Life Begins Here. JJ's orientation camp motto.
I agree wholeheartedly.
The camp, the ppl I've met, the friendly atmosphere I shared with my OGLs n OG mates, my most-yearned-for subj. combi.
Day by day I feel more n more fortunate to be in this JC. Everything's going so smoothly that I almost forgot the taste of failure for a while.
No I mustn't be complacent.
No I cannot afford to be proud.
David Woon's determination is what I should have.
Target for this year's JJ high jump event : 1.60m
By year end I should be clearing 1.60m and higher with ease!

Sat morning-cool and tranquil. As promised I'll write abt my life over the past week.

Day 1 (Start of school)

There was the usual dawn stupor when I walked into the college. Many others streamed into the gates and we were all trying to avoid eye-contact. Sleepy me went over to some temporary boards and check my OG no. Ho wai was in my OG!!! Cheers...Yummy..Good wine.. When I saw his name in the same list I was in, the feeling was heavenly.
Fast Forward >>>>
I met some tanglinians from 4e2 and we got flushed up into the hall by the OGLs. The mood was really bad in the hall. Almost everyone was hanging their heads low and keeping quiet. I joined in as well. Here's the sian-sian part... Many teachers were queueing up for their individual addressing to the school bLaH~ bLAh~~~ As the morning break approaches I was more friendlier coz I got to know my first friend in the OG, Eugene. Dilly- dally for 1/2 hour and I spotted my pri-sch classmate Dian Xue. He's a male btw..Quite handsome and strangely taller than me now! He doesn't seems to recognise me.buMmEr.
Seeing my seniors Richmond and Mavis also makes me day brighter :)
Seriously the first day of sch for me was tensed up cause' the sch staff was heavily emphasising on discipline. I know I have no prob. with my self-discipline but the teachers' tone kinda scare me off my seat.

When I got home the wall clock was showing a tired expression of 4pm. The rest of the things I did at home you dun need to know la..nothing exciting to jolt down.

Day 2 ( Admin work)

The second day was like starvation day.I lined up for the registration of the courses but then coz i chose a unrelevant course combi I had to change it and re- queue. Thus I became the last one standing and I missed my break time. Sux man..From 6am till 2pm nv took a bite. If everyday like this, by the time this year ends you'll see a skeleton walking into JJC. Day 2 got mass dance. Wow i haven't held a gal's hand for ages... That feeling was intriguing. I didn't remember whose's hand was that but it didn't matter if it was a chiobu or wadever. I was dismissed at abt 2pm and decided to buy some apparel @ Jurong Pt for the camp. But hEcK I went straight home after sch and slept like nv b4. My legs brought me to JP only at 8pm nia...3 pieces of apparel costs $40+, and I'm down to my last 5 bucks in my saving :) As soon as I got back I was frantically jamming all the clothes n things into the Tanglin sling bag. Sadly, Jian Chao couldn't sleep till 2am when he dozed off and his mind finally rested..

Day 3 (JJC Orientation Camp Day 1)

Here comes dawn,following a heavy rain. My breakfast was light and kind of rush because I always leave little time for myself to travel to sch. Rain (*)&#@(*% rain... unarmed with umbrella, left with no choice but to chiong to the crowded bus stop. One bus came..another followed behind...third bus was as full as the previous 2. Then a group of JJ ppl chatted behind me about going to JJC by taxi. They were really kind to signal me to join them! But tt plan didn't materalise cause' a rather empty bus came shortly after. Wah liew if everyday I'll have this problem with travelling, i'll buy a bicycle and ride to sch! That'll be so fun lor!
Imagine carrying a ton-like sling bag to sch...My shoulders were so sore! Can't wait to stretch my limbs a thousand miles apart to loosen up! Ya once @ JJ Mr Leow the self-proclaimed-youngest-teacher addressed the sch with exceptional long speeches. Hahaa I forgot the camp schedule-now referring 2 da booklet for ideas of what to write down here.

First there was the OG time where we ppl sat in one big circle and played "Ji Niu Nai" or aka Sqeeze Milk. Gosh...This game really takes lotsa concentration n coordination with luck. Hehee I busted one of my OGLs.. She said beforehand that she always lose one... So suay.

MASS DANCE!!! This is the part...Everything gets heated up as I held a girl's hand. I haven't did this for ages...nv had e chance to... I would dance with ^her^ if she's in JJ too. At this pt, I must applaud Richmond n Mavis coz they're just too lovin' dancing together on the platform. Crazy search was really kinda dumb la...i dont want to say what happened.

One of the best games in the camp was the night game's dragon pulse. Now tt's what I call a unique and exciting game! For starters, the game consist of 2 parts. And the gamemaster is actually the parade commander whom I see everyday at the morning assemble lmao..He has to work so hard.. First the gamemaster assigns different items placed on the floor with different no. of pulses. We then hold each other's hand. For instance if he passes 5 squeezes(pulses) in the hand to the line of ppl, the last person will have to pick the correct item. Howe Wai was the 4th last,then me,chiu wo, finally minghowe. HW gave me 7 pulses,but i only passed 6 to the next person who luckily gave 7 pulses to the last man. And our OG won! I'm utterly sorry for the mistake, OG 29. Although my OG completed only 4 out of 10 activities during the night game I've enjoyed myself and got really tired before sleeping.
Basket...we all were having men's talk in our classroom-converted bedroom until like 2am...Wayne n Chiu Wo were like mosquitoes buzzing annoyingly beside me.
We guys kena a warning from a boy who slept in the next classroom. Blame it on chiu wo la...conversed loudly with wayne across the room haha...we are really bad boys.

Day 4 (Camp day 2)

Mad Mad Mayhem n Madness! Despite the fact that I only had 4+ hours of sleep, we're expected to get to the the hall with our heavy luggages in less than 60mins. Here comes the scariest morning in da camp!!! PT before the sun came up to greet the world ! This activity made me sick for the whole morning coz I got stitches on my right abdomen. That gave me an excellent excuse to skip the mass dance lmao! I've regretted it very much coz my back n ass were hurting so much sitting there at the back of da hall with a Tamil boy. As a result I was like the only male who doesn't know the last 2 dances' steps during the JJ nite. My stomach wasn't feeling that well for breakfast due to the crazy PT in da morning which led to me having the loos.
If you know me well inside out, you'll know that I like to find zillions of excuses to keep myself away from tasks. But who cares when there's games?!?! I know I don't cause' after the 2hr mass dance I was having too much energy in me. So on! Play da 3 games @ the telematch like nobody's business. That's me...I try to be damn enthu when it comes to games, especially sports.. So er3 xin1.. The foam n da mud n da flour... I got f***** up as i cleared the first obstacle of da first game as my right eye caught the foam n it was burning like a fireball ! The rest of the obstacles in other games were so-so and we(me n howe wai) got praised by Mr Leow when we were doing the skipping! Absolutely exciting n eventful... I remembered Eugene successfully catching a water bomb that was tossed to him by an FIT member from the left flank. What's his next move? RAN UP TO THE WATER BOMB TANK AND FIRE AT THE FIT PPL! Those ppl cladded in yellow shirts were kind of stunned... BUT IT"S NOTHING WRONG N EVERYTHING"S RIGHT! That was so thrilling lor... How I wished I caught one and did the same..Knowing that time was limited for me to bath before having lunch, the kiasu me grabbed my shoebag and sprinted to the secret bathing spot. Not those in the open one or in the kelong, what were you thinking?!

After lunch, oh o...WORLD WAR 3! BOOM THUD~~THUD~~BOOM! PIANG!!EEEeeeoow..BOOOOOM!Huh? Not that kind...Nor it is close to playing water bombs. WW III is abt completing 10 challenges, each with its own pros and cons. Some requires brainpower but doesn't get yourself dirty, others simply..crawl thru the "mud" and have fun! OG 29 was one of the few unlucky teams to attempt their first n most disgusting/awful/unthinkable/sticky challenge. It really sux at first when I saw what was in store for us. I was thinking, " Huh? Do I really have to do this? That's is so gruelsome!" And I'm sure no one was more "suay" than me in the OG. As I crawled thru the enemy benches and lying on my back n meanwhile pushing myself thru, da gamemaster sprinkled flour on my face! The only thing I saw before I squinted my eyes was flour aiming straight at my right eye. She's not to be blame but it's really my bad hair day... The flour mixture was acting like a body mask lor..leg skin felt like cracking n my arms felt as if in cement casts.

At this point of time of da camp, I started to free my woes and instantly felt the adrenaline and excitment rush in me. Suddenly I become so "ON"... I did a dive-leap underneath the first table in da Soapy h20 challenge and cracked my bone in my right arm. I suddenly lost control/feeling of my right arm for a split sec and my heart skipped a beat. For this my next few days were absolutely cut from the outside streets coz I was doing natural-recuperation without medicine. Walking from station to station with the cool n sticky t-shirt was a nv-b4 experience..The worst I had was to walk naked with jamas n ben from clementi woods back to sch in the rain fuelled by a strong wind. If there was a real WWIII it would last abt 4yrs but our JJ WWIII already lasted some blistering 4hrs!

Maybe it was God's decision, there was one challenge in the war to counter our dirty challenge, right ppl?!? Our track's steeplechase water pit was converted into a "pool" where we dived into it without caring how darkly-coloured the water was. My OG guys n gals had only one thought in mind, that is to clean away the flour n dough stuck on our clothes. Due to my skinny figure, teh half-naked me was shivering as if in North-pole when I took off my shirt to draw water with it. Anyway the WWIII our OG was almost always at disadvantage.. Either the opposition team who played with us had better selection of ppl or that they cheat like nobody's business. We could've won more challenges, but the odds were raised against us because of foul plays...you know.. Everyone including ppl like Lawrence from my family were having their own kind of fun.

I shall not dwell on the JJ nite thing since it'll bore or prolly had already the ppl not from JJ. But ppl, I have lotsa things to mention abt the mass dance and song by Taufik, I Dream. During this mass dance I still didn't get to dance with those gals in my cute list ..Grrr....haha...Nothing went wrong except for the last 2 dances where I became an idiot-dancer instantly. E free dance part was the high tide of da night for me. I was following the FIT ppl in one file n somehow I ended up infront of the elongated stage. Chori~ CHori~~! So fun. I cannot use enough words of enjoyment to express how much fun I had in da 3-day camp.

Day 5 (Last Day of Camp)

It's amazing how 3 days or some may say a week can do to their lives. Just look at our OG 29's E-web. We guys thought it was abt going to da comp. lab n do some survey on the camp. But it turns out to be a time to shed our tears and cry our hearts out. OK la..not so kua1 zhang1. I'll use the word "sob".

TURN-OFFS OF THE CAMP WERE:
*Mr Leow's prolonged speeches accompanied by his poor song n its rhythm.
*Insufficient time for OG members to socialise among themselves.
*Adding on to the previous point, the camp was entirely in a rush.
*Most impt point, the PT b4 the break of the dawn!

OTHER THAN THAT, THE CAMP WAS THE FIRST CAMP I HAD MOST FUN IN!

Word Count: 2161, excluding alternatives of words like, "da, b4,ur"

Time of completion: 11 Jan '05, 6pm.

For all members of JJC OG 29 looking here right now, there'll be a 2000-word blog entry coming out from the oven over the weekend. So wait for your blog meal here on monday! That blog entry will be mainly about how I felt about the jj camp that was just over*sob* and abt the ppl I got to know thru the camp. That's all I can reveal...

I has absolutely nothing to do this afternoon. So I played ffx and played and played. I was trying to increase my characters' lvls to prepare them/myself for the oncoming boss fight feat. Seymour. Finally I got bored of the training and came to the comp.

I really had nothing in mind when I launched my IE. But then I read many interesting high jump stories be it local or international...
David is my net friend's friend...so I really felt the impact of the story on me. P.S I copied the entire story from www.alvinny.blogspot.com

Story of David Woon

Was the lousiest high jumper among the TCHS jumpers in secondary 1. People call him "shit" or something, ask him to go join the Sao-Di-Zhu (sweeping group, for the lousy athletes in the team) ASAP. But he persevered, and kept bugging Mr Ang Ka Soon to teach him how to jump the High jump. Quote: "He never asks me to come to him to get pointers, cause I go to him all the time instead." With all the hard work, David soon became the best high jumper of his batch, and many batches to come. Set the C-boys record, and then went on to cross 2m, and even represent Singapore for the SEA Games some years back.

Yet another Quote: "I'm not especially bouncy, unlike many jumpers. All my achievements came about from pure hard work, and hard work only."

End

I am very very impressed. Indeed, a success story that is inspiring to all. He forgot, btw, that he is tall and light also, 2 attributes that help in high jump as well. So he's not exactly a talent-less high jumper afterall laa. But anyway, I respect David in this aspect. Never giving up, and also never getting too cocky and arrogant about his abilities, as can be seen from his happy-go-lucky ways, laughing along with the rest about his "fall from grace" due to army life as a Commando(he could only do heights of around 1.70m - 1.88m recently), about his "stupid brain" as he retained 1 year in JC and so on. To all sportsmen and sportswomen out there, as well as those who have found that happiness has been avoiding them like the plague, do learn from this excellent role model. I emphasise, EXCELLENT.

My resolution for the coming year is very simple.

-I will not skip any track training in whichever I am in, unless I do not know about it.
*There's no excuses for me because JJC is just one street down my block so I will not have to worry how late I will be home after training :)
Addition goal is of course to pass the year 1 promos haha...Take care ppl..Don't fall sick or have any mishaps on tomorrow or you might be *suai* the whole year...

What a bad way to end this 2004... The quakes followed by the fatal waves and bOoM-sPlAsH~! Thousands of thousands of lives are taken away.

-Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow- Anonymous

I read the main section of today's ST, and something popped into my mind..The first article was about Singapore urging ASEAN to get regional leaders together and plan a relief fund system. Look how small Singapore is and how little Singaporeans died in this year-end tragedy. It is totally incomparable to other neighbouring countries but yet Singapore cares so much of its involvment in the global relief for this disaster. Way to go !
Frankly speaking, I did not help at all but my family has got 3 bags of clothes ready for the volunteers to take them to Sri Lanka.

I'm having a mild sore throat now but it's getting better since yesterday night. Damn that mosquito in my room! I couldn't sleep at all and I have to shift my itchy body to the sofa in da living room. My throat kept me awake till dawn and guess how I woke up? I was having a dream... something like lotsa ppl lining up to shoot a free-throw ball(basketball). Then ppl were chatting around...talking... And! It was actually caused by the MVP Valentine drama on Channel U. My sista was watching it and that explains why that dream came so suddenly.. What a way to end this year!

God bless them
Gud välsigna dem -in Swedish

When you have a bad L1R5 score, everything seems to be hindering your way. Now then I realised JJC doesn't offer attractive subject combi's.Not good enough for me at least.I'm now again feeling unsatisfied abt my score. I think i'll have a bigger headache over the same matter if I'm going to acjc.. I wonder how tracy can dare to enter acjc with 20pts! I mean her cca record is good, but can she take the heated competition in academics there?
Man....damn study woes.
For me I'll put my high jump career at 70% and studies at 30% from now onwards,ya?

My half malay half chinese cousin is really getting out of hands! He came over to my place and stayed for almost every single day of the end-of-yr holidays. That's fine when you have an adorable cousin who is obedient and respect whoever they should. But in my case, I've got one who keeps eating up all those tibits in my house even when I told him not to finish a particular one...Then there's him showing disrespect to my grandparents who live with me. He always say those offensive words as if he's the owner of the house. In addition, he always say some kind of disgusting words like, "Sexy bra", "You got hair down there?"
He's totally outta control.
I'd rather spend my time on playing my games or reading a book than listen to his bullshit...Plus I'm going to isolate him-dun talk to him, dun let his eyes comes into contact with mine.
Afew days back I took a afternoon nap after I kept my ps2 cable wire on top of my wardrobe to prevent him from playing behind my back.I told him not to play though.In the end he still played and it makes me mad! @#$%
Then yesterday midnight I kept the AV cable in another place but he still somehow found it and played my ps2 all the while in the morning before I woke up.That night he hit my "balls" with a solid thread ball and immediately after that he said he was passing me the ball. What the hEll? I declared that he cannot get his hands on my ps2 again ever but look what happened in the next morning? Served him right to get 160pts for his psle. GrrR....

I've missed out so many gatherings this month! To start things off, I turned down the ice-skating junwei asked me to go...Then it was the movie Finian and Stanley asked me to watch. For that one, I'll defe nd myself. The movie was Blade Trinity and I didn't like that genre since I watched the previous one. And today I couldn't go to the X'mas lunch which junwei seeked my presence there. I'm still in Malaysia at that point of time duh.. >.<
My resolution/s for year '05 is ready. Stay online and take notice!

I'm going to JJC!!!! That's truely my 2nd fave choice after ACJC.Yep! COngrats to everyone else who were admitted to JCs they want. BTW, same as previous batch,many ppl this yr also going to JJC! haha we can hold a mini freshmen party over at jjc liao lol..(hosted by tss seniors there :) )