Saturday, May 27, 2006

I will be leaving SG! Everyone take care and of course, remember to MISS ME!
Will be back soon, don't worry.
I'm just giving you guys time to miss me, that's about it.
^^

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Finally. The week is coming to an end. I'm so so looking forward to the holidays that are coming, cos that's when i will be on '5 projects' marathon =D
And we still call them holidays. We can change that to "PW marathon" already.
Getting quite used to running 2.4km every start of the training. I used a lot of stuffs on my mind to push myself whenever i feel like slowing down. Quite useful it seems eh. I'm very glad that we are gonna get picked to continue B Div with Ms Lee, that means, i hope i can get outta the team. Yes, i do. Netball is really too stressing for me. Though i always take it as a working out time with a "free personal coach" hahaha. Netball takes up too much of my energy and time already. Moreover, i don't see any future in netball, only keeping myself fit is one of the reasons why i've held out for so long.
Yes! Nothing more can describe my joy over this matter. I'm super sure i won't get into the team, cause i see my other teamates having more potential. 16 out of 23, which means, 7 people will get out of the team. And yes, i hope i get into the 7 xD Gosh, i'm like so determined to get out.
My studies are dropping so much that this "piority-thingy" comes into my mind. Mdm Raudhah was talking to my mom about my maths results which wasn't so optimistic if i moved on to sec 3 with this kinda results, plus A maths. So i guess everything fits nicely into place. Once i have this netball load off my shoulders, i will be able to slot a tuition in somewhere between the week and really work my best all the way to end of year. I study for no one else, but for my passion and my dream. I will not give up!

Monday, May 22, 2006

Suffering from Monday Blues!!
My day was off to a bad start! I overslept. Woke up super late, rushed like siao to eat breakfast and head to school. Was half asleep in the school. It was terrible. Then i had no mood at all during the first few lessons.
After that, had guitar test... not that bad. Did with Sally, no coordination.. our tempo was off xD... hahaha... but it was alright lah.
And i got more refreshed after guitar playing. Then after school... AGAIN.. rush like siao to eat lunch. I nearly vomitted. Got choked on the tom yam soup that i was drinking. Coughed until everything nearly came up. The feeling sucked. Face all turned red and all. After a while i kept trying to swallow saliva to prevent myself from puking my lunch. And just as we thought we were late for the Lit Screening at 2.10p.m. We arrived there at around 2.25pm to find out that they have technical problems in there. Shouldn't have rushed like mad to eat lah! TSK. Then we waited for them to settle the technical problems then it was so damn sian. Took more than half an hour trying to fix the problem. Then everyone in the studio were so freaking noisy. Only have myself to blame lah. I was having attitude problem le. Mood damn bad. And luckily Ruby was like saying no im not having an attitude problem. XD... and just as i thought i was gonna make everyone hate me. ****. Please stay away from me if i get into such moods. Although it's rare, but people do have their downs. And the whole show haiya... so inefficient. Couldn't they have setted everything up properly first before school even ended so can start the show on time. This is called taking things for granted. Think everything will always work, then last minute got no backup plans when it fails. Then it was super bad lah.. not long the electricity got tripped. Everything blacked out. zZzZz. SUPER 地闲掉 loh. My eyes started hurting also. It was so freaking bad lah. and i was so tired. And when i'm tired, my mood turns foul. Is like first few times people disturb i control and keep quiet. But once over the limit im not gonna bother so much le... just explode. So yeah. Then i see the netballers. HAIZ. Speechless lah... sad to say that. TSK. Sorry if im offending anyone. But i didn't name any names. Treated like i didn't ****-ing existed. Totally no mood liao le loh like that.
Went to studio with sally, chu and ruby to eat cos i was not even full from that fast paced lunch. And then stupid... after our meal, just as i got on bus it started pouring.
HOW BAD CAN MY MONDAY GET!?!?!?

Sunday, May 21, 2006

I didn't know i could converse so well with adults. We seem to be able to click really well. HAHA. OK, that made me sound SO much older. I always thought i was like a kid in their eyes. You know, the typical. Small girl kind. 小妹妹 lah, in simple words. Proved me wrong loh.
Just now my mom brought me out have dinner with some stranger cause they got weren't familiar with our neighbourhood and were looking for a unit number. Then my mom happened to drive past and gave them directions and drove them right to the unit. It was actually just right behind my house only. Then they wanted to treat us dinner. So yeah, basically that happened.
And when i just met, they were a young couple. Both 27 years old. The girl had much in common with me in terms of food likings loh. And the guy's interests was basically similar to mine too. So we hit it off very well despite meeting for the first time. Chatted throughout loh. Chatted for more than an hour non stop. Didn't think i was that interesting in an adult's eyes. HAHHA. We were actually skipping from topics to topics lah. And good thing he had a sense of humour. I actually get bored talking to people who always keep a straight face. Get super 闲 one.
Then they were saying, wah...not bad ah... can actually converse so well with adults. My mom was chatting with the lady then i was talking to the guy ma. HAha xD It was cool lah.
So what i'm trying to say leh? Not much really. But i do enjoy my life being opened up to the outside world. You learn a lot talking to older people, cause they've been through much more than you did in life. You learn xi qu jing yan. Is that why i don't click that well with people my age at first sight?
Am i getting too old mentally? xD
I think i officially hurt my ankle last night. zZzZzZ
Saddening lah. Last night was skating and trying to do a slide and my ankle was twisted all the way inwards! And now the next morning when i woke up, my ankle had a sharp pain in it. I already put the medical bandage that has cream all over the foot and my wrist that was hurting too.
I think i'm like a rusted robot now. Here pain there pain. My skating levelled up le la!~ So much internal injuries. Theres no blood or blue black, just that when i move it, it hurts so much.
Ok, enough about this.. im DYING physically. I keep hurting my left ankle. During netball my ankle always kena sprained also. SIAN le loh my ankle win liao.

Friday, May 19, 2006

我很累!要睡觉了!! 刚在Sakae吃完了,特别的饱啊!!!
It was super stupid when we went there! Everyone rushed there to eat, arrived about 12.30p.m. Only to realise that the lady told us that the buffet starts at 3. Chu and Rub had choir at 1. So no choice loh! We all super hungry lah. All ordered ala carte one. After that, we left the place. Left Sylvia, Hannah, Tanya and me. We walked around Parkway like some dead person. Cause we were super sian! So practically dragging out feet waiting for 3p.m to arrive. Walked around aimlessly.
Finally at 2.55pm we made our way back to Sakae. ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THEY SAY WAIT FOR ANOTHER 5 MINS. OMGGGGGGG!! i must sue Sakae Sushi!!!!!!!! SO, WE HAD TO WAIT OUTSIDE FOR ANOTHER 5 MINS. it was pure dumb. We HAD TO WAIT?!??! outside?!?!? omg?
*$&(*@&#@
Their service SUCKED sia. Not even worth paying 10% service charge.
So we made our way in, SAME table again loh. The waiter attitude like want fight buay song like that. Cause Sylvia didn't wanna eat the buffet, then we say only 3 eatnig the buffet. Then the guy went away, came back after a while saying, Please do not give your friend anything, if she consumes any food, we will charge her under ala carte. #%&$*(# SIA!!! zZzZzZ
Then when our cold water ran out, they didn't even refill -.- Must keep calling them when the Sakae outlet wasn't even THAT busy -.- See how lousy the service is lah! Then the waiter show attitude like not happy to serve us like that. Hannah was damn pissed loh. So she was saying, "I DONT CARE MAN, IM GONNA EAT UNTIL THEY DIE." or something like that lah. So, we all ate like pigs like that. After a while, guess what?! Hannah ordered 10 pieces of salmon Sashimi Sushi!! Lol, that meant 5 plates of the same thing. GOSH! Tan, Hannah, Sylvia and i were laughing like siao lah. Cos we did STUFFS... xD
HAHAHA. Can't be posted here aye. Don't wanna get sue-ed. WAHAHHAA.
Interested parties can feel free to ask me. Then when you find out, i bet you don't wanna ever go Sakae ever again.
我终于可以blog了。我从现在开始要用汉语来blog.
I'm sorry to all my english only readers out there. My chinese suck! Have to improve and buck up by trynig to write and think in chinese.
好啊。。现在我和 Tanya, Ruby and Hannah 在电脑室里,因为我们放完学后要出去吃Sakae Buffet! 所以现在把肚子弄得空空的,等一下才能吃得够本。哈哈哈这就是typical新加坡人。
I wanna quote something from RUBY!!!
"JACCY <33
hmm.jaccy is WEIRD. major WEIRD. FUNNY. CRAZY. she loves the phrase WEE WEE. and BOOBY BOOOBY BOOOBY. she loves to touch my boobs.she and i loves to touch each other. but we arent les.DUH. jaccy can be super serious and CRAZY. she loves photography and art.she can tell ones character just by staring at her. WEIRD rite. JACCY is a PSYCHO.she is PSYCHIC. (: i love her (: her drawing is weird too, like her. she was the first person i talked too in 2e7 online. (: LALA! LOVE YOU BABEH! <33333"
I think this describe me alot loh! Thank you so much for knowing me so well. BUTBUT, i would love to highlight that i do not DO NOT, touch her boobs. OMG. The rest are correct.
Hehe.
I can't wait for the buffet!! I LOVE sushi alot!
Madness...
我觉得如果我blog in 汉语,永远也blog 不完。因为我的话语真的太差了!!! I have to ponder what words to use when i direct translate some words from english.
Oh GOsh!!! Save me please. xD
Tanya is bothering me to blog about her. She got this wierd smell on her since 2 days back. It's her wierd shampoo that she uses. HAhaa. She have this mood swings, that you guys might not wanna know. So yeah.. can guess how nmuch i have to go through when she have mood swings? ^^ OMG lah!
Haaha, overall she is very very kind and caring and nice friend. SMILE!
Oh yeah i forgot to add a detail that whenever we have to group together for grp work, and it has to be multi racial, CERTAIN people that are chinese can just fake off as malays and indians because of their skin colour =DDDD E.G TANYA + SYLVIA + EUNICE + HANNAH
All black people. HAIZ. No hope already lah.
Hahaha, ok this is just a fun post =) Entertaining lah!!
Hehehe

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Urban Skate

SGSkaters Urban Skate
The long awaited one! Been waiting for this urban skate for quite long. And yes, indeed it was a great success!
Met at ECP, supposed to be 1pm. In the end, i went there about 1.15pm, and there were only a few. In fact only 4. Marcus, Stara, Lex and Brian. All no time sense one! Overall, theres about 20 or so who turned up for the urban skate. We waited from a hot sunny sun till we heard thunders and continued waited for the rest to arrive. And soon enough, as soon as we started our urban frmo Fort Road, it started to drizzle! ARGH!!! No choice, had to take shelter, we took a bus direct to Esplanade. We weren't allowed on skates into the bus one!! but stupid me, when i went up the steps, i lost a little control, and NEARLY fell, then the old driver started making a commotion, "EH!! NO SKATES ALLOWED EH!! OIII!!!" zZzzZz Everyone just heck cared him. And guess what, i went up the bus without even tapping my EZ link =X

After we reached Esplanade, wanted to skate through citylink one!! Then the stupid security guards told us that we weren't allowed to skate -.- BECAUSE SOMEONE SKATED BEFORE AND BANG INTO A GLASS. LIKE OMG LAH. -.-''' Then all paiseh-ed, chose a pillar to hide behind to take off our skates, cos Tianjun was the first kena caught, then the rest following at the back striaght away siam and hide. LOL...



In the end, the guards still found us... =(
No choice loh! Everyone took off their skates and do what 97% of the human population would do. WALK!!
We reached Esplanade Underpass, everyone super sian to put the skates back on, ESPECIALLY THE SEBA SKATERS. WAhahaa! And then I think it was Marcus or someone who suggested to race who wear Seba the fastest. So me and Sha the gay or also known as GAY-sha, started competing. LOOK at this gay. He wore the first skate before me one loh! So he kinda had a head start.



And obviously the chiobu me; putting on my skates



HA, OBVIOUSLY THE winner is me lah. Look at sha, the GAY, how to win lah!!! I wear finish the first skate hes still struggling to tie the laces! I wore my 2nd skate, hes still struggling to tie the first skate!! HOW GAY!?!?!? Maybe his bagua made him this gay.

AFter that, we started our nite urban!! it was the coolest so far i've been to! We started from Esplanade, then headed to Takashimaya SC,



Kee Yong and Marcus displaying their FREESTYLE SLALOM moves! Stara the Ex-tkgian, had the tkgs blood in her, THE CHEERNIG ENTHU la! Scream and shout like siao char bo. The bangalas there were cheering also. As expected, securities arrived about 10 mins. Marcus was telling us, "ok we have a 10min break at taka. Do whatever you want.. have a drink, the smokers come over here." Then they started laying the cones, and yup, 10 mins exactly, the guard came with his walkie talkie, calling more of his khakis to "arrest us". Everyone, CHIONG AH!! All left the place in a flash. Before that, imagine us cheering and slaloming, after 10 mins, the whole place was back to the quiet state. As we left, we were cheering and shouting lah, "wooooooo!!!!" And all disappear liao. HAHA... We went through all sorts of terrains. From wet to dry to smooth to rough to upslope, to down slope, down and up the humps and stairs, through congested urban areas and we formed a "dragon". One long line of skaters consisted of about 20-30 to go through the crowd. It was damn cool lah! Imagine that scene! We ended off with a supper after that.
It was definitely the best urban skate despite the previously planned longer route from ECP to Esplanade. Long live SKATERS!
Anyone who's ever so inteeressted in taking up or even joining us, feel free to visit, www.sgskaters.com, or the forums where we talk about anything! www.sgskaters.com/forum
Or, you can definitely call this chiobu to intro you into sgskaters! HAVE A NICE DAY FOLKS!

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

The past few days have been terrible! The weather is so $@&*&@*(#&(@ HOT!!!! In class i would be busy trying to stay calm and not feel restless because of the inbearable heat. My seat doesn't have a direct fan, which also mean, i don't get wind at all, only occasional breezes. BREEZES! get that! Ultra super duper gentle wind. OMG! So SO SOOO HOT!!!!!!! im dying!~

My results for Maths and Science and Chinese are all ROTTEN. ROTTEN, as in stinking smelly; not even worth having a look at it! So disappointed and sad with myself for not studying this term!! ERGH! theres a HUGE drop in my results. And yes i'm super dumb. i didn't study for the 70% science test at all -.- That was what made my science results so bad! i was doing well for the first 2 tests. Too late already to lah! No hope go IP liao. HAha, so i'm not bothered to go apply liao. Everything fail fail fail -.- ZzZZzZ

Training has started this week! It's not that bad as i thought it would be. Everyone were very afraid of Ms Lee. And there was a grave silence during the start of training, as if Ms Lee was gonna eat us up should there be a slight stir. It was super scary, made me so nervous about it! My lower body are aching so much! We did so much running and fitness and all.

Not much to update, i can't wait for school to end, but at the same time, i'm afraid of gettin back the results... dreading them. I can't wait to go hardcore skating during the June Hols!

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Stress

Specially dedicated to Sally! Whole day stressed up one..
And of course, any of you guys out there who are feeling so stressed up.

"STRESSSSSSSSSS AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" *pulls hair, screams, whines*
There just seems to be an incessant amount of things-schoolwork, friends, ccas, hanging out, hall life, family time, and so much more!
All of these factors, coupled with many unexpected things that can crop up or go wrong, do act as very real stressors for the brightest and most well-balanced individual.

The first step towards any possible remedy is by recognizing that stress is a very real problem all of us are facing. It IS OK to be stressed; never should the overwhelming distress we feel from Life's challenges be something we are ashamed to admit.

In fact, the physiological symptoms of stress (pounding heartbeat, sweaty palms, inability to concentrate) are your brain's natural 'flight-fright-fight' instinct in-built to motivate you. Of course, excessive long-term stress is unhealthy, as it will lead to decreased bodily resistance, heightening susceptibility to illnesses. * i know this is chim*

It is such negative stress, frequently arising from controlling and perfectionistic behavior, and leading to anxiety, irritability, anger, apathy, overcompensating or avoidance, that we need to guard against for our own welfare.
There are a few bad habits we need to resolve to help ourselves out.

Firstly, we need to stop trying to accomplish too many things at one time. Different people have different abilities, and we needn't always place others' standards as a yardstick for us to pit ourselves against.

We need to recognize individual differences between peers, and reduce the competitive behavior we have been socialized to internalize.

We should understand that this competitive streak has been a motivator in the past, acting as a reinforcer or reward in times when we had 'won', but in the long term might ultimately prove to be a trap.

In fact, management gurus tout that in order to succeed in this new economy, collaboration has been touted as the next best thing; no longer is competition a fashionable strategy to success.

It is essential therefore to learn to be positively assertive (which I shall elaborate more on in the future) in saying NO to many of the activities or commitments of our time and energy that we may ill-afford. We are all still young and have the rest of our lives ahead of us. Why should we rush to try out everything now, when the best time to experience many things may not always be right now?

Of course, in doing this, we should first carefully evaluate at each point in time what are the available options of things that need to be done, if these are consistent with our values, attitudes and life goals, and then to prioritise these items before coming up with a realistic schedule (with good intermittent behavioral self-rewards) to try to accomplish them.

We must learn to develop realistic expectations (which only we will know) for ourselves and accept that we have largely no control over the behavior of others.

It is only by facing challenges (which can be accomplished) with a positive optimism that we can facilitate optimal management of our own lifestyles.

Other behaviours that we need to guard against are procrastination, disorganization, avoidance behavior, working on all your problems alone, making impulsive decisions, and even poor self-care in terms of health and hygiene.

These are warning signs that we might be biting off more than we can chew, and some techniques we can best use to deal with life's stressors include time management, relaxation techniques, anger management and conflict resolution, critical problem solving, effective communication skills and assertiveness training.

Here are 7 useful tips that you should write down and read through daily and adopt those you feel are suitable for yourself:

1.-Think hard about what your ultimate goal is in Life and formulate a possible strategy to accomplish it, breaking down your life mission into smaller manageable tasks to keep track of your progress.

Remind yourself of this goal everyday to invigorate your life with purpose.

2.-Prioritise all your tasks according to their importance in your life (set on daily, weekly and monthly basis), work according to a realistic schedule and reward yourself along the way when you have accomplished some of them.

Remember that you at your best IS a priority for you, so build in self-care activities like exercise, family time, time for your friends, relaxation time etc.

3.-If you have a difficult task that needs to be done, do not procrastinate and avoid it but work your mindset to approach it with a positive attitude, reminding yourself how much finishing it can contribute to your life goal.

Feel the relief of having the weight off your back for unpleasant tasks that have been done, and the freedom you have earned to pursue more rewarding tasks.

4.-Be aware of your peak energy periods and capitalise on them to maximise your productivity. Rest when you know you should; do not overwork yourself and be mindful of the people around you.

At the same time, regularly review what is the best use of your time currently. Even for in-between periods, make full use of them by either accomplishing small tasks or catching up on precious relaxation time.

5.-Your time is yours. Learn to say "NO" to additional responsibilities that you aren't obligated to fulfill if you do not feel like you can afford to handle them.

You should also learn to make use of the people around you by delegating appropriate responsibilities clearly and just checking back with them instead of taking on the world yourself.

6.-The 80/20 Rule: Remember that 80% of the work is usually finished in 20% of the total time it would take to perfect the task. The remaining 80% of the time is best spent on completing other tasks which will exploit your effort more productively.

Perfection where it isn't needed is waste and you should concentrate on just completing tasks well enough to achieve what you really need. Of course, this shouldn't also be an excuse for slipshod work that needs to be revised in the future, wasting more future time.

**IMPORTANT to MANY of you guys**
7.-Lastly, don't waste time regretting; wondering "what if". Such cognitions can only cause negative emotions and waste time, so for basic decisions, just make them and move on.

Always be alert about what and how you are doing and with practice, this technique will come naturally and you will find increasing amounts of leisure time for yourself, thereby reducing the stress life can put on you.

Inspirational? can i be 2nd Dr William Tan? Guess not. That's because
me = noob; me = not possible to write such a good story. =D