Back From The Past, To The Present

For some reason, after reading back all the old posts, and remembering all the memories from the past, I've decided to start blogging again, and this time with an actual purpose; to write down notable things in my life, and to look back on them years on and laugh about it. Not for anyone but myself.

I'm gonna pick up from where I left off.

My birthday, although almost 2 weeks ago, was really interesting. Invited 18 people from my school. Although I didn't ask for any presents, the turnover was good. We played Foosball, and just hanged, played Xbox, chatted. Hoped everyone had fun... Here's what I got :

• A Kevin Garnett Jersey
• A Chelsea Jersey
• A Rubik's Cube and a Weird Pen Holder
• Command & Conquer III : Kane's Wrath
• A Razor Death Adder Mouse
• A Book
• A Skinny Tie that resembles the one Green Day has.
• AND THE BEST OF ALL, A 8.1 MP Olympus Waterproof and Shockproof cam from my parents! hahahaha.
  

Here are the pictures :











Meanwhile,

had some friend troubles recently, about me making new friends in my new class, and neglecting my best friends. Well all this was kinda total bullshit, cause they(my best friends) saw it the wrong way. Anyways, talked to Dilip and Josiah individually and sorted my differences with them, one more to do though, Claudie, but he is gonna be hard, since he is always so secretive about things. If he is so secretive about things how can I ever trust him? Thats the whole point here.

Liking my new class a lot. Think its got a good mix of people. Easy to talk to them, fun and friendly and most of them, helpful. Exams nearing again, this time its a gauge of my performance so far. 2 weeks left.

Targets :

English A1
Chinese C5-B4
Combined Humans A2-A1
Chemistry A1
Biology A1
Physics A1
A Maths A1
E Maths A!

Have to be confident about it. Although I need to buck up on Physics and Bio and A Maths and E Maths. Ran in the Track and Field Meet, inter class relays, came in 4th. wish they gave medals for 4th haha. Really need to start studying already, then can slack awhile during the hols. So far
Everyday has been a drag, its been School, Study, Sleep. the 3 dreaded S's Everyday coming back quite late, around 4-5pm.


Anyway, had Chem extra lessons today, was kinda slack, then after that went lunch with Solomon and Satya. Then it rained. Went home abit drenched...haha. The n slacked, did some work, and watched tv and played computer, then posting (now).

till next time,
So glad to be back. All this for the future.

Jason Mraz, We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things

This is his first single off the album, its quite old, but this is the first time he is releasing it on an album.






His new album is gonna be released it 3 parts. The first part came out online already. I bought it.

Withdrawal Symptons and OBS

Facing withdrawal symptoms. Miss OBS!!! It was so fun. Came back yesterday.

Ok let's go through what we did.

64 of us in our group. Split into 4 smaller groups. We were made of St. Andrew's and Fuchun Sec. 32 each. Each sub group had 16. I was in Shackleton.

1st day we prepared for our trek into some forest areas of Pulau Ubin.

Each of us got those really huge camping backpacks. So it weighed like really heavy. And we had ponchos (which btw, was really heavy cuz it was really long and huge) then we had to carry our tents with us. Each group were also given rations, we had to live off those for the 5 days. Eating dry food in the morning and afternoon and only cooked food in the night. Each grp were given 4 20 litre cans of water and each person was given 2, 2litre bottles. So we had to carry 80 kg of water with us.


So we set off. Trekked for around 1 hr, and pitch tents at around 5pm. it was quite dark by then and there was no electricity or toilets(kinda cool). So no lights or buildings in sight. And we had to cook rice for dinner! but guess what, we burnt it and it tasted like crap. I actually spitted out after eating it. We also ate canned sausages. But the rice was like crap, so i ate bread. And we didnt bathe that day too!!! haha nice. And the toilets was actually no toilets. You dig a hole and plant your bombs and cover it back! haha.

On 2nd day we unpitched and left for a proper camp site. It had buildings in the area, it was camp site 1, it looked like a hotel. So we were there for our high elements activity. I was the fastest up the inverse tower, 1 min and 40 secs up the 5 story thing.

then we had kayaking training. learnt all the different kinds of maneuvers. And how to rescue a capsized boat.

Then at night we pitched tents and went for our SEA EXPEDITION briefing! yea man, that was why i came to OBS! we had a sea expedition. From Ubin to Sembawang. man it was far. took us 10 hrs to get there. And the best part of it, we hit a terrible storm halfway there. visibility was reduced to 1m. It was a good relief from the sweltering heat and the sun beating down on our necks. But it was so cold. Everyone was shivering. and the rain pelted down on our backs. It was really really heavy. So we rafted all 32 kayaks together side by side and held on to the instructors boat which was anchored. so we held on while bailing water out of our kayaks. Damn freaking FUN!!!!!!!

then we arrvied at sembawang. All wet, pitched tents, took a shower and slept. then we kayaked back to ubin the next day. So i'm freaking tan! hahaha. So that was all the fun parts of the camp!

And on the last day i performed a song on the guitar for the group. Called Good Riddance(time of your life). First ever performance in front of more than 2 ppl. hahah man it felt good.

this is how the song goes

Its by Green Day.



So now i'm really behind school. but miss OBS so much!
got 5 tests next week so i'm screwed.

From left to right, Guo hao, Alastair, Elton, ME)

The One With The Change In Title Posts

Ok, from now on i think i'll try posting without starting with "The One With The" or "The One Where".

Holidays ending soon. OBS for 5 days from Monday to Friday. Holiday Homework is sort of completed. Have yet to do Maths Notes, and 3 more free topic essays.

Birthday is on 28, can't wait. so close, thinking of how to celebrate.
Packing for OBS now.

Think I'll change my blog skin. See how lar.

The One With Lan, And Other Shenanigans

Yesterday was damn fun. What a way to end the term. After school, was in a dilemma, couldn't decide where to go. 3 options, go with arvind, dilip, josiah, matthew for movie. Or go with Solomon and gang to Lan. In the process, convinced Edwin, Eddy, Satya, Bryan to go lan with Solomon. Met up with them at Parklane. Was surprised to see at least half my class there...haha. it was Me, Edwin, Satya, Eddy, Bryan against, Solo, Cheng En, Mervin, Andre, Chin yan. Was damn fun. then more ppl from the class came, played with them. Then slowly everyone left. We played for like 4hrs ++. haha. longest lan ever.

Going lan again on Tuesday. Can't wait. lols

got back my progress report too, didnt do too well. I guess its there still time to get back on track.

English - B3
E. Maths - A2
Chinese - E8
Comb. Humans - C5
A. Maths - A2
Biology -A1
Chemistry - A1
Physics - B4(commont test was A1, but i failed the first test...sigh)

Can do so much better. I got 35/43 for class pos. sigh.

Busy week ahead.

The One With The Term Break

I guess this year's gonna be different. Term break seems more like another word for "go home and study lar". We have 40+ pages of physics work, maths work, english work. Sigh. Got remedial on Thursday. Have to make it. But got some science center stuff. Sigh dunno what to do. I hope the remedial can change to friday.

Stuff to do during hols:

Monday - Ambassador meeting
Tuesday- Lan
Wed- Chiong holiday hwmrk
Thurs- Ambassador stuff/Remedial?
Friday- Remedial?/Chiong more hmwrk
Saturday- Go Out?
Sunday-chiong more work?

Damn cram sia. Sure tio owned by all the work. No time to enjoy, no time to do anything!!!
Die lar.

The One Where It Just Gets Worst

Results...aahhh.
Chem- A1
Physics - A1
Biology - A1
Chinese - E8
English - B3
Maths - B4
Combined Humans - C5

Maths paper was acutally quite easy, was really really ultra effing careless...sigh. Can't make the same mistakes again.

The other day did a really weird game during Personal Effectiveness(which is actually just a chim word for extra classes). Anyway, played this game where everybody had to hold each others hands to form a circle. and there would be 5 hoola hoops scattered around the circle, in between 2 hands. They had to move the hoops to the next guy without letting of the hand. And if you happpen to have 2 hoops on one hand at the same time, u had to wear this chicken hat during the rest of the lesson. haha. Edwin and Soloman and Shaun had to wear...lol. Soloman was damn shy after that.

Looking for a much bigger bag, seeing that theres just too much books to cram into a 14litre bag.
2moro going to the airshow with my cousin and my dad.

Can't wait for inter class hand ball haha.
Can't wait for Rock Band 360 release.

The One With The CT 1 Results

Got some results back from CTs. Did ok for the chem and physics paper, considering it was quite easy. got 32/40 for physics and 30/40 for chem paper. Maths i might have flunked, but got the assurance from mr. ng that I did not fail...thank god!

Update soon, rock band soon too....hopefully haha.

The One With The Foxboro Hot Tubs

Addicted to Foxboro Hot Tubs, which is a band, and also a side project of Green Day. The appeared last year in December, with a 6 song EP(extended play) which was FREE for download on the foxboro hot tubs website. but its taken off alrdy. haha. And they recently announced that they would be releasing a full length LP or album. Can't wait. They are actually Green Day with new material. Any how, can't wait for Green Day to offially release their new album this year.

I bought a new ball yesterday. Arvind split the cost with me 50-50.



Common Tests end tomoro. Can't wait. After tat gonna play soccer with the new red ball! XD

Signed up for OBS too. On 17 march. five day thing. Can't wait.

FOXBORO HOT TUBS ROCKS! Green Day Rocks for making the songs free! haha.

The One With Nothing

ok. I promise to post. but not today! :P
i shall put pics of my chinese new year lar k?

The One With The Les Paul

My mum bought us a new guitar on Sunday. Epiphone Les Paul Standard, costs around $1200
I also have a football table at home now. Brought it back from Perth.







School

School seems to be moving very quickly, and homework is starting to pile up. School ends at 3pm, By the time i'm back home its 4.20. Its like there is no time to just stop thinking and rest. I have gotta do work work work. I'm starting to hate it. However the new friends i've made have made life easier, slipping in a few jokes, and conversations into my life. I'm getting a bit nervous. I keep thinking i'm lagging behind in my subjects. I'm not sure...am I? I think i've gotta get into a more serious tone, and start paying attention in class.

My younger bro is gonna learn drums, which would be so cool! I can't wait for the weekend, i seriously need to recheck myself, and get my heading right. (*sigh*)

The One After

Sec 3 camp was 4 days ago, was 3 days 2 nights. Can't say it was excellent. But did enjoy myself. Haha loved the nature rumble, walked throught mud rivers up to neck deep. Enjoyed sleeping in the tents, lol very different experience. And Josiah was freakishly scared of insects, he brought baygon. WTF? haha. I hate school. Have so much to get used to. Why must i be in RKS Adams. Ends at 3pm leh. Everyday 'cept friday. So much pressure to perform well. This year have to do pull ups...haha. oh and by the way, i got gold for last year's napfa. haha. This year gonna be harder with the pull ups. have to get 7 for A, i can only do 4. on friday we gonna help out for the sec 1 orientation camp. haha hope its fun.

I guess thats all for now. took me awhile didnt it.

The One With The New Year

It seems to come by so fast. Its the start of the new year, and before you know it, its the end of the year. Sigh, haha Sec 3 this year. Sort of looking forward and at the same time not looking forward to it. Haha. i just came back from perth a few days ago.
Here are some pictures.





Thats all for today. Happy New Year To All And to all a good night...

The One With The 2nd Trip To Perth

Ok, I haven't been posting lately, been practicing golf lately. Going to leave tomorrow for perth again. This time with my family to play golf and go fishing and do other stuff. The holidays really seem to zoom past so fast.

I got a new computer yesterday. Really Ultra Powerful computer. Its got a Quad Core processor instead of a dual core.

And i got my Xbox 360 racing wheel. I can't wait for Rock Band to come out in Singapore.

I'll post more during and after the trip. So that's basically an update. I have yet to watch golden compass and national treasure.

Ok gotta pack my bag. coming back on the 28th.

The One With The Last Day of Immortality

Ok, so i'm leaving Seattle tomorrow. Which is kinda sad. I wish I could stay longer! haha.
So it snowed outside the house yesterday. Had a lil snowball fight. I also got more pictures.





Yea take a look at those.

The One With The Newer Photos

Ok I decided to try this new feature out, its like a slide show thingy.
Quite cool. Ok in the newer photos, saw snow, went up Grouse Mountain in Vancouver Canada, saw the Canucks game, u all know im a canucks fan rite? ok u dun know nvm.
And theres Bill Gate's house, its by the lake, a wooden log house...freaking big. all the houses there are like few million.









And these are the older one on the slide show.

The One With The Photos

This was at the Sec 4 Grad Nite, my teacher ask me and Dilip to help do some stuff,
and we got CIP hrs. So yea.
And just an update, I got into 3SA, which was my course of choice, although i wish my best friends could join me, i mean 2 of them are in 3SB which sucks.

And these are the photos from the last 2 days.
We went to this museum of flight, really cool. almost all the planes there were real planes which were donated or too old to fly. Many of the WWI and WWII planes were there. Remember they were REAL planes. and some of the commercial planes in the 1960s. Really uber coool.
Best part was I went up an ACTUAL REAL LIFE Concorde!!! That was cool. haha. And The 1st Air Force 1 Plane. Really cool. U could go up the actual cabin and all.
Check them out at the photo album.

Zong Zhen & Zong Yu Seattle Trip Nov 07

The One With The First Day

So turns out the flight had in flight entertainment. i'm at my uncle's house now. When we landed my uncle brought us to the first starbucks in the world. Then had breakfast. It was awesome. Bacon and Eggs and Toast. Turns out today was the NFL match of the year. Seattle Seahawks Versus the Chicago Bears. Both teams are at the top. So tickets were like 150 bucks each. So we just watched it at home. Seattle won! I also got this guitar software that teaches you how to play from the basics to the hard stuff. It costs 250 USD. But its the best self tutorial software in the market. Not much pictures yet. That would be all for today then.

thats the first Starbucks!

The One With Acca Dacca

I'm gonna be leaving soon, this Sunday. And i'm gonna be back on the 5th. I'll post pictures and more on my blog, when i'm in the US.