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I learn new things from pool fans all the time.

2007-05-01T14:56:00.000-07:00

LESSON ONE: BEATING CHELSEA > FINALS
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
YESSSSS!!!!
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
I DONT CARE IF WELOSE THE FINALS
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
WE WON CHELSEA!!!!!
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
AH THE FEELING DAMN SHIOK

LESSON TWO: ANFIELD IS SOME MAGIC GROUND
natalie: says:
their finishing today got some problem
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA THIS IS ANFIELD
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
not some bloody playground
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
at anfield even if your finishing has been superb all season
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
it somehow creates problems

LESSON THREE: KISSING BADGE IS FOR A GOOD CAUSE
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
nattt
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
it'll be a milan liverpool final im sorry
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
milan's gonna win it this time
natalie: says:
DUN BE SHIT.
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
we kelong
natalie: says:
WTF NO MILAN
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
we ask reina throw the ball into net
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
then we defend for ninety minutes
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
hahahhahahaha
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
then gerrard will kiss his badge at the final whistle
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
and say in the post match conference
natalie: says:
YOU ARE SOME FAN
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
that was for the man u fans!!
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
I DONT CARE!!!!

Year End Report

2006-12-08T08:10:00.000-08:00

A levels are over.
JC's over.
I'm working now.
This makes things a little complicated when it comes to blogging, because there should be more restrictions on what I'm able to post and I'm not exactly sure of my boundaries. I'll probably switch to livejournal friends only sometime soon.

2 Years have gone by...
I did an entry as such: http://winger7.livejournal.com/15877.html at the end of sec4. Shall do the same for JC. Somehow, it seems to be less eventful. Less time for play and a lot more work perhaps. In terms of academcs, CCAs and stuff, there's been a lot more done. As for random oddities, eccentricities and bonds between people - it seems to be lacking.

THE TIMES:

The time when I first entered RJC and spent a wonderful first week Io'ren
The time when we went kite flying together on the amazing trail - it's been one of the funnest things I've done
The time when Kevin sang "spice girls" and we had to guess which song it was
The time when Cheese got tangled up in the kite strings & got burnt by the strings
The time Io'ren would always play the mafia/polar bear game at our staircase K'cove
The time a few of us hung out at Swensens until 1+ at the end of orientation (: <3>
The time I got posted into S03E and was really apalled that there were only 7 girls in class and hardly any ardent soccer fans.
The time S03E first introduced themselves and there was a lot of "I'm Jonathan" "I'm Jonathan" "I'm Jonthan also" and "I'm Jonathan too"
The time some of our OG went to Nat's (ngoi) house
During which, Kevin played with Nat's pom poms
and there was some buzzer game, you had to press a button and last one to do it gets stung.
also Jon Teo accidentally walked into a glass panel.
there was also a United match going on (which United won), Shoujie and I wore our United kits!
The time some of us went to watch Tiger cup together! (GOOD STUFF!) Shoujie's friend Mark had the Singapore flag, held it behind his back and ran one round round the stadium stands.
The time S03E went for the 2nd outing (first outing for me) at Jon Ng's house. Jloh was peeling damn badly. Junli, Jonny and I went to watch racing stripes after that.
The time before first 3 months, Ivan had a fanclub within our class. XD!
The time I joined Harmoc and kept practicing it everyday - also the place where I met good pal Yoke Shan :)
The time I campaigned for council with Gautam, Chorkiang & Mingjie. Gautam had chicken pox though. He said he was "Itching to serve" Our campaign group was the Vulcans and I designed a real cool logo with real cool badges :D
The time Tharman decided to scrap PEARLS, I went over the moon, cos it meant soccer would be approved.
The first time we had a soccer session, there was a foreign team that came to give us a clinic - it was sorta fun.
sian. i'll continue some other time.

Mournful Wails

2006-10-29T08:31:00.000-08:00

Found this on some forum where's there's some power tripping.

Doubled Headed Eagles are from Greece

2006-10-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

I thought this looked familiar.
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-headed_eagle

Hiatus #2

2006-10-15T22:43:00.000-07:00

I think I'm pretty ruined. Haha.

Hiatus!

2006-09-02T21:23:00.000-07:00

Copper

2006-08-12T07:23:00.000-07:00

Two of the ones I like More:
Good Life

http://www.boltcity.com/copper/copper_030_goodlife.htm

Bunnies

http://www.boltcity.com/copper/copper_035_bunny.htm

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I would like to have a talking dog too.

Digidestined

2006-08-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

Super cute^^!
Favourite Characters:
On Deep Savers: (hopefully)
On Digi 1:
On Metal Empire:
That's all for now! But I think gomamon is really kinda cute!

Scribbler

2006-08-05T08:42:00.000-07:00

Expansion

2006-07-26T07:31:00.000-07:00

At Last #2

2006-07-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

They sound a bit off at some parts though =/

Ain't No Sunshine

2006-07-20T08:10:00.000-07:00

A capella's the latest cool.

You have to skip to about 1:04 for the real stuff though.

Zidane & Metaphors

2006-07-18T05:35:00.000-07:00

LOADS more from: http://javimoya.com/blog/pics/200607/zidane.htm

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Also, metaphors from essays:
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

See more: http://www.english-blog.com/archives/2006/06/really_bad_metaphors.php

Jellyfish

2006-07-16T09:09:00.000-07:00

So while half the school was at viva la futbol, our women's soccer team was at diva la futbol!

Was actually considering whether to go for the competition, or forgo it to mug, but now that I've gone for it... come to think of it, what consideration was there to be made? :D Football anytime! :D :D!

We sent in 2 teams - The Mighty Dinosaurs & Jellyfish. Teams named by Debby and Xiu Huan respectively. I was playing for Jellyfish ^^! Xiu Huan originally named the team Yo! Yo! Jellyfish but Debby submitted it as Jellyfish.

The tournament was 6 a side (max 10 players) per team. Our team was running on 6 players per team & Mighy Dinosaurs 7 players. I thought it wouldn't work out because round robin would be potentially very tiring. I think it was more fun this way though, because everybody got more play time and were more familiarized with their roles.

So Jellyfish played a 1 -1 - 2 - 1 formation:
Nat
He Qi Clara
Jean
Xiu Huan
Ping Ni ( GK )
I have to admit I was super scared at first, and a little hesitant to play stiker. I haven't been playing for about2 months & not only would my fitness have dropped, I'd probably have lost my sharpness in front of goal or potentially any memory of how to kick a ball.

Qualifying Round 1(48 teams)
First match: .vs Khaki Busas (or something)
They were Malay girls wearing Tudongs & track pants, possibly representing some religious institution. My luck has always been very bad andI was a little frightened of not performing. Felt just like the Purjinke Fibers - a bundle of nerves. But when the match started, eventually found that they really didn't have much experience. Had plenty of shots on target, out of which 2 went in. One of which was a one on one with the keeper. ^_^ yay. Then our defence was very good also, or rather their attack lacked power, Pig really didn't have to do anything.
Final score: Jellyfish 2 - 0 KB

Second Match: .vs Pow Wow
According to TJ who played them earlier, Pow Wow's attack was supposedly very good. Their were slightly better than the previous team. Xiu Huan drove a long shot, to which the keeper got the hand to, I ran up to pressure attempt to poach the rebound, but the keeper fumbled with the ball and let it in herself, so actually this goal should have been counted as an own goal, or Xiu Huan's., definitely not mine. Second goal came from a messy situation at the goal area & Xiu Huan did a very nice backheel into the goal. Quote "I was feeling lazy & didn't want to turn around, so I just back heeled it" YAHRITE. Then I scored one too. (memory fails me)
Final score: 3 - 0

Third Match: .vs TJ team 1
TJ won 1 & drew 1, so both our teams had already qualified for the next round. Not sure whether if it was just me, but felt as though there was no real motivation on the pitch. Nonetheless, Tj defenders marked me very tightly and kept touching my shirt (which leads me to the assumption that they think our jersey is nicer than theirs). Only managed one shot on goal which the keeper parried away =/
Final score 0 - 0

Top 2 teams of each group progresses
Mighty dinosaurs won 1 (1-0), and drew 2 ( 0 - 0), putting them joint first of their own group
While Jellyfish topped the group

... now onto the round of 24
Teams were sorted into groups of 3, whereby the top of each group progresses. As Lady Unlucky would have it, jellyfish and mighty dinosaurs got put into the same group. Originally we were hoping our match against each other would be last and that we would do some match fixing so that one of our teams would be through... but after some thought, we decided against it because doing such a thing would simply corrupt the spirit of the game - and we didn't want that.

Match 4: .Vs Mighty Dinosaurs
Our teams played first anyway. This match was difficult because You didn't really want this situation to happen to begin with. Jellyfish was awarded one free kick& Xiu Huan converted it. That was effectively the only goal that Alissa conceded (Alissa was a real good keep.)
Final Score: Jellyfish 1 - 0 Mighty Dinosaurs

The Mighty Dinosaurs then beat the other team 1 - 0. This wasn't easy as the other team was pretty formidable. Julia had a very good opportunity & managed to beat the keeper 1 on 1.

Match 5:
Our turn against them. This team was really very rough. Was tripped twice. In fact, those were the only times I got tripped during the tournament. I still have the battlescars of one trip. A draw would have gotten us through, but we still fought hard anyway. Managed to create the space and time for one goal through the right flank. ^^ Yay!
Final Score: Jellyfish 1 - 0 The other team (forgot their name)

So it was us through to the next round.
Top 8! (Quarter finals!)
Match 6: .vs Nanyang Girls B
Nanyang polytechnic. I'll have to admit they were better. They managed to gain an early goal, and after that their coach was really good at using time wasting techniques. Allowing stray balls onto the pitch, having the referee stop the match, when kick ins were taken he'd ask for the player furthest away to take the kick. Got quite annoying. Then again, if we were in their shoes, would probably have employed the same tactics.
Oh well. That marked the end of our journey for us.

Quite a fun & rewarding day overall. I would say our team has come quite some distance since we started.

The thing about football, is that unless your team is imbalancedly good, or the team that you're drawn against aren't quite up to standard, the result is usually beyond control - which is where luck comes in.

I guess for whichever team wants to secure the championship next year, they'd have to train much much harder. (with the exception of VJ & SA because they are already training muchest hardest.)

On Zidane's Headbutt

2006-07-10T07:56:00.000-07:00

"The evidence is there for all to see. Zidane is ex Juve. He'd clealry been tapped up to throw the match. Materazzi just reminded him of his obligation and then fell over like a big tart when Zizou wiped the sweat off his forhead on Materazzi's shirt."

Rooney's new nike ad

2006-07-10T06:55:00.000-07:00

haven't been blogging because my computer crashed

Tribute to Argentina

2006-06-30T11:29:00.001-07:00

Everybody knows that Argentina plays the best football. I would like to say that the result does not matter. But everybody knows that that's not true either. Now I'll have to wait 4 more years. All of a sudden, it feels like it's not worth watching the world cup anymore.

Ayala - for being such a solid defender, and this will probably be his last world cup too. Very sad that he has to end it like this

Riquelme - for being my ex-classmate, and the brilliant playmaker he's always been... 28 this year, not sure if I'll see him in 4 years time considering he'll be 32 then :(

Aimar - who has gotten close to no play time... I still like him anyway. Also not sure if he'll still be there in 4 years :(

Saviola - a.k.a the dimunitive argentine, for being outstanding during the group stages and always giving his best. At the rate tevez & messi are progressing, possibly might not make the first team in 4 years also..

(imagine Heinze's face here because blogger will not allow me to upload his picture properly)
Heinze - currently the only argentine red. Always admire his drive to win. Saw him going mental at the end of it all. Hope he's alright.

Rodigruez - for putting up fanastic performances at this world cup

Tevez - for his wonderful displays on the pitch

Messi - Who will undoubtedly be the star of World Cup 2010

(imagine Sorin's face here. Cannot find a half decent picture of him)
Sorin - probably the last world cup for him too. He's probably the one who dives most in the team, but he's skilful and since its the last time just thought I'd mention him

They're still my #1

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Yeah and if Germany - England final, Germany wins, just remember you saw it here first (refer to entry regarding Faith's Dream)

The world cup is scripted.

Mandatory Post Common Test Updates

2006-06-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

List of things CT stands for:
Cannot Tahan
Cannot Take it
Confirm Terrible
Crazy Teachers
Chemistry Trouble
Cannot Think
Czech Terminated
Classrooms Taken

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After CTs slacked around in council room. Listened to Ced and Holoong playing guitar. Haha, asked honloog to play Aerosmith - Don't wanna miss a thing but he couldn't hit some notes so he changed octaves halfway through the song, haha damn funny.

Then went to watch She's the Man with Denise, Cedric, Abhi, Honloong. Haha it's quite a nice show -- just a bit unrealistic & shallow. Still good though. Cineleisure was swarming with rj students. Oh, before that had lunch and stoned at pastamania for half hour to get students discount at 2pm.

After movie, was walking along Orchard road then we went Takashimaya to look for Denise's photo album, but prices were too steep. So we adjourned to the toy department so that Abhi could show us how they sold plastic cups for $56. That's quite amd. Then we played with the toys for a super long time. After that Junli and Wes came to join, Wes for a short while though as he had to go home and watch 7-o-clock-show.

The rest of as bummed around at the fountain area and saw some 24ths shortly after.

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I've spent the whole afternoon sleeping, tuned my body to world cup schedules. ^_^! Qiuarter finals start in just a while. Can't wait.

Argentina's up first - but I'm really quite scared because if Faith's prediction were to come true, it would mean that Argentina's going to lose later and I don't want to watch that because it would be heartbreaking.

Side note, the only match I can say I'm genuinely upset with is the Australia - Italy match. I'm very pissed off with what happened.

Video of Italy's training camp:

Also, another picture that's been circulating online:
Ok, anyway, that apart I think this has been a very good world cup so far.

My World Cup Experience

2006-06-23T09:16:00.000-07:00

2 Tvs - one with normal & one with aerial view
Soccer bean bag
Hagen Daaz cookies and cream ice cream
Life's really good.
If anybody wants to come over and watch, just tell me. You can share some ice cream too ^_^
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Can't finish mugging.
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Last night's dream was good. Wish it was real. Unfortunately it's not.
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Also. I'm Riquelme's ex-classmate (:! And Kaka's ex-penpal!
Ahahaha.

Good life?

2006-06-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

Life's been good for me.
If i'm not studying, I'll be watching football, if not dreaming about football. Pretty much worry-free & very much enjoyable. I love football and to quite a large extent I do enjoy learning.

One should really appreciate what they have...

I just read this about the bookshop auntie.
"then she explained to me about her dad having dementia and falling down and breaking his hip, and about her brother having leukaemia, and how she really couldn't afford to pay off the medical bills..." from Denise's blog

Indeed: "then suddenly common tests seemed like a very small problem.but i think we shd do something nice for her! but i don't know what to do... sigh."

I think the bookshop auntie/uncle are really nice people. I know I don't express myself/any relavent form of gratitude much but when people do nice things (even the smallest ones) its somehow etched onto my memory. Haha..
I remember once when I bought a pen, she reminded me those models had refills and that I didn't need to buy a new pen the next time
She also asked me if FBTs or our school shorts were more popular among our school girls
Once when I wanted to buy a pen, she and the uncle alerted me of this cool cooler offer - giving me an extra pen at the same price
I remember waving to her along the corridors and she waved back

But no wonder she doesn't smile much...

I do like our school Bookshop quite a lot... and the auntie/uncle.

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I don't know what to say actually. I don't particularly think there's anything to be said either - (except maybe curse the realm of diseases >:(! )
Actions >> Words. But, don't know what to do either.

SCOTT THE DOT

2006-06-21T09:54:00.000-07:00

SOMEBODY PLEASE GET ME THIS
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0915166739/202-3433566-0142241?v=glance&n=266239

SCOTT THE DOT.

If anybody knows where I can get the book. Please tell me. T-T I'm desperate.

Idiot Restaurants.

2006-06-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

I hate restaurants when they charge more for meals on father's day. It doesn't make sense to make the kid pay more. >=(

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I hope world cup hype will get more girls hooked on soccer. Then hopefully the hype will pass on to next year, more intesrest means greater selection pool for soccer girls. At the same time hope this rejuvinates the interest amongst the current j1s, inspiring them to train harder. This hopefully means stronger squad and increase in game standard ^_^ But of course, this is just hoping.

Kenneth's prediction.

2006-06-17T10:18:00.000-07:00

#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
1-0
#10Kenneth do not panic! do not panic! we are trained professionals. says:
italy win

Will wake up and check if he's right later.

Argentina

2006-06-17T07:08:00.000-07:00

Wow. I waited 4 years for this. Definitely worth the wait.

^______________________^ !!!

My favourites - Messi, Saviola, Aimar, Riquelme all on the same squad!!!!!! What more could I ask for?!?! Okay maybe a class keeper in the sqaud too. (Since Roa there hasn't been any).

Wish Aimar would have a little more playing time. Though I think Riquelme and Aimar on the pitch at the same time wouldn't work very well.

I wouldn't go as far as too say I support Argentina though. I said I did in 2002 and got ticked off by angry italian fans who thought I didn't know what support meant. I didn't understand what they meant, but now I do. They were right. When I look at the way the Argentines cheer for their own country or any other fan cheer for their own country- I know that's probably it.

What I like about Argentina is their squad/players. That's why I like to watch them play and get high when they do well. But 30 years down the road, when my favourite players have retired and the entire Argentine squad has changed, I can't say for certain that I'll still like them. It's not so much about Argentina as a country winning the world cup, but the players I like achieving their dream.

If they don't win - I'll definitely feel a bit gutted - but only because I know that Messi, Riquelme, Aimar, Saviola are feeling sad too. To me, they're already #1 and they don't need to win the world cup to prove it.

On the other hand. No matter who's in Singapore's squad, even if our world ranking drops from #92 to #150. I'll still want them to win no matter what. Maybe it's foolish to hope that they'll one day qualify for the world cup finals, but they're still our team. Nothing's going to change that. I guess that's support.

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Link to second goal:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z0O7KkZn4rk&search=argentina%20second%20goal

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On a side note:
Although I do like Riquelme, I do think he's over-rated. He's not that good. Also very evident that Messi is class, just hope he doesn't grow up to be a prick like Maradona. I'll be disappointed if he does.

Anyway tribute to the Argentines not at WC 2006:
Zanetti!!!, Veron, Kily Gonzalez (all inter players at one point or another) haha.

I still feel as though this world cup hasn't got enough hype ._.

I mean 2002 had Live for Love United music video. I want something like that again!

"The ball is travelling in your direction... Give it all of your attention. Pick it up and pass it on" =p

Random Jive Quote

2006-06-17T05:43:00.000-07:00

"One thing I've learnt about life and people: Well, they just keep changing. In good and bad ways. Everything. Anything. What's important right now may not be of any consequence later"

- - Jive.

Randomness

2006-06-11T07:23:00.000-07:00

Re: Lions
Kenneth: So, which world cup team are you supporting?
Nat: Never support. Why support other people's country, I only support the lions.
Kenneth: YUCKS
Kenneth: Lions sucks
Kenneth: Ok, I support lions too
Kenneth: THREE LIONS
Kenneth: Three heads are better than one

Re: Why so many people are getting attached
Ilman: Well, sports season is over. And people are getting bored with their studies...
Note: Ilman's sport season ended with the Kiwi cup yesterday.

*phonecall*
Strange voice: Hello is this Natalie Tan?
Me: Ya..
Strange voice: This is George from RIPB, we would like to inform you you have just won tickets to the world cup final in Germany...
Me: Huh?!?
Strange voice: Okay, this is Ilman...
Me: -_-!

Faith predicts Germany - England Final! Germany wins.

Nicholas!

2006-06-10T05:56:00.000-07:00

Draw A House

2006-01-31T01:13:00.000-08:00

Based on the drawing and the 10 answers they gave this is a summary of their personality:
Your house tells the world that you ought to be a leader. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You are shy and reserved. If you've drawn a cross on each of windows, you always want to live alone. You are very tidy person. There's nothing wrong with that because you're pretty popular among friends. son. When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You see the world as it is, not as you believe it should be. You added a flower into your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. It also safe to say that others don't see you as a flirt. You don't think much about yourself.

The analysis is crap, but the fun part is drawing the house. (mine's not very creative I guess but never mind.) I made this street called Livehere (to persuade you to live there) and you can go draw your own house and add on to the street by clicking on this link :D

Taiwan Exam

2006-01-23T07:28:00.000-08:00

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

omg

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

do you know what is orz?

gnat * Xenios says:

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

it came out in Taiwan exam

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

asking the meaning of orz

gnat * Xenios says:

whats it

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

try to picture a person kneeling

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

o is the head

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

r is hand on the ground

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

and z is the knee

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

orz

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

means cannot stand it

gnat * Xenios says:

...

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

walau

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

I'll fail Taiwan exam like that

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

a lot of students protesting now

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

saying that such question is unfair

gnat * Xenios says:

its damns tupid la

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

I think it's damn smart

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

don't you think it requires utmost intelligence to come up with something like that?

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

really...

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

orz

gnat * Xenios says:

.....

gnat * Xenios says:

oLL

gnat * Xenios says:

ok what's this

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

gnat * Xenios says:

the persons left half of the body is amputated

gnat * Xenios says:

so only got limbs on one side

gnat * Xenios says:

if you look closely o is the head

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

okok

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

I get the point

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

so oLL

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

means

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

"ALRIGHT!"

gnat * Xenios says:

yes!

gnat * Xenios says:

no left, means all right (:

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

did you come up with that?

Taiwanese oboe...you must be KIDding... says:

or is it around already?

gnat * Xenios says:

yes i came up with it and it requires utmost intelligence to come up with something like that

Long Overdue post

2006-01-22T05:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I haven't blogged in quite some time, and this blog's nearly dead.

Excuses:
1. I was really busy with orientation
2. I was on a 1k/s in Australia while on holiday
3. I was really busy again when school started
4. I'm still busy studying for bio test + a lot of undone stuff ):
5. I had no mood to blog
6. It's troublesome to log into blogger just to type something like that.

Significant events while I haven't been blogging:
1. Orientation Dry runs 1/2
2. Trip to Melbourne
3. Actual Orientation
4. Loads of school stuff
5. Some soccer stuff
6. Peter crouch scoring
7. Manchester United doing I don't know what.
8. Orientation group and their outings
9. Started watching/reading naruto
10. Got my brother/sister started on reading/watching Naruto
11. Borrowed DDR mat from kengwee to play

Summary of Orientation Z'kardia 06

happened quite some time ago, I guess it's not too late to blog about it. Was initially really scared, not sure if my orientation group would work out or not - especially when I've been hearing a lot of stuff from others about how it seemed difficult to handle. I think Xenios turned out fine in the end. It was a very diverse group of people though - but at the very least they stuck together throughout orientation and that's cool.

Day 1
Icebreakers + Station games. Had to be stationmaster so couldn't hangout with my og. But it's quite fun being station master of the shaving cream game so eh..... :D. Og went home early, felt quite disappointed.

Day 2
Station games. Stationmaster again but this time got cream on me :( Og went to eat at Swensens.

Day 3
External activities. Haha it rained, so we went to play mafia at Monisha's house quite fun :D Stayed back to eat pizza and play taboo.

Day 4
War games + Orientation night. Those slackers went to play pool instead of preparing for Onite. Would have liked to join them, but had to finish writing their cards ): ohwell. Some people got into trouble for war games though, but glad that those in my og steered clear of trouble (:! Gave out og presents + cards at the end, exchanged some hugs and reflections.After Onite they went to cineleisure to play truth or dare. Couldn't join them cos of cleanup.

That's the end of the 4 days. Went out on one outing with them to watch the dark which was a super crappy movie. Then they bought a (super low cut O.o) Zara T-shirt for me which i'm supposed to wear on the next OG outing (if it happens.) They bought wesley and danny sports illustrated calendars ( which is not about sports! O.o)

So I was telling Geraldine and Jonny about Wesley's present and my present..

Me: I got a Zara top which is super low cut and Wesley got a Sports Illustrated Calendar.

Geraldine: Oh? so you would rather have gotten Wesley's present?

Me: Ermm.. no? Sports Illustrated's not about sports!

Jonny: Yeah, she wouldn't want Wesley's present 'cos she's straight

Geraldine: So that means Wesley is gay?

Actually, I still feel like quite a crappy OGL. I remember last year's orientation was cool for me, cos it really made me feel like I was part of RJ, I loved my og. I guess this time it's not the same? I sense that a number of people still don't feel comfortable with the og at all, like they don't feel at home with them... yet I can't seem to do anything about it.

Ok, a lot of school work to catch up on still.

Meanwhile, quote from last year in class:
Ms Soh "I'm teaching this to you as late as possible, closer to exams, hoping that something will be retained"
Class "Mam, we'll be retained!"

Quote while on holiday:

Mum: "Let's bring Nat to see the penguins on Phillip Islands, it's only about 4 hours drive from here"

Brother: "What? mummy, If you want Nat to see penguins I can just go to google and type penguin and click search and I can show her as many penguins as you want"

The week in Summary

2005-12-04T06:05:00.000-08:00

Sunday
Council Retreat! Went to East Coast Park to play with the rest. Waited for everyone to come in McDonalds for quite a long time.. From about 12 something to 2. Ch0rk was sitting all by himself and all because he wanted to listen to 9.33 -_- and that was the only area with good reception! Later tried to join him and tune in also, but the reception was so terrible so I gave up. The picture (koped from chin9hui) shows 933 obsessed Ch0rk predicting the top 10 stations.

After that went bowling. Shared the n00b lane with chin9hui, 4m4nda and ch0rk. Sad to say, I was the n00best of the n00b lane ):! I pay so much just to throw many balls into the gutter. Then mean ch0rk and horrible chin9hui laughed at my misfortune :(! I then changed my screen name to newcrouch and bowled even more 0s (but Crouch just scored today anyway). After that changed it to goodluck and got some points, then started losing again and changed it to moreluck, worked for a while... in the end I changed it to Needluck.
<-- This is the N00b team :)! heehee (also koped fro chin9) After that went biking around East Coast Park until quite late. The park was a lot more crowded than the last time I went there for Class Outing. Must be cos the school holidays are here :D! Came home to change & eat dinner before going over to join the rest at J0nny's house. Celebrated Xinyi's birthday and spent the night in J0nny's house with a few others while the rest went for KTV and walked back for 2++ hours until 5am O.o! For the sane few that stayed behind, we DDR-ed most of the night away. DDR is FUN! I got quite hooked on it. Got tired soon enough and settled down for a slumber party and watched bewitched which wasn't too interesting. Couldn't get to sleep even after that so I crept down to the computer room to watch 2 episodes of naruto, after which I was tired enough and slept. Monday
Left the place with C3dric to go for our class's Learning Journey at the National Library. Was supposed to learn about the changing face of terrorism. But I guess the keyword here is supposed, cos less than half the class turned up (11) and the exhibits were rather static. I saw this sign there too :

That was effectively the most interesting thing there. I watched the librarian actually catching somebody for sleeping.
Went to eat lunch with the class and wandered around the bugis area with a few of them. Went to Kinokuniya, some comics place and Adidas. Adidas has already started stocking up on world cup merchandise. I think the Germany sling bags are quite nice. Couldn't find the Argentina away jersey there though. Then again the 04-06 away kit isn't as nice as the previous one.
I wanted to play air hockey and whack crabs and crocodiles at the arcade and stuff like that, so we (me, sn9, r4ndy, jl0h) headed down to the arcade. Sadly, nearly everything there was just video games. No air hockey! No crabs!
Wandered around those stuffed toys which you can never get machines in the arcade and commented how impossible it is to get them.
But then Jloh saw this:

"BUT ITS EEYORE!" and therefore risking his $1 for the impossible-to-get-eeyore, was worth it. So 1 buck goes into the machine.

And Yeah! We Got it!!111one
NOT.
Even after making contact with Eeyore and lifting it up for a brief moment, Eeyore feel back down again. The machine jerks on purpose or something.
Anyway 5ng decided to have a go at it as well and both of them effectively wasted two dollars.
We daytona-ed for a while, then went home. Finished 2nd, 3rd, 3rd. Was supposed to be 2nd for the last round but jloh went to go flip my car :(!

Tuesday
Went to school early for peer evaluation. Then had watched our guy councillors play against the sajc councillors. The girls didn't want to play netball with us their reason being that they wanted to cheer on the guys. I thought it was quite a silly reason =/ Can you imagine the SA guys saying:"Hey sorry, we don't want to play soccer with you guys! We want to cheer our girls on in netball!" Final score was 1 - 0, to SA but i didn't get to see the goal cos there was an Oteam meeting, apparently was some tyco type goal.
Went late for Oteam meeting where we had to choose our co-ogls. Spent a bit of time later learning Shazea. I suck at dancing.
Played soccer with the girls team but the attendance was pathetic. Had a lot of last minute withdrawals, so ended up having to drag y0wie, am3lia, chinghui and l!jiu along.
Had dinner with a few of the girls at pizza hut (thomson) was rather fun as we got to have half our meal free. Waitress forgot to key in the drumlets order. And believe it or not, they made the same mistake as the other time in pizza hut, brought pan instead of stuffed crust pizzas, so in the end we had an extra pizza.

Huiqing, Emily, Wenyi, Me at pizza hut

Wednesday
Was supposed to have batch book meeting but unfortunately Mr Hodge was not free to meet us. Ended up meeting Ms Lui regarding the future students site and later tried to help props/banner a bit, but banner was knocking off early. So i decided to go home earlier as well.

Thursday
O-team dry run day 1.
Found out that w3sl3y was my co-ogl. But silly w3sl3y had abandoned me for scouts. The rest of the day was spent testing out the games. Introduction games before lunch and War-games after lunch, followed by a post-morterm. Ate beef noodles at food junction, thanks to stef who kindly let me test out her noodles (:. Lunch was with the decor comm + 4rjun (pui's co-ogl). Unfortunately pu! was too busy with somebody else so I decided to go befriend poor 4rjun who was ditched and left alone. Then after that met j4v4n, whom I haven't met for super long. Then he pointed to 4rjun and some random woman and said" Are those your parents?"
For a moment everybody was O.O, then they burst out laughing.
Actually maybe he said that on purpose 'cos I disturbed his date. =(

Friday
Learnt the new batch song for next years j1s, and it was quite nice. There was some debate going on about sounding like people talking to mice.
After lunch was station games, and I'm station master of game 8.
I shan't describe it in detail just in case some random sec 4 surfs here and I spoil the surprise for them. So i'll just post a picture and the rest is up to imagination. But from the picture, you can see that Denise is smiling. Therefore you can tell that the game is fun.

Saturday
Took ages to find my buddy's present. Yo-yo's arent very popular nowadays I guess. (don't bother asking why yo-yo -_- its my buddy's lame idea!)

The night started off quite slowly with dinner. Proceeded to games after that, and thats where all the action begun. Played charades (where the 25ths totally pwned the 24ths). The 24ths picked Qu! Jun and Cl3ment to do some charades. Whenever Qu! Jun acted something, they would all shout Cl3ment, cos she did the tall and running action. Then whenever Cl3ment did something, they would all shout Qu! Jun.

Played the -est game as well and the most likely to game. For the most likely to get married one, the 24ths had quite a strong case for Qu!jun and Cl3ment, but not to be outdone the 25ths also had y0wie and 4melia! Ok, actually we kinda got pwned for the most likely category. Bertram was a wonderful yoda. And when it comes to promiscious activity, let's just say the 24ths have the upper hand ._.

My buddy gave me nutella cos it like council. Dirty, sticky but sweet.

And this is our buddy family!
Me, Yuying, Lilian, Jonny and Chinghui!

And here are the chicken little lookalikes!

Ok with all of that said, it feels kinda different now that the 24ths are gone. Will definitely miss them. The area outside the council room is a lot quiter, and its strange not to see the familiar faces sitting outside there. Yuying, Bertram, Quijun, Clement, Karl, Hannah, Daryl Yeo, Shihui, Derrick, Shawnloh, anybodyelseimissed were already a permanent landmark there, and now when I walk by it just feels different.

I sure hope this won't be the last I see of them...

In any case, JC life sure seems short. I'm going to treasure (or attempt to treasure) the rest of it (:

Pandora

2005-11-25T06:39:00.000-08:00

http://www.pandora.com/
This site is amazing really. Its like audioscribbler, just that 10 times better. You type in an artist/song you like, then they play songs according to your taste. Brilliance.

Mentor Dinner

2005-11-25T03:38:00.000-08:00

Wednesday was fun. Went for GM in the morning, which was possibly the longest GM we've had in our term. Thankfully I did not stay up to watch the United - Villareal match (which ended in a draw anyway), otherwise I would not have been able to stay awake. Ended off with Mr B3nny L33's farewell and the trick candles failed horribly.

Then after that went for lunch at BK with a few others ( d3nise, k00, Akk5hay, bry0n, c3dric, ch0rk) where I got to use my ever so cool BK coupons that let me buy onion rings at a cheaper price. Was disgusted by some porno-hormone-raging-disgusting-boys (identities undisclosed) on the way back to school.

Went back to school to wait for the mentormentee dinner. Played socer while waiting with a couple of j1s (izhan, s3nthil, gau+am) and j2s (b3rtam (for 15 mins -_-"), b3n, sh4wn, mingk4i, yuyng) Later dgu0 came along and joined the j1 team and then we started scoring goals, then after that he joined the j2 team and they were scoring, then joined back us and we scored again. The j2s seem to be in a constant state of relaxation even though not all their papers are over. Nevertheless had fun playing soccer (:

Had dinner at evening with mentor and co - mentees at Pizza hut.

Mentor brought his better half along and it was fun.

We ( juni, d3nise, k00, m3) left school late and made j0nny angry cos he had to wait half an hour. Anyway we (mainly k00 actually) were trying to come up with evil schemes to try to get our mentor to give us a lift since he was still in school. Unfortunately our smses and calls were left unanswered as he was too busy with his better half.
We ordered some meal which got us 3 pizzas, but somehow they got a bit confused with our orders, and gave us 2 pan pizzas and 1 stuffed crust, instead of the 3 stuffed crust we wanted. We told them their mistake, but as they had already cooked the pan pizzas, they ended up giving us 5 pizzas (3 stufed plus the 2 pan) and we were really stuffed after that.

Conversation over dinner was light hearted & full of jokes as well. I think juni cant seem to stop getting amused by k00's last name. Kept coming up with k00 jokes. Actually if you use the other letters of his name it spells YUX (pronounced yucks.) (YUX uan) hmm.

Kept prodding our mentor about his better half and their marriage plans. Our council skills will come in quite useful if we were to organise it. We can create their marriage video, their marriage book/programme, paint banners for them, marriage sweaters for their honeymoon and help them send out invitations.

Sleep early!

2005-11-22T07:14:00.000-08:00

I would like to blog about today, but... I have to sleep early if I want to wake up to watch the villareal/utd match and go early for GM tmrw.

So I shall summarise...

Went school, did stuff (batch book meeting and decor), came home, did stuff. Peace out.

Jalan Besar Stadium (mirrored from soccer blog)

2005-11-21T09:05:00.000-08:00

When I went to collect your tickets for the Singapore Cup final the other day I went to Jalan Besar to collect them. This is by far the best local stadium I've been to.

Jalan Besar Stadium! I don't know the guy there, just some random passerby ruining my shot.

I was ogling at the pitch from the glass doors, when the man who was working there opened the door and asked if we would like to see the pitch. Wow it was so cool!

Look at the grass! It's STRIPED! and UNTOUCHED and THE GRASS. THE GRASS. THE GRASS! Ok lah, but its fake grass.

Then I asked the man if I could touch the grass, and he was ok with it as long as we didn't ruin it.

Then proceeded to check out the benches and sit around in them for a while. Was quite fun.

And there's this yellow line over there, which I found very amusing. The shots not good, but what it really says is:
BEWARE OF LIONS. KEEP BEHEIND YELLOW LINE.

This is the view of the seats. AND ALL THE SEATS ARE LIKE REAL SEATS WOOT (not like usual grandstands at non vip areas). SO COOL

And this is on whats on the floor behind the seats :)!

Then saw this sign left around somewhere.

With that, decided to explore the inside of the building. They had models of the tiger cup shirt

This is the back of the tiger cup shirt

And this is the statue of S league.

Then we decided to sneak to the back and got a glimpse of the changing rooms which were really nothing much. This is the ref's changing room. The hallway to the changing rooms are really very dark when the light's are unlit though.

My Own Blog

2005-11-20T05:53:00.000-08:00

Hi. I've decided to blog properly. After many spurts of inconsistent blogging.