-> YukO
Of course i'm the best ! I'm superman remembered? "Chao-ren" is me except that I don't wear my underwear outside larh gahahaa.. Oh ya, guess what sia...today I saw you quite a few times and you were like sort of glancing back @ me. Then I was thinking, " Huh??! Aiyo...am i going to say hi to you or wad??" Maybe yuko's big eyes scared my guts away haha...

-->lYn2
yarh come to think of that, ms chai was actually damn caring at times. Dislocating my elbow actually gave me a chance to get closer to our dear monitor, Junwei ! It was only after that period of time when junwei helped me alot... gave me confidence to get back on track in my studies... As one old saying goes, true friends surface when you are in trouble ;)

---> ShAn
lost at what to say haha...oPPSs..haha. So how's your studies coming along? still in netball?train hard and enjoy e time in TSS. hehe i rmbered i mistaken you for adeline muahaha...coz i thought adeline looks like a "shanning"

---->Everyone who supports me
Guys, I did a double personal best in high jump !! YAY man !
Here's what happened la..my pb was 1.53m
then during training just now I tried 1.50m. It looked quite low as compared from previous training... so strange lor.. then i cleared it 3 times consecutively.
Next 1.55m. Went over thrice too
1.60m. First jump was a damn foul one. I swept down the bar with my right hand on my way up the crossbar. CHin hong and ZUi backed from long jump pit le...I was preparing at e start point and both of them was like standing by the mattress waiting to see me jump. Straight run, curve run, take-off, arch over bar and lands on e mattress. I peeked at the bar before hitting the matt. and it was like bouncing up and down on the stands. Miracly, it stabilised and there goes another new pb height !
My high jump competition debut is on this Saturday ! A new pb at 1.60m will surely keep up my morale for sat's showdown. :) U can't imagine how ecstatic I am now !! Geeheehe
And the hockey coach asked if I was the only jumper in JJ and I was nodding away as I dragged my steps out of the changing room...???huH?? oH yes ! gahaha..
One of the things I want to achieve in JJ is to be recognised as a high jumper. I only hope that people will walk past me and say, "Hey, he's that high jumper !" I dun1 a reputation but just a brand name.

OH!!!!!!!!!!! NO! That was my response when I heard from Ms Lang that my class is in OWENS. So damn discouraging lor... Majority of the guys in e track team is from Rono except for Kenny who's in Bikila. Anyway I still love to mingle with e track team. They're one fun lot and not to mention the seriousness they have. I like the way soch chea make jokes haha...the x-country runners are having a competition on wed and he kept joking abt it. Just now they had a briefing from Mr Poh that the last few runners in the team should not stop when the first few in e team has completed the run. Then Soch Chea said, "I'm in the front, how to stop them fwahaha ! !"
I haven't heard these hilarious jokes since ah huang and ah long self-boasted themselves last time in sec sch training lol... Actually this is a kind of self-encouragement i guessed. No harm overdoing it lma()

There was this pic that i printed and slotted into the cover of my file. And today almost everyone was borrowing it to see and asking who were those ppl in e pix haha... The ppl standing in the pix is none other than the swedish athletics team participating for athens olympics ! Only like, err..ya 6 of them but there's my idol and his partnering jumpers !

For all you people I just got to know in JJ, let me tell you something about me.

On Monday Dec 22 of year 2003, my freakiest accident of my life happened. I still remember vividly that particular day. As usual in the end-of-year holidays, I went for track training at SPE stadium(Singapore Physical Edu.). It was a fine training day until I slipped on my way up the run-up towards the high jump crossbar. My left shin hit something and a lump of flesh popped up literally like a swell. Frantic and shocked, I instantly smoothe the flesh back. The gruesome part has yet to come...
After a while, I recovered from that accidental slip and going for more jumps. Jian Chao jumps, sits the bar and lands on the mattress with his right arm held out punching straight into the matt. Unfortunately my right elbow got dislocated ;=(
Luckily my coach was just nearby and came to my aid by slotting the elbow joints into position. I guessed my body was rejuvenating itself, thus there was this rush of giddiness. The fingers on that arm gradually went numb and it felt like rubber fingers.
Then coach sent me to Alexandra Hosp. Waited, X-rayed, diagnosed by multiple docs. The impact formed a bone fragment and had to be either surgically fixed or leave it to recover by itself. One of the doc told me I may need an operation and I almost freaked out !
Still, I went under the knife at night the following day.

Actually I just wanted to say about the hosp. stay and especially one song I heard in the hospital.
It's Sundial Dreams by Kelvin Kern. I think that's the song I heard on one morning in my ward. I must confess that the hospital is one of the best place to be in when you're ill. I recalled clearly that scene in the ward that morning... Calmness within the ward, cool atmosphere that you just want to rest in, trees swaying gently outside the windows.. What more can I ask for? A platform of life and death filled with elements of heaven. It's either heaven or hell, just that how you think about a hospital. Although my elbow occasionally had the piercing pain, I tried to think of happier things. Oh yeah last but not least, Finian and Liuyun visited me when I was hospitalised. Tt's the most warming thing I've experienced ever since. As I'm typing this, tears are welling up in my eyes ! What's up with tt?! Too much warmth to continue ppl, I'm signing off...

Ta mA De ! It was a near miss at 1.55m. If I cleared that one, it'll be my new personal best ! =(
But all was well for training except that I couldn't execute the body arch when I was doing the last few jumps. 2Molo there's still training in JJ and mr suren is doing jumps with me ?!?!?

I feel good ! OH I feel so good today! It was a short day with 1.5h of break time. I simply hanged around the cafe and let my iPod rock me. Several old friends crossed my way and those moments were just so delightful. ZQ and rusty dragon came my house 2 do something and again we pitted our NFSU2 skills against each other. Seriously I fared poorly this time...couldn't drive my car masterfully.
Then walked to JP to buy stationery , running socks and skipping rope. My shins need more strengthening for jumps... It sucks when the shin splint came after me...felt like needles counteracting on shins every footfall i make everytime i run.
Many JJcians were still lingering in JP at around 6 and there was weihong grabbing files in popular bookstore hehe...
hmm let's recap..
encountered terence in the toilet, wei hou near AR2, yuko in hall, the usual weijie almost every time we have mass break.. eddy and ce rong in rooftop cafe, andy at the benches outside cafe..jing ngei after school in canteen
Wah...Now i know why orientation camp is so important ! i.e to get to know more friends !
Tmr is friday le...that means it's the "jumps" day again!!! and before training i'm going to help out in e track booth.. perhaps tt's a perfect time to mingle with other track members whom i dunno at all...Hopefully that kok sin joins track and guide me in my HJ. that dude arh..can jump 1.65m..damn pro. enuff SAiD =)

This wk has sux so far... A bad flu infected me yesterday ! I was so "cham" lar! My nose water kept dripping and I had exhausted my supply of tissue lol... Guess what? My last lesson ended at 4pm. I was telling Lynn tt I wanted to skip the last lesson which was a chemistry lecture in lt5. But then i decided to stay on. It was hell... I have this flu illness that I inherited from my mum. However I haven't had e running nose since I joined JJ i think. Maybe because the frequent track training kept me fit and healthy? dunno lol... My nose "ran" from daybreak to 11.30pm at night, when I can finally breathe with ease thru my nose.

Then the new timetable definitely irritated me and surely many other J1 students...How am I going to train on mon. and wed. after I'm dismissed at 4pm??! I'll be sleep-running for warm-up lor..hahaz
Today was a showdown of how boring JJ can be. I was stuck in lt5 for 3 straight hours!!!! TMD!


iPod updating... I've adjusted the vol. for several songs because every of e 1500 songs I stored in it has difference original vol. Luckily iTunes has this excellent feature that allows me to change it. U'll nv imagine what i'm doing now junwei! I'm currently formulating a table that allows me to decide what % increase or decrease for a particular song so that every song will be played at equal vol. ! Tt sounds stupid enuff...
Yeah it's done...not sure what it'll sound in e iPod itself..
SUPPORT APPLE!

Like I said before, every mtv I put up there clearly reflects my thoughts =)
This is the seAs0n of accidental love!
This song, Accidentally In Love, is the orientation theme song of NJC this year too!

2 Yuko: I think this is what I should reply you... If you knew who I like, U'll be in for a big shock and prolly nv visit this place again...I prefer to "tou1 kui1" now... i.e admire her from a corner. Oh U went 2 e JJ nite? Muz tell me how's the 2nd experience okay?

I went back 2 2ndary sch this afternoon for track and it really drew me back to the life I had when I studied there...Of course, the gym is still the best I've seen. Clean, equipment under top-notch condition because of one superb coach, Mr Tham !!! I heard from lYnn tt he's quitting his job there soon. What a waste is that? If not for this coach, I dare say Tanglin SS's track wouldn't be the best in the zone these past years. Anyway let's look at a brighter side. Maybe he's not leaving afterall. Taking the opportunity, I spoke to him about my shin splint. The way he mentioned about it really scares me... As if I have to end my high jump career liddat... haha..Yes, I'm enlightened by him once again.
Not knowing what to do, I did some si1 bei3 xiong1 gym workouts. My nerves on my left thigh was nearly tearing when I did hamstring curls. I better don't be to rash next time. One single injury is sufficient to single me out of the upcoming competition.

Dear fellow folks, you have chose to come forth and read this online parchment dating back to the early past.

Once upon a time, long before now, there was a hopeful teenager by the name of Chao2 Chao1. He lived in the sub-urban town known as Jurong in the tiny tweeny nation Singapore. He always had average performance in the schools he attended. Never was he in the limelight nor was he anything close to popular. Despite living an ordinary life for 16 years, he made up his mind fast and became focusing on the short-term goals he wanted to achieve. In one year's January, he entered Jurong Junior College. "Again...I will start anew. I'll be better than the best I've ever been in the previous institution," he told himself.

Perhaps it was his good fate, the college reaccepted him among hundreds of students vying to get into the school even though Chao Chao's results were below par. JJC was so lively and enjoyable that attending the school each day was not a chore but a pleasure. He felt light-hearted because there were adequate facilities for his interest(i.e high jump) and the tutors were excellent. Chao Chao was different. While other students were busy having fun, he was always critically thinking about his own life. "I'm going to run my own race," a voice inside him echoed. Everything felt so right that he had forgotten the taste of a setback. And somewhere else in the school, she was there. Chao2 Chao2 remembered once she was hanging around with her friends beyond the high jump set-up and he totally lost his concentration! Love is so strange. She only spoke to him for countable times yet he likes her ! At the moment Chao Chao finds encouragement in her spoken words.

*Reality*At only 1.70m, I am at huge disadvantage competing in high jump. But I ain't stopping. Others may beat me and become cocky, but my willpower is unsurpassable. Secondary school track has really shaped me. My training and seniors brought other sch's outstanding trackers into my life. I know they are the top grade of their league. I think that's what challenge me in track. Not to beat people in my school but those from other JCs.

Yeah yesterday I did weights in the gym. I did some sort of split boundings with a bar and weights on my shoulders. I couldn't placed the cushion piece properly and went on doing the boundings and my shoulder-neck is muscle-sore now...

Chao took a bus to West Coast RC this afternoon and alighted 1 stop before the actual destination and he hurried his steps through the HDB void decks and suffered the blast of drizzling rain. Tau Pok called me for the game but there were so many friends there! First from Tanglin there was Tau Pok, Jeric, Guo Lun, Wei Wen, Benson, Gary and YongZen(in one far table). Then there was Edmund and his friend who's from JJ too. It was like a big party of friends ! Also on the way to RC I was trailing behind Mayleng, Peiwoon and Lynette. N0thing beats gathering with old friends... There's a closeness between me and them that cannot be replaced. True, folks? Benson was the pro among us with his mighty private cue stick. He's ridiculously accurate although I managed to bring my balls down to 2(excluding 8-ball) in a 1v1 game with him. He's quite a good guy. How come I didn't get to socialise with him in all my 4 years in TSS??? Zhao Qing the killer didn't go...lucky me...or else my feet will get bombarded by his laser-guided zooming white ball again lMa()

Thanks Kaini ! U msged me when I was typing this. I can go back and train with my juniors at Tanglin tml which means I'm not going JJ for those bored-to-death talks. The long talks in the hall are No. 1 in my most-hateful list for JJ.

To her: Sorry for everything or anything I've done that may have made the thought of me irks you. Pls vindicate me! Can we ever be friends we have been once? Or I have changed the course of how things will go? Give me an answer. . .or an indication...somehow...someday.

'Cause even love is not enough

Monday track:
standing high jump-cleared 1.30
7-step approach jump: cleared 1.53m 3 times out of 8
I grade myself "good" for the jumps because I've conquered my fear of doing standing high jumps and managed to clear my P.B heights with e attention of tens of J2 seniors at me. More exercises need to be conc. on my back because I felt a mild ache after training! Tmr I'll be attacking the HJ bar again...