Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Nice day....

Slacked at home whole day today... but this time i kinda enjoyed it more.... well... because the past few days had been so busy with going out.. meeting friends.... or job interview yesterday, which i just received an sms today saying i'm not in....
Well.. can't blame them... i can only work 3 days out of the so many days of the project... due to my Sabah trip.... haha.... even i won't hire myself...

Anyway.... finally got to rest properly today.... after all the late nights but early morning outings...

Was looking through the junior ODACian's website... the 18th batch... and i kinda realised something... i think i've been too serious in ODAC.... and never really enjoyed myself well in the activities....
Maybe i should have been more fun... happy-go-lucky... then maybe things will be much better... being serious in a fun CCA.... bad match.... haha....
Well... some lesson to learn.... and yep... i can confirm already.... i will be joining the SIM ODAC.... and have some fun in it.... haha....

Adventure is in my blood man... can't get enough of it elsewhere....

Was watching "Return of the Condor Heroes" VCDs.... chiong till the last 3 discs liao... later going to chiong finish them all... since i won't be able to catch much episodes on TV after i go Sabah.... so might as well finish it first...

Now i am surfing around the WLNY... realised that actually Bedok got a outing group.... maybe should join in abit to make more friends around here... so next time maybe can get together... haha.... but they all seem to be working adults liao....
But well.... guess it's ok to make friends regardless of age....

Oh yar... tomorrow i finally got work again.... and getting my pay-check.... haha.... never felt happier to work... ^_^

Ok... go watch my VCD liao... so long...

Sunday, June 24, 2007

I'm Back... from Batam~~~

Just came back to Singapore yesteday... went to Batam on Thursday.... was kinda of a last minute thing... because i had initially decided not to go due to alot of commitments in Singapore... my life-saving course and archery training....
Archery training wise was still ok... but for the life-saving course... i would have missed up to a total of 3 lessons.. including 2 because of my Sabah trip...

But well... after much pyschoing... deciding to go.... thus i rushed home after settling my UOL registration at Orchard, and chiong to Harbourfront to meet up with the SHG.... hastily got my tickets, and off we went to meet up with Jun Kok at the Batam ferry terminal... where we stayed at his uncle's house.

The whole trip basically consist of 5 main events.... shopping, watching "F4-Rise of theSilver Surfer" and BB gun war on Friday, and Go-Karting on Friday....
The last event was the all night "Big 2" card playing.... which took place every night...

Was kinda a easy trip... no agenda.... sleep late... wake up even later... because we can't do much in the morning... have to wait for JK's cousin to come home from school then can bring us out in the afternoon....

But it sure was something new... visiting a new country.... though i wouldn't say it was refreshing... because i had been slacking back in Singapore for so long... going for an overseas trip didn't count as a break for me... unlike the others who had worked so long... they enjoyed the trip much more....
Well... one of the reasons why i don't want to go initially... slack so much le... still go other country and slack... -_-

But it was still fun.... yep...

Below are some pictures taken then.... Enjoy~~

The backstreet boys... coming out after watching Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer, at a shopping center... at only S$3....





2SG Lim.... all bruised up... sweaty and bloody after an urban warfare of BB gun...





The new local S.D.U. team... posing for the public...





And here, we have the annual G1 Racing.... as the SHG team gets on with their warm up...


Monday, June 18, 2007

Just another day....

My life has been so boring nowadays... i'm not even sure why i am blogging now....

Well... maybe just to waste some time online....

Yep.... still not actively employed... my part-time job hasn't been active last week... and it is also going to be so this week..... Sianz.... nothing to do... no money....

But at least this week i still abit more busy... got to go down Orchard to settle some registration thingy for my SIM enrollment... really very troublesome..... quite fed up with their system... why can't they just put everything at SIM... then just go there settle everything can liao.... still have to go here and there... pay this and that....

Arrgghh.... why didn't i just get into one of the 3 local Universities.....

Fed up.... Haiz....

What to do..... suck it up lor....

Think i'll look for some more full-time job when i come back.... or maybe start this week also good....

Haiz..... don't know what i want to do liao.... sianz...

Felt like i am wasting my life away..... everyday just do the same old thing over and over again....


Darn.... i really should go get a job to keep myself sane.... a full-time one... or else all these free time is going to make me go insane...
But the problem would be it's hard to employ me because i will be going overseas... again....

Haiz....

Oh well... maybe i should go take more courses... learn another language.... learn to drive a boat.... keep myself more occupied....
Get a boat licence.... hmm... that would be interesting.... haha... useful for me next time.... when i got my own yacht.... Muahaha.....

See lar... all these free time making my head big big liao....

Oh well.... go do my routine le....

Friday, June 15, 2007

Resigning to fate.....

Just went for a briefing at SIM morning yesterday...

Well... i guess it can be called resigning to fate liao... that's the only place i can get in liao...
Although i've appeal for NTU and NUS... i know the ending to the story already....
Afterall, if they don't want to offer me places for the past 2 years, what makes this year any difference?

Rather informative talk... mainly about the registration and stuffs... very troublesome.. have to go here and there to register, verify certificates... then even have to pay for the registration fee (in pounds)... and worst... pay them for verifying your certificates...
Abit lame... but no choice lor...
Haiz..private university ... so much more troublesome...

1 thing i especially don't like... was their seat at the level one lecture theatre... the backs of the seat is not fixed.. so it's like you cannot lean against it totally for comfort, it will move backwards... then it becomes that i am straining my back just to listen for the talk...
I think it's good for preventing people from sleeping... but it makes my back so strain... i was like cursing in my mind throughout the talk.... haha...

The only consolation thing that i found out from SIM... is that... well.... they have an ODAC club as well.... haha...
I mean... i never thought SIM will have such CCA groups... thought the people there all just study around... no life... until they came up to present themselves to do some recuiment...

And looking through the photos of their activities.... man.... i am so tempted already.... haha...

In a way... it satisfies my outdoor passion... and in another way... perhaps... this may be kinda weird... but i seriously do feel this way... that is if i join ODAC.... i want to make up for my mistakes in the previous chairmanship of my JC ODAC... it's like a 2nd chance.... a chance that i thought i could get only by going back in time... haha...

And so... i think there is a high chance of me joining back ODAC.... haha... and if i do that... i will want to be the best in there... and yes... get my 2nd chance... if possible...


An obstacle though.. would be that by doing so, would history repeat itself in the case of my academic results???

Tough question... but i guess only time will tell.... anyway... i think it will look better in my testimonial if i have a "President" under my CCA...
Hmmm.... oh well....

But i know in the end.. my passion will override everything.... haha... but i will be sure to not let history repeat....
Because over this few years... i think there had been more than enough reflections on myself... and i still believe that if i want to do it, i can do it.... and do it good...

Yeah man..... haha.... that's the spirit!!!

Ok... go sleep liao... update more when i finally join SIM..... haha...

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Another week has gone by....

Yup.... another week has just passed...

Nothing much....

Attended Fabian's birthday party at his house on Friday, after rushing down there straight after my life-saving course...
First time go his house... was rather amazed... because although it's a terrace, it was particularly spacious, especially since it's a corner one... got quite abit of garden space...
Had some bbq there... then after that sent people home... then i go home....

Haha... too fast liao huh?

But also nothing much lar... yar....

This coming week most probably got no job... so should be a rather free week....

So well... that's all....

Friday, June 08, 2007

Finally...

Just came back from a basketball session.....

Hmmm... guessed i played rather averagely.... was quite eager to get on court when i finally rushed to the court to meet up with the rest... it was kinda rare nowadays that got so many people come to play basketball....
And yar... finally... i am working... but i will come back to that later...

Saw the first set of match.... the 5 SHG against some strangers.... and as i was mentioning... was rather eager to go in already... because there really seem to be lacking center...rebound rate abit low... and they were kinda being played around by the opponents....the opponents keep getting the rebounds, and thunder the ball to their other team mates at the other side of the court....
And they were losing quite abit....
But well... the game have to finish first... but at least in the end got catch up... lost by abit...

And so... very enthusiastic upon the start of the 2nd set... was running up and down the court... helped out abit here and there...scored abit..... but i think my performance can still be improved.... alot...
But in a way... i think it is rather satisfactory....
Afterall... i had had a long physical day at work... and wasn't feeling very well the past few days... only began to feel much better this morning...
But not much difference... we still lost... by abit again....

Hmmmm... think my long absence from playing is really dulling me by quite abit.... got to work on that....

But still.. i had fun... just that because go too late... only get to play awhile.... no choice... work commitments....

Wasn't feeling well the last few days... think ate something wrong somewhere... hmm... maybe it was the food with the MK team....
Hmmm....

And so... didn't bothered to blog... too sick liao...

And yar.... i've got a job already.... though it is a part-time one...
It's an archery instructor job... and so far, i've done 2 assignments this week...

First one was on Tuesday, where i coached some little kids, from i think 5 years old to 10 years old, for 2 session,2 hours each.... on basic archery shooting.... this was my trail session... so no salary one...only given $10 to cover transport... I need to complete 6 hours of it, before i can actually get paid....
But i am actually quite happy about it, because i've only went for 2 sessions of training, and the coach found that i can start on the trail job because i've already mastered the basics... and quite fast..... ^_^

The session was rather fun.... but quite tiring... because i was basically kneeling down to match their height when helping them with their bows and arrows.... but kids being kids.... are rather fun to coach.... though you have to be more patient with them....
The good thing is... if you have anything that you don't know, can just "smoke" your way through... haha

Another even more happy thing is that, after the whole session, i was praised for a job well-done... by the head coach, and the assistant head coach.... who are also the bosses...
Not really sure why.... because as far as i've recalled... all i did was coach the kids... nothing very special about the way i did it...
But it sure feels rather good.... haven't been praised for a long long time... haha.... but well... it didn't really blow my head up or something... i just take it as a compliment....
But that wasn't the main thing to be happy about.... the main thing was that the head coach decided that my trail can end already... although it had only been 4 hours... because of my good performance... and he did mentioned that it was the first time that they cleared a part-time instructor's trail session in only 4 hours....^_^
Now... this would definitely be something more worthy to be happy about... haha... because it means i can start earning some money!!!

It definitely feels good to be praised and rewarded for a good job... even though it may sound rather "kidish", but i believe everyone likes a praise here and there.... no matter the age... so... i believe everyone should start praising one another like there's no tomorrow~~~ ^_^

Spread the joy~~~~

And the next one job was today.... no coaching... but doing logistic matters.... SK!!!
Starting at 10 in the morning, and only ended around 1930hrs... was basically moving around the whole island today... collecting ands ending target and target boards... quite heavy leh... and only got me and the assistant head coach... i machiam like delivery assistant...
Was a rather long day... but i didn't mind... longer hours means more pay.... ^_^
Because right now my pay is $6/hour, and i have to complete 40 hours before i can advance to $8/hour... so it's good to get more hours...

I think army had helped me alot to prepare of this job.... because i realised, as a commander... there's no such thing as "being tired".... something which got stuck in my mind whenever i am outfield, or doing anything with my men.... they can be tired.... but when they are tired, i will never show that i am tired... even though i may be dying inside... but i kept strong.... and this mentality had kept me going on through the army days... especially during the 32km route march...
In a way... even though today had been long and rather exhausting... i kept on going... because i know this in my heart... that i can never be tired~~~

Haha.... some personal praising here... ^_^

And yup.... so that's basically about what happened this few days... go rest le...