Remember the boys who got lost in Mount Fraser, Malaysia recently? The following is an excerpt from the article.

"I kept telling the two small ones, do you want to live or die, whenever they were too afraid to walk to a river or when they started crying," he told The Straits Times from his hospital bed in Raub, where the boys were warded for observation.

Raub is sort of my hometown and also where my grandparent's house is situated in. Over 400km from Singapore, that's where I spent my first few years of life there. I learned how to walk there too! The Raub hospital is roughly 2km from my house. Wow thinking about this year's CNY, the fireworks in the town were awesome. There's fireworks of difference scale... every night some rich family will bring some up into the dark sky :)

Another even more recent newspaper article.

When he began his studies at Tanglin Secondary, he was 1.5m tall, and weighed close to 60kg. That qualified the chubby introvert for the TAF club.

The boy who belonged to the Chinese Chess Club while in Tanglin Secondary moved on to the Outdoor Activities Club in Jurong Junior College in 1998.

Hey! I was enrolled in the 2 schs he went! Mr Teo Yen Kai was one of the NUS team who attempted to scale Mount Everest. And he did it! From overweighting in school to conquering Mount Everest, that's a big achievement I supposed.

More significantly, these two articles tugged my heartstrings as both had something related to me.

I had PW meeting in JP Mac... It was a energy-drainer. There were so many aspects to consider that my concentration was hanging on the edge. Our project is very technical in the proposal. All the measurements and calculations must be realistic and acceptable...I guessed we couldn't put ourselves to handling up a poor piece of work to Ms Lang's table.

The FFX-2 game. So girlish and messy. The battle mode interface is hastened up so much. The dress sphere system is so complicated. But the area of the game remained largely unchanged. Most of the locations are still the same as in FFX. Tonight shall play some more if I can go through 10 qns from physics tut. 6

I woke up from a warm sleep,

only to discover that I just gone through a bad dream.

Warm environment induces nightmarish sleep, babies suffer that most.

The dream was in bits and fragments, or as much I remembered.

First it involved me stealing 2 Nokia handphones of diff. model from 2 people I know.

I hid A's handphone in a place after stealing.

When I went back to recover the phone, a funeral was going on nearby.

It was A's funeral.

The next thing I knew was some electromagnetic sort of pulses affected me.

And I came back to reality, or rather, back to my warm and stuffy room.

I still think about the competition yesterday.

I remembered vividly what Ronnie Cai did during the competition.

Almost every movement.

After I was striked off the competition, I put on my JJ track n field shirt.

Ronnie also put on his NYP shirt, commenting, "I'm proud of my school" and giving a smile.

I'm super motivated by him to jump higher now.

His catchphrase has infected me. "I can do it"

It was a stunning experience for me at Gombak stadium yesterday! The best 2 high jumpers in Singapore went, namely Ronnie Cai and Mike Loh. The latter put up a tough fight in the tie-breaker but lost eventually. From 6.30pm it dragged on to about 7.30. The highest height set was 2.06m but none of e 2 could clear. I just couldn't get enough of their incredible jumps! Michael Loh talked to me quite a bit. He asked me a couple of times how much he cleared over the bar. Lol one time he asked I said he cleared more than ronnie, and he replied, "I don't believe in this kind of thing la" But seriously lor...Ronnie's flight path over the air is very flat and horizontal, while michael body shoots straight up and execute a damn damn flexible upper body bend over the bar. Naturally that would seem more air above the bar hahha...
Overall it was a sensational night.
How about me? I cleared over 1.60m(also my personal best) in my first attempt and missed twice on 1.65m. I was done then hehe.. I didn't really feel any shin pain lately during jumping sessions. And the ground at the stadium felt much padded and I can feel the difference of that and in JJ. Next time must ask jiesheng carry e mattress to the semi-circle of the track(where e hockey team do their shooting) to jump :)
Woah! Wings website released a HJ video of ronnie for last night. shiok.

I have fallen into the lazy level in my work. The study momentum is gone, long gone.

I started to pick up the chem. energetics and I felt so helpless.

My concept of the chapter is so weak that I don't even know the units for enthalpy change.

How am I gonna do all the holiday work?

I'm such a let-down.

Just move on, I guessed. Do as much as I can. Try to jump 1.60m tomorrow at competition.

Will she* walk up to me again? I haven't seen her* for weeks, not even today when I heard she has tennis training.
Runner's World mag featured a female olympian who recommended this song for distance runners. I'm not a runner by any means, but I do use similar songs to prepare myself for training. I like the rhythm at the beginning of the song. Tum-tum tum tumm Dummm~~`
What do ya think? Comment on the song in the forum on the left column :)

Jiesheng the ogl came for his first training. He's got the strength but still raw on the right technique in high jump. I'm still suffering from the disbelief that I performed worse than him in e morning's jump session. Hopefully can clear the 1.60m qualifying height during this thursday's competition. I'll be striked off the open event in less than 4 attempts hehe... 1st height, 2nd height and i'll be sent off. For my track n field future, i'll ask the pros about their clubs on tt day...i just don't have the "feel" training in JJ...

I'm back from Batam ! It's hotter in the comp room here than there in Batam haha..

There were a few strong contenders for the video spot up there. But I'll definitely give it to my favourite boyband, Hanson from Tulsa, USA ! Hanson has won my support since I first heard them when i was about pri 5 or even younger i think. I put up their Penny and Me video so let's hear this one now ! Oops the link didn't work. This one is one of my favourite songs as well ! It's a song from the Smallville sountrack. I agree that the animals don't fit into the music video hahaha.. I'm getting bored of it already. The video will be updated periodically without notice :)

Enjoy your stay here in my blog !

Yay I'm back to add something. I caught a glimpse of Y* during her tkd practice this morning and she resembles a female artiste from channel 8 ! Give me something to search for that artiste's name and photo :)

Ahh just found her !

Yuko looks like Priscelia Chan(Zhen Shi Mei)

The HJ spikes were great! The insole of the shoe is very sturdy and rigid, making it easy for me to lift off the ground. Now let me show you what the Singapore version of Staffan Strand can do !

I was super duper enthusiastic during this morning's training.. Struggled through 4 sets of 20 push-ups, 20 sit-ups, 10 step-ups per leg, 15 back raises, 15 butt raise, and 15 calve raises. The last 20 push-ups were so hard ! My arm muscles were on the brink of collapsing :) One of the things I like about joining track is the fatigued feeling u get after every training...This feeling never fails to give me the sense of satisfaction at the end of the day.
Staffan must make a comeback in Sweden while I do e same here!

My hair looks kinda like him now :) Killer-cool college guy image.


The wind runs through my scalps as I sprint through the lengths of the track. One word. Refreshing.

Dunno what to do during training tomorrow haha... I'll just bring my high jump file to school the next day and figure out something effective...
Mz from CJC pressurised me that day tt he cleared 1.77m during training...If not for my shin splint problem I would've been better.
Gonna bring my awesome high jump spikes tmr for some curve running sets. Okay I'll stop once my shins say it painful. Runner's World mag said that you should always listen to your body. That's why God gave us nerve muscles! Quite logical i think..

This morning went to sch supposedly for PW consultation and maths Tutorial lesson.
But Miss Lang last minute cancelled e lesson because she thought she's not that awaken yet...actually me too..I was staring into blank half the time she was giving us tips for PW survey. After she left a big group of no less than 50 students stormed the canteen, securing tables around us. It took me quite long before I realised they were the pre-U seminar participants... as i said b4..no chiou gals :(

Then went to the old market(my family called the sch's nearby market that because I lived in that area previously) for chicken porridge :) Kan Hong's recommendation is good !
Walked back to school for a leisure game of soccer. It's 12pm plus and 5 guys playing soccer under the scorching sun shaded only by ocassionally passing clouds. This is the first time I play soccer with my classmates since I met them. Everytime they play soccer after PC I would be busy doing drills. Kanhong lobbed the ball from behind the goal post and I attempted to bang it into the goal. I used the wrong part of my head for the ball contact, or so John pointed out to me haha.. But I headed in the second time worhh...not bad for ppl like me..

Ahhh my high jump spikes arrived @ my door at around 8.30pm ! Everything's cool about it. I'm gonna give it a test-run on the track in one of these days :)