The best just keeps getting better. Last night I heard abt a track and field meet happening at Madrid through the BBC radio channel. Stefan Holm was mentioned during the short telecast and I got so excited that I thought I'd see the high jump results on newspaper tomorrow. However no to my disappointment. But eventually I saw the results on the winner's hompage! By the way, Stefan's winning rate is so extremely high that I feel so estatic every time I look through his past competition records. He's my model and Staffan's my motivator.

European Indoor Championships - Madrid, Spain
Final- 6 Mar 2005

1. Stefan Holm SWE 240
2. Yaroslav Rybakov RUS 238
3. Pavel Fomenko RUS 232
4. Jaroslav Baba CZE 230
5. Dragutin Topic SCG 230
6. Andrea Bettinelli ITA 230
7. Svatoslav Ton CZE 227
8. Andrey Tereshin RUS 224

Hanson - Penny and Me

Cigars in the summertime
Under the sky by the light I can feel her read my mind
I can see it in her eyes
Under the moon as it plays like music every line
There's a rug with a bleeding dye
Under the fan in the room where the passion's burning high
By the chair with the leopard skin under the light
It's always Penny and me tonight

On the plane step with both my feet
Riding in seat number three on a flight to NYC
Got my bean in a coffee cup next to my seat
Catch the view and another good book to read
Sitting at home over the friendly skies missing her eyes
It's always Penny and me tonight

'Cause Penny and Me like to roll the windows down
Turn the radio up push the pedal to the ground,
And Penny and Me like to gaze at starry skies
Close our eyes pretend to fly
It's always Penny and me tonight

Staring at a million city lights
But still Penny and I are all alone beneath the sky
Feel the wind brushing slowly by
If I could soar I would try, to take these wings and fly
Away to where the leaves turn red
But no matter where I am instead
Singing along to feeling alright
Or making it by pink moonlight
It's always Penny and me tonight

'Cause Penny and Me like to roll the windows down
Turn the radio up push the pedal to the ground,
And Penny and Me like to gaze at starry skies
Close our eyes pretend to fly
It's always Penny and me tonight

Penny likes to get away
And drown her pain in lemonade
Penny dreams of rainy days
And nights up late by the fireplace
And aimless conversations about the better days

Singing along to feeling alright
Making it by under pink moonlight
It's always Penny and me tonight

'Cause Penny and Me like to roll the windows down
Turn the radio up push the pedal to the ground,
And Penny and Me like to gaze at starry skies
Close our eyes pretend to fly
It's always Penny and me tonight

Penny and me tonight
Penny and me tonight
Penny and me tonight
Penny and me tonight

4mins to 12mn, and a brand new school day awaits me in JJ. Just watched 2 episodes of Friends season 6 on this laptop and blog-hopped a few sites from my link list. Dunno why I was captivated by the music played on cin's blog. It makes my mind wander through time... the time in the same primary sch cin and I were in. The innocent times...the wonderful memories of life back then.. Next I literally dreamt abt myself scoring outstanding distinctions for my exams. Maybe I've read too much about successful students...
Goal for my A levels 2 later from now : at least A, B, B. Plus get honourable mention by the sch. I've lived among the common scorers for like 10 years??! It's about time I make an astounding comeback.

New template! But I have to sacrifice my tagboard. I couldn't place it within the border without having erroneous results. But then in another way... I can blog abt her without all those comments in the tagboard :)

Gone are the days when I try to find her in the crowd...I've been too impulsive. I know it all too well myself. -For her-

-For myself-
Someday, somehow I will prove to everyone that I can better the S'pore HJ record of 2.22m set by Wong Yew Tong. It seemed impossible. But look at the paralympics. one-legged athletes can jump so much higher than me. Friends support me even though they know it's too unrealistic a goal for me.

TQ Staffan for your videos and guidelines. I had a personal best today! 1.53m ! I kept trying...over 20+ attempts at different heights..finally 1.53m under the request of my classmate. He wanted to see me jump and the bar was already at 1.53m. So I went for it......the bar stayed on after some violent twitching as my legs rolled down it. With a positive mindset that I could do it again, Jian Chao was fired up. Either the second time or third time I cleared this pb height, the bar was so still that I almost couldn't see it vibrating.
Ah yes, I did it the swedish way!

Next height was set to 1.55m when I was hungry for more. A few good attempts and eventually my body was too exhausted to do a nice arch over the bar. In conclusion, I still felt that I couldn't coordinate my limbs well when I approach the take-off point with a fast pace.

Next monday is the day for the release of O'lvl results! I will and surely will stay in JJC if I get my score in the right range. The tutors in JJ are very passionate and they did more than a teacher has to. They were friends, not teachers.

I...err..wishes Staffan a smooth recovery from his stress fracture and also to Stefan who injured himself in his don't-know-which-part-of-his-body during a competition.

They rock! Stefan Holm could jump 209cm when he was at my age. Staffan Strand's best jump at 16yo was 180cm. I need to go the extra mile during training!
I'm nearly equalling my pb liao...now loading. . . pls wait. . .

wohoo! I just came back from m'sia. Spent 1 full week 400km into m'sia for CNY. There are simply too much fireworks going on in my town. A family 2 streets down kept litting massive fireworks every night for the townsfolk. My uncle bought 3 long rows of red crackers(those tt you see in Chinatown), 24 of 15 mini fireworks shots and a big rm100 fireworks...20 shots..I caught every moment of it on video ! hehe...So if any one of you wants to look at the videos tell me so, i'll be most obliged to share :)
Btw I was the photographer of the stay and the pix are up for display in the Lourve Gallery on the right column. Enjoy!

Sch for me again... I took leave for one whole week. I just hope the teachers give me some leeway on my delayed cum stacked work.

I nv had such a shagged week. It was just too much for my body to take it...... On wed n thur I had to train before and after pe respectively lor...But some of my week's achievements are as follow:

I. Ran the girls' road run(2.5km) without stopping yeah!
II.Did 3x2mins step-ups with 2 mins break in between each set. My muscles above the knee swell as before...

Then...it was a short but unbearably hot sch day...ended @ 12pm with a chem practical briefing/tryout. Soon after my gp classmates and I had a soul-leeching train journey to city hall for the purpose of visiting the Asean Civillisation Museum to get some info for our 500-word essay that is due by feb 15.*Phooff..~Take a breather if you need b4 you read on* An enormous mgs group packed the place while we guys were watching an intro clip in a special room.DUhaha...we boys were sian-sian after looking through some meaningless protraits so we sat on a bench on the 2nd lvl. I discussed briefly with my friends on which lvl sec they were of(mgs gals). My best bet would be on lower sec because they were generally half to one head shorter than me lor and moreover all of them got the innocent young look...But when my JSS friend seeked a mgs gal's answer, I was so stunned. She said, "Sec 4" I will definitely have a lookout for mgs girls in jjc to see whether my assumption is right; all mgs girls got the innocent, immature look.
Yeah half of the ppl I went with took 174 with me from city hall back to JJc/jurong point. We boys played big 2 aka tai di at the last row of seats until our heads couldn't take the giddiness and we're like...just entered bukit batok!?!?!?!?!?
Oh and one more thing. I found a thick wallet stuffed with many cards at the void deck. Human's instinct, or rather mine, is to check how many money I can "coop" from this windfall. Chey. Less than 10 bucks. So I traced the address to a 14th floor unit from that guy's IC and returned him. If there was 300 bucks, I would buy the iPod shuffle. If there was like say, 500+, I would buy a 20gb iPod with the money :). But conscious caught me and I gave the wallet back in the hope that something good will happen to me for my kindness, since CNY is coming...Not that good to celebrate with a foul conscious.

I'll leave on Sat night, then stay overnight at my uncle's hse in JB then travel 500km(?) back to my hometown in raub, pahang for the whole week! YAY! No Mr Fei! No lectures! No stress for a week! Aww..that means no high jump for me on that friday after CNY...
Omg only until now do I know that I have to sit in a car with 3 other passengers in the back seat lor..sux siao... it's practically impossible to do so!

I learned many things today. Most importantly is that you have to mix with diff. ppl to see who you prefer to hang out with. At noon today I went over to Clemeti Sports Hall for a whooping 2 hrs of badminton with liuyun, onion, koko, zhaoqing n jeric. We first started off playing with liuyun's Swallow brand shuttlecocks. It had strong air resistance prolly 'cause it was so damn light-weighted. Thus I took out mine n we felt like we're hitting bullets. Because of the difference in the specs of the shuttlecocks, there was a different experience for each kind. The night before I asked liuyun whether we should ask zhaoqing along. His reply was, "The more the merrier." But somehow finian got wind of it and sounded quite unhappy that he was joining us. "Bo Bian la...", more ppl means each of us will play less marh.. No wonder he's not that happy.
I was at a crossroad after the game. At first I was thinking of going to liuyun's new home but then I suggested to zhaoqing abt a game of pool. In the end I went for the latter coz I haven't tried pool for months and I was attracted by the cheap hourly rate(Clementi RC) too.
I long knew Zhaoqing's pool friends are very "ON" one.. Since there was 3 of us, ZQ called up Taupok who happens to live in the area to join us. It was so enjoyable to play with these ppl. Although their pool skill is "Wang4 Chen2 Mo4 Ji2" to me, they didn't have that air of arrogance. We practically joked n laughed throughout the long hours at the table 47. As usual in the past, ZQ was always the entertainer in any kind of sports/games. He would try silly shots and sometimes just dunno why purposely can't get the crucial balls in... That joker haha... Even Jeric n Taupok doesn't want to team up with him lol... Taupok was so pro in it n he taught me some tips and tricks. But somehow I just can't spin the ball left/right...always got the miss-cue sound upon attempt. I also learned how to play the 9-ball game after a clear explanation from taupok.

When both of us were about to leave, WW, peiwen n yeow teck walked in. Imagine how many sec sch friends I met today!

Basket...I received an info package from SP. Their open house is on 5th Feb, which means I don't get to do my jumps until they return the mattress! Gosh... That track senior of mine will make me do a few weeks more of long dist. runs again...
Mileage Check:
Friday- 3 rounds= 1.2km (T)
Thursday- 3 quick rounds during PE= 1.2km in 5.55min(PE)
2 warm-up rounds= 0.8km(PE)
Wednesday- 4 rounds= 1.6km(T)
1 round warm-up= 0.4km(PE)
Monday- 5km(T)

Total score: 10.4km

Legend: (T)-Track Training, (PE)- It spells for itself, isn't it?

All that runs comes with workouts, ya?
Now you know why I chose to give up my own sat. training.