Tuesday, April 13, 2010
NS check-up is screwed.
Especially so when you go alone. Have you ever been late even though you left the house 2 hours before the appointment time? I freaking did.
The location was like impossible to find la. What the hell. Should have taken a taxi like many people suggested. Haiz, overconfident with my own abilities.
Went in there and got PES A for all of the current tests. Probability would change after they look at the X-ray of my backbone, which is curved 26 degrees. Hahahaha. Unexpectedly, the eyesight was still under acceptable range. 6/9 or smth liddat.
Even though I thought I was going to be blind soon.
But the most time-wasting event was the freaking aptitude test. Omg la. Total waste of time. So what if its important in determining if you would be able to enter command school. I was freaking hungry. That's important.
And after going through the disastrous, traumatising aptitude test. IT STARTED RAINING.
Like pouring cats and dogs or something.
Thanks to the medical clinic being located in the midst of defence technology towers, the nearest bus-stop that was accessible from the Central ManPower Base(CMPB) was like some 200metres away. I think they scared people put bomb in the bus-stop's rubbish bin or something. Argh.
So I walked in the rain like some stupid idiot without an umbrella from the CMPB to the main entrance. Then from the main entrance to the bus-stop. Totally drenched.
And took the first random bus(57) cause it says it goes to bishan.
I honestly thought it would head straight to bishan from Bukit Merah. It freaking took me to HARBOURFRONT first. So the uber hungry me decided that I would eat something first.
After all I had gone without a meal from 11.30 to 5.21pm when I walked out of CMPB.
Damn stupid 1 big round and ended up in yishun only at 7pm. Arghhhh.
How I wish you would look at me
How I wish you would smile at me
How I wish you would just love me
How I wish I wasn't so greedy
How I wish I know they are impossible.
Especially so when you go alone. Have you ever been late even though you left the house 2 hours before the appointment time? I freaking did.
The location was like impossible to find la. What the hell. Should have taken a taxi like many people suggested. Haiz, overconfident with my own abilities.
Went in there and got PES A for all of the current tests. Probability would change after they look at the X-ray of my backbone, which is curved 26 degrees. Hahahaha. Unexpectedly, the eyesight was still under acceptable range. 6/9 or smth liddat.
Even though I thought I was going to be blind soon.
But the most time-wasting event was the freaking aptitude test. Omg la. Total waste of time. So what if its important in determining if you would be able to enter command school. I was freaking hungry. That's important.
And after going through the disastrous, traumatising aptitude test. IT STARTED RAINING.
Like pouring cats and dogs or something.
Thanks to the medical clinic being located in the midst of defence technology towers, the nearest bus-stop that was accessible from the Central ManPower Base(CMPB) was like some 200metres away. I think they scared people put bomb in the bus-stop's rubbish bin or something. Argh.
So I walked in the rain like some stupid idiot without an umbrella from the CMPB to the main entrance. Then from the main entrance to the bus-stop. Totally drenched.
And took the first random bus(57) cause it says it goes to bishan.
I honestly thought it would head straight to bishan from Bukit Merah. It freaking took me to HARBOURFRONT first. So the uber hungry me decided that I would eat something first.
After all I had gone without a meal from 11.30 to 5.21pm when I walked out of CMPB.
Damn stupid 1 big round and ended up in yishun only at 7pm. Arghhhh.
How I wish you would look at me
How I wish you would smile at me
How I wish you would just love me
How I wish I wasn't so greedy
How I wish I know they are impossible.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Parent-Teacher Dialogue(PTD).
It has always been my personal philosophy to separate the two.. Like with a barrier or something. I always liked it when they have minimal contact.
Just let me tank everything la. Inform them for what. I'd responsible. I won't run from it anyway.
So expectedly the conversations weren't very positive. They were focusing on my bad points, which is typical so I don't really blame them... But please keep your extrapolation to yourselves? Yes you can expect of me to do well. But I'm not the studying type like you all like to think I am. I sorry.
Yeah that's what I hate about PTD.
Teachers always like to say one freaking point.
"If he studies and makes the effort he'll definitely do well". But I think Ms Ng's one is like epic. (Direct english translation) "Oh, I've never once doubt that he wouldn't get his straight As if he puts in the effort".
GEE GEE GEE GEE
A ton just fell on my shoulders. Nice one.
Oh oh, and that all had one common point. Me playing basketball. HAHA. Exaggerated versions include seeing me playing basketball early in the morning 3-4 times A WEEK. Whilst the general saying is that I'm pretty energised during ball time and not during lesson time...
Haha. Too bad =P.
And they're on pretty concerned about when A div's ending so I can quickly get back on my feet for studying. Hmmz. I'm wishing it drags on cause that'll imply that we're getting further and further!!!
It has always been my personal philosophy to separate the two.. Like with a barrier or something. I always liked it when they have minimal contact.
Just let me tank everything la. Inform them for what. I'd responsible. I won't run from it anyway.
So expectedly the conversations weren't very positive. They were focusing on my bad points, which is typical so I don't really blame them... But please keep your extrapolation to yourselves? Yes you can expect of me to do well. But I'm not the studying type like you all like to think I am. I sorry.
Yeah that's what I hate about PTD.
Teachers always like to say one freaking point.
"If he studies and makes the effort he'll definitely do well". But I think Ms Ng's one is like epic. (Direct english translation) "Oh, I've never once doubt that he wouldn't get his straight As if he puts in the effort".
GEE GEE GEE GEE
A ton just fell on my shoulders. Nice one.
Oh oh, and that all had one common point. Me playing basketball. HAHA. Exaggerated versions include seeing me playing basketball early in the morning 3-4 times A WEEK. Whilst the general saying is that I'm pretty energised during ball time and not during lesson time...
Haha. Too bad =P.
And they're on pretty concerned about when A div's ending so I can quickly get back on my feet for studying. Hmmz. I'm wishing it drags on cause that'll imply that we're getting further and further!!!
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
It feels good to be appreciated. To know that you're useful, and not just there because you seem to be.
Sorry, but I'm still talking about basketball.
Its significant to me. Its the 2nd time, I came out of the court(for a substitution) where Mr.Wong reached out his hand and said, "good play yancheng". I felt honoured. Yea. I truly do.
Then my seniors were telling me
"good job on the defense"
"nice d"
"wa u jump very high for the rebound"
Things like that.
You may think that some words of yours don't matter to others. You have the freedom to say what you like. I tell you. It matters. Every single comment can push one up or pull one down.
The tongue is mightier than the sword.
Sorry, but I'm still talking about basketball.
Its significant to me. Its the 2nd time, I came out of the court(for a substitution) where Mr.Wong reached out his hand and said, "good play yancheng". I felt honoured. Yea. I truly do.
Then my seniors were telling me
"good job on the defense"
"nice d"
"wa u jump very high for the rebound"
Things like that.
You may think that some words of yours don't matter to others. You have the freedom to say what you like. I tell you. It matters. Every single comment can push one up or pull one down.
The tongue is mightier than the sword.
We won NJC. We made history. We cleared the largest obstacle of our path so far.
And all of us are enjoying it. Even though its only the first game of the compeition.
I'm horribly guilty though. While everyone wanted us to believe. Really believe, that its possible for us to win. I didn't. I tried to. But I didn't, deep down I always thought we're just deluding ourselves. We're just creating an illusion, a facade to protect our fragile hearts.
But we did it.
I believed, ultimately, on the bus, when shaowei gave us some teamtalk. I honestly believed.
Though I think I still paid for not believing in the first place. Haha.
To begin with...
The air up there is nice. Fresh and everything when you jump. But there's just this tiny little problem. We, cannot, defy, gravity. So with a little help from the opponent's center(A key position in basketball), I met with the ground much faster than gravity were to pull me.
Landed on my freaking back. Hit the floor hard on the back of my head. Sure, he said sorry. Just wondering if he meant it. I'm just kind of glad I didn't suffer a concussion. Hahaha.
The most embrassing thing is. I couldn't get up. There's this momentary lag time that took me back to my senses. Whilst in it, no wonder how I tried to find my balance, I couldn't stand. Someone had to pull me up from behind. Till I got on my feet.
So people, be grateful you can stand.
Then in the last minute confusion of panic that all 10 men on the court has, my chin scraped the opponent's head. He fell to the floor and shouted at the referee, and I felt my chin bleeding. But there was no time to attend to it.
44-44
We all knew the importance of that last 10 seconds. Win it, or break it. And the ball's with us. Like every single drama, some star would rise to the occasion, throw the game winning shot from no man's land and score the basket.
But we're living in reality.
The buzzer sounded. The game is over.
44-44
And our very own YJ star was holding the ball. At the line, gearing up for his 3 free-throws that would determine the fate of not just the game, but most likely the whole course of the compeition.
45-44
46-44
47-44.
Miracles do happen.
And all of us are enjoying it. Even though its only the first game of the compeition.
I'm horribly guilty though. While everyone wanted us to believe. Really believe, that its possible for us to win. I didn't. I tried to. But I didn't, deep down I always thought we're just deluding ourselves. We're just creating an illusion, a facade to protect our fragile hearts.
But we did it.
I believed, ultimately, on the bus, when shaowei gave us some teamtalk. I honestly believed.
Though I think I still paid for not believing in the first place. Haha.
To begin with...
The air up there is nice. Fresh and everything when you jump. But there's just this tiny little problem. We, cannot, defy, gravity. So with a little help from the opponent's center(A key position in basketball), I met with the ground much faster than gravity were to pull me.
Landed on my freaking back. Hit the floor hard on the back of my head. Sure, he said sorry. Just wondering if he meant it. I'm just kind of glad I didn't suffer a concussion. Hahaha.
The most embrassing thing is. I couldn't get up. There's this momentary lag time that took me back to my senses. Whilst in it, no wonder how I tried to find my balance, I couldn't stand. Someone had to pull me up from behind. Till I got on my feet.
So people, be grateful you can stand.
Then in the last minute confusion of panic that all 10 men on the court has, my chin scraped the opponent's head. He fell to the floor and shouted at the referee, and I felt my chin bleeding. But there was no time to attend to it.
44-44
We all knew the importance of that last 10 seconds. Win it, or break it. And the ball's with us. Like every single drama, some star would rise to the occasion, throw the game winning shot from no man's land and score the basket.
But we're living in reality.
The buzzer sounded. The game is over.
44-44
And our very own YJ star was holding the ball. At the line, gearing up for his 3 free-throws that would determine the fate of not just the game, but most likely the whole course of the compeition.
45-44
46-44
47-44.
Miracles do happen.
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