Ignite, Drive!
SOO'10 GO GO GO!!!

It's my second and last SOO as Buddy before becoming a senior (hopefully in HSC). And after totally losing hope of entering the OT, I've decided that I should not fail my job as Buddy once more like last year, and if I really do I have no rights to regret not being able to get into the OT, as I won't even qualify to be suited for it.

Seniors and the OT are right. The OT organises this whole thing. But the people who control the event are us buddies. We're here to run the show, to ignite the Hwachong passion and spirit in them, so that they can drive on with the passion and spirit. If we screw up this batch, the following batches will get screwed up eventually by the batch we screwed up, and the chain goes on. We can't screw up. We can't fail. We can't afford to.

Dry run was not that fun since we already knew the games and we have played most of them various times in the past 2 years. But still it can be quite entertaining to see the pros screw up or do something weird. And the variations of some games by the OT made them totally hilarious when playing them. I laughed until my stomach hurt, and actually it was quite rare that I laughed so hard. But I'd better not spoil the fun in case some random sec 1 stumbles upon my blog (not like it's highly possible though) and finds out about all the orientation games.

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6E gathering at Sentosa was a little boring but still not too bad. There wasn't really a lot of people staying over at the resort - Aaron, who dragged Ping Yi along, Joshia, Loh Liang, Xuanying, Esther, and I think Jing Jing too. Qin Nan went before me to just join them for the afternoon. After the guys met me at Beach station, we went to Tanjong Beach for some random chatting (actually this was after buying the beach ball near the Koufu foodcourt, and I forked out the money. Aaron was supposed to pay me back, but nevermind hehe). Obviously it was getting darn boring so Joshia, Qin Nan and I went to Palawan beach to explore the two towers on a small island thing (and scam buy some drinks on the way). And we saw Hanzhi, Li Min and Anqi walking towards Tanjong Beach, of which Li Min and Anqi left like an hour later saying that it's too boring. Right on the tower it started raining, and Pui Jeng started SMSing me, and yeah it was quite fail especially at the last part when she reached Sentosa (by then the rain turned into a very light drizzle) and was on the tram towards Palawan beach when she realised that we were actually walking back to Beach station and she would have to walk back again. Initially I wanted to call her cos the SMSes were getting nowhere, but hell my balance was running extremely low and I didn't want to deplete it just yet. So yeah, we waited for her at the station and then walked to the resort together. It's quite a small place but looks quite nice to me. Aaron changed to swimming trunks and jumped into the pool (with a "Pool is Closed" sign) trying to catch the frisbee. But it was running late and I had to leave or else I would have died today at SOO Dry Run. Qin Nan left with me while the rest stayed, possibly for dinner. It's sad we didn't take a photo, though I'm not sure if the others took at night.

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New year. Just hope for a smooth and fulfilling year ahead. And hope everyone else will have such a year too.

Ah, what have I accomplished so far in the holidays?

Reviewing my simple yet hard-to-accomplish holiday checklist, I realised that the holidays can only be described with one word: 废. Sorting out my certs? I haven't even touched the file once. Spam-read science textbooks? Yup, I have Physics done, and I just started on Chem. (yay.) Read books? Ahh, halfway through the John Grisham book, or in other words done with Summons, and barely started on The King of Torts. After clearing my bookshelf I discovered that there are loads of books worth reading. But well, I'm dedicating all my reading time (a.k.a. time before bed) to science books. Ahh. And Chinese? Bleh, I read 2 articles from this old and adult-ish magazine, and yeah somehow quite impactful but still doesn't make a hell of a difference.

Helping out for Sec 1 Registration this Wednesday. Back to the training saikang. Yay. It's the most tiring job, but the simplest too. Being (more or less) experienced councillors, we know how to enjoy the simplicity of certain things we used to dread. Hehe

Why is it that whenever I go overseas on a holiday, everyone else stays in Singapore, and when I stay everyone else flies away? For the first time I feel envious of those who have overseas holidays, especially of those people who go to places I really really wanted to go. :X

Damnit I really need new strings. Yes I do have new strings but those are CHINA STRINGS. I need HELICORE. And now I can't play well simply because the darn China strings are like only 10% as responsive as Helicore ones. Gahhh...

OMG what kind of pressure is this. My mother is bugging me to spam piano and that I have to pass Grade 8 next year. She has been telling me that "it's no kidding matter". And yet when I told my father that I still had piano to settle and had no time for science books about a month ago, he simply told me he "don't care about piano and academic stuff are more important". Darn. Who am I supposed to listen?

Changed blog URL. Automatic redirection, but better if relinked.

The world is shrinking.

If I wake up on 22nd December 2012 alive, I laugh.

2012 was quite nice, but extremely fake.Tsunami waves 1.5km high, ships of incredible technology built within 3 years, geez it's all so possible. And the ending's a total waste. With that random balcony crap you could simply have a fastforward to something like making land.

Ate dinner at Subway after walking 3 rounds around Tiong Bahru Plaza and doing nothing. And if we knew that we'll be chatting until 10pm in front of the MRT station we would have sat in Subway and talked in the aircon. Now I feel like getting a com with better graphics card. Most games lag or totally fail. Gah.

Hmm. Guess SMP allocation results will only be released on 4th of Jan, unless our group didn't get selected for any of the projects at all. But those 2 projects became 1st and 2nd choice... I fear these two, but I hate the others. Dilemma. Still I can't wait. Hell, thought we could do something during the holidays, but I doubt it.

SOO!!! Intense cheer drilling coming up in the next 2 weeks, and the actual event in the 3rd week. My group can't fail again, no way. But I have a soar throat and a cough. Dang. Pray that I survive.

Half-Life 2. Fun, but seemed never-ending. Sad thing Wailun's not in SG (just flew off today, I was 1 day late), or else I can consult him about how get through that crap fast.

And Microsoft Flight Simulator X just totally screwed up, cos I sucked at controls and it only allowed a short period of playing time. Argh. Can't imagine flying a real plane.

MSOffice 2010 is cool. I especially like the powerpoint, cos it has the supposedly office mac-style slide transactions! But I don't see any difference in Word. Who cares, it's new, and the lisence can last me for next year (:

Keying in a list of 100 publications into HTML. And every point has weird text decorations. Obviously I can't copy and paste, cos notepad ignores all those decorations. And Dreamweaver's a scam. Even if I'll take 10 years with Notepad and 10 days with Dw, I'll still stick to Notepad. Even Frontpage is better. But still scam. Live with it.

It's a small world after all. Everyone seemed to be linked together in one way or another. Creepy.

Great, school starting in 3 weeks time. Piano Grade 8 in about 6 weeks or so? (Shit, aural)

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3S2'10. CSE SMTP. Bio. Exactly what I wanted. Same class as Yau Xuan!

SMP groupmates just decided that they want the ZnO film project instead of proposing the Gene Therapy one. Well, fine. Has been many years since I last saw that professor. Father of a childhood friend whom I have no connection with currently. Think it was also long long time ago that we stopped playing with each other. Scary.

SMP is rather screwed. By far I found 3 different sets of instructions and I have no idea which to follow. Confusing. And surprisingly the person in charge isn't responding to emails (please, an "Out of office autoreply" doesn't help much).

Ah, finally got a day free to go watch a movie with the usual gang. But sadly we'll have to pangseh Jun Hong. Next friday, hope everything will go well.

This holiday would have been best for me to go overseas. Haven't really confirmed anything for Council events, and Orch rehearsals are of such low frequency I could simply tell them I can't go and nothing would happen. Camp next week, and Jared just told the Viola section that it's actually a day camp. Wow, we'll definitely need a packing list for a day camp, and of course stuff like sleeping bags and torchlights and bathing necessities would come into great use. And stuff that were said to be done were not done. Something's definitely wrong with the Exco. As a junior, maybe only Jared in the Exco would listen to me, and probably Edward. Hekai would definitely listen but he can't do anything. And with a new conductor taking over, everything would be a mess. Too anxious to even wait to see what's coming next.

Sian.

The week has been so slack. Kind of nothing happening. For once I have nothing on for the whole week, other than piano. And it's already the halfway mark. Of both the slackest week and the whole holiday.

What have I done so far? It's basically nothing.

Why, why on earth does the things you long for come so slowly, and yet the things you don't want come so quickly? Like poles repel, unlike poles attract. Why can't this darn principle be confined to physics and magnets?

I'm about 140/1250 pages into getting a DSLR. Provided when I finally achieve 1250 pages my mother approves of it. But ultimately when I read how much do I absorb, when I'm already half asleep? History textbooks aren't the only things that make you sleep. In fact by far I discovered that the Physics textbook works better than History. How fantastic.

Now, when on earth can we start on SMP, when people are always not online? It's not only about registration, my dear Gary. It's getting on Oxy's nerves. I guess SMP would eventually be our night work.

My thumb hurts. :X

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