Friday, September 17, 2010 1:57 AM
(:
5.02am
okay yay i'm back home finally ((:
looking back, i have to admit that really
i was quite glad i went for this trip in the end.
not just cause my life here is 100x better
as compared to last year
(i think most would kill me if they knew
what i did every day :\)
but cause i guess this time's r and r
had more free time,
which meant less talkative tour guides,
less bus rides (okay maybe not this one),
more interaction with the locals,
better immersion into their culture and lifestyle.
other than the obvious language barrier,
i think i've come to like taiwan quite a bit.
taking extracts from my little yellow booklet
(where i write most my stuff since
the internet rooms there are never empty
and i'm not supposed to say anything anyway):
the pace of life is slower,
the streets are filled with ppl
who're not too bothered abt work or school,
and there's much more stuff to do here.
singapore's nightlife is peanuts compared to this la.
the ppl here are friendly,
they lead simple lifestyles.
they take into account needs not wants,
no stylish jaguars or mercs or bmws,
instead 70% of the population ride scooters,
while the rest drive the likes of toyotas and such.
seldom do you see ppl walking around
forever plugged in to their ipods,
instead they talk to each other
to friends and strangers alike;
there's more communication and interaction all around.
it really feels like a community,
whereas singapore's just like groups of individual ppl
living their own seperate lives.
of course i would like singapore
to be more like taiwan in that sense,
but since one boy cannot change the country,
i shall leave it just as that.
okay i'm sleepy i shall go sleep soon.
much as i like taiwan,
i'm really glad to be home la.
home is where the heart is after all.
because cider is the elixir of life
Thursday, September 09, 2010 1:29 PM
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8.29pm
taiwan on saturday, 2am flight.
today, after supper with my parents,
i shall go pack my room.
and my stuff for taiwan.
since i slept almost 12 hours ytd,
feeling sleepy won't be a problem (:
tmr training in the morning,
then band in the afternoon
till dunno what time.
maybe i'll go airport straight from there :\
then taiwan.
oh well.
the bad:
#1. no band stayover @ cheryl's place tmr night
#2. no pvsp (captains ball since got no frisbee D:)
#3. no maf
#4. no sing opens
#5. yet another birthday in taiwan.
#6. no f1 in sg this year.
digress a bit, i rmb last year or sth
jiehao said that we should go watch f1 live this year.
ironically both of us will be in taiwan this year.
next year maybe sigh.
#7. 2 weeks before wallaby
#8. summer in taiwan (~40deg)
the
#1. the food
#2. the food is legendary
#3. the food is legendary (Y)(Y)(Y)
#4. the girls are half as legendary heh
#5. hiippy's going, so if i'm bored at least can play frisbee
#6. should have quite some spare time in the first week or so
#7. some time away from everyone to think and reflect
#8. going as support personnel rather than trainee, so sure slack
#9. hopefully more nights out since i'm a spec not a trainee
#10. time pasts faster when you've got 2 overseas exercises. ord lo.
#11. i heard there's internet access so yay :D
#12. toilets with cubicles yay x2
and while we're at it.
might as well make up my packing list.
a) clothes. check.
b) psp + charger. check.
c) phone + charger. check.
d) ipod + charger. check.
e) more imptly, adapter. check.
f) frisbee. check.
g) lighter. check.
h) specs. check.
i) the lost symbol, dan brown. check.
j) have a little faith, mitch albom. check.
k) garters. check.
l) foot cream. check.
m) money. check.
n) 11b. check.
o) shopping list. check.
p) batteries. check.
okay i shall go attempt to err
resolve some of this mess
that my room has turned into.
meanwhile, if i don't see you tmr,
goodbye for 3 weeks (:
i'll try to rmb to buy lots of food home haha
i hear the milk teas and ji pas calling :D
because cider is the elixir of life
Sunday, September 05, 2010 10:49 AM
:D
5.52pm
hwachong pvp 2010 (:
okay since everyone was there for pvp,
i shan't bore anyone with details and stuff.
but i thought everything went on okay (:
apart from the fact that ppl got tired
of playing after the inter-batch games
hence didn't wanna play for the hat
(hence putting all lincoln's and daryl's efforts to waste)
but other than that i think everything went fine (:
all the way from early at 7.30am in the morning,
when me and daryl went with lincoln to anchorvale first
to help pack the goodie bags (hahaha ndp)
all the way till the end,
after all the batch games.
since everyone knows how everything went,
shall just post some random pictures yay (:
save my time writing rubbish haha.
the j4s minus huanzi
with the uhh prize haha.
actually i think it was quite nice one la,
until we won and we defaced it haha.
but aiyah don't really care also (:
andddd j3s + 4s
who won by like universal.
haha but last time j2s won us one point also
so its sort of an overall draw la huh.
haha but still. yay :D
lucky they all too busy mugging for As
to play proper frisbee ehehehee
goodie bag gifts 1 and 2.
badge which looks quite zai,
but actually its only $1.50 per badge hahaha
and err random heart thingy.
inspired by christine in 07.
when she gave all of sixoh one of this each.
hahah walao write on that stupid heart shape
60 x heart hc ultimate
60 x past against present 2010
really will write until bored to death one la.
oh and this is the only stress ball
not drawn by lincoln haha.
my random pirate ball haha
with daryl's top top top hat ^^
prizes for the supposed hat,
but used instead for batch games,
since hat got converted into a random nua pick up.
haha walao me lincoln and daryl spent like
the whole of friday afternoon
doing up those random presents
at a random table at made with love at ps la.
okay although not say very nice,
but still. its the thought that counts what!
and a handmade gift is always better
than any factory made, shop bought present loh.
so yaaaa bottomline is that we rock la haha.
and batch photo yay (:
4 batches of hc ultimate!
okay then after that had macs for lunch
since it was the only nearby place with food.
okay most had macs,
me and kw went to 7-11 to eat cup noobles
cause very sian of macs liao.
then err j1s wanted to play pickup
so joined them for a while.
at first was really damn lousy
cause everyone just ate and stuff
still waiting for food to digest
so more of like just walk around and play
but after a while it got better i guess.
anyway played till abt 4plus,
then went off liao la anyway
also quite sian also haha.
went all the way to ntu there
for xyclops part II yay haha.
actually i also dunno why ntu loh.
cause at first we wanted someone's house
but we decided that go someones house to drink
will disturb their families and destroy their house.
so considerate right. so no go.
then thought of going hotel 81
cause its cheap and it IS a room really.
albeit a very very lup sup room,
but it served its purpose,
and i guess there'd be ppl coming to clear up
the next day after we left,
so no need to clear up somemore! :D
but i dunno why that idea got scraped sigh.
so yea ntu hall loh.
since its a weekend,
don't think we'd be disturbing a lot of ppl.
okay but the journey there really.
damn damn damn imba sian.
cause i think weather v hot,
then everyone v pek cek,
then some more the jurong east there
got mrt works going on then cock up,
so the whole place damn damn messy
and chaotic and crowded and stuff.
really super super sian la.
in the end, by the time we reached boon lag
it was alrdy what 8plus 9 liao.
quite dulan really.
but okay la after food and rest
a lot better haha.
then went off to ntu for xyclops!
since lincoln wanted to try drinking (:
and the result tally :D
okay yay i drank like 12 shots only
cause i didn't lose so badly this time yay :D :D
xyclops was okayyyy la.
played bang and card games,
but a while only maybe 2 hrs or so.
cause zhiyang died damn early la.
like after his 12th shot.
he just kua and lie on the floor.
then took a break for a while
then we never got back to the game haha.
but contrary to what lincoln said
nothing happened after that loh.
okay la most went to sleep,
some played psp,
then me kw jy go outside talk a bit
then came back to sleep at abt 5 loh.
LIKE THAT ONLY WHAT.
tsk tsk.
and i wasn't drunk loh.
han my storeman called me a few hours later,
to ask for the ops room number
and the fact that i could rmb and tell him
(65597131) showed that i was sober! D:
so there daryl yee. hahhahha.
countries that start with M.
err... marowak?
because cider is the elixir of life
Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:50 PM
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10.50pm
seeing the juniors going through
their last few days of school this week
made me think of my own last few days in school
almost exactly 2 years back.
and reading my blogspot entries from 2 years ago,
i really really miss my school.
(not that noisy and senseless crap that it is now)
a lot.
looking back,
jc was really once of the most
enjoyable 2 years of my life.
what i'd give for another day
just to sleep in lectures once again.
then chem lecture was sian.
hahahah sleep again loh.
then wake up that time i see KY's notes then i damn shocked.
cause he at page 29 or sth.
then when i slept we were at page 8 i think.
then i was like oh no how long did i sleep.
and i meng flip through my notes to try to find where we are.
and i realise that apparently he's been sleeping too (no surprise)
cause we were just at the next page.
sian sleep liao then chem lecture over.
- 7th feb 08
or maybe just pon the lousy h1 econs lecture.
and trying to worm my way out of trouble.
just talking cock with teachers
who are equally as crappy i can assure you.
haha and ken yeow's back!
yay. and still as guailan as ever!
math lesson he asks
who's done tutorial 4 until question 8
i look around the class.
no one raised their hand.
i raise my hand.
he laughs.
"looks like i'll be seeing more of you."
now its my turn to laugh.
screw you hahahaha.
- also dated 7th feb
oh and auggie for once
quite cute la
taking picture that time
he kept requesting to see the photo of himself
then kept rejecting it
cause he look damn chou in the photo
then insisting that jiehao delete the photos
hahaha then go and do whatever's left of his hair
and straighten his shirt or whatever
before asking for a reshoot.
ehehehe.
- 30th august 08
and for the band of old,
where we're all one big happy bunch of people,
doing rubbish the whole year.
and even though i'm not close to my class at all,
looking through the photo montage,
i kinda miss those days.
and that says a lot i guess.
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and since teachers day was ytd,
heres a teachers day post (:
to the two teachers
who've made the most impact on my jc lives,
happy belated teacher's day.
Mr TheLoy
for thursdays with loy
an hour every week for 2 years
his patience is really too imba for words.
he's forever explaining chem stuff to me
like many many many times cause i suck at chem.
and for his faith in me.
to jiehao and jiawei.
recognise that there are things u haven't grasp.
then work hard from that point. be brave!
know why u don't do well, listen to instructions.
this weekend, relax, play, recover.
next mon onwards, intensive work, no excuses!
with excess conc effort and courage,
and a trace of imagination,
i believe u can score at least a B grade
in the final exam.
this when me and jiehao felt totally pwned during prelims
after the chem paper cause i know sure fail one.
i realy felt d
amn damn damn bad so msged him
to apologize in advance sigh.
i guess this is his idea of humour la.
and we all know what happened to my chem grade.
i really felt damn damn bad when i told him my results.
i still feel bad.
haha i told him so recently
when i msged him during tchrs day.
haha... thanks jiawei. u remember this day.
well, although it didn't work out very well,
this doesn't mean u can't do well in the future.
u will be fine i'm sure.
put in consistent work from the begining :)
etc etc.
still that unwaivering faith after 2 years.
ronnie quek's the other one.
haha. u seem quite stress.
frankly, i don belong to the j1 team,
so i don know what the standard of the paper will be.
just promise me to try your best n don give up!
believe in yourself like how i believe in u k?
before promos in 07
when i was kinda worried that i'd retain.
[hcband heart jiawei] flying frisbee high says:
):
eh ask you ah
now still can get retained
State of High Inertia... says:
u mean u wan to be retaineds ah?
[hcband heart jiawei] flying frisbee high says:
nono
just in case
haha
State of High Inertia... says:
i can arrange
lol
[hcband heart jiawei] flying frisbee high says:
so normally is cannot one la
State of High Inertia... says:
now the j1 filled liao
where got space
straight away kik out
State of High Inertia... says:
but frankly, i think ur physics understanding power is well above average
[hcband heart jiawei] flying frisbee high says:
haha
really! :D
State of High Inertia... says:
u juz plain lazy
haha
very "nua"
[hcband heart jiawei] flying frisbee high says:
but aiyah
i always procrastinate
State of High Inertia... says:
me 2
but we have to get back on track
lol
and abt the same period of time.
i really thought that it was really nice of him
to go out of his way to help me,
seeing that i wasn't in his class.
or even the cohort he was teaching.
for abt a year,
remedials and tips and stuff weekly.
and the same trust that i'd do well.
sometimes i wonder if its just their duty
not to give up on their students,
or that they really see sth in me
that i myself really cannot.
either way, its still fucking zai.
here's to the 2 teachers
that were with me till the very end.
happy teacher's day.
have a great year ahead (:
because cider is the elixir of life