Let's melt some faces with our high-voltage WROK!!!

finally

2010-02-28T09:17:00.005+08:00

finally, we are the champions...
yesterday PSPC finally won the synod games day soccer tournament. admittedly, i don't feel very accomplished bcos it was only a two-game tournament. only 4 teams participated in the senior category so it was like semi-finals straightaway lol. but hey, when you finally win your first tournament, you cherish it no matter what. besides, i broke my voodoo of losing semi-finals and finals haha.
btw, happy 18th birthday joe!!! if you still read this blog heh.
kudos to joe and jeremy, our 2 under-aged players. haha. played super well. most of the attacks went through them on the left flank so i didn't have to do too much. and also to luke who only had one save to make the entire two games, but he pulled it off. somewhat.. haha. the defence played really well so luke didn't have to save anything anyway heh.
i scored a tap-in to wrap up the semi-final with a nice assist from joe. he scored a nice goal to give us the lead too. so we won 2-0. i usually score in semi-finals, but my team usually loses. this is the 5th soccer semi-final i've played in (3 with prinsep, one with HIPS, one with 1T24) and only the 2nd time i've got into the final. i've bagged 5 goals. yesterday's goal wasn't very pretty or very important though, cos i think we'd still have won 1-0 if i didn't score.
we won the final 2-0 too. finally erasing the pain of the 4-0 loss in 2006. and my first-ever final goal was pretty nice. sweet curling freekick around the wall. though they should have covered the angle better but i'm not complaining haha.
i don't think i played well. but my main duty in most of the teams i play for is to score goals, and that's what i did yesterday. so i guess it was pretty much: job done.
my nike total90 shoot boots which i bought 2 years ago for $80 is totally gone!! 5min into the first game and the sole of the left boot came out already -.- i guess that's what happens when you haven't wore it for 10months (since a-divs in 2009). then shortly after that, the sole of the right boot started to come out too. good thing luke had a pair of street soccer shoes which i could wear. so i just threw that pair away. now got no more soccer boots so i think i'll go buy one soon when i've got time. and this time i'm not buying nike. probably a cheaper brand which should be more durable.
i've got really bad scrapes near my backside on both legs from the slide tackles i made yesterday too. hope they don't hurt too much when i get back to training tmr..
well, training is getting tougher by the week. the sergeants are getting stricter too. but so far so good i guess. my section mates are pretty nice. becoming good buddies which was inevitable since we're stuck with each other everyday haha. my IPPT quite good also. new personal best for 2.4km of 9:11. but i still wanna improve by one min heh.
yup, that's about all i can think of now. see when i got time during the weekend to post again then i post la. and if i have interesting stuff to talk about. but even if army got interesting stuff we're not allowed to blog about it haha.

just counting down the days(:

book out day!!

2010-02-21T00:12:00.003+08:00

hahaha! faster do a quick post now that i've got some time.
i'm not allowed to disclose any information about the SAF so i can't write about my BMT so far here. and i'm quite lazy to write everything out anyway. haha! so sorry. and i'm rushing for time right now. but i think i'm coping quite well so it's okay.
warning you might get homesick! unless you like someone, then you'll be lovesick instead! lol.

I know how it feels
To wake up without her
Lying here all alone
Just thinking about her

I can't believe
Her hold on me
It's something indescribable
I know she knows
But won't you please

If you see my girl
Just tell her I miss her smile
Tell her I'm counting the minutes
gonna see her in a little while
I know when she holds on to me
She's the one thing that I could never live without
Oh, oh, oh whoa-oh
Tell her I love her
Oh yeah
Just tell her I love her.

The way that she moves
I know what it doesn't mean
And when I catch her eye
I can hardly breathe
Still can't believe her hold on me
She's just so indescribable
I know she knows
But won't you please

If you see my girl
Just tell her I miss her smile
Tell her I'm counting the minutes
gonna see her in a little while
I know when she holds on to me
She's the one thing that I could never live without
Oh, oh, oh whoa-oh
Tell her I love her

Every time that I'm around her
I just go to pieces
Crashing, tumbling to the ground
I'm so glad I found her

I know how it feels...

If you see my girl
Just tell her I miss her smile
Tell her I'm counting the minutes
gonna see her in a little while
I know when she holds on to me
She's the one thing that I could never live without
Oh, oh, oh whoa-oh
And tell her I love her

hi

2009-12-21T13:48:00.002+08:00

haha ok since i have so much time i shall do my last blog post for the year.
hmm.. after alevels i went to australia for 11days. it was quite a fun trip. went to gold coast, blue mountains and sydney. at gold coast we went to dreamworld and movieworld. the rides there are really good! got some which are super fast and crazy haha. we went to visit alot of places. as usual, my dad wanted to see those nature places with good views of mountains and forests, etc. the weather was very sunny but also windy so we didn't sweat at all. at sydney we went to visit the harbour and walk around the city streets.
we came back on the 14th which is exactly one week ago. on wednesday i went to bugis to do some christmas shopping with the twins haha! bought christmas gifts for my family plus a pair of jeans and white cotton on slippers for myself lol.
on thursday i went to watch avatar. it's a super good show! but it's really long. 2hrs 40min. but it's quite interesting so you'll pay attention throughout the whole 2hrs-plus haha.
on saturday we had DG bbq at ariel's house. it was quite fun cos we talked and laughed alot. david followed jon along and sam wee's family also came so it added more fun from outside our DG.
i think i've been addicted to burgers after my australia trip. since we came back one week ago, i've eaten a big mac, 4 double cheeseburgers, one moss burger and one whopper. that averages one burger per day haha! yesterday we had our class bbq too. and actually i don't really eat bbq food and somemore the day before already had bbq, that's why i bought 2 double cheeseburgers from mac's for my dinner lol. hanging out with my class is always fun as usual. we played a bit of bball and then just sat down to chat and joke. we left kenneth's house at 113o and i reached home at 12plus.
ok that's all for now. coming up for the rest of the year we have the plh christmas party on 23rd plus sleepover after the party, christmas on 25th, thanksgiving dinner on 26th, plh graduation on 27th, and watchnight service on 31st. yup, should have enough activities to keep me occupied for the rest of the year haha.
byebye!

time to play the game!

2009-11-06T15:10:00.006+08:00

ok time for my post for the month haha!

yeah my birthday is finally over! it was pretty ok. got some nice presents. 18 years old hahaha. cool.. for the actual day on monday i stayed home to study maths! haha. but at night my parents cooked a nice dinner and we had some cake. on tuesday i went out with the class guys for dinner just to chill. and on wednesday i celebrated it again! haha!!
i got birthday money from grandma and my parents, boxers and some biscuits and chocolate from e-sean, plus other stuff like a shirt, donuts, and a liverpool poster!!(: next time if you come my house you can see it on my room wall immediately cos it's quite big haha!

it's just 3 more days to start of 'A' levels. to be honest i'm a bit concerned about it but not stressed or anything. i think that's a good and bad thing about me. calm is good. but too calm may not actually be good. haha. i must say even though i've put in the most effort for maths, it's still my worst subject. actually my stats quite pro already but my pure maths is like crap. bad thing is pure maths is 70% of the paper. if can get C for maths i quite happy already haha! let's say i can get 40/100 for paper 1, then 20/40 for the pure maths in paper 2, plus 50/60 for the stats, then it will add up to 55% which is a C! haha. just a rough gauge lah.
my other subjects like geog and econs i thINK should be ok. physics i'm still not too sure but it's the last few papers so i have some time to study more for that. and for GP, it's just down to the essay qns and compre that comes out. better pray that God gives me stuff that i'm comfortable with. haha.
hopefully all those can get B. if i manage to pull it off it'll be a super big jump from prelims. in case people don't know..

prelims:
h1 geog U (36)
gp S (44)
maths U (36)
econs U (34)
physics E (45)

yup. you can go o.O??? now. haha. as of this moment i shall make my prediction/aim for A's. my prediction is usually my aim la. so it's like the same thing haha. for O's my predictions and aims were my actual results in the end, so if history is anything to go by, this will also be likely what i will get for Alevels:

h1 geog B
gp B
maths C
econs B
physics B

like i've said before, i'm not even daring to say that i will get one A. i've never got above C in a major exam in CJC before, so B's will still take some doing. combined with C for project work and quite confirmed pass for CL'B', my UES will be exactly 75/90. that actually looks pretty high lol. actually when you know that a B is just 60% it looks quite easy to get. but when take the paper and get the results dunno why 40% (which is S) also like very hard lol. hopefully i'll be able to get andrenalin rush during the papers again cos it's a big exam. i think usually people just jump 2-3 grades from prelims to 'A's. if that happens i'll be getting mostly D's. o.O. jia lat. lol.

anyways, it's 24 days left til 'A's are over!!! whoohoo!!! so fast man. let's not forget the small matter that it starts in 3 days too haha.

ok time to get back to studying. my next post will most likely be in december around christmas. so if you want to check, just come back around christmas time haha!

3 weeks minus 1 day

2009-10-20T15:46:00.003+08:00

whoa it's just 20 days to the start of A-levels. i still feel quite unprepared. there's really alot to cover. looking on the bright side, my knowledge has improved in the last few weeks. haha. that just says how bad a situation i was in last time. to be honest, i don't see a subject where i am gonna get an A in. i calculated that if i were to get B's in everything, my UES will still be like about 75/90. which in itself is not too bad i guess lol. i'm not aiming for anything like medicine or law. so, yes, i would be quite ok with all B's. any A i get will be a bonus. (and it is always nice to do better than what you expect. haha) all B's and i'll just say i'm a jack of all trades and a master of none lol.
to get an idea of how badly prepared i am, let's just say i improved for prelims and still failed haha. although i was the most improved student in the school for physics (16 to 45). i improved quite a bit for maths and geog too (which were around the 20% range) and just missed out on passing. econs was wasted. and gp was a flop. worst paper i've done while in cj.
yup, so this last 3 weeks will be crucial. 2 years ago, i started 3 weeks before O-levels. i'm not stupid enough to think that i'll be able to pull it off again. so please just pray for me. haha.
ok i shall cover some geog today. i must say that i think i have really levelled up for geog recently. it's the h1 subject and it is the only subject that the teachers are pumping us with remedials for. oh, econs also lah. ermhem.. physics and maths? haha.
alright. off i go. byebye.

one month and a day

2009-09-15T12:32:00.005+08:00

haha i think nobody reads this blog anymore but i'll do one post while it's still september. i feel like i'm talking to myself! haha. i used to average one post per week. then it became once every fortnight. now i'm struggling to post once a month.

prelims have been ok so far i think.. i'm quite sure i'll do better for geog (then again, the highest mark i've scored for geog in CJ is 30%). physics i'm not sure but i think with the studying i should have improved. the econs tuition has really helped and if i get an A for A-levels i think i'll do something nice for yiying for bringing me to the tuition haha. my pure maths is horrendous to say the least but at least stats is pretty ok. after prelims i have to work on pure maths..

someone told me "love is a strange word."
hmm. could love be a simple thing that we humans make complicated? i've realised that love can be expressed in many different ways.
you don't have to say anything to show someone you love them. as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words.
then again, sometimes love can be expressed by doing nothing. i never knew that. haha.
just some random thoughts i suddenly had.
hmm.. what did the Bible say about love? something about love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, does not boast. keeps no record of wrongs. always trusts? always perserveres. oh and my favourite, love never fails. haha. i never knew that was from the Bible until one day. i guess the ultimate thing is God is love.
hmm.. less talking, more walking.

ok i'm going on and on here. why did i suddenly start talking about that? weird.. man, i hope this week passes by soon. before i know it, prelims will be over!! then it's time to study for A-levels. haha. so no difference. in fact, have to work harder.

6 more days to escape!!!!!!(: whoohoooooo!!!!!!!

1 week to prelims

2009-08-25T15:47:00.002+08:00

whoa... long time since i last posted here. like one month i think. haha. kinda forgot that i have a blog. writing everything in a diary is much better for remembering stuff that i wanna rmb. let's see..
prelims are next week! man, i think if they were the real A-levels i will fail my maths, physics and geog. straightaway don't need to go uni. can start work right after army, or go poly. if i had to choose, i will just start working. haha. that's the situation now unless i buck up.
so this week i have started to study. ya, just started. at least not as bad as o-levels, when i only started 3 weeks before the exam. now i've given myself 2months plus before A's. whether that's enough remains to be seen. and as of now my future still hangs in the balance, delicately dangling over a cliff top, just about going to fall into the depths of the sea. to quote mr holden, "you're walking on the edge, i-zack. walking on the edge and just about to fall off." and mr rajoo, "you're throwing your life away." yes, strong words. like, wow.
of course, i won't let the pressure get to me. and that's just the thing, because sometimes, i think i should.
prelims end 18 sept! whoohoo!!!!!

the kop comes to asia 09

2009-07-27T12:37:00.005+08:00

wow.. it's been a really cool last 3 days. still trying to take it all in.. haha.
went to cycle and play football after school on friday. really fun!!(: i think $5 for 2 hours on a bike is like quite cheap right? not bad la. haven't cycled at all since last year december.
then saturday was the liverpool singapore river boat ride! went with e-sean to see them at clarke quay. super cool. kept taking photos and videos. i got a few waves too! like from rafa and sammy lee. i shouted the most at alonso. trying to get him to stay haha. then the whole crowd was like running all around the river following the boat! o.O all mad. e-sean and i included. haha! followed it around for one hour. and it was so noisy cos everyone kept shouting. then the last part was quite cool cos we did lots of chants and songs. torres was obviously the fans' main focus cos gerrard wasn't able to make it to singapore. i think kuyt and reina were the most friendly ones cos they kept waving and smiling to the fans. sammy lee too. and i think rafa really loves the fans. great manager. i think some of the players may have been a bit sian cos they probably get this everywhere they go. haha. but only liverpool then the fans will get so hyped up la.
then yesterday went to watch them play against the singapore team at national stadium. uncle gary got us tickets for the north end. so we didn't have very good seats. but it wasn't too bad lah. the atmosphere was quite nice. but i wish we had sat at the east or west ends. cos the places where we sat had lotsa stupid quiet fans. so lousy.. oh ya before the game started there was like one guy wearing a man utd shirt then everyone started booing him and chanted "MAN U SUCKS! MAN U SUCKS!" LOL! super funny. and the whole stadium was red!! but cos of liverpool, not singapore LOL. today's papers said that some of the singapore players were disappointed that we didn't cheer for them more. haha! who cares about them now that liverpool are in town!! wait for tiger cup or something then cheer for them la LOL. the crowd cheered the most for torres and alonso. i was really pleased that kuyt got the captain's armband when carragher got taken off(: yeah good on ya dirk!! one of my favourite players. i chanted for alonso the most. another one of my favourite players(: hope he stays.. if he or mascherano leave then next year's title challenge will be quite hampered. without the two of them gerrard won't be as effective. we'll really need alonso's control of the game plus masch's breaking down of opponent's attacks.. so it was nice that the crowd did super lot of xabi alonso! chants. i was quite impressed that they at least had the common sense to cheer for him the most. though i can't say the same for mascherano. but maybe his name is just too long to chant haha! nemeth got the 3rd and 5th goals. not a bad finsher by the looks of it. if he's as good as they think he's gonna be, then in a few years to come when gerrard retires we could have a torres-nemeth strikeforce which is gonna be really exciting. when torres scored the 4th goal the whole stadium went crazy! haha. even more crazy when they subbed him and alonso on. and that is REALLY crazy. lol. kuyt created the last 3 goals. looks like he's in good form coming to the start of the season(: whoa but looking at the 5-0 scoreline, either singapore is really lousy or liverpool is really strong.. i think cos liverpool is really strong la. haha!
well, it was a good experience(: everything was pretty sweet. the only little blip is that gerrard wasn't here. and the next time they come to singapore i'll get the best tickets and arrive at the stadium 3hrs before kickoff haha! oh and maybe bring a scarf to hold up while singing you'll never walk alone.
oh ya i didn't go school today so i'm staying at home. gonna watch the replay of last night's match plus try to get some work done. haha.
okie dokes. byebye.

hook, line, and sinker

2009-07-10T20:20:00.003+08:00

many fish out in the sea
but there's only one for me
i'm sure it's super tasty
i'll just have to wait and see

you know i've never fished before
so my bait is kinda raw
but i'll just try more and more
keep fishing even when my butt gets sore

though the rains pour and the winds blow
and i might go down from an undertow
something tells me to row and row
i want that fish, that's all i know

michael owen a.k.a. judas

2009-07-04T19:02:00.005+08:00

latest transfer news is that michael owen has signed for man utd.
i better not say too much cos this blog is open to the public...
no brains. no loyalty.
i hope he never wins anything there and his career goes even more downhill than it already has after he left liverpool.
i regret idolising him as a boy.

anyways my pokemon are trashing everyone in sight haha! but after 7 badges i realised for the last badge and the elite four i only need blastoise, kadabra, and dugtrio. so i'm using this 3 more to make them level up faster. then i put a dragonite in the team just for the fun of it. with raticate, fearow and victreebel rotating with other strong pokemon like rhydon, rapidash, kabutops, etc.. depending on what opposition i'm up against. of course i used the rare candy code to speed up evolution. haha!

yesterday was CL'B' midyear paper. quite easy haha! then after that i went to gary's house with steven to play PS. haha! super fun.
then in the evening i went back to serangoon north to see my old house:) good times..
what a great night!!!!(:(:

ok dinner time. byebye.

half-time

2009-07-02T14:07:00.002+08:00

yeah! mid-years are over!! whoohoo! and now i've got a 5-day holiday til school starts again next tuesday!
oh wait. i almost forgot i have CL'B' paper tmr.. HAHA.
ok nvm.
anyways, i decided to start a new pokemon game on my gameboy colour! haha! blue version! yeah all the old school stuff man. now already got 3 badges. and my pokemon team is wartortle, raticate, kadabra, weepinbell, dugtrio, and fearow. don't ask me why i got this pokemon. just caught everything that i saw on the way. lol. wartortle gonna evolve to blastoise quite soon also. by today should evolve after i play somemore later. haha!
hmm.. anyways that's about it.. new pokemon game and mid-years over.. yup.
liverpool have bought glen johnson. that's all the transfer news so far. hope they don't sell alonso or mascherano man!!
yesterday after maths mid-year paper we went to gary's house to play guitar hero and smackdown vs raw 2008. lol. super fun.
man, last night was great! hahaha. happy happy happy(:

church camp 09

2009-06-17T13:52:00.004+08:00

hello! just came back from church camp on monday.
yesterday was quite a wasted day cos i slept almost the whole day and didn't do any studying haha.. but today i shall try to get some physics done after i do this post.
anws, church camp was ok. it's my last church camp in PLH! haha. there's some good points and some bad points la. some bad points is that maybe TCH won't be as fun as PLH. and some good points is that don't need to follow some things in the PLH programme already.
everyday is almost the same programme. wake up and morning devotion and then go breakfast and worship and the talk and then buzz group and then lunch and then afternoon activity and then dinner and worship and talk again and then finish.
after morn devotion i usually went back to my room to skip breakfast and get some extra sleep. buzz groups were led by aunty uli and they were quite good. learnt some stuff.
the first day afternoon activity was "family bonding time". my family went to play bowling. my scores were quite good. 147 and 131.
2nd day was PLH games. my "I-Zack's team" won 1st prize. it's the second year running that my team has won the big prize at the PLH camp games. (last year we won best skit). so, yay, not bad. at least my last 2 years in PLH can win the coveted championship. LOL! then after the games the boys started dunking each other into the pool haha! i pushed weng shien in and his spectacles lens dropped out. but good thing the pool cleaner found it and returned it so i didn't need to go look for it or pay for it haha.
3rd day was freetime so we went to play football. the first and second game was played with our own PLH peeps. i scored 4 and 3 goals in those 2 games. then the 3rd game was with the other church that was there. i think we lost by a few goals. like 15-12 or smth like that. can't rmb. i scored 8 in that game. but we were all tired from the first 2 games and they were like 20+ yrs old. so i think it's not too bad. then after the game i went into the pool to cool off with paul and eddie.
at night we had worshipXplosion!! haha. i think all the worship leaders led 2 songs each. i led "one day" and "running after you". the rest of the time you have to stand there and be backup singer. but quite boring to do that and some more i was the only guy on stage. so i decided to play guitar for "at the cross" and "second chance" and drums for "free". oh yeah, the crazy part was when i did the stage dive after "running after you" haha! cos paul and the guys told me before worshipX started that if i did a stage dive they would catch me. so i was like "sure or not??" and they said yes yes we'll catch you. so ok lor. when the song ended just jump. haha! so fun. we were laughing like mad. then the last part i decided it's more fun to join the guys on the floor than with the girls on stage so i went into the crowd and we organised a stage invasion for "always & forever" haha!! we ran up onto the stage during the chorus and jumped about. super funny. yup.
then after worship i was super tired so i went back to the room and slept.
ok i think that's about it for what i can remember at church camp now. i'm lazy to type about anything else.
next year church camp in TCH already haha.
byebye.

mind-boggling stuff!

2009-06-09T13:17:00.004+08:00

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!
i'm a silly happy boy:):):)
lol. whoohoohoo!!
actually i'm just feeling high lah. nothing much.
ok. byebye.

Camp V-nest

2009-06-06T20:07:00.002+08:00

hello!!
i'm here to talk about my class CIP! it was from 2-4 june (9am-5pm everyday) and we were facilitating a camp for kids. it was called Camp V-nest. lol. ya i know, silly name.
anyways, it was held in jiemin pri school. oh man it was quite fun haha! i really enjoyed it cos i liked the kids in my group:) i was group leader and joshua and emily were helping me (josh was the assistant leader). i think we took care of the kids pretty well and got them involved in all the games and activities. they were learning about 3 values: peace, resilience and gratefulness. haha. oh, the kids were all pri4-5.
i think my group was maybe the most well-behaved group and actually me and joshua enjoyed it alot more than the others haha. i made it a point for my group to sit together at lunch and break times. and everytime we had activity i made sure that we all sat in a circle and everyone had a chance to talk and participate. thankfully, i don't think our kids were that troublesome.
there were 6 kids in my group. 3 boys 3 girls. the boys were hafiz, marteen, and yi da. and the girls were zoey, joanne, and yining. hafiz and marteen are super funny. they kept talking to me and josh about liverpool and arsenal. and they kept doing their rock on! hand signs. lol. yi da is super cute and he's got a twin brother yi hong who looks like me and the whole class were going on about it. he really does kinda look like me cos he wears the thick specs i used to wear haha. joanne is super cute but she's shy. and she's kinda tiny. haha! super cute. josh and i kinda liked her alot cos she made the gratefulness medal for us:) zoey is quite scary cos she's alittle over-dominant. haha! like she tries to take charge when we're playing games but that's cos she's a bit more mature for her age. i found out it's cos she's the eldest of 5 kids at home. wow. yining is just like a normal girl. and she likes to tell some jokes which are kinda like.. huh?? lol.
well i don't think i'm supposed to say too much cos we're actually not supposed to write about our camp and put up any photos on facebook haha!
anyways, i learned lots from facilitating the camp and i realised that i like to work with children and i hope i get the chance to do it again. it was also a good time for me to bond with my classmates and get to know them better. especially joshua. cos he was my assistant leader and we were working very closely together and talking about our kids alot.
actually i'm doing this post cos we're supposed to write our reflections and pass them up to kenneth so i'm letting my thoughts flow with this post and then later cut and paste and make it more formal, then ok liao. haha! smart right? lol.
man, i really miss the kids in my group:(.. serious! on thursday night i couldn't sleep properly sia. kept thinking about the fun 3 days i had. i hope i can see them again. it's quite hard cos bruce, our camp instructor, didn't allow us to exchange contact info. and they live in yishun, so it's quite hard to see them around. if only it was some school around serangoon. haha. i feel like their big brother man. ok i think this is enough content to do my reflection essay. haha!
rock on!!

The Chumpions

2009-05-16T18:16:00.003+08:00

whoa hoho. long time since i last posted on my blog!! haha..
hmm... the only interesting stuffs that happened in school recently was the inter-class sepak takraw competition yesterday!
our class decided we will submit a team. me, gary, syam and shu feng. and our team name was... "The Legendary Undefeated Noorzailan's Tricycle Kick Chumpions to the Muximum x 10(^8) Team".
lol. ya i know, super long name. haha! the last part is *times 10 to the power of 8* but i dunno how to type out the small power at the top. haha!
in the end, they just wrote our team name on the scoreboard as "2T24". then we decided to shorten our name to just "The Chumpions". lol. there were 16 teams in total. 4 groups of 4. the top 2 of each group qualify for the quater-finals.
anyways, we won all our 3 group games easily to make it to the quarter-finals as top of our group.
our team formation was me in the centre, gary on the right, and syam on the left. but syam had to leave early to go watch X-men wolverine, so shu feng came in to substitute him. i was the main server of the team and most of our points came from my serves. but i made some mistakes too so we lost some points there as well haha. the rattan ball is quite hard, so i've got some bruises on my legs and my head is hurting really bad from heading it too much and too hard. lol.
we won the quarter-final easily in straight sets too. but we lost in the semi-finals.
there was 3rd and 4th placing match too and we lost that one as well. so in the end we finished 4th.
we were all super disappointed cos we had expected to win the whole thing. our class is tipped as favourites to win alot of sports competitions this year cos we have quite a few people that can play some sports. but this year so far we've only got 3rd for handball and now 4th for sepak takraw.. but nvm..
we also found out from the draw yesterday that at the CJC Olympic games in july that our class is participating in football, netball, and basketball. i can quite confidently say that we are one of the favourites to win football. and our netball team is quite a good one too. so we'll be gunning for those 2 trophies. for our bball, sad to say, i think we'll get trashed hahaa!! (sorry jeanne) (if she ever finds this blog. lol)
anyway, gary and i were super angry with the referee that took our semifinal and 3rd&4th placing matches cos he was super lousy. like seriously. but he was a student lah, so can't really be helped..
actually yesterday was really really angry about it. i have this bad tendency to lose in semi-finals. and yesterday was another semi-final hoodoo for me. but i'm much better now lah.
but oh well, whether we won or lost, nobody can deny that we are still The Chumpions! hahaha..
by the way, i think i've invented a new football kick called the tricycle kick!! it's something like the bicycle kick, only that you swing your kicking foot first as well. meaning that you do a triple swing with your legs. hahaha!! it's really hard!!! i realised that it's easier to do it in the straight overhead kick style, rather than the sideways scissors kick style. but it's just for show lah. haha. new skill invented!! whoohoo!!!
ok i'm talking lots of football stuff now haha..
anyway, man utd can win the title tonight as long as they gain a point against the pathetic arsenal. it looks all over, but must not give up hope!! either way, it must be said that liverpool have got much closer this year. and if looking at the "what-ifs", we might have won. what if gerrard and torres had been fit for more games? what if we had won just 3 of the games we drew at anfield? what if man utd had not won in the last minutes by those macheda guy's goals? etc etc..
but yes, i hate to say it once again, but.. next season will be our season! haha!

post-season analysis

2009-04-18T16:52:00.003+08:00

our a-div season is over..
lost to ACJC 1-0 yesterday. i think NJ is an unlucky ground for us. we've played 4 matches there in the last two years and lost every game by one goal (last year 1-2 to ACS(i), this year 0-1 to NJ, 1-2 to AJ and 0-1 to AC). the two matches we won this year were played at SR (3-2 against dunman) and VJ (2-0 against NY).
so our final standings for this year is played 5, won 2, draw 0, lost 3, scored 6, conceded 6, pts 6. LLWWL. scorers: justin 3, me 2, caleb 1.
i think in our group we were like 5th out of 6 teams. unlucky if you ask me. i'd say we bounced back pretty well from the first 2 defeats. all our losses were down to defensive errors. some stuff that just can't be helped. all these little details make the difference in a tight competition like the a-divs. the teams that we were expected to beat this year like NJ and AJ have improved alot as well.
we really had high hopes for the season. expected to at least make it to the next stage. but well, the first two games really cost us, and by the time we bounced back, it was too late. had we not made the mistakes against NJ and AJ i think it would have been a much different story. but as it is, we're out and have to hope the next batch does better next year.
one thing i feel about our guys is that we're too "nice". we don't go into tackles hard enough. we have to put our head and body in more. if you go 100% into a tackle you're less likely to get injured. i'm probably the meanest tackler in the team (rahim and floyd tackle harder, but i tackle MEANER. there's a slight difference lol). and for some reason i just love going in really hard into a challenge.
although one good point about us is that we don't play-act or whine to the referee (in fact i quarrel with the refs haha). well, i don't mean to stereo-type, but there's a reason why we don't like schools like NJ and AC. even in a soccer match, you can see their people dropping onto the floor the whole game and hear them crying and complaining to the ref. AJ and NY didn't do that. for dunman, they just kept sucking-up to the ref ("good call ref!" i've never heard that phrase more times in any soccer game i've ever played). so yeah, CJC are really the a-div nice guys (except for their vice-captain lol).
for me, it was only a satisfactory a-div. the bad point is that i didn't get to attack as much as i, or even coach, would have liked. the teams we played just didn't allow it. the only match where i produced match-winning goals was the dunman high game. i had 4 shots the entire competition and i scored with 2 of them. the two misses were a header just over the bar and a long-range effort which the keeper saved. the good point is that i probably held my position really well. none of the teams bossed our midfield. and i'd like to think that i was more than a match for any centre-midfielder i was up against. against AJ and dunman it was easy meat. in the NY game i outplayed their big guy and he had to be subbed off. and against NJ and AC i was up against their combined schools team players and i matched them pretty well, if not better. so yeah, i'd like to say that i'm one of the better centre-midfielders in this year's a-divs. (i can't make the bolder statement that i always love to, cos we didn't play all the teams. haha..)
so for me, it was good tackling, passing and positioning. not enough attacking. and although my air challenges are not that great, i've improved alot in a short space of time as compared to last year when i didn't win a single header.
well, i'd say the experience of playing competitive soccer again was a good and enjoyable one. despite the early disappointments, the way we came back was encouraging. and so, i've played my last game in a CJ shirt.. haha. proud to have been vice-captain of a CJ team and wore the no.7 shirt for 2009. and not to mention the no.39 in 08 too! haha.
ok, time to throw away my soccer socks and hang up my boots..
byebye

easter and A-divs

2009-04-12T21:53:00.004+08:00

whoops.. haven't posted anything for a long time!
it's good friday weekend! and for PLH, that means easter retreat!:)
this easter retreat was actually more fun than i expected. the youth comm really organised it well. i think the new people we've put in have contributed with quite a few new and fresh ideas.
on friday everyone came at about 3plus and had the usual registration and groupings. paul and shona were in charge of the ice breakers and they had some nice interesting games:)
my group was rebecca chan, michelle goh, colin, darren ho, coco, daniel and justin. grace foong and becky koh left early.
after ice breakers we had 1 hour for wash up time. and paul and i decided to use this time to have our wrestling match!! the undefeated giant vs the plh undisputed champion! lol. it was arguably the greatest match in our plh wrestling federation history lol. i think it comes quite close to the first match we ever had at bbc 07 (the 6-man elimination match involving me, jeremy, tim leong, shaun, david and jon, which i won and became champion). for the fact that paul and i went on for an amazing 40min (5.30-6.10pm). i got paul in some arm bar on the ground early on. twisted his arm and stuff and he was like shouting in pain on the ground. heh. i'm really shocked that he didn't tap out. that was definitely the most gutsy thing i've ever seen. but it helped me cos he played the rest of the match with a weakened left arm, preventing him from having the strength to lift me at times. i don't remember much details, but i somehow got paul on the ground and managed to pin him in a 3-count. wow. haha. just wow.
now my back, neck, and right arm are aching alot from the match. lol. paul is like the hardest guy ever to get onto the ground. my spinebusters almost didn't work!! good thing i had the submission move haha!
then it was dinner. and at night we had a passover meal thing. we kinda did it before during the easter retreat that i was sec1. and then we had a reflection time for 1hour-plus in the sanctuary which quite a few of us found helpful.
oh yes, then at night we were about to have our first-ever PLH wrestling tag-team championship match. i was partnering paul! i'm pretty sure we were favourites to become the first-ever tag-team champs of PLH, but just before the match could start my dad came in and stopped everything... in the end our room was super guai. lights off by 1145 and most of them slept by 12plus. the twins, paul and i were awake til 1plus then we got hungry. we decided to come down to the kitchen and we found the leftovers from supper haha! we finished everything!! four hungry boys at night. what do you expect? lol. yes and after some heart to heart talks we were asleep by 2plus with full stomachs. i love that feeling:) eat and sleep. lol.
the next day i woke up in the morning at 530 cos i needed to pee. then i decided might as well take a nice morning bath. shiok! haha. breakfast was at 7am. then we had devotion and worship too. after that the groups split up to plan for their presentations. the skits were not bad, considering the amount of time they had to prepare. my group got second for it:)
then it was lunch time. paul and i ate at a fast pace so we could go up to the youth comm room early to take a wrestling video. lol. a fake one. our acting is quite lousy but funny too! haha! it was supposed to be a hardcore match and we used lotsa weapons in the room. even the tables! haha!!
then it was the group games which were pretty fun. and musical chairs too! it's fun at the part where the people wear blindfolds and you can mess with them by taking away the chairs haha!
and we ended the camp by 5pm.
today went to church for easter sunday service. there was baptism and confirmation. congrats to michelle, amanda, shaun, and serene! these are those from plh who went.
then went up to mph to jam for awhile.
ok i'm running outta time. needa speed up my posting pace haha.

anyways, we've been having a-division matches the past 2 weeks.
lost to NJC 0-1
lost to AJC 1-2
beat dunman high 3-2
beat NYJC 2-0
our last group game is against ACJC on friday. despite losing our first 2 matches, we've still got a good chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals after winning in our last 2. we were quite unlucky in the NJ match. lost to a headed goal from a freekick. i'd like to think we were equal with them the whole game.
for the AJ match, it was defensive mistakes that cost us.
i scored 2 goals in the dunman match. i think we played kinda badly and were fortunate to come away with the 3pts.
but in the NY game we really played well. fully deserved the 2-0 win.
i think if we win on friday we're through. gotta take a look at the table when i get back to school this week.
ok that's all for now. i think i'll post again after a-divs end.
byebye:)

what holiday??

2009-03-16T17:24:00.002+08:00

the common tests are over! i'm pretty sure i failed almost everything. maths was the worst. i left ALOT of questions blank. if i get full marks for all the questions i attempted, i will get 26 marks. lol. and maths was the only subject i studied for! this just goes to show that studying does not guarantee anything. if you go into an exam without studying, you have nothing to lose. that's what i feel. haha. but only this kind of not-important tests then can play play. when a-levels come then cannot anyhow play play liao haha.
last friday we had a friendly against river valley high too. we beat them 7-0. but i'm quite disappointed cos it could actually have been more than 10-0. ALOT more. i managed to get 2 goals before being substituted off 10min into the second half. so i've been top scorer so far with 5 goals in 2 games (reko is 2nd with 3). mum says why can't i be top scorer in studies too lol.. i can, but give others a headstart first lah.. haha! makes it alot more interesting again. just like o-levels.
GIGS was okay. i guess the game was quite fun, but maybe not practical for so many people to play. but the comm should get better with every event it organises. so i'm not thAt worrried yet..
hmm... i've got nothing else to say i guess. i'm just happy for the one-week away from any lessons. looks like nothing's changed for me even though the holidays are here (except for not needing to go school for lectures and tutorials), cos during school term i also act like it's my holiday haha!! just ask the twins and michelle lol.

9U3

2009-03-07T10:23:00.003+08:00

it's been a pretty eventful week.
on wednesday we had the CJC annual cross-country. at macritchie reservoir.
i managed to get 9th place in the school. so got another nice trophy:) but my table a bit no space to put it. it started really congested but i managed to break through the crowd half way through the jungle. then just keep running til the end haha.
yesterday (friday) had chinese alevel results. i got a U! haha... so have to take CL 'B' this year.. sian lah. i expected to fail chinese lah so don't worry people i'm not sad. stop comforting me guys lol. i just don't like it that i have to go for CL B lessons. waste time..
then we had a friendly against NUS high too. we trashed them 8-1. i got a first-half hat-trick. first goal was a tap-in from a goal-mouth scramble. then the second goal was a nice scissors kick from a cross from the right. the hat-trick goal was a cut-back from justin to me on the edge of the box and i shot it first time into the top corner. it was 5-1 at half-time. then second half we scored 3 more and then coach subbed me out cos he was trying out the substitutes for 2nd half. so yeah, a nice win for us. but they weren't very good lah.. that's why it was just a warm-up for the A-divs haha.
yup that's all. next week is common tests!! die..

rockafella

2009-02-28T18:11:00.005+08:00

HELLLOOOOOO CJC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha. that was what i shouted when the curtains opened and the cheers from the crowd greeted us. for a moment i was stunned and just stood there soaking it all in. then came to my senses, took the mike and shouted into it lol.
yeah, rockafella was pretty ok. actually it wasn't as good as i had hoped. cos i kinda messed up abit of my second solo. and according to daryl, brother paul wasn't very happy cos we blasted our instruments until the judges couldn't hear me sing. but everyone i asked told me they could hear the singing. so i'm wondering what's the difference between the judges ears and those in the audience. cos the video yiying helped me take could also hear the singing very clearly. haha. ah it doesn't matter now lah.
actually i thought it was quite bad, but after seeing the video i think it was actually quite ok.
i think "only one" was good. the crowd sang along during the chorus. my class were cheering like mad haha! and there was one part where the crowd did a kallang wave. i think it was during the solo haha.
now i look back, i think "i'd hate to be you" was a wrong song choice. cos it's not a very well-known song. so the crowd couldnt sing along. maybe something like "she will be loved" would have been better. but no use crying over spilt milk lah.
well, it was a good experience:) the biggest stage we've ever performed on! and the largest audience. i think about half the school went? the whole auditorium was filled lah. and to just hear the crowd was like... wow... haha. too bad my classmates weren't allowed to go right up to the stage so i couldn't do my planned stage dive. LOL. we had REALLY planned to do it! totally nuts haha. but thanks to the class for supporting me(: hearing them scream and seeing them stand up and cheer my name was the best part of last night.
having a band performance is really something. i'm not sure if i'll ever perform in front of such a big crowd again. or having such mad supporters. but i really hope i get another chance. performing is really something else.
but being in the crowd is another thing!! haha. when Class Act (last year's winners) performed "beat it" i escaped from backstage to the hall and joined my class. and we starting going OUTTA CONTROL. haha! jumping like crazy and a BIT of moshing. hahaha.. moshing is the most fun thing ever man. too bad the school didn't allow it...
yep. all in all a good experience. i performed not to win, but to just perform and entertain.
one great rock show can change the world...

busy busy

2009-02-26T21:57:00.003+08:00

wohoho haven't posted here for quite some time!
i've been really busy in school.
bcos first of all, trying to keep up with all my work. actually not really trying, but you know what i mean..
soccer training is getting intensive cos a-divisions is coming in april.
and also Hastily Assembled auditioned and got into rockafella. so there have been rehearsals. unfortunately the student council put them on days where there's also football training. so i've had to juggle them. i think coach isn't very happy that i missed some parts of training.
we had a friendly match with AJC yesterday. the match got cancelled after 10min cos of rain... we were actually leading 1-0 early on through an own goal. i missed a good chance and reko hit the post too. so we could have been 3-0 up after 10min haha.
anws, rockafella is tmr! (rockafella is an annual CJC rock concert event where all the ticket and shirt money goes to charity) our band, Hastily Assembled, is gonna be playing "only one" by yellowcard and "i'd hate to be you when people find out what this song is about" by mayday parade. i'm lead singer and lead guitarist, cheang is rhythm guitar, YC on keyboard, matthew tay on drums and edwin on bass. we haven't played at all since the auditions (which were one month ago) cos we're all so busy. me with soccer, YC and edwin with fencing, and cheang with dunno what he has lah. so the rehearsals have not been that good. due to some unforeseen circumstances such as the council not letting us play our full songs due to time-constraints and curtains closing on us while we're playing. lol. but i think we'll do fine tmr. i've got some nice crowd-rallying stuff up my sleeve(:
yeah well, it's been a really stressful and busy week. juggling soccer, rockafella, and studies. not to mention there's interclass handball tmr.. i have to play cos i'm either gonna be keeper to stop the goals or play centre to dictate the game and make killer passes. so i'm very important. haha..
normally with a week like this i would feel so dead and anxious, but a good thing happened this week that made me feel much better. God knows how much i needed that, man..
oh yeah, liverpool beat real madrid 1-0 last night too:)
don't know when i'm gonna post again, but definitely when i've got more time:)

Jersey

2009-02-05T20:50:00.002+08:00

Cause Jersey just got colder and
I'll have you know i'm scared to death
That everything that you had said to me was just
A lie until you left
Now i'm hoping just a little bit stronger
Hold me up just a little bit longer
I'll be fine, i swear
I'm just gone beyond repair

Let's write a song that we can dance to
Cause they all wanna listen
Just to know how it sounds when
I do that thing you know that i do
When i find inspiration
This is me breaking down when

Jersey just got colder and
I'll have you know i'm scared to death
That everything that you had said to me was just
A lie until you left
Now i'm hoping just a little bit stronger
Hold me up just a little bit longer
I'll be fine, i swear
I'm just gone beyond repair

Let's write a song that we can sing to
And you can lead the choir
And put the hook where it hurts most
And you threw a spark that lit the candle
That set us all on fire
And sent a flame down the east coast

Jersey just got colder and
I'll have you know i'm scared to death
That everything that you had said to me was just
A lie until you left
Now i'm hoping just a little bit stronger
Hold me up just a little bit longer
I'll be fine, i swear
I'm just gone beyond repair

And i should have been your everything
I'm now at the end of my eternity
And i will sleep to have the darkest dreams
This just won't seem right to me I close my eyes and beg for peace

Jersey just got colder and...
Jersey just got colder and...
Jersey just got colder and...

Jersey just got colder and
I'll have you know i'm scared to death
That everything that you had said to me was just
A lie until you left
Now i'm hoping just a little bit stronger
Hold me up just a little bit longer
I'll be fine, i swear
I'm just gone beyond repair

another Mayday Parade song..

Your Song

2009-02-04T10:27:00.002+08:00

You say that Gainesville's got no soul
Well that sounds like a good excuse for coming home
And all these Tallahassee skylines they keep singing out a song
and know it's your song they've been singing all night long
and this gally early rooftop just keeps calling out your name to come and stay (so stay)

So stay
Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stay
And then i'll say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you

I poured through every song I wrote
Every line that I've cried, every note that was split with this pen
And every line in every song, they all seemed to come out wrong
Until your song
So let's sing it all night long
And this Tallahassee skyline hasn't changed
While the view from every rooftop says to stay

Stay and watch the stars come out and then the sun as they all fade away
I'll sing you every song I know if it will make you want to stay
And then i'll say
That I missed you
And these words
They'll convince you

And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say i missed you boy
So sing it over again, and over again, and over again,
And I could call you baby doll all the time
And you'd whisper in my ears, you'd say i missed you boy
Now sing it over again and over again, and over again

by Mayday Parade

Happy CNY

2009-01-27T19:58:00.004+08:00

happy CNY to all of you people.
it's the same as always. go grandparents house and collect hongbaos. sit there and stone. after awhile then go into one room so nobody can see me sleep. every year the same cycle repeats itself. haha...
my scar is now just a scar. it looks ugly and cool at the same time. but i don't like it being too obvious. i rather have the type that people can only see when they look closely.
last week went to school. paid attention at times. it's so hard to focus. especially when i feel some lessons like GP are useless. we even had parent-teacher meeting, so mum went. she asked mr rajoo how i was doing. he told her the same story as last year, that there are no doubts about my ability, just that i'm still sleeping and not working hard yet. then they want me to come up with a timetable to study etc etc.. so yeah i came up with it. but i'm not gonna start on it til after tomorrow. it's just a simple 1 hour of studying everyday mon-thurs. i don't wanna start off too ambitious haha. i doubt i can follow this regime anyway.
i tried to get some work done too. but i only managed to complete my econs holiday homework. but that's only cos it was on the music industry haha. so naturally i decided to do it on rock music. chose to do it on mayday parade too, cos supposed to do on a group that is upcoming or fairly unknown. mayday parade rocks man. their songs are addictive. and the lyrics are just.. wow. later maybe i put up one of their song lyrics.
sports: liverpool have drawn both league and FA cup games 1-1 against everton at anfield. does nothing to brighten my mood. gerrard got the goal in both games. amazing how he's still playing like that. even with all the court accusations and stuff. need to start winning man. too many draws already. a few more draws and we'll fall further behind man utd in the title race. we're still level on points with them, so i guess it's good. just that they have a game in hand. but yeah, if someone had said at the start of the season that liverpool will be in this position with 16 games to go, i'd have taken it.
coach was sick for the most part of last week too. so we didn't really train properly. there were some sec4 graduates who came for a trial game on wednesday. so we played against them 11 vs 11. we beat them 9-3. i'm still wondering how we managed to let in 3 goals. i bagged 2 goals in the game. but honestly, it should have been 4 or 5. missed some clear chances when i got pushed forward to striker at the last part of the game. but i think i'm playing my attacking midfield position really well. the whole team is starting to take shape. so a couple more months of intensive training and maybe, just maybe, we might be able to have a crack at the semis come the a-divisions in april.
i'm no longer chairperson of youth comm as well. cos the new comm is like, formed. but i'll stay on a while to help the new chairperson. which will be announced on sunday at plh.
yeah well that's about all i can say for now.
here's the best of some mayday parade lyrics:

"Three Cheers for Five Years"

I swear that you don't have to go, I thought we could wait for the fireworks
I thought we could wait for the snow, to wash over Georgia and kill the hurt
I thought I could live in your arms, and spend every moment I had with you
Stay up all night with the stars, confess all the faith that I had in you (I had in you)

Too late, I'm sure, and lonely
Another night, another dream wasted on you
Just be here now, against me
You know the words, so sing along for me baby

For Heaven's sake, I know you're sorry, but you wont stop crying
This anniversary may never be the same
Inside I hope you know I'm dying, with my heart beside me, in shattered pieces that, may never be replaced
And if I died right now, you'd never be the same

"Miserable At Best"

You're all that I hoped I'd find, in every single way
And everything I could give, is everything you couldn't take
Cause nothing feels like home, you're a thousand miles away
And the hardest part of living is just taking breaths to stay
Because I know I'm good for something i just haven't found it yet, but I need it

And this will be the first time in a week that I'll talk to you and I can't speak
It's been three whole days since I've had sleep because I dream of his lips on your cheek
And I got the point that I should leave you alone but we both know that I'm not that strong
And I miss the lips that made me fly

yup combined with the music it's great! can emo to this kinda songs man.. haha..
ok, happy CNY to everyone. let's hope yours is better than mine.

harry potter and the something something something...

2009-01-16T18:34:00.004+08:00

wow stay at grandma's and don't use the comp for a few days then come back to see uncle alvin flood my tagboard haha.
yeah my uncle is cool!
first week of school's been ok. bcos 8 of last year's class didn't promote so this year the class is kinda more well-behaved. lol. it's abit quiet without people like justin and kenneth ong around. and no chris and steven to talk to at recess time. no louis as well so now i'm sitting with joshua in class and talking to him. dare i say it, it's kinda strange without calista's whining too haha!! last year could have 3 tables playing bridge at one time but now it's just one. so we started playing lotsa hockey in class since syam and shu feng leave their sticks in the cupboard haha. i'm actually not bad! but our backs hurt after a while cos we keep bending down.
i think sometimes i'm behaving well and paying attention in class and lectures but sometimes i'm still talking and not being focused haha. so it's good sometimes and bad sometimes. but still early days lah, i'm just warming up man.
anws i've got this huge scar on my forehead now bcos at the cj open house last friday i was tying the soccer banner to the goal-post and it caught the wind and pulled the whole goal-post down. i fell with it and hit my head against the post so it split open and bled profusely. ya, kinda stupid haha. had to go to a doctor and was supposed to get stitches but the doc said he'll patch it up for me with some special tissue glue instead of stiches. advantage: it will leave less of a scar. disadv: take longer to heal. i missed soccer training the whole of this week cos of it. it's better now and there's just a line on my forehead so the class guys keep calling me harry potter haha.
ok gotta go cos it's dinner soon.

Grandma's house grandma's house!!

2009-01-08T15:09:00.003+08:00

hi peeps! i'm staying at grandma's house til 15th! so won't be using the comp that often. i'm using the comp now cos i came back to my own house for awhile cos school ended early. grandma's house is at ang mo kio by the way.
yesterday had football training. first one since the holidays lah. we're really slack man. whole team's gotta work hard to qualify from the group stages this year. we had surprise beep test. i managed to get to stage 12.4 which was 4th in the team of 16. should be safe to get into a-div squad but i think gonna be really really hard to break the CJ record of 15.0.
this friday is the CJ open house too. so we gotta set up a booth and stuff. i'm just happy we'll get to play some 5-on-5s during the open house lol.
anws here are 2 quizes that was on yiying's blog.

tagged by yiying

1)What is your full name? Lum I-Zack
2)Do you like your name? yes!
3)How long have you like the person you currently like? oh i like her for *censored*
4) Have you kissed anyone before? yes i kiss e-rae everyday!(:
5)What are you doing at 8am this morning? sleeping
6)What were you doing an hour ago? eating lunch
7) What are you currently doing? doing this quiz lah duh
8)Who was the last to text you? hannah
9)Have you told anyone you love them today? no
10)Are you missing anyone right now? yeah i guess so
11)Name someone whose name starts with Z. zinedine zidane
12)Which friend of yours stays near you? quite a few lah. all the serangoon people like marie and hannah.
13)Do you prefer to call or sms? depends on the situation and the person and also if my sms bill is bursting.
14)Can you live a day without your television or handphone? yes both also can live without
15)Do you hate anyone now? no
16)Are you mad about anything right now? no
17)Who do you text the most this month? not sure. i don't bother keeping track
18)Who is the last person you talk to? the aunty when i buying food. i tell her i want the chicken meat.
19) Tag 10 people to do this quiz. anyone who reads this blog is invited to do it.

tagged by yiying again(:

1) list out 3 friends you can think of now. joe, david and jon
2) why are you thinking of them now? cos this quiz ask me to think of 3 friends and these 3 came to my mind lor. think i gay ah?
3) are they your best friends? yes that's why i thought of them
4) what do you like about them? er... we are friendly to each other and some more we know each other since we were young haha!
6) now let's stop talking about them and tell me whats on your mind right now. confidential information.. haha!
7) are you happy/sad/annoyed/uncomfortable/excited about whats on your mind right now? er... it's complicated? maybe i'm annoyed that i think too much.
8) what do you wish for to happen now? confidential info too. why is this quiz so personal. haha.
9) who did you just talk to on the phone and when was it? last night talk to mum
10) who was the last to text you a message? hannah
11) do you feel stuck up at home now? maybe stuck at grandma's. that's why i came home! haha so funny. for once i don't feel stuck up at my own home lol.
12) do you like to do quizzes? actually they're quite fun and great for wasting time!
13) why do you like to do them? refer to qns12
14) when do you want to have a boyfriend/girlfriend? when i'm ready. maybe after a-levels or during army or something. in God's timing lah.
15) when do you want to get married? after i get a girlfriend. haha! er.. i think when i'm 24 would be nice. but i might not have enough money yet lol. oh yes and i wanna get married to my first girlfriend. so first gf better watch out.
16) how many kids do you want to have? 2 or 3 would be nice. 2 like too little, but 3 then got middle-child problem. maybe 4! haha. wait that's too many!!!
17) would you like to live in a house of your own with your husband and children? you mean my wife? haha yeah own house would be nice. but maybe stay with mum and dad then don't need to buy my own house haha!!
18) do you think this quiz is asking about your future? abit i guess.
19) are all what you said earlier true? i think so. i try not to lie. if there's something i don't wanna say then it's confidential info.
20) what song can you think of now? "i'd hate to be you when people find out what this song is about" by mayday parade.
21) do you listen to the radio? nope
22) what do you hate most in this world? er... i'm not sure. we should hate sin!
23) list out 7 names. joe, david, jon, YC, cheang, renyi, ryan
24) randomly pick a number from 1 - 7 without looking at the screen. i did ini-mini-mynee-mo! and i got 7. haha
25) what is his/her name? ryan loh zhi wei
26) do you like him/her as a friend? yes
27) why? cos he's a good guy, good christian, my friend from mshs, brother from CRYSIz, we talk well together, trustworthy dude, he likes me too so that helps, he was my right-hand man during sec3 and 4 when i was class-chairman, etc..
28) pass this quiz to 8 friends. anyone who wants to do it haha.

yup that's all! gotta go back to gramma's house.

this blog only has words

2009-01-04T22:58:00.004+08:00

whoa today was nuts!
cos last night i watched FA cup 3rd round with dad til 3.30am so i couldn't wake up this morning for church. (good thing liverpool beat preston 2-0) then today we leaving for 8.45 service then dad said he's leaving without us if we not fast enough. so i was like half asleep and decided they go first then i go myself for PLH later.
in the end i woke up at 10.25am (PLH is at 11am) and i had to lead worship!!!
so i hurried and called the cab and arrived in church on the dot at 10.59am. nuts man.
and when i just wake up my voice is super rough, so it was hard to sing haha.
well, we got our new DGs. mine looks quite ok. then after DG they had parent-mentors meeting so we had to go lunch with our DGs but me, yiying and hannah had to take care of one junior DG each. so i brought mine to eat at the meepok stall with hannah's one.
after that came home and slept immediately haha.
oh man i realised it's one more week to school and i haven't studied AT ALL for the last 2-3 months of holidays. all my J1 things all forgotten already. gonna die. mr rajoo said first week of school come back got physics tests for the whole of last year's syllabus. and if we fail those we have to stay back after school or something. die die die. like that i'm gonna miss football training. and this week have to go back to school 3 times for football and open house. and we also have to go stay at gramma's from 6-15 jan cos mum and dad are going away. there's no way i'm gonna be able to revise all my maths, econs, physics and geog.
oh well. main thing is a-levels at the end of the year, so just have to take it easy day by day, find some way to survive just like the last 11 years of school and pray that God helps me come the end of the year just like o-levels.
man these few days i keep listening to the MCR "three cheers for sweet revenge" album lol. some songs are quite nice. but at the moment i'm addicted to some mayday parade songs. have to borrow the hoobastank album from joe and the new FOB album from weile too. haha.
ok that's all i guess. byebye all you people who read this sad blog with no links, no songs, no fancy colours, no pictures.
just words.

and i'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs
to write a ballet while we say the things
we hoped would mean the most to me.

but i never told you everything
i'm losing hope and fading dreams
and every single memory along the way..

but these words were never easier for me to say, or her to second guess
but i guess, that i can live without you but, without you i'll be miserable at best...

wow, how do people write these kinda songs with such solid lyrics man!!!

Happy New Year!!!

2009-01-03T21:59:00.002+08:00

happy new year
pull your ear!

hahaha...

well the new year has been quite ok so far.
on new year's day we played football at Joe's house in the morning and afternoon went to Yiying's house cos her parents had some new year gathering thing.
then yesterday went to watch "Twilight". it's not bad i guess.
and today went for band prac and then hang around at Plaza Sing with some PLH people.

anws here's a quiz on jon's blog.

Tagged by Jon Chien

1.Are you one of the most popular students in school?
i'm not sure actually. people probably can't be bothered with me? haha.
2.Do you think you got the looks?
lol. what type of looks?
3.When was the last time you went out with your buddies?
what kind of buddies? like very close ones? yesterday go watch twilight i guess.
4.How many times in a week do you go out?
almost everyday during the hols.
5.Do you like to be alone?
depends on how i'm feeling.
6.Do you intend to be famous in the future?
i'm famous now. haha!
7.Do you have the courage to stand infront of an audience and show them your talent?
yes.
8.Would you rather go to a midnight party with your friends or go to a dinner with your bestfriends?
dinner with best friends
9.What's your most embarrassing moment?
I can't think of it now.
10.What's the best moment of your life?
i'm not very sure. some good moments are like when liverpool won the champions league in 2005.
11. Tag 5 people to do this quiz.
up to whoever reads this lah.

ok that's about all. i just needed to post something to keep this blog alive haha.

happy new year everyone!!

HOHOHO merry christmas!!!

2008-12-24T16:08:00.002+08:00

hello everyone!
merry christmas to all of you!!
well, getting presents and cards is nice and everything but remember the message from our puppet performance that day, christmas is about Jesus!!:)
well, i've got a cool xmas gift from my parents! it's a new electric guitar! (my old one got spoilt) it's a red les paul guitar, rally brand. $300. not a bad buy i guess. i shall use it the next time i'm playing guitar for PLH. if you thought my old black one looked nice, you'll be blown away by this one too!!!:)
wow can't wait for christmas to come! tmr can go church and give people their cards and gifts and stuff.
i decided to create a facebook account too lol. goodness knows why. nothing better to do then just decided to do one haha. i'm not gonna be very bothered with it cos i'm also not sure what i'm supposed to do with it haha.
well, liverpool are still top of the table at christmas after chelsea and everton drew that night, haha those two useless blue teams. we haven't been top of the table at christmas for quite some time so i guess that's good and it's proving to be a very exciting season for all reds fans!!! i was really so angry that night after the 1-1 draw with arsenal at their homeground cos we were matching them and i felt we should have gone on to win it, which just goes to show how much we've improved under rafa and how the expectation is really growing.
well, i can't think of anything else to say, except merry christmas and God bless us, everyone!

No Holds Barred

2008-12-21T17:47:00.003+08:00

yeah the plh no holds barred camp was great!
after the rushed 2 weeks of preparation it turned out ok i guess.
first day actually not much except for the ice-breaker straw tower game and then at night we had the "looking back - 2008" session and the worship.
the worship was great!! almost everyone was jumping man! haha. my dad showed me the video and even ben kee was jumping while playing bass! haha. that means he's super pro man. jump and play at the same time very hard. i'm still working on it with the guitar haha.
woke up the next day feeling really sick. i think cos i didnt eat enough and not enough sleep. prepare until stress lol. felt nauseous and a bit feverish plus bad diarrhoea! i puked twice on the second day. once after breakfast and once after wrestling.
oh yes, the boys had a wrestling match again haha. i still participated even though i was sick. abit nuts but i thought just defend the title lah if not the rest wrestle for nothing lol. there were 6 of us competing. the first 2 in were jeremy and tim leong. 3rd in was jon chien. they pinned tim leong before i came in. i was 4th in, then zek 5th and tim goh 6th. i pinned jeremy then me, jon and tim ganged on zek to pin him first. then jon walked out of the match and i pinned tim to retain my title. haha. so i felt really sick so i skipped lunch and puked in the toilet.
after that was the amazing race. i still went out even though i was sick. i had to come back to church to use the toilet halfway cos i had diarrhoea lol. then went out to meet my group again.
anws at night was the christmas party dinner and we all wore our nice clothes! haha.
i was still feeling sick but i forced myself to eat so i won't have an empty stomach.
we had puppet performance by me, marie and michelle chia. it was ok i think although maybe i think i messed up some parts. we actually didn't rehearse haha.
then also had mime, i hate to put on the makeup. i think i was the only one not smiling for it haha.
well, all in all i think the camp was great and i hope all those who went enjoyed it.
now i'm just resting at home to get well, so i didn't go church today.
oh ya and the whole camp joe, shuan and i were addicted to this song. it's "i'd hate to be you when people find out what this song is about" by mayday parade. we kept playing it haha. i've got the lead parts quite right so can play the solo and riffs though it's not perfect yet. still working on it.:)
ok that's all byebye!

zack is back

2008-12-15T23:34:00.006+08:00

yeah i'm back from my holiday!
my family went to kota kinabalu, which is in west malaysia. so we had to take a plane there.
it was pretty fun. got to relax properly.
we went shopping quite a lot. i bought 5 new shirts. 3 is for me to wear. one is for me to give away and one is for me to use as a doormat! hahaha!
we also watched bolt there. the total cost for the 5 of us in singapore dollars was $12! hahaha!! so guys, if u wanna watch cheap movies, go to m'sia! haha. bolt is a nice show btw. quite cool:)

yesterday was also esther's surprise birthday party. it was quite fun. she was really surprised.

well, planning for the PLH christmas retreat is on the way. lots of stuff to do this week. actually our youth comm this year has been operated very much on the basis of efficiency. reasonable results with less effort. haha. very much the way i survive in school. some people call it studying smart. i call it genius. haha just kidding:p

the Hastily Assembled Returns concert was good:)
started with a bang with my songs "eliminated". then "recess" which didn't sound as cool without a lead guitar.
then i went to the drums after playing the guitar.
"lady luck" by YC which some people said was nice.
"get loud" by renyi and "what about now" (daughtry).
then some chinese song which cheang sang.
afterwards was the solo performances.
renyi's one was good. YC's one was good.
"thunder" duet by cheang and renyi not so good. haha:p
then my solo. "don't know". that's the only song i was nervous about playing. but well i guess it turned out ok.
after that was the break where we celebrated cheang's birthday and gave him a taupok.
break over and it was "the moment..." by cheang.
"facade" and "don't call the cops..." by YC.
"baby you don't know what you do to me" by cheang. which i absolutely love playing drums for! actually i like playing drums for alot of our songs. like "facade" and "the moment..." haha.
then i went back to leading my songs for the last two. "crushes of a primary school boy" and ending with "you're no murderer, but you killed me inside".
then there were calls for an encore of my solo song "don't know". so i played it again. i didn't know so many people will like it haha. now it's stuck in some people like renyi's heads and people like M ask me to play it for them again. haha. i should write more songs like that. or maybe people just like acoustic songs. cos some of my acoustic versions of my rock songs are nice too. but these kinda songs need inspiration lah.. yay i like that song:):)
i liked the way we started with "eliminated". sounded so cool! lol.. to me at least..
"recess" needs lead guitar lah.. if not it doesn't sound as nice.

anws, videos better be up soon guys!!! can't wait to see the replay of the whole thing. haha...
we can have another gig next year after a-levels. lol.

yeah anws, that's about it. PLH christmas retreat this friday!! NO HOLDS BARRED!

booyah:)

way away

2008-12-09T00:32:00.001+08:00

hello.
i'll be away on family holiday tmr (tuesday) evening til saturday night.
so i'll post about my trip and the concert (which is tmr afternoon) when i get back.
cya..

hello

2008-12-04T20:18:00.004+08:00

wow it's been a long time since i last posted. ok where should i start..
i went for my class CIP trip to batam. it was great! so fun haha. we went to paint an orphanage and played with the kids there. reminded me of the times that i went to myanmar and philippines for PLH trip. the kids are cute man. i played quite a bit with the boys. we managed to paint the orphanage and i think we did a pretty good job. then on the last night the guys in my class trashed our hotel room haha! we kept catching each other and did stuff like pour water and smash donuts in each other's faces. lol. in the end the hotel room was super dirty so we had to clean it up first. yeah i loved the batam trip:)
ok then last sunday was GIGS: November Rain! we played "don't forget the lyrics: PLH edition" haha it was quite fun i guess. i was the host for the thing. got quite alot of good feedback. so relieved that it worked out in the end. youth comm did a good job once again:) haha. well when i'm not inside next year it'll be good cos i won't be busy organising the games. but it'll be bad too cos i won't get to decide what fun games we play! haha.
i did my christmas shopping on monday and i bought all the stuff i wanna give to people. then me, shaun and michelle went to joe's house to play football with joe, jeremy and jordan. then joe lost his phone o.O think it was stolen by those people who were near there. then we had dinner and played halo on the xbox. the only person lousier than me was michelle hahaha.
yesterday we went to send huixian off to japan at the airport. it was fun cos we were saying and doing lotsa funny stuff haha.
today had concert practice again. hastily assembled returns concert next tuesday 9 dec at 2pm. if u wanna come just give me a msg. it's at jalan kelichap. (take bus 80 from kovan heartland mall. it's 4 stops away) i think it's gonna be not bad. cheang and renyi told me that lots of their friends have special request for "crushes of a primary school boy". so i get to play 4 of my songs at the concert instead of 3. lol. so i'm taking the first two and last two songs. wow if they like the crappy one on the CRYSIz blog which we recorded at 3am in YC's house then they'll definitely love the live one. haha.
oh ya last night i decided to start a new game on my gameboy for pokemon red version. i'm still using my gameboy colour (which is the oldest type of gameboy lol). since for the month of december i'll have nothing to do now that our trip got cancelled.. i just reached cerulean city (where you're supposed to get the 2nd badge). my pokemon team is now charmeleon, pidgeotto and pikachu. haha.
so for december maybe we'll organise a PLH camp. and maybe some of us will go to the zoo haha! the most just go out with the PLHers and hang out or something. anws i spent all my december allowance on christmas stuff cos i thought we'll be away from 12th-22nd so i won't need to use my money! but now the trip is cancelled i've got no money for those days! lol. if anyone knows where i can work for just two days and can earn about $60 please tell me. anyone's house needs cleaning or something? please ask your parents!! i need money if not i can't go out! and my allowance for this month looks like it's running short. lol. yup...
crap everytime i look at today's date it keeps making me think. i hate not being able to talk to people in person. one for 2 years and one for 8 months. feel like punching someone or something! actually no lah.. i don't feel so violent now. now i feel like doing some other stuff which doesn't have to do with punching. don't bother asking me what this is about. i won't tell you. ok maybe you can still ask me about the second one cos i can still talk about that.
well at least nowadays i'm talking with two of my best friends again.
ok not much else i guess.

attention one and all

2008-11-24T21:26:00.003+08:00

hi peeps!
today went to cheang's house for concert practice.
for those who don't know, Hastily Assembled has a mini-concert on tuesday 9 december at 2pm. admission is free of charge. it's at cheang's house which is quite big, so it can hold alot of people plus the instruments. guitars, keyboard, drumset, etc...
anyone who reads this is invited to come if you're bored and free on that day.
ps: cheang's house is at jalan kelichap, which is quite near kovan mrt. if you wanna come, just give me a msg or something.
i'll be playing drums, except for the 3 songs that i'm leading.
featuring original songs such as recess by me, the moment i go crazy by cheang, and intangible by YC. also cover songs of far away by nickelback and what about now by daughtry, performed by renyi. total of 12 songs, unless there are calls for an encore. (don't laugh, last year's concert got encore ok. haha)
this year's concert is gonna be bigger and better than last year's one. this year got real drum set, more songs, more original songs, bigger space and bigger crowd too.
Hastily Assembled Returns. 9 dec. 2pm.
yup...
i'll also be going to batam from wednesday to saturday for class overseas cip. so if you wanna call or sms me be ready to pay some overseas phone bills haha.
i think that's about all for now.
see you when i get back on sunday. this sunday is GIGS: November Rain!!! gonna play a cool game which is a surprise:)
byebye

steven gerrard week

2008-11-21T01:05:00.002+08:00

today went out with shaun, hannah, marie and michelle goh. we met at toa payoh and then dunno what to do so we went all the way to pasir ris. then cos jeremy and jordan were there at their grandma's house so we went there and played xbox! haha. as usual i got really animated and loud while using liverpool on the fifa 07. haha. actually we wanted a picnic but it was too hot so we had a picnic in the house instead haha. a very small one. only got one packet of teddy biscuits and some ice-cream. afterwards we had dinner at burger king and joe came to talk too.

anws this week on the liverpool website is "Steven Gerrard week". cos he's been playing in the liverpool first team for 10 years. since he made his debut against blackburn as an 18-year old all the way til now. there's been alot of talk about whether he's been liverpool's best player ever. for me there's no question about it. although i never got to see players like kenny daglish and kevin keegan play, i'm pretty sure stevieG has been the most complete player ever. he can shoot, pass, tackle, head, etc... he's definitely been the most complete player. you talk about cristiano ronaldo, kaka, messi, henry, etc.. but can any of them tackle and defend like gerrard? how many times have they rescued their team in a big match in the last minute? usually only strikers can do that for their clubs, but even then only a handful have been able to do it as often as gerrard rescues liverpool. pele and maradona may be like the best players ever, but i don't think they are as complete as gerrard. moreover, he's been at liverpool his whole life, since his schoolboy days. that in itself speaks about his loyalty to the club. he's never had any drinking or partying or prostitute (like cristiano ronaldo) problems.
of course there are counter arguments like he's not as good a striker as torres, etc.. and i do agree with that. but i think that as a PLAYER he's definitely right up there with all-time greats all over the world. definitely, when you think about his all-round play and ability, and the number of times he's done it in big matches. all he needs is some premier league medals and international glory. which might be hard to find with england now, so hopefully fabio capello works some magic there too.
yeah well, this are just my opinions. it's hard to define what you would call the best footballer in the world/of all-time. but for me, just bcos i'm a liverpool supporter, the best player in the world of all-time (at the moment) is steven gerrard. our local boy turned hero.

blablabla

2008-11-17T23:01:00.005+08:00

man the holidays have been quite busy for me. last week had to go out every single day. played football at the cage with joe, jeremy, jordan and joe's classmates. real fun. soccer training also resumed but fitness and gym only so nothing much. also had youth comm meeting to discuss about gigs. had band prac on friday and dbs. we played badminton on saturday too. i'm improving thx to some coaching by david haha.
last night was fun too cos we had a sleepover! super cool man cos we did lotsa fun stuffs!!! haha anws i'm lazy to elaborate but i'm quite happy with how things went:)
just now also went to cheang's house for some jamming/practice.

anws there's this quiz on yiying's blog so i will do it too haha.

1.How many texts are in your inbox?
at the moment, 531
2.When did your last hug take place?
can't remember.
3. Are you a jealous person?
as in? i dunno. not really i guess. sometimes i get it abit but after awhile i forget about it.
4.Are you tired right now?
yup kinda. after last night's sleepover.
5.Do you chew on your straws?
nope. yucks.
6.Have you ever been called a tease?
i guess so. but in different versions like "irritating"
7.Do you like to cuddle?
well i've never really felt what it's like to cuddle before.
8.Do you cry easily?
erm... not really. i'm a guy.
9.Are you a heavy sleeper?
sometimes yes, sometimes no
10.Where is your cellphone?
on the table.
11.Do you think you can last in a relationship for 6 months?
yes. with the right girl.
12.Are you mad at someone right now?
no can't think of anyone.
13.Do you believe in love at first sight?
hmm.. actually i don't but at the same time i do. it's complicated to explain...
14.What makes you laugh out loud?
lots of stuff!
15.Who was the last person you talked to?
face to face? e-sean
16.Name one person on your top friends who is most like you.
not many people are like me i think..
17.Do you get butterflies when around the person you like?
erm.. last time yes. but now less. not saying that i like anyone..
18.Will you get married?
i hope so.
19.When was the last time you smiled?
watching tv just now.
20.Does anyone like you?
i wouldn't know.
21.Do you secretly like someone?
hmm... depends how much of a secret it is..
22.Who was the first person you talked to today?
erm... can't remember. we had a lot of people staying over.
23.Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?
not sure.
24.What are you NOT looking forward to?
tmr's ocip thing.
25.Has someone of the opposite sex ever told you they loved you, and meant it?
i'm not sure if they meant it.
26.Suppose you see your ex kissing another person what would you do?
i don't have an ex.
27.Are you a forgiving person?
i'm not sure either. i guess kind of? usually i just put stuff aside. uncle shih kiat said that might be tolerant but not forgiving.
28.What's something you really want right now?
to know what i want. cos i don't know what i want.
29.Do you fall for people easily?
hmm.. depends? i'm not sure how to define easily.
30.Have you ever fallen for your best friend ex's ?
i don't even know the girl.
31.What's the last thing you put in your mouth?
some chocolate biscuit thing. the loacker one:)
32.Have you ever kissed anyone named Michelle?
nope. never even kissed before.
33.Who was the last person you drove with?
bus or car?
34.How late did you stay up last night and why?
up to 6.30am. cos we had a sleepover.
35.If you could move somewhere else, would you?
nope.
36.Do you prefer to call or text?
depends on the person and the situation.
37.When was the last time you cried really, really hard?
sec 3. i define hard as sniffing like crap and sobbing uncontrolably like a baby hahaha!!
38.Who took your profile picture?i don't think i have a profile picture.
39.Who was the last person you took a picture with?
just now. cheang, yc and renyi.
40.Can you live a day without TV?
yes.
41.Besides your lips, where is your favorite spot to get kissed?
i dunno??? never got kissed before man.
42.How did you feel when you woke up this morning?
kinda happy. ok, very happy.
43.Who was the last person you took a picture of?
just now. YC with his keyboard.
44.How often do you see your ex?
i have no ex! man this questions are being wasted on me lol.
45.Would you ever donate blood?
ya i did it before.
46.Have you ever had a best friend who was of the opposite sex?
yes.
47.Do you want someone dead?
nope. maybe cristiano ronaldo haha!
48.What does your last text message say?
erm.. personal stuffs... haha..
50.What are you thinking about right now?
personal stuffs too!! hahaha!!
51.Do you wish someone was with you right now?
yeah kinda i guess.
52.What time did you go to sleep last night?
refer to question 34 lah dumb! lol.
53.Where did you buy the shirt you're wearing now?
i'm wearing a singlet and i have no idea where i got it from.
54.Is someone on your mind right now?
yes
55.Have you ever been in a hotel room with a friend of the opposite sex?
yes. church camp haha!
56.Who was the last person to text you?
the contact says eiram hot.
57.Would you consider yourself to be spoiled?
not by my parents but by this generation. we have nice aircon and stuff.
58.What are you listening right now?
the sound of my typing.
59.Did you sing at all today?
yeah at cheang's house during our jamming/practice.
60.When's the last time you cried?
may this year.
61.Who were you with yesterday?
those people who stayed over at my house.
62.Do you miss anyone?
yup i guess so.
63.Who was the last person in your bed?
lots of people cos we had a sleepover just now. but the last one in my bed would be marie haha.
64.Have you ever drank with your number one?
huh what number one? and what drinks? water? lol.
65.If someone liked you right now would you want them to tell you?
hmm.. yeah why not haha. ok so if anyone likes me now don't be afraid to tell me lol!
66.Do you want someone you can't have?
yes.
67.When did you last talk to your brother or sister?
just now lah
68.Where were you at 2:02 am this morning?
i think we were on our way to the prata shop.
69.Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 months from now?
i don't think so.
70.Do you want to tell someone something?
yes actually i feel like telling one or two people some stuff.
Bonus question. Who do you want to tag?
anyone who is bored enough to do this crap haha!

ok that's all for now.

bow down to the king!

2008-11-08T20:31:00.005+08:00

yo peeps! well the holidays have been ok so far.

on wednesday i went to crash david and jon's poly! hahaha. it's spore poly. i reached at 11am which was their break and at 12 was the econs lecture which i didnt pay attention at all. then after the school ended at 1pm we went to orchard first. cos i wanted to look for a book so we went to kinu at taka. then cant find so we went to the one at bugis haha. jon also bought some new bag lol.

thursday i went to hannah's house to discuss about the gigs event which will be on 30 nov. at the moment, it looks like it's going to be a great and fun activity and is shaping up to be one of the best plh has ever seen! haha.

then yesterday went to school to collect our result slips. my full grades for this year are:
econs D
physics D
maths C
general paper C
chinese S
geog U

then went to YC's house with cheang and we jammed abit with the keyboard, drums, and classical guitar. ooh and the new mikes!:) we started singing some cool songs like "just a little misunderstanding" and "terms and conditions" LOL!! actually they are just a book we found in YC's room and the warranty card for his new amplifier. haha!
cheang played the guitar and me and YC sang anyhow. actually i got the idea from joe's RI concert performance thing. his is still way better than ours. but it was only the first time we were doing it, so not too bad haha.
then went for dbs in the evening. now we're learning about angels.

today went to joe's house to play football in the morning then later went to church to help set up the stalls for the fiesta. how disappointing. almost nobody came to help. the only people there were me, david chien, justin how, shawn quek, uncle justin, and mark chen. then i think a few other women like theresa who were doing the balloons lol. but almost everything is in place for tmr's fiesta.

anws e-sean got this paper crown thing from burger king and whoever wears it is the king. i got it from her and now I AM KING!!!!! hahaha! bow down to me!!!!

haha anws there's some funny thing on YC's and ryan's blog and here's what they wrote!:

this is YC's...

What is your favourite thing about #5? I-Zack
hmm THE MAN?!! everything man! exept the hair....

this is ryan's...

Describe #3 Lum
he's the Man
he has changed the world
he will rock you

and...

School of #3? Lum
he graces the school known as CJC, and will propel it to international fame
coz he Is, The Man

hahaha.. now maybe i will do this funny thing...

Name 20 people you can think of right now:
1. YC
2. ryan
3. cheang
4. renyi
5. joe
6. david chien
7. jon chien
8. marie
9. hannah
10. grace
11. becky
12. angie
13. e-sean
14. si'en
15. liesl
16. michelle goh
17. kara
18. huixian
19. amanda leong
20. yiying

ok this 20 ppl are the first that just come to my mind. that's why there are lots of links haha. almost everything is linked.

How did you meet #4? Renyi
in sec 3 when we got into 3C. then i was made chairman and had to get everyone's details to make a class list and he was the last guy cos he was not in class, helping out at the sec1 camp, so i was like "who is this idiot?!! i need his contact info!!!" little did i know he would go on to become one of my best buds ever haha. and our radio station too!! oh man lol.

What would you be if u never met #1? YC
i'd still be i-zack, but with one less friend. wait a minute, if i never met YC, CRYSIz would have never been formed, and that would mean my sec 3 and sec4 years were stupid! and that would mean i don't have all these friends. so if i never met YC, my life would be like totally different. he's been great, totally awesome. he's the cool one. without him, it would really be like.. i dunno..

What if #9 and #20 dated? hannah and yiying
er that would be nuts!!! they would be lesbian o.O

Describe #3 cheang
he's fat.

Is #8 attractive? marie
i have the right to remain silent! no personal info will be recklessly dished out here! haha...

Describe #7 jon chien
er.. he's got a super big ego! he's a badminton pro but his attitude is very lousy. you must wake up man! LOL

Do you know any of #12 family members? angie
ya i know her brother and her mother. i see the father before but never talk to him before hahaha.

What would you do if #18 confesses to you that she likes you? hui xian
er.. i will just say ok lor. doesnt mean i have to like her back! hahaha!

What language does #15 speak? liesl
she speaks english but in a super whiny voice! hahaha!

Who is #9 going out with? hannah
er... shaun wong??? hahaha! no lah not confirmed yet. we are still trying to catch them in their scandal LOL!

How old is #16? michelle goh.
she is 16 years old.

When is the last time you spoke to #13? e-sean
just now at dinner. and i took the crown away from her so now i am king!!!!

Who is #2's fav. band/singer? ryan
er.. not sure. haha. don't think he has a particular favourite.

Would you ever date #4? Renyi
no, cos he's a guy.

Would you date #1? YC
no, he's a guy too.

Is #19 single? amanda leong.
er i think so.. unless there's something which i don't know about haha.

What is #10 last name? grace.
her last name is tsang. chey, what a lousy question.

Would you ever be in a relationship with #11? becky
er... what kind of relationship? romantic kind then it's too early to say. now she is still sec1 haha!

School of #3? cheang
same school as me. CJC.

Where does #6 live? david chien
he lives in boonlay! haha.

What is your favourite thing about #5? joe
er.. got alot? no particular favourite thing i guess lol.

Would you think of killing #14? si'en
erm.. no, i don't really think so... that's quite an impossible thought haha.

okay, time to go watch the arsenal and man u match!

and i'm still the king cos i'm still wearing the paper crown and dad and e-sean can't get it off my head haha!!

The Day The World Changed 2008

2008-11-04T14:56:00.002+08:00

disclaimer: the title is just a title that was come up with a few years ago and trademarked onto the date of 2nd november. not meant to suggest anything.
yeepp... it's pretty much that time of year again. haha.
well it was kinda like 3 days connnected together cos everything was so conjoined.
it started on friday 31 oct. my group had our project work oral presentation which i think was pretty ok. then at night i went to joe's school for his concert. his group's performance was really good i think. unlucky to not have won anything. then i went to justin's house for our class party. it was really late. but it was fun and good thing i managed to clock a few hours of sleep.
woke up on saturday morning and went for band prac. after that we had lunch and went to tim and erica leong's house to play badminton. i picked up some new skills from david haha. so now i'm his student. unfortunately i lost to jeremy, who was jon's student. but it's ok, with more training i can become the badminton world champion in no time.
then the twins and yiying came my house for dinner:) some nice cooking by mum and dad. but they left kinda early at about 8plus.
anws the bad thing is at night liverpool lost to tottenham!!!! our first loss of the season which brings us back to 2nd place in the league behind chelsea on goal difference. and only 5 pts infront of man u who have a game in hand. i pretty much expect man u and chelsea to be up there at the end of the season, so liverpool have to keep winning games to be in contention for the title in may next year. i'm getting more pessimistic by the day and have the feeling it's gonna be another one of those years again where i say "next year will be our year". sigh.. totally ruined my birthday early in the morning. i stayed up til 3.30am just to watch us lose to a last minute winner from pavlyuchenko (is that how u spell it?) i can't believe i've still never seen liverpool win the league in my 17 years of existence.
anws it was made better by the birthday wishes lah. i heard lots of vibrating from my phone and saw that there were like 6 msges at 12am on sunday 2nd november. wow. all camping there just waiting for the clock to strike midnight haha. in order of sending was marie, david, michelle goh, cheang, jon chien, yiying. then a little after midnight was YC, wang chang, becky, and joe. in the morning i also got smses form renyi, hannah, hui xian (after taking quite long to remember lol), si'en, genevieve and daphne. then afternoon got charles and anthony and at night huiling (who i think found out at church haha). yup thx for all the smses guys!! it was quite funny cos david's msg was like "happy birthday! am i the first?" then i replied that he was 2nd and lost to marie by one second lol. her's was at 12:00:08 and his was 12:00:09. michelle's was at 12:00:21. the rest i can't remember but seperated by a few seconds also. david, maybe if you didnt type "am i first?" you could have gained a few seconds and beat marie haha! but as it stands, marie toe is the world champion 2008.
well, i think my most surprising wish this year was by aunty june during the welcome at service haha. either they keep records of the most troublesome kids in sunday school or something else. haha..
i got quite a few nice presents too. the most touching one would be the combined gift of the twins, michelle, and angie. the four of them bought me some liverpool shirt and cap haha. and there was a nice card to go with it, which jeremy sneaked a message in as well lol the little tyke. the only birthday card i've got this year, with touching messages inside:) also got a nice sports tee thing from joe which i'm definitely wearing the next time we play soccer! and marie, hannah, grace, shaun and michelle chia also combined to get me a soccer balloon and a big red sandwich cardboard thing which said "happy, sexy, slimy, smilemy" at the front and a big "17" at the back. haha. well, i didnt wear it but it's been put into safe storage in my room. another great present and my first this year was the shirt e-sean got me!:) i'll wear it on a special occasion. mum and dad gave me some birthday money and i've bought a nice stylo reebok bag which cost $39. becky also bought me a cool present which i won't say here cos i wanna use it to play pranks on people! lol.
anws after church on sunday we went to sakae sushi at bugis to have lunch!:) those who went were me, david, jon, jeremy, joe, e-sean, michelle goh, yiying, becky, angie, marie, hannah, grace, shermaine. 14 of us. the total bill was $240!!! crap. good thing dad gave me $200 to treat them so only had to pay off the extra $40. but it was a great lunch with great company! haha.
yup, thx for the gifts and wishes guys!
well, i had a few reflections on my birthday. not gonna be posted here cos they are pretty long and all jumbled up. it was quite a good birthday. definitely better compared to last year. last year i had physics olevel paper on my birthday haha. well, it's good to have your birthday on a sunday!!
ok i think i will go now. e-sean wants to watch the "Transformers" DVD.

The Day The World Changed will come again.
countdown: 362 days

i failed my promos!!! :(

2008-10-28T21:21:00.002+08:00

i got my promo results back last week.. i failed and have to retake J1 next year...
haha bluff you! i passed! lol.
last week was fun cos i tricked lotsa people that i failed and they got worried haha. mum got really scared and even called me. cos i sent her a msg that was something like "i got back my results. very bad. next year must retain." haha! then on sunday i tricked liesl and my dad and yiying helped so liesl got really angry and hit me lots of times lol.
anws here's my results:
GP 57% C
Geog 30% U
physics 49% E
econs 50% D
maths 55% C
yeah so i passed everything except geog. i did better than midyear and so my maths and econs got pulled down by one grade so my overall results are CUEED. good enough to promote. yep so looks like i'll be taking alevels next year.

the last 6 days or so have been about preparing for project work oral presentation. my group is doing on the first day which is this friday 31 oct.
yesterday we met at shu feng's house in the morning to practice. afterwards me and shu feng went to sentosa to meet the rest of the class cos we had some picnic party thing there. played beach captains ball and got real sandy. but it was a fun day:)

last saturday was e-rae's bday:) we went to bugis in the afternoon to celebrate. in the end me and e-sean bought some new clothes and e-rae didnt buy anything haha!

on sunday we also went to kuo chuan for the friendly games with living praise presbyterian church. i didnt play badminton but went to play captains ball. but after the first few minutes i realised that i had no motivation to play properly cos it was just friendly games. so i started slacking and walked most of the time haha. if get too competitive later also fighting all ah haha.

today went to school for chinese remedial lecture and PW dry run again. i reached late for chinese and didnt pay much attention during the lecture. but PW was ok i think.

yup, kinda boring..

anws here's a nice song!

"Now this is something you don't see everyday"

I once told you that it wasn't the end,
But I thought that I was lying.
Looks though things have come round the bend,
But I'm still stuck here waiting.

I can't stand the way we have to take this everyday
You know it's just not right, but it's your fears you won't fight

It's not the end (I wonder if you'll)
Take my hand (I wanna be there for you)
It's something we can't mend (I'm sorry I gave up)
I'm trying hard to stand

I once told you that I had moved on
But I knew that I was lying
I could hear your tears through the phone
But we're still not trying

Oh, we said goodbye, I think some part of me died
Do I just wait for my turn, and watch the city burn

It's not the end (I wonder if you'll)
Take my hand (I wanna be there for you)
It's something we can't mend (I'm sorry I gave up)
I'm trying hard to stand

Is it too late
Can't accept my fate
The memories are all I can take with me
I guess I'll let you be

It's not the end (I wonder if you'll)
Take my hand (I wanna be there for you)
It's something we can't mend (I'm sorry I gave up)
I'm trying hard to stand

It's not the end...

yeah nice song:)

hmm.. not much else to write. tmr is a holiday so i'm staying at home. then thursday is Alevel chinese which i am totally not prepared for. and friday is project work oral presentation which i am quite prepared for. so it'll all be over by this friday 31 oct!!
man, i can't wait for nov and dec! got lotsa fun stuff to do:)

The Day The World Changed is coming once again.
countdown: 5 days

pokemon master!!!

2008-10-21T15:49:00.009+08:00

sigh.. i miss you so much.. i can't believe you're gone now, though i've pretty much got over you. i remember all the times we shared together. sometimes we went fast, sometimes we went slow. now that you're gone i realise how much i need you. but someone stole you from me. i shouldn't have left you there. maybe it's better that you're gone now so i wouldn't get knocked down and get hurt. anyway the loud sound you made everytime i put on the brakes was starting to get annoying. so goodbye, my bicycle...
hahaha. i told CRYSIz i would do this once i got the inspiration. anws i feel like buying a new cheap bike which doesn't look that nice so people won't steal it. and this time i'll lock it somewhere safer-.- cos only after my bike was gone i realised how different walking to the bus stop is from cycling. haha.
well, now that promos are over i'm playing more. i've gone bowling and pool with renyi, cheang and YC. so far ryan hasn't been able to make it for those outings. the latest one was really fun haha.
i've gone for tea at coffee bean with mum and she bought me a new coin pouch:) cos my wallet can't really hold coins. hannah said it looks girly, but we actually bought it from the men's section haha.
we've had some football trainings with the singapore combined schools team as well. which is like the best players from JC. something like national team haha. they're really good. i'm like at a lower standard than them, but maybe that's cos i haven't played for really long. mr ho says i can compete at their standard, but it's not really on my mind lah.
the other day at the training my old boots spoilt:( the back sole came out. so i went to buy a new one which looks really cool. it's a Total90 shoot, which i think is the boots that torres wears, but i bought the black and grey one cos it looks like the black spider-man suit haha:) cost $80 which is ok for nike i guess.. i shall call it my spider-boots! to replace my spoilt dragon-boots. haha. cos my old white one had material that looked like dragon skin and i scored lotsa goals with it.
the other day i went to look through my goal-scoring records and counted that i've scored 27 goals in 13 games for PLH (from sec 1 synod games til now). that means i average 2 goals a game for PLH. drat at first i was quite disappointed cos i thought it would be higher, but i realised that the games i've played for PLH were all competitive games, so it's a good ratio i guess.
we also went for angie's surprise party that saturday. hoho it was fun!:) it was at becky and esther's house. they have this Wii thing and we played tennis on it haha. david was quite good cos he found the formula for the power serve, so i got trashed by him quite alot lol. but nvm, it's only like some playstation thing and not real tennis:p then we played block catching too and other fun stuffs which i can't rmb at the moment.
i passed the chinese EOY exam too! lol. 45%, which is an E. but it'll count for nothing if i fail A-level chinese anws. so i didn't really care about it. but it's the highest i've got for the whole year. i was sleeping when we got back the paper, so i signed quite horribly next to my mark and our chinese teacher shouted "who signed for i-zack???" LOL. then my friend told her i signed it myself while i was half asleep. that day when we got it back again i realised that the signature was really quite stupid looking haha!!
that day we had chinese anchor test too. it's a test set by MOE for certain classes to gauge our school's chinese standard then they can determine how difficult to set the A-level paper. so quite a few of us decided that we will purposely do badly for it so that the standard will be low haha! the paper was 1hr30min long. i finished it in 15min. LOL. i wonder what marks i got for that. should be able to set a new record for my lowest chinese mark (which is 18%).
liverpool beat wigan 3-2 on saturday too!! yeah another comeback victory! that's the 5th time this season i think. man, we're showing really good character to turn victory into defeat in the last 10min of games. but we can't keep going like this for long cos we won't be able to come back from behind everytime. but at least we're still keeping pace with chelsea at the top:)
i've also watched the first 4 pokemon movies on youtube last saturday and sunday:) haha. (mewtwo strikes back, the power of one, spell of the unknown, mewtwo returns) wow, brings back lotsa good memories. pokemon is like the best thing that japan ever invented. besides sushi. for those of you who don't know, my favourite pokemon is charizard!! hahaha.. second favourite is pikachu. my next favourites are squirtle and bulbasaur:) but now they come up with so many new pokemon that i can't keep track already. i only know up to the first 250 pokemon haha. i realised what a big thing pokemon is to me. the storyline is really fantastic and stuff. ash ketchum is an absolute inspiration to all aspiring pokemon masters. i'm already a pokemon master lah, but i'm past those days i guess.. unless i buy a new gameboy catridge and start playing again!! haha.. oh yes and some of the theme songs are really nice.:)
2 weeks ago i also killed a cockroach by trapping it in a food container and spraying the insecticide inside haha!!! wow then can see it squirming about inside. super cool man. but you will waste a food container/ tupperware everytime you do this method. i have decided to call it the "death chamber" method hahaha!
yesterday i was late for school cos i slept on the bus and missed the stop. so i had to walk back-.-
we had a mock chinese exam too but i didn't take it seriously. so i finished the compo in 50min and slept for 4omin, and finished the compre in 30min and slept for 1hour.
after school we went shu feng's house to do project work too. i think our group is almost ready. yesterday we managed to do all the props and stuff for our oral presentation group skit.
man, this hols looks like it's gonna be a busy one.. my schedule looks quite packed. cos of lots of fun stuff and stuff like class overseas CIP to batam and chinese A-levels and PW. but oh well, busy but fun also good lah.
today i also went for a haircut. i told the lady to keep the length but make my hair thinner. i think it looks kinda funny.. not what i expected. my fringe now also looks kinda non-existent. oh well nevermind, after a month or so it should grow back again..
anws the o-levels have started this week too so all the best to those who are taking it!!
charizard, i choose you!!!
btw i just found out this cool thing!!
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pikachu!!! lol..

post-war analysis

2008-10-09T17:49:00.002+08:00

yeah my promos are finally over!! hahaha...
but still got PW oral presentation and chinese A-levels coming up anyway lah.
well here's my evaluation of promos:
bear in mind mid-year exams already contains 20% of the marks.
GP (midyr D) - wrote the compo pretty ok i think. chose the topic on sports which i was familiar with so i think should be ok. not much to say about the compre. aim: to get same as mid year. D
geog (midyr U) - didn't study much cos was focusing on H2 subjects. expected: U
chinese (midyr U) - expected: U
physics (midyr E) - not very confident for this one. studied quite a bit but the questions were kinda confusing. aim: to get at least 30-something% and get pulled up by the midyr E to get S.
econs (midyr S) - i'm quite confident for econs. wrote the essays which i knew about and the paper format also quite easy. aim: overall E
maths (midyr S) - thought it would be easy but turns out the questions were tougher than expected. about 30marks gone already by leaving the questions blank. hopefully those i did will be enough to score me 40%. aim: same as midyr. S
yup so with a DESS i will be promoted to J2 next year. pls pray for me!:)
yesterday was a fun day with CRYSIz. renyi came my house at 10am and we played some songs on the guitar. now one of my songs is stuck in his head haha! it's called "don't know". it's like a more different song from my other ones. like diverting away from rock all the time and this one is a total acoustic thing. it's not a love song but it's sounds a bit romantic haha. renyi kept singing it afterwards. it's totally stuck in his head. that's gotta be a good thing cos only nice songs get stuck in your head haha. it was some interesting inspiration for that song actually.
anws we went to cheang's house at 12plus and jammed there with cheang and YC. i guess we're kinda better now than we were 2 years ago but to me it's not moving as fast as i would have liked. i guess it's cos we're not full-time and have to focus on studies. and we don't have the resources, time, or money to record a full album. and also we are in need of a really good singer. oh well. that's for another time.
we met ryan at vivo at 5plus. caught the 6pm eagle eye show. WARNING! do not read the next paragraph unless you don't mind some spoilers for the show!!
haha. well i think it's quite ok lah. but not say very fantastic or what. the fact that the computer was super smart and got out of control and caused everything is a spoiler. shia leboeuf was the main actor. yeah he's a good actor man, since his nickelodeon days haha. as a kid watching him doing stupid stuff on shows like er.. ok i forgot his show titles, but they were funny. i think at the first part when his brother died and he was kneeling at the coffin and crying was super touching. really felt the sadness there. his crying was that good hahaha.. and he's got a cool moustache-beard-sideburn thing in the show!:)
after the show we hanged out for awhile then took the train home. yup, days with CRYSIz are always fun days:)
today decided to get back to training. after 5 weeks of no real exercise i was hoping for too much lah. i initially wanted to run 16km LOL.. in the end after 4km i was dying! so i stopped after 4km and went to try some pull-ups. could do 12. after 6 weeks of no weights i think it's not too bad lah.. then i tried a 100m sprint and clocked 14secs. that stinks but considering i was quite tired i'll let it pass.
yes now the holidays are here i feel like it's time to not study! dunno why just now i suddenly thought to myself "eh must study!" then i remembered the promos are over lol. was quite shocked with myself.
yup that's all folks.

#100

2008-10-02T13:13:00.002+08:00

ok this is my blog's 100th post! it's taken like 1year and 4months think. so one month there's about an average of 6 posts? haha.
yes we won the merseyside 2-0 with two goals from torres!!:) hopefully that will signal him returning to the form he had last season. just feels great to beat everton. so that's wins over everton and man utd already this season:)
this morning we beat PSV 3-1 in the champions league too. kuyt scored the 100th champions league goal since rafa took over. that's like 4-5 seasons since rafa's been here so it's about 20-25 goals every season!o.O wow. keane finally got his first liverpool goal and gerrard got his 100th liverpool goal:) stunning freekick, really sweet strike. yeah so cool that all these 100 goals things coincide with my blog's 100th post. haha.
this week have had some promo papers. GP on monday was ok i think. my compo was on whether money can bring sporting success or not. i said that there were more important things such as discipline, teamwork, etc..
on tuesday was geog and chinese. i think those two were crap, comfirm fail haha. then was feeling kinda sick on tuesday after the papers so came home and slept all the way from 5.30pm to the next day 8.30am. lol. good thing when i woke up i felt better so i studied physics yesterday. almost a full day of nothing but physics.
today's paper was quite tough in some parts but some parts also quite easy. but after the paper i wasn't feeling very confident. but now after thinking through i think that even if i fail it will be by just a bit maybe? so with the 20% from promos which i passed then hopefully can pull up to a sub-pass. then i have to score better in either econs or maths to pull up my mid-year sub-pass to a clear pass.
so the next few days have to keep going!! ok back to my studying now! i don't expect to post again til my promos are over.

big names for the big games

2008-09-27T18:47:00.006+08:00

we are just ONE HOUR away from the MERSEYSIDE DERBY!!!
EVERTON VS LIVERPOOL!!!
til today, i still struggle to decide which game is bigger and more important- the games against man utd, or the ones against everton.
i guess those against man utd, the scum, are more important cos it will affect the title race, and there are lotsa man utd fans in singapore.

btw there was this joke on football crazy that made me and dad laugh like nuts haha!!
Qns: why do astronauts go to train at old trafford (man utd's homeground)?
Ans: bcos it is the only place on earth with NO ATMOSPHERE!
LOL! omg that really cracked the both of us up hahahaha!!!XD

the games against everton are about city pride, and personally, i feel everton are inferior to us, so losing to them really just makes me sick. no offence to the manchester derby or some london derbies, but the merseyside derby is really of a different level. the challenges fly in like nobody's business and the cards come out like daisies in spring time!!! losing to our neighbouring rivals is really something i can't stand.
even though we've won 6 out of the 8 derbies since rafa took over, nothing is for certain in a derby. and that's the scariest part.
well, torres will be looking to regain his scoring form, keane will be desperate to get his first goal for the club, and gerrard is just one away from 100 goals for liverpool. so everton had better watch out. i don't care who scores as long as we win, but there'll be a soft spot for me towards gerrard and keane today. cos if either scores it's gonna be something special.
here's something from the liverpool website:
Steven Gerrard will skipper the side at Goodison still waiting for his 100th goal for Liverpool. After having a strike controversially ruled out against Stoke last weekend, Benitez is hoping it's a sign that his magical moment will arrive on derby day.
"Maybe his goal against Stoke City was disallowed because destiny has reserved him to score his 100th goal against Everton. Steven can score in any game, he's always a threat. But maybe it will be better for him if he scores on Saturday. Clearly, he is a player with quality and not too many midfielders can score 99 goals in their career. Steven is maybe the best attacking midfielder around."
yup, that's Stevie G, our captain! local boy turned hero.

okie dokie, now away from football:p
yesterday was CJC J1 study day. so there was no school. met yiying at PS mac's at 10am for breakfast first. then we studied econs from 11am to 2pm. after a while it got too noisy so we decided to walk to church and study there. then later athelia and sam came with the same idea of studying too haha. then later mark also. walao now all steal my idea of studying in church haha! it's really good man. (if you study alone) cos it's super quiet. and maybe God's presence helps a bit haha.
well i did econs the whole time again. finished the chapter on market structure. seriously, i can't stand it man. i still don't really get it. yiying was doing market failure, which to me is super easy but to her is super hard haha! and mkt structure is easier to her. o.O
then david came and we went for dinner.
then later we went for dbs!! contrary to what is on david's blog, i don't think uncle alex was really angry with us haha. cos everyone else also talking alot. just so happened we're directly infront of him so he look straight sure see us haha. cos everytime a point was raised david and i will be like "wow that applies to this part of our lives!" then we will say something like "okay, we have to uncheck our 'auto-judge' button" or "wow quite hard to get rid of this kinda thinking leh." cos last night was about judging people. so me and david will have to try harder to stop judging people! sometimes it's quite hard cos very hard to change impressions of people, but yes we must pray!
ok today i just stayed at home and i did the chapter on market failure for econs. so that's completed my revision for the H2 subjects!!
i've got a plan for the next 10 days of exams and hopefully it'll be enough.
here are some verses i've took comfort in:
nahum 1:7 - "The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him."
phil 4:13 - "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
romans 8:28 - "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
hope this is encouraging to all those taking exams!:) o-level, n-level, a-level, promos, or whatever EoYs.
alrighto, almost time for the big game!!
and almost time for my exams as well! haha. they start on monday and last to next tuesday 7 oct.
it's...... GO TIME!!!

do or die. now or never. make or break.

Happy Birthday YC!!

2008-09-25T18:10:00.002+08:00

today is YC's bday. so, Happy Birthday dude!!!
i'd like to thank him for being a great friend for the past 2 yrs. being part of CRYSIz is always super fun with him around. haha. no matter how cool i am, he's still the real cool one lol. rock on dude!!
anws last sat night was nonsense man. liverpool drew 0-0 with stoke at anfield. even though we had like 80% possession, 20+ corners, and played the whole game in their half, it's not an excuse anymore this season. last season i would have took comfort from the fact that we dominated the whole game (like we usually do). but this season it's not about the performances anymore. i rather play badly every game of the season but still be champions in may. to win the title you have to score more goals than the opposition, and that's what we failed to do. with a team like stoke (no offence), who cares about defending?? just go and whack them upside down! if they score, what they gonna do about it? just score more lah. with players like torres, gerrard, keane, babel, kuyt, etc, even if u concede let's say 2 goals, u can't win 4-2 or 5-2? time to start playing fearlessly. i definitely trust in rafa, but sometimes in games like this, u just gotta think and play like champions. come on lads, we're liverpool. so let's play like we are. and we have the perfect opportunity to show that this sat in the merseyside derby against everton:)
last sunday was also the PSPC 165th anniversary. gotta thank God for our church and how much He has blessed it.
the family day fear factor games were also real fun:) my group was Barney & Friends!! lol. trust me to come up with this kinda stupid name. my group had me, lucas, weile, tim leong, adriel, audrey, hannah, liesl, michelle goh, and andrea. yeah they're quite a fun bunch haha.
monday to today has just been about going to school and sitting in lectures, trying to get some hints for the promos, and of course, sleeping during geog and chinese. haha!!
i've completed my revision for maths and physics and half of econs but i still feel quite unprepared. like i almost don't know anything haha. nvm, after i complete econs revision tmr then it'll be back to good old last night studying. i find it really works to a large extent for me.
okay please pray for me ppl!!:)

youch

2008-09-20T20:13:00.002+08:00

yohoho! my parents are out so i took a bottle of beer from the fridge to drink! haha bluff you! actually it's just ginger beer.
just had pizza for dinner. but crap man i found out it's just a cheese pizza! no meat or vegetables, just cheese. o.O??? like that where got balanced meal? no protein or what. just carbo and some cheese fats..
anws the last few days have been quite good in terms of studying. i've finished revising all maths chapters and physics only left superposition and electric fields. yesterday after school went to church to study. i reached at 3pm and studied til 6pm. i did 3 chapters of physics (gravitation, forces, and circular motion). then went for dinner then dbs at 7.30pm.
david came for dbs too! haha. i think i shall continue to psycho him so he will come next week! haha. hey people you should come for dbs! you learn alot about the bible and somemore it's real fun!! it's on fridays at 7.30pm in church!:) and it's not like your normal DG actually.
today woke up late for my sat morn runs.. so i ran before dinner instead. 15km. it's the longest distance i have ever run. and crap!! i think i stretched my right hamstring! maybe didn't warm up that part enough:( so i took super long. i won't say the timing here cos it's embarrassing. lol. then now i feel a bit sick.. don't know why. this year has actually been my best physical condition ever. whole year not even been sick once. contrary to what my teachers think:p and i've also got some personal records in running and NAPFA and whatever physical tests i've taken this year. but i want to keep improving! i have some aims in stuff like 2.4km and 100m so i need to keep improving. hope i don't fall sick... but maybe my body is tired from all the training this year.. last time in sec sch never even train before haha.
well i had maths tuition in the morning and i asked raymond chan to help me with AP and GP. those two topics super hard man. actually the formulas and everything are quite easy when you just study it, but when you do the questions it's craazyy!!!o.O all the questions super hard like dunno what like that.
then i took a short 1hr nap and mum made waffles for brunch:) then i did 3 more chapters of physics from 12-3pm. (oscillations, waves, current of electricity)
after that i played my electric guitar. now i'm better at playing "famous last words" by MCR, "addicted" by simple plan, and "holiday" by greenday:)
oh ya and that day i was listening to "no love" by simple plan and i finally realised what the lyrics mean!!! after so long i always thought it was about something else but now i realise it actually means this thing. haha.
anws the liverpool vs stoke city game is at 10pm! well it's been a good start to the season. we've managed to get points even though we haven't hit top gear. and i think that's actually a good sign. should not peak too early in the season. then later part of the season when hit top form then whoohooo!
just visited the liverpool website just now and benitez said he and sammy lee and some reds players decided they will switch around "you'll never walk alone" with the EPL song! hahah!! yeah man what a great tactic! no wonder the man utd game i was thinking why when the players in the tunnel haven't sing YNWA yet and only sang when the players were on the pitch. now they play the EPL stupid song first when the players in the tunnel and YNWA when the players are on the field to psycho the other team and to pump up the liverpool players:) solid!!
rafa also said gerrard is now the best midfielder in the world and top 3 players in the world. i think the other two is probably torres and mascherano haha. nah i think rafa was thinking about cristiano ronaldo and kaka.
oh man stoke city has this guy called rory delap and his long throw is nuts!! goes right into the penalty spot area. liverpool have to watch out for it later.
well. after the liverpool game i think i'll do my GP essay (which is a whole month due) at midnight. so should finish by 2am. then can see the last part of arsenal and bolton.
man my GP essay was actually due on 25 august. haha. yesterday mr holden came to me and said "i-zack, -" then before he said another word i said "yeah i know, the essay. monday." then he smiled at me and said with his funny caucasian accent "you're walking off the edge i-zack. walking off the edge and just about to fall off." o.O?!! what?? is my GP that bad? haha. then i got 23/50 for my previous essay and he said "not as bad as i expected actually." o.O!!?? man i think he's got a very low impression of me. partly cos i always sleep in his class i guess. haha. hope i'm not too over-confident for GP. i'm having the same attitude for it as the one i had for english.
tmr is PSPC 165th anniversary!:) service is later than usual haha. that's why tonight i can afford to sleep later. 10am at pres. high. after that will be the family day games. it's called fear factor lol. ooooo scary.
yeah and next week monday i shall complete my physics revision. mr rajoo says on monday he can give me a consultation period on superposition and electric field. then tue to fri i will study all the econs chapters!! after which i SHOULD be ready for the promos...
super scared man.. if i fail just one topic this time then will either get retained or kicked out of school!o.O heard that most likely they will just kick us out cos from next year onwards our school doesnt want any retainees. if retain actually not so bad cos can improve your foundation and i get to be in the soccer team for 3yrs haha. if kick out it's like o.O??? have to go poly or work or smth..
no way man i'm gonna study this last stretch and pass my promos and go to J2 next year!!
that is, if they set the papers at a standard that i can do the questions...
but i think last night's DBS was good cos it was about God providing for us and not worrying. so it's all in His hands.
whoa crap but still scared to the MAXimum!
ok it's almost time for the liverpool match. hey and i don't feel really sick anymore!:)
oww babeah!

wahahahahahaha...

2008-09-17T23:00:00.002+08:00

hoho it's been a week since i last updated.
things that have happened: for one, i cut my hair cos got caught that day during the surprise hair check. -.- i wanted to keep the length but make it thinner, so i guess it's turned out ok.
i've also been appointed in charge of the games for our class local CIP to an orphanage. so i came up with a proposal. the kids should be below 10, so i put in stuff like simon says haha!
on friday i also went church early after school to study before dbs. dbs is good! i think cos the questions we ask are quite relevant to our everyday lives. uncle nick and uncle alex can explain the answers well too.
on sat went for band prac and then later we invited aunty uli along with us for lunch and she paid for all of us!o.O stunned man. really nice of her. she didnt want to accept when we offered to pay her back haha. then later david and i went to walk to bugis and bought the macdonald's mcflurry. there was some new flavours called mudpie and some berry thing. it's a scam! don't buy it! it costs $2.50 and all they do is add the chocolate fudge to the mcflurry.
liverpool beat man utd 2-1 as well!:) yes! i think i don't need to say much more lah;)
i've also officially ran the longest distance i have ever run i think. 14km. don't think i've run more than that before. my timing was 1hr 11min 48sec. not bad i guess. i always try to keep to within 5min for every 1km.
on sunday i played drums for plh worship for the first time in a long time. decided not to do anything fancy and keep it simple. since it's been a long time back and the songs were not there to do any stunts anyways. i can only go crazy when we jam rock songs at cheang's house and crash like nuts haha! the only time i did something stupid was during the welcome song cos we didnt practice that and i didnt know what david was playing so i just decided to crash at the wrong time! lol.
we celebrated mentors' day 2 weeks late too. haha. and we had a good teentalk on serving by uncle nick. plh also has 3 teams signed up for the family day games this year!:) it's this sunday.
yesterday was ryan's bday. so, happy birthday mate!!! it's been a real blessing to have met ryan. and made friends with him and forming crysi-z and stuff. all the crazy, fun, and also meaningful times we've shared. as well as telling secrets and stuff. though nowadays not so much since we're not in the same school anymore. but still love ya all the same dude!haha.
yesterday morning also woke up early to read Bible and do quiet time. then went to school early to run 14laps of interval runs. got an average timing of 1min16secs. not bad i think...
last night i also stayed up to watch liverpool vs marseille. we won 2-1!:) it's the first game of this yr's champions league group stages. so we're off to a good start. unlike last year lol. we went down to a good goal by the french team but gerrard equalised with an absolute stunner 3min later. really fantastic. the shot was really just amazing. if u haven't seen it... go see it!!! then babel got us a penalty after good trickery in the box and gerrard scored from the spot even after having to retake it again. shows what fantastic nerve he's got. that's why he's our captain:) he's one goal away from reaching 100 goals for liverpool too.
recently i've also been addicted to the songs "save you" and "what if" by simple plan and "better that we break" by maroon 5. haha:)
anws, the promos are like 1plus weeks away!!! this is the timetable:
29 sep: GP
30 sep: h1 geog and chinese
2 oct: h2 physics
6 oct: h2 econs
7 oct: h2 maths
i'm just gonna focus on passing GP and the 3 h2s. cos that's all i need to promote to j2. unless they change the promotion requirements or smth..
so far i've almost finished revising maths. already one-third through physics. this week gonna complete my studying for maths and physics. then next week is econs all the way.
hopefully it's enough. please pray for me people!! thx:)
i'm also like 3 weeks late in passing up a GP essay. it was supposed to be due on 25 august. lol. think i'll try to do it tmr..
ok back to my maths!!

no.95

2008-09-08T17:11:00.004+08:00

yeah! yesterday was the first breakfast selling for the mission trip fund-raising!!
grandma helped me bake chicken pies to sell. so the food we were selling were chicken pies, hotdog buns, curry chicken and bread, milo, fishballs on a stick, and tiramisu. like wow! must be prinsep breakfast history lol.
i was in charge of the tiramisu and chicken pies. they got sold out the fastest i think haha. david helped me sell. i think we were pretty good salesmen:) lol.
i also managed to sell all of my 15 coupons! hahaha!! yeah man:)
and thx to all those people who came to help out!! couldn't have done it without all of them.
then i helped yiying to backup sing for her worship. i actually didn't even go for the prac so i wasn't really sure what was going on haha. so i decided i will just be there to give yiying moral support cos she was scared for some reason.
the anniversary family day games are coming soon too. i've already got two teams which is same as last year but i think we can go one better than last year and so this week we will try to recruit a third team!!
oh then at lunch tim leong spilled his soup on me haha! silly guy don't know how he hold the bowl can so nice throw it at me LOL. lucky i jumped out of the way so my clothes were not wet but my bag was wet.
then we had mission trip training which ended really late. like at 5.30pm.
it was e-sean's birthday yesterday. so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
she had a mini-party and a few of her school friends came over for dinner and to watch some disney channel movie. i watched king kong on the other tv instead haha. i think the best part is when he kills all 3 T-rexs. abit unbelievable, but nvm it's good action. the only stupid thing about that fight is cos it's all over a stupid girl. she's so small i don't know why all 3 dinosaurs are trying to eat her. and just cos of that they get killed by king kong. haha.
today dunno why i was super sleepy in school. i literally slept sitting up during gp tutorial. the only reason i didnt sleep with my head on the table was bcos mr holden kept kicking my table when my head went down. when school ended i slept for half and hour. then i woke up and studied a little bit of maths and went down to find the school gym wasn't open today. so came home after that lor..
anws regarding my previous post i didn't really know how to conclude it nicely but i think ryan did a great job for me on his blog. here's what he said after copying and pasting from my post:

haha. it was a cool post
on this little tyke master lum met at serangoon stadium. ^^
i think its quite true too
how we make new friends, lose friends, go through heartbreak, sing emo songs on our iPod, and change our dreams
and how we work towards them and dont give up
and you always trust God (:
get back on the field
For GOD!!!

and that is why he is donatello, the Smart One.

every punch i take and every bone i break

2008-09-06T23:42:00.004+08:00

well it's been a pretty lazy holiday so far...
haven't started studying seriously yet.. did some econs.. a bit of maths... mostly i did alot of planning but very little execution haha..
i shall start when term reopens.. hopefully...
well after the adventure travel journey, i've stayed home on wednesday, thur and friday. except friday when there was DBS. oh and to visit my grandpa in hospital. he has some kidney problem so please pray for him!
today i went to run in the morning. 13km. crap man dunno why everytime i run then my legs can just keep going and they dont get tired, but my stomach area and lungs down there feel like wanna explode like that. like got some crazy stitch. but it's not a stitch. i think it's some muscle or organ problem. o.O. if dont have this problem i can run with no problem cos my legs are like dynamo. haha.
then i came home and had a long bath cos was super tired. then i read a christian book and my Bible reading instead of studying haha... then went to see how they were doing at band prac. turns out they were pretty okay. then now i'm backing up for yiying tmr-.- haha... cos she need a guy backup singer.. k then jammed a while and went for lunch.
after lunch then my mission trip group (me, sharilyn, amanda leong, and becky) plus david went to laselle to do our breakfast banners. cos tmr my team selling breakfast. david came cos he got nothing else to do if he go home. anws we both feel super weird if we stay home on a saturday haha.
k anws we couldnt really get started cos we kept talking. i dont think its really my fault cos everyone else also talking haha. and david u are a distraction and caused me to talk to u so david how can u say it's me on ur blog!? haha!
then the girls needed us to buy some stuff for them. so me and david walk to sheng shiong to buy. like the plates and bowls for tmr's breakfast. then we also helped them buy some potato chips cos they wanted to eat.
when we came back they did quite a bit of work already so after a while they got everything done. then we started talking quite alot haha! good bonding time. haha although david was an extra i think his company is still appreciated lol!
anws today in the morning when i was running this boy suddenly started running with me haha. so i jogged a bit faster but then he also ran faster to keep up with me. so i slowed down to give him chance. then asked him "training ah?" then he said ya. so i started talking with him a bit while we were running. turns out he was training for his 1.6km cos he's pri 6. haha.
at that time when he started running with me was after i already ran like 11plus km. so left about 5 rounds of the track. then i was already like dying cos of my stomach problem. but cos he was running with me it caused me not to think of my pain. also cos he was there then i didnt really wanna lose face so i could run like at quite a good pace. lol.
he asked me why i was training so i told him cos of football team. he used to play fullback for st.gabriels soccer team but now stop cos of cca stand down. so we were saying like "ya football team must train running cos whole game must run right hahaha.." then he ask me how long i running so i told him 13km then he got stunned. haha. totally trash his 1.6km.
he's quite cute man. he wore the kind of specs that i wore in pri sch. that flimsy kind that can break if a ball smashes it. then he also really skinny. football team somemore. and he's a nice friendly guy. haha. reminded me of me. i actually saw myself in him today.
caused me to think on the way home and when i was resting in the kitchen drinking my 100plus. he's probably got some big dreams that most boys have. having been in a soccer team maybe his dreams are the soccer kind. yeah well he's gonna grow up and in 5 years time he's gonna be my age. he'll realise most of his dreams like playing for liverpool or singapore were nonsense. his mindset changes. some things stay the same and some things change. he's gonna make new friends. he's gonna lose friends. there's heartbreak. he might sing some emo songs to himself on his ipod. everything that seemed fine and dandy in pri sch is gone and you realise there's a whole different ball game. he decides hmm i'll make some new aims or new dreams. not necessarily related to football. and works towards those.
sometimes u actually realise some of your dreams. in my case one example would be to be playing for my college soccer team right now. most important is you don't give up. and u always trust God.
there's always something out there. that you work towards.
and if you're the underdog, which is usually the case, you work to prove them wrong. even your friends take one look at you and think, he's not good enough. faults here faults there. he's like this. etc. the first look is what they see. they dont look longer. dont look deeper. but you know yourself inside, you know what you're made of. ok who can blame them, most times you dont show it. but you know it's there. you know you're better.
well buddy i hope you know God. if not now, then someday. and trust Him. and NOT anyone else.
i didnt get your name and you didnt get mine. but i hope we meet again some day. hopefully one saturday morning when we go to serangoon stadium to train again.
heh and when you found out who you talked to this morning, we'll try to find a pen and paper so you can get my autograph eh?;) haha ok that was just another ego crappy joke.
take care little tyke.
these little dudes are one of the reasons why i fight.

adventure travel journey!!!

2008-09-02T18:17:00.003+08:00

hey folks it's been a great holiday so far!
well saturday afternoon i went to run at serangoon stadium and got caught in the rain :( i did some pull-ups there too and again equaled my best of 18. can't seem to get better than that:(
ok anws sunday we had the PLH hike at southern ridges. we went for 8am service first then afterwards we got on the bus at 9.30. the seniors groups were quite pathetic cos some people didn't go.. in the end my group only had hannah and i, the other group only david and yiying, and jon's group is the best cos only he came and the rest didnt come. i think this shows jon's commitment haha! so the seniors altogether had only 5 ppl and all were J1 or poly 1. all those born in 1991! haha we rock.
anws the hike was not tiring at all. i didn't sweat at all except for the part where i piggy-backed louis and ran up haha!! he's super cute. then i also pushed e-rae in her wheelchair haha. that's the only things that made me sweat. then there was also some high wall thing (i think it's about 4m high) and i ran and jumped up there and did a few pull-ups haha. later david and jon joined me at the top and i think the photos look quite cool lol.
later we went for lunch at vivo city and i ate yong tau foo. i put in quite alot of things in my bowl and it cost $6.50 LOL.
ok then later we went back to church and had the missions trip training.
at night we went to have dinner at grandma's house. jasper (my pri2 cousin) was playing his champions league fifa game on the laptop as usual and i made fun of arsenal haha! (cos he supports arsenal) cos i told him liverpool got 5 champions league and arsenal got ZERO! but he don't believe me haha! silly guy don't even know the history of arsenal. then later dad called fabregas: flabby-gas and uncle danny said van persie is van helsing haha! then he also said arsenal is arse then jasper cried:p
ok anws waht happened yesterday all the way to today is the adventure travel journeys of I-Zack, David and Jon!!!
haha. ok yesterday first we met at city hall mrt at 2.30pm and we went to the toilet first. after the bombing we went to bras basah sweelee to check out some guitars and i played a $1920 guitar. WOW!!! most expensive guitar i have ever touched. ok then we went to near the national library and then walked to bugis. nothing much there so we walked to near lavendar but in the end it was really too smelly and we decided to detour back to plaza sing. we had our dinner there at 6pm. until then the journey was still not interesting because it was at places which we already knew about and we needed to explore some new places!
so from PS we decided to break our rule of not taking transport and took the mrt to aljunied. from aljunied we were supposed to have a journey all the way to east coast park. so we just keep walking in the general direction of east coast park and at 10.30pm we found ourselves on the opposite side of the road of east coast park lol. so we decided to cut through a tunnel to try to get to the other side. actually we were walking into the tunnel but we weren't sure where we would end up, so we would ask like "eh later dunno where this will lead us leh then how?" but our trademark reply would be "but this is an adventure right?" and then we would all be like "yeah!!!" and continue walking. haha!
anws in the tunnel we were walking and then suddenly heard an announcement which i think is meant for us but we couldnt make out what they were saying. then soon some security truck which said "emas recovery" came and stopped near us. then the guy came out and asked what we were doing. so i just acted dumb and explained we wanted to get to east coast park but we didnt know the way. then they told us to go out through the emergency exit. then they took a photo of the 3 of us! lol! i think it's for recording purposes in case next time we are caught in a tunnel again haha. so bla bla we came out and contined on our way to ECP.
in the end we reached there about 11plus and took a break. we bought big gulp and nachos from the 7-11 and sat down to eat. then we also ate the julie's peanut butter biscuits that mum gave me to bring. after which we continued walking through ECP. i was starting to feel really tired and wanted to sleep but good thing we found the shower place and bathed to get refreshed. only jon was hyper the whole night cos he drank shark and red bull LOL.
ok 2am we started walking more out of east coast park to explore some new grounds.
by 4am we decided to go back to ECP and slacked at the macs and discussed what would be the next part of our adventure. so at 4.30am we decided to walk to the nearest mrt station and take the train to the twins house. so we went out and walked aimlessly cause we thought in singapore if u just kept walking sure can find a mrt station lol. in the end we reached a bus-stop and i did some mapping skills and concluded we should follow the route of bus 966 to get to eunos mrt. so after a long walk we finally reached eunos mrt at 6am.
but i saw the train route would go past outram mrt so i decided that i would skip going to the twins house and go hom to sleep. in the end on the way home i slept and woke up at punggol haha! so had to take the train back to serangoon again and i reached home at 7.15am. took a bath and ate some cereal and i slept at 7.45am all the way til 5pm.
yup and that's the end of our adventure travel journey! i dunno why we call it that but david came up with the name long ago haha. but the last time was just travel journey but today's one was ADVENTURE travel journey. and we are definitely not gonna have anymore for a long time haha. also need to start studying for my promos, so from tmr onwards i'm gonna start studying. (promos is end of sept to start of oct)
wow i think it was a really very good excellent experience. non-stop walking like from 2.30pm to 6am the next day!o.O of course got some stops lah but still like really quite amazing. the distance we covered we estimate maybe 10-20km. and the only food we ate was at dinner at plaza sing and the nachos and biscuits at east coast park. and we only drank like one bottle of water cos couldnt find any place to refill. and the big gulp too. good thing jon said he prayed for good weather:)
alright that's all for now haha! some nice photos and videos that we took too:)
ok i think it's time to eat dinner soon!

teachers day

2008-08-30T13:25:00.002+08:00

yesterday was pretty ok.
we had celebrations for teachers day. the dance and choir were not bad. then they had some performances by some bands. most of it was acoustic performances. only yiying's band had an electric guitar but they didnt even turn on the drive and they had this stupid tom-tom drums instead of a real drum set:( yiying's bass was ok. but the singer went super off and caused the whole thing to crash. haha.
afterwards coach adrian ho met with me, ben and iggy to talk. he said lots of stuff to the 3 of us regarding the training programme after exams and the captaincy. actually what he said was confidential and can't be put up here. haha too bad. but i'll just say that i'm the vice-captain. he explained and told us alot of stuff but bottomline is i'm vice-cap.
later went with YC and cheang back to maris stella to meet renyi and ryan. then we went to see some of our old teachers. like mrs tey, mrs loh, ms goh, ms jazilla, mrs champion, and mr chew. had quite a lot of fun talks with them. mrs tey didnt really say much though. talked quite a bit with ms goh and telling her how i passed h2 physics for mid-year lol. ms jazilla saw me and her eyes went big cos i was her worst student for chem last year. like really really worst. think she couldnt believe i got that b3 haha. she was like saying you got a C6 right? lol. then i told her i dropped chem in jc then she started laughing. actually i was really scared to see her cos i gave her so much trouble last time i wasnt sure what she would say to me lol. turns out she only said nice things. mr chew lye heng was also real funny. i said this year my chinese very bad cos he not teaching my anymore. haha. funny how my chinese teacher is like one of my favourite teachers.
saw mr dennis koh too (discipline master). he talked alot to me and asked me if i was in the soccer team. i said ya and told him i'm vice-cap and he was like congratulating me and said "so looks like next year the vice-captain of CJ soccer is going to bring them back to the glory days" haha.. talked quite a bit too.
after seeing all our teachers we went to cheang's house to watch "nacho libre" and jam. afterwards went for dbs.
yup that was my day ysd in short. time to do some work now.

yohoho

2008-08-21T20:00:00.002+08:00

yohoho and a bottla rum!
wow today was quite a funny day.
first in the morning i went to yiying's class to help her tune the bass guitar she borrowed from ben cos her class is performing for teachers' day. then i taught her how to play the song they are gonna perform. ("that thing you do" by the wonders)
i was suddenly doing some last minute thinking of auditioning for teachers' day with an acoustic performance but looks like the auditions have closed anyway haha.
then we had SD (student development, which is something like civics and moral education) and mr rajoo taught us about anger management. lol. quite funny and i guess it's a little bit helpful. though i think everyone has their own ways of dealing with anger and frustration. i dunno whether mine are good or not.
after SD was econs tutorial, break, physics lecture, and then chinese. i slept the whole two hours of chinese!! o.O cos just before the lao shi came in then i slept. the next thing i knew, mr rajoo shouted "I-Zack!! wake up!!!" then i awoke with a jump and looked sleepily at him and asked "what period is it now?" then he said "PW, what did u think?" haha... then gary said "whoa you sleep until your hair messed up all!" then i found out from my friends that the chinese teacher couldnt wake me up the whole 2 hrs haha.. first time she tried to wake me up i said "lao shi i donate blood, too tired already." the second time apparently she called me then i sat up with my eyes closed, looked around, and slept again. O.o wow. no idea. i dont even rmb really seeing my chinese teacher today. my pillow too nice already haha! oh ya i brought a pillow to school to use for my back. haha! it's a good rest for my back. the chair quite hard la. oh ya and sometimes i use it to sleep on. cos the table too hard for my face. lol.
ok then we had PE and stuff like that. and now i'm home.
and for some reason now i'm addicted to the song "gifts and curses" by yellowcard. it's about some spiderman thing with mary jane watson. here are the lyrics:

"Gifts and Curses" by Yellowcard

Maryy belongs to the words of a song.
I try to be strong for her, try not to be wrong for her.
But she will not wait for me, anymore, anymore.
Why did I say all those things before? I was sure.

(She is the one), but I have a purpose
(she is the one), and I have to fight this
(she is the one), a villian I can't knock down.

I see your face with every punch I take
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say, still I will always fight on for you.

Maryy's alive in the bright New York sky,
the city lights shine for her, above them I cry for her.
Everything's small on the ground below, down below.
What if I fall, then where would I go, would she know?

(She is the one), all that I wanted,
(she is the one), and I will be haunted,
(she is the one), this gift is my curse for now.

I see your face with every punch I take,
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say,
Still I will always fight on for you.

I see your face with every punch I take,
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say,
Still I will always fight on for you. Fight on for you...

go listen to the song if u dont know it!!! man i wish i could compose songs like this...
oh yes i've finished writing all the songs i've wanted to write this year. second album complete:)
there's 11 songs in this year's album. decided to call it "Transition Period" cos i think i'm changing alot now. so ya just decided to call it that.
the album for 2006 and 2007 has 14 songs and is called "I was 15, single, and had a guitar"
yeah pretty crappy lol.
dont think i'll write any more songs to add to the album this year unless i've got some inspiration.
man i need to get a band together and record all these songs...

(she is the one), but i have a purpose,
(she is the one), and i have to fight this,
(she is the one), a villian i can't knock dowwwn!!

wowww!! and then the instrumental with the piano and violin and then the super cool guitar solo!!! wowww!!

man that was good.. haha..

blood donation!

2008-08-20T21:06:00.005+08:00

wow today our school had this blood donation drive and football team supposed to donate together haha. it was quite ok. first go in there then like quite blur and not sure what to do. then must sign form and everything. anws, it wasnt really pain. first they prick ur finger and test it for iron or something. they suddenly prick it and at first u dont feel anything but after awhile then wow! it hurts! haha..
ok then u go to the chair and sit down and get ready. soon a nurse comes to u and gives u an injection which really is very pain!!! its supposed to numb the pain later when they take ur blood. and the needle which they use to take ur blood is really BIG!! like wow. i accidentally looked and it and got horrified. its really SUPER BIG and u will be like omg nuts is that crazy thing beneath my skin and intruding into my blood vessel now?? o.O lucky that one not pain haha..
ok anws it wasnt that bad. there was free food and drinks and everything and u get a certificate. then u get a bandage on ur arm. mine is pink lol..
well i wonder which lucky fellow is gonna get my blood and have some of my The Man powers transferred to him. haha some of the guys in class were joking that whoever gets my blood will turn into the incredible hulk cos too much radioactive substance. and dunno what, I-Zack's The Man blood too powerful already. lol. hmm this The Man thing which started of as a passing comment has become into some trademark thing already haha.
which reminds me that some of the class guys also said that time i should join olympics. LOL. then i said ya as if i can qualify, anws spore got enough good ppl can win some medals. now only got one silver... then they started blaming me (jokingly of course) that why i never join, now spore losing. and weijie said nvm even if i join i represent myself and not spore cos the medal tally will show my name at the top above china and usa instead of spore hahaha. crazy guys xD
well i just realised the prelims are approaching in 6weeks and i'm like blur about everything cos i've forgotten everything after mid-years. that kinda happens after i take a paper. everything i learn goes out the door and have to relearn from scratch. which is why i dont believe in studying throughout the year. cos if i study throughout the year and take all the tests i still forget them anyways. this only happens for studying but not for other things. haha. i got good selective memory.. and mr rajoo gave our class a good talk yesterday which made me think abit. so i will come up with a study timetable by this week and start by next week!! haha.. confirm one..
and to those people who have some misconsceptions of our family, e-sean is the hardworking one and i am the lazy one. e-sean studies alot! so give her some credit! i'm the lazy bum out of all the 3 siblings:p
ok time to play some guitar:)

wahaha

2008-08-19T21:12:00.003+08:00

i'm finally back from grandma's house! it was a pretty fun time:) quite cool to be moving to a new environment for a while. and it's much easier to go school from there too. it's like 30min only. from my own home it's 1hour:( and the bus stop is like only 2min walk away.
gramma made sure we woke up every morning for Quiet Time and breakfast and so i wasn't late for school too. but every night we also had to sleep early haha.
anws, the youth comm meeting-outing on saturday was fun!:)
i ran 10km in the morning even though i had this like crazy pain at one of my gut muscle place things... after the run my legs and everything were all not tired at all but only had this really bad pain at the gut. hope it's nothing serious... i'm having a rest from running til thursday anyway so should be able to recover.
anws we met at 4.30pm at kovan mrt. grace, hannah, weng shian, and athelia didnt come. so only had me, yiying, yiren, weile, tim, angie were there. sam didnt come for bowling but joined us later for dinner. it's the first time we've ever met to do something outside of planning for PLH activities, so it was a good relaxing time:) the bowling lanes were closed at first so we decided to have our meeting at KFC to discuss abt upcoming PLH stuff.
at abt 5plus then we went to bowl. the first game i was top scorer, then second game we decided to play me, tim and weile vs yiying, yiren and angie. (based on the first game scores) in the end they won 222-211.. by 11pts only haha. i think yiren won the game for them with his score. second game i also deproved. while angie improved from last to even more points than weile and tim LOL. then we went to have dinner at KFC.
down there we witnessed the joke of the day:
we were talking about weights ok. (in KFC mah..)
Tim said something about being very light, so i said
"nvm lah. u still 14 right? got alot of time to grow."
Tim: "eh what? i'm losing weight every year leh."
me: "that's a scary thought... how heavy were you when you were a baby??"
haha!! yiying started laughing like crazy til her face was red and she couldnt talk properly lol. after all these years, this is the first time i see her laugh like that haha!
then we went to yiying's house and slacked and played some guitar in the function room. her electric guitar has not been used for so long that the guitar and the amplifier box had baby cockroaches inside!! o.O??? crazy.. i can't believe such a good guitar has gone to waste.. it just pained my heart when i saw it on saturday...
anws we went up to the house at 11pm and watched some stupid chinese show thing.. then it was lights off by 12am. then i told weile about some life stuff. tim was listening too haha. all the stuff i told weile was important for guys to know so i hope he and tim take what i said to mind. cos i was talking from experience ah.. so warning them before it's too late haha..
ok then next morning we woke up early and did Quiet Time and then had a macdonald breakfast. reached church in time for 8.45 service.
yes, that's our fun youth comm day. and it was not gay or boring, unlike what david thought it was lol..
i haven't really been watching the olympics. for reasons such as i'm not very interested and singapore also not in many competitions. also since i don't really have the time cos i'm out of the house quite often having school and football trainings. the football is also quite boring. good thing EPL has started again and liverpool won our season opener away to sunderland:) torres again, unsurprisingly. the liverpool website said that in rafa's 5yrs in charge so far we have not started the season at anfield, so it's pretty unfair. but nvm, at least the first 3pts are in the bag:)
37 games to go!!!

happy national day one and all

2008-08-09T15:26:00.006+08:00

yay 43 years already...
ok now let's talk about the celebrations.
yesterday i woke up at 4.30am, did my Quiet Time, then went to serangoon stadium to run 9km at 5am. clocked 47:25. bleagh... i think that's still not up to standard. i want to reach 5min per km. then went back home to take a bath, then went to school at 6.25am. we walked to CCAB to have our celebrations there. but i slept while they were having all the songs and stuff. then i woke up when we had to do the 3 dances but i stood still anyways. until the last dance where we do the CJ mass dance and i partnered wei jie so he spun me around like crazy til i was left sprawling on the floor when the dance was over and not able to get up cos i was too dizzy lol. super fun:)
then met ryan and renyi at j8 subway for lunch and talked. cheang came later with his friends.. then i went to the library with the NY boys. they did some studying while i did some big business in the toilet. then we went to long john silvers later cos ryan needed to eat an early dinner before going for church. then cheang met us again. ryan went to church, so me, cheang and renyi went around looking for a gift that renyi wanted to buy for his friend.
afterwards the two of them went off and i met yiying for dinner. she ate LJS first, when she finished eating we went to S11 foodcourt for MY dinner. haha. cos i want cheaper food:p
we left for church at 6.45pm. it's the first time i've gone for DBS. it was really good! i think uncle alex can teach very well. and we didnt stick that close to the book but discussed more relevant questions which is the best:) i dont like sticking to the book. it's not relevant enough sometimes. from now on i will go for DBS if i can. cos usually fridays i have football and it ends quite late. and the last 4years of sec sch my NCC was always only on fridays and ended close to 8pm that's why i couldnt go for DBS for 4 years. haha.
tmr after church gonna stay at gramma's house for 10days cos mum and dad are going away. i think there's not really a computer there so i won't be able to use the internet for awhile. quite troublesome. i needa pack a lot of clothes. cos everyday i need to wear uniform and pe shirt. most people only need to wear pe shirt twice a week for pe, but i got football trainings on wednesday and fri, plus need to go gym on tue, wed, thur, and run on thursday and saturday. then also need to pack for sunday's clothes, etc etc.. and my boots and shinpads and jerseys and everything. not to mention my bible, QT material, and school books, etc.. etc.. wow that's alot..
anyways i saw this quiz on timothy goh's blog. so i shall do it since i have time and probably won't post anything for the next 10days.

1. Where is your real dad right now? watching tv in the living room.
2. Name the last person you hung out with: refer to what i wrote before this quiz.
3. Name 5 things you did today: 1.wake up. 2.maths tuition. 3.go toilet 4.type this post. 5.eat
4. Last person you text-messaged? Si'en
5. What kind of phone do you have? Nokia 6500 slide
6. What do you smell like? not really sure.
7. What colour are your eyes? i think black or brown.
8. Do you have a chair in your room? yes.
9. What are you doing tomorrow? church and going to gramma's house.
10. Do you know someone named betsy? no.
11. Do you have a dog? no.
12. Do you remember singing any songs as a kid? yes of course.
13. Are you married? no. duh.
14. Do you play an instrument? yes
15. Do you like fire? depends. if it's burning me than probably not.
16. Are you allergic to anything? nope. fit as a fiddle.
17. Do you have a crush on anyone? er.. i don't know?
18. Do you take science all 4 years of school? yeah i take science..
19. Do you like butterflies? they're ok i guess
20. Do you miss someone right now? ya i guess so
21. Do you think they miss you too? erm.. it's quite a few people.. but i doubt anyone of them do.
22. Ever seen your school counsellor? no.
23. Have you ever wanted to be a teacher? thought of being a pe teacher or football coach. but i don't think so.
24. What is one thing you've learnt about life? God is in control. and don't rely too much on anybody cos u're on your own with only God by your side. contrary to tim's answer for this question, i say, don't keep your friends too close. no one in this world is to be trusted. no offence to all my good friends.
25. What is your favourite colour? red.
26. Is anyone jealous of you? ya they are.
27. What does your mum call you? i-zack, zack, boy, guy.
28. What do your friends call you? i-zack, zack, lum, the man, the chosen one, raphael, master lum, captain, alpha 1, and some other names having to do with being good at football and guitar. plus the usual, hey dude, hey man, yo buddy, and eh!
29. What does your hair look like right now? no mirror around at the moment but i'm sure it's ok.
30. Has a friend ever used you? yeah cos i'm too much of a nice guy, contrary to what others think.
31. Has anyone ever told you they liked you more than a friend? ya quite a few actually.
32. What have you eaten today? pancakes that mum made.
33. Is your hair naturally curly or straight? when it's short it's straight, when it gets long then it becomes a bit curly.
34. Who was the last person you drove with? er.. i'm not sure.. my dad? he drives the car.
35. The song you've been singing most to yourself recently? don't really have one this week. a couple of weeks ago it was "everytime" by simple plan.
36. What do you currently want right now? i don't know what i want.
37. Are you hungry? What would you like? not very hungry, i jsut ate some stuff. thanks.
38. What is your current annoyance? needing to move to gramma's house for 10 days and disrupting my whole schedule and lifestyle.
39. Are you waiting for someone right now? er.. no?
40. Name one thing you're looking forward to this week: football training and hopefully the friendly match against some other school.
41. Can you make friends easily? depends on the other person as well.
42. What would you do if your friend turned gay? er.. depends oh which friend la haha..
43. Do you plan out what you wear the day before you wear it? ya usually. so the next day can just take the clothes without having to decide.
44. Have you ever fallen for your best friend? er.. my best friend is a guy. do u mean best friend of the opposite sex?
45. If you had a chance to save someone significant to you, would you? like yeah duh.
46. How many times do you eat each day? last time was breakfast, recess, lunch, teabreak, dinner, supper, and midnight snack. now cos of jc timetable and all the other stuff, it's only breakfast, recess and dinner. and if i'm not too tired at night, a bit of supper.
47. How do you cheer someone up? usually say some funny stuff to make them laugh but i've found out it doesn't work on everybody. so sometimes must try different approach ah.. like just listening or maybe a letter or a little present.
48. Is it easier for u to fall asleep or be woken? definitely easier for me to fall asleep. just ask my teachers!
49. Think of one person, stick with it, you dont have to say the name, would you pick him/her up alone 100miles away even if it was your birthday? yeah i would. might make a good birthday actually. hmm... but actually nowadays maybe not.. see how lah. my birthday is not in 3months.
50. Have your best friends ever hurt your feelings? yes.
51. Give two reasons why you get distracted in class: 1. complacency. 2. it's not as interesting as some other stuff in my head that i can daydream about.
52. Do you think its funny when people get hurt? haha! depends who the person is.
53. If you had to guess, how do you think you're gonna turn out in life? i'll be ok.

40 secrets about yourself, be honest no matter what.

1. What is your natural hair colour? black.
2. Where is your default picture taken? er.. some photo shop thing at serangoon central. took it with anthony in sec3.
3. What's your middle name? no middle name. are those for question28 counted?
4. What colour do you hate most? pink. stupid gay colour.
5. Does your crush like you back? i don't think i have a crush.. if i did, the answer would be no anyway.
6. What is your current mood? mixed i guess.. brooding about some stuff.
7. What colour do you like the most? red.
8. What makes you most happy? lots of stuff? can't name all. right now i just want something happy to do with football.. can't be bothered with people.
9. Look at a poster in your room. Who's on it? steven gerrard. (liverpool captain)
10. If you could go back in time and change something, what would you change? a few personal things..
11. If you must be an animal for one day, what would you be? a party animal? haha..
12. Ever had a near death experience? i don't think so..
13. Something you do alot? sleep!
14. The song stuck in your head? none at the moment. though now my windows media player is playing "untitled" by simple plan. so ya, i guess it's in my head right now.
15. What is your desktop background? this is my dad's computer. it's a picture of him and mum.
16. What are you wearing? specs, singlet, boxers.
17. When was the last time you cried? er.. let me try to recall.. i think in june or july.
18. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience? yes.
19. If you could have one super power what would it be? super strength!!
20. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? the face and hair together.
21. What do you usually order from starbucks? i don't go there, it's too expensive..
22. What's your biggest secret? what a scam!!! i'm not saying it on a public blog.
23. Favourite colour? isn't this the third time?-.- red.
24. Is it sunny or raining? it just rained.
25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows? nope. nowadays no time.
26. What are you eating or drinking at the moment? nothing. just drank some juice.
27. Do you speak any other language? english, abit of chinese, and we all speak one language: football.
28. What's your favourite smell? i don't have one. i don't really have a good nose.. erm.. if she's shampoo-ed it and stuff, then maybe.. a girl's hair. (like e-rae's!)
29. If you could describe your life in one word what would it be? one word a bit hard ah... how about.. mixed?
30. When was the last time you received a hug? can't remember.. girls only like to hug each other lah, they quite sexist. i think from renyi after we watched the dark knight and we were going home.
31. Have you ever kissed in the rain? never even kissed before lah.
32. What/who are you thinking about right now? who i'm thinking about is none of your business haha..
33. What should you be doing? my homework i guess. but never mind, there's a whole national day holiday to do it. and it's only econs, relax..
34. What was the last thing that made you upset/angry? er.. someone not saying hi to me and not talking to me and ignoring me.
35. How often do you laugh? not as often as last time i think.. but still reasonably often.
36. Do you like slacking in the yard? yeah slacking is good. don't really have a yard.
37. If you could have any last name in the world, what would you want? i still want Lum.
38. Do you act differently around your crush/significant other? yes but now i can hide it much better. so you wouldn't know:) acting skills and covering-up skills have leveled up!
39. Name one song that reminds you of an ex? i don't have an ex. but ex-crush then one song would be "everytime" by simple plan.
40. Who was the last person to make you cry? think i better don't say here lah.. later the person feel guilty or whatever heh..

ok that's been a good national day time-user:) i think i've done this quiz before.. wait let me check..
ah! i've found it!!! 20 august 2007. wow almost exactly one year ago haha. ok i think i'll do some cross-referencing on how my answers have changed after one year.
so long and goodnight.. so long and goodnight...

some random stuff

2008-08-05T20:35:00.003+08:00

hohoho! sunday we had PLH extended fellowship time. had to go for mission trip meeting first, then when we came down for august rush i went to play abit of instruments. teach a bit of guitar and drums.. then went outside and played a bit of werewolf too. ate alot of potato chips as well haha:)
i think i can feel myself gaining abit of muscle. football training programme has given me the inspiration to go to the gym, run, and eat to add some meat to these bones of mine. i guess i'm still really scrawny-looking but i'm sure i'm a bit stronger. faster probably. and well well, i look better in the school mirror too haha! (my house toilet mirror abit too small to see the full body) i just hope the gymming doesn't stunt my growth!!! i have a feeling it will.. i'm now like 173.5cm o.O i thought i was 175. i wanna reach at least 180:( my weight now is 56kg. i think that's ok. maybe 58-60 by the end of the year would be good. i'm just scared if i'm heavier i won't be able to run as fast and my pull-ups might be less. ah well, see how it goes. appetite is growing too. need to manage my allowance well haha. if not i'll run out of money in no time. stupid inflation. even school food is kinda expensive.
oh ya my topper street soccer shoes has become too small to wear and my lotto ones have spoilt. so dad gave me a budget of $50 to buy a new pair of street soccer shoes. went to kovan heartland mall today and bought a kronos pair for $36.90. haha. so now i have 3 pairs of white shoes for school. one is a nike running shoes, only for days which i run. one is the $15 trail pair which looks like converse, which i only wear on days which i dont need to do any running or physical activity. and the last one is the one i bought just now, for days which have physical activity like PE, but no long distance running.
i also have the Lum 10 adidas black and red street soccer pair which the girls in church don't believe it's selling in some adidas stores. u guys probably can't find it in the stores cos people all buy until sold out already haha!
ok that's about all for now i guess..

travel journeys

2008-08-02T21:24:00.003+08:00

woahoho! it's been an interesting last few days.
well, actually yesterday and today. yesterday we had the J2 testimonial match which the J1s beat J2s 6-3. lol. think cos they lack match fitness. i scored two. one was a penalty and the other was a nice lob over the on-rushing keeper. justin, aaron, brandon and kesavan got one each. for the J2s, nick, stef, and xavier got one each too.
then we went to iggy's house for the bbq. ended up playing street soccer at the side haha. and andrew got voted as our player of the season. i voted for jordan.
today had band prac which took much longer than usual for me. my pracs usually can end at 12.30 but today end at 1.45. think cos got some new songs then the band had to practice more.
then me, david and jon went to walk on our "travel journey" lol. our initial target was botanic gardens, so we set of for it at 2pm. we walked to orchard there and couldnt find the burger king (cos david had coupons) so we had to eat at a food court instead. then we continued on after lunch at abt 3.30pm. in the end we reached botanic gardens i think about 4plus. we didnt want to spend our money so we kept drinking from watercoolers haha! i was quite tempted to buy a soft drink but luckily could resist. then we sat down in the botanic gardens for a while and talked alot wahaha. after a while since we had some time we decided to press on to NJC. so we reached there about 6.15 and i had to rush home for dinner. haha what a fun outing. but maybe no more until exams are over.
i think one of the days during the year-end holidays me and the twins will have another travel journey and this time we will travel overnight haha! if got people's house to stay then we'll stay there. if not maybe we sleep at a void deck. then walk to church the next morning. i think our rule is kinda like cannot take transport. and must spend as little money as possible lol.
okay the liverpool vs rangers friendly is gonna start.
byebye

WHYYY SOOOO SERRIIOOOUUSSS?????

2008-07-27T20:40:00.003+08:00

greetings to all my fans and followers! The Man wishes you well.
well, the last two weeks have been preettyy eventful.
i lost my handphone AND my bicycle!!! actually, they kinda got stolen.
my handphone was lost cos i was riding on my bike last saturday night and it dropped out of my pocket. (i knew i shouldn't have worn those shorts with the lousy small pockets!!!) then i called it when i found out i had lost it. the first time it rang but nobody answered it. the second time i called it was turned off. means someone took it and kept it for themself lah. crud.
anws, i went to get a new phone which is better haha:P still the same number too. so no real problems there. and i changed to the student plan which lets me have unlimited smses to singtel users lol:)
the real problem is my bike!!! last tuesday when i came home from school, i dropped at my bus-stop only to find my bike was not where i usually locked it!! argh. i don't wanna elaborate.. let's just say i've found getting to nearby places a bit harder.. cycling on my bike actually reduced travelling time by one-third. normally i take 9min to get to my bus-stop. with my bike i took 3min. it takes 30min to get to hannah's house. with my bike it took 10min. and it's really less taxing on my legs. and it gives some exercise too. oh well...
been trying to build up too. football training schedule says we go to the gym three times a week and run 3 times a week. with ballwork only once a week. all this working out and exercise has made me loads hungrier and i'm eating even more than i normally do! which is why this month my allowance has run dry early and i needed to ask my parents for extra money for food. i'm eating more beef as well to increase my protein intake. i'm not really feeling the effect of becoming bigger or less skinny, but i guess that's something that can only be seen in the long run. i don't feel that i'm faster or having a better stamina with all that running too. i think i still need to run more.
in other news, i got full points for my NAPFA test again. (three years in a row: sec3, sec4, J1)
this year i think i actually deproved for some reason, but the results still good enough to get me an A for everything.
renyi let me borrow his simple plan "still not getting any..." album too!:) yeahhH!!!! omgosh it totally rocks my socks and made my week! i finally got lotsa songs that i've wanted for a long time. like 'perfect world', 'crazy', and 'everytime'. :) i think "everytime" is like the most romantic song simple plan have written. besides "i can wait forever".
anyways, if you've been to the PLH blog and read my post about having a change in direction in my life again, then i don't need to write it here haha. if you haven't read it, then you should go read!!! http://www.lighthouseunited.blogspot.com/. it's the July 15 post. gotta scroll down abit... haha.
also been trying to have a more disciplined lifestyle by waking up early to do my QT. especially if i'm supposed to run in the morning for football. but i've been finding it a bit harder without my bike. haha.. gotta start again from tomorrow!!!! i missed a 7km run on friday..:(
on thursday was also our school's racial harmony celebrations. we were supposed to wear either an ethnic costume or our school uniform. i wore the PE attire as my ethnic costume lol. then at morning assembly mr tan jek suan said over the microphone (infront of the whole school) "i-zack, that is not a costume!" hahaha... aww man, not ethnic enough for ya???
then on friday i woke up late and came to school in my PE attire again cos my uniform was left in class. then i was the only one in the school wearing PE attire instead of my uniform during morning assembly. then during announcements mr tan jek suan again said into the microphone (infront of the whole school again) "i-zack from 1T24, why are you in PE attire? see me after assembly!" lol.. so had to go see him and explain my whole story of waking up late, etc etc..
yesterday there was no band prac so went to church to jam. afterwards went for lunch, then when timleong and e-sean went home i walked with david all the way to tanglin and orchard and some places. cos we wanted to explore around:) super fun. i like to walk around and get kinda lost. cos can't really get lost in sgpore. haha. exploring new places and talking at the same time is fun!:) next week we shall wear shoes haha. yesterday wear slippers then abit difficult lol.
i went to watch "The Dark Knight" with CRYSIz on thursday too. YESSS!!!! finally i have ended my search for the best movie i have ever watched in my life!!!:):) it was really just the best. absolutely fantastic. the storyline and plot was superb. the writer/director christopher nolan is a genius! and the joker was great!!!! too bad the actor (heath ledger) died from overdose of drugs. not sure how they're gonna get another guy to do the part.
i think they should have a third batman movie where some villian like the riddler causes all the havoc and robin comes in. then at the end of the show they question who is he working for, then the joker card comes out. then like whoa!!! then 4th movie the joker returns hahhaha!
i've also thought of a better storyline for spiderman 1. instead of mary jane, they should have had gwen stacy in the movie as the girl peter loves and mary jane is just a friend. then the green goblin kills gwen just like in the comic books, so peter is sad and everything, but like aww so sweet, mary jane is there for him..
then spiderman2 he falls in love with mary jane and doesnt want to be spiderman for those reasons that are already in spiderman 2 haha. like he's scared for MJ and stuff like that.
anws i hope there's a spiderman 4. the villains should be dr connors becoming the lizard and the symbiote surviving from spidey3 and fuses with mac gargan, who jonah jameson hires to find out how peter parker takes pictures of spiderman, and he becomes the scorpion. haha. yeah well, that's just my take.
alright, sorry to bore you with all the comic book stuff. just something i have an interest for:)
EPL starts in exactly 3 weeks!!!!!! yes!!! hahaha... less boring saturday nights around the corner:):)
WHYY SOO SERRIIOOUUSSS?????

sub-pass: definitely the best invention ever.

2008-07-11T16:51:00.006+08:00

yeah baby!!! i sub-passed maths!!! LOL.
with 70% of the level getting Us, looks like i really pulled it off somehow. hahaha.
and i got it on the dot. in fact, it was the closest shave ever. i actually got a 39.5 but teacher say half mark round up to 40. haha!!
so now i have EESSUU. if this was the promos then i can promote to J2:)
wow what a roller coaster ride. when teacher came in today she said our class got 4 people passed, 4 people sub-passed. then she gave out in order of marks. then after 7 people already, i was thinking like: crap!! last person who kana sub-pass! then i said "teacher! call i-zack! call i-zack!" then she said "i-zack". o.O!!!! like, WHOOOO!!! hahaha! then i get back i see 39.5 then i was like, what??? half more mark???? then she said half mark round up to 40. hahaha!!! yeah.. some people might argue that i actually failed with the half mark, but a true striker doesn't care how he scores his goals, he just scores as many as possible. and THAT'S A GOAL! cleared off the line by william gallas but the linesman said goal by luis garcia, and that's how you get into the champions league final! lol.
well, mum and dad might not agree:p
anws, i just realised that this year has been the first time in 13years that i'm not having trouble with my teachers. in fact, i have quite a good relationship with all of them. haha. let's see..
nursery and kindergarten i remember causing lots of pain for my teachers cos i would run around, beat up other kids..
pri 1 in kuo chuan: mdm kaur was calling my mum up on regular nights cause i walked about class during lessons and disturbed my classmates..
pri 2-6 was recking havoc in holy innocents' and every teacher knowing who i was, partly cos of my grandaunt being a relief teacher there.. mr teo the discipline master talked to me on a weekly basis in the HOD office.. i was a regular sight in the staffroom and some teachers even talked to me while i was in there. i think i could remember where every teacher sat la lol..
sec 1-4 giving the marist teachers nightmares with my work and behaviour. mr dennis koh the discipline master, another good friend of mine..
but this year like nothing since the first few weeks of school leh.. haha. i sleep during lectures, that's all. i did a calculation, and found out i sleep in 2/3 of the lectures and only been caught once by the lecturer (it was a maths lecture). but somehow i can still take down the notes and everything. either wake up and copy what's on the screen, then sleep when the lecturer starts talking. or copy after lecture from friends. i find the first option better:)
other than that, no behavioural problems. haha. comes with growing up i guess. oh, i sleep in class sometimes. but less now. i think mr rajoo will gladly tell my parents at parent-teacher meeting next saturday that i sleep the most in our class. my classmates always comment on me sleeping too. lol. "sleeping king", "pig", etc.. haha. somehow still can pass midyears..
relationship with teachers is good:) mr rajoo is like nice to all of us la.. hmm...
maths teacher got no problems. i do her tutorials and got the sub-pass haha;)
econs: was friendly with ms sng, but i think we're changing teacher. she got good impression of me in her first lesson lol.
geog: ok this one average. always harping at me to work harder. other than that nothing much.
gp: had good relationship with ms chua. but now she's gone, so mr holden has come in. i've been a good boy so far:) haha:p
chinese!:) : wo he lao shi si hao pen you. ta zhi si mei chi jiao wo yao duo yong gong. (i am good friends with teacher. she just asks me to work harder everytime.)
PE: yes! my favourite! mr new likes me alot cos i'm a good pe rep. the other day he also said to me i'm the model student in our class for pe. LOL!:D
football: yup i've got a good relationship with coach adrian ho. i think he likes my attitude and hard work. plus 5 goals in the last 2 trainings should have helped to show him what i can do infront of goal;)

today woke up at 5am, did QT, then went to school at 5.45. the bike was ok today:) cycle to the bus stop and lock it there. was in school by 6.30. started my 5km run at 645. took a shower, then went for assembly. class from 8-1pm. whoohoo good day. QT in the morning is the most important. get started.
later must do more work. or maybe i can use the weekend..

i feel compelled to help those less fortunate than me. people who might not have passed even though they worked hard. or people who didn't pass after doing last minute work.
so that's why i have come up with the "Lum I-Zack's Study Tips: How To Pass Like The Man".

disclaimer: this study tips have been found to reap results for the author. however they may not suit every individual. if in the event you find you are still not passing, a different approach is recommended.

warning!: these tips are not designed to achieve As. they are for the sole purpose of scraping a pass. for major exams like the O'levels, you may refer to "Lum I-Zack's Study Tips: How To Jump From 32 To 12 In A Major Exam" which is not out in stores yet.

Lum I-Zack's Study Tips: How To Pass Like The Man:

study tip #1: last minute work is STILL work.
#2: there is ALWAYS time, right up until you enter the exam hall.
3: if you have studied, then be scared, cos your hardwork might have been useless if you fail.
4: if you haven't studied, don't be afraid! a pass is a bonus! you have nothing to lose.
5: befriend the hardworking people, borrow their notes! get them to teach you whatever you missed in class. if you're really lazy, get them to do your work for you. (a high EQ will be really helpful for this)
6: grab whatever you can, whenever you can.
7: if you only understand ONE thing from the lecture, hey, at least you learnt something!
8: STUDYING SMART the night before your paper definitely works!
9: just copy down whatever is on the screen even if you don't understand it. you can always understand it the night before the paper.
10: if you need to pass 4, focus on 4 and forget the other 3!

yeah well, 10 is good for now. the rest is still a work in progress. haha! all the best in scraping that pass!!
remember, anyone can pass!

sub-pass!!! one of the best inventions ever.

2008-07-10T21:03:00.003+08:00

i've got back every result except for maths! which i think i'll be getting back tmr. so far..
GP 49 (E)
geog 26 (U)
econs 40 (S)
physics 45 (E)
chinese 31 (U)
40 and above is sub-pass. so i've passed 3 and failed 2. 70% of the level had a U for maths, so i'm not hoping for too much:/
haven't scored above 50 for anything yet, so it's still quite dangerous. gotta buck up for end of year exam!

today woke up real early to go school to run. our new training program for football is quite packed. it's something like:

monday- gym work
tuesday- rest
wednesday- ball work
thursday - run & gym
friday- run
sat- gym
sun- rest

wow. but i think i'll do my gym work for saturday on tuesday instead to free up my saturdays for tuition and band prac, plus the hanging out after band prac:)
oh i volunteered to be treasurer for football team too. needa collect money and order a training jersey haha.. think i'll go order the jerseys tmr if possible..
well, being treasurer to me was better than taking up the organising of testimonial game for the J2s or being equipment manager o.O lol. equipment manager is the worst i think, needa wash jerseys, bring out cones and balls, etc.. lol.

this was today's program:

5.15: wake up and do QT
6.15: leave house, bike encountered some problems, in the end reach school at 7.20 instead of 7.05. dad kinda fixed it already, hope it will be ok tmr.. -.- 3 days only lah, and today was my first day using it. zzz....
7.20: run
7.35: go class
8-5: lessons
then come home, eat dinner, etc..
think i'll do my PW EOM tonight. maybe that chinese assignment we're sposed to do. and maybe study abit of maths too.
from now on i'm gonna try to sleep by 10-11 and wake up between 5-6, depending on the day's programme.

dang.. so now i'm like really busy. got lotsa stuff to handle:

football (most busy but least pressurizing)
studies (most impt but most boring)
PLH band (worship leading and guitar)
youth comm (least busy for now, but most pressurizing)
then of course family and friends, and destressing (in other words, having fun)
good thing i dont need to count in exercise, cos football gives me more than i need. lol.

oh yes, coach wants all of us to build up. that's why there's lotsa gym work from now on, and we need to eat lots of beef and lamb. hate lamb, but beef is good. crap lah, i think i've not been building up cos i keep eating chicken. time to change approach haha.
coach also said the aim this year is to run the 42km marathon on 7 dec. o.O. That's why there's lotsa running in our training programme too. there's like only one day of ball work lah. and we're a FOOTBALL team, man. kinda ironic. lol. but oh well. i'm just happy to be in a college football team, so i'll take it whichever way it comes. from sec3 already thought it in my mind to join the football team for whichever JC i go to. so now it's already like a dream come true. and to already have played 5 games in the A-division is like WHOO!!! (IJ, SR, MJ, AJ, ACSi) yeah baby. never ever thought it'll be for CJC. but heh, couldn't be asking for more right now:)

yesterday's training was good. we played an 8-on-8 match. the teams were abit inbalanced i think. in the end my team won 8-2. i scored 3 goals and set up 3 more. yeah that's the way.. i'm like super on form now:) gotta carry it for the next year or so. which it's quite unlikely heh. but oh well.

ok i think it's time i did some work! tmr waking up early too. gotta go school early for 5km run. hope my bike doesnt cop out when cycling up the slope again. haha. and gotta make the jerseys after school too. good thing tmr end earlier.

wwwaazzzaaa!!!

idwiftwbijdoism

2008-07-08T18:33:00.006+08:00

alevel chinese oral was not very good i think... got nervous during the passage reading and stuttered alot. then the conv topic was on F1 racing. didnt know what to say so just crapped alot with my broken chinese.
yesterday bought my bike so now can cycle to the bus stop in the morning and save time. family went bowling too cos it was youth day holiday.
oh well.. sometimes u have good days and lots of other times u have bad days.. i think it's safe to say today can classify as a bad day.
oh and the title of this post actually does stand for something.
u know, sometimes song lyrics tell alot. but sometimes you might think they refer to something different. u never know what it's really about. u need to read/hear really carefully word for word.
and i really like this song..

Beauty queen of only sixteen
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else

I drove for miles and miles and wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow I want more

I don't mind spending every day, out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she wants to stay awhile

She will be loved
She will be loved..

Tap on my window, knock on my door, I want to make you feel beautiful
I know I tend to get so insecure, it doesn't matter anymore
It's not always rainbows and butterflies, it's compromise, it moves us along (yeeah)
My heart is full and my door's always open
You come anytime you waaaant (yeah!)

I don't mind spending every day, out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she wants to stay awhile

And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be looooved

I know where you hide, alone in your car
Don't know all of the things that make you who you are
I know that goodbye means nothing at all
Comes back and begs me catch her every time she falls (yeeahh..)

Tap on my window, knock on my door, I want to make you feel beautiful..

I don't mind spending every day, out on your corner in the pouring rain (ohh..)
Look for the girl with the broken smile, ask her if she wants to stay awhile

And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved

(please don't try so hard to say goodbye)
(yeahh.. yeahhyeahh..)

I dont mind spending everyday (please don't try so hard to say goodbye)
Out on your corner in the pouring rain..

Please.. don't.. try.. so.. hard.. to.. say.. goodbye...

go figure. not what u think it is.

dumdeedumdum

2008-07-02T18:05:00.002+08:00

haha i've got two midyear results back!
H1 geog - 26/100
H2 physics - 42.5/100
well.. geog isn't very good i must say. though i'm actually quite happy with physics cos i'm 5th in class and got a nice sub-pass. with moderation hopefully it goes up to an E.

yesterday there was also dsa trials into CJ soccer. so there were like some sec4 guys who came to try out. most of them were from st. gabriels. and crap, they were good! technique, fitness, everything all better than us. and they were bigger too. coach had us play an 11-a-side against them. luckily we won 2-1, i managed to score both goals:) now we can kinda see what formation coach wants to play this year. most likely a 4-5-1 with me as attacking midfield/supporting striker behind the frontman and timing my runs into the box. well, the keeper dropped the ball from a corner and i volleyed it in with my left foot from the edge of the box for the first goal. so we led 1-0 at half-time. then 2nd half they equalised, so 1-1. then later we had a real nice counter attack down the right with kian hao to floyd to justin who put a low cross in for me to slot in past the keeper. yeah so 2-1:) but super tired. all of us too long no training already haha.

today in school nothing much. finished at 2pm then came straight home.

oh yeah and this is like a super nice song! it's like not really well-known, so you've probably never heard it before.

"You're no murderer, but you killed me inside"

The only train I ever wanted to take
I got no ticket, unlucky break
This ship is sinking cos' it cast off too fast
I always finish second at best

Crying hasn't eased my tension, but I know what will
And I know you're innocent, just don't know how I feel

You're no murderer, but you killed me inside
(I know it's not what you intended)
Just another rollercoaster ride
(Left me regretting before it ended)
No thief, but you stole my heart
So I took it back and tore it apart
But it still lives on

I blame me the most but I blame you the least
This ain't Disney, cos' Beauty killed the Beast

Crying hasn't eased my tension, but I know what will
And I know you're innocent, just don't know how I feel

You're no murderer, but you killed me inside
(I know it's not what you intended)
Just another rollercoaster ride
(Left me regretting before it ended)
No thief, but you stole my heart
So I took it back and tore it apart
But it still lives on

You know you'll never be who she wants you to be
I know she won't be mine, but I know I'll be fine

You're no murderer, but you killed me inside
(I know it's not what you intended)
Just another rollercoaster ride
(Left me regretting before it ended)
No thief, but you stole my heart
So I took it back and tore it apart
But it still lives on

You're no murderer, but you killed me inside
(I know it's not what you intended)
Just another rollercoaster ride
(Left me regretting before it ended)
No thief, but you stole my heart
So I took it back and tore it apart
But it still lives on

(Took it back and tore it apart)
But it still lives on
(Took it back and tore it apart)
But it still lives on
It still lives on...

well that's all for today:) til next time...
whoohoohoo!

youth sunday

2008-06-30T16:37:00.007+08:00

yesterday's youth sunday was good! arrived in church early. gave out PLH 08 shirts and stuff.
i can't rmb much details of what happened. lots of things to take care of.
though our play was good:) not as funny as church camp cos we cut out quite some stuff to shorten it for the adult service. but the msg of spreading the gospel was there. and the group once again didn't fail to surprise me pleasantly. didnt show much nerves performing in front of the whole congregation. in fact, they look as though they excell under pressure. and bearing in mind there're two sec4s, two sec3s, one sec2, three sec1s, and one pri6. that means half of them are quite young haha. and it really is amazing to me how much we've done in just the month of june.
well, today is marking day, so get to stay at home:) but later must go for mentor's meeting.
and training resumes tmr!!:) whoohoo can't wait haha.

Found my way to the highway, I don't wanna tell you the state I'm in
I've had too much to smoke, too much to drink, where have I been?
I feel like the stars are getting closer and the sky is closing in
And I don't know where to begin

We're all looking for something, to take away the pain

Me, and you, and my medication
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical creation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me, you, and my medication

The way back to the right track, maybe you can help me find the door
Is it too much to ask, too much too fast, too much to ignore?
It feels like your body's getting closer but you seem so far away
Medicine make it ok

We're all looking for someone, to take away the pain

Me, and you, and my medication
(Making the best of it)
Love is just a chemical creation
(Will it be permanent?)
Synthetic sensation
Me, you, and my medication

We're all addicted to someone that takes away the pain

whee

2008-06-28T23:22:00.005+08:00

i can't put this up on my blog so i just put the link here haha..
some quiz that joe and david created, so i did one myself too. haha.
http://www.truefriendtest.com/friendtest/1813927
seems like been doing quizes for fun haha.
this is the scoreboard if anyone wants to see it...
http://www.truefriendtest.com/scoreboard/1813927
sorry, my blog is like super low standard, so must resort to this stuff lol..
oh man.. i got 60% for both joe's and david's tests... disappointing... so sorry haha.. now quite late and i'm not really thinking straight so anyhow answer without thinking.

anyways midyr exams are finally over, so been able to rest a bit.
went out on friday after my physics paper (which i dont think i did well for cos i had to go toilet for quite long halfway thru the paper..) then had friends over for dinner and had quite alot of fun talking in the room haha. then during dinner i gave everyone funny names that were from the dinner table...
me- chip (potato chips)
marie- lays (pronounced "lies" haha!) (the lays potato chip brand, when she was young she thought that if you ate those chips you will tell lies)
jeremy - strudel (we were eating apple strudel made by aunty cat)
hannah - oil (it was on the potato chip packet, dunno how many percent oil was used haha!)
yiying - braceface (look at her mouth and you'll see why)
grace - barbecue (the flavour of the lays potato chips we were eating)
e-sean - choco stick (we were eating this)
yitian - toblerone (it was on the table but we didnt open it)
wahahaha so funny.. just see whatever is on the table then give names haha!! oh it was after dinner so it was actually desert and snacks.
everyone stayed til almost 12 then they went home. their families were at my house so it was ok haha. actually the adults talk very long so not our fault lol.

then today woke up early and played football at joe's house. scored 9 goals so my goal count for this year is now 112. lowest ever since i started counting. cos this year not been able to play much. and today is the first time i've played in more than a month:( so was a bit rusty, but as the game got longer i started to get my touch back a bit. actually, more of my goal-scoring touch, cos the other things were still not that good.
training starts on wednesday, so can get my standard back up soon:)
then went to church and edited the skit with michelle, then our group had rehearsals from 2.30 to 4.30. much faster and easier than i expected. cos we had to change the skit to suit the adult service. so had to cut out some jokes and put in more christian stuff. but it was good. pray it works out tmr.
yup that's about all i guess.

forgive me for the lack of details, i'm just summarising up all these events heh..
and forgive me if i seem very emotionless haha.. it's just the typing..
or maybe not..
i don't know what's bugging me..
or maybe i do.
but i'm trying to keep it out of my head.
but sometimes i'm entertaining it.
i've been trying to kid myself.
i've been kidding myself by telling myself it's not happening.
and i've also been kidding myself by entertaining it.

i normally abstain from putting this kind of remarks on my blog. it's pathetic. emotions that shouldnt be put up in public for the public to publicly view.
but oh well.. once in a while i guess.. you won't see much more of this for quite some time.. except in the form of songs haha.

anws, no need to speculate on what i'm refering to. cos in just a while it will disappear. to be replaced by new troubles.
it's just some thing that's been bugging me. not a huge crisis or anything heh:)
so relax and don't think that I-Zack's emo or anything lol xD

well youth sunday is tmr! with great power comes great responsibility...:)

quiz time

2008-06-23T21:55:00.005+08:00

hahaha well today's econs midyr paper was better than i expected. last night i studied from 10pm til 2.30am, then went to watch the spain and italy quarterfinal. what a let-down. there were no goals at all. i slept around 4.30am when torres got substituted off and that made me super sian cos torres was not having a very good game anyway.. woke up just nice to see that spain won in the penalty shootout. at least italy are out:) then went to school for the paper. managed to write sufficiently i think. SHOULD be able to pass.. but not sure heh.. then came home and slept cos was really tired. then i think tonight i'll study my maths again if i have the motivation. then tmr no paper so can stay home and do maths papers, then maths midyr exam on wednesday:)

anws i think i'll do this quiz on david's blog which was actually from yiying's blog cos i feel like typing stuff haha.

1.joseph 2.david 3.jon 4.marie 5.hannah 6.yiying 7.ryan 8.YC 9.cheang 10.renyi

1.Who is no. 6 having a relationship with? nobody at the moment:)

2.Is no.9 a male or female? er... female.. eh no, he's a male haha!

3.If no.7 and 10 are together, will it be a good thing? NO! that would mean they are gay! haha.

4.How about no.8 and 5? YC and hannah?? hahahaha. i guess it'll be okay LOL.

5.What is no.2 studying? banking and finance in poly

6.When was the last time you had a chat with no.3? this afternoon by sms then on msn

7.What kind of music band does no.8 like? haha er.. maroon5, guns&roses, etc..

8.Does no.1 has any siblings? yup two younger bros.

9.Will you woo no.3? i'm already wooing him LOL.

10.How about no.7? nah i will spare him haha.

11.Is no.4 single? you bet she is.

12.What is the hobby of no.4? er.. at the moment it's reading books haha.

13.Do no.5 and 9 get along well? heh i dont think they even know each other.

14.Where is no.2 studying at? Singapore Polytechnic

15.Say something casually about no.1. he's my best bud.

16.Have you tried developing feelings for no.8? NO! he's a dude!

17.Where does no.9 live at? jalan kelichap:)

18.What colour does no.4 like? green.

19.Are no.5 and 1 best friends? nope

20.Does no.7 like no.2? i think they don't know each other.

21.How do you get to know no.2? one day i bashed him up haha! no lah. church friend since very young.

22.Does no.1 have any pets? yup. some fish in a tank.

23.Is no.7 the sexiest girl in the world? no. he's a guy.

24.Do you think its possible if no.4 and no.5 date each other? nope they are girls. sian i think i put all the choices not nicely. next time must spread out cos the guys and girls don't meet each other haha.

25.Say something more about no.6. she's in the same school as me:)

26.what is your relationship with no.9? really super good sec sch buds, first friend i ever made in sec sch.

27.List all the schools that no.1 to no.10 are in and originally from.
1. joe: RI, originally from poi ching pri
2. david: SP, from hua yi sec
3.jon: SP, from yu hua sec
4.marie: kuo chuan sec, from scgs
5.hannah: ngee ann poly, from chij er.. i think toa payoh
6. yiying: CJC!:) from cedar lol
7.ryan: NYJC, from MSHS
8.YC: CJC!:) from MSHS
9.cheang: CJC!:) from MSHS
10.renyi: NYJC, from MSHS

28.What would you do if no.10 hates you? i think that's highly improbable.

29.Which of the following are in a relationship? i have the right to remain silent.

30. How did you first meet no.3? bashed him up along with his brother. haha! refer to qns 21..

31.How would you react if no.3 and no.10 are together? i would think they are nuts cos they are dudes.

32.Last question! What would you do if no.4 tells you she is pregnant? erm... depends on the context. if she's happily married next time then i would say congrats! if she suddenly tells me like on friday or something then i will laugh and ask if it's a joke. if she says yes i would say u're nuts to say a thing like that. if she says no then i will be shocked and maybe throw up first and ask how she got herself into this mess and who is the father. then if its a mistake i will comfort her and pray and stuff and help her whatever way i can. if its like rape then i will ask who is the guy, find him and beat him senseless. then ask her what is she gonna do. i think she'll keep the baby, so we can find a cool name for him:) then i can be a cool uncle guy to him and teach him football or something, watch movies and hang out (when he's older), hopefully he has some musical talent, then we can start a band or something. his poor family doesnt follow football, so i'll tell him all the great things abt liverpool and he can be a red:) oh yes, not forgeting no.4, well i think it will work out in the end if u trust in God:) maybe your son will be the second chosen one after me or something:) wow so cool hahaha. i love this question! oh if the baby is a girl then it's a totally different story..
ok i think i got a little carried away with that haha, it was such a good question lol!

33. Is this Quiz Long? kinda.. but ok lah. i'm just disappointed i didn't order them more randomly to get some interesting results haha.

ok think i should start studying soon.. or maybe i'll leave it to tmr... :)

(not) holiday

2008-06-20T18:19:00.002+08:00

well.. haven't had much time to rest after church camp.
the day we came back and the day after had to start planning for youth sunday, camp sharing, etc..
on 12june we went to toa payoh swensen's to celebrate michelle goh's birthday:) i had the fish-baked rice which is super nice, and the banana crumble (it rocks!!) then we walked quite a bit and took lotsa photos:/ not my thing, but oh well. haha. i like the phone booth one.
on 13 june (friday) went back to maris stella with crysi-z to collect o-level certs and testimonies. i think my testimony is quite good but it should be much more impressive. i'm quite disappointed with whoever wrote it haha! few more lines of good stuff wouldn't have hurt. but ok lah, it's actually not bad.
on sunday after church we went for lunch then went to plaza sing and played hide&seek cos we were super bored. haha! i went to hide in carrefour and survived:) half of the rest got caught. kinda stupid, considering how big PS is. cos they hid at lousy places like the bookstore haha!
this week stayed at home to study. i've done quite a bit for maths, some for physics, and only a bit for econs. but i'm gonna focus on econs the next few days til the paper on monday. then focus on maths again til the paper on wednesday, then focus on physics til the paper on friday. i'm not really gonna study much for chinese cos it can't really be studied. (chinese on thursday)
well, so my holiday has been the worst ever so far. haha.. worse than nov-dec hols 2006 when i had to study for retests to make sure i didn't have to drop any subject. (i didn't go for the retests in the end in a calculated move to make sure i really didn't have to drop haha!)
oh on tuesday went with dad, mum, e-sean and e-rae to novena square and we ordered the PLH shirts:) they should be delivered to church by next friday. then we ate at fish&co. the fish and chips are good! long time since i've had fish and chips haha.
on wednesday watched game6 of this year's NBA finals. boston beat lakers 131-92. O.o to clinch the series 4-2 :) wow. paul pierce, kevin garnett and ray allen were superb. and KG even cried at the post-match interview. i think it was something really special, cos it's the celtics 1st title in 22 years. and they're the most successful team in NBA franchise history with 17 titles. (lakers 14, bulls 6, san antonio 4) kinda like when liverpool won the champions league in 2005. it was really like WOW. and i have a knack of not watching the whole NBA season until the title clincher. haha. every year i just have to watch one match and that's the match that the title is decided. oh ya i was supporting the celtics cos san antonio were knocked out by the lakers, and i've never really liked the lakers anyway. even though they are quite good. now boston celtics are my 3rd favourite team after san antonio and chicago bulls haha!
then also saw that "bubble boy" was showing on some other channel so watched it. it's so funny! hahaha. i think i wanna get the CD. i think it's quite romantic too.
then went to school to study physics.
yesterday had maths tuition. i think it was quite useful. but i'm still not confident for any of my papers. (as usual)
then today just stayed at home the whole day. some people who i don't know are coming over for dinner i think.
i'm stuck at home til next friday when my exams are over. then i'll play abit. then i think i'll start studying. i just realised if i don't study hard my a-levels gonna die cos now the mid-years already like so tough, according to my maths tutor, a-levels will be 4 times as tough as this. heh. i say that i'll start studying, but it remains to be seen if i really DO study. everytime during the year have no motivation til JUST before an exam. haha.
yeah well.. that's all for now.
i think i need to update more if not the blog will be dead. i think i will update with some lyrics of songs next time just like joe. heh, don't mind if i borrow the idea dude..
wahahaha

CJC and Church Camp 2008

2008-06-10T13:38:00.003+08:00

well i'm finally back from my camps!
CJC leadership camp was pretty good! learnt quite a bit and had lots of fun.
first day we climbed bukit timah hill which was pretty ok for me.
2nd day we had stuff like flying fox and some pole jump thing and some problem-sloving stuff.
3rd day was things like rock-climbing and abseiling and WARGH games. i won a mission for my group cos i went to hide in some think undergrowth and didn't get caught by the enemy team. i suffered tons of mosquito bites but they're gone now haha.
my group was really fun and everyone was real cooperative:)
then i had to leave early on the last day for church camp in malacca.

anws what i wanna talk more about cos it's still fresh in my memory is church camp!!!
arrived in camp kinda gong-gong cos i slept in the car on the way after my Cj camp. got into my room (216) with the twins and jon quek. at night we just had PLH orientation and got into our groups. my group was the RED group and we gave ourselves the name ELMO! hahaha. michelle goh was leader, i was assistant, then there was grace, sharon, shane, lucas, gwendolyn, ben kee, amanda ng, and tiffany. our group was pretty quiet at first i think but during the camp we got louder haha. we had birthday parties at night for lydia and kurt too lol. slept pretty late.
woke up the next morning for devotion and we went near the swimming pool to do it. i went to look at the sea and it really struck me how awesome God is to have made everything on earth:)
our group was aiming to win best skit and so we did lots of rehearsals. i mean, really alot!!! everytime we had free time we just did it and went over the play again and again. haha. in the afternoon we had beach games too. there was a treaure hunt and we had to build sandcastles. i must say i really enjoy being in a group as well as part of youth comm. we can organise the games AND play them too!! haha. the best part i get to make some new friends in my group:)
then we had demolishing of sandcastles (YOU FOOLS!) haha.
then there was poisonball which shane and lucas won for the two games we played. good on you guys!! although the guys kinda tried to eliminate all the girls first, so we apologise for that:/ i was eliminated pretty unluckily for both games i think:( one funny bounce on the sand and one when i was unsuspecting on the ground. but oh well. haha. my group's sandcastle was pretty good i think. there was a wall and everything. oh and before the people arrived the youth comm had to bury the treasure hunt stuff and when we had finished, we were body-slamming each other in the sand haha. weile and yiren were trying to tackle me and i also pulled grace and yiying into the sand haha. played guitar for the worship in the evening and my group did more rehearsals into the night. we finished abt 11plus haha.
on the 3rd day i woke up a few minutes late for devotion and then we had buzz groups and everything. my group did final rehearsals in the afternoon and then we had free time. it was the twin's birthdays so they and michelle goh followed my family to mahkota where we shopped. then we had dinner with them too although the place was kinda stupid but the food was nice at least. the person cooking the food also looked quite skillful but jon and i didnt want to eat the prawns so when nobody was looking we threw them into the dustbin thing on the stove haha!! like some game lol. then we came back at night and everyone else was rehearsing their skits i think. i was watching football in room 839 til 2am. super boring game but it's the first match i've watched in a month.
8 june: PLH FIESTA!!! i skipped my lunch cos had to prepare everything for the fiesta. the groups were all there by 2.15pm and we let them into the dark room group by group. i don't think they were really scared but all we wanted was the effect when we turned on the lights and played the funkytown music haha. youth comm did some mini-dance which was not rehearsed haha. then we got into our groups and took photos. there was the cheer competition next which our group tried not to do well for cos we wanted to win best skit haha. every group didnt really cheer well cos i think they were all preparing for the skits and forgot all abt the cheers haha. the skit competition was great!! cos our group won haha! all our hard work really paid off i think and the whole team really put in alot of teamwork and cooperation to coordinate the whole play. i think hui xian and uncle kok choo got it on video. i head hui xian is putting it up on youtube lol. we might have to do it on youth sunday too:) everyone really acted really well on the real thing and the actual performance was much better than any of the rehearsals we did. altho i must say the other groups were pretty good too.
the prizes were:
best skit - ELMO! (tio emo) (red)
best cheer - mata gang (blue)
best sandcastle- sunshine (yellow)
best photo - shut up (purple)
best costume - tigger tio diarrhoea (orange)
best team spirit - don't tell you (green)
i must say the prizes were given out more easily then i expected haha. as in, the prizes really suited the groups and i don't think any group was second place for the prize they received. due to the youth comm wanting every group to have a prize.
my group got 2nd for cheers, team spirit, and costumes. and 3rd for sandcastle too:) splendid job.
at night was Worship Xplosion!! had to play guitar. there were 14 songs in total and my fingers were really getting it bad from playing the guitar. haha. but it was worth it to see the whole PLH jumping and singing for the songs. why not it be like that for EVERY week!?:)
then after worshipX i went to room 839 to play cards with sam and eric and kurt and marie.
last day was just checking out and everything. went to have lunch and shop in the afternoon with hannah, grace, and jon quek. then slept on the way home.
what a great camp. i didn't really expect it to turn out this good and thx to all the youth comm for all the effort put in. it's been really stressful and tiring. and i can't stop now cos we still have to organise youth sunday and stuff like that. plus i have to study for my midyrs which is up in two weeks. haha. never ending. but oh well.. thank God for such a great and successful camp. and all the bonds made and everything:)
i can't really think of much else to write at the moment. lots of stuff that still needs to be done. i mean, alot!! in school, football, comm, everything! it's really never-ending:( i can't wait to get into the army, then i can just focus on that and have less stuff to do. haha. or maybe it'll be more busy then:/ oh well..
just have to leave the rest to God and just do what i can. ok, it's back to work now!

aipgfaenofjao['g,

2008-05-28T16:47:00.004+08:00

well... the holidays have arrived... not much of a holiday actually...
tmr have to go back to school for a full day of physics..
ok but friday and saturday is free, so that's good.
then sunday go church and have youth comm meeting to finalise everything for church camp.
then next week is a whole week of camps, including church camp, then after church camp got 2 weeks to do revision for maths, econs, and physics. cos right after the hols is the H2 papers.
there's no football training until end of midyear exams so it's a good rest i guess. though considering the form i'm in, i wouldn't mind having training..
before the hols had gp and geog h1 papers.. i think i should be able to pass.. or maybe not for geog heh.
nothing much happening.. just preparing for church camp. should be fun for the PLHers. youth comm has almost finished preparing everything.
i think that's all.. not much else to say.

big boot to the face!!!

2008-05-10T21:07:00.002+08:00

well.. got some time now since there's no football tonight. tmr night then the epl season climaxes. all matches played at 10pm and shown at the same time on different channels!!! ahh!!! i have a super lot of dilemmas!! should i watch the liverpool game? but we've got nothing else to play for this season! should i watch man u and chelsea?? title race deciders!! or should i watch the relegation dog fights??? see who survives out of reading, birmingham and fulham to live to fight another day in the best league in the world!! hmm.. i think i'll switch channels every 5minutes!! haha.. mum and dad are coming back tmr night too. nooo!! i mean, yay!! hahaha. man, we really need to fix our living room TV. i miss watching it on champions league nights. mum and dad's room is real cold in the middle of the night and i need to bring my own blanket there.
hmm... studies-wise i guess i'm still ok... don't understand what's going on half the time actually lol. ok, that's not okay heh.. mid-years are fast approaching!!! totally dead!!!! hopefully i can survive somehow, like how i've done all these years.
church camp is around the corner too!!! need to start planning everything!!! program has been pretty much decided. just need to fill in all the little details which decide the outcome of the big games! haha. read too many of rafa's interviews already.
well.. suddenly i've found myself starting three consecutive games for cjc! wow. like, totally exceeded all my aims and expectations this year. at the start of the year, it was just to get into the cca, then it became no.1 priority to get into the A-division squad. soon, sitting on the bench contented me, and my 7-min debut was like whoo!!!!! then playing the last part against sr, and then starting my first full game against mj. then due to my performance at sports day, coach said i deserved to start against anderson. we beat them 2-0. :) i could have scored early on, but pity the volley fell to my left leg instead of my right. then i started again against acsi. we lost that one 2-1.. pretty much finishing our season. i could have scored from a corner near the end of the first half, but my effort was just inches wide with the keeper beaten. think i should have thrown myself at the ball, instead of trying to touch it in with my left leg... why don't my chances fall to my right boot!!!??? :( well, that's no excuse.. the ref was totally crap lah. gave me a booking just cos i was too close to the freekick and the guy kicked it and i blocked it. i'm pretty sure i was 10yards away, dumb ref. blind mouse.. in any case it's a soft booking to give, since it was only 5min into the game. then the rest of the match i had to watch my tackles and couldn't go in hard, for fear of being sent off. cos the stupid ref gave a freekick for EVERYTHING. worse than epl refs.. now i'm suspended for our last game on monday against hwa chong.. -.- (two yellow cards accumulated means a one-match suspension) oh well... at least something good is gonna come out of that... cos... i am ironmannnn... :) 7pm at j8.. it's a crysiz... hahaha...
so now it's for me to hold on to my first team spot. have to keep playing well to ensure i become a regular starter:) it won't be that hard if i keep doing what coach says i think. yup!
and triple H is the new wwe champion!! 12-times baby!! hahaha.
IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!!!

football, football, and more football!!!

2008-05-02T19:50:00.002+08:00

ok why there are 3 footballs is cos there are 3 things about football to talk about!!
first, cjc's A-division season is virtually over. it's still mathematically possible to qualify for the semi-finals but i think mj just has to get one more point and we won't be able to catch them. we lost to serangoon jc 3-0 last friday. i got to come on as a sub for the last 20min or so, but by then we were already 2-0 down so couldn't do much. let in an unlucky first goal, and it just crumbled after that..
then on tuesday we played against mjc. we drew 1-1 with them. what a great result! just that we could have actually got a win!!:(:( it's like some fulham team drawing with arsenal lah. haha. and wow what a surprise! i actually STARTED the game!:D like wow. before the match, we were warming up and coach suddenly told me i was starting. so i was like o.O to throw me into the starting line-up in the MJC game is like o.O!!!?? MJC dude!!! best team in the country along with vjc! heh, so had to get focused. but lotsa stupid things happened. first, my glasses strap came out and i threw it to the bench to help me get it fixed. then they somehow got it fixed, so i wore it back, but when i went for the next header it broke! o.O then they somehow got it fixed again lol. good thing 2nd half nothing happened to it lol. i think we actually played as well as mj, if not better than them, so a draw was disappointing, but still admirable. i was playing centre midfield in a 5-3-2 formation. i think i more than equalled their center midfielders:) but our season is kinda over still.. haha..
2nd thing.. liverpool have been knocked out of the champions league!!! :(:( dang.. looks like risse's own goal in the first leg proved decisive. without it, we would be through to the final cos of torres' away goal. but oh well.. another thing the a-division has taught me is that football is like that- you win some, you lose some. don't matter how well you play, in the end, it's a funny game and so many unexpected things can happen. so you just have to live with it, and get on with the game..
3rd thing.. today was cjc sports day!! i had to do time-keeping for the track events cos i'm my class PE rep. didn't participate in any events this year cos i didn't go for the heats. can't remember why, probably cos i was busy with football or something. our class won interclass basketball. nico is a monster!!! that guy is yao ming in disguise or something lol. he gets EVERY rebound!! haha.
we had interclass football too. my interclass record has not been good actually. i've only ever played two games, one in pri 4 which we lost 3-0 and one in sec 2 which we lost 1-0. so i've never scored in an interclass football match before, let alone win one. but today.. the interclass hoodoo was finally broken!!:)
1st group game - 5-0. i managed to grab a hat-trick for this, before subbing out to let rahim play.
2nd group game - 6-1. got another hat-trick. then subbed out again to let rahim play. also needed to conserve energy for the upcoming matches.
semi-final - 2-2. got both goals in a topsy-turvy match which their centreback was body-slamming me the whole day. 1st half he had my number but 2nd half when we started punting more balls along the channels for me to chase then i got the better of him. scored a great volleyed equaliser before grabbing what i thought was to be the winner. but they got a last min equaliser and it went to penalties where we lost 3-1. i was supposed to be our last kicker but didnt get to take cos we lost before my kick. oh well.. disappointed.. but.. that's football.. at least i feel proud to have lost to the winning team. and kenneth ching scored at crucial times for their team in both the semifinal and final.
3rd&4th placing - 5-0. i scored 4 for this game. bringing my total tally for the tournament to 12 goals in 4 games. i counted, and it's confirmed i'm the top scorer for this year's event. too bad they don't have a golden boot award:( kenneth ching was 2nd with 10 goals. heh. but coach was watching and i think he might have been taking notice of it. i might have solved his fox-in-the-box problem lol.
so i guess today was a fun day.. disappointed not to have gone up to get a medal, but i guess i can take pride in the fact i won the non-existing golden boot award. haha. heh.. i think this is the 1st sports day since primary school which i've not gone up to take a medal. and this is the most fun sports day i've ever had. maybe cos for sports day in holy innocents' pri and maris stella we don't have interclass football.. hmm...

football stuff!

2008-04-24T20:31:00.004+08:00

ok posting here again which is a surprise haha, considering the little time i have.
but yesterday and today stayed home cos i've been sick. hopefully will be well enough to go back to school tmr cos i needa catch up on all the missed lessons!!
liverpool drew with chelsea 1-1 too but it's only the first leg. bad news is chelsea have an away goal which means we'll have to score at stamford bridge no matter what. super unlucky. risse scored an own goal with the very last touch of the game. sigh.. but that's football.. i don't understand the 4min added on anws. and the ref was total crap. gave chelsea a foul for everything. but i'm confident that we can still go through to the final:)
we (cjc) lost to vj 1-0 too, last thursday. though coach said it was the best performance from a cj team in 4 years. we lost to an unlucky goal too. other than that i think we matched vj in terms of play. football is a cruel game..
on monday we lost to innova jc 2-0. lack of focus and too much complacency lah. but at least i got to play the last part and coach said i played well:) he blasted the rest of the team though.
so that's played 4, win 2, lose 2 so far for our A-div season. 6pts from a possible 12. our season is virtually over unless we get a win against mj and hope they slip up elsewhere.
hmm.. other than that i don't think i have much else to say..

finally

2008-04-15T20:29:00.003+08:00

whoops looks like i haven't updated for abt 3 weeks. been really busy with school and everything else.. studies have been wack. need to balance with football too. trainings have been killer. and quite a number of them get postponed last minute cos of the bad weather as well-.- haven't been playing that well during training i think. good news is we're still 2 for 2 in the a-div, beating dunman high and millenia institute so far. the big game against vj is on thursday. been really tired out during this second term. not been able to sleep much.
well, at least there were some good things that have happened in the last 3 weeks. there was the maroon 5 concert which i went with YC. whooo real cool!!! once in a lifetime experience. we were 12 rows from the front and the music was super loud we almost went deaf haha. but worth the $185. lol.
went for the st. nicks fiesta with the twins, YC and renyi. pretty fun. just a pity renyi couldn't win a prize hahaha. and the root beer float was great!
april fools was pretty quiet. didnt do as many pranks as i did last year. though i managed to do quite a few good sms ones. the best being on mum when i told her i was going out with a girl for lunch hahaha.
last week was pretty lousy though. not one of my best weeks ever. actually it's not much but i think everything is just piling up as usual. so i'll probably endure for quite a while more til the end of the year and then i'll get emo again during nov/dec. that's been the trend for the last 2yrs haha.
oh we went to watch semi-pro too! haha. funny show. was laughing throughout. it's one of those typical nonsense will ferrell shows, so unless u have that kind of sense of humour, don't go haha. it's the kind of show like dodgeball, blades of glory, balls of fury, ya that kinda stuff lol..
oh yeah and liverpool beat arsenal and are through to the champions league semis!!:) next up is chelsea. looks like man utd are running away with the epl title too, unless chelsea can somehow stop them. any team but man u, please, i can't take it anymore.
well... what i have on my hands is football, studies, youth comm, PLH band, etc and all these already takes up all my time and energy la. physically i'm getting tired. hmm.. i'm getting along pretty well with my classmates so socially it's ok.. mentally- looking at my studies i say mentally i'm er... bleagh.. spiritually not been able to catch up on my bible reading and quiet time.. so also needs some work.. emotionally not good as well.
ah well.. just keep going cos once you stop you're dead. haha.
not much else i can think of right now..
not sure when the next update will be cos of school and everything. anws, will see how often i have time to use the computer..
peace out people. make sure you bring an umbrella with you when you go out. cos singapore is raining down on me.

easter retreat

2008-03-23T18:29:00.003+08:00

today there was no PLH in church so for the first time in a few weeks was quite relaxed haha. got confirmed during the 8.45 service along with marie and kara. and people like hannah, yiying, cybil and rebecca got baptised. quite amazing to see all of us who have known each other for so long now go through this on the same day. now we are all ready to live our lives for Christ and be members of the church, from last time quarreling during sunday school and stuff like that lol. personal thoughts about getting confirmed won't be here cos i'm also not so sure what to write about. i pretty much did all my decision making back in december so there's nothing much new i guess? was thinking how funny i would look getting confirmed without my hair lol. oh ya i forgot to mention, CJ soccer team has had to shave our heads for team bonding so now i'm nearly bald hahaha... anws after service quite a few of us went up to the MPH to play the music instruments. quite funny to see all of us so interested in music. it's such a wonderful thing actually:) haha. david and jon and i were playing backstreet boys songs on the three guitars lol. actually the two of them have really improved alot. main thing now i think is to work on their strumming.

well now it's time to talk abt the easter retreat! first i must thank the youth comm for putting in alot of effort and ideas to make the camp possible and the great organisation throughout the camp as well. special thx to yiying who was chairperson of the whole easter retreat:) and uncle sim kang and all the mentors like aunty cat who helped as well:) the seniors who came back to help conduct the games were really really alot of help as well! took alot of things off the youth comm's hands which i am super duper grateful for.

ok, first day youth comm had to reach church early at 2pm to prepare for the people coming at 3pm. i was at the registration counter with my crew cut and army cap so i think it must have been like registering for the army to those people who came for camp lol. i was kinda barking out loud orders as well. haha. sorry, too much NCC in me:) then after grouping them up on the spot we told them all their groups. for this camp youth comm decided to let youth comm members be part of the groups to help foster fellowship. and also to have a young person as the leader (prepare for the next generation of PLH leaders! lol) and an older person to be assistant leader to help out the leader. the group names were the most creative word the leader could think up, and it's quite sad to see some of them having their vocabulary limited to words like "baldy" and "botak" lol.. then we had mass games which were all quite fun but i dont think i'm bothered enough to write abt it haha. at night we had 3 talks as well. dad's talk was probly the most interesting as it concerned BGR haha! dont really wanna resay what he said but i think the main point is we are not ready yet fullstop. i also read a funny bible passage to the PLH during my night announcement. it's 2Kings 2:23 onwards. go check it out yourself! then at night after youth comm meeting and having some band prac, went to the conference room to sleep. it was abt 1am when i went in. talked to david and jon til 3am, then david took out his phone and played "shape of my heart" by the backstreet boys and started singing. then as usual i sang along as well lol. jon joined in too and we sang lots of songs like toybox ones (tarzan&jane, the sailor song, best friend) then some other backstreet boys songs like "i want it that way". actually it's so cool that we still like these songs now cos they're quite old, like about 10 yrs ago i think haha:) then some worship songs like "testify to love" and "our god saves" and "rain down". easter retreat of cos must sing worship songs man! lol. actually david jon and me have quite a cool singing thing cos there are 3 of us then two can sing the normal part then the last one can sing the different part or echos, like a cool arcapella. especially since backstreet boys songs got a lot of other special effects hahaha. and those songs like "testify to love" we know we would "zao sia" so we purposely do it very funnily and cause the whole room to laugh haha! real hilarious, i think the whole room was having lots of fun at 4am in the morning. ok i slept for like 2 hrs and woke up at 6.30am. all the boys were up already and as usual, i'm the last to wake up during camp lol.

2nd day we had the workshop in the morning. actually it's quite standard cos it was just talking abt no sex til after marriage which i already know. so kinda hard to pay attention during the thing. can't believe how they had a workshop for 4hrs just on that one topic o.O ok, but credit to the two people who presented it to us cos they put in alot of effort. after that was the amazing race! the stations were all walking distance around church and we had to be back in church by 3.45pm. oh yes, my group is called "botak". thanks alot to keng gene our group leader. but i must say with two groups being named after me there is no question about my influence LOL. keng gene was group leader, jon fong was assistant leader, members in comm were me and samantha. other members were like kara, amanda, jon quek, christel leong, daphne, daniel, ben kee, si'en, sheryl and peter fu. amazing race was pretty fun! first station was at scape park and we had to do stupid nursery rhymes with actions in front of a crowd lol. "we're from raffles!" but anyone seeing si'en's st. nick's pe shirt would have known we were lying haha! then 2nd station was at smu had to solve puzzles and do star jumps. 3rd station was at fort canning where we had to pick up chopsticks with our toes. last station was at plaza sing. had to take photos of items in the super market so we split up. si'en and i were one group and had to take photos of some lime bitters thing, which we think is a spice, and alphabeto which was some pasta lol. after LOTS of searching at the pasta section we finally found the alphabeto thing hahaha. so stupid la lol. then last part no time already so didnt manage to find the lemon lime bitters. had to rush back to church and our group came in 3rd place. really felt like a real amazing race! just that the prizes were goodies and not a million bucks. think the seniors were superb in thinking up the stations cos it was really creative!:)
ok then back to church were we had some wrestling matches. despite not being fully fit i still decided to put my title on the line cos i am a fighting champion! HAHA. first up was jon! actually jon is quite big but somehow i can beat him everytime. so my record against jon is 3 out of 3 lol. this time was relatively fast compared to the royal rumble match at BBC. but it still tired me out. then next was david. after the tough match against jon i was in poor condition to face david but i didnt care cos it was just so fun that i wanted to wrestle lol. this time david was harder to pin than during BBC. it was quite a close fight. at the first part i almost lost cos david did a fast attack that got me on the ground and i managed to get out of it in the knick of time. it woke me up a bit that it was gonna be tough so i decided to go in harder. david was trying alot of fast attacks at my knee to get me off the ground but after his first pin attempt i was ready so could counter them. i had many close pinfalls on david but he managed to get out of them except for one at the last part which i think he was already pinned but he said his other shoulder was not down yet. so was pretty disappointed that i couldnt beat him in the end cos i had been more offensive but dad came in to stop us cos we were late for the final debrief so the match could not be concluded. there was a good crowd too cos the boys were watching so we gave them a fun match! haha. so i will be working hard to keep in shape for the next match cos david is the no.1 contender to my championship and also bcos jon will be looking for revenge haha. we havent played pool for awhile as well and i think i'm still the champion since our last game haha.

well i think easter retreat was really good! great job to youth comm once again! think we are getting better at working together and there's still church camp to come! it was great that si'en could come too! glad you had fun haha. only pity is that you missed the talks.

well.. this week is gonna be quite packed again. but i guess i'm more or less getting used to it. tmr is our first A-division match of the season against dunman high. dont think i'll be playing cos i still havent got my jersey yet! stupid shop take so long. then tuesday the jersey will arrive and also going to maroon 5 concert with YC!:) then wed got light football training and parent-teacher meeting. thursday is A'div match against hwa chong and friday will most likely have training again. then sat is the st.nick's fiesta and sunday is church again. also need to go make contact lens to wear during competitive games. besides all these still got to do school work and all that jazz. haha.

and tonight is the BIG GAME!!! the biggest game in the world: when liverpool meet manchester united! tonight will be at old trafford so it's a bit daunting but i think liverpool definitely have a good chance of putting one over our great rivals. if the whole team plays well and players like torres, gerrard and mascherano are on song then i think we can get the win. it's been too long since a win in the league against the scum so really can't wait for the game haha. still got about 2hrs more til 9.30pm. then the other game is chelsea vs arsenal. hope arsenal win and hopefully we can do arsenal a favour in the title race by beating man utd and at the same time having some hope ourselves cos if we win tonight it's an 8-point gap with 7 games to go in the season. oh man can't wait! haha.

ok i think i've said too much. this post is probably a good contender for longest post i've ever done lol. i end now.

argh

2008-03-19T21:46:00.003+08:00

ok the workload is getting to me.. got lotsa stuff to do. such as preparing for easter retreat, quite alot of school work, football trainings and everything else.. super tired. i will go straight to sleep right after this post.. been coming home like 8pm everyday this week and having a late dinner. football team has morning run tmr at 6.45am... and school ends at 5pm tmr. what nonsense.. then there's easter retreat on friday. which means not alot of sleep too.. getting real tired. headache sia.. i'm getting a bit irritable too.. guess that's what happens when you sleep too little. i've only had like half a term of school lah. dunno how i'm gonna survive the next 3 terms. 9 more months.. but next year gonna be even more busy.. die die liao.
had football training today too. super tiring. think i have a fair chance of getting into the A-division squad. we're giving coach a selection headache. so he says tmr he'll tell us who's in the team and who's not. supposed to tell us on monday but he still hasn't decided yet. then the A-division tournament starts next week too. so if i'm selected there'll be no time to rest of whatever.
oh well, no choice. just have to keep going. think i need a very very good afternoon nap this sunday before the man utd vs liverpool game at 9.30pm. that's something to look forward too:)

march holiday

2008-03-15T14:20:00.002+08:00

well i would say this week has been a pretty ok one. the holidays have been more of a holiday than i initially expected.
monday and tuesday had to go back to school for extra lessons and football training.
wednesday went out with joe. haven't been able to do that for quite some time for some reason.. so it was a great time:) met at bishan library in the morning to study. i don't think we were very successful. ended up talking quite abit. but hey i rather catch up with me best bud than with my studies haha:) then we went to the gym to lift some weights. yeah could feel the burn in our muscles. then went to the stadium to run for awhile. gave up soon after lol. too tired out from gym liao. leg muscles feeling alot of strain. then went to j8 to catch a movie. ran into si'en there too, so coincidental lah haha. watching different movies but at the same time. joe and i watched waterhorse. think it wasn't very good. i think the best way to put it would be.. it was a typical children's bedtime story. no moral, not much action.. lousy story too i think.. the only cool part would be when the waterhorse was a cute baby. but it grew to a giant in less than a week. what a waste. "cruusooe!!!! cooomme!!!" that's the only cool quote of the whole show LOL.
after the show joe and i walked around for awhile but soon realised there was nothing to be done at j8, so went to his house. watched "balls of fury" there. super funny lah. hahaha. laughed until stomach pain xD then played fifa on their xbox too. i got trashed in every game by jeremy and jordan lah. think cos they upgraded all the arsenal players to stats 99. liverpool put up tough fights but in the end lost by scores like 7-0 HAHA...
thursday went back to school for econs project. then evening went out with family for dinner. we saw some little girl wearing a man utd jersey and dad said "hammer her" hahaha. ate quite alot and shopped around:/
yesterday went to macritchie for football training. had to run 2 rounds of the route, so it amounted to like 9.6km. count in the slopes and everything it's about 10km lah. finished first in the team again. that may be good for me but like dad said, i think it's not good for the team. i just got into the team two weeks ago and i'm already faster than them. i think a-division our stamina levels could be in trouble. but i've seen them on the pitch lah. so we should be ok actually.. the team is quite well-built and strong. skill level wise definitely better than what i was used to at maris stella.
champions league quarter final draw is out too. liverpool will play arsenal, chelsea vs fenerbache, barcelona vs schalke and man utd vs roma. the semi-finals will be
liverpool/arsenal vs chelsea/fenerbache
man utd/roma vs barca/schalke
if liverpool are to win a 6th champions league we could have to play arsenal, then chelsea, and then man utd in the final. if we win it like that i think it will be the greatest champions league win ever. haha:) but i think arsenal are the worst team to get. personally i would rather have gotten man utd, chelsea or barca all over arsenal. i bet we could beat those teams much easier than arsenal. but recently the gunners have not been in the best of form, so maybe it's ok to play them. but i'm sure by april they will be ready for us. so i'm hanging on the fact that the 2nd leg will be played at anfield. and there's a slight chance that roma will take revenge over man utd too. and i'm sure lots of people will love that. well, we'll see how it all shapes out. april is gonna be very, very exciting. lots of big games coming up. liverpool still have to play man utd and arsenal. and of cos the big merseyside derby at anfield. always the highlight of my season:)
alright, gonna watch the musical later this evening. so i've got the afternoon to either slack, or do some revision.. hmm...

huh

2008-03-11T15:00:00.003+08:00

hey people! last week was ok. just went for lectures and tutorials. and football training as well:) good thing there's the one week march holiday break now though. altho i still have to go back to school for extra lessons and football training i DO still get to rest a bit. lol. normally nowadays in singapore we dont get much rest..
easter retreat is coming up as well. so youth comm has to organise that. hope there will be a bigger turnout than for games day though..
games day was initially disappointing due to the no. of people who went but i think the youth comm worked really well to think up new games on the spot. not just new games, but fun ones too! the mass games were fun, dirty and wet. dont really wanna elaborate cos i've already posted on the PLH blog. haha.
the boys played street soccer too. actually we played too much soccer haha.. and i got a big blister for playing bare-footed-.-
YC and si'en came and turned out to be the only newcomers there.. disappointing!! but i'm sure they had fun:)
there was badminton and table tennis afterwards too. it ended by 4pm. i'm pretty sure that everyone had fun:) think the organisation and stuff still can be improved but it's the first assignment for youth comm so it's still a learning process..
other than that i dont think i have much to talk about.:/

latest breaking news

2008-03-04T18:27:00.003+08:00

hey people! will do a short update here!!!
first up is the video on youtube of my song for joe's bday. yeah i wrote the song myself:) go to youtube and search for "joseph's birthday!" many thanks to hui xian who did the video:) think my voice sounds quite distorted. and hui xian wasn't able to catch the first verse. but it's still cool:) haha. thanks to the band who played too (liesl, amanda, athelia & gabriel), tim for the PA management and hannah for helping present the birthday cake!
also i've got into the CJ soccer team!:) actually wanted to try as striker, but the team for the trials had two strikers who weren't willing to play any other position. so i consented to play in midfield instead. think it was actually why the coach picked me, cos i was running up and down the field the entire game. he asked me to play defensive midfield afterwards, think cos i was organising the defence pretty ok and making some good tackles to protect the back four. yup, i'm actually quite excited to be playing in this new role!:D from now on gonna watch players like mascherano, alonso, makalele, etc.. real closely to see how to play it well. training is real tough, about 3-4 times a week. then to make it into the A-div squad will need to run 3km in 12min and attain 12.0 for beep test! o.O in sec school i think i got 10.4. so need to improve on that over the march hols!
during march hols also need to go back to school for bridging lessons cos i missed the first 6 weeks of school. lol. work is piling up too. gotta revise and stuff:( jc seems quite tough..
also, the PLH games day is this saturday!! gotta make sure everything is good to go. organising and stuff.. real hectic. now gotta do a real tough balancing act, juggling studies (catching up on first 6 weeks as well as making sure i'm still following now), football, church (comm and band) plus everything else like family, friends, etc..
dang.. then tonight gotta do all my work, some stupid GP paper which is actually gonna be our CA1 grade.. plus revise maths, econs and physics.. plus some other stuff which i can't remember now haha...
ok cya soon! post frequency doesnt look like it's gonna rise with the amount of work i'm gonna get..

posting results

2008-02-22T18:37:00.005+08:00

ok sorry i'm late in updating again haha. well for those of you who still dont know, i've been posted to CJ. it was my 3rd choice lol. just like for sec sch when maris stella was my 3rd choice..
i'm not the kind that gets easily influenced in a new place so fast. so i wont be going on about how great or how bad it is. in my mind is just the standard answer: it's ok. haha. its not particularly great or bad. so i guess that's ok. though the other people around me seemed very enthu at first. then i realised these people were there for 1st part of the year. so maybe in a month's time i might be quite enthu also haha.
to be honest when i got the posting on tuesday i was kinda shocked and a little disappointed cos i had expected to go to either SA or NY but looks like their cut-off dropped quite a bit. after a while then i realised i was going to be a cj student. so started making plans in my mind. like.. what cca to join, how to go to school everyday, etc.. so was pretty fine after that. actually thought of appealing to either SA or NY but decided against it. so yup, i'll be staying in CJ for the next 2 years.
orientation's been... ok.. i've been more quiet. instead of getting into a groove i've been just sitting back a little, observing how they do stuff around the place. listening to what the principal has to say, trying to get a feel of what i'll be having for the next 2 years. and stuff like that. looks like i actually do that more nowadays instead of talking non-stop (i hope! maybe in PLH still talk alot haha) yup, then making a few friends here and there. my IG is 18 by the way. there are like 22 people inside? so i can't remember who all of them are or what're their names. and IG i guess you just make a few friends? then next week when u get into your confirmed class then can make friends with all of them lor. haha. yup, getting to see different types of people and stuff. guess jc is a good place to learn about life lol.
the orientation games have been pretty ok. first day was more ice-breakerish. 2nd day (yesterday) was like.. dirtier games. both in the cleanliness and er... boy-girl dirty aspect. dont wanna elaborate.. though dodgeball was fun:) guess it was fun for me cos i managed to eliminate 4 out of 10 of the other IG playing with us;)
today went to east coast park for really dirty games!! lucky nothing with the opposite sex. just getting wet and stuff. then came back to cj for the CCA bazaar. went round to look only at er.. 3 things. 1st choice football (trials on monday. looks hard to get in since they're only gonna accept one or two more players) 2nd choice fitness club. (build on your fitness and stuff like that. going to the gym , etc..) 3rd choice guitar ensemble (but more to the classical guitar side. so looks like my fingers will get faster if i join it) yup.. with the rate my sec sch and jc posting results came out, i'll probly get my 3rd choice again hahaha. same goes with my wife. i'll probly marry my 3rd girlfriend (touch wood!! i just wanna have one first and last girlfriend! if possible. ok, enough about this...)
learning the mass dance has been er... argh dancing is NOT my thing!!! like really NOT MY THING!!! i can't dance for nuts. but oh well, since everyone is doing it so i also just follow abit. if given a choice i would rather not have a mass dance. especially since we have to dance with a girl partner. my partner is ok i guess. at least she's not a not enthu person. but i still dont like dancing.. argh.. what am i talking about?? i hate it!!! dancing stinks. to me at least. sorry to all those dancers out there..
already bought my uniform and PE attire since i'm confirmed staying in cj.
what else...
oh ya cos of orientation so have not been able to prepare properly for the PLH games day. but good thing managed to sort most of the things out, so it should be ready to go!:)
oh, subject combination.. well cj doesnt have my preferred combi of H2 math, econs, geog and H1 physics. so had to put 1st choice combi as H2 math, econs and physics with H1 geog. its a science combi but good thing my pts allows me to take science combi anws. 2nd choice combi is H2 math, econs, geog and H1 chem:( 3rd choice combi is H2 math, econs, physics with H1 chem. hopefully i don't get my 3rd choice again!!!! i tell you, if i get my 3rd choice combi, plus 3rd choice cca, plus 3rd choice wife i'm like super unlucky la lol. whole life just get 3rd choice. haha.
but well, God has a plan for everything, so getting into my 3rd choices of maris stella and CJ have been no accidents. also plus holy innnocents pri sch. (i whole life also in catholic schools only lol) so yup, just gotta trust in Him for the next 2 years with whatever cca i join and whatever subject combi i take (plus whatever wife..) and everything else.
well.. guess that's all i can think about to update for now. sorry for the drop in update frequency. will try to er... increase the rate of post production. while balancing my studies, cca and youth comm stuff, etc etc...
stay tuned for the next chapter in the quite-exciting life of Lum I-Zack! hahaha. i go eat my dinner now. hungry hungry. hope its yummy yummy. i am very funny funny.

Valentines' Day

2008-02-14T22:31:00.002+08:00

well well well.. i'm posting for the first time in two weeks! sorry for taking so long but staying at home with no school is kinda boring and as a result, there's not much to post about.
yesterday went to hannah's house to teach her and yiying guitar. i think hannah improved and she probably can play some songs now hahaha.
but the interesting thing to talk about would be today! cos it's...
Valentines' Day!!!!
no, i didn't go out with a girl, like my parents think (HAHA), instead i went out with david and jon!! cos the 3 of us are single guys and have no girl to go out with on valentines' day! lol.. even if we did have some girls in mind to ask out, they are too busy and not free to go out with us. so we have no choice but to meet each other. according to david, we are the true man gang haha. after dinner we played pool at paradiz once again. this time i won the triple threat match 5-1-1. then we decided to play some one-on-ones to decide the champion. before the day started jon was the reigning champion and self-proclaimed "rightful champion". david was in the middle while i was in the last spot.
i lost to david and jon quite a few times at the start due to some unfortunate events, such as hitting the black ball in and it was just the two of them fighting for the championship. after the three of us battled many rounds, david was champion due to his new-found power ;);) jon's new jobless power got him in 2nd while i was still last. so the last match of the day i decided to have one more last chance at the championship and cashed in a pool-a-mania world heavyweight title shot against david. jon decided to give both me and david girl nicknames which will not be put up here LOL. in the end after a tight and grueling match, i managed to beat david and ended my long wait for the title!!:):):) looks like my "power" is greater than his haha. hopefully, liverpool will be able to play like me and end our 18-year long wait for the english title! my play is very tactical and unfortunate, just like liverpool. while david and jon's play are like arsenal, entertaining but also lucky hahahaha. well, what a good way to end valentines' day by becoming the pool champion of the true man gang lol. also, we managed to have more bonding time and i guess valentines' day should be something like that haha.
JC posting results will be on 19 Feb so my next post will probly be around there:)

short update

2008-01-31T20:51:00.000+08:00

decided to put SAJC arts first choice in the end. cos its 10 pts. my 12 minus 2 got 50-50 chance of going in i think. then 2nd choice nanyang. 3rd CJ. then if this 3 really cant go in then serangoon is my 4th choice haha.. decided to put arts stream for all of them cos wanna take H2 maths, econs, and geog. then H1 physics.
today went to suntec gelare with david to visit jon!! lol. and we got free milkshake and waffles too! hahaha.. then also saw this cool mini electric guitar at the music shop beside gelare. think i might wanna buy it so that next time go band prac or what dont need to bring around my heavy big electric guitar:D the set consists of the mini-guitar, guitar strap, picks, cable and bag. for $129. i think quite worth it lol. later ask dad if i can buy it hahaha.
then we went to play pool at paradiz as usual. this time david won the triple-threat match 5-2-2. then we decided to play a few one-on-ones. now the ranking between the three of us is jon first, david 2nd and me 3rd!!:(:( jon has improved alot from being the last to now being the champion. then i from first now become last! david is stuck in the middle haha. dont worry, i will be back to challenge for the top spot! lol.
well thats all for now. think i will go to mum and dad's office again tmr to work:)

O-level results

2008-01-26T02:07:00.000+08:00

well looks like i'm the last out of CRYSIz to post about my results haha. as usual i guess.
i must say i am really delighted with my results. an L1R5 of 12 doesnt come very often. ok, maybe it does for some people, but i'm pretty positively sure it doesnt come for people who wake up only 3 weeks before the O's. this is no joke. i really DID only start studying 3 weeks before the O's. for witness reviews, please consult CRYSIz members, maybe my classmates, my parents will testify to that as well.. my maid too cos she sees me slacking everyday at home lol..
but advice to those who have yet to take the O's.. DO NOT start studying last minute. serious. the only reason i got 12 is bcos of God's grace and mercy. i'm not sure if i deserved that 12. start as early as possible!! i cant say learn from my mistake, but i can say learn from my experience! haha..
well.. could see me teachers and classmates were real surprised with my 12. after 2 years of getting no less than 25 for my L1R5, i more than halved my score. that's gotta be something i guess.. my prelim score was 32pts. so i actually like.. halved my score and then minus 4pts.. if u count moderation its still 28, which is half then minus 2.. yup.. and looking at my record book i realised i NEVER passed a single chem exam from sec3-sec4. so a B3 was like a miracle to quite a few 4C ppl. amaths as well. prelim i got 27% for amaths. my A2 according to ryan was like.. square root times 10 plus 20.. o.O
full score is:
english A1
comb humans A2
emaths A1
amaths A2
chem B3
phy B3
bio B4
chinese C6 (duh.. lol..)

if u look back at the previous posts during oct-nov last yr i think u'd find that i hit my aim for every subject. except amaths got 2 instead of 1 and english got 1 instead of 2. but hey, who's complaining? and bio was better than expected.. thought i'd get a C6 lol... cos i decided to cast aside bio and focus on the other subjects. i don't know how u can NOT study a word of bio and still score a B4, but that's what i got. O.o!!! my essays were like... 4 lines of foolscap??? wow.. haha.
well.. i'm more satisfied with the realisation at how everything got hit so nicely on the dot than with the actual score itself. but i must really say this is something only God could do. you can't just do something like that in that amount of time by yourself i think.. this whole O-level thing has really led me to trust in Him alot more and realise that i dont need to worry that much at stuff cos He's got everything under control. as long as i have Him in mind. and sometimes when stuff happens like, u didnt hit a grade u wanted, or something happens that u didnt want to happen, and u dont know why things are seemingly turning bad, guess you just have to put ur trust in Him cos His plan is perfect and there's definitely a better reason why He let that happen to u.
but that doesnt mean u dont work for what u want and think "oh its ok, God will help me.."! i DID work during that 3 weeks. ok, maybe not as hard as other ppl... but i had a plan of what to do, and i was praying and drawing strength from God, praying that i had not woken up too late, etc.. came up with a strategy to get 12 pts, worked towards it, and well.. yeah... supposedly me frens said that i'm an inspiration to slackers.. er.. haha.. as much as i'd love that, i rather not cause ppl to slack and work last minute cos of my example.. so yeah. haha..
besides thanking God, i'd like to thank those ppl who've helped me along the way as well. me parents, mum helped me english too. actually i should say "my english".. that just shows u mum's standard of tuition.. HAHA! just kidding. A1 baby! my maid was barking at me everyday to study as well though i never listened to her. humans tutor, maths tutorss lol.. science tutor. and my school teachers as well.. cos i'm like a horrible student, dunno how they put up with me.. but yeah thanks.. like CRYSIz said... this guy CAN'T be the chairman of 4C in maris stella high!!!!! hahaha.. as in, surprised he's the chairman from behaviour and academic results, not that i shouldnt be allowed to be chairman or am not capable of being one. i'd like to think i was a very capable dependable responsible competent trustworthy..... zzz..... i thank CRYSIz too. for encouragement, support, and inspiration. as well as me best bud joe. for always being there to let me rant and discuss problems with. thx dudes.
eh actually why maris stella dont have like.. best-improved award from prelims to O-levels huh? i think i'd have a good chance to win that. lol..
think there's not much more to post about.. bottomline here is to just trust in God and believe that He has everything in plan for you.. like i put up in the last post, Romans 8:28 "For we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
peace out!

i'm just a kid, and life is a nightmare

2008-01-23T14:25:00.000+08:00

yeah i like that song.. "i'm just a kid" by simple plan. haha..
well.. haven't had the mood to post for a while.. guess i'm just thinking too much abt the o-level results that are coming out tmr.. so decided that i'll do a post today before i have no mood to post anymore cos of tmr. lol..
well.. what's been going on.. what's been going on? i'll tell you! my ez-link card has expired!! argh!! that doesnt mean i can't use it.. i can use it just fine, just that i've to pay adult fares now.. zzz.. two stops from hougang to serangoon cost me 93 cents!!! bus-fares are no better. but i realised the cost never goes above $2.. like i took from redhill to seragoon it cost me like.. $1.53? so actually the longer the journey, the more worth it the travel fare. sigh... just cos i'm not in a jc at the moment.. oh well..
went to work at me parents' office on monday too. did some stuff for me mum from 9am-5pm. heh.. actually quite fun. and the pay was worth it too lol.. think i'll be working there for awhile more :D til i'm posted to a JC in mid-feb. like 3 days a week from around 9am-5pm. yeah that's right... keep the greens coming in baby!!! hahaha..
well on to football... skip this part if you want... cos liverpool have not been doing well at all.. four consecutive draws in a row against weak opposition ain't gonna help our cause for a title challenge. i've already given up the title for another year.. it's getting frustrating to keep thinking "this is gonna be our year" every start of the season, only to think "next year is gonna be our year" during the mid-point of the season. it's getting pathetic, and kinda funny and laughable.. this is actually probably our best squad in a long time, at least since the time i started watching, which is around 8years ago.. not sure what is the cause.. the owners? or benitez? or the players? sigh.. 18 years without the title has been way too long..
hmm.. i haven't been able to play much football myself. haha. guess it's cos i'm not in school so nobody to play with. at least last week went to play with luke and his friends, and shawn quek and his friends. so could grab a few goals.. but looking back through past years records, this year has been the least no. of goals at this stage of the year:
23-1-02: 32 goals
23-1-03: 65 goals
23-1-04: 25 goals
23-1-05: 70 goals
23-1-06: 50 goals
23-1-07: 36 goals
23-1-08: 23 goals
oh well. guess as you get older and busier you'll just play less matches and score less goals.

sigh.. o-level results tmr.. lots of possible scores have been crossing my mind.. but i guess shouldnt think much abt it and like everyone else has been telling me, to just leave it to God. cos He'll have chosen what's the best result for me and where i should go after this.. so.. yup.. shouldn't worry.. actually worrying itself is a sin i guess.. cos like, it's a lack of faith? heh.. well i know one thing, my worse possible result is a 42 for L1R4. LOL. cos my chinese during may last year was a C6. haha.. so 6+9+9+9+9= 42. doubt that will get me anywhere though.. haha.. well that's the worstest-worst case scenario.
just have to remember Romans8:28. "for we know in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Synod friendly games

2008-01-14T14:14:00.000+08:00

yesterday was the synod friendly games, organised by our church. many thanks to shawn quek who did lots to make it possible:)
had to lead PLH worship first though. playing the guitar and leading at the same time is really hard work. cos u have to keep ur timing on the guitar and stuff like that. so u're focusing on it more than leading the people. oh well.. good learning experience i guess. heh dad was right abt it being hard, although he makes it look so easy. eee.. cheat my feelings.. LOL.
anws my new DG is pretty cool. uncle shih kiat's pretty nice. his lessons are quite fun and effective as well:) AND we end on time! hahaha...
so after lunch we all made our way down to kuo chuan for the games. football actually had a lack of people cos we submitted two teams. each team had only 8 players and since it was 7-a-side football, we only had one substitute for each team. i make it clear the teams were split evenly and there was no reserve team.
well our first game was against true way presbyterian. during the games in may last year we had trashed them 10-0. but this time they were playing a stronger team. we managed to control most of the game though, but only got the breakthrough after joe got hacked down cynically in the box. i put the penalty away for me first goal of the year!:) it looked like it was right above the cone and some referees may have not given it cos it may have been out but our referee gave it and that's football. we had plenty more chances to score but their defence was keeping it real tight. i managed to score a second with a well-drilled shot from long range into the bottom corner. made it safe with my hat-trick after a burst from midfield onto a loose ball. took it down on me chest and volleyed past the keeper. 3-0 and that was it. heh. not bad to get a hat-trick in ur first game of the year, but i must say the team played excellent. joe with his hard work upfront as always. i say, i think he works harder than me now. and i think he's the best example of a team player that i've ever played with. never complains who's in his team or what's his position but just gets on with his job.
and jeremy played real composed in the defensive midfield position. bear in mind he's only sec 1 and was playing against ppl much older than him. and the way he protected the defence and spread passes was amazing.
luke keeping the team well defensively as always. he really can help in making sure we keep our positions. sensible guy. he's a much better captain than me i think. and with my tendency to run run run and burn out fast, he's always reminding me to pace myself. and also cos i always focus on my own game i forget to make sure the other players are ok but he's not afraid to let it out that "where's the defence!!?? this is YOUR man!! YOUR man!!" haha. he shouted that after having to clear the ball with an onrushing striker coming. i think he'll make a great manager if he ever becomes one. LOL seriously.
our second game was against living praise pres. heh. sorta meant they were the home team since we were playing at kuo chuan. lol. think they played better most of the game but we managed to hold on to a 0-0 draw. they were playing ppl who looked around 20 so i think it was a good result for us. game got kinda heated up as well, but hey, that's football. could see our team was really tiring so we had to make some substitutions. luke was really screaming in that game cos we were defending alot and he had to make sure we were on our toes. haha.
well after that it started to rain so the games got stopped:( but since it was already 6pm it was just nice i guess.
had to go gramma's house so couldnt join the PLHers for dinner. afterwards went upstairs to uncle danny's house to try out his Fifa08 game. haha. it's pretty fun:) he used brazil and lost 1-0 to greece LOL. some more it was giannakopoulos with a last min goal hahahaha xD. e-sean used italy and lost to hungary 3-2. i used england and probably had the toughest game against germany. stupid ashley cole got sent off after 2min. LOL. so i played the rest of the game with 10 men. after a topsy-turvy game with both sides taking the lead several times, i managed to win 5-4! lol. rooney with 4 goals and owen with 1. i think the game made rooney and robinson better than they actually are. haha.
ok sorry to bother u with football haha. but what else can i post about now that i'm stuck at home? hahaha. peace out

first week of school!

2008-01-08T22:22:00.000+08:00

well.. the first week of school has been pretty boring. mainly cos everyone's busy at school and i'm stuck at home doing nothing. so i'm real bored.. at least have been able to relax abit i guess. not often u get to do that in singapore nowadays haha.. oh well.. have to enjoy this period while i can, cos once the o-level results are out and i go into jc, then it's work work work!
so bcos i'm so bored and david has no school we are pretty free. then today cos he was not working we decided that we will go out haha. met him after lunch at city hall mrt and then we walked to suntec city 3rd floor Gelare where jon was working haha! well i guess it was good for all 3 of us. firstly, jon had company while working and he wasn't so bored. (bcos his gelare store is at the 3rd floor nobody comes to buy any ice-cream) we talked and joked quite abit so it was a pretty fun time. and david and i benefited from some free ice-cream!! haha.. david tried like almost every flavour. i had two big scoops which normally would have cost me $6.80 but due to the friendly staff i got it absolutely free! LOL. well, not even one customer came in the whole time we were there so we could relax alot. except for a few phone calls that jon had to pick up and say "hello, suntec gelare." HAHA.
after jon's shift ended at 5pm we went to paradiz and played pool! we played sort of like, triple-threat match rules. that as long as u potted the 8-ball in at the end u were the winner. so u could score as many during the game but once someone else got the 8-ball in at the last part, u lost. winner gets 3pts, loser none. if someone fouled while potting the 8-ball it was a point each for the other two. kinda like EPL haha. i managed to get 1 win and 2 draws. so i got 5pts. david and jon both got 4. haha. actually david would have won, but the last game when he scored the 8-ball his cue ball went in too. so i got a point and won the game haha.
well.. the whole day was pretty worth it. managed to be home in time for dinner. great bonding time with david and jon too and it all cost us only $2 each!!! the free ice-cream cost us nothing and the pool game cost $5.90 so each guy paid $2. (i paid $1.90 cos i won the game haha) hmm... altho counting train and bus fare then we paid a bit more. though we walked from suntec to paradiz instead of taking the train so we saved 45cents on that. LOL. we agreed that we should always try to save as much as possible when using our own money!! hahaha.. so cheap skate lol.. well it was a fun day:) probly will do it again next monday or something:)

happy new year!

2008-01-02T14:57:00.000+08:00

wow.. it's 2008.. haha.. and it's the first day of school!! well.. not for me!:D hahaha.. and some others like david and jon. feels really great man.. for the first time in my life, "first day of school" does not apply to me. lol. but now i'm trying to think of what subjects to take in JC. assuming i go there when my o-level results come out lah, which is highly not unlikely. haha. haven't thought much about how my results will turn out and i don't really wanna think about it but i'm trusting in God and praying for the best haha. but whatever i get will be God's plan and wherever i go will be where God says i can shine for him best right?:)
well i've made quite a few goals for this year. like reading the whole Bible and doing my Quiet Time everyday. which i've already done this morning:) as well as improving on my guitar. among other things.
now can just stay home and relax.. haha..

year-end post

2007-12-31T15:42:00.000+08:00

well.. time to update i guess haha..
christmas was great! as usual. mostly got cookies from some PLHers and some other cool gifts too. the marcopolo jersey, the liverpool bags, and a "liverpool training kit" HAHAHA! wrote cards to almost everyone in PLH i think.
then went to play football on the 26th with luke and his J2 classmates. first game we won 3-1. i scored 2 and luke got one. prinsep combination! haha. then second game we won 5-3. i got 4 and some other guy got one. havent played on the full field for very long. and two games is tiring like crap!!! at least scored quite a few.
then 27th dec was the synod thxgiving dinner. not much. just go there and eat haha.
29th (sat) went for band prac then lunch then went to aunty cat's house for DG gathering! haha. watched "catwoman" and played one game of mafia, then had a surprise bday party for sharon, pizza for dinner, one solid massage chair!!!, and then we went down at 9.30pm to play basketball and captain's ball until 10plus. so it was real dark, but we still could see the ball a little. haha. reached home pretty late, but good thing is man utd lost to west ham 2-1! lol..
30th (yesterday) after playing guitar for PLH worship had to be MC for the PLH graduants ceremony. didnt really think of what to say, so just impromptu everything on the spot. heh. think i said some funny nonsense as usual.. then after lunch at plaza sing went home and slept until the thxgiving dinner at presbyterian high.
today: went to weng shian's house just now to play football. kinda tiring cos the sun was so hot. so in the end we played four quarters to get more rest inbetween. lol. managed to score 11 goals. but the ppl i was playing with were like.. pri sch i think.. haha. except for joe, who scored quite a few himself:) the next oldest ones i think were weng shian, jeremy, e-sean, keng gene and his two frens. ok so they're all about pri6 and sec1. but they're not bad. haha.

well.. looks like another year has come to a close. i must say i've really grown alot this year. grown in God i mean.. i dont seem to have grown much physically :( lol.. made new friends, made better frens too.. yep.. well.. learn lots too i guess. dun think i can go into detail about my reflections for the year. it's too long and i dun think my fingers can hold out. haha. unless u really really wanna know, then pls tell me, i'll try my best. i think. still havent got my thoughts together. so my mind is not totally like.. arranged? i dunno. things are still abit jumbled up. need to sit down with a piece of paper, tonight after watchnight service maybe, and write down everything. haha.
well.. happy new year to everyone!
God be with you in the coming year(s) to come!:) peace out!

HO HO HO!

2007-12-24T16:07:00.000+08:00

hmm.. actually don't have much to post about.. just thought i'd update haha. let's see.. ok i guess the past week has been pretty eventful.
have been going for confirmation class the past two weeks too. it's been really fruitful and have learnt lots of new stuff, as well as refeshing my memory and giving me new insight into things i already know.
liverpool have been knocked out of the carling cup as well. haha. well.. it's ok i guess. allows us to focus more on the league and it was back to winning ways on saturday night! beat portsmouth 4-1! haha. torres with two goals:) fantastic, man. secured us the game.
friday after class also went for CRYSIz outing. (with renya, renyi's brother) watched national treasure: book of secrets. not bad. though the storyline is abit funny. but the action is solid:) then we also played some pool then went to ryan's church event at night. so a good day in all:)
went to buy some christmas gifts after band prac on saturday too. managed to get all the gifts i needed. wow! haha.
then had some stayover thing last night which was pretty cool:) watched mission impossible 3 and small soldiers hahaha.. cos they were showing on HBO.
well.. that's about it actually..
merry christmas to everyone! remember! christmas ain't about the presents, or the christmas tree, or the turkey (altho it IS pretty good...) but it's about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, who came down to die on the cross for our sins and that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life!:)
peace to the lot of ya! and have a blessed christmas!!

PLH camp 2007 B.B.C.

2007-12-17T13:52:00.000+08:00

man... i'm sooo sad right now... liverpool lost to man utd last night.. sian.. and man utd had like only 3 shots the whole game.. never mind.. i don't really wanna think abt it. let's look at the positives.. we controlled the whole game and had many shots just that we couldnt convert them into goals.. there's still a long way in the season to go and we can catch up.. we have a game in hand over the other 3 big guns.. the way we controlled man utd for the whole second half was encouraging. and the kop sang "you'll never walk alone" at the final whistle again. well.. so far i think arsenal have been the toughest test of the season so far for us. man utd are just real lucky.
anws.. let's look at some happier things.. like the PLH camp! haha. BBC stands for Body Building Camp. (building up the body of Christ)
the first day the campers arrived at 2pm. i actually arrived the night before cos dad had to stay over cos the youth comm stayed over to prepare for the camp. anws.. lydia led worship first and i played drums. after a whole year without playing drums for PLH worship was kinda rusty and made some mistakes with me beat. we got our groupings afterwards and my grp was called Spongebob Squarepants. -.- lol.. so had ice-breakers and then shower! whoo! the second floor guys toilet shower rocks!! the water is real warm and nice. haha. first day was actually kinda uneventful til night time. i led worship. think it was pretty ok. hosanna rocks man! i will lead it again the next time i lead worship. haha. my room was addicted to it the whole camp. ok, mostly the twins and i haha. then it was Dad's talk on building the body of Christ and then the BBC news night! haha. think all the groups had real good presentations! like shane the muscle man, and weng shian with his british voice impersonation haha. then at night the conference room boys stayed up late to talk. actually it was kinda bad cos i was supposed to be in the music room. then those who wanted to stay up late went over to bunk in the conference room. then the music room was for good boys who wanted to sleep early. haha. anws.. the Cake Sai Clan was formed! talked abt some stuff which shouldnt be put up here cos it was mostly the guys' opinions abt girls and stuff LOL. slept pretty late. but we managed to wake up early the next day.
all the boys were up early and went down for morning devotion and breakfast. then we had worship and a second talk by Dad. then it was the outdoor games. think my group handled the tasks pretty well and managed to reach farrer park field the first. (the game was kinda like amazing race) and then it was the flag game. each group had made their own flag and had to protect it. i went on offence, as always, and had to steal other groups flags from their base. actually there was a rule that if u got hit by the water bombs u had to return to base but it was soon ignored and forgotten. lol. so the whole game became a mass scramble in the mud for flags. then i managed to steal the barney group's flag and actually didnt know what to do with it cos the initial plan was just to get the flag and there was no plan of what to do AFTER u got the flag. haha. well.. the PLHers made my mind up for me. RUN. cos once ppl saw i had gotten hold of the first flag, they came chasing after me to get the flag for their own group. o.O so it came to me to get back to base. so ran the whole field and managed to evade everyone else and get a touch down back to spongebob base! team spongebob 1 others 0. haha. in the end there was no final score cos it became so messy and everyone was muddy and stuff. became nothing but smashing mud at each other. lol. all i know was our flag stayed clean and dry the whole time, cos at the end of the game, steve took it out of his pocket and it was as clean as ever. haha. good on ya stevie! then it started to rain and we all went to take shelter at a void deck nearby. when it became real heavy, the water started to flow down the corners of the roof of the shelter. so i took of me shirt and started to wash it and take a mini-bath. soon all the other guys were following my lead and, much to the despair of the girls, our shirts were all clean and we were having a good time bathing. haha. then walked back to church after the rain had stopped. took real baths and changed into our nice formal clothes for the christmas dinner. there was exchanging of gifts and stuff. and the guys had to give roses to the girls haha.. thaddeaus was declared man of the match in the Cake Sai Clan room for giving his rose to angelina haha. takes guts man. even I was shaky in giving my rose to a girl. lol.. then there was worship explosion! some nice songs which uncle alvin led. i was standing with zek, david and steve. could see they were enjoying it, except steve. haha. then we asked for one way at the end, which the band kindly obliged to playing:) then after the worship was that time of night again.. where the Cake Sai Clan gather for funtime! haha..
first up was the ground-wrestling championship! it was a mini royal rumble. (royal rumble is actually 30 ppl, we had 6 guys competing.. so its like.. one-fifth.. haha.. the other boys were too small to play.. Cake sai clan has roughly 10 ppl? me, the twins, zek, steve, shaun wong, jeremy, shane, keng gene, weng shian, yiren, thaddeaus, jon quek (who only slept at the side at night and eavesdropped on our talks lol..) so that's.. abt 13. haha. those competing in the royal rumble were me, the twins, shaun, jeremy and yiren. (zek's leg was injured, steve was sick, and the rest were too small-sized to compete. so they cheered on from the side of the room) lol.. i was drawn as the first guy in, along with jeremy.
rules are: the next competitor enters the fray after one minute intervals, we are not allowed to strike with our hands or kick, only grappling and stuff, to eliminate an opponent you had to pin both his shoulders on the floor.
well.. needless to say, being the first one drawn in, i was afraid of losing my proud record of having never lost a fight.. but i made a good start at jeremy's expense.. pinned him in under a minute.. sorry little bro.. then next in was yiren.. tougher than i expected.. didnt manage to pin him. next thing i knew i was hauled off him by shaun who had entered next. it became a mass brawl as david and jon entered soon after. i dont really recall how yiren got eliminated.. but soon only the big 4 were left standing: shaun, the twins and i.
i was credited as the under-dog, being the smalliest, scrawniest, thinnest guy among the four of us. and shaun is a rugger and the twins lift weights (and plates, now that they are working). so there was a massive size and strength difference. i tell you, i looked pathetic standing in the ring with them. moreover, i had been first to enter, so i was also the most tired..
decided to form a temporary alliance with shaun against the twins cos was afraid they might gang up on me if we eliminated shaun. so we went for david. but soon shaun was preoccupied with jon and i was up against david. somehow managed to pin him. haha. they credit it to me having good tactics and stamina. as well as hidden strength in the scrawny body of mine haha. like i was able to lift and pin them and stuff. as well as being able to stand my ground when we go head-to-head in a pushing battle.
then when david was out i teamed with jon to pin shaun cos we both knew we would have a much tougher battle one-on-one with shaun then with each other. after a long while, we managed to pin both his shoulders on the floor with a combined effort. (one guy on each shoulder. lol) that left me and jon. and like little shane exclaimed: look at the size difference! haha.. and jon had been last to enter too. so he was most fresh. when we went into a test of strength he flung me to the side real easily lah lol..
well.. after minutes of circling each other and analysing the other (actually we were just tired and needed to rest, HAHA.) we grappled with each other. somehow i managed to get jon on the floor and tried to pin him. got one shoulder down but the other one was still up. then after a while he gave in cos i think my knee was on his chest or something. haha. so that made me the Cake Sai Clan ground wrestling champion! lol.. well.. the other 3 guys were pretty stunned by it. but i must say they were good losers and accepted defeat graciously.. i was just relieved to have got out alive. lemme tell you, the three of them are monsters. and that was the toughest fight i had ever been in. (partly cos it was against 5 other guys) after the match couldnt even get up properly. felt like throwing up and my whole body was in pain. we also suffered multiple abrasions on our knees and elbows due to the carpet floor. haha..
well.. all i can say is.. size doesnt matter, and heart and mind are very important too. so to all u small people out there.. get strong in the mind and then transfer it to ur muscles haha. seriously, andrenalin rush made me stronger to pin them haha.
well. after a good bath again, the boys were about to play our nightly round of games. but there was an extra rose in the room! this next part is actually illegal. as guys are not allowed on the girls' floor.. but.. er.. anws.. i was written a script by david and the guys, and we all went up to the girls' rooms. went to the room kym was in and i had to give her the rose after saying some romantic stuff. lol.. well she accepted the rose and we all rushed back downstairs so we wouldnt get caught. k we didnt do anything like peep or what and the whole thing took less than 3 minutes.. but i guess it was still against the rules.. so.. er.. sorry. oh ya, i had given kym my rose at dinner too. some of the guys even took like 5 to 10 roses to give lotsa girls lol.. i gave one to kym and one to my sis. (and one to kym again at night. so that's 3 roses i dished out.) well.. after that crazy stunt, the guys had Round 2 of our night talks. haha. what is said in the room, stays in the room.. well.. we slept at abt 3am.
woke up the next morning for service and i think all the guys managed to stay awake. and checked out of our rooms too. and that was the end of the PLH camp 2007 haha.
well.. it was pretty fun and good lessons were learnt on building the body of the church. good friendships were formed in the Cake Sai Clan too. lol. so i guess it was pretty beneficial. i know most of the guys sure enjoyed it haha. whew.. rocks man..

Synod Youth Camp 2007

2007-12-08T23:00:00.000+08:00

whew.. just came back for Synod Youth camp. when i reached home just now straight away went to my bed and slept. haha. now got until 1am before the liverpool game.. so anws.. this is my camp...
Day 0: this was 4Dec (tuesday) and only group leaders had to go. (it's a "pre-camp") we had to report at 2pm at kuo chuan prebyterian sec sch. the day just consisted of ice-breakers and "sai gang". like we had to clean and arrange the tables in the classrooms for the campers coming on the next day. only julian and lydia came with me. made a few new friends with the other leaders from the other presbyterian churches. heh. there's sherman, who's a real funny guy from CLPC, and Si'en, who's a really nice girl, from living praise presbyterian. and others who i can't think of right now. anws, joe, ekping, sam and tim came later at night after their youth comm meeting and we helped to make stuff fo the games.

Day 1: the other campers arrived in the morn. PLH had two groups. J and K. J is my team (me, lydia, hannah, daryl, kara, huixian, tim, sam, miguel and mitchell from presbyterian high school) we were called Justice League! and let me tell you we had some fantastic cheers and a great team morale. haha. the other team, K, was Kaypo o.O haha.. the worships for the camps were ok i guess. but we didnt know quite a few of the songs. our speaker, bishop Al Stewart (from australia) was pretty good. really enjoyed his talks. i had to pay attention to all of them anyways cos as group leader i had to lead the group discussions. haha. there were electives, and i went for the guitar crash course which i think wasnt very good. especially for the poor beginners. and a talk on spiritual gifts. then we had the group games!! it was the rat race which consisted of tasks and challenges that we had to do. and by the end of Day 1 guess what.. Justice League was top of the table with a whopping 1860 points! followed closely by Group A with 1804 points. (Group A was Si'en's group) there was also this crazy drink (carbonated water with oldenlandia) like what?? and we had to drink cans of it. the leaders even had to go up on stage afterwards to drink a whole can! >.< most people didnt finish it. but i did.. and got kinda sick afterwards. as in like, feel like abit nauseous and groggy. heh.. there's this "clubhouse" at night too which was our time to relax from the day's activities. so it was good. PLH played werewolf together. which is like mafia, only more complicated. and the leader's had to go for a nightly meeting at 11pm to give feedback on the day and stuff.

Day 2: the camp pretty much has the same routine everyday, which is quite ok, so morning would be breakfast, then worship, the talk, and then group discussion. think my group was really great, like we learnt to open up to each other and stuff. made my job of leading them even easier:) then we will have lunch and our electives. day 2 my electives was sports psychology and some teacher talk. both were pretty good. the sports psychology had to do with the part mentality had to do with sports, and the teacher talk was more like realising God's plan for you. like you don't HAVE to become a teacher.. haha. i don't plan on becoming one anyways.. never have.. then we were supposed to have outdoor games but then it rained real heavily :( felt real sorry for the organising committee. looked like they had put in a lot of effort to set up the battlefield on the school soccer pitch for battle royale and captain's revenge. it was both positive and negative for justice league. it was negative cos we were really pumped up for the games. and i was psycho-ing myself up too. getting hyper and all that. until like lydia and hannah had to tell me to calm down. lol. it was positive because that meant that at the end of day 2, justice league was still leading the pack! haha.. due to the games from the previous day. anws.. the afternoon was kinda wasted but it gave me a chance to bathe. haha. then after dinner the PLHers had our nightly game of werewolf and i had to go for my leader's nightly meeting too.

Day 3: since it was the second last day of camp and the last day of games, Justice League was super pumped up on this day. after breakfast, worship, the messsage and group discussion, we made up some cheers. super solid cheers man. haha. real funny too. and the whole team was shouting it pretty loud together. we had to serve lunch too. i decided to go on rice duty. like, scoop rice for people. amazingly, most of the portions i gave to people were correct. hahaha. anws, the day's game was the Amazing Race! haha.. it was 4 hours of solid racing and completing tasks and stuff. but it ended pretty fast to me. haha. maybe cos we were so hyper about it. unfortunately, we didnt do really well for the amazing race and so lost top spot.. in the end, group A, which was led by Si'en, won. haha. but actually the points, as we found out later, didnt really count for anything. anws, the guys went to shower and there was this super long queue. and it became real funny, cos everytime a guy came out of the cubicle after bathing everyone would be like cheering and stuff. lol. and then the next guy would go in and try to bathe as fast as possible. then after dinner we had worship and the Finale Night. Shaun (lee) and Sarah Smith were the MCs for it. so the PLHers were really hyper. first there was an archapella group which was really good. and then the auctions. this was really funny cos shaun and sarah would give some crappy clues about what was the prize and you had to use the points you had gathered from the games as your money. but we didnt really bid for anything, so our points were pretty much wasted. lol.. anws, after the Finale Night i had to go for the leader's meeting again. lights out was actually supposed to be 1am but the leader's meeting ended at 12.30am. but it didnt really matter cos in the end i slept much later than 1am.

Day 4: the last day.. actually felt kinda sad to be leaving camp.. but oh well..after the usual routine of breakfast, worship, message and group discussion, we had to do clean-up for the whole school. then after the debrief we had lunch, after which i went home with joe.

all in all i think the camp was a good time of fellowship with me own lighthouse people, as well as making new friends from other churches. which serves to build up the church of God. also, as group leader i was able to grow as well. but i had a great team behind me too:) Justice League actually made me realise how important the team is. like teamwork and morale and everything. it ain't ALWAYS down to the leader. no matter how good a leader u are, if ur team can't be bothered then it's really no use. and even if you aren't that good a leader, a good team will help make your job easier. so.. thanks to Justice League once again:) i've really got to know you guys better. as a leader, and also as equals on a personal level.
the talks were benificial to my walk as well. as leader, i had to understand the talk better than most people, so i could lead my group later on. and listening to 4 sermons 4 days in a row ain't easy. haha. but it allowed me to understand some passages better and grow in me faith:) through all the Justice league group discussions, i must say i was really able to reflect and think more about my life and stuff. think maybe it was the same for them too. life is really much more meaningful if you live it only for God:)
peace out mates!

i'll just write something for the sake of having a title

2007-12-02T22:07:00.000+08:00

well today's worship leading was ok i think... altho i think my singing was abit off and the band missed a whole part out of Hosanna. we started worship late again too at 11.15am.. gotta take note of that.. haha.. but it was a good worship leading for me from a personal point of view. i can only hope it served to move the PLHers to really worship God. another note to take would be to have back-up singers standing in front. instead of singing at the back where nobody can see them haha..
then went to play football with dad, uncle gary and some of his frens. so they're all like middle-aged men.. dont think i played very well, but still managed to grab a few goals. then dad injured his leg cos he tripped over my leg.. heh..
and the liverpool vs bolton game is starting at 11pm. i hope we'll get a good win. at least 3-0 or more. show man utd how it's done. hahaha.. i havent forgotten that bolton beat us last yr 2-0 by a freekick which should never have been given. we were, like many times last season, dealt with an unfair result. so i hope we put it right this year. i'd like to see torres and crouch start upfront. but hey, that's rafa's decision.
anws i'll be going for synod youth camp from 4-8 dec. (actually it's 5-8th.. but leaders have to go a day earlier for a "pre-camp") so there'll be no posts for awhile after this one.
peace out!

i can't think of a suitable title

2007-12-01T20:37:00.000+08:00

i must say i am feeling much much better now. and it didnt come the way i expected it too. cos today went to ryan's church (cos he came last week so i agreed to go for his, like an exchange program kinda thing) and the worship really was good. its kinda like more intense than what we experience at prinsep. but could really feel God working thru the worship. allowed me to really reflect and think about my life and stuff. guess this may be kinda long, and also quite personal, so won't write it down here. but i know there are many areas of my life where i've not been perfect and maybe have wronged people and stuff. it took a rollicking on tuesday, a long phonecall on thursday, a serious talk with me best bud this morn, and a worship just now to make me realise all these, but hey, God works in mysterious ways, and His plan is perfect. so all i gotta do is trust in Him and live it all for Him.:)
guess i'm feeling more prepared to lead worship tmr. and for the camp too.
time is taking back everything i thought i had. tell me how... beat time with God.
change. i must. i can. i will.

ugh

2007-11-30T23:42:00.000+08:00

This has been one of the crappiest weeks of my life. and trust me, i've had some CRAPPY weeks. i fear becoming emo again. why does it always happen at the end of the year? oh, maybe cos at the end of the year, there's nothing to worry about except outside-things. no study-things. and you can bet your bottom dollar, outside-things will affect me much more than study-things. and at the end of the year, everything that has happened throughout the whole year just catches up with you. i feel like one of those chumps in those korean drama series. not that i've ever watched any, but i've heard plenty. feel like the unluckiest guy in the world, but now thinking back, i guess it's not so bad until it's the unluckiest thing in the world..
ok i can go on forever, but shall not waste your time.
*fast-forward and skip all the ranting that will make no sense to you*
dang it's all got into me head..
note to self: must put on a happy Barney face on sunday when leading worship. don't let own emotions affect others. especially other's worship to God.
crap. can't believe the job of worship leading has been given to me just when i'm feeling like this. it's a good thing my 6th sense was tingling again, then i went to ask who was worship leading this sunday. if i didn't, PLH probably would have been staring at an empty pulpit this sunday.
next week also got the synod camp.... how to lead a group like this? i don't think i can hold a Barney face for 4 days from 5-8 dec. who made the groups anyways??? *mumbles to self..*
pardon, what did you say? oh nothing.. *mumbles to self some more..*
oh well.. gotta do what you gotta do..
i just realised i've not been listening to any happy songs as well. been listening to lotsa sad ones. like "untitled", "me against the world" and "perfect" by simple plan, "the reason why", "empty" and "i'm getting over you" by the click five, etc.. etc.. and of course, a few emo songs by my chemical romance never hurt anyone..
*after some thinking..*
well.. guess it's best to pray.. trust God with whatever plan He has.. i just realised all my plans are really useless and there's always stuff to change them and they never work out. (the long-term ones, i mean) and no matter how bad things get, and when there's nobody else on earth, i guess God's always there for me. that's comforting. maybe that's what He's trying to tell me through all these.
hmm.. i feel better already.. i think.. i hope.. i pray..

bored! o.O

2007-11-28T10:33:00.000+08:00

hmm... the holidays feel kinda funny.. whenever i'm not out, i feel bored at home with nothing to do. when i'm out then i feel ok but still like it's not enough. haha. and i think i haven't accomplished much yet. ok, i've read two books: The Da Vinci Code and The Jungle Book. the da vinci code was ok. pretty nice thriller but unconvincing from my point of view. the Bible is much more believable. and the jungle book is not the Disney one, it's the novel by some Kipling guy. other than that i'm bored at home with nothing to do and nobody to talk to. everyone's either on holiday or busy with something. and i don't even know why i bother writing on this blog. it's like i'm writing a story to a wall. oh i know why, cos there's nothing else to do anws, except talk to myself haha. hi i-zack! lookin' good! okok.. gotta grow up. heh. hmm... at least later it'll be better.. think i'll go over to YC's at 3pm. then 3am liverpool playing porto. gotta win man. in my point of view, not for the champions league itself, but for benitez. rumours are that he'll be sacked by gillette and hicks. i'm pretty sure if he leaves we'll have to wait a few years at least to win the title. players will leave (especially the spanish ones like torres), the club will have to undergo more rebuilding cos it takes time for new managers to settle, etc etc.. so not looking too bright at the moment..
hmm.. all these and more have just contributed to a less-than-good post o-levels...
synod camp's coming too. how funny. first, i didn't want to go. ok then kana persuaded to go. then all of a sudden ur a group leader and have to go a day earlier than everyone else for a pre-camp kinda thing. oh well.. if ur given a job, it's ur responsibility and u gotta take it.. and u gotta do what u gotta do..

sometimes i don't even know why i bother. sometimes i do know why i bother but then again what's the use. u just get pushed away or pushed around. sometimes ur the best in the world and ur untouchable. sometimes ur the tiniest crumb on a piece of bread. (hey! that's a good one) ah well.. whatever.. sometimes i feel like beating someone to a pulp, but then again, i wouldn't have it in me. :S

welcome back captain zack!

2007-11-26T15:01:00.000+08:00

ok internet connection in my house is back. i tell you, my house is breaking down.alot of things are not working anymore. like the air-con for example.
anws, it's time to post abt my trip to malaysia. i can't really remember all the details but here goes..
1st day we drove up pretty early.. woke up to find we reached some place for breakfast. that's when i realised the Chans were there already. so ate together. then continued on to KL and checked into our hotel. the firstday was just shopping. i didn't get anything except a liverpool mini-football. cos my old one is punctured. there was some toast thing if i rmb correctly and the 4 of us (joe, jeremy, jordan and i) were raving over it and devouring them. then we walked around but was mostly only interested in the soccer boots (as always). i watched "Blades of Glory" on joe's Zen too. haha. quite a funny show. but like joe and i said, these are the kind of shows you can only watch with ur male buddies. no elaboration needed.
2nd day was just more shopping. san antonio beat houston rockets too. (in your face joe haha) and we watched "Constantine" before dinner. it's quite a load of crap but makes for good entertainment. had KFC for dinner which was yummy. i'm getting hungry now.. and joe had this thing of taking a picture together every night. which was a great idea! just that after the first 3 nights my phone ran out of batt and i didn't bring my charger.
3rd day (Sunday) we went some place for church. too many lights in my opinion. made it look like a concert.very little reading of God's word too. like no responsive or scripture reading. other than that i think it was ok. the preacher was a liverpool fan too. so good on ya mate! most of the day was spent driving up to Cameron Highlands. had steamboat at some restaurant for dinner too. we also had expected much colder weather n Cameron Highlands so was kinda disappointed to find that it wasn't very cold. think it was only like 20degreesC. so after the steamboat dinner the 4 guys and my sis went outside while the adults were still talking. joe and jer were playing "zah!" (that pri sch finger game) but with added spice. (they posed everytime they made an attack. lol) and jordan and i were complaining how hot it was, so he took off his shirt. mine was only half off. like.. i was still holding it in my arms.. er.. nevermind. crazy things u do when the heat gets to ur head. hahaha. joe and i slept outside on the "couches". there were actually wooden benches. and after some complications we remembered to take the nightly photo. also cos it was pretty late it was kinda hard to take it in the dark. haha. in the end i turned on the lights and used the handphone timer to take the pic. think we talked til pretty late too so next day got a bit sick.
4th day: i couldnt wake up that morning so evryone wentto some cactus place without me. there was also some typing test thing on uncle peter's laptop so everyone was trying it. i think i got 50 words per min. joe had like 76, dad 52, e-sean 35. High School Musical 2 was showing on Disney Channel too. so while the kids watched it i opted to watch videos and listen to music on Joe's Zen. sorry dude, ipod out of batt. after watching high school musical 1, i didn't bother to find out what happened in the second one. all i know was it was summer time. which occurs everyday in spore anws haha. talked with joe on our benches til pretty late too. think almost 4am..
5th day: woke up feeling sick that day. good thing most of the day was just spent driving to malacca. so didnt miss too much. we celebrated aunty hui lan's birthday that night in the hotel that we stayed in for 2006 church camp. joe and i kinda rmb it as the camp we were both in youth comm. and where we played football and he got stabbed by a large stick in the ground. ouch..
on the last day woke up sick again. joe helped me buy a simple plan album when they went out to shop in the morning. anws.. after we checked out, it was just driving all the way back home.

heh. well, not as eventful as the one to auzzie last year but a trip with ur best bud can never really go bad right? this one may have even been more meaningful in some ways. oh well.. the days after the trip have been good i guess..
i've listened to the simple plan album. was so inspired the morning that we reached home from the trip that i went to repair my electric guitar and went to jam at cheang's house with YC and renyi. jeremy got 253 for his PSLE too, good on ya u little tyke! guess his hard work really paid off.
on saturday went to play soccer at joe's too. was kinda rusty. 1st touch wasn't there. still managed to grab quite a few though. altho the kids packed the court so was kinda hard to find any space. joe brought two of his friends to come play too. anws we were pretty late for band prac but still managed to finish quite fast. liverpool beat newcastle 3-0 too. to tell the truth i am pretty disappointed. considering the way we controlled the game we could have had at least 10 goals. like the commentator said, that was the most one-sided premiership game he had ever seen.. good news is bolton beat man utd 1-0. and ferguson got sent off:) finally a referee with some sense. hahaha. and arsenal beat wigan 2-0.. they were lucky they were playing at home and against a weak side (no offence to wigan). if not i think they would have dropped at least 2 points.
anws.. church on sunday was good. yiying and hannah led worship and david, jon and ruby backed-up. good to be back playing for the band. though i think i was abit rusty. especially with my strumming. good think joe was on drums so the telepathy helped. dad took me class too. haha. no surprise to find everyone quieter than usual. though i think it helped to keep the class really under control. haha. went to subway for lunch and later jammed at the jamming studio beside subway. marie came too lol. and i must say her drums have really improved! after a good two hours came home with e-sean. then we went to grandma's house for her birthday. watched "Batman Begins" there. quite an inspiring show too. i hope they come up with a sequel. and they should lah. the last part there was something about the joker. (hahahahahhahahaa)
hmm.. nothing much to do now..

yoyoyo

2007-11-22T16:43:00.001+08:00

sorry just came back from malaysia yesterday. and my house's internet connection is busted. i'm doing this post from nick cheang's house just to say that i might not be able to post for awhile cos of my crazy internet connection. once the internet in my house is fixed i'll post abt my m'sia trip and stuff. peace out!

The Day Freedom Came...

2007-11-15T13:24:00.000+08:00

TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER: The Day Freedom Came..
9.30am-10.30am: YES!!! the O's are FINALLY OVER!!!! WHOOHOOO!!!! bio mcq paper was pretty ok. did it in 30min and then slacked for the next 30min.
11.45am-2pm: then CRYSIz went to watch "The Game Plan" at J8!!:) really cool show. AND the main actor is.. dwayne "THE ROCK" johnson!!! whoo!! haha.. IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKIN'!! dang haven't seen him in the wrestling ring for quite some time (partly cos i don't watch it anymore and cos he's not in it anymore anws). but anyways it's a darn cool show. will not spoil it for you here. but its got quite good lessons i think..
3pm-6.30pm: then went to YC's house. played abit of squash. then basketball. then there was this OBNOXIOUS woman who came and started scolding us for making alot of noise and she called the security guard and stuff. lol.. says she's the principal of some school. i don't really care who you are, lady. but you're a pain up the u-know-what. then the security guard later apologised to us and said she's a constant nag haha. anws..
8pm-10.30pm: we ordered pizza for dinner and watched "pirates if the caribbean: dead man's chest" whoohoo!!! love that show:) oh but renyi went home after that cos he couldnt sleep over..
11.30pm-2am: then watched "Spider-Man 3" !!! whoohoo!!! love that show too!! actually realised spider-man is a really sad show. people dying and suffering and stuff. but oh well.. it still rocks!!
2am-3am: then we got so pumped up by the show, me and YC started jumping around the couches and stuff. i was pretending to be spiderman and he was sometimes venom or harry osbourne. HAHA. then we decided to do a spoof abt the show lol.. something about plastic surgery which revolved about harry's face after it got blasted by the pumpkin bomb. recorded it on YC's mp3 player thingy.. sounded real good! YC and i also drew a fancy moustache and whiskers for ryan while he was sleeping. and also a picture of a unicorn to show he was dreaming of them LOL>.< HAHAHAHA!!! XD oh man that was HILARIOUS. YC and i were laughing throughout the whole thing. hahaha!xD
3am- 6am: so since that recording experiment was good, we decided to record some songs with his keyboard and classical guitar too haha. stuff like "mary jane" and "empty" by The Click 5. then our own songs. (i decided to do "Crushes of a Primary School Boy" and "I have come to bid you farewell, but this is not the end") so we compiled them into one album called "One night in YC's House" hahaha. but it's only like.. 6 songs and that spider-man thing haha! and by this time, ryan was awake and cheang was sleeping.. so.. drew a fancy moustache for him too!! lol. whiskers and stuff as well. hahaha!!xD oh man i crack myself up sometimes..
6am-8.30am: we were all awake by this time and watched "Death Note 2" real solid. nice show. will not spoil it here too haha. then at 8.30am it meant that i had gone 24 whole hours without sleep. (cos i woke up at 8.30am on tuesday morning) so i knocked out at abt 8.40am. i think YC also stayed up 24hrs. he and i were awake the whole night.
9.30am: woke up and went for breakfast at Junction 8 mac's then went home.

slept when i reached home from 11am to 6.30pm. then me NCC buds came over for another stay-over haha. played cards, talked, and stuff.. ordered macdonald's at 1am. anws.. i slept at 6am. woke up at 10.30am i think. they all went home by then. haha.. whew.. that's the life baby.. but can't do it too often.. not enough sleep haha..

oh yeah.. and i created some true friend test thing too. actually did joe's first but u have to create an account. so i created one and made me own test. first time i did joe's test scored 14/20.. but that's cos i over-estimated his height and there was some question that he set wrongly. did it a second time and got 19/20 haha. did e-sean's one and got 10/15. that's not bad too i think. anws i can't put my test up on the blog cos my html is SERIOUSLY messed up. so if you wanna do it.. go to http://www.truefriendtest.com/friendtest/1229988. yup. quite a few questions are giveaways actually. if you pay close enough attention to what i say sometimes. lol..

yeah baby.. the o's are over... feels good.

Typical...

2007-11-08T16:28:00.000+08:00

like i said in my post yesterday.. "well, critics LOVE to write off, criticize, diminish, and blast liverpool. i've learnt to live with that. and i'm pretty sure there're lots of ppl in the Straits Times who are man utd supporters, cos they seriously write alot of stupid articles.."
and once again, my point was proved today. flip over to the "HOME" section of today's Straits Times and go to the SPORTS page. right there will be an article by some dufus called neil humphreys (where on earth to they get these nutcases??) with an article called "The night Liverpool thought they were the Brazil of 1970" o.O.. sorry bozzo, but, we don't think we're the "Brazil of 1970". we've got a different kind of club altogether. and we've definitely got a much stronger and loyal support than them. the kind of support that's gonna criticise ur crap right here.
well.. right after u read his article u'll know that this chump has got no substance nor no common-sense. on a night where we set a champions league record, he just has to come up with something to bring us down and downplay the significance of the absolute demolition of what is probably either the turkish champions or runner-ups.
well sorry punk, but when you start to humour yourself on our manager's goatee and the best striker England has to offer at the moment, then you're seriously lacking in class. no offence to michael owen, but crouch doesn't get injured that often during a season. and no offence to wayne rooney (pfftt..) but crouch has shown he can do it for England at the world-cup and Liverpool in Europe. and when he said crouch would have difficulty out-jumping anyone of the seven dwarfs, it's really just too much. first of all, crouch doesnt need to out-jump them. he's already taller. and second of all i bet he's just too envious cos he couldnt kiss his wife on the lips even if he stood on a chair. the moron. and if crouch can score two goals in the european champions league while u can't even make it in the sunday league and are probly sitting at home infront of the tv with ur spare tyres, stuffing ur chubby face with root beer and chicken thighs, then i say u've got no right to criticise a player who's got the best goal-to-minutes ratio for england at the moment. (and i know he's got a chubby face cos his pic is in the paper. the ass.) why don't u pick on someone ur own size? haha. get it? stupid short stuff..
next of all he criticizes yossi benayoun for "retiring to the dressing room and demand a transfer to a bigger club". well buddy, if u've known yossi benayoun's history, he's worked his way up to where he is. liverpool came calling for him cos west ham is a struggling club. and if u have as much vision as him then u'd probly be able to write articles with more insight. get some glasses, four-eyes..
well.. he's definitely not the only one out there. there're tons of other jealous ppl waiting for some lame reason to criticise liverpool. and no doubt i'll be fuming at every one of those critics and their articles again. but this one really took the cake. by picking on individual players, who were able to stand up and be counted upon last night, then it's really going too far, without even admitting that we were able to handle the pressure and give more than what we were required of. at least the articles by paul tomkins on the liverpool website make lots more sense. and i guess that's what matters. as long as we believe in our own club, then it doesnt really matter what others have to say about it.
YNWA

Welcome to the Red Parade

2007-11-07T16:14:00.000+08:00

football is a funny game. i started watching the EPL week-in-week-out at the age of 9. (before that i was already interested and playing, but nvr watched it on tv properly) and in my 7yrs of watching i've learnt that in football you shouldnt be surprised by anything bcos its full of surprises, so u just have to get used to surprises. but seriously sometimes its just too surprising.

to all of u who are non-football fans (pffft... *rolls eyes*) or non-supporters of liverpool (pffftt! *rolls eyes even more*), i encourage u not to turn away or be put off by this. if u would, pls just read on. u nvr know what could happen. cos football really does things to u.

if u don't already know, liverpool just made history last night. they set a record yet to be bettered by any team in the champions league - liverpool 8-0 besiktas. that smashed arsenal's (who?) 7-0 win against slavia prague (who?) from two weeks ago. i think what last night's game showed is that in anything, don't ever write off liverpool. to be honest, i was starting to fear that this season was gonna be another one of those seasons again.. liverpool out of the title race by christmas. sure, we started off the season well, topping the table for a week after a 6-0 drubbing of derby county, but after that we haven't reached the same standard. in fact, we've drawn 5 out of 6 games at Anfield this season. arsenal are looking much better to be truthful, and i'm still quite glad we're only 6pts behind them at the moment. but looking again, we're still unbeaten in the league (arsenal's the only other team still unbeaten too) and we've been playing ok. the team's been dealt with by injuries to torres, alonso and agger too. so that's handicaps for us in attack, midfield AND defence. so we're actually coping quite well.

last night also showed that if u play the right players, u have a much higher chance of winning. i'm talking about liverpool's strikeforce. peter crouch and andriy voronin were immense. i think that's how liverpool should play. one out-and-out forward with another one dropping deeper to link up the midfield. meaning torres/crouch pairing with kuyt/voronin. or torres with crouch. ok, i didn't watch the whole game. i have to thank joe for calling me at 5am to wake me up and tell me we were winning 7-0. so i caught the last 10min and saw the 8th goal. i watched the highlights too and looked at the stats. well, that was enough to tell me what i needed to know.

anws.. what i'm here to post abt today is looking at the bigger picture and my 16yrs of supporting liverpool (i like to call it 16yrs of support, cos it has always been in my blood)

to be honest, it wasn't easy for me supporting liverpool at the start. back then we had not won anything major for many yrs. we were playing badly and nowhere near the title race. manutd was dominating (confound them i hate their guts) and many ppl were making fun of me and stuff. there was even ONE day i rmb.. and i'm still horrified to this day when i think about it.. i was watching the "EPL highlights" in pri5 and saw man utd decimate some team. i was drawn to it and questioned myself "why on earth am i supporting liverpool?? this team is lots better!!" thoughts of switching loyalties even crossed my mind.. heh. ain't i glad that i quickly came to my senses that day and switched off the TV, ran to my computer and played Fifa 99, set up a game between liverpool and man utd and trashed united's butts upside down and thought to myself "liverpool is still better, liverpool is better.." haha.. maybe it was my dad's influence too. he's been a fan since 1977. that's 30 yrs now. and after so many yrs without the title he was still staying loyal. so at that time it probly went into my head and gave me this "i can never switch clubs" mentality. its all about the club. not the circumstances, not the players, not the trophies. (but liverpool have lots of that anws:)

another thing that has drawn me towards liverpool are the supporters. any football fan will tell u that liverpool fans are the best in the world. i mean, which club has its supporters singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the final whistle when u've lost? which brings me to another reason why i support liverpool. the anthem. "You'll Never Walk Alone" is actually a hymn. and for those of u who don't know the lyrics i STRONGLY encourage you to do so. whenever i hear the liverpool fans sing it, i never fail to get shivers down my spine. this may seem emo, but when we lost the champions league final last yr to AC Milan (go die milan i hate you too) instead of hearing the cheers of them italians, i was hearing the singing of the liverpool fans, it brought a tear to me eye, not cos liverpool lost, but i was over-whelmed by the support of the scousers (ppl from liverpool) and i can tell u i've probly got some scouse in me.

if somebody tells you that man utd are the most succesful club in england, tell them to go to hell. cos liars go to hell. haha. pardon the language. but its true. liverpool, not utd, are the most successful club in england. we've got 18 league titles (man u have 16) and 5 european cups (man u have 2.. laammmee...) so the trophies are another thing that helps.. dont get me started on arsenal and chelsea. they've won practically nothing. (altho arsenal do have 13 league titles, so scant consolation for them)

well, critics LOVE to write off, criticize, diminish, and blast liverpool. i've learnt to live with that. and i'm pretty sure there're lots of ppl in the Straits Times who are man utd supporters, cos they seriously write alot of stupid articles.. but oh well.. no matter how many times we seem like we're gonna fall or falter, the club seems to do someth to increase my belief even more...
let me tell you that liverpool have really changed my thinking quite abit, maybe even helped shape who i am today.. the time when i seriously started believing that miracles could happen was the FA Cup final in 2001. liverpool were losing 1-0 to arsenal with 13min to go when freddie ljungberg rounded westerveld and slotted into an empty net. as a young boy goodness knows why i started praying to God to somehow do something. this may seem kinda stupid, but right after i prayed, michael owen scored 2 goals in 5min (82 & 88min) to hand us the FA Cup. i know its really stupid, but its after that when i started believing in prayer and miracles. haha.
the thing that has really given me faith and hope is the champions league final in 2005. liverpool were losing 3-0 at half-time but we scored 3 goals in 6min (54, 56, 60 min) to tie the game 3-3 and win it on penalties in what has been said to be the greatest european cup final of all-time. and i totally agree with that.

let me tell you its not easy supporting liverpool at times, but for moments like last night's 8-0 win, it's really worth it supporting the best club on earth. so i think that the season still has a long way to go. and no title is lost in november. when May comes, we'll see where we are. its only 6pts, and 2 wins for us and 2 losses for arsenal wil mean we're right up there with them. and we've got fulham coming to Anfield this saturday. so.. things are still looking good.. yes, this is refering to the EPL. but last night's game was in the champions league! well.. maybe after never having seen liverpool win the title before, it has become an obsession now. the champions league still holds importance too. but i'm linking everthing back to the club itself i guess..

anws.. bottom line is that liverpool is definitely a different club from any other. and u probly wouldnt understand it unless ur a supporter urself. but thru all the good times and bad its definitely worth it. sometimes i even wonder whether God has put any link between liverpool and christianity. haha. of course i'm not that stupid to confuse Jesus with Bill Shankly! lol.. okok sorry.. but i do feel there's something about this club called liverpool that is very very special. once again, to all supporters of man utd and arsenal, you wouldnt understand it cos ur living in a lie, but its good that u guys are around anws. if not, where would the competition be? haha!

and last night really set me thinking so much that i even changed the lyrics of "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance! hope you guys like it.. lol..

"Welcome to the Red Parade"

When i was a young boy, my father took me to the TV, to see Liverpool play
he said, "Son, when you grow up, would you be a supporter of liverpool, the best club in the world"
he said, "will you defeat them, your (red) devils, and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made
because one day u'll see that an anthem will lead us in the summer to join the Red Parade."

sometimes i get the feeling i'm wasting all my time
and other times i feel like there're 8 goals (xD)
when thru it all, the rise and fall, the opponents we have beat
and when you're gone we want you all to know..

we'll walk on! we'll walk on! and when you're dead and gone, believe me, our memory will walk on!
we'll walk on! and when our hearts just can't contain it, our anthem will explain it

a club that sends you reeling, we're realising all our dreams
your misery and hate won't kill us all
so paint it red and take to bed, let's sing aloud and clear
defiant to the end, we hear the call..

to walk on! we'll walk on! and when you're dead and gone believe me, our memory will walk on!
we'll walk on! and when you're broken and defeated, our merry Kop walks on

on and on we carry thru the fears. whoaa...
disappointed faces of your peers. whoaaa...
take a look at me, cos i could not care at all

do or die, you'll never make me, bcos the world can never take my heart
go and try, u'll never break me, we want it all, we wanna take you apart (like we did to derby and besiktas)
i won't explain, or say i'm sorry
i'm unashamed, i'm gonna show my scars, give a cheer for all the broken, listen here, listen to me
i'm just a man, im not a hero
just a boy, who wants to sing this song
just a man, not a hero, i... don't... care...

we'll walk on! we'll walk on! and when ur dead and gone, believe me, our memory will walk on!
we'll walk on! and when you're broken and defeated, our merry Kop walks on!!!

oh man.. this has got to be one of the longest posts ever.. but.. hey.. it's all about Liverpool.. haha..
YNWA

aw man...

2007-11-05T22:47:00.000+08:00

darn the worship prac this week has been pushed to thursday morning. so i'm not going. looks like i have to wait til december before i can come back to play in the band. :( cos this week still needa prepare for next week's sciences paper 1. think if i do really well for those then the B3s can be secured for physics and chem. if i'm lucky maybe even A2 is possible. but i'm not expecting too much.. then next week will be in malaysia so cant play on my scheduled comeback date of 18 nov. then 25 nov i probly won't play cos not my week. so i guess 2dec?
well but my parents have let me play soccer tmr afternoon with brian and the other guys at bishan. dunno if they'll let me play soccer with joe on sat morn.. actually sposed to have band prac then go and play in the morn before the prac then they allow. but now the prac on thurs so they might not let me.
anws all this talk abt worship just reminded me abt ekping's worship on sunday! haha. oh man that was so fun! i thought i left sunday school 4yrs ago! hahaha xD the childrens songs medley was good man. actually i'm still not so confident to do medleys for my worship yet. but think i'll try it awhile after i come back to worship leading. that was seriously the best sunday school worship i've ever had lol.. ok la not all the songs were childrens songs. but this is one of the few times that i was smiling and laughing so much during worship. atmosphere was good, music was good, worship leading was good;) great job ekping! think u really moved the PLHers towards worshipping God, which is what its all about! so mission accomplished! haha. rock on! (for GOD!)
alright mates. that's all for today. stay tuned for the next update on thelumster.blogspot.com brought to you by none other than thelumster himself LOL.. think i'll try to continue on that story i wrote in july. if u are fans of "The Quest for the Eye of the Stone: They had nothing better to do, so they saved the world!" then hold on to ur horses cos it MIGHT be back here soon.
peace out!