Monday, January 30, 2006
cny.
well its that time of year again, where we all meet up as relatives and do the same old things, ask the same old questions of each other, like an endless cycle that goes on and on, repeating itself every year. well call me cynical, uniterested or whatever, but seriously. you just have lunch/dinner, get ang baos (which is kinda nice) and then end up on the couch being invisible and playing with some random electronic device (usually the handphone), while uncles and aunties come and ask you "how's school?" and somehow despite me telling them every year which level i'm in, they still think i'm either taking a's this year or graduated already. cny's become so ritualistic, so routine, just like brushing teeth in the morning or going to school. okay enough ranting from me. i shouldn't complain so much. at least it's still a time for family gatherings. so we don't all start forgetting our relatives.
the novelty of $2 plastic notes will have totally worn off after this cny. i mean. i have more $2 plastic notes than i have $10 ones (i don't even have any $10 plastic notes, so yeah). well that was a random comment.
one free day tmr. i wonder what i should do.
you're still with me in my dreams...
stained with coffee at 11:15 PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
musings version x, where x is any real number greater than 2.
lolx. i can never come up with proper titles.
anw my dreams of becoming a tennis superstar in rj (wow. wtv.) have kinda ended for this year, after failing to make the cut. well that means i won't have so much headache choosing which CCA to go for/to drop, but then sadly it means that i shall have to go hunting for another interesting CCA (one CCA is just sad). hmm. maybe i can undergo secret training and try out next year? but that seems rather odd. anw.
og is kinda getting a little more alive heh. or maybe it's just cuz we have birthdays coming up. well, as long as it holds out until my birthday i'm fine with it ^^". right okay just kidding. but it's nice to see our og being a little less dead. anw thanx to all the birthday kids this week (4 in 5 days wah lau) i see this week's savings drifting away. well, at least i know it's for a good cause ^^".
on a random note, i think i am rediscovering passion for lit. well i had some when i decided on my subj combi i suppose, but it was kinda faint and not really commital... but the poems and stuff that we get are starting to become nicer and much more interesting.. particularly liked the one we got for today's diagnostic test (the one on horses in winter). really really nice piece.
kk. all from me for today. yay.
stained with coffee at 9:22 PM
Thursday, January 19, 2006
just wanted to blog about some stuff before i go to sleep.
well. tried to get the og going today with my sort-of spur-of-the-moment decision to go for dinner. which ended up with me having a heck of a time trying to organise things for almost 2 hours, using up a whole lot of my messages/talktime, while trying to play tennis at the same time. which isn't very fun. anyway, in the end, guess what? NOTHING happened. cuz sadly, nobody seems very interested in og life anymore. but hey, at least i tried. and yeah. we're having dinner tmr as an og (hopefully the whole og will be there ><"). so i must say i feel quite satisfied that i got the ball rolling somewhere. mwahah. just hope there isn't like a lake or something at the bottom of whichever slope we're rolling down.
haha. i'm back to reading whyallthangerandhate. daily dose of humour + laughing at one sad, despo guy who just can't make it. at any rate, seems like the blogger is in the matchmaking cca. well well. is that really just a case of extreme despo-ism? or maybe he just likes the stars. hmm.
kk. all from me today. gotta sleep. gotta get enough rest. tennis trials on sat morn. i dunno why i'm going and giving myself more headache (well, if i don't get in, i'll just be fine, but if i do, then i have to choose between tennis and chorale. which is. ugh. unless of course, i do both. which is just short of crazy.)
stained with coffee at 11:24 PM
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
hmmm.
do read wen hao's post entitled
"a commitment too early", cuz i think it really applies to me as well. which is really sad. i mean. there are like. tons and tons of other things that i could join... like tennis, maybe shooting... sadly i made an early 'career choice' and now yeah i'm sorta stuck in chorale. i mean. even if i do manage to get into other ccas, it just feels bad to abandon chorale. not that i have much gripes about chorale larh, i like singing and music and all the stuff they do... but just maybe i should have tried something new, and now i fear it's a little too late.
sadly our og has disintegrated. well, we still meet in the mornings (some of us anyway), but then there doesn't seem to be much that brings us together during this time, and after that, when the day kicks in, we're all so caught up with other old friends that we seem to forget the two little letters 'og'. sadly the case. maybe it wasn't meant to be a fixed thing, something that was supposed to last. maybe it was just a short-term measure to bridge the awkwardness of the first week or so in RJ. but still. shouldn't we all just put in a little effort to really bond with practically the first few 'strangers' we meet in RJ? well, that's just my take on it. but then, relationships can't be one-way. of course, the cliched phrase 'it takes 2 hands to clap' just comes to mind. well. i guess, we'll se how it goes (which is really a phrase repeated for like. the 3rd or 4th time on this blog in the span of like. 3 entries. it's sad.)
just as a side note, chorale wasn't until 7.30 (thankfully). and due to awful weather, i now have to wake up at 5.30 on sat if i want to go for tennis trials. ><"
stained with coffee at 9:17 PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
t1 wk3 day 2.
well. slightly less than 3 1/2 weeks passed in rj. think i'm getting sorta used to this. heh. quite okay still so far. well. i was gonna say "at least it's still quite slack so far" but i have just received info that i have chorale prac from
2.00 to 7.30PM!! tmr so i guess that's that.
let me just say some stuff about the system. firstly i think lecture-tutorial systems don't really seem to work for some subjects. take math for eg. maybe it's cuz of the boring-ness of the lecturer but yeah, i seem to have fallen asleep for ALL maths lectures so far. and we still haven't progressed pass the half-way mark of our 1st set of lecture notes. after like. 3 lectures? 4? doesn't seem very efficient to me. esp since it's mostly revision work (from sec 3), and some things such as drawing arrow diagrams doesn't need to take 10 min. gripes aside, i think my class is sort-of starting to bond, which is kinda good. but the og is like. splitting up. which is really kinda bad. well. we'll see how it goes.
today had p.e. at 2. at least we weren't made to run or anything. i think i'd have fainted. anw. had some indoor soccer stuff. i'm rusty. like really rusty. but then it's not like i'm really gonna play much soccer anymore i think. which is kinda sad. well. i guess i just don't have enough time anymore to do everything i want. even though my schedule is kinda easier than last year's.
rained at like. 3+ or 4. which wasn't very good cuz i was stuck in school. well. i was kinda hoping there'd be people to go home with but oh well. couldn't find any, sadly. did some wuliao writing while i was waiting for the rain to stop. i think i shall refine it a little before posting it up. heh.
it's kinda early to feel this way i guess
but the train home just seems much too lonely
stained with coffee at 8:43 PM
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
another post-less year?
i hope not. okay. so.
new year, new school, although half the faces look similar. hmmm. well, won't comment on the growing feeling of 'elitism'. anw. about orientation. just about any other orientation i suppose. quite fun, rather enjoyable, really draining. really awkward the first day or so (really gotta thank the ogls for spurring us on), but i think we really started bonding well as an OG after the night of the second day (where we all hung out at the playground next to S-11 like some group of ah bengs/lians). yay. super-enthu OG that won almost everything ^^". for more details on what happened see sherman's blog.
it's been quite fun-fun these couple of weeks larh, but i suppose that will all change when we actually get into the year proper. which is sad. will our OG still survive? hope so. anw i suppose i shouldn't be so passive about my OG. should try and help with all the organising of events/outings and stuff. wilson and cheryl are doing a really great job, but i suppose (well i know, actually) that it's really taxing on them. i'm not really the kind of very social person who can really reach out to others and stuff larh i know, but well. should try to take initiative and help out in whatever i can. that said, i think we still have the most super-enthu OG around! yay go galazios! whee.
hokay. 's been a really rainy period (raining like 24 hours a day or close to it). depressing, since nothing outdoors can really be done. well that, and rain just seems to make one's spirit sink. i guess even with all the hype about orientation and stuff i've been struggling through a kinda low period. hopefully it'll wear off. seems like i just sink into random bouts of depression brought on by various things. which is um. disturbing. well. we'll se how it goes. enough from me. and hopefully i won't go on too long a hiatus before the next post.
stained with coffee at 11:33 PM
