Sunday, 26 October 2008
19 October 2008, Sunday
About yesterday evening. I went to Hannah’s house with no plans of what to do there because my parents were going there for the “Hope Singapore” training. Hannah’s got a really big and nice house, or you can say crib. We spent the whole evening watching the soccer match between Middlesbrough and Chelsea. Chelsea won 5 – 0, which was due to the fact that Middlesbrough played really badly. I loved the couch we were sitting on, with the really big cushions to hug. In fact, I made myself feel so at home. Sorry Hannah, I just love the couch and the television. After watching the match, we were treated to good food for supper. Great evening despite the bad day. Thanks Hannah for the invitation though, and letting me peek at your room.
I shall talk about the New Balance Real Run tomorrow since my body aches so much that I have problems writing a good post. The pain affects my brain somehow.
20 October 2008, Monday
Thank God that bowling training is postponed just when I needed it. Bowling training is postponed to Thursday, giving my body enough time to rest from the post muscle aches from the run yesterday. Anyway, congratulations to all the bowlers who took part in the POL-ITE bowling competition. You surely did the bowling team and the school proud.
About the New Balance Real Run. There were mixed feelings within me when I think about the run. I was happy that I broke my personal record time, yet I am not satisfied with my timing. Anyway, I think my pacing was not really good throughout the run. I will have to keep training and hope to do better in the run next year. I am losing face here but I am sad to say that 55 girls overtook me in the run. There is nothing to be sad about though, they are probably all from the cross country team of their schools while I am not. It shows that with training, anything can be possible.
21 October 2008, Tuesday
I am skipping sailing training so that I can go home and do my project. I have muscle ache anyway, so I cannot attend training. It only took me a fraction of a second to think of such a good but unacceptable excuse, but who cares anyway. I am really in pain after all and that my project is the priority at the moment. For Thursday, I will be skipping training too as I have bowling training.
22 October 2008, Wednesday
The water safety talk conducted by the school was nothing interesting, but I had to attend it since it was compulsory. Luckily, the talk lasted less than half an hour so I could continue with my gym training.
23 October 2008, Thursday
Lessons only totaled to three hours and I had a four hour break in between, which was a totally a waste of time. I prefer shorter breaks so that I can go home earlier instead of wasting my time in school. Blame it on the poor planning of the time table committee.
24 October 2008, Friday
Two hours of lecture was all I got for school this Friday. It is a make-up lesson since next week is Deepavali. I wish that was no public holiday for this once because bowling training will either be cancelled or postponed, which is not a good thing. I will be going for sailing over the weekend. Sailing training for tomorrow, and my first sailing competition on Sunday. Things are going to get exciting.
Anyway, going home with Annabel is really embarrassing. While on the train, she noticed that it had cameras planted all over (not knowing that they are for security reasons). She then started posing in front of the cameras like as if she was cam whoring. Later, this lady got up and she wanted the seat so she was like “I want to sit, I want to sit.” Everyone stared at us and I had to hide my face. I had a good chat with her though.
25 October 2008, Saturday
Running alone in the morning was not too bad after all. This is the first time I ran alone at East Coast Park. The morning breeze was cooling and refreshing, and I got to appreciate the creations of God in serenity. Too bad I only ran 1.5 km when my target was 3 km. Next week I will do 3 km, I promise.
Sailing. The wind was pretty good enough to throw me out of my boat as I was too light the laser class of boat (I am not revealing my weight). I really enjoyed myself even though I got hit on the head by the boom just once. It was really a painful and violent knock, but I still managed to sail thereafter. A series of unfortunate events happened again this week, but this time it was out at sea. Firstly, I crashed into Xin Ni and she started screaming at me because our boats got locked onto one another. Our unhelpful coach just watched us and laugh (he claimed he did not know how to help us). Luckily, with some luck, our boats unlocked and we were spared from capsizing.
Second incident. As the wind was pretty strong, somehow the clip to my traveler line broke and I had so much difficulty sailing the boat back to shore. I got a lot of blisters from that. After sailing, Jeremy drove us to Plaza Singapura to eat. We had a great time eating at Long John Silvers before we headed home, while the rest went to catch a movie.
not planning is as good as planning to fail
Sunday, 19 October 2008
12 October 2008, Sunday
Yes, I need discipline. After doing my project, I can end the day without worries and know that there is still some discipline in me. Of course who knows what tomorrow might hold? Anyway, I went down to City Hall to meet up with Chester to do window shopping although I had money to spend. I could neither find the Adidas shoe bag I wanted nor the Quiksilver slippers. In fact, I cannot find anything that interests me. In the end, we ended up walking around Marina Square and Suntec City aimlessly. We finally settled down at McDonald’s eating ice cream because Starbucks was so packed that there was not a single seat left (actually, there was one but some inconsiderate girl put her legs on it). At least the time spent there catching up with Chester was worthwhile and that the ice cream was really good (Chester’s ice cream was way better than mine but more costly).
13 October 2008, Monday
If telling myself that I like everything about school and not complain will help me do better, from now on, I am telling everyone that I love school. “I LOVE SCHOOL AND SCHOOL IS THE BEST.” (not really true for the second part of the sentence). I cannot deny that I love my CCAs though. Bowling, campus crusade, and sailing are the best (this sentence is very true). I’m going to look at school from a different perspective for this new semester and work harder to achieve better grades.
14 October 2008, Tuesday
Bowling was terrible yesterday. We left our embarrassing scores for all you pros to see. Luckily, while some of you were looking, I got my only strike of the day. Enough, I am not giving up just because of one day’s poor performance. Instead, I believe that failure will spur me on to do better in the future because I cannot think of anything that can be worst than failing. It is the bottom-line, and there is only room for improvement. Just you wait and see.
On a high note, the only lesson in the morning is cancelled so school starts at two. I like that. I am going to start studying now as there is no time for procrastinating.
15 October 2008, Wednesday
Tired of listening to boring lectures? No, I am not. I will persevere on for the rest of the semester.
16 October 2008, Thursday
The book I am reading is really helping me a lot. My bowling kind of improved a little but I still have lots of things to learn from it. The lectures have started proper already and some of the lectures are pretty boring and dry. I am going to bear with it no matter what.
17 October 2008, Friday
School’s out as Fridays are meant for doing projects. I met my project group leader for only about ten minutes despite spending about an hour travelling down to school. The meeting was fruitful though and that is all that matters. Sailing training starts tomorrow. I am very excited as I am going to use a boat that I have never sailed before.
18 October 2008, Saturday
Being the first time in training with the sailing team, I found it hard to believe that only three people turned up, including me, and a series of unfortunate events followed thereafter. The training session was made memorable when I embarrassed myself by taking someone’s bag on accident and it was not my fault, I can testify.
Here goes – Since I needed sun block lotion to protect myself from skin cancer, I asked Jeremy to lend me his sun block lotion and he was only helpful enough to tell me to get it from his Adidas bag over at the canteen. Well, seeing that there was this big Adidas bag on the table, it immediately caught my attention and I went over to grab it not knowing that it belonged to the girl standing next to it. Well, that girl was with her group of friends and she was like “Excuse me, this is my bag.” I immediately apologised and ran away being so badly embarrassed, before going over to confront the unhelpful Jeremy. Thanks Jeremy, you certainly “made” my day. Lesson learnt is that I must bring my own sun block lotion and that no doubt Adidas is a very popular brand. I own one Adidas bag myself.
Anyway, I finally get to sail a “Laser” for the first time. The rigging of the boat is rather complicated but I still managed it with some help from the coach. There was hardly any wind so we could not really sail (we were drifting and rocking our boats more than sailing and had to be towed back to shore). In the end, our coach called us to wash our boats and we were dismissed.
After showering, we left the sailing centre hoping that a kind soul would let us hitch a ride to the bus stop about two kilometers down the road. Sadly, there was none. Singaporeans are so unhelpful. Many of the cars just pass by us, looking at us as though we were animals in a safari. Some of the drivers gave us a little hope that we could hitch a ride by slowing down and then speeding off right after they saw us. We gave up the thought of hitching a ride and walked all the way to the bus stop and stopped by the ice cream van to get some ice cream.
While eating our ice cream, there was this nice cab driver who stopped by and said he could wait for us to buy our ice cream and eat on board the cab. Sounds good at first, but it the cab bill was much higher than anyone of us could expect. A trip from East Coast Park to Tampines train station cost only about five dollars, but our cab fee amounted to nine over dollars. The verdict was that we got cheated. After all the unfortunate events, I went to eat KFC with Jeremy before heading home. However, my evening was great. I shall touch on it tomorrow since it deviates so much from all the unfortunate events.
to bring out the very best in me
Sunday, 12 October 2008
05 October 2008, Sunday
If I have to wake up at five in the morning everyday, the eye bags are sure to come. Anyway, I woke up at five plus this morning to go and meet Mou Wei to go for the New Balance Trial Run which was held at Changi Exhibition Centre. Our initially plan to take the first train down to Pasir Ris was foiled because the first train only arrives after six thirty and we have to be at Pasir Ris train station by six forty-five latest. In the end, we hailed a cab and we got there within twenty minutes. We got onto the shuttle bus and the journey down to the starting point was longer than expected.
Being my first time at Changi Exhibition Centre, I was surprised that the place was very peaceful despite the amount of people present for the event. It was very big and spacious and I got to enjoy the cool morning breeze and also the serenity. Mou Wei and I also went to try out the New Balance All Terrain shoes that were available. Talking about all terrain shoes, the shoes gave us lots of trouble when running on the sand trail, thus, it did not impress us at all. After the run, we ate at Burger King before heading home. The run was great as the weather was cool and windy but I really dislike the sand trail.
Power napped in the afternoon before heading down for the McDonald’s survey held at their headquarters at King Albert Park. To my surprise, I met Daryl and he was going for the survey too. Daryl was really funny as he ate up almost all the four burgers to be tested and he still went to eat up my remaining biscuit (with permission of course). We left together and got to catch up with him as we have not met for months. On another note, I think the toilet at the McDonald’s headquarters is a classic and I am quite impressed by it. I am not going into the details of the toilet though, but you should go and check it out yourself.
06 October 2008, Monday
“Practice makes perfect.” Apply this into bowling with a heart full of passion, victory is sure to come in no time. After a few years of training, my bowling has surely improve to a certain extend. Yesterday’s “bullet game” during training was an eminent sign. I survived by keeping my five lives for almost the entire duration of the game until the closing stages. In the end, I came in second losing to Kai Yuan, who had only half a life.
07 October 2008, Tuesday
What a carefree day. My manager did not come and thus, my workload is not as much for the day. Lunch was horrible. I had hand-made noodles which tastes so blend. The worst part was that the vegetables are bitter. Besides the horrible lunch, everything else went on fine and I am back to my normal exercise routine.
08 October 2008, Wednesday
Nothing at Singapore Post Centre’s food court taste good. Therefore, if you happen to go there, eat fast food instead as it is cheaper and it definitely tastes better.
09 October 2008, Thursday
Working and going back to school, and back to work again. The time spent travelling is as good as two full hours of my pay. Project meeting went on well and I was assigned to do some work for the group. I guess I must start doing my school work soon before the new semester begins.
10 October 2008, Friday
Last day of work felt as if it was just another normal day. After work, I stayed back and talk to some of my colleagues and even exchanged phone number with one of them. I had a great night at Sanctuary Green Condominium. I went there because my mum needed to attend the training for the “Hope Singapore” outreach event. Hannah was there too and we had a great talk about practically everything under the moon. There was also a reluctant someone that did not want to follow me to Kallang Leisure Park, leaving me to go there alone to get my dinner.
11 October 2008, Saturday
Finally, I completed eighty sets of different exercises in the gym. Going to the gym on Saturdays is good because you get all the equipment to yourself. After using the gym, I had lunch with Chor Boon and Mou Wei at the restaurant next to the gym. The food was great but the portion was too small. What a boring day.
a solid foundation gives strength to a building and a life
Saturday, 11 October 2008
I can’t believe you actually said those words. I shall not reveal your identity so that people will not shunt you if they know you are like that (at least I think about you when I write this). I don’t really care what you said about me, because I have enough self-esteem to feel good about myself than to dwell on what you said.
The person I know in you had the captivating personality that I will sometimes look up to. Now, I feel that I don’t even know you anymore. Some time ago, you and another girl were talking about my friend right in front of me. “Hello”, I was right in front of you talking to you already when you suddenly say to that girl, “Yes, I think she’s a bimbo.” Instead of stopping there, you went on and on about my other friends. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you have been talking behind people’s backs for quite some time. In the first place, who gave you the right to judge others when you yourself aren’t perfect? Forget it, you are obviously trying to attract some unwanted attention to yourself but I’m not buying that.
Can you just stop hurling insults at people? It hurts. People can see that you have skinny arms and legs. You don’t have to bring other people down just to feel good about yourself. Stop complaining that you have “thunder thighs” when you aren't even close to that. If you have “thunder thighs”, wouldn’t every other girl be having “pig trotters”? (apologies to all the girls out there if you feel insulted). Also, stop complaining that you are overweight when you are in fact, severely underweight. The wind might just pick up one day and blow you away.
I know your “pretty face” gets far with most boys, but your make-up aren’t good enough to hide the lies. You said that I was egoistic and stuff, but look who’s talking? You were actually bold enough to ask me if I ever liked you for at least a moment of my life. I gave you a straight NO. “Wake up.” I don’t need someone to tell me what kind of person you are to actually give you the answer, and what’s more, I am not the type that will fall for you just because of your “looks”, it’s superficial.
You may be smarter than me and more talented than me in many ways. So what if you got a higher IQ than me but don’t even have much EQ? Does that make you a better person? I don’t think so. Anyway, if you continue to behave this way, your sensitive comments might just spread one day and many people might not like it. Enough said, you are definitely not worthy of my time. Our friendship might never spark again, but I assure you that I have forgiven you and that whatever secrets you leave with me, will remain with me (my principles never change although you have changed).
doing what is right today means no regrets tomorrow
Sunday, 5 October 2008
28 September 2008, Sunday
I went for a swim in the late afternoon and I am getting use to the cold water nowadays. Last time, I took forever to submerge my body in the water. I kind of enjoy swimming recently but I do not know how long it will be till I find it a chore. Anyway, for now, I will just concentrate on my breaststroke and try to swim faster if I can. This will help me in building my stamina and expand my lung capacity too.
29 September 2008, Monday
Training was great. I can see much more improvement in my bowling already. The only problem now is my consistency and sparing. I keep hitting either nine or ten pins quite often already. However when I hit nine pins, I often fail to convert the open frame into a spare, therefore dropping points and losing the bonuses. I will try to work on sparing next week. As for consistency, it is all down to practising.
30 September 2008, Tuesday
One of my two bosses did not come to work, therefore leaving me with little work to do. Life is great in the office when there is nothing much to do. Sometimes I do get rather bored and I will do some reading just to kill boredom.
01 October 2008, Wednesday
Happy Holidays to everyone, and Selamat Hari Raya to all my Muslim friends. Talking about enjoying my public holiday, I caught a flu bug and I am down with flu now. Anyway, I still managed to go for a swim. To conclude the day, I watched “Evan Almighty” and it is not a bad show.
02 October 2008, Thursday
I am still down with the flu I caught yesterday and I really hate this feeling. It makes me feel tired and weak all the time. I hope I can recover by tomorrow so that I can get back to my exercise routine.
03 October 2008, Friday
My nose has been giving me trouble the whole day. Work was fine and I had lunch with Alex who is also from my school. He is currently on attachment and I got to know him a little better during lunch. Tomorrow I will be going on a sailing expedition. I hope it is going to be great fun and that it will also be a great experience for me. Please remind me to put lots of sun block. If not, you might not be able to recognise me the next time we meet.
04 October 2008, Saturday
Sailing expedition went on smoothly and we were blessed with good weather. It did not rain and the wind was quite strong. I managed to sail from the National Sailing Centre until the Seafood Centre as I was sailing against the wind. On the way back, the journey was much shorter as the current and the wind was in our favour. Overall, I enjoyed the sailing trip and my father brought me to eat ice cream while waiting for my mother to fetch us from the sailing centre.
it is compassion that puts love into action
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
October Events
04 October 2008 – Sailing Expedition
05 October 2008 – McDonald’s Survey
05 October 2008 – New Balance Trial Run
11 October 2008 – New Balance Prelude
17 October 2008 – New Balance Real Run
Things To Do List
+ Birthday Planning
+ Clean & Pack Room
+ Read Magazines
true love is doing and not just feeling