"When you jump high enough, you don't need to worry about the clearance"
Ronnie, Apr 8th.

Today my mood was as bad as the weather. I was supposed to go for the competition at 2pm, but it rained so heavily before that. I left house at 2.50pm and got there just before Ronnie did his jumps. He started with a tall height and managed a second place with 2.01m! Another guy with a Raffles shirt won the event. I must say his arch was awesome. I also met up and chatted a little with Mr Tham. I knew he was there. For the last moments I was there, a 400m race for males was going on. Some audience behind me commented something about the fastest runner who's a Tanglin guy. Wow I'm proud of that!

But what got my mood foul was that with my current job which ends at 7.30pm every monday to thursday, I can't meet Ronnie at NYP. I will have to train on my own with paper workouts from him. What added to the bad feeling was that my involvement in church is getting deeper and eating into my time. I don't really like that. It's giving me alot of pressure. Plus the Medishield cover need to top-up before 13 april. And practical driving lessons need to shift them to night or weekends. Aiyo!

I walked so much today.

During noon I headed to BBDC for a final theory practice then the real final theory test. I passed ! My heart just beat so much faster when I was about to click the "End Test" button to receive my result. But I knew God was there with me every step of the way. I could have got all the tricky questions for the test. Then I took shuttle bus to Gombak MRT. The 4th All-Comers competition was all live and going on at the stadium. I'm going to visit Ronnie at the competition tomorrow! Hey I better get my camera and phone charged.

Next stop was CHC ! I felt so sick during the seemingly draining sermon. But all ceremonies have to end somehow. Then I took off to the stadium for training. Thank God again that my shins didn't give me trouble. I walked back to the square hoping that I still can withdraw some money from ATM to feed my wallet. But lol I'm down to 1-digit. My financial breakout haven't come yet. It will come. So I walked past CHC to the bus stop for 179. And still walk some more from the bus interchange back home.

Here is a food for thought.
Should this world have a HIV vaccine?

This is a very good question to ask, in my opinion. I say yes, because innocent children around the world are getting AIDS from their parents, for example Africa. Some ordinary people around the world also desperately need it because they have families to support and the list goes on.

But on the other side of the scale, I have an equally strong opposition stance. No because, it may add to the problems of the AIDS problem in poor countries because greedy merchants will hoard all the precious supplies of this HIV vaccine and attempt to control the market themselves.

And all those men and women alike who fall into lust and affair temptation will have fun on the bed more often than not without protection. Why? Because there's no worries of getting HIV, or sexually transmitted dieseases for that matter. If HIV vaccines are available at pharmacies and 7-eleven stores, people will buy them instead of condoms. These people don't deserved to be saved by the vaccine.

AIDS is not like a flu. Flu will not lead to death, but AIDS will. It will be a life-saver. So the price tag for the HIV vaccine must be exorbitant. It's a life-saver. Then again it bring us back to my point on the dealing of the vaccine across the global market. Greedy traders will want to take profit from this lucrative but life-saving drug.

It is a double-edged sword, as much as the invention of guns. We use guns for many purposes, mainly to protect, deter and counter offense. But look again. What good has it done? If there was no guns in this world, there is significantly less violence to think about. Countries won't have to compete in the arms race to protect their lands against possible threats. All these defence budgets from every single country could be used to fulfil a better part of mankind.

So I ask of your opinion, do you want a discovery of HIV vaccine?

What a joke!? This afternoon someone from achievecareers called and offered me a $6/hr filing job in Outram which lasts for 3 months. I rejected with, "Abit too far. Yeah." Then just minutes ago my "special" agent from recruitexpress called me with another job offer. This one's in Joo Koon for $5.50 per hour for 1 week. Stocktaking, picking and packing. I am flabbergasted by what I've just did. I exchanged a job with higher pay and longer period with ease of travelling. OMG. But still I thank God for giving me something to do. I was really really bored today. I trained under the scorching hot sun this morning. Then rest of the day up till now, I'm still playing forex lol. It's so fun following the market and waiting to pounce on trade opportunities.

Uh. I'm feeling abit faint-headed after my first big virtual profit from forex came in. A whooping $485.09 from the USD/JPY. Thank you thank you :P :)

I had driving in the first slot of the timetable at 8am. I did better and had much more confidence than last lesson. But I made a more grave mistake. I had my left signal on, was planning to turn at the junction. But I thought I was heading forward. Luckily my instructor hit his brakes. But I don't think he realised I never thought of doing that left turn. I just switched off. Of course I switched off. I covered so much distance in my lesson today ok!? We went out of bbdc, then the instructor swop seats with me. Then we drove afew rounds in Bukit Batok, then roamed through CCK once which passed my Aunt's house. Then Jurong East, then back to the old market place near my old house in Jurong West Street 42. Then back to Jurong East and BBDC.

I was actually planning to do some speedwork and run-ins with my spikes at the stadium. But as I rode toward the stadium, I thought maybe it was closed for S.L match or something. And it really was closed! In the end I went back to the fitness corner near my house for stomach/back exercises. Tmr morning will be a gd time to train again.

I'm back to learning Forex trading, because the options market is really illiquid right now. Nothing much I can trade there. Training was fine just now.

I found some really awesome radio stations on iTunes. They are Playdio, Soundic Radio, Classic FM. Playdio and Soundic Radio play tracks from Sweden !

Now is the indoor season for high jumpers around the world. At the top of the is Ivan Ukhov with the world leading 2.40m. Linus Thornblad lines up second with 2.36m.
I am in love with the music of this video featuring him doing a backflip over a bar set at 1.80m.

All i can say is that Russians are world-beating high jumpers. When they shine, they take the competitions by storm.
Ivan Ukhov also got drunk previously and attempted a jump. See video below.

Fact: Singapore has 4 billionaires amongst its 4 million-strong local population.
I could be the 5th. I'll then give out a huge amount of my fortune for charity, education and trusts, building of sports facilities in Singapore and nurturing local sports talent and the list goes on as I like. :) Nites.

Life felt stagnant at home. I started thinking more and more about money. How am I going to get the funds needed for my trading account when thinkorswim starts to accept Singaporean registration? Geez.

There are only 2 things that weigh on my balance. Training for HJ vs working for money to fund my account.
For one, I don't wish to procrastinate my training for HJ. I want to do well for it. The more I wait to train, the more the time horizon seems to dwindle for me as an athlete. This is something I cannot live without. I would die with regrets if I don't attempt to try to see how high I can go. It is my top priority, so to speak.
Then on the other hand of the scale, I need money to trade options! There is really no way I can work again after I enter NTU. Actually, thinking about this in specific, I can do without trading for now. The market is still choppy and I might get my fingers burnt easily. But if a rather good job deal comes along, then I don't mind training and working on the job. :)

Okay. Thank you Lord. After typing the pros and cons, I am witnessing the scale tipping on one obvious side. I promise I will train to my very best.

And something interesting happened tonight. Dad, mum and er jie was in the living room as I walked to them. Daddy was on the floor flipping newspapers. Then mum was saying Daddy wants to buy a condo for investment. My eyes just lit up. ! Actually it isn't a condo. It's some kind of 5 room (DBSS) executive apartment in Bishan that is almost like a condo. Comes with furniture. Except without the wall-up and personal facilities. The advertisement said the prices start from S$550k. And we're going to to showroom tomorrow. Hmmm I don't know how rich my dad is. But he probably thinks it's time to spend some of the money that's collecting up in the bank lol. It is probably great to live in Bishan for a while and come back to Jurong. Just like a vacation ! hahaha.