Facebook tempts. Being offline is dead boring. Being offline at home in front of the computer and having to complete essays and tutorials? Impossible. Shit, this must be the reason why my homework's always incomplete. I mean, Facebook notes which are beyond the valley of lameness are even nicer to do than tutorials okay. I would rather tag 15 people and jumble up their relationships with weird questions 15 times than do (what is a "standard") of 4 pages of Economics essay.
And being a good econs student, I've learnt well from my tutors. Just a few hours ago I weighed the marginalist benefits between sleep, econs essay dued today (or rather last week), and a new idea which popped into my head: whiten my shoe. I made a choice of the latter. And I wasn't wrong in doing that. Trust me, the accomplishment behind a pair of clean, white, pretty town shoes is much greater than the satisfaction derived from the set of Economics essay completed. Like how the utility and marginal benefits of a pair of clean and sheek shoes outweighs the marginal benefits of an essay completed.
The last time I shoe-white-d my shoes was about secondary 2, and I totally forgot how to use the bottle of shoe white. The sponge doesn't work and a spamful of shoe-white oozes out from every light squeeze I apply. I ended up using my fingers (lessons learnt from House Comm Area Floor Painting 101), resulting in a pretty effect but really stained fingers. I took a whiff of my finger after washing through once, and the toxic was almost deadly. I momentarily had toxic invasion in my brain and I stood on the spot for 10 seconds. Exaggeratedly speaking. But I had fun. So much fun instead, I spent every second of shoe-whiting my shoes cursing the little girl who stepped on my shoe casting a huge black spot and much more, in the empty MRT on the day I planned the failed class gathering. Siyun witnessed it, and you don't wanna know how much I whined.
TADAA! RESULTS!!!
in retrospect, at 9:13 PM
Haven't blogged for 5 days. Felt like 2 weeks, honestly. I've been relatively busy but yet quite relaxed, competition this week on Friday (pretty much screwed up) forces me to sleep (or at least try to) before 11pm everyday, thus the homework which is piling up. Essays on essays and like before, the usual pile of tutorials dating from the start of school. I'm visiting the school library now on an almost daily basis (yep, find me there!) despite the air-conditioning system being just about as good as nothing. I hated the library (or still do) but no choice right? The time I have at home equates to really just sleep time and a little Facebook every night. Like Daniel says, JC life is so shit-busy you hardly have time to shit.
Plus the decrease in blogging frequency might have other reasons... I've came to a realisation (yeah I take time to realise~) that finding my blog is a no-brainer. 1 Google search of "Chew Bolong", and the first result you get is this. Meaning I should make use of a little more censorship in typing posts and not whine about everything so explicitly. For example: not reveal that I don't exactly enjoy Wushu trainings [Freda HAHAHAHA] But no lah, honestly for that case I only not enjoy the sport. Like martial arts? I've been doing it more than half of my life! [started Taekwondo at primary 1 till Wushu now] despite me still sucking at the sport. Don't diss me about it. :) Trainings and the company are really fine otherwise.
And since Sieweng you're the one that requested for the update, here's a belated Happy Birthday to you, I don't usually do blog wishes unless it happens to coincide, but since you're so special here's one for you. HAHAHA kidding :)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:04 PM
Yesterday our principal Mr Chan announced a half-day in school during morning assembly, it was shocking cause nobody really hinted it though we already expected a full day or half day at least, just not knowing when exactly it would be.
Oh yeah, anyway the half-day was supposed to be cool and give us extra time to catch up on sleep, homework etc. or anything that needs to be accomplished (aka free time) but it was full-day for me. Full-day like "full day busy" instead of "full day free". Just trying to touch on the irony, but anyway it was really fun.
Lunch with 09s65 and Race to the Witch Mountain. Seriously, I'm currently really detached from the media world cause I barely have enough time to sleep, much less to pay attention to them. So I went in and had a Narnia-icy-witch-mountain kind of impression on the movie. Till I realised the movie's setting was in LA and witch mountain wasn't witchy at all. It was about 2 good looking teenage alien blondes who are really cool cause they have super powers, but which are so not alienly. The movie was quite lame but it's not
Had dinner at Siglap's Pizza Hut with cheerleaders, but anyway before that in the evening we met in school and camwhored like shit. Super funny, we took a hell lot of 12-consec. shots, I think Puayying's camera has more than 150 photos of us during that 1 hour in the canteen alone. Yeah plus I learnt Kelly Khoo's sick game (what I lie to others as a personality test before they got punked) through dinner and I like went around school doing it to everyone else today. :)
PLUS PLUS wushu competition is next week, my event's on Friday and it's my only event cause I've decided to consolidate and focus my time on a single event with hopes that I'll do better. Don't have the time/motivation to learn another one anyway. So yeah, pray for me on Friday morning okay? TEEHEE
Sunday, March 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:22 PM
Today was a total waste. I went straight to a nap after ending that previous post, and the nap took me 4 hours, all the way till before dinner. I've sinned. I need to find some place outside of the availability of couches and beds, but also conducive for work. Anywhere you know?
Gave up on math, tried to start on chem before I came here. It was impossible, 4 full sets of topics with tutorials undone, I didn't even know where to start from cause I hardly understood a single topic. I should really stop procrastinating. It's taking over my life.
OH on a lighter note, I brought my school uniform tops to alter already so now I don't have to worry about huge sleeves and stuff like that. EVER! =]
in retrospect, at 3:16 PM
More than a month past into JC life, there's a hell lot more things that I can't cope with now. Last year I was still happily complaining about secondary 4 life, didn't expect JC would be so much more. Badly behind all things, but I can't get the motivation to carry on anyway. I've ditched my daily planner since 2 weeks ago cause the tutorials to do are never-ending but I've got just about my sleeptime to do them. My mind body and soul is entirely shagged and I only had a day of holiday (today) in the entirety of the March holidays. You wouldn't believe it, but it's seriously 24/7 the past week. 3 days of camp, 5 days of trainings (of which many a times it's wushu and volleyball on the same day), 4 days of outings and such. I know, of everything outings are not mandatory and it's my fault that I chose them over homework. But hell, fun > work.
I tried doing some math just now, something about system linear equations. It's only using the GC to solve simultaneous equations and I was stuck at it already. The topic's way behind the pace of the math tutor, she's already gone through the tutorial for that already but I don't know why I didn't even remember to copy down the answers. And I can't help but go for sleep intervals after a question or two. Really don't have the energy to do work...
Okay anyway happy birthday Joyc Leong!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:40 PM
The past 2 days have been awesome. It's starting to finally feel like a holiday. Yes, I have hardly any time left for homework and that's a little worrying but I'm glad I'm not missing out on all the fun. I missed the volleyball match yesterday but Phoenix cheerleader gathering at Eduardo's house totally made up for it. Firstly Eduardo's house is really arty-farty and cool shit, then his mum is a great cook and the environment is perfect. All of us were so jealous of his house. His mum is a really good cook, she made prawns and pasta and roasted whole chickens with shepard's pie which was awesome. After the food, we actually smelled brownies and all of us moaned out loud. Swear, it was really good plus Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia. We watched "Wanted" later on in his living room with couches and a surround sound system, and what do you know? Ed's mum made popcorn for us! HOLY SHIT RIGHT? The stay was awesome man, I felt like a royalty, Ed's family rocks. Plus the cheerleaders are a really cool bunch, it's cool that even though we've only known each other for 2 weeks plus we feel like a family already. Unlike a class, we really have no form of clique separation at all so that's super. Yeah, and I promised photos. Cause I was in FBTs and everything else, (not too glam) you can go dig for them in facebook.
And I went out with Melinda, Yixiang and Hongwei for lunch today, then went off to Esplanade's library which just happened to have this cool Mosaic concert series and some cool bands were playing self-composed acoustics. Really good. It was totally relaxing despite the freezing library. Yeah, and Zhang Qian conned me to go for dinner at city hall. Again. Ministry of Food at Marina Square, and it turns out to be a 4G clique gathering. But nevermind other guys like Benjamin, Sanpeng etc. were pulled to it to. Was actually quite enjoyable, despite the fact that I was eating not-too-cheap Japanese food for the 2nd time today. Ended up spending $25 today, about half of my next week's pocket money. So yeah, cool holidays!
And I'll end off with the VOG Phoenix cheerleading video! Go rate 5 stars! HAHA!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:50 AM
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED AT MYSELF.
I was supposed to go to DHS to watch the DHS VJC volleyball match today but I overslept and just woke up. I put alarms but I ended up semi-consciously snoozing all of them off, I woke up at 9.30 and threw my phone on the floor in angst, and my phone hung on me.
Friday, March 13, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:07 PM
Victoria Olympic/Outdoor Games.
Was a blast. Literally. Phoenix cheerleaders have been a superb team, given that we only trained for 2 weeks, some stunts could be pulled off as professional already! The 2 weeks were really tiring, reaching home at an average 11.00pm everyday, yesterday was worse, I reached home at 12.30am, bathed and slept for 3 hours before waking up again to go to school. Yes, we planned to meet at 5.30am. Was super shagged, but 4 buns in the morning plus 2 bananas before cheerleading kept me energized! The routine was super. We won first! Pictures and videos up later when Wenxin posts them up :)
Yeah, and everyone around's in "holiday mood" but I'm not. I mean, I can't even get to be in the mood for holidays. My entire March holidays is totally taken up. The only free day is possibly Sunday, while the rest of the days are camps (house comm: tues, wed, thurs; volleyball: thurs, fri, sat), trainings (wushu: wed, sat; volleyball: tues, thurs, fri) and many other different gatherings. I have lots of things which happen simultaneously on the same days (eg. tentative 4E gath, wushu training and volleyball). I am a thousand light years behind my tutorials and I still don't have time to catch up. Die. I think I seriously have to quit one CCA soon :(
OHOH anyway tomorrow's Dunman/Victoria volleyball friendly and I'm going back to see the DHS team and support them (HAHA okay kidding) so I'm kind of excited. Then there's the Phoenix cheerleaders gathering at Ed's house at night :) Also really exciting!
[EDIT]
See! Just realised tomorrow is Wushu training as well. DIE MAN, I'll like chiong from DHS to Chung Cheng then to Ed's house! Crazy shit.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:05 PM
Super cool. 2PM, the earliest time I've reached home from school this year. It's like I saved some god-ass good time. My classmates just got released from Math lecture, some even still have Chinese after that :) But anyway I've to go out soon cause I need to pack some stuff to camp overnight in school tonight. Yeah, I skipped Math lecture cause the lecturer was teaching differentiation. Remember? I didn't get to study differentiation/integration last year for EOYs cause I didn't have time to? Yeah, plus after the long holiday, I don't even remember a thing. No point staying through the lecture, I would be either sleeping or chatting away anyway. PLUS my smart-ass brother in J2 this year told me while I was clearing my files last year that JC topics are totally different from those in secondary school, and he encouraged me to throw away all my subject notes in sec 3/4. Which was a bad idea. I didn't even know why I believed him, I threw away like 80% of the school notes, but luckily I saved those home-made notes. Even if they are concise, summarised and question-spotted to suit the Dunman High EOY, at least I still have something there. Not differentiation/integration though.
Anyway I've got to grab whatever time I have during the March Hols cause most of the days have things going on already, but yet I have like at least 1 tutorial un-done for each subject. Topics like Chemistry and Math are much much worse. Okay gotta go, think I'm going to read some Redox.
Tomorrow's VOG and we're finally performing cheerleading. Kelly fell off a shoulder-stand and twisted her ankle yesterday, all the best to her and the cheerleaders.
in retrospect, at 12:14 AM
You know when I was typing the last post more than a week ago, I thought that the first two days of ending cheerleading practices at 9.30pm would be temporary. Turns out I'm wrong, and for the past 2 weeks cheerleading ended even later than 9.30pm. This week especially, we ended at 11pm in school today. Luckily I've a really nice dad he has been coming to fetch me the past 3 days. Cheerleading's absolutely time-consuming, like: I basically have zilch time left for myself and training dates are everyday in the week except Sundays. Victorian Outdoor Games (the equivalent of Sports Day) is on Friday but Phoenix House haven't got our stuff exactly solidified yet. Means we should start worrying since tomorrow's the final day we could practice but yet we still can't get full attendance.
Okay it's like 12.20AM now but I'm still up here blogging I don't know why, maybe to whine a little but most of all this blog has been dead for more than a week. Plus I've a few people to thank. I think I'm overly exhausted the past weeks, I haven't had a single day that I didn't fall asleep during any part of lessons (lectures or tutorials). All except today. It was silly, I was feeling very energetic despite sleeping late last night, but weirdly the entire class was super sian and tired today. By the end of Physics lecture today, I think I was one of the only few who still had their heads off the table in the entire row.
Anyway, back to thanking people: firstly and most importantly, the stranger who found my phone in school. Fung Kah Chee from Nanyang JC. I can't thank you enough, you could have seriously taken it away and nobody would know or find out since you're not even from our school, but you were cool enough to bring it to the General Office. Thanks so much, even if my phone doesn't worth a lot, there are quite a number of photos or important things I haven't saved into my computer yet :) By the way I think I left my phone in the toilet after I pee-d or something :) Also want to thank Sean for helping me take my phone + iPod touch after I accidentaly left it in the Chung Cheng High toilet today after Wushu training. Else my loss would have been a thousand times worse. And finally all the cheerleaders would don't have House Comm obligations but yet spend so much of your personal time to train with us, some of you like Perle, Wenxin, Puayying, Suwen, Rasyiqah, Eric, Daniel and sooo many more who might even have trained harder than us. All you cheerleaders are super cool and the time's really worth spending with all of you :)
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:02 PM
For the first time in 3 days I'm online. Past few days have been at cheerleading in school till 9.30pm. Can you even believe it? I mean firstly it's 9.30pm (so late) and secondly its cheerleading. House comm stuff, it's damn gay to do but still very fun. Phoenix cheerleaders are totally awesome and hot, a really cool bunch of people to hang out with! So yeah, didn't regret the choice despite the really gay cheerleading moves. Talking about really gay cheerleading moves. Cheerleading during Sports Day: stunts, cheers, dance and blah. We need to learn a dance routine but it's turning into some gay thang cause the moves are really bimbo. But whatever, thank god we at least have a routine man.
Oh yeah and being in VJ really just proves the point that the world Singapore is so damned small. I could meet a Phoenix cheerleader who turns out to be my junior's elder sister, classmates who are close friends of my ex-classmates and some others who actually know like 5 of my ex-classmates or something.
Yup and erm, Facebook refuses to let me change my network from Dunman High School '10 to '08, weirdly. AND I'm really really desperate to go Sentosa to beach volley with the rest of the 4E people. Sandra, Alisa, Jieting, Liqin, Alicia, Maureen, Eugene, Yuting, Cheryl, Tzuhsiang, Sieweng (though Sieweng was MIA most of the time). Really, so desperate I don't mind skipping an entire day of school to go Sentosa and play it off. And since most of us bought the concession till November '08, WHY NOT? :( Miss those end-of-year periods. BADLY! Today's been the earliest day I come home this week, better take an hour off to catch up on some tutorials. BYE!
Just for memories' sake:
And I've started to take on a very light attitude about mugging. Gone are the days of worrying, getting stressed, bitching and spilling hatred over the super muggers. Gone are the days of mugging. Since I don't have time to study anyway, I might as well just fuck tutorials. Serious. I'm going to start on a full-fledged mugging plan in June holidays. Maybe earlier if I'm free, but for now I'm satisfied with sleeping early, making cool friends, having a hell of a good time and (at the very least) paying good attention to tutorials and lectures so I still know half of the things going on. Screw the muggers. Shall. Not. Whine. About. Them. Anymore.
Monday, March 30, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:00 PM
Facebook tempts. Being offline is dead boring. Being offline at home in front of the computer and having to complete essays and tutorials? Impossible. Shit, this must be the reason why my homework's always incomplete. I mean, Facebook notes which are beyond the valley of lameness are even nicer to do than tutorials okay. I would rather tag 15 people and jumble up their relationships with weird questions 15 times than do (what is a "standard") of 4 pages of Economics essay.
And being a good econs student, I've learnt well from my tutors. Just a few hours ago I weighed the marginalist benefits between sleep, econs essay dued today (or rather last week), and a new idea which popped into my head: whiten my shoe. I made a choice of the latter. And I wasn't wrong in doing that. Trust me, the accomplishment behind a pair of clean, white, pretty town shoes is much greater than the satisfaction derived from the set of Economics essay completed. Like how the utility and marginal benefits of a pair of clean and sheek shoes outweighs the marginal benefits of an essay completed.
The last time I shoe-white-d my shoes was about secondary 2, and I totally forgot how to use the bottle of shoe white. The sponge doesn't work and a spamful of shoe-white oozes out from every light squeeze I apply. I ended up using my fingers (lessons learnt from House Comm Area Floor Painting 101), resulting in a pretty effect but really stained fingers. I took a whiff of my finger after washing through once, and the toxic was almost deadly. I momentarily had toxic invasion in my brain and I stood on the spot for 10 seconds. Exaggeratedly speaking. But I had fun. So much fun instead, I spent every second of shoe-whiting my shoes cursing the little girl who stepped on my shoe casting a huge black spot and much more, in the empty MRT on the day I planned the failed class gathering. Siyun witnessed it, and you don't wanna know how much I whined.
TADAA! RESULTS!!!
in retrospect, at 9:13 PM
Haven't blogged for 5 days. Felt like 2 weeks, honestly. I've been relatively busy but yet quite relaxed, competition this week on Friday (pretty much screwed up) forces me to sleep (or at least try to) before 11pm everyday, thus the homework which is piling up. Essays on essays and like before, the usual pile of tutorials dating from the start of school. I'm visiting the school library now on an almost daily basis (yep, find me there!) despite the air-conditioning system being just about as good as nothing. I hated the library (or still do) but no choice right? The time I have at home equates to really just sleep time and a little Facebook every night. Like Daniel says, JC life is so shit-busy you hardly have time to shit.
Plus the decrease in blogging frequency might have other reasons... I've came to a realisation (yeah I take time to realise~) that finding my blog is a no-brainer. 1 Google search of "Chew Bolong", and the first result you get is this. Meaning I should make use of a little more censorship in typing posts and not whine about everything so explicitly. For example: not reveal that I don't exactly enjoy Wushu trainings [Freda HAHAHAHA] But no lah, honestly for that case I only not enjoy the sport. Like martial arts? I've been doing it more than half of my life! [started Taekwondo at primary 1 till Wushu now] despite me still sucking at the sport. Don't diss me about it. :) Trainings and the company are really fine otherwise.
And since Sieweng you're the one that requested for the update, here's a belated Happy Birthday to you, I don't usually do blog wishes unless it happens to coincide, but since you're so special here's one for you. HAHAHA kidding :)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:04 PM
Yesterday our principal Mr Chan announced a half-day in school during morning assembly, it was shocking cause nobody really hinted it though we already expected a full day or half day at least, just not knowing when exactly it would be.
Oh yeah, anyway the half-day was supposed to be cool and give us extra time to catch up on sleep, homework etc. or anything that needs to be accomplished (aka free time) but it was full-day for me. Full-day like "full day busy" instead of "full day free". Just trying to touch on the irony, but anyway it was really fun.
Lunch with 09s65 and Race to the Witch Mountain. Seriously, I'm currently really detached from the media world cause I barely have enough time to sleep, much less to pay attention to them. So I went in and had a Narnia-icy-witch-mountain kind of impression on the movie. Till I realised the movie's setting was in LA and witch mountain wasn't witchy at all. It was about 2 good looking teenage alien blondes who are really cool cause they have super powers, but which are so not alienly. The movie was quite lame but it's not
Had dinner at Siglap's Pizza Hut with cheerleaders, but anyway before that in the evening we met in school and camwhored like shit. Super funny, we took a hell lot of 12-consec. shots, I think Puayying's camera has more than 150 photos of us during that 1 hour in the canteen alone. Yeah plus I learnt Kelly Khoo's sick game (what I lie to others as a personality test before they got punked) through dinner and I like went around school doing it to everyone else today. :)
PLUS PLUS wushu competition is next week, my event's on Friday and it's my only event cause I've decided to consolidate and focus my time on a single event with hopes that I'll do better. Don't have the time/motivation to learn another one anyway. So yeah, pray for me on Friday morning okay? TEEHEE
Sunday, March 22, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:22 PM
Today was a total waste. I went straight to a nap after ending that previous post, and the nap took me 4 hours, all the way till before dinner. I've sinned. I need to find some place outside of the availability of couches and beds, but also conducive for work. Anywhere you know?
Gave up on math, tried to start on chem before I came here. It was impossible, 4 full sets of topics with tutorials undone, I didn't even know where to start from cause I hardly understood a single topic. I should really stop procrastinating. It's taking over my life.
OH on a lighter note, I brought my school uniform tops to alter already so now I don't have to worry about huge sleeves and stuff like that. EVER! =]
in retrospect, at 3:16 PM
More than a month past into JC life, there's a hell lot more things that I can't cope with now. Last year I was still happily complaining about secondary 4 life, didn't expect JC would be so much more. Badly behind all things, but I can't get the motivation to carry on anyway. I've ditched my daily planner since 2 weeks ago cause the tutorials to do are never-ending but I've got just about my sleeptime to do them. My mind body and soul is entirely shagged and I only had a day of holiday (today) in the entirety of the March holidays. You wouldn't believe it, but it's seriously 24/7 the past week. 3 days of camp, 5 days of trainings (of which many a times it's wushu and volleyball on the same day), 4 days of outings and such. I know, of everything outings are not mandatory and it's my fault that I chose them over homework. But hell, fun > work.
I tried doing some math just now, something about system linear equations. It's only using the GC to solve simultaneous equations and I was stuck at it already. The topic's way behind the pace of the math tutor, she's already gone through the tutorial for that already but I don't know why I didn't even remember to copy down the answers. And I can't help but go for sleep intervals after a question or two. Really don't have the energy to do work...
Okay anyway happy birthday Joyc Leong!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
in retrospect, at 11:40 PM
The past 2 days have been awesome. It's starting to finally feel like a holiday. Yes, I have hardly any time left for homework and that's a little worrying but I'm glad I'm not missing out on all the fun. I missed the volleyball match yesterday but Phoenix cheerleader gathering at Eduardo's house totally made up for it. Firstly Eduardo's house is really arty-farty and cool shit, then his mum is a great cook and the environment is perfect. All of us were so jealous of his house. His mum is a really good cook, she made prawns and pasta and roasted whole chickens with shepard's pie which was awesome. After the food, we actually smelled brownies and all of us moaned out loud. Swear, it was really good plus Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia. We watched "Wanted" later on in his living room with couches and a surround sound system, and what do you know? Ed's mum made popcorn for us! HOLY SHIT RIGHT? The stay was awesome man, I felt like a royalty, Ed's family rocks. Plus the cheerleaders are a really cool bunch, it's cool that even though we've only known each other for 2 weeks plus we feel like a family already. Unlike a class, we really have no form of clique separation at all so that's super. Yeah, and I promised photos. Cause I was in FBTs and everything else, (not too glam) you can go dig for them in facebook.
And I went out with Melinda, Yixiang and Hongwei for lunch today, then went off to Esplanade's library which just happened to have this cool Mosaic concert series and some cool bands were playing self-composed acoustics. Really good. It was totally relaxing despite the freezing library. Yeah, and Zhang Qian conned me to go for dinner at city hall. Again. Ministry of Food at Marina Square, and it turns out to be a 4G clique gathering. But nevermind other guys like Benjamin, Sanpeng etc. were pulled to it to. Was actually quite enjoyable, despite the fact that I was eating not-too-cheap Japanese food for the 2nd time today. Ended up spending $25 today, about half of my next week's pocket money. So yeah, cool holidays!
And I'll end off with the VOG Phoenix cheerleading video! Go rate 5 stars! HAHA!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:50 AM
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED AT MYSELF.
I was supposed to go to DHS to watch the DHS VJC volleyball match today but I overslept and just woke up. I put alarms but I ended up semi-consciously snoozing all of them off, I woke up at 9.30 and threw my phone on the floor in angst, and my phone hung on me.
Friday, March 13, 2009
in retrospect, at 8:07 PM
Victoria Olympic/Outdoor Games.
Was a blast. Literally. Phoenix cheerleaders have been a superb team, given that we only trained for 2 weeks, some stunts could be pulled off as professional already! The 2 weeks were really tiring, reaching home at an average 11.00pm everyday, yesterday was worse, I reached home at 12.30am, bathed and slept for 3 hours before waking up again to go to school. Yes, we planned to meet at 5.30am. Was super shagged, but 4 buns in the morning plus 2 bananas before cheerleading kept me energized! The routine was super. We won first! Pictures and videos up later when Wenxin posts them up :)
Yeah, and everyone around's in "holiday mood" but I'm not. I mean, I can't even get to be in the mood for holidays. My entire March holidays is totally taken up. The only free day is possibly Sunday, while the rest of the days are camps (house comm: tues, wed, thurs; volleyball: thurs, fri, sat), trainings (wushu: wed, sat; volleyball: tues, thurs, fri) and many other different gatherings. I have lots of things which happen simultaneously on the same days (eg. tentative 4E gath, wushu training and volleyball). I am a thousand light years behind my tutorials and I still don't have time to catch up. Die. I think I seriously have to quit one CCA soon :(
OHOH anyway tomorrow's Dunman/Victoria volleyball friendly and I'm going back to see the DHS team and support them (HAHA okay kidding) so I'm kind of excited. Then there's the Phoenix cheerleaders gathering at Ed's house at night :) Also really exciting!
[EDIT]
See! Just realised tomorrow is Wushu training as well. DIE MAN, I'll like chiong from DHS to Chung Cheng then to Ed's house! Crazy shit.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
in retrospect, at 2:05 PM
Super cool. 2PM, the earliest time I've reached home from school this year. It's like I saved some god-ass good time. My classmates just got released from Math lecture, some even still have Chinese after that :) But anyway I've to go out soon cause I need to pack some stuff to camp overnight in school tonight. Yeah, I skipped Math lecture cause the lecturer was teaching differentiation. Remember? I didn't get to study differentiation/integration last year for EOYs cause I didn't have time to? Yeah, plus after the long holiday, I don't even remember a thing. No point staying through the lecture, I would be either sleeping or chatting away anyway. PLUS my smart-ass brother in J2 this year told me while I was clearing my files last year that JC topics are totally different from those in secondary school, and he encouraged me to throw away all my subject notes in sec 3/4. Which was a bad idea. I didn't even know why I believed him, I threw away like 80% of the school notes, but luckily I saved those home-made notes. Even if they are concise, summarised and question-spotted to suit the Dunman High EOY, at least I still have something there. Not differentiation/integration though.
Anyway I've got to grab whatever time I have during the March Hols cause most of the days have things going on already, but yet I have like at least 1 tutorial un-done for each subject. Topics like Chemistry and Math are much much worse. Okay gotta go, think I'm going to read some Redox.
Tomorrow's VOG and we're finally performing cheerleading. Kelly fell off a shoulder-stand and twisted her ankle yesterday, all the best to her and the cheerleaders.
in retrospect, at 12:14 AM
You know when I was typing the last post more than a week ago, I thought that the first two days of ending cheerleading practices at 9.30pm would be temporary. Turns out I'm wrong, and for the past 2 weeks cheerleading ended even later than 9.30pm. This week especially, we ended at 11pm in school today. Luckily I've a really nice dad he has been coming to fetch me the past 3 days. Cheerleading's absolutely time-consuming, like: I basically have zilch time left for myself and training dates are everyday in the week except Sundays. Victorian Outdoor Games (the equivalent of Sports Day) is on Friday but Phoenix House haven't got our stuff exactly solidified yet. Means we should start worrying since tomorrow's the final day we could practice but yet we still can't get full attendance.
Okay it's like 12.20AM now but I'm still up here blogging I don't know why, maybe to whine a little but most of all this blog has been dead for more than a week. Plus I've a few people to thank. I think I'm overly exhausted the past weeks, I haven't had a single day that I didn't fall asleep during any part of lessons (lectures or tutorials). All except today. It was silly, I was feeling very energetic despite sleeping late last night, but weirdly the entire class was super sian and tired today. By the end of Physics lecture today, I think I was one of the only few who still had their heads off the table in the entire row.
Anyway, back to thanking people: firstly and most importantly, the stranger who found my phone in school. Fung Kah Chee from Nanyang JC. I can't thank you enough, you could have seriously taken it away and nobody would know or find out since you're not even from our school, but you were cool enough to bring it to the General Office. Thanks so much, even if my phone doesn't worth a lot, there are quite a number of photos or important things I haven't saved into my computer yet :) By the way I think I left my phone in the toilet after I pee-d or something :) Also want to thank Sean for helping me take my phone + iPod touch after I accidentaly left it in the Chung Cheng High toilet today after Wushu training. Else my loss would have been a thousand times worse. And finally all the cheerleaders would don't have House Comm obligations but yet spend so much of your personal time to train with us, some of you like Perle, Wenxin, Puayying, Suwen, Rasyiqah, Eric, Daniel and sooo many more who might even have trained harder than us. All you cheerleaders are super cool and the time's really worth spending with all of you :)
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
in retrospect, at 9:02 PM
For the first time in 3 days I'm online. Past few days have been at cheerleading in school till 9.30pm. Can you even believe it? I mean firstly it's 9.30pm (so late) and secondly its cheerleading. House comm stuff, it's damn gay to do but still very fun. Phoenix cheerleaders are totally awesome and hot, a really cool bunch of people to hang out with! So yeah, didn't regret the choice despite the really gay cheerleading moves. Talking about really gay cheerleading moves. Cheerleading during Sports Day: stunts, cheers, dance and blah. We need to learn a dance routine but it's turning into some gay thang cause the moves are really bimbo. But whatever, thank god we at least have a routine man.
Oh yeah and being in VJ really just proves the point that the world Singapore is so damned small. I could meet a Phoenix cheerleader who turns out to be my junior's elder sister, classmates who are close friends of my ex-classmates and some others who actually know like 5 of my ex-classmates or something.
Yup and erm, Facebook refuses to let me change my network from Dunman High School '10 to '08, weirdly. AND I'm really really desperate to go Sentosa to beach volley with the rest of the 4E people. Sandra, Alisa, Jieting, Liqin, Alicia, Maureen, Eugene, Yuting, Cheryl, Tzuhsiang, Sieweng (though Sieweng was MIA most of the time). Really, so desperate I don't mind skipping an entire day of school to go Sentosa and play it off. And since most of us bought the concession till November '08, WHY NOT? :( Miss those end-of-year periods. BADLY! Today's been the earliest day I come home this week, better take an hour off to catch up on some tutorials. BYE!
Just for memories' sake:
And I've started to take on a very light attitude about mugging. Gone are the days of worrying, getting stressed, bitching and spilling hatred over the super muggers. Gone are the days of mugging. Since I don't have time to study anyway, I might as well just fuck tutorials. Serious. I'm going to start on a full-fledged mugging plan in June holidays. Maybe earlier if I'm free, but for now I'm satisfied with sleeping early, making cool friends, having a hell of a good time and (at the very least) paying good attention to tutorials and lectures so I still know half of the things going on. Screw the muggers. Shall. Not. Whine. About. Them. Anymore.
Before you read this,
This blog is not going to be about cheery encounters, sizzling gossips or interesting current affairs.
So if you're looking for any of the above three, do 'x' this page. That was a warning - before you waste your time here.
The author of this blog is pretty much a narcissist, and most of the posts here would be constantly lamenting about tiny things in his head which wouldn't concern you, nor the world.
Instead, the further he serves his two-years compulsory bond of being born a Singaporean son - National Service - the more tiresome and self-absorbed his posts will get.
The only intended audience for the blog is the author himself, and perhaps those who care enough.
Take this as a warning, so if you're looking for entertainment, this really isn't the right place. I've warned you...
P.S. I know this blog template's absolutely narcissistic.
More About Me
Chew Bolong, Singaporean. Would have to emphasize on that point at times cause you're not exactly the first one thinking that my name's PRC.
Oh, yes, my name's a Mandarin translation. Get on with life already.
I graduated from Dunman High School, then Victoria Junior College and I'm currently spending the next year and a half of my life (brainless), in National Service.
I have interests in designing and art [note: interest doesn't mean ability], (indie rock / folk) music, nature, long walks at night and making friends - sounds like a weird combination to say but those are things I associate myself to.
I'm an ENTP but at times an introvert. I love deep conversations with people.
I'm always in a dilemma deciding whether or not to change this description about myself, so I've decided that additional details shall be listed under.
27 Random Facts you HAVE to know about me
1. I used to suffer from insomnia cause annoying tunes would be stuck in my head or I tend to think through every event that's happened in the day, so I wouldn't be able to fall asleep. But in NS that doesn't apply anymore, cause I'm always tired. Don't think that's a good thing. 2. I like long walks alone at night, because it gives me a good opportunity to reflect, let my mind wander into deep stuff and just immerse in nature and the surroundings. That's provided the place I'm at is quiet and green. Yeah that's parks, garden, and most of Serangoon. Unfortunately, since NS, my mind's been pretty empty most of the time. 3. I told myself that by 37 years old I must have a (big) house complete with a billard table, a home-theatre system, a cosy round table and 4 armchairs in a corner of my (huge) living room, a secret hideout with natural lighting to chill and read books, a tiny bartender corner, a walk-in wardrobe and a useable kitchen amongst all other things. But my definition of future success only encompasses one thing - happiness. Yeah, it's a cliche but there must be a reason why it's a cliche right? 4. I enjoy people-watching. Behavioral science. You can actually tell a lot from that. 5. A part of my body I hate the most? My calves for sure. If you're a consistent reader of my blog I'm sure you would have heard of it already. But yeah, I'm standing at merely 165+ but I'd rather have thinner calves than be taller. 6. I (secretly) detest the Secondary 1, 2 me cause I was way too childish and immature. Not that secretive anymore, but I could have better spent that 2 years doing something else rather than doing lame things and attracting attention. I don't exactly like to mention this cause it's unglamorous, so lucky you. 7. I'm extremely afraid of cats. Like as if you don't know that already. 8. I can't take plain white bread. Nor powder formulated (warm) milk. They really make me wanna puke, cause they've that gooey feeling and they get stuck between or under your teeth. Which is disgusting. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm so short. I didn't know fresh milk existed when I was young, so I didn't drink milk for around a decade. 9. I find people who have good fashion sense and natural leadership emanating from them incredibly sexy. 10. I like girls with slightly reddish long hair and colourful sun dresses. 11. I have an inevitably heavy breathing, and it always gets worse when I start to notice it. Instead, I just reminded myself of it and am having a hard time trying to regulate my breathing right now. Plus I only breathe through my mouth. Although I've a big nose, my nostrils are probably small cause I have a blocked nose 24/7. BUT somehow when I fall asleep my body will force myself to breathe through my nose. Which is the reason why I snore in lectures. It's not even a snore actually - just heavy breathing sounds. I know I sound defensive right now. But no. True story. 12. I think the first gush of air from the air-conditioning system of a car is extremely addictive and pleasant. I'm pretty surprised some of my friends thought so too. 13. Crocs look ugly, but they smell really awesome to me. That fresh smell of sweet rubber. Everytime I walk past a Crocs outlet my heart melts a bit. No one seems to agree with me on this though. 14. The standard pen I use is a Pilot G2 0.5 ballpoint, and I write with such force on paper that Mr Ken Leong once commented on my essay: "braille?". The problem's so severe I need to use a cardboard piece (or a stack of paper of at least 5 pieces) as padding whenever I'm writing on paper. I switched to Uniball 0.38s in JC2. I am now using the Uniball to sketch as well. 15. I'm fully equipped in the skills of martial arts: junior black belt in Taekwondo as well as 6 years of Wushu. But I haven't even so much as laid a punch or slap on anyone. Okay I think I've slapped my brother a couple of times but that doesn't count cause I don't use my full force on him. One day I'd really like to try and punch someone. See if he even feel it hurts. 16. I'm guilty of judging people by a first impression (or just a quick scan). Don't everyone do? 17. Though I do say that, I find that my first 'evaluation' of someone is always pretty accurate. If I don't like someone, after time others will find it the same too. 18. I really like to whine and complain. I've been trying to tone it down recently because I realised that I feel better after I let it all out, but yet it only spreads the gloominess to my friends. I'd hate it if my friends were always whiney too, so I'll tone it down. I'll try. 19. I don't know why but I'm much more expressive online. I spill out secrets more often. I blog about things I don't even tell my close friends. So yeah, do read more when you still have the chance to. :D I suppose I'll stop blogging once I'm off the "student" label. Once I enter the workforce, when things are really so much more political and shit. 20. I've a weird habit of munching off the circumference of my burgers before I savour the centre of it. Don't laugh. 21. I have slight lisps. I wouldn't exactly call it that really, cause I refuse to admit it as a flaw, but pronouncing things with "esses" usually results in my tongue sticking out between my teeth and what comes out really sounds more like a "th". Yes, you can mock me about it for all your eternity of a boring, insipid life because I've came to terms with it. Booyah. 22. I believe that if someone isn't vain, he/she probably doesn't look good either. So yeah, come join me in being vain. 23. I'm quite a perfectionist about my companion, love and relationships, so I don't date easily. 24. I'm a huge nature lover. I want to walk Singapore's city at night with my friends. I want to camp under the stars with my friends. I want to live in the mountains without civilization. With a close friend or alone. My future half would probably have to love nature as well. Not like hiking-nature or climbing-nature, but really just the nature all around you. Even in the city. 25. My friend once said that I like to "fix broken dolls" as a boyfriend. In some ways it sounds apt, cause I think that girls with... a bit of emotional damage are deep and... more exciting to be with. I sound like I've dated before, but no, I've always been single. Evergreen, if you play that 'traffic light' game in University. Don't be weirded-out by me please. 25(ii). So yeah, if you're someone (or you know someone) who likes nature, likes long walks at night, likes folk / indie music, slightly emo / reflective at times but friendly otherwise, call me. 26. I listen to folk, alternative rock and indie music. I hate it when the artists I like gets famous and extremely mainstream. And that's not just a childish thought. It's because I think there's this special bond shared between you and the artist (and his / her music), and when it gets mainstream, the bond you had gets shared with all the other millions of people in the world, and it's no longer special. Kinda like what you'd say with relationships. 27. Finally, I fancy a good laugh everyday. My friends have given me that, and that's why I love them so much.
Not your usual Bucket-list
Yes, in order of 'want'. 1. 1 month backpacking trip to Europe / cold climate areas with a close pal (or two). The less civilization the better. 2. Is wanting something illegal illegal in itself? Yes, drugs - at least once. LSD, to be exact. 3. Making (good) friends with someone insane. I mean, mental. But I don't want to make it sound derogatory. There's something strikingly beautiful about insanity, like experiencing another dimension of some sorts. 4. The Killers' concert. 5. A folk / acoustic concert - say Iron & Wine, Bombay Bicycle Club, Inch Chua or Zee Avi. 6. Camping under the stars in the city (Padang?) and listening to acoustic sounds. 7. Experience the Glastonbury / Lollapalooza / Woodstock / Coachella festivals. 8. Bungee-jumping. 9. Scuba-diving. 10. Going for a real Broadway production.
I know - I'm weird, right?
emails: chew.bolong.2009@vjc.sg (main) / bolong02@hotmail.com (dominated by junk mail)
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bolong
mobile phone: yeah you wish.
The Portfolio –collection of past designs / art attempts.
I posted most of the things I'm more proud of, but I apologise for anything which looks like shit to you.
I'm still learning, growing and trying out new things, so you'll see this collection grow in future.
Hope it serves as a remembrance of how much I've improved and learnt since I started delving around in amateur art and design.
blogskins
My blogskins.com account is now a completely abandoned ship. Below all the dust and rust collected, there lies a lot of preview issues
due to bandwidth limits, some out-dated coding, now-broken links and messed up resolution / alignment problems with new browsers.
These thumbnails are mainly listed here for preview purposes, but if in any chance you might wish to use any one of these skins, drop
me a message with your e-mail address stated and I will kindly re-host the images for you and do minor adjustments (dependent on my
mood at that specific time) to enhance the blogskin.