. The dikir barat one, although a bit tedious, had really funny bits inside. Dance was performed by year 1 members and really came off quite well. CO etcetc put up the usual stuff. Then there was also an orange-eating competition (now I know where Li Ling's oranges went). Simultaneously was a 春联 drawing competition by the non-chinese stuff. Really amusing I guess. Although I couldn't see the humour in it at that time because of stomach pain.
OH! The wushu team was fantastic! espcially the girl wielding the short sword and morning star. She twirled the mace so fast that it looked like the asteroids orbiting Saturn. How to describe? You must see it for yourself to really appreciate. There was also another guy who could do splits, high kicks etcetc. I remember that in AH a certain party (NOT ME) tried to conduct a high kick and ended up splitting his pants from end to end (not wei lun either).
What can we say? Phoenix won the overall competition for the day. Haha... our house rulez! Cos it has 05S15 inside? hahahah... oh man... that sounds so much like my pretty classmate =)) Yup. But we did. Didn't win anything for the banner though, but it didn't lack for anything when compared with the other banners. Woohoo! Credit to Dawn, Desmond, Po Ying etcetc ( <-- That is, the whole class lar, but the three of them really were important) for making it what it is.
Then the moment we had been waiting for:
When the performances ended everyone was just straining for the expected mass dance. We were not disappointed. The moment the words "Hold it stranger" rapped out of the PA system, hundreds of students fairly leapt to their feet in excitment. Never in our entire history has OSSIS formed a circle so quickly before =Pp. Whiney Whiney, Tribal, La Bamba, Neutron, Friendship and finally I Want You were played one by one. Hmmm.. realised that doing up-down-kick-down with a stomach ache is not very funny actually. But it was fun! haha... unique to VJ indeed. I managed to find Li Ling for friendship dance anyway... Hmmm.... ChuaH said that he got traumatised? haha... maybe Dawn was just too tall... Oh man... after all that staring at the mass dance things last night I only could remember how to dance friendship, neutron and whiney whiney. I'm still thoroughly blur at I want you.
Dances and cheers flowed past in that 20 min, or was it half an hour? What did it matter, everyone was having fun =) There's something about shouting [It's] "Victoria!" together that brings a rush of blood to the brain. There's something about every member of VJC causing the hall to shake and the window panes to rattle that causes adrenaline to surge like the waves on the coast not 400m away. Its like everyone in the hall was of one mind, coordinated together in one entity. Wow.
After recovering from the rush of euphoria I managed to recover from my stomach ache, rendevous with the other Anglicaners and return back to AH. As the crow flies, AH isn't far from VJ. Unfortunately as Singapore's LTA travels, it took 45 minutes. By the time we had reached everyone had left or was leaving. Saw wong li ting and ying min, karen and viki, jasmin and sock hwee on the way in. Few teachers were still there... although I saw Ms Ow and Mr Peach. No others though. Wanted to find Mrs Ong, Ms Chan CL and all the chinese teachers, but no go.. Sad.
Then. We started dancing again. In the AHS concourse. Well, no one was there, everyone had left school already. So while the sec. school students went back to re-occupy their primary schools then we re-occupied our sec. school. Hahaha.... Led by Zu Hao we danced Whiney^2, I want you, Neutron. yeah. Haha... The TJCians also danced theirs. Then both sides cheered for their own JCs... It finally culminated in everyone cheering their different college cheers for AHS as well as singing our school song. Which we have kind of forgotten, since, as Anglicaners would know, we have *ahem* 2 school songs? Haha... if we ever get a roadshow back to Anglican High like our seniors last year we are going to dance again. For the school. Maybe during recess? hahaha.... hope so... more people must come to VJ...
After everything was over I went out with the 4F people... ZhengXi, John, Kan Yu, Qi Xin, Janice, Fu Jing and were later joined by Yun Hong. Gerald tagged along until we'd reached TM before breaking off to join 4K which was apparently kicking about somewhere also. Yup. Saw a few Mt K people on the way... Aloysius, Natalia, n erm... Vanessa, yeah... The "are you okay" girl.. haha... Ate at cartel, walked about a bit and came back.
Yup. Fun I guess.... now being hit my terrible sense of anti-climax... its like being brought back to earth suddenly, confronted with the fact that o-level results are like 3 weeks away. Times passes so fast. So do we have 22 months left in VJ? or 3 weeks? I'd rather not know. But no matter what happens, rest assured that in these few months I've found the best classmates that I can recall in recent times. "S15 S15! Yeah!" hahaha.... Seriously... I don't know what my reaction would be if I knew that I or any other member of our class would leave.
Because everyone in the class is unique, and provides a certain aspect of ossis that wouldn't be there otherwise. Would you tear away a portion of what seems to be part of your life for such a long time? (even though its only been a month and 7 days) Really hope everyone stays yep. Stays in ossis.
Funny and sombre way to end a post that started so cheerfully isn't it? I don't know. Maybe I'll just leave everything to God. Things are much less complicated that way.
Yup. Thats all for now... Happy CNY guys!
Oh, n get well soon to: Stella, Xuan Ming, Desmond, Jia Min, Melissa, Jin Hao
~JcZw~ at 8:11 pm
Saturday, February 05, 2005
I really love S15
Really
Totally
Haha
Yesterday we had STJ... which is like very rare, cos usually seniors would not treat their juniors. But we had that yesterday... haha.... Stayed in school and played captain's ball, basketball, H2O until 7 plus. Quite a number of people were there.... desmond, kenneth, vibha, keefe, gerald big, pei en, trina, xun ai, dory, po ying, chuah, stella, dawn... me... jia min was there but she left early... If there was anyone else who was there then i didn't mention, then sorry about that =S
To clear up some stuff, contrary to popular belief, I am NOT so clumsy as to keep "falling down". Its simply an instinct to keep low. As the fencing people say, the attack from below is one of the most unexpected aspects. Yeah, thats correct, unfortunately sometimes I'm just too low okay? Which is why I ended up bashing my knee against the ground. That added to the fact that I didn't really eat lunch added up to people asking me "Are you okay?". Yupz, I am =) thanks for your concern... haha....
Stella didn't do anything to me the whole day! Haha... I think I've escaped her influence... haha... jkjjkjkjkjk
Yeah, then we went to esplanade park... I slept for most of the journey there... Then we ate, talked, sang (OASIS sang a song to us... haha). Discovered that Lionel has a veryy nice voice... n he like knows the phantom of the opera songs by heart? I introduced him to the phantom of the toilet bowl song. At this time, Jonathan ChuaH has just told me that I nearly killed him with it. Apparently it causes temperature to drop. Haha... looks like many people in our class likes to sing....
Then we were doing this thing where we walk along the esplanade park n suddenly point upwards at the sky... we were trying to get other people to stare at us but i think no one did...
Left there at 10 30? with stella, dawn, xun ai, derek, chuah, dory, desmond. All of them were taking bus or MRT to the west side... mores the pity... so went home with ben, greg n jonathan ho from the senior class... haha....
THANKS SENIORS! You guys are really great =) yup! got to know a few more of you by sight already... before that i think i could only recognize maryann n celine n ian n benjamin... haha...
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Ooohoo.... today I went to help dory paint her SC banner together with stella, li ling, desmond, lionel, ian. Discovered that the VJ gate closes very early, so locked my bike in school, chucked my helmet in my locker n ran cross country home. Ran really slow.. well, too bad, there were traffic lights as well as I hadn't had my lunch yet. Anyone who says I didn't prepare for cross country run is gonna get whacked in the nose with the sharp end of my uncapped pen.
Went to the fencing competition (Under-20 National Junior Championship). To support my seniors. Some of them did really well in the prelim round... Hong Mun, the captain was top seed of his group lor. But left at 6 cos needed to go somewhere with my family.
Made a few new friends... Morris? (if thats the way its spelt?) from VS, Mark from Ngee Ann Sec I think, and Michelle, from TKGS, who also has a bit of fencing background... WHoo, she trained as a foilist also! Haha.... Saw Coach Jeff there.. he said "hi" yeah. Yup... its nice to get to know more people anyway...
Yar.. went out with my family to the city... ate some italian thingy then went back home...
Yup, an eventful two days alright!
I definitely have a lot of reason to stay in VJ! haha
Really
Totally
Haha
Yesterday we had STJ... which is like very rare, cos usually seniors would not treat their juniors. But we had that yesterday... haha.... Stayed in school and played captain's ball, basketball, H2O until 7 plus. Quite a number of people were there.... desmond, kenneth, vibha, keefe, gerald big, pei en, trina, xun ai, dory, po ying, chuah, stella, dawn... me... jia min was there but she left early... If there was anyone else who was there then i didn't mention, then sorry about that =S
To clear up some stuff, contrary to popular belief, I am NOT so clumsy as to keep "falling down". Its simply an instinct to keep low. As the fencing people say, the attack from below is one of the most unexpected aspects. Yeah, thats correct, unfortunately sometimes I'm just too low okay? Which is why I ended up bashing my knee against the ground. That added to the fact that I didn't really eat lunch added up to people asking me "Are you okay?". Yupz, I am =) thanks for your concern... haha....
Stella didn't do anything to me the whole day! Haha... I think I've escaped her influence... haha... jkjjkjkjkjk
Yeah, then we went to esplanade park... I slept for most of the journey there... Then we ate, talked, sang (OASIS sang a song to us... haha). Discovered that Lionel has a veryy nice voice... n he like knows the phantom of the opera songs by heart? I introduced him to the phantom of the toilet bowl song. At this time, Jonathan ChuaH has just told me that I nearly killed him with it. Apparently it causes temperature to drop. Haha... looks like many people in our class likes to sing....
Then we were doing this thing where we walk along the esplanade park n suddenly point upwards at the sky... we were trying to get other people to stare at us but i think no one did...
Left there at 10 30? with stella, dawn, xun ai, derek, chuah, dory, desmond. All of them were taking bus or MRT to the west side... mores the pity... so went home with ben, greg n jonathan ho from the senior class... haha....
THANKS SENIORS! You guys are really great =) yup! got to know a few more of you by sight already... before that i think i could only recognize maryann n celine n ian n benjamin... haha...
____________________________________________________________________
Ooohoo.... today I went to help dory paint her SC banner together with stella, li ling, desmond, lionel, ian. Discovered that the VJ gate closes very early, so locked my bike in school, chucked my helmet in my locker n ran cross country home. Ran really slow.. well, too bad, there were traffic lights as well as I hadn't had my lunch yet. Anyone who says I didn't prepare for cross country run is gonna get whacked in the nose with the sharp end of my uncapped pen.
Went to the fencing competition (Under-20 National Junior Championship). To support my seniors. Some of them did really well in the prelim round... Hong Mun, the captain was top seed of his group lor. But left at 6 cos needed to go somewhere with my family.
Made a few new friends... Morris? (if thats the way its spelt?) from VS, Mark from Ngee Ann Sec I think, and Michelle, from TKGS, who also has a bit of fencing background... WHoo, she trained as a foilist also! Haha.... Saw Coach Jeff there.. he said "hi" yeah. Yup... its nice to get to know more people anyway...
Yar.. went out with my family to the city... ate some italian thingy then went back home...
Yup, an eventful two days alright!
I definitely have a lot of reason to stay in VJ! haha
~JcZw~ at 10:25 pm
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Some time ago someone told me that for exercising, one should exercise one day, rest, then exercise another day. That is, on alternate days.
Unfortunately I didn't conform to this. Neither for that matter, did VJC. haha
Run on monday, fencing on monday, run on tuesday, fencing on tuesday. My lower right limb is now in a state of severe muscle contraction and feels that it would detach itself from the body under the slightest provocation. Haha... although I kind of love running and fencing anyway.
My running is getting sort of better, n I finished not too badly in the runs over the two days (although I should have done better if it weren't for a bolt of nausea in the final 200m of the monday run).
Fencing too. Coach Jeff has started to teach me how to use the epee as well, as preparation for fencing in VJ (which I will definitely take up if I can remain in VJC, which I hope I can). The problem with epee is that there is no priority, no right-of-way rule and so unless you possess technique and timing, people with height disadvantage are likely to be killed very badly (like me). There are no parries, no ripostes. Just attacks and stop hits. Yup. Very different from the foil. And much heavier too.
Oh yeah. Met some new people at the fencing school. A guy called wei yang from RJC, same age as me. I fenced with him, thinking that we'll be evenly matched. Unfortunately, he had been fencing for 4 years, while I had only been in the sport for 1/2 year. Secondly he was a LEFT HANDER. Boy, did that GP passage come back to haunt me.
The problem was that both of us didn't know how to defend well, so we scored a lot, but also conceded a lot.
I lost 14-15. Oh man, I thought I had won somemore... but then apparently he parried my blade before the blow landed. Yup. But I was thinking that its not bad, considering the difference in experience. And I managed to pull off my first flick attack on his back as he fleche-d past me.
So much for physical exertion
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Mental exertion?
Not for me, but for others.
I know you all are tired... Maybe you all feel theres no point in doing what we have called upon you all to do.
But know this, the thing we are aiming for is coming very soon. We have managed to succeed in this in the past because of sheer hard work. I know that its not easy, that you all have a lot of work to do. But you all do have time. You all have managed it in the past. Other people have managed it in the past. You all CAN do it. Don't give up now just because you are tired, because you are sian or what.
Its not for us. Its for you all. Its for every member that is a part of this group. When you all leave like we have, do you all want to look upon this half a year as wasted just because you all slacked off at the last stage? Do you want your juniors to remember this as a year where we didn't win anything at all? Didn't win just because you all have given up?
Don't do this now. Its already the final stage in your battle that started late last year. If you can't do it for yourselves, do it for the school, for your friends, for your juniors and seniors.
I cannot express what I feel towards you all now. Its not anger, or sadness. Maybe just disappointment? Empathy? I know what you all feel like now, but there remains the point that we have managed to get through this before, so why can't it be done again now. You all are not weaker than us. All of us, both you all and us. We belong to a group which is not weak. Where the members help and support one another when we are down. We don't just crash together in one group and hope that some outside factor can pull us back up, because it can't.
I know many of you all have really tried your best now. Maybe you all have started to burnout. Who wouldn't? But don't give up, don't despair, not now anyway. You are still needed. Every single bit of your effort is a lifeline for the rest of us to be pulled back onto the course that we will have to take if our division is going to continue to exist.
I write this post in what may probably be a vain hope, that you all may continue to work hard. I have faith in you all. So do many of us still. Please, don't let us down. Okay? Not for our sakes, but for yours. Don't waste this one year of training. You will regret it. You will regret it. I can promise you that.
Please, continue to persevere. The division needs every single one of you, whether you are aware of it or not.
Unfortunately I didn't conform to this. Neither for that matter, did VJC. haha
Run on monday, fencing on monday, run on tuesday, fencing on tuesday. My lower right limb is now in a state of severe muscle contraction and feels that it would detach itself from the body under the slightest provocation. Haha... although I kind of love running and fencing anyway.
My running is getting sort of better, n I finished not too badly in the runs over the two days (although I should have done better if it weren't for a bolt of nausea in the final 200m of the monday run).
Fencing too. Coach Jeff has started to teach me how to use the epee as well, as preparation for fencing in VJ (which I will definitely take up if I can remain in VJC, which I hope I can). The problem with epee is that there is no priority, no right-of-way rule and so unless you possess technique and timing, people with height disadvantage are likely to be killed very badly (like me). There are no parries, no ripostes. Just attacks and stop hits. Yup. Very different from the foil. And much heavier too.
Oh yeah. Met some new people at the fencing school. A guy called wei yang from RJC, same age as me. I fenced with him, thinking that we'll be evenly matched. Unfortunately, he had been fencing for 4 years, while I had only been in the sport for 1/2 year. Secondly he was a LEFT HANDER. Boy, did that GP passage come back to haunt me.
The problem was that both of us didn't know how to defend well, so we scored a lot, but also conceded a lot.
I lost 14-15. Oh man, I thought I had won somemore... but then apparently he parried my blade before the blow landed. Yup. But I was thinking that its not bad, considering the difference in experience. And I managed to pull off my first flick attack on his back as he fleche-d past me.
So much for physical exertion
____________________________________________________________________
Mental exertion?
Not for me, but for others.
I know you all are tired... Maybe you all feel theres no point in doing what we have called upon you all to do.
But know this, the thing we are aiming for is coming very soon. We have managed to succeed in this in the past because of sheer hard work. I know that its not easy, that you all have a lot of work to do. But you all do have time. You all have managed it in the past. Other people have managed it in the past. You all CAN do it. Don't give up now just because you are tired, because you are sian or what.
Its not for us. Its for you all. Its for every member that is a part of this group. When you all leave like we have, do you all want to look upon this half a year as wasted just because you all slacked off at the last stage? Do you want your juniors to remember this as a year where we didn't win anything at all? Didn't win just because you all have given up?
Don't do this now. Its already the final stage in your battle that started late last year. If you can't do it for yourselves, do it for the school, for your friends, for your juniors and seniors.
I cannot express what I feel towards you all now. Its not anger, or sadness. Maybe just disappointment? Empathy? I know what you all feel like now, but there remains the point that we have managed to get through this before, so why can't it be done again now. You all are not weaker than us. All of us, both you all and us. We belong to a group which is not weak. Where the members help and support one another when we are down. We don't just crash together in one group and hope that some outside factor can pull us back up, because it can't.
I know many of you all have really tried your best now. Maybe you all have started to burnout. Who wouldn't? But don't give up, don't despair, not now anyway. You are still needed. Every single bit of your effort is a lifeline for the rest of us to be pulled back onto the course that we will have to take if our division is going to continue to exist.
I write this post in what may probably be a vain hope, that you all may continue to work hard. I have faith in you all. So do many of us still. Please, don't let us down. Okay? Not for our sakes, but for yours. Don't waste this one year of training. You will regret it. You will regret it. I can promise you that.
Please, continue to persevere. The division needs every single one of you, whether you are aware of it or not.
~JcZw~ at 8:47 pm