Until I find an urge to blog long posts, you can follow me at twitter here.

Until I stop twittering lah.

Guess I’m not blogging anymore huh.

Which is kinda true. I don’t really know what to put here anyway.

It’s quite funny, how this space has become a place for me to host some files and pictures and stuff… and not really using it.

No time to use it anyway. With training (so far yet so near to the end…), H3 Econs (so far to the end) and just school work piling up like crap, no time to use the computer much.

And that also means updating this dead blog.

Should focus on studies more, I guess.

Will update this blog though, when I feel like it.

(Like, today I had a race at Bedok Reservoir, which the organisers didnt want to cancel despite a huge thunderstorm there. But I still ran. Some J1s got missing while running. Like Yi Jun. Even Ashwyn got lost. Lawrence was so close to getting a medal (11th) while Raman got 1st (omg, damn pro!) )

Training was really tiring this week. Especially today. Don’t really like to train much now.

(But the feeling after training is damn shiok; like you are relieved of something painful)

It’s really weird to see sec 1s in NJ (wait, they are JH1s; must play with the new lingo) with their not-so-tall height, “charcoal” burmudas and just (pardon the bluntness) ‘nerdish-looking’ faces. They are moved around during Orientation and sometimes they look as if they are on a exchange programme, ready to leave in a week or so. Can’t imagine how it’ll be like when actual lessons start.

Like the new timetable though… it’s abit more spread out now, and without PW things end earlier. The staggered lunch breaks are a good idea… but NJ’s canteen just won’t fit 5 levels of students (next year it’ll be six as the JH1s move up to JH2). Time to build a canteen at boarding school and allow NJ student access during school hours.

Though it’s a lil sad to see Western stall’s qty demanded decreasing due to them increasing their prices [with all other stalls remaining relatively constant]. Wonders of law of demand.

New school term has started quite decently with me getting letter of offer for MOE H3 Econs… exciting

The truth is, I act seh and tried to upgrade my Wordpress installation… and accidentally deleted the wp-config.php file. Which has all the configuration settings to make the blog work.

I didn’t have a backup.

So the blog was dead. Thanks Leung Yan for reviving it.

2008 holidays are almost over. 2009 is here! Going to (hopefully) graduate from NJC this year. So fast! It’s like only one year ago I was a newbie at NJ. (duh) But the holidays have been really really fulfilling.

So many events worth noting, just afraid I’ll forget some… The star, no doubt, of the holiday camps is OUTWARD BOUND! I was supposed to go to NJ’s YLTC before last minute change to OBS. I think it was all worth it. Made some IJ friends from my group and they are all nice people and very funny. Those five days at OBS will certainly be cherished.

Besides OBS, also had Track Camp (with awesome food trail), track farewell, Nan Hua Council Camp where I was a second i/c (almost died from walking from Nan Hua to Henderson Waves in the middle of the night), helping out at MINDS, training (somewhat), doing homework (abit), studying (even lesser).

I’m also going to be an OGL. OGL camp was okay-okay where we learnt alot of things in the short span of 2 days including the mass dance. (This reminds me of Solaris’ informal walkin performance. Yeesh) It was quite fun. Looking forward to welcoming the new J1s SH1s (yep, get used to the lingo).

Of course, the ultimate highlight is my family’s trip to Beijing! First time went to sub-zero place, first time saw real snow (not Snow City’s fake ones), first time see real snow coming down from the sky, first time followed a tour group for more than 2 days. Really really enjoyed the trip. The hotel (Sheraton Great Wall Beijing) was awesome with the beds so shiok. Too bad wake up calls are darn early and we returned damn late to the hotel. The Forbidden City was great and visiting the Great Wall is a dream come true.

Some photos are available here… just a snippet of the almost 9GB worth of photos and videos taken by our family and my cousin. Heh. (click more)

Heh. It was fun!

Of course, one surprise for me is that I will once again test WIndows for Microsoft as part of its Technical Beta (means that its not open to public). Considering I got a free copy of Vista Ultimate in 2006 for helping ‘em up, I hurried to agree to test Windows 7 for them as well.

And they released it (the beta) today. Verdict: Windows 7 is the Vista done right. So much faster (on the same hardware), so much nicer, and the Windows taskbar keeps reminding me of Mac OS X’s dock. (So when I’m doing my stuff on Windows it’ll remind me of the Mac. Haha)

A screenshot of build 7000 (Windows 7 beta):

Click for larger view – it’s great.

Almost time for track.

Happy new year!

Hahaha. No lah, actually in my opinion our group’s OP is fine. Not A type yet, but I don’t think in any chance of failing, cos of our amazing “Cigarettes on the Floor” song! Woooot.

O’ribble practices refer to track training lo. Track for this week is like insane. Either that or I’m freaking weak (guess its the second one). Tuesday training is like 60 mins long run and seriously I felt so drained after that my OP grade dropped from EE to ME. Hahaha. (Ms Koh even felt I wasn’t so cheerful)

Today’s training is like 2 in one training. We did drills, strengthening (aka Ms Eng’s Do A V Shape Torture Exercise[tm]), INTERVALS! (4 x 400m; pathetic, the lactic was horrible), and a long run around Watten Estate. And then we did core. Training took 2 and a half hours… unprecedented. Yet not so tiring (I’m sure I didn’t sleep much on Tues) after the horrible intervals.

Then went to support Hui Yong’s group for their OP Dry run 3, which is quite good I think. Seriously.

Nothing much nowadays, just doing OP, slacking around and learning Illustrator. Saw a REALLY nice Singapore 2010 logo design on Facebook today; think that will be the logo, it’s real nice. Not going to repost it here though ;P

There is a mysterious camp for *********** though, it’s getting really exciting and fun. Looking forward to it. The meetings are more and more frequent (at least between me and I/C Yaozhong)

To all taking PW OP soon, ALL THE BEST (Ms Koh said that the teachers won’t be mean and will keep smiling)

all the best to those taking A levels too! Do well

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shengkang: welcome

tnemkcig: yeah its great. hope you are doing great too.

carissa: i dont link thanks for visiting!

“Patience is a virtue.” hahahaha

But it was not too bad. Very thankful to Hui yong’s PW group (hui yong, edwin, yanjun, berfie and jiaying) for sitting in for our OP. I know you guys can go other places to do your PW stuff, but really thanks for sitting in.

Overall was good lah. Before training spent the time slacking and surfing the web on my Mac as Berfie lamented about his 3 year old Dell XPS laptop, photoshopping graphs for their WR(that tickled me)(note: its not fabricating results, its adding captions).

Then training was horrible. Dead tiring. Run the road which my mum used to drive me from Nanyang to Nan Hua for two years. Took heart rate, turned out to be pathetic (too fast). Then did some insane stretching before and after the run, and got a pretty sweet comment that my core is pretty non-existent. (more of, like jelly, according to Ms Coach)

That cracked the long dis team up. Only which ten turned out for training. Four guys. (me, Pravie, Lawrence and Ashwyn)

Talk about sadness, man.

Going to sleep. Dead tiring training, I told you.

Time flies quick.

Training is MUCH better than I thought. Mr Irwan made us do a 2.4km on Tue for everybody in Track and Field… that was such a “sian” moment, but I didn’t degrade as much as I thought, did a relatively decent 9:20, but of course we are “supposed” to drop to 8:30 by end of year.

Results-wise, I did horribly for Promos, and it was my common test that pulled me up. Quite pleased with my results, as my goal for the start of this year (and especially given that my L1R5 is probably in the bottom 10% of the J1 cohort – appeal caseeee) was to be eligible to take H3 subjects, as you gotta be pretty good to take H3 right? That was what I thought… and turns out I can BARELY take H3… so I’m glad.

And so I applied for MOE H3 Econs.

Then its PW stuff after Wed. Loads of WR editing, finalising, and OP stuff as well. Took loads of photos with the Mac when doing nothing… and I love this photo so much:

Cool huh? I am seriously happy to be in such a nice group.

Open day was not bad, was a usher-turned-tour-guide, showed parents of P6 kids around the place. Can’t imagine those little people are going to wear full grey next year… it’s a little surreal.

The coming week will fly past quickly too.

Maybe I’ll update soon.

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tiffy: yeah perhaps you’ll realise how interesting my life is. hahaha. and i’m still amazed that you are excited seeing me walk on the streets.

Constance: yeah and apparently our fav jiang teacher always mixes up my brother’s name with your brother’s name. hahaha

zijia: nice clouds….

lynette: nope. its outside marina square. hah. and we’ll look forward to see you around. i think i didn’t write about your bday thing at jurong point. IT WAS GREAT! THE crowd was great, we had great fun.

wanqing: yeah i know. appears in many of my blog photos what.

iivy: yo ivy soh! hope you are doing great.

So the sian feeling kicks in. Wonder how training will be like, you know the first training session. And apparently national track and field is on April next year. Coaches and track teachers may not be very pleased with that but I sure am (results-wise) and my parents are glad about it too.

It is a known fact that I go to NJ for A levels and not to run. Though it is track that got me into NJ in the first place. So yeah, conflict of interests, kind of.

It’ll all be over by May next year…

Hope training will be okay tomorrow. (and results okay on Wed, that is nerve wrecking)

$0 view outside Marina Square steps, Singapore GP Warmup sessions 2008.

Zero bucks for amazing view. Doubt this view will be available next year as Singapore GP organisers rush to cover these loopholes (literally).

So this post is what I can remember from the end of Aug and the whole month of Sep!

Teachers’ Day Celebrations
Oh this is marvelous. First off in the day had this cool class picnic thing at parade square. Something NH can think of implementing if the classes weren’t so big in the first place. And kudos to SC for getting all the food stuff at affordable prices with such large quantity.

After seemingly boring stuff we (ie some trackers) went to parade square to do some teachers day thing for our dear track teachers. And guess what I saw.

From Random Phone Photos

Wow? Thats like Qiulin unlike anything I would expect Qiulin to wear.

From Random Phone Photos

I look stupid in that photo. Then took a pic with Lynette! Heh. Love the contrasting heights here.

From Random Phone Photos

Then the NJ 404 people went back to Nan Hua. Saw this real cute thing at Ms Poon’s table:

From Random Phone Photos

Mmm all Toblerone fans can identify with that. Also saw a $97 students offer for Adobe CS3 Web Premium and snapped a pic. Little did I know my aunt would give me that as a gift. So glad. Offer’s still on, it’s seriously a good deal and has Acrobat 9. (Though CS4 looks cool too) Go to mine.com.sg [Heard that the Malaysian offer was Adobe CS3 Design Premium; would love that suite more than Web Premium cuz I don’t need Contribute CS3)

Next day… 31.8.08
Nike+ Human Race 10k

This is really cool. Ben Huang and I signed up for this thing together, cause this thing is really cool. 1 million runners run on the same day… and its blardy cheap too. $26.75 for nike bottle, unique shirt (i like my unique number), loads of free 100plus, and icing on the cake, boys like girls, first time live in asia.
Some pics…

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

It was great. Edmund, Adrian and Usarin were there too.

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

Jack and Rai. Awesome group from Singapore… in stores now! (yep, first album I bought ever). If you like soulful music, you’ll probably like ‘em. Fa la la away!

From Nike+ Human Race 10k

BLG simply amazing.

Great day. I like. Seeing 11,000 red ‘ants’ together running, joining 989,000 others around the world, is something that will not be forgotten so easily, me thinks.

Other stuff I probably forgot. Normal school stuff.
KPE Swing Run
Underground KPE opens to public to run. This family event was quite fun. Didnt like the shirt much though. Walking in tunnel was cool with LTA blasting their safety messages inside the tunnel. Ventilation was quite bad though.

Mid Autumn
Nothing much. Just blabbing over this… I like snowskin mooncakes. Good that our family still follows this traditional thing… some families dont really care anymore.
F1 Singapore GP
This funky thing that came to Singapore and finished yesterday… was really cool. First night race, blah blah. Family and I went down on Friday to try to sneak some peeks, and turned out that our view was marvellous, I think better than those who paid. Heh. Took video. For some reason my Mac’s bluetooth not working so can’t upload. Maybe next time.

That’s all. Promos was horrible. Track’s starting soon.

Hope you’re glad I finally updated.
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seriously. my tagboard is becoming a chatroom and commentary area all in one.

qiulin: thanks for treating this blog as your notice board. the vietnam one cracked me up. and i want that photo ):

alwyn: and it still is unchanged (your hairstyle). and yes, i’ve updated.

tiffy: hi. how you know this place?!

passerby: wonder how you passerby-ed this place. haha i forgot price, got it from my friend.

alfonsus: the way you typed… you make me wonder if its of jealousy or something? if you are a tracker then obviously we are of no threat to you or your school. so don’t need to spend four tags stating your point that nj track team is not so good. either way, if you do know me in person i hate hostilities, so i’ll leave it as that.