Back to School!

Yesterday did not go as well as I planned.


I slept pretty late the previous night, and so I obviously woke up late, around 1 plus. Well, I was supposed to head back to school at 1pm.

Anyway, I made my way there, and at the gates I saw fellow school mates, like Samuel. I entered the school and that was when all the problems started.


The security guard stopped me and didn't let me in, because I had dyed hair and because there were several studs on my ears. I tried calling my juniors and teachers, but no one picked. It was pretty embarrassing, having to stand there while others could go in.


The security guards did apologize, but I don't blame them. Well, they were simply doing their jobs.


Well, I did take it for granted that I was an alumni, and could go in as and when I wished, but I was proven wrong. While standing there, the security guards actually told me that there were other cases, where a boy had to go home to change because he came in shorts. And Apple who works in our book shop, wasn't allowed in because she had a tattoo, but she was later let in because she wasn't a student, but because she worked there.

Even parents were questioned before they were allowed to sign in.


I was told that I had to actually come back in school uniform because I have not collected my certificate.


I admire the school for their discipline, but I do question where they draw the line.



Anyway, after standing there for about an hour, Ms Lim came to my rescue with Ms Choo! We talked for awhile and then I actually went back to Admiralty, to "dye" my hair. Then, I headed back to school.


I was greeted by Qian Wen, whom I almost lost my pants to by her "Cling-Wrap" hug. Hahah. It was really nice to see some of the teachers, and friends who went back to help out too.


Well, good times do not last long, and before we knew it, everyone were packing up to head home. Jayda, Cheryl and I then headed to the hall to watch the performances. They were pretty neat, but I was paying more attention to the Seconday ones. There were a few familiar faces; the kids which I looked after back when I was a prefect in Primary School. Cheryl and Jing Yee's siblings were in this batch too.




I did spend a great day reminiscing the "good ol' days". But I did see some unpleasant people there. But after that day, I have finally decided to let it go. He and Her may not have made my life in school a good one, but I'm fine with them now, so long as they keep their distance. I hate making enemies, and I would never treat anyone with disrespect, unless they do the same to me. But I guess it's not worth it, after all, wouldn't you be like them if you treated them like how they treated you?


So to the Him and Her, let's bury the past okay? I am sure I have.



Loves.

Oly Oly Olympics!

LONG POST AHEAD.

I admit, I did not take Zhi Xiang's advice as to seek help and revise for the upcoming Prelims and O's. But instead, I spent the whole week watching The Beijing Olympics 2008!





The advertisement for the Olympics was so marvelous, that I could not help but be drawn to it.
It showed shots of famous Sports "Heroes" and labeled them with their powers. Magnificent, it gave the whole 'Heroes + Harry Potter' feel.

I managed to get it on Youtube.



But the magical feeling did not just end there, I was blown away by the opening ceremony itself.

Quoted from Youtube's beijing2008: "The world watched in wonder as the glittering and astonishing curtain raiser to the 2008 games burst into the night sky of Beijing."

I could not get the embedded coding as the request was disabled, but if you want to watch it, you can click here


I think only such a great country like China, can be able to pull off such a spectacular sight. I've seen articles on how hard the young gymnasts in China trains, I wonder, how hard have these performers been training?

It was crazy, I kept switching from channel 1, 2, 7 , 601, 602, and 603 to watch the different events.

First I watched the volleyball match where Brazil was up against Algeria, I think. The Brazilians were superb, with their spikes thundering to the ground, and their agility so great, that they managed to double-block almost all balls. They dominated the women volleyball match.
The match was so exciting, that I could not help but jump in glee whenever Brazil scored.

I'm rooting for Brazil!



Moving on, I caught up with the Beach Volleyball tournament. It was not as exciting as the indoor because each team was made up of only two players, and they had to cover the same area that the 6 players had to. It seemed easy to score, but I was impressed with China's players.



I'm rooting for China in Beach volleyball.


Then, I switched to Basketball, where I was rooting for Spain and New Zealand. And it just so happened that the match I was watching showed Spain up against New Zealand!



Spain had strong shooters and defenders, while New Zealand had a strong play-maker. So in the end, Spain players were hounding on N.Z's play-maker.

Spain's Isabel Sanchez was the biggest contributor to her team with 19 points, three rebounds and two assists. Her teammate Anna Montanana scored 18 points and took seven rebounds.

It was a tough fight but Spain won, ending the match with 85-62.

I then moved on to Women football, where I watched the match between Canada and China. It was a feisty one, with Canada's no.15 injuring 2 China players, and Canada's no.3 getting a yellow card for illegal tackle.





The game was a tie, ending with 1-1.


Then it came down to Gymnastic Artistic.

I was mesmerized by the beautiful swings and jumps ( I don't know what they call it). I could not help but ogle at the bulging muscles of both the male and female gymnast. Imagine the great strength they have to swing themselves about.

Speaking of gymnasts, let's rewind back to 1976, a girl by the name of Nadia Comaneci from Romania, actually scored perfect 10s on the beam, uneven bars and her floor exercise. Can you believe it? PERFECT 10s!

Here are her videos:

Beam



Uneven Bars - Check out the flexibility of her body against the bars.



Floor Exercise - She looks like a fragile yet elegant fairy



Beautiful right?


Anyway, moving on, I spend most of the days watching the Swimming in action. My idols both Micheal Phelps and Stephanie Rice were there.

In fact, Stephanie Rice of Australia beat the world record by 1.67 seconds to win the gold medal in the final of the Women's 400m Individual Medley in a time of 4:29.45. While American swimming superstar Micheal Phelps, after taking two relay gold in Beijing, broke his own Olympic Record in Men's 200m Butterfly prelims at the National Aquatic Centre, clocking 1:53.70.





You must be wondering, why am I, a volleyball player having swimmers as my idols? Well, I haven't mentioned this, but Swimming has been passion since I was a kid. Times were tough, and so I moved on to land sports and volleyball has become one of my addictions. I'm trying to figure a way to juggle the both of them. And it's been ages since I last touched the waters, and I promised myself to return to swimming once I finished my O's.


Anyway, I caught a few glances of Hockey but it scared the shit out of me. It was so violent, and so I changed channels to watch Weightlifting! My dad was once a body builder, and so I was used to seeing bulgy muscles, but boy, the women weightlifters were sure one of a kind!








(Taken from http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/headlines/weightlifting/n214529228.shtml)

Chinese weightlifter Chen Yanqing retained her Women's 58kg Olympic title in Beijing on Monday with a total result of 244kg.

Chen, 29, has become the first strongwoman in the world to successfully defend her Olympic title since Women's Weightlifting entered the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000.

Marina Shainova from Russia took the silver medal with a total of 227kg, while O Jong-ae from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea got the bronze with 226kg, pushing Thai Wandee Kameaim, who also cleared a total of 226kg, to fourth place due to less bodyweight.

I guess that's all for today!

Good night, Love all.

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can achieve greatly

The past few weeks have been a wondrous journey to a whole new aspect to life.

A few things that I would like to touch on.

1.The Adam Khoo's workshop "I'm gifted so are you" was fantastic. It taught many new things that could indeed change our life. One in fact, was to have a belief. Having a belief will definitely help one to achieve your goal in life. Failure is never considered a bad thing, but is a learning experience. Change of strategy will definitely switch one back on the right path to success. Our three trainers, Stuart, Danny and Andrea were three of the most awesome people one could ever meet. Their success stories have indeed inspired us to work hard, towards our goal. Techniques were also taught to help us in studying. This workshop is the best and one would regret if you didn't attend it.

2.I'm involved in the debate that is held yearly. My team and I actually made it to the Finals for the Upper secondary category! It was unexpected but i must say that we couldn't have won had it not been for our teachers. Thank you!


3.Today, my class had a meeting on some "issues". Many were unhappy about it and i admit, that I was a little too harsh on my words. I apologize. However, I feel that it's better to say what is bugging your heart rather than to keep things bottled up,when you know that things should be done to make the class better. I'm not trying to pin point here, but i truly feel that if you do have the class at heart, you'll definitely see who is serious about things and who aren't.


4.Today is officially, the last day for all the graduating volleyballers.
Everyone did have a ball of time and many held their tears back because they didn't want the others to be sad. I too, felt sad and wanted to cry my eyes out, but I learn that crying doesn't mend things. Coach told me to think of it this way: Everyone has to leave someway or the other.
My only advice is, to treasure your time with your team, because when it's time for you to leave, you shouldn't look back and think "i should have done something to make us bond/ we should have been closer".
No one is perfect in this game. Never under estimate yourself, because every single one of you do play a part in bridging the gap between all differences. Never compare and say that "I wish I could play like that person". Work hard in achieving your dreams as an individual, as well as a team. I feel sorry that my team didn't make it to the Nationals but we have indeed shown that we are capable of doing great wonders.
There were times when we had disagreements, we argued. But i must say, that this team is indeed the wackiest one i have ever known.
Don't be sad. Be happy that all of us actually became ONE and we shared laughter, tears, and even fear together. Reminisce the past and put a 100% effort into your training and you'll definitely emerge as champions.

I'd like to dedicate a song to all B Div volleyballers. "Check it out"(Inside joke)

When You Believe


The next song actually goes out to COACH and all teachers, if they are reading.


Thank you, especially coach, for all that you have done. I know there were times when we just piss off. We've made you shed buckets of tears for us. But thank you, for being there for us. Thank you for not giving up in us, and in me. Thank you for spending your tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays with us, just to train us. Even though you were injured, you never made that an excuse to not coach us. There have been times when you wanted to give up on us. But you did not. Thank you for believing in us, because without you, we would be nowhere. All of us, are very touched by the efforts that you put in to train us. We are also aware that you actually put your family aside to concentrate on coaching us.
Thank you. You are definitely OUR hero.

Looking through the book cover

We had training today, one which I was terribly not on form, and had to often replay the few seconds that had passed in my mind, just so that i could spot my own mistake. Felt really hopeless. Oh well..


After training, I decided to join Jing Yee, Cheryl, Yvonne and Qian Wen for lunch. That was when the fun began, because while Cheryl and Jing yee were spotting the "misfits" of the crowds from the table at Long John Silver, QianWen, Yvonne and I shared experiences that we had gone through in our Mother Tongue classes.

After lunch, we decided to walk around, aimlessly finding a place to sit. I saw Ms ACTION Lim too!


We decided to head to metro and kiddy palace, where we all settled our eyes on the toys. Shortly after, jing Yee went home, leaving QianWen, Cheryl, Yvonne and I, to occupy ourselves. We decided to settle down at the Goods Lift area, where more of our deep dark secrets were revealed.

I must say, that a year has gone by, and that i do believe the bonds that we have with our friends have gotten so much better, or for the worst. I believe, that our team has indeed bond together in a much better way.

Anyway, the Deep dark secrets thing was a really big turning point for cheryl and I because we actually revealed all the nasty things that we had done in Primary school. From how Cheryl and someone made another kid cry, to how cheryl, some other pri friends and I climbed the gates of WDP, to how Cheryl and I vandalised about someone

. It was hilarious recalling back all the times where we did nonsensical stuff just for the fun of it. And I think Yvonne and Qian wen were pretty shocked as to how they had expected us to behave. Hahaha.


But Yvonne, Qian Wen, Cheryl and whoever who knows, I'm actually a really GOOD GIRL!!! XD



Lets bygones be bygone. Let go of the past, love the present, and look forth to the Future! LOL!

Everyday-ness

Reading through my previous posts never fail to crack me up and make me notice how horrible my life is. Or at least how I feel it is.

And if you didn't notice, I'm blogging for the second time today. Sheer boredom has made me stared at the computer all day and it has never let me down ever since. Internet acts as a whole new life to me. I get engaged in stupid online games or I would just load movies from online sites and watch them. But fear the power of the Internet because behind it, holds doors to the pervert entrances such as rape games and pornography. And there's also the influence of imbeciles who think they're so Funny, and hang around on Friendster all day. Low life.

Well, that is how I spend my time on the Web. I discriminate low life idiots, not forgetting to play online games and load movies to watch.

But other than that, I chill at home, or I could make a mess at home.

I guess my parents are so open-minded or rather, gave up hope on me because of their zero-tolerance on misbehavior. Neither do they like seeing laziness. But one I allow my Dad to watch his cultural shows, or FBI shows, he won't bother about me at all. And to handle my mum, all I got to do is to give her a bunch of thread and let her knit away! Or I could load some puzzle games and she'll be thrilled.

My home's pretty much chaotic. That's why I don't have a boring life at all. Well, Volleyball training is starting tomorrow and I guess all the volleyballers' blogs would be filled with the events and incidents or how much they enjoyed volleyball training. I, however, won't update about volleyball because I can't recall what happened once I step into home. Amusing.

I'm thinking of closing this blog down pretty soon, because I feel that it's actually no use to constantly update your blog and tell people about your life. The people reading your blog are a bunch of KPOs( I admit, i am one too) and you, updating about love,school,life,friends is plainly boring. Unless you have an exciting life like Xiaxue, what's the point of expressing feelings her where the only people reading your blog is KPOs and yourself? Hahaha, random thought though.

Anyway, I just had another conversation with my mum and I think she suffers from some disease which disbales her to complete her sentences.

MUM: Kethlyn, get me that thing.
ME: What "thing"?
MUM Aiyah, that one lah. The thing. Erh, what is it called..
ME: Comb? Fish? Controller? Newspaper? Dog? Food? Clothes? Toys?
Mum: Ah.. the newspaper.

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MUM: Did you watch the news yesterday?
ME: No, why?
MUM: News said that the drainage system in Singapore all leads to the reservoir.
Me: Then?
MUM: Then, if they see the news, they sure come bomb singapore and the drainage
system lah.
ME: They? Who are the they?
MUM: The people whom come attack Singapore one lah. What are they called?
ME: Terrorists?
MUM: Yah, yah. Terrorists..



See, what I mean? hahah.. I think I am getting influenced too. Bother.