friendly match against nyjc tomorrow at 3.30pm in the hall. i think we'll lose quite badly, adding on to the ugliest jersey i ever own. life concert's on friday, next week will be a good short week with halfday on monday, sports day on thurs and good friday on friday of course.

im starting revision for blocktest 2 already, i think more time means better grades. it should work out this way. 8more weeks to go. study hard and we'll enjoy better.

i dont know why i've been feeling tired recently, and i get tired very easily. im glad the weekends are here, though it will end in just a few hours time. term one was really busy, 2 assesments. there will be none in term 2, so i guess i shall visit my grandparents at their place today later in the afternoon. its been quite some time since i last saw them and my relatives. i better visit them more often, i dont want to regret later.

the first race of the season is gonna start at around 2pm. Formula One will kick off the 2009 season as usual with the first race in Australia. i doubt i'll be going for the singapore leg like last year, economy's bad. really bad. but i will still get my guitar at the end of the year. and the qualifying results from yesterday were a bit disappointing, hamilton starting from last on the grid, he is the reigning world champion. i wonder how it will turn out this year, should be interesting to watch.

anyway, i found out that i visit changi village quite often, almost every saturday for dinner. i had chicken rice at the same stall for 2 consecutive dinners this week, on friday after cycling and saturday with my sister. maybe should suggest changi village for the next ocip outing, but i think most of them would disagree.

gotta spend some quality time with my guitar now, chances like this are hard to come by. have a nice day!

the team

the lake

the worst restaurant

the village

From ocip

the terror in the corner

From ocip

the buddy who turns pink

From ocip

grounded forever

From ocip

wall murals

From ocip

homestay

From ocip

the kids

From ocip

the boredom

From ocip

the scenery

From ocip

Gore

From ocip

i never knew angus had that till a while ago

From ocip

the sg-bac ha games in the mountains

From ocip

the morning walks

From ocip

getting lost

well, i visited melodie's blog and the first thing i saw was the ocip photos. i only posted one the other time, she posted like quite a lot more. the ocip trip is one thing that we will never forget, its been about half a year since the trip and these photos never fail to refresh and bring back those memories again. it was the trip that brought so many of us together, prior to that i only knew zhong zi. thats 1 out of 19. what i miss about vietnam was the company, the weather, my job and every other thing no matter how small it may be. looking forward to another outing/chilling time. im gonna post some more photos soon via picasa, if not it will take forever if i do it from blogger.com

it wasnt really a good day for me today. it started of pretty much alright as usual, and there's the ocip presentation during assembly. i thought it was quite a good job. pe was tiring, adding on to the fatigue from training yesterday. did the 2.4km trial run today, ricky counted 6 when he ran 5, so i ran 5 in the end too. 9min plus, i gotta run faster. thats without any prior running training, so its not so bad.

here comes the decline of my mood today. yesterday mr lee released the math result. today was chemistry. i thought it would not be that bad, but ended up the same as math. i really dont know what went wrong, so terribly wrong. maybe it was just the lack of time. felt terrible for the rest of the day till physics.

miss huang's lessons are interesting as usual. and she returned the scripts today. i couldn't change the mcq marks, so its fixed. then what she did was that we had to add our score ourselves, theres no marks on the cover page. thankfully, 68 out of 100. the paper 2 i had 56. i was never confident about scoring well in physics, and it turned out that its my most consistent subject of all.

i was quite alright after the lesson, then miss jasmine tan called me, saying she wants to speak to me and clarify some stuff. it was about service learning, and its about jin kahn and friends. these idiots claimed that i did not tell him anything about service learning and now they are blaming me for them missing the whole thing. they were informed about it during the holidays and did not come for even a single practice. i wont want to get myself into trouble. if you chose not to come, why blame me? i did my job, you dont follow my instructions and please do not blame me and get lost. besides, you peeps dont even seem to care about this service learning thing, so do you think you deserve even me telling you? that got me really pissed off, although you may not see it written all over my face

the journey home on service 8 was never short and the bus never fails to be packed. and there was this little girl that was crying all the way for a good 45min till she alighted. i really felt like slapping her if the bus was not so packed and i could reach her.

now im tired and lost about the results. from ABC to BEE. i really want to know what happened. maybe its a sign that i should start studying again.

talk about yesterday first. wasted the whole day away. slept in the afternoon, watched baseball and drank at night. couldn't sleep at night, so waited till quite late when i feel a bit more tired and finally slept. john turned pink after a small sip of absolut citron. zhong zi turned red. i actually got to play the rory gallagher's guitar at waikay's place yesterday. it was like a guitar wonderland. you have gibson vos that cost well over $8000 and many fender custom guitars. i really love the rory strat, but thats $4000 plus. so, forget about getting it soon.

lack of sleep, i was yawning away during training today. when i get bored even in the court, i'll just yawn and energy level drops. this could be why i can't stop moving in court, if not i just can't play for nuts.

the blocktest result was sorely disappointing. although its math only, its bad enough. not a fail, but just not good enough for me to feel good. i will start mugging next week, and resume the hunt for As. i can do it, we can do it. continue to believe and keep the faith strong, for God never gives up on you. unless you give up on yourself.

im gonna sleep. see you around tomorrow.

still undecided if i should go for the meet-up later on at clarke quay, i'll be late for sure.

its been quite a long and lazy afternoon, playing my guitar and doing nothing else. i think that slow songs have their appeal, they are more challenging but sound better than those heavy distorted high gain stuff. im starting to play more variety, pop/rock/metal/blues all are good. feeling quite tired since morning, guess i slept too much. if you have the time, listen to 'Comfortable' by john mayer. dont ask why its john mayer again, he is really good. thats a very nice slow slow song.

i think i will just go later, but leave early and come home to sleep. training again tomorrow, i'll see what the coach has for me.

blocktest one is officially over for me, at least the assesment part is over. results will be out in a couple of days. physics wasn't that bad, but wont be good either. but i hope it turns out alright. 65 rank points, i hope to meet that target.

service learning is over too. went to telok kurau primary school and stayed there for about 3hours. and guess what, nothing screwed up! nothing at all! im so glad that nothing really crop up anywhere, despite the fact that we had less than 1month to plan and prepare amidst all the blocktest and stuff. ms jasmine tan gave us full marks for today's performance, and im rather happy its finally over. although we were dealing with primary school kids, they are totally different from whats over up north in vietnam, but quite similar to those at the SOS orphanage. no, its a VILLAGE. im not the photographer this time, but its still my camera. well, i guess these kids are hyperactive, they cant stop running around. although its just a short session with them, im very tired. but its quite a good experience for me, planning and executing everything. thanks ricky and chan too, they deserve it. if the class can finish the scrapbook by friday, maybe we could, friday would be another free day.

i have no paper tomorrow, good luck to those who still have. but i have loads of stuff to do. cycle in the morning, this time will be 60km. sleep and go out to get the service learning photos printed at my favourite konota. if you want to print photos, go to konota at peninsula plaza. its really good, just ask olivia. drop by waikay's place late afternoon, meeting the ocip peeps to chill again at clarke quay. too much of this isnt much fun, but i still look forward to it. now will be time to play my guitar, weight training and sleep.

"Cant seem to hold you like i want to, so i can feel you in my arms.
i was the one you always dreamed of, you were the one i tried to draw
my dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room."

-slow dancing in a burning room. john mayer