Anniversary

//Anniversary//

1 year ago on this day, we first met our buddies at RELC for Taiwan Immersion Programme. I remember the anticipation, the excitement and of course I remember I was late for the event (as usual).


This is the only photo I can find with both me and my buddy on this very day 1 year ago. That was when we went Lau Pa Sat after the xiang jian huan.

2 years ago, also on this day, we passed on the duties of a NCO to our juniors in St John. I remember I felt relief and sad at the same time, and I also remember the first stayover we had at jiexun's house, which I fell asleep at 10pm watching the movie minghao brought.


I think this is the exco. Hmm..notice who is standing in the middle.


Mingwei is flying.


And so am I. Haha.

Happy 1 year and 2 year anniversary people.

Brothers & Sisters

//Brothers & Sisters//

Been watching this show "Brothers & Sisters" recently...4 episodes only actually...

It's actually kind of entertaining, and quite different from the shows I usually watch...

I was looking at the list of shows I watch...I enjoyed watching "Charmed" because of all the magic elements in it and "Heroes" because of all the superhero powers and stuff. "Stargate Atlantis" got this cool science fic vibe to it, which I really enjoyed thought the storyline itself gets pretty weak sometimes.

I was absolutely hooked to "Lost" because of the overlying mystery that the writers laid out since season 1...and it's just intriguing to watch, with all the character connections and stuff, it's really a well-thought out show, and it's always exciting to see the mystery unfolds slowly.

"Ugly Betty" and "Desperate Housewives" are kind of there to balance out the rest of the show, cause of the humour, and "Desperate Housewives" actually had a cool overarching mystery throughout season 1, which unfortunately failed to carry over to the subsequent seasons.

Granted most of these shows have amazing character development for the cast (Lost in particular)...the thing that gets me really hooked to the shows isn't the storylines that revolve around the character, it's always something else, like the mystery and so on...

But "Brothers & Sisters" is different I realised. For me, it's truly a series about the characters. The characters are really 3 dimensional, and definitely more real than most of the characters in other shows.

What's cool is I actually find the characters irritating and unbearable at some point or another. I guess that's what makes them real. And it's funny watching the siblings fighting with each other, cause it kind of reminds me of my relationship with my bro and sis. Kind of a love-hate relationship.

They may be literally at each other's necks at one point in the episode, but when something happens later on, they will be there for each other. The tension from the fight and so on are still there, but it transceds that.

It's like I can be waging war with my brother over cabinet spaces, but it doesn't mean I am overjoyed by his crap results or that I would wish that the comp that he organised would fail...actually my relationship with my brother is very much like Tommy and Justin's relationship in the show, and my relationship with my sis is like Kevin and Sarah's.

Haha, shan't elaborate too much, I know they are reading.

Ridiculous

//Ridiculous//

Sometimes some things can get so ridiculous that I wonder if I should feel pissed or if I should just laugh at it.

From rat to mario to holy, things can be that ridiculous.

World class instituition?

World class joke maybe.

我期待

//我期待//

Barium carbonate was in the test tube.

The test tube was being heated by the bunsen burner.
I was talking.

I felt like tears were welling up in my eyes. Was it the heat from the bunsen flame?

The test tube was still being heated by the bunsen burner.

I continued talking.

And the test tube cracked.

"My squad really deserves the BEST squad of the century award! Bonded as we are, somehow after these 2 years we haven't really passed out as sjab officers. Jeremy & Wenxuan are still the dedicated trainers in SJAB, & really can see the effort put into grooming the jnrs, esp jeremy! Really love the times our squad could sit and talk abt anything under the sun. Every SJAB camp was a gathering time for us, & the memories just kinda return back whenever I visit the juniors along with my squadmates. Maybe we've outlived our stay, as all the juniors in our NCO days gradually pass out from SJAB... but we'd forever the the one & only 2005 batch of ZAI NCOS!!!" - aaron chua

Put the test tube in the fire for too long and this is what happened. I shall not become the test tube. After what happened during the june hols...I realised it's really time to move on...

"People in the corps come and leave, it keeps changing, but your squadmates never change, they are always there for you." - pauline a.k.a my sai gung chem lab partner

thanks for doing almost everything today in the chem lab while i emo...haha...i shld feel depressed more...then don't need do prac liaoz...

Say goodbye
Say goodbye
昂首阔步
不留一丝遗憾
- 张雨生 (我期待)

Best CPR

//Best CPR//

I remember 3 years ago, after nat comp, jeremy was complaining to me that he missed the best leader by 2 marks. The best leader (from zone 8) got 31 marks, and he got 29. Just as a number 1 would look at his leader score, I would naturally look at the CPR score, since number 3 is usually in charge of CPR.

The person with best CPR (from zone 8 too) got 44. 2 person tied for second place with a score of 40. I got 39.5, coming in third (or fourth, depending on how you look at it).

Even though my score wasn't really fantastic, I was actually quite proud of it at that time, cause I never really think I am good in CPR at all...it was just something I had to do since I was the number 3, so being 0.5 marks away from being 2nd was a great deal for me.

Best CPR wasn't something I was actively trying to get when preparing for competition, I was more concerned with overall performance, trying to get at least a top 3 position and best footdrill, which was a huge thing for us at that time, considering we haven't done well in Nat comp at all since I joined st john in sec 1.

But after looking at the scores of the CPR and I remember looking at the trophies in St John room and I saw this Best CPR trophy, I was determined to make sure that we will win that best CPR the following year, just like how jeremy really wanted the next batch to win the best leader.

To a very large extent, I wanted to help the juniors win something that I couldn't win it myself. It's kind of a mentality that even though I am not good enough to win it, at least I trained someone good enough to win it.

Unfortunately it didn't happen.

They made up for it by winning lots of other stuff though.

The batch after that (last year), which wasn't trained by me didn't manage to get the best CPR too.

Come this year, I wasn't really expecting much anymore, afterall, it's like a long lost dream for me..haha. But still, when they are announcing the results for CPR, I am still very much hoping for the emcee to announce "Zone 7".

Thank you yufan and whoever it is that trained the teams CPR, for finally making this a dream a reality.

Just heard that Wei Sheng did really well for CPR too! He got third! :) And he wasn't even the one supposed to do CPR...really proud of him.

Even though I didn't train the teams for CPR, it still ROCKS to see that Hwachong finally won that best CPR. Its marks probably didn't have a very very big impact on the overall results, but it's kind of a pride thing for me.

Being the person to do CPR for my team, and being forced by jer to judge CPR for all mock comps, I kind of grew to like it I guess. I still suck at CPR, I probably can't give a very positive demo of a good CPR, but I am still very critical of people doing CPR, I still want my juniors to do well in CPR.

I am just so glad that I get to see this trophy before I graduated from Hwa Chong.

I am not taking anything away from any other stuff that they won, cause it's equally hard too, but it's just this shuang dao lan feeling...woots!

Anyway...congrats to AC and AA! The trainers did a fantastic job too...

AC:
2nd in Footdrill
2nd in Long Case
2nd in Short Case
Overall 2nd!

AA:
Best Leader
Best Long Case
Best CPR
2nd in TOC
Overall CHAMPION!

to jeremy: you can finally sleep without having nightmares about nat comp anymore...haha..

End

//End//

This Sunday shall be the last time.

Last time I ever go for a tkd grading...unless I ever find the motivation in me to pick it up in the future...though I doubt so. Kind of relieved that it's the last grading for me actually, kind of regretted going for this grading in the first place, but I guess it's a bit too late to regret now, shall do my best on Sun anyway...probably to compensate for my performance during comp...

Last time I ever go down to support National Comp...I think it's about time I move on...st john gave me lots and lots of fond memories...but I can't keep clinging on the the past..clinging on the things like comp team trainings and stuff...MOVE ON!

I probably wouldn't get the chance to go next year to support anyway cause of NS...and a few years down the road...I guess I wouldn't even be able to recognise the juniors...

i would cling on tight to my squadmates tho. haha. esp yc...for the sake of durians. haha.