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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Well well... common tests are here... so we're look as though we're heading towards being killed slowly and painfully, by a multitude of remedials...
The AAR of the papers are as follows:
SPA: Well, given that we knew most of the stuff before going in, Skill CDs were neatly chewed up and spat out in the exam. The question for Skill A was also spotted successfully... But man, there is so little time! I reckon they're better off doing away with SPA... it only tests your handwriting and the muscles of your palms.
GP 1: was horrendous. I looked at the paper, did a double take, felt my heart beginning to systole-diastole faster, felt my adrenaline surge, and realised that none of the questions appealed to me. I settled for the censorship part, but I bet my scope's really limited, cos I don't know much about censorship other than in movies, and I don't watch TV much anyway (and that was a long sentence).
GP 2: A short toilet break allowed us to catch our collective breaths before we had to go in for the next paper. If Paper 1 was bad, Paper 2 was positively geard towards blowing your brain cells. I could literally feel them committing autotrophy at the sight of the cheem passages. And to cap it all, I didn't have time to finish summary (and since summary and AQ are my saving graces, thats pretty bad).
Bio: Spotted the wrong essay question. Totally demoralizing.. and a certain Bio teacher was pretty pleased that he stuck the wrong ideas in our heads... So my two best subjects are already out
Maths: Pretty ok, surprisingly... but my marks invariably vary inversely with my confidence level at the end of the paper (O-level HCL being one case in point, and promo Maths being the other)... given that I couldn't do ten-fourteenths of an integration question, I would be banking too much on it either.
Yup thats it so far
First Aid Duty this saturday at Victorians' Day.... So much for our feedback after Sea Reagatta that Tug-Of-War can be potentially lethal (not to mention dozens of lesser injuries), they're still having it... Right... so its time to dig up the latent skills of leading a first aid duty that I probably have left in the archives of my brain after St. John...
Well, back to physics then, lets see whether remedial helps for the papers...
The AAR of the papers are as follows:
SPA: Well, given that we knew most of the stuff before going in, Skill CDs were neatly chewed up and spat out in the exam. The question for Skill A was also spotted successfully... But man, there is so little time! I reckon they're better off doing away with SPA... it only tests your handwriting and the muscles of your palms.
GP 1: was horrendous. I looked at the paper, did a double take, felt my heart beginning to systole-diastole faster, felt my adrenaline surge, and realised that none of the questions appealed to me. I settled for the censorship part, but I bet my scope's really limited, cos I don't know much about censorship other than in movies, and I don't watch TV much anyway (and that was a long sentence).
GP 2: A short toilet break allowed us to catch our collective breaths before we had to go in for the next paper. If Paper 1 was bad, Paper 2 was positively geard towards blowing your brain cells. I could literally feel them committing autotrophy at the sight of the cheem passages. And to cap it all, I didn't have time to finish summary (and since summary and AQ are my saving graces, thats pretty bad).
Bio: Spotted the wrong essay question. Totally demoralizing.. and a certain Bio teacher was pretty pleased that he stuck the wrong ideas in our heads... So my two best subjects are already out
Maths: Pretty ok, surprisingly... but my marks invariably vary inversely with my confidence level at the end of the paper (O-level HCL being one case in point, and promo Maths being the other)... given that I couldn't do ten-fourteenths of an integration question, I would be banking too much on it either.
Yup thats it so far
First Aid Duty this saturday at Victorians' Day.... So much for our feedback after Sea Reagatta that Tug-Of-War can be potentially lethal (not to mention dozens of lesser injuries), they're still having it... Right... so its time to dig up the latent skills of leading a first aid duty that I probably have left in the archives of my brain after St. John...
Well, back to physics then, lets see whether remedial helps for the papers...
~JcZw~ at 4:38 pm
Thursday, February 23, 2006
I was getting really bored of studying... well, of course there was fencing, and there was figure skating to watch (I touched my TV! Manipulating the SCV is such an ailen feeling..) so I was buzzing around our MSN group trying to re-assimilate the feelings and memories of our carefree-er Year 1 days...
Its weird that yea well, everyone loved the first three months...
Then after that when our workload sort of tripled, and x tuitorials suddenly became 3x tuitorials, we all wished that we were back in pre-JAE
Then here comes Year 2, and suddenly everyone wishes they were back in Year 1, somewhere and anywhere of Year 1, so long as we didn't have CTs...
No doubt next year at this time, while we (the guys) are killing ourselves in some offshore island, we'll be wishing we were back in Year 2... and of course, anticipating our results...
Well, back to the point... so I was going through the pictures and the conversations that took place in the group... now here comes an observation that made me slightly amused
Here are the two pictures... of 06S40 this year, and 05S15 a year ago...the same classroom, the same exclamation mark in the background (except that our picture is of poorer quality).
Apparently the girls in both pictures tend to stand on the lower right (relative for us) corner... Guess it reflects that girls possess the initative to move into the class while the guys just tend to sit nearer the door..
In both cases, the girls wearing Cedar uniforms are at the extreme edge of the girls in the second row. The shortest guys in the class stand to the left of these girls
In both cases, the girls wearing Anglican High uniforms are at the extreme edge of the girls in the first row. The guy on the left of these girls tend to have shorter-than-average hair
At least one of the VS guys in each picture looks distinctly un-cheerful
The back row of each picture is completely white. It shall probably be a common trend until they start making guys wear pinafores, or Cedar goes co-ed
S15: Bottom right of the exclamation mark covered by a VS guy
S40: Bottom left of the exclamation mark covered by a VS guy
Yea ok that last one was super wu liao...
____________________________________________________________________________________
On a different note...
I'm sticking to epee until FS changes foil to saturday (which may never happen), so I guess I'll be training more intensively in epee now
Now here comes the part where the foilists which read this blog come and knock out my insides...
But yeah... thats the only course thats open to me... As a friend told me "At least you are fortunate that you have a second weapon to fall back on".
Its weird that yea well, everyone loved the first three months...
Then after that when our workload sort of tripled, and x tuitorials suddenly became 3x tuitorials, we all wished that we were back in pre-JAE
Then here comes Year 2, and suddenly everyone wishes they were back in Year 1, somewhere and anywhere of Year 1, so long as we didn't have CTs...
No doubt next year at this time, while we (the guys) are killing ourselves in some offshore island, we'll be wishing we were back in Year 2... and of course, anticipating our results...
Well, back to the point... so I was going through the pictures and the conversations that took place in the group... now here comes an observation that made me slightly amused
Here are the two pictures... of 06S40 this year, and 05S15 a year ago...the same classroom, the same exclamation mark in the background (except that our picture is of poorer quality).
Apparently the girls in both pictures tend to stand on the lower right (relative for us) corner... Guess it reflects that girls possess the initative to move into the class while the guys just tend to sit nearer the door..
In both cases, the girls wearing Cedar uniforms are at the extreme edge of the girls in the second row. The shortest guys in the class stand to the left of these girls
In both cases, the girls wearing Anglican High uniforms are at the extreme edge of the girls in the first row. The guy on the left of these girls tend to have shorter-than-average hair
At least one of the VS guys in each picture looks distinctly un-cheerful
The back row of each picture is completely white. It shall probably be a common trend until they start making guys wear pinafores, or Cedar goes co-ed
S15: Bottom right of the exclamation mark covered by a VS guy
S40: Bottom left of the exclamation mark covered by a VS guy
Yea ok that last one was super wu liao...
____________________________________________________________________________________
On a different note...
I'm sticking to epee until FS changes foil to saturday (which may never happen), so I guess I'll be training more intensively in epee now
Now here comes the part where the foilists which read this blog come and knock out my insides...
But yeah... thats the only course thats open to me... As a friend told me "At least you are fortunate that you have a second weapon to fall back on".
~JcZw~ at 1:30 pm
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
In memory of the young, innocent days when my father would bring me to the Asian Aerospace show
Let me tell you a secret...
I've actually
wantonly
deliberately
pon-ned school before. Or rather, missed half a day
Well, actually, that was when I was in K2.. heheh... the reason? To go with my father to watch the Thunderbirds aerobatic team over ECP... Come to think of it, it should have been within cycling distance of VJC then.... Oh, to have been in VJ in 1992 or 1993 or whatever year it was... that would have been fun.
Oh, for the record, besides sickness, thats the only time which I missed school.
The Thunderbirds, incidentally, are a US aerobatic team, that is, acrobatic with aircraft... Oh yea, there are many other teams, like
The Blue Angels (US navy based), which sadly, I've never watched, with the F/A 18 Hornet
The Red Arrows (Royal Air Force), which I've watched, during one of the Valentine's Days when I was still a kid with asthma, using the Hawk
But it was the image of the Thunderbirds which captured my imagination... Mainly cos the F16 Fighting Falcon was (and still is) my favourite fighter.
Thats right, for many a year last time, like many kids, I fantasized about being a pilot. My eyesight shooting past 500 deg before I had reached secondary school put paid to that though...
But it was a good fantasy while it lasted... and I have a hundred (or had, maybe) metal aircraft of various nationalities, as well as models, (first 1:144 scale ones, before proceeding to the larger 1:72 scale) to prove it. I collected models, comics on planes... I read about them, through many yellow-paged and dusty books my father (also an aircraft lover, his favourite being the F4 Phantom) had salvaged, and there were shows to watch too.... I watched and rewatched Iron Eagle (although now I realise its quite unrealistic), Top Gun, 633 Squadron and The Battle of Britain (The imagine of the Heinkel gunner getting his eye shot out was hard to forget for a little kid) over and over again.
And of course, there was the Asian Aerospace Show.
Of course, I jumped at the chance to go to see planes, and the warnings of having to bake on the tarmac of the runway for untold hours could not persuade me not to. The fact that at that time I'd never heard of the words "CCA", "tuitorial", fencing" or "OSSIS outing" added to the fact that I had time to go and swan about at Paya Lebar Airbase (if I remember correctly).
The memories of what we did there were hazy... But some do stand out..
Like the lurid red covers which covered the afterburners (which my father said were so that little children wouldn't get sucked in and spat out). The arming pins of the missiles and bombs were also marked with red tape... I remember asking if they could really go off...
Without fail, we would catch the arming of an aircraft.. somehow I could always get a place at the front of the crowd, so I could catch the men screwing the Sidewinders onto the pylons of a F5 Tiger, or filling the cannon magazine with 20mm shells.
Then there was the queuing up for a chance to sit in the cockpit of a fighter... The lines to the Tigers and Skyhawks were always relatively short, but the fighter I wanted to get close to would be the F16 (the "D" version at that time), where the queue stretched for meters... But the wait would always be worth it... Thanks to my father for waiting also... haha... And there were always helicopters like the Super Puma and Ecureil...
Once there was a weapons display there, where we got to twiddle with (unloaded) grenade launchers, rifles and pistols... I only could remember I could hardly lift a pistol with 2 hands... but then again, you're talking about the me-who-had-not-gone-through-puberty-or-st-john yet.
Sometimes there were exotic aircraft there too like the Mirage (complete with the infamous Exocet missile), the Rafale, and even a Tornado!
The last thing that I recall was once watching a parachute display by a bunch of paras, as well as a scramble exercise by a section of F-16s, where they displayed take-offs two by two, as well as ground-hugging flybys at speeds past Mach 1 (which, I'm sure, impaired my hearing)...
Oh well... such are the memories of those days... where we would invariably come back with all sorts of airforce related paraphenelia, as well as serious sunburn....
Haha yea I know, that was long and most people may not understand it, but I had a great urge to write it... heheh...
The Thunderbirds are fantastic!
Oh yea, all the best for SPA, Year 2s...
Disclaimer: Photos taken from here: (Thunderbirds BlueAngels RedArrows)
Let me tell you a secret...
I've actually
wantonly
deliberately
pon-ned school before. Or rather, missed half a day
Well, actually, that was when I was in K2.. heheh... the reason? To go with my father to watch the Thunderbirds aerobatic team over ECP... Come to think of it, it should have been within cycling distance of VJC then.... Oh, to have been in VJ in 1992 or 1993 or whatever year it was... that would have been fun.
Oh, for the record, besides sickness, thats the only time which I missed school.
The Thunderbirds, incidentally, are a US aerobatic team, that is, acrobatic with aircraft... Oh yea, there are many other teams, like
The Blue Angels (US navy based), which sadly, I've never watched, with the F/A 18 Hornet
The Red Arrows (Royal Air Force), which I've watched, during one of the Valentine's Days when I was still a kid with asthma, using the Hawk
But it was the image of the Thunderbirds which captured my imagination... Mainly cos the F16 Fighting Falcon was (and still is) my favourite fighter.
Thats right, for many a year last time, like many kids, I fantasized about being a pilot. My eyesight shooting past 500 deg before I had reached secondary school put paid to that though...
But it was a good fantasy while it lasted... and I have a hundred (or had, maybe) metal aircraft of various nationalities, as well as models, (first 1:144 scale ones, before proceeding to the larger 1:72 scale) to prove it. I collected models, comics on planes... I read about them, through many yellow-paged and dusty books my father (also an aircraft lover, his favourite being the F4 Phantom) had salvaged, and there were shows to watch too.... I watched and rewatched Iron Eagle (although now I realise its quite unrealistic), Top Gun, 633 Squadron and The Battle of Britain (The imagine of the Heinkel gunner getting his eye shot out was hard to forget for a little kid) over and over again.
And of course, there was the Asian Aerospace Show.
Of course, I jumped at the chance to go to see planes, and the warnings of having to bake on the tarmac of the runway for untold hours could not persuade me not to. The fact that at that time I'd never heard of the words "CCA", "tuitorial", fencing" or "OSSIS outing" added to the fact that I had time to go and swan about at Paya Lebar Airbase (if I remember correctly).
The memories of what we did there were hazy... But some do stand out..
Like the lurid red covers which covered the afterburners (which my father said were so that little children wouldn't get sucked in and spat out). The arming pins of the missiles and bombs were also marked with red tape... I remember asking if they could really go off...
Without fail, we would catch the arming of an aircraft.. somehow I could always get a place at the front of the crowd, so I could catch the men screwing the Sidewinders onto the pylons of a F5 Tiger, or filling the cannon magazine with 20mm shells.
Then there was the queuing up for a chance to sit in the cockpit of a fighter... The lines to the Tigers and Skyhawks were always relatively short, but the fighter I wanted to get close to would be the F16 (the "D" version at that time), where the queue stretched for meters... But the wait would always be worth it... Thanks to my father for waiting also... haha... And there were always helicopters like the Super Puma and Ecureil...
Once there was a weapons display there, where we got to twiddle with (unloaded) grenade launchers, rifles and pistols... I only could remember I could hardly lift a pistol with 2 hands... but then again, you're talking about the me-who-had-not-gone-through-puberty-or-st-john yet.
Sometimes there were exotic aircraft there too like the Mirage (complete with the infamous Exocet missile), the Rafale, and even a Tornado!
The last thing that I recall was once watching a parachute display by a bunch of paras, as well as a scramble exercise by a section of F-16s, where they displayed take-offs two by two, as well as ground-hugging flybys at speeds past Mach 1 (which, I'm sure, impaired my hearing)...
Oh well... such are the memories of those days... where we would invariably come back with all sorts of airforce related paraphenelia, as well as serious sunburn....
Haha yea I know, that was long and most people may not understand it, but I had a great urge to write it... heheh...
The Thunderbirds are fantastic!
Oh yea, all the best for SPA, Year 2s...
Disclaimer: Photos taken from here: (Thunderbirds BlueAngels RedArrows)
~JcZw~ at 10:24 pm
Monday, February 20, 2006
Feeling slightly better now.... Here's the account of how things turned around =)
I can't remember feeling more emotionally torn up than yesterday night... Committed the (to me) unforgivable sin of snapping at someone due to shot nerves....
Had a talk with two people on MSN n went to sleep in an emotional turmoil feeling like a hypocrite... Tossed and turned and totally couldn't sleep... When the irritating jingle of my phone went off at 6.30, though, I was wide awake, mind alert at once. I even reached downstairs 15 min earlier than usual... My mood in the car was anything but happy.. Contemplating having to face CYL was definitely not my idea of starting a new week well...
When I reached school I was pretty much stoned through CT walkabout and the first 2 lessons.... It was during PE that things started to happen... Running is definitely a stress reliever... Especially when the teacher called out that we had a time limit... I bet she was joking... in fact I think she was, but it was a good excuse to charge the last lap and polish off all the pent-up energy... Mursjid, of course, took off after me... When we finished both of us felt like dying, but emotionally I was already feeling happier.... Frisbee was fun, as usual, just that the sun was "too darn hot" and the temperature "went way up", but well, conditions were worst in St. John... Actually, I'd rather do PE next week than my CTs... who wouldn't!!
Things generally progressed well from there... from talking with friends to having a very lively Physics SPA A discussion with several ex-SAP (that is, metal-button wearing) classmates and Mr Wong..
Assumptions for SPA:
Skill A: Life is selectively ideal
Skill B: Life is normal
Skill C and D: Life is frankly quite retarded (all the funny errors)
Aha! LT5 decided to forgo its reputation of being a refrigerator and turn into a 250-person sauna. LT4 must have been teaching it bad habits.. What's worst than getting trapped in LT1 without aircon is to get trapped in its ventilation-less underground counterpart. My carbonyl group notes now look like they was put through a washing machine.
Twice.
Its incredible that we managed to survive 1 hour and 10 min in that... thing... By the time we staggered out feeling not unlike a bunch of boiled lobsters, the words in my head circled around "spontaneous combustion (again)", "denaturation", "anaerobic respiration" and whatnot.
Watched music fest dance auditions with a quartet of classmates before pushing off home...
But out from all the normal school life (exception being LT5's choice to go on a rampage and attempt to suffocate its students) was a sudden sense of appreciation for simpler things again.
To have the gift of mobility, so that I can run as slowly (or as fast, depending) as I can... to be able to play frisbee, or to be able to walk like a robot in need of oiling...
To have the gift of memory, so that I could catch on to stuff like Bio easily, and that terms like oxaloacetate can be digested as easily as a molecule of glucose bisphosphate (Its bis- ! Its says so in the notes) and to remember random things that photograph themselves on my memory (a good thing to have, if I'm in the right mood... heh) For example, I can remember that I first talked to ChuaH while leaning against the rails at the side of the grandstand during the first house meeting. The thing I said was "Uh, oh, hello" in response to Phoon's "Jonathan, meet Jonathan"....
To have the gift of friends, who can cheer me up without fail by the end of the school day, no matter how bad I'm feeling at the start of it! Or those that talk to me online if they can somehow sense (I still can't figure out this intuition thing... I'm definitely an IS) that I'm not feeling too good.. The people who make life worth living and school worth going to when the going ain't so good =)
among many others
I guess what I needed all along was to step back and consider the situation again, just like a miner steps back to see whether he has to cut open a new seam in the rock, instead of just carving into the same seam for coal which may not be there.
Maybe next time, when I step back into FM, I'll be able to admire the beauty of a full lunge, or a spectacular flick, instead of just burning up because someone else is not holding her end up.
I'll be waiting for then.... Til then, au revoir
~JcZw~ at 5:51 pm
Sunday, February 19, 2006
1 post deleted
1 very unedifying post in retrospect
Gone for now, until I have something happy to write about
1 very unedifying post in retrospect
Gone for now, until I have something happy to write about
~JcZw~ at 6:19 pm
Thursday, February 16, 2006
I'm back, finally.. after posting on sunday. Such a lot of things happened since then.
V-day, or Friendship Day, as its more commonly known as, passed after a fitful and worrisome weekend... haha... i must admit that the 7 of us only started moving very late =/ unlike last year, we couldn't think of a theme on which to draw the front cover... In the end I just settled for basing it on the quote...
I'm never going to forget the morning on tuesday... But the cards, I hope, were passable... in school I was really feeling incoherent and was talking nonsense to Alon and Nelson on the way to assembly...
After assembly I was ambushed by Liling who gave me this to wear for the day
Alright alright... its pink I know... hey I wasn't INTENDING to go for it you know! But its quite cute and amusing.... at least I didn't get "smooch me". Why, I'll explain later...
Of course, the girls gave all sorts of nice stuff... cards, edibles, etc... The collective card from the girls was really nice!! It had the picture of them in various school locations holding the words " we [heart] ossis guys"... as my sister said when she saw the cards "they really must have gone through a lot of trouble to make it".... yes, I agree... really appreciate their effort! Thanks so much to the OSSIS girls!!
Got presents from Amanda (whom I guessed correctly was my angel, thanks to a lot of clues, and Linus' slip of tongue... heh), Jayne (my original angel) and Jing Yi, all of whom are from my junior class...
Yup... although Year 1 friendship was probably more interesting (cos for someone from AH like me, the idea of friendship day was a novelty the first time I saw it, also cos in Year 1 we had a lot more time to go out and slack and not care about upcoming CTs), this year was very fun-filled etc also.... thanks to all those that got me things, and thanks to my classmates, simply cos they are my classmates n put up with my occasional burst of coldness (or clumsiness) throughout the year xD
Went to watch "I walk the line" with my parents and my sister after eating in Parkway with ChuaH Stella and Liling... When I was at Tiong Bahru 7-11, the cashier spotted my "hold me" heart stuck on my bag and started to laugh his head off... Ahh! Darn embarrassing! His EQ is a bit off... haha... oh well... it still is a nice present..
Anyway, the show... it was about Johnny Cash's life.. it was interesting how all the songs were developed from different situations in his life... The actor and actress really can sing very well too! Haha... I like his songs... they're pleasant on the ear.. not like some of the present modern pop songs.... Now I've got his songs stuck in my head...
Wednesday was some Total Defence Day talk... The reaction of my classmates was pretty typical of students with too little sleep, with the workload increasing exponentially as the CTs approach
Voila. Surprised?
Haha... yup... well, as of fencing... I don't want to talk about it.... I don't want to be stressed unduly... its pretty fine talking to friends from FM, but the big stress factors are still there...
Ahh what am I talking about man... I'm shoving off now... I AM going to sleep for more than 6 hours tonight... See y'all!
V-day, or Friendship Day, as its more commonly known as, passed after a fitful and worrisome weekend... haha... i must admit that the 7 of us only started moving very late =/ unlike last year, we couldn't think of a theme on which to draw the front cover... In the end I just settled for basing it on the quote...
I'm never going to forget the morning on tuesday... But the cards, I hope, were passable... in school I was really feeling incoherent and was talking nonsense to Alon and Nelson on the way to assembly...
After assembly I was ambushed by Liling who gave me this to wear for the day
Alright alright... its pink I know... hey I wasn't INTENDING to go for it you know! But its quite cute and amusing.... at least I didn't get "smooch me". Why, I'll explain later...
Of course, the girls gave all sorts of nice stuff... cards, edibles, etc... The collective card from the girls was really nice!! It had the picture of them in various school locations holding the words " we [heart] ossis guys"... as my sister said when she saw the cards "they really must have gone through a lot of trouble to make it".... yes, I agree... really appreciate their effort! Thanks so much to the OSSIS girls!!
Got presents from Amanda (whom I guessed correctly was my angel, thanks to a lot of clues, and Linus' slip of tongue... heh), Jayne (my original angel) and Jing Yi, all of whom are from my junior class...
Yup... although Year 1 friendship was probably more interesting (cos for someone from AH like me, the idea of friendship day was a novelty the first time I saw it, also cos in Year 1 we had a lot more time to go out and slack and not care about upcoming CTs), this year was very fun-filled etc also.... thanks to all those that got me things, and thanks to my classmates, simply cos they are my classmates n put up with my occasional burst of coldness (or clumsiness) throughout the year xD
Went to watch "I walk the line" with my parents and my sister after eating in Parkway with ChuaH Stella and Liling... When I was at Tiong Bahru 7-11, the cashier spotted my "hold me" heart stuck on my bag and started to laugh his head off... Ahh! Darn embarrassing! His EQ is a bit off... haha... oh well... it still is a nice present..
Anyway, the show... it was about Johnny Cash's life.. it was interesting how all the songs were developed from different situations in his life... The actor and actress really can sing very well too! Haha... I like his songs... they're pleasant on the ear.. not like some of the present modern pop songs.... Now I've got his songs stuck in my head...
Wednesday was some Total Defence Day talk... The reaction of my classmates was pretty typical of students with too little sleep, with the workload increasing exponentially as the CTs approach
Voila. Surprised?
Haha... yup... well, as of fencing... I don't want to talk about it.... I don't want to be stressed unduly... its pretty fine talking to friends from FM, but the big stress factors are still there...
Ahh what am I talking about man... I'm shoving off now... I AM going to sleep for more than 6 hours tonight... See y'all!
~JcZw~ at 8:01 pm
Sunday, February 12, 2006
11:26 pm finds me at my computer, balancing a cold pack on my shoulder while typing and watching the video of my bout with the PRC chappie today. The cold pack, incidentally, was due to a giant bump given to me by the PRC feller I first fenced in round robin today... Apparently I need a bigger bib for my mask or wear a bigger plastron, cos he smacked me in the exact spot where there was a gap in the layers.
U20 was a whole different experience.. On saturday I was called upon to preside over one of the round robins (which was a cause of slight trepidation)... which contained Eldon and Zixian, among the fencers... There was this really tall feller, can't remember which school... and he's the kind where he presents himself for weapons test standing up, not kneeling down... nuts, I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the tip of his epee.... How humiliating... haha..
And Maurice was in the next pool over yelling "Wah! Jonathan presiding arh!" and etcetc of derisive comments... like, thanks so much man...
Foil... sighz...
I don't have to elaborate on today except for two things...
One, the new timing is killing me... I'm so not used to it, but its no excuse... we'll have to get used to it ultimately...
Second, I miss church. I haven't gone to church for... 3 weeks? A month? Its quite draining really... didn't realise that until I had to stay away for so long.. its like being out of touch with someone you know... Lets say I was sick for 3 whole weeks. I would miss my classmates like mad. There'll be a vacum which nothing can fill... And this directly influences my decision whether to stick with epee (who's competitions are on saturday) or foil (sunday).
Why would I choose foil:
My physical size is more adept for it
I've already bought the stuff
I prefer it
I feel more secure with priority than without
Its cool, elegant etcetc]
Why would I choose epee:
I'll have time for church
Most of my friends (though not all) are doing it
Its EASIER and quicker to learn, faster to progress
There... my reasons for both are listed out... But the biggest question about church still weighs heavily on my mind..
Had an MSN / SMS discussion with Dawn last night... She told me it would be best, ultimately to put God before everything, which actually I know perfectly well I should be doing.
I read Candice's blog about 10 minutes back... I agree that God doesn't want us to miss church for anything (well, except maybe during the first 2 weeks of NS). I know that we owe it to him to go to church... not that we're doing him a favour or anything...
I asked my parents. They told me to talk to God and to pray over it.
But really, at the end of the day, I still find it difficult to just turn and say "I'll be sticking to epee". For until this set of competitions, I'd been setting my heart and soul on becoming a foilist in the future. To turn from all those trainings... all that money spent of learning parry-riposte, priority etc. not to mention broken foils, electric jackets and so on.
And for those of you who think you have a ready answer, I am not going to change church, change service, or contemplate in any way to change the christian community I belong to. I'm supposed to be revolving my life around God, not around fencing.
And still there'll be others who will tell me I'm going through a lot of trouble to be religious. There is a difference between legalistic religion and simply doing a duty. A christian IS supposed to be connected with a church, not to be a delocalized electron floating around ready to react with any entity that comes along. If you are a Christian and you're don't have a deep relationship with God and you're thinking that I'M religious, then let me tell you.... if being normal means not having a relationship with God, I'd rather be abnormal.
Dear God, let me make a right decision
Phew, I'm feeling a little better already, now that I've got a little off my chest...
Life is so stressful... I hope my angel and mortal aren't too disappointed this tuesday =/ There's just no time to do anything too elaborate...
If necessary I won't sleep tomorrow then (ahh, when my mother reads this she's gonna confine me to my bed tomorrow night =D) alright, just joking...
Anyway, its really late now... I gotta go... Thanks so much, the various fencers, classmates, ex-classmates etc that have talked in the last week about the above issue...
Isn't it weird, that even though I'm supposed to be a good Christian, I always end up in these CCAs which clash with church?
Gr
U20 was a whole different experience.. On saturday I was called upon to preside over one of the round robins (which was a cause of slight trepidation)... which contained Eldon and Zixian, among the fencers... There was this really tall feller, can't remember which school... and he's the kind where he presents himself for weapons test standing up, not kneeling down... nuts, I had to stand on tiptoe to reach the tip of his epee.... How humiliating... haha..
And Maurice was in the next pool over yelling "Wah! Jonathan presiding arh!" and etcetc of derisive comments... like, thanks so much man...
Foil... sighz...
I don't have to elaborate on today except for two things...
One, the new timing is killing me... I'm so not used to it, but its no excuse... we'll have to get used to it ultimately...
Second, I miss church. I haven't gone to church for... 3 weeks? A month? Its quite draining really... didn't realise that until I had to stay away for so long.. its like being out of touch with someone you know... Lets say I was sick for 3 whole weeks. I would miss my classmates like mad. There'll be a vacum which nothing can fill... And this directly influences my decision whether to stick with epee (who's competitions are on saturday) or foil (sunday).
Why would I choose foil:
My physical size is more adept for it
I've already bought the stuff
I prefer it
I feel more secure with priority than without
Its cool, elegant etcetc]
Why would I choose epee:
I'll have time for church
Most of my friends (though not all) are doing it
Its EASIER and quicker to learn, faster to progress
There... my reasons for both are listed out... But the biggest question about church still weighs heavily on my mind..
Had an MSN / SMS discussion with Dawn last night... She told me it would be best, ultimately to put God before everything, which actually I know perfectly well I should be doing.
I read Candice's blog about 10 minutes back... I agree that God doesn't want us to miss church for anything (well, except maybe during the first 2 weeks of NS). I know that we owe it to him to go to church... not that we're doing him a favour or anything...
I asked my parents. They told me to talk to God and to pray over it.
But really, at the end of the day, I still find it difficult to just turn and say "I'll be sticking to epee". For until this set of competitions, I'd been setting my heart and soul on becoming a foilist in the future. To turn from all those trainings... all that money spent of learning parry-riposte, priority etc. not to mention broken foils, electric jackets and so on.
And for those of you who think you have a ready answer, I am not going to change church, change service, or contemplate in any way to change the christian community I belong to. I'm supposed to be revolving my life around God, not around fencing.
And still there'll be others who will tell me I'm going through a lot of trouble to be religious. There is a difference between legalistic religion and simply doing a duty. A christian IS supposed to be connected with a church, not to be a delocalized electron floating around ready to react with any entity that comes along. If you are a Christian and you're don't have a deep relationship with God and you're thinking that I'M religious, then let me tell you.... if being normal means not having a relationship with God, I'd rather be abnormal.
Dear God, let me make a right decision
Phew, I'm feeling a little better already, now that I've got a little off my chest...
Life is so stressful... I hope my angel and mortal aren't too disappointed this tuesday =/ There's just no time to do anything too elaborate...
If necessary I won't sleep tomorrow then (ahh, when my mother reads this she's gonna confine me to my bed tomorrow night =D) alright, just joking...
Anyway, its really late now... I gotta go... Thanks so much, the various fencers, classmates, ex-classmates etc that have talked in the last week about the above issue...
Isn't it weird, that even though I'm supposed to be a good Christian, I always end up in these CCAs which clash with church?
Gr
~JcZw~ at 11:26 pm
Friday, February 10, 2006
Looks like I'm not taking part in the Epee event tomorrow.... As I said before, I guess at the end of the day I still prefer foil to epee.. Why, I'm not that sure, but I feel more comfortable with it... Not that foil is easier... It takes longer to learn... sighz... and I guess if I abandon epee I can watch my hopes of winning anything while in VJ take a nosedive... But thats the reason Coach wanted to start us on Epee and not foil anyway.
Last night Candice told me to blog about something happy.. I thought about it and the next morning (this morning) the answer dropped into my lap. As I got into the car, the cat was sleeping on top as usual... n my father was yelling at it to get off. In the end he triggered the windscreen spray. Unfortunately I was still outside. 'Nuff said... hehe... Lucky my TYS was behind my file...
Just had my dinner after sleeping for an hour... First time I had the luxury of sleeping peacefully for the first time in a long while. The more I sleep the faster I will recuperate... My right side is slightly swollen after tangling with Joseph on wednesday night (I was trying to do stophit-exclusion and got whacked AND thrashed for my pains.. heh).
Sleep
Is such an important part of a student's life (in this case, in the lives of a trio of ex-TKGS girls...) . Without it nothing else functions, really... Oh yea, I also managed to get another nice bit of sleep before Bio lect on this same place. It was great! I even managed to have a short dream (at least I didn't talk in my sleep then.. that would have been darn embarrassing).
Just 2 more weeks! Then I'll be able to rest on weekends again AS WELL AS TO GO TO CHURCH! Its a pain in the neck that foil is always on sundays (its also the greatest reason I have to stick to epee, in the epee-vs-foil decision).
Alright, anyway a lot of things have happened since my last ranting and raving. Firstly *takes a deep breath* my mother has found my blog =) which means subsequently my father probably will too.
On Monday, we went to roam around the Students' Lounge. With the soccer table and the pool table being swamped by various groups of guys, and no one particularly wanting to play darts, it left us back with the old standby..
BRIDGE. Especially since we can play bridge legally there... wahaha. Anyway just look at this hand. 50% chance of being picked as someone's partner and I don't even have a single picture card... haiyo. Anyway for the record I lost all my games that day...My cards were angry at me for letting them be caught in the rain.... sigh..
Wednesday was this Fab Week thingy. After much consideration I forced myself to go for self-awareness (for which I didn't want to, being the only one in the class to go for that course), while others got cool stuff like Self-Defence and Kick-Boxing etc. It was not too bad... The talk was given by this Gregory Burns, a Paralympian
Part of the presentation. Showing us the various events in the Para-Olympics. Look carefully and notice that the picture on the top right of the screen is that of two wheelchair-bound fencers. Their bladework must be really quick! The talk was ok... it was like those Dr. Willian Tan kinda talks... Supposed to inspire you and all that...
During the next break, those that had gone for Personal Massage were honing their skills at "our" stage in the concourse
Gerry experimenting on Trina... waha... The whole stage looked like a massage parlour.. heh...
Thursday was D-day minus 1 for many a Year 1. I can remember we spent ours in Marche last year on the 28th of Feb, Sunday. Sitting opposite Cine on that little stage talking and praying. I can remember (I don't know why), that Gerry, Dawn and Vibha were sitting on my left. I also have a vivid image on myself kneeling on the stage shaking hands with and wishing ChuaH "all the best" who was standing on the ground.
The D-Day minus 1 for us this year was more of a JTS, with 06S40 bringing us to Pizza Hut in Suntec n eating... Haha... my table was very entertaining (although we remained civilised). Christopher and Wenhui can be super suan when they want to be... haha... ok actually, so can the rest of us... Its was very fun! With talking n laughing n zong ji mi ma-ing... heng I didn't have to drink enjie's concoction.
Fireworks above Suntec after the dinner.. so pretty.. haha... thats Christl and Alon in the foreground..
We walked around the fountain, talked, talked, talked... Not unlike last year...
Which brings us back to friday... After spending 3 periods watching Gattacca, we broke out the 06S40 class list and using loudspeaker called whoever we could... 'Nuff said... Dr Boon talks darn long... Haha the junior AHS batch did quite well lei!!
Anyway that sort of sums up the week... U20's over the next two weekends! Oh yes, some pictures of Novices Prize Presentation, given by Sean-Paul
VJ's Epee Team silver (I'm short...arghH!)
The Men's Epee Medallists... all from FM...
The teams from FM: CJC guys (on the right), CJC girls (in blue), VJC guys (The tall one at the back and the two kneeling in front), and the SMU guys and girls (the remainder), and of course Coach on the top left!
Yup, jiayou all for U20!
Last night Candice told me to blog about something happy.. I thought about it and the next morning (this morning) the answer dropped into my lap. As I got into the car, the cat was sleeping on top as usual... n my father was yelling at it to get off. In the end he triggered the windscreen spray. Unfortunately I was still outside. 'Nuff said... hehe... Lucky my TYS was behind my file...
Just had my dinner after sleeping for an hour... First time I had the luxury of sleeping peacefully for the first time in a long while. The more I sleep the faster I will recuperate... My right side is slightly swollen after tangling with Joseph on wednesday night (I was trying to do stophit-exclusion and got whacked AND thrashed for my pains.. heh).
Sleep
Is such an important part of a student's life (in this case, in the lives of a trio of ex-TKGS girls...) . Without it nothing else functions, really... Oh yea, I also managed to get another nice bit of sleep before Bio lect on this same place. It was great! I even managed to have a short dream (at least I didn't talk in my sleep then.. that would have been darn embarrassing).
Just 2 more weeks! Then I'll be able to rest on weekends again AS WELL AS TO GO TO CHURCH! Its a pain in the neck that foil is always on sundays (its also the greatest reason I have to stick to epee, in the epee-vs-foil decision).
Alright, anyway a lot of things have happened since my last ranting and raving. Firstly *takes a deep breath* my mother has found my blog =) which means subsequently my father probably will too.
On Monday, we went to roam around the Students' Lounge. With the soccer table and the pool table being swamped by various groups of guys, and no one particularly wanting to play darts, it left us back with the old standby..
BRIDGE. Especially since we can play bridge legally there... wahaha. Anyway just look at this hand. 50% chance of being picked as someone's partner and I don't even have a single picture card... haiyo. Anyway for the record I lost all my games that day...My cards were angry at me for letting them be caught in the rain.... sigh..
Wednesday was this Fab Week thingy. After much consideration I forced myself to go for self-awareness (for which I didn't want to, being the only one in the class to go for that course), while others got cool stuff like Self-Defence and Kick-Boxing etc. It was not too bad... The talk was given by this Gregory Burns, a Paralympian
Part of the presentation. Showing us the various events in the Para-Olympics. Look carefully and notice that the picture on the top right of the screen is that of two wheelchair-bound fencers. Their bladework must be really quick! The talk was ok... it was like those Dr. Willian Tan kinda talks... Supposed to inspire you and all that...
During the next break, those that had gone for Personal Massage were honing their skills at "our" stage in the concourse
Gerry experimenting on Trina... waha... The whole stage looked like a massage parlour.. heh...
Thursday was D-day minus 1 for many a Year 1. I can remember we spent ours in Marche last year on the 28th of Feb, Sunday. Sitting opposite Cine on that little stage talking and praying. I can remember (I don't know why), that Gerry, Dawn and Vibha were sitting on my left. I also have a vivid image on myself kneeling on the stage shaking hands with and wishing ChuaH "all the best" who was standing on the ground.
The D-Day minus 1 for us this year was more of a JTS, with 06S40 bringing us to Pizza Hut in Suntec n eating... Haha... my table was very entertaining (although we remained civilised). Christopher and Wenhui can be super suan when they want to be... haha... ok actually, so can the rest of us... Its was very fun! With talking n laughing n zong ji mi ma-ing... heng I didn't have to drink enjie's concoction.
Fireworks above Suntec after the dinner.. so pretty.. haha... thats Christl and Alon in the foreground..
We walked around the fountain, talked, talked, talked... Not unlike last year...
Which brings us back to friday... After spending 3 periods watching Gattacca, we broke out the 06S40 class list and using loudspeaker called whoever we could... 'Nuff said... Dr Boon talks darn long... Haha the junior AHS batch did quite well lei!!
Anyway that sort of sums up the week... U20's over the next two weekends! Oh yes, some pictures of Novices Prize Presentation, given by Sean-Paul
VJ's Epee Team silver (I'm short...arghH!)
The Men's Epee Medallists... all from FM...
The teams from FM: CJC guys (on the right), CJC girls (in blue), VJC guys (The tall one at the back and the two kneeling in front), and the SMU guys and girls (the remainder), and of course Coach on the top left!
Yup, jiayou all for U20!
~JcZw~ at 9:06 pm
Monday, February 06, 2006
Such a tiring weekend. Such a tiring monday.
But the work keeps piling up and up and up
Higher and higher
A tuitorial that I don't understand in the slightest
An assignment which will require at least some time to do
A set of lecture notes in which I'm lost and must read up on
A competition thats coming up this weekend yet again. Another weekend shot and I'll fall even farther behind. And with foil being what it is, there's no guarantee...
When I look at them... at their togetherness, at their efficiency, I cringe the lack of our own.
Tuition? Where does the time come from?
No sleep. No energy. How long can this last? Till CTs?
When I'm struggling in even my best subject?
I need someone whom I can vent all these things to... But there is no one... Not because I don't have friends... But because there is no one suitable... No one who's not suffering from one or another of these things.
Oh yes... there are those that can help... who are supposed to... But it seems that I have to cover for them as well. For a cent I'd give up the whole thing except for the fact that other people are reliant on that CCA as well. But do they deserve it anyway?
I need sleep desperately. Sometimes the amount of work that piles up.... I can feel my nerves being stretched like they've never been before...
Then come sacrifices... Withdrawing from Epee... Pulling out as an active SNCO... things which I want a lot, but for which there's simply no time.
I guess I'll just drown in this lot of stuff then...
Sorry feeling quite frustrated at my own incapabilities as well as those of several other people...
But the work keeps piling up and up and up
Higher and higher
A tuitorial that I don't understand in the slightest
An assignment which will require at least some time to do
A set of lecture notes in which I'm lost and must read up on
A competition thats coming up this weekend yet again. Another weekend shot and I'll fall even farther behind. And with foil being what it is, there's no guarantee...
When I look at them... at their togetherness, at their efficiency, I cringe the lack of our own.
Tuition? Where does the time come from?
No sleep. No energy. How long can this last? Till CTs?
When I'm struggling in even my best subject?
I need someone whom I can vent all these things to... But there is no one... Not because I don't have friends... But because there is no one suitable... No one who's not suffering from one or another of these things.
Oh yes... there are those that can help... who are supposed to... But it seems that I have to cover for them as well. For a cent I'd give up the whole thing except for the fact that other people are reliant on that CCA as well. But do they deserve it anyway?
I need sleep desperately. Sometimes the amount of work that piles up.... I can feel my nerves being stretched like they've never been before...
Then come sacrifices... Withdrawing from Epee... Pulling out as an active SNCO... things which I want a lot, but for which there's simply no time.
I guess I'll just drown in this lot of stuff then...
Sorry feeling quite frustrated at my own incapabilities as well as those of several other people...
~JcZw~ at 10:21 pm
Friday, February 03, 2006
YES! I changed the picture and skin finally... Now its nice and neutral, not christmas or anything else... Took me a good hour or two to find the midi too... Haha... Thanks Liling though, for giving me "And can it be"... just that being an MP3, it takes a very long time for it to load...
Hmm... nothing much to write about (although I write about random stuff)... but how's this... MY ANGEL IS GIVING ME A LOT OF PRESSURE! Just look at this...
A box full of M&Ms, Yupi Gummi Bears, and a note to ward off hungry classmates xD haha.... the stuff inside sustained me and a few (at least 4) other classmates throughout the day and I have still plenty of stuff left haha... Hmm i must start eating regular and healthy meals...
But the main point is: I have absolutely no creativity with which to reply to this gift! Its so... wow... I dunno, I can't rival it! Argh! I'm going to feel darn guilty till friendship day... haha... I don't know if my angel would ever come here, but if she does, thank you, whoever you are!
Anyway, FSC is tomorrow (Fencing Singapore Challenge, for non-fencers, if by the off-chance you are interested)... we shall meet up again with the people who nailed us 45-7 in Pesta Sukan.. and hopefully do a little better =D haha... Hmm I wonder what the foil event will be like? I've heard a lot about the Epee people, but not that much about foil... I've heard stories yea, but I don't know what they look like...
And OH NO i won't have time to study for physics SPA on monday!
On the injurious saturday mentioned 2 posts back, a certain Anthony Tsang (some national foilist) came to FM... He's... freaky. Darn fast n accurate.. And his fleche is a total oh-my-goodness-er... One moment he's on the piste, next moment he's behind his opponent already and the coloured light is on... Ahh!! 2 more years, 2 more years...
If I have children (and if I have money), I shall get them to fence from young.. haha... oh, and I'll also make them join uniform groups in secondary school... Ok thats random again..
Anyway, a whole set of competitions are coming up ahead... FSC tomorrow, U20s for the next 2 weeks after that, and First Aid Seminar which we're trying to organize...
Not to mention Zone Comp for SJ.. Yea, although I haven't gone back for an age I havne't forgotten them... But seriously, I don't see anyway I can continue my career in St. John as a SNCO, what with physics R AND bio S on friday.. I'll only be able to come for major events... Maybe its time to seriously consider my resignation as an active senior? If only for the good of the rest of the seniors (not that I care much actually... but since my squad is part of them, I do... somewhat..)
Oh the other thing that can happen is that during CTs I do very well for physics and fail maths... Then i'll be out of both Bio S and Physics R... but I wish for that over my dead body... the failing maths part, I mean)...
Hmm... with my results like this is it still realistic to consider medicine then? I don't know... but I don't seem to have a passion for anything else (except fencing, and you can't get far in singapore with that)... maybe teaching?
Anyway... I'm off for now then... seey'all
Hmm... nothing much to write about (although I write about random stuff)... but how's this... MY ANGEL IS GIVING ME A LOT OF PRESSURE! Just look at this...
A box full of M&Ms, Yupi Gummi Bears, and a note to ward off hungry classmates xD haha.... the stuff inside sustained me and a few (at least 4) other classmates throughout the day and I have still plenty of stuff left haha... Hmm i must start eating regular and healthy meals...
But the main point is: I have absolutely no creativity with which to reply to this gift! Its so... wow... I dunno, I can't rival it! Argh! I'm going to feel darn guilty till friendship day... haha... I don't know if my angel would ever come here, but if she does, thank you, whoever you are!
Anyway, FSC is tomorrow (Fencing Singapore Challenge, for non-fencers, if by the off-chance you are interested)... we shall meet up again with the people who nailed us 45-7 in Pesta Sukan.. and hopefully do a little better =D haha... Hmm I wonder what the foil event will be like? I've heard a lot about the Epee people, but not that much about foil... I've heard stories yea, but I don't know what they look like...
And OH NO i won't have time to study for physics SPA on monday!
On the injurious saturday mentioned 2 posts back, a certain Anthony Tsang (some national foilist) came to FM... He's... freaky. Darn fast n accurate.. And his fleche is a total oh-my-goodness-er... One moment he's on the piste, next moment he's behind his opponent already and the coloured light is on... Ahh!! 2 more years, 2 more years...
If I have children (and if I have money), I shall get them to fence from young.. haha... oh, and I'll also make them join uniform groups in secondary school... Ok thats random again..
Anyway, a whole set of competitions are coming up ahead... FSC tomorrow, U20s for the next 2 weeks after that, and First Aid Seminar which we're trying to organize...
Not to mention Zone Comp for SJ.. Yea, although I haven't gone back for an age I havne't forgotten them... But seriously, I don't see anyway I can continue my career in St. John as a SNCO, what with physics R AND bio S on friday.. I'll only be able to come for major events... Maybe its time to seriously consider my resignation as an active senior? If only for the good of the rest of the seniors (not that I care much actually... but since my squad is part of them, I do... somewhat..)
Oh the other thing that can happen is that during CTs I do very well for physics and fail maths... Then i'll be out of both Bio S and Physics R... but I wish for that over my dead body... the failing maths part, I mean)...
Hmm... with my results like this is it still realistic to consider medicine then? I don't know... but I don't seem to have a passion for anything else (except fencing, and you can't get far in singapore with that)... maybe teaching?
Anyway... I'm off for now then... seey'all
~JcZw~ at 10:02 pm
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Cross Country today...
The more I think about it, the more I feel regretful that I didn't run... After all, cross country only happens twice in JC life...
Probably my running is better than my first aid also... I don't know... there are so many problems with being in the VJ FAC if you were not a Dunman High first aider (which I'm not).... Politics etc etc... I mean...
I should have left all my background of being a first aider behind after coming to VJ.. But whats the point anyway... its over...
Reached school at 6.30.. darn tired... Assigned to the furthest end of the guys route, so for the girls' run Jiayan and I just plunked ourselves in the centre of the two FAC posts and waited... Relocated to the guys' turning point later on...
The First Aid Post at the turning point... Jiayan and the road marshals (among them Christopher from the junior class).
We treated quite a number of casualties... Many were those that had pushed themselves too hard while having medical conditions... Others were cramps or nausea... Thank goodness nothing serious happened, at very least..
Yea went out with the OSSIS people n some juniors... ate, talked, stoned, came home.... Yea, I'm typing incoherently, you probably can tell...
LiLing's plaster, which she was wearing on top of her metacarpals (I can't remember what the layman term of that is...)
Aiyarr... I wish I had run...
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Went out with junior class yesterday, cycling at ECP... we cycled to Bedok Jetty... Changi Airport (somewhere there lar)... ate in the evening... Yup, some pictures...
Outside Costa Sands: Christopher, Amanda and David Poh
Cycling back from Changi Airport: Gerry (nearer) and Stella
Gerry taking pictures of us on the breakwater
A few of us S15-ers jumping up and down on the breakwater... Haha... not bad... everyone was airbourne...
Yup, thats it for now... I have to sleep, and find my maths tuitorial now otherwise Mr Teo is gonna kill me to death...
The more I think about it, the more I feel regretful that I didn't run... After all, cross country only happens twice in JC life...
Probably my running is better than my first aid also... I don't know... there are so many problems with being in the VJ FAC if you were not a Dunman High first aider (which I'm not).... Politics etc etc... I mean...
I should have left all my background of being a first aider behind after coming to VJ.. But whats the point anyway... its over...
Reached school at 6.30.. darn tired... Assigned to the furthest end of the guys route, so for the girls' run Jiayan and I just plunked ourselves in the centre of the two FAC posts and waited... Relocated to the guys' turning point later on...
The First Aid Post at the turning point... Jiayan and the road marshals (among them Christopher from the junior class).
We treated quite a number of casualties... Many were those that had pushed themselves too hard while having medical conditions... Others were cramps or nausea... Thank goodness nothing serious happened, at very least..
Yea went out with the OSSIS people n some juniors... ate, talked, stoned, came home.... Yea, I'm typing incoherently, you probably can tell...
LiLing's plaster, which she was wearing on top of her metacarpals (I can't remember what the layman term of that is...)
Aiyarr... I wish I had run...
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Went out with junior class yesterday, cycling at ECP... we cycled to Bedok Jetty... Changi Airport (somewhere there lar)... ate in the evening... Yup, some pictures...
Outside Costa Sands: Christopher, Amanda and David Poh
Cycling back from Changi Airport: Gerry (nearer) and Stella
Gerry taking pictures of us on the breakwater
A few of us S15-ers jumping up and down on the breakwater... Haha... not bad... everyone was airbourne...
Yup, thats it for now... I have to sleep, and find my maths tuitorial now otherwise Mr Teo is gonna kill me to death...
~JcZw~ at 4:02 pm