I skated to the double court for the routine FANS( Friday Admiralty Night Skate )to play cone tricks. As usual the court was shared among us skaters and 2 batches of peeps( Lets call them group A and group B) playing street soccer. Our skating ground was sandwiched among them.
Sometimes its inevitable when a flying ball comes knocking onto you; Afterall we are all sharing the court.
Tonight i thought otherwise. Maybe i was childish and immature. This soccer ball from group A strayed to group B. Some guy from group B conveniently (without even seeing where his kick will land the ball to ) rammed the ball in the general direction of group A.
The ball went straight to my brother's face. The impact: A twisted pair of specs. That's how hard the force was delivered.
It caught all skaters attention. Obviously this was a very 'no-license' way of playing soccer on public ground. I was particularly mad,cos i cant believe it that my brother said ITS OK after the guy who launched the kick simply brushed everything off with a 'I AM SORRY'.
I was also particulary mad, simply because it wasnt a ball that flew out from an intensive game, rather it was just a pure incident of ignorance.
I ranted" HEY PLAY SOCCER KICK PROPERLY LEI!"
That idiot replied " I already said sorry okie?"
At this very intense moment, one of the skaters went up and intercepted, extinguishing the heated conversation.
I was mad, because i couldnt believe that someone COULD JUST WALK AWAY PLAYING OBLIVIOUSLY though my brother seemed ok. Couldnt him just come over and check out my brother?
My brother kept saying he is ok after the incident, and reminded me not to get uptight nor frustrated over things.
Sometimes, things cant be resolved easily with a 'I AM SORRY'. As i am typing this entry, i couldnt help but think of the mistakes i've made and how easily i've said "I am SORRY" to those whom i've hurt or injured.
Life's a contradiction aint it?
7/4/07
I got the odac spirit, UP IN MY HEAD!
Flashbacks of me trying hard to act mature during FOOT 2003 suddenly hit me.
Back then i was holding onto my composure. A few days before i went for the camp, i told dear that 'ITS NONSENCIAL that THEY WANNA FORCE A 23 YR OLD NS boy TO SHOUT AND SING CHEERS!'
Right now, i'm beginning to see the twist my life went through in odac. I wasnt the quietest boy around in Dolomites 2003, in fact the odac culture was so strong that i decide to give up my hard up concealments and go with the flow of CHEERS AND JEERS and all the BOO-INGS. To my disappointment, my group wasnt the real RA-RA type. Many a times we just sad at one corner seeing hw 'happening' other groups were.
Vic and Ben, if you were reading this, yup i'm talking abt your group Andes.
After the foot camp i felt something missing. Nothing was there to hold me back to join the committee or sub committee of any special projects. I did not really feel the close bond with my group, nor did i feel any obligations to keep in contact with them. Ben was around in FOOT 04 as a business manager, and on the outside he seem to savour every moment working with his fellow peeps. I thought maybe i should give myslf a chance and try and see if i could make a difference in the lives of FOOT 04 as a senior attached....
I was glad i made that choice. I thought my fellow freshmen in Datuk 05 had so much fun that it induced me to be a closer part of the club. I was anything but hesitant on joining 9th comm NTU ODAC.
Certainly there were lots of ups and downs. On the outside it was a mere CCA to clock points; To me i was trying to prove to myself and see what difference i would make in the club. Its a very personal and fufilling objective for me. Points? That was the last thing on m y mind as a main commer.
I had alot of 'kayu' trip leading experiences, especially with Rachel and jianda and all the pack of lies about the 'disappearing water body that made navigation difficult up pelepah'. I could never forget the participants' bloodhound look when they kept insisting on refund. Gosh i almost lost my head off.
Siewsze was there with me during main comm stint. She watched my back and i watched hers. Together we were partners in crime, leading Taman Negara trip, being GL for Chehalis for FOOT 2005, and we endured through pumpfest 06 as fellow programmers and parted after our final official commitment as F00T 06 CGLs.
I had lots of fond memories as you all can see. The club made me a very different person. My NS officer ego was flattened and i learnt that being sincere, humble, unglam and loud is the way to bond in an organisation.
To those who are still in the club, dont lose this culture. Its this element of selflessness and unglamness that makes us stand out from other establishments.
Always do it for the one beside you.
Back then i was holding onto my composure. A few days before i went for the camp, i told dear that 'ITS NONSENCIAL that THEY WANNA FORCE A 23 YR OLD NS boy TO SHOUT AND SING CHEERS!'
Right now, i'm beginning to see the twist my life went through in odac. I wasnt the quietest boy around in Dolomites 2003, in fact the odac culture was so strong that i decide to give up my hard up concealments and go with the flow of CHEERS AND JEERS and all the BOO-INGS. To my disappointment, my group wasnt the real RA-RA type. Many a times we just sad at one corner seeing hw 'happening' other groups were.
Vic and Ben, if you were reading this, yup i'm talking abt your group Andes.
After the foot camp i felt something missing. Nothing was there to hold me back to join the committee or sub committee of any special projects. I did not really feel the close bond with my group, nor did i feel any obligations to keep in contact with them. Ben was around in FOOT 04 as a business manager, and on the outside he seem to savour every moment working with his fellow peeps. I thought maybe i should give myslf a chance and try and see if i could make a difference in the lives of FOOT 04 as a senior attached....
I was glad i made that choice. I thought my fellow freshmen in Datuk 05 had so much fun that it induced me to be a closer part of the club. I was anything but hesitant on joining 9th comm NTU ODAC.
Certainly there were lots of ups and downs. On the outside it was a mere CCA to clock points; To me i was trying to prove to myself and see what difference i would make in the club. Its a very personal and fufilling objective for me. Points? That was the last thing on m y mind as a main commer.
I had alot of 'kayu' trip leading experiences, especially with Rachel and jianda and all the pack of lies about the 'disappearing water body that made navigation difficult up pelepah'. I could never forget the participants' bloodhound look when they kept insisting on refund. Gosh i almost lost my head off.
Siewsze was there with me during main comm stint. She watched my back and i watched hers. Together we were partners in crime, leading Taman Negara trip, being GL for Chehalis for FOOT 2005, and we endured through pumpfest 06 as fellow programmers and parted after our final official commitment as F00T 06 CGLs.
I had lots of fond memories as you all can see. The club made me a very different person. My NS officer ego was flattened and i learnt that being sincere, humble, unglam and loud is the way to bond in an organisation.
To those who are still in the club, dont lose this culture. Its this element of selflessness and unglamness that makes us stand out from other establishments.
Always do it for the one beside you.
7/1/07
My belongings
I hate to write such seemingly trivial stuff on my blog. But yup it aint trivial to me.
1. I lost my timex watch ( worn it during my pumpfest stint back in 2005 and did my 2006 biathlon with it, sweat numerous times during skating with it)
2. My laptop casing's zip gave way
3. My Hp is as good as dead. It gives way to pressure and auto shut off.
4. I dont have a proper bag to go out with( the bag dearie gave had a dislodged sling now; and my orange osprey bag is perpetually smelly when it comes into contact with my sweat. Bad humid Singapore! ARGH!!!!)
5. I actually accidently melted my royal robbin trekking / climbing pants with some idiotic iron. It was my favourite pants!ARGH AGAIN!!!!!
I went down to Singapore Arts Museum with Monkey last friday. The main attraction of the day was the IDEALIST artist Zeng Fan Zhi from China. His theme of artwork is based on his personal encounters during his youngster years in SHanghai as well as his own perspective on IDEALISM. My eyes were pretty transfixed to many works of his, each bearing portraits with high foreheads, red scarf ( strong taste for communism in his work apparently) and strong sturdy palms. Style of his own i reckoned. All in all i felt good, having this parallel sense of ability to decode ( or trying to decode) artists' intentions. I loved to draw since primary school days; i derived pleasure from drawing because it brings me into dimensions the real world could never offer. i probably belong to a world where everything is governed by a stroke of charcoal or color pencil....
Saturday noon was another eventful day for me. I stayed around in NTU for ODAC senior camp and took part in the night cycling dry run event. I was glad to be down for this. Every odac trip / event i put myself in brings myself closer to odac. If i could turn back the clock to where everything began back in July 2003, i would still walk backinto FOOT. I truly had no regrets doing what i had done for the past 4 years, especially with zesty, sincere and happy people....I supposed i belonged to ODAC.
Come to think of it,I guess those material belongings aint matter that much.
1. I lost my timex watch ( worn it during my pumpfest stint back in 2005 and did my 2006 biathlon with it, sweat numerous times during skating with it)
2. My laptop casing's zip gave way
3. My Hp is as good as dead. It gives way to pressure and auto shut off.
4. I dont have a proper bag to go out with( the bag dearie gave had a dislodged sling now; and my orange osprey bag is perpetually smelly when it comes into contact with my sweat. Bad humid Singapore! ARGH!!!!)
5. I actually accidently melted my royal robbin trekking / climbing pants with some idiotic iron. It was my favourite pants!ARGH AGAIN!!!!!
I went down to Singapore Arts Museum with Monkey last friday. The main attraction of the day was the IDEALIST artist Zeng Fan Zhi from China. His theme of artwork is based on his personal encounters during his youngster years in SHanghai as well as his own perspective on IDEALISM. My eyes were pretty transfixed to many works of his, each bearing portraits with high foreheads, red scarf ( strong taste for communism in his work apparently) and strong sturdy palms. Style of his own i reckoned. All in all i felt good, having this parallel sense of ability to decode ( or trying to decode) artists' intentions. I loved to draw since primary school days; i derived pleasure from drawing because it brings me into dimensions the real world could never offer. i probably belong to a world where everything is governed by a stroke of charcoal or color pencil....
Saturday noon was another eventful day for me. I stayed around in NTU for ODAC senior camp and took part in the night cycling dry run event. I was glad to be down for this. Every odac trip / event i put myself in brings myself closer to odac. If i could turn back the clock to where everything began back in July 2003, i would still walk backinto FOOT. I truly had no regrets doing what i had done for the past 4 years, especially with zesty, sincere and happy people....I supposed i belonged to ODAC.
Come to think of it,I guess those material belongings aint matter that much.
6/26/07
KAE - TEE- VEE
I had to say sorry first to R and V for making them drown each other with their horrible voices from 7pm to 8pm in Lot 1 KBox room number 38 on 26th June 2007( cos the rest of us were late heh heh )
Picture time again!!!
I started singing Huang yi fei's "if i had a million bucks". Damn i really loved that song but i had difficulty keeping up with the hokkien translation of the chinese subtitles.
Dearie said its like a historic moment for her cos its our first time visiting a KTV together in 8 years plus of our r/s. Oppsie!
Parade Commander has a natural flare with his 'jaded and frustration'songs...
V couldnt sing as well as us and gave the camera a jealous snort *~Oink Oink
Thanks to R for all the pictures( you are now looking at R who is wearing pink)
When beatbox comes back from her VCT trip we shall all go shake the earth once more. Great Success~!
Picture time again!!!
I started singing Huang yi fei's "if i had a million bucks". Damn i really loved that song but i had difficulty keeping up with the hokkien translation of the chinese subtitles.
Dearie said its like a historic moment for her cos its our first time visiting a KTV together in 8 years plus of our r/s. Oppsie!
Parade Commander has a natural flare with his 'jaded and frustration'songs...
V couldnt sing as well as us and gave the camera a jealous snort *~Oink Oink
Thanks to R for all the pictures( you are now looking at R who is wearing pink)
When beatbox comes back from her VCT trip we shall all go shake the earth once more. Great Success~!
[S]hiok [T]errain with [O]n-the-ball [N]ever-say-die [G]ang
STONG is something i will truly rememeber....
For it is one trip that most of my fellow laojiao peeps went (since donkey years).
As i'm posting all these pictures, i couldnt help but feel that i'm gonna leave NTU ODAC in person. Enjoy the moments with me folks.....
Ex hall king and me. I wonder when we will be taking another picture outside a tent together again.
The stubborn lao jiao gang who refused to mingle with the rest of the participants
Professor Laogao showing his might in one of the caves
Lion guarding his lion den
At the start pt before negotiating stong terrain.
Laojiaos in cave, making a hell lot of noise. Really loud~!
Making our mark in the same cave.
Cant get enough of it.
This one's out of the cave.
KK, the goat and tiger chattering their teeth in the waters by the slide area.
Our visitor from outside NTU, tiger, guarding his den
Tiger displaying his 360 feat
ODAC pres with the well known odac post. Will he run for pres again...? HAHA~!
Cuddling each other by the edge of the waterfall. Cant forget those humongous red crickets darting around us with their creepy feelers!
The cow trying to flip our food, the way tiger does his 360 feat
The goat has to give face and try abit of the flipped food. Check out the morning dew all around me.
The laojiaos with Ms Puteri Kerbaya on the suspension bridge at the foot of the mountain
Ever seen SO MANY PPLE WASHING MESS TINS TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME?
It certainly feels good having to control my own physical weakness and made my way up and down the mountain.
I thank Mother Nature for giving me a chance to climb mountains. I hope there are many more such trips with fantastic laojiaos to come!!!!!!
For it is one trip that most of my fellow laojiao peeps went (since donkey years).
As i'm posting all these pictures, i couldnt help but feel that i'm gonna leave NTU ODAC in person. Enjoy the moments with me folks.....
Ex hall king and me. I wonder when we will be taking another picture outside a tent together again.
The stubborn lao jiao gang who refused to mingle with the rest of the participants
Professor Laogao showing his might in one of the caves
Lion guarding his lion den
At the start pt before negotiating stong terrain.
Laojiaos in cave, making a hell lot of noise. Really loud~!
Making our mark in the same cave.
Cant get enough of it.
This one's out of the cave.
KK, the goat and tiger chattering their teeth in the waters by the slide area.
Our visitor from outside NTU, tiger, guarding his den
Tiger displaying his 360 feat
ODAC pres with the well known odac post. Will he run for pres again...? HAHA~!
Cuddling each other by the edge of the waterfall. Cant forget those humongous red crickets darting around us with their creepy feelers!
The cow trying to flip our food, the way tiger does his 360 feat
The goat has to give face and try abit of the flipped food. Check out the morning dew all around me.
The laojiaos with Ms Puteri Kerbaya on the suspension bridge at the foot of the mountain
Ever seen SO MANY PPLE WASHING MESS TINS TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME?
It certainly feels good having to control my own physical weakness and made my way up and down the mountain.
I thank Mother Nature for giving me a chance to climb mountains. I hope there are many more such trips with fantastic laojiaos to come!!!!!!
6/24/07
Monkey Tong's Nightmare
I intuitively thought of this title for my blog entry when i accompanied dearie into fortune centre on a saturday afternoon, along 四马路 guanyin temple for a vegeterian meal.
Featuring the best of the best vege meal in town ( quite expensive lah btw, a meal cost 4 bucks tmd)
This is one poster that shocked me when i entered the vege restaurant.
Looks normal rite? Look closer...
Western meal the vege style. Effort man.
There's even jap meal for it. My goodness
Serving an array of dishes
Dearie was still down with rashes , slight fever and a really blocked nose. How i wished i can use 铁杀掌 to force out all the viscousness from within her nostrils.
After having lots of fibre in our stomach, we made our way to NLB Bugis to catch a play Mabou's Mimes Dollhouse. Before admittance, i bumped into USHER ah bao, my dear fellow 'B' BC in 284. Its really amusing watching an uptight looking man doing ushering.
I kept looking at that boy before the show starts. I was trying very hard to irritate him with my glances and stares. If NTU ODAC ever imparted lifelong skills to me, one of them would be to irritate others ( * imitates hp vibrating in silent mode *)
I wasnt really prepared to pick up the figurative expressions used throughout the play. I tried to keep to my senses and make sure that my head wasnt dancing around. Oh well... this whole play made me felt that i should have paid more attention during my literature classes during secondary school.
For those who are keen to find out the play i experienced:
http://www.hotreview.org/articles/toyingwithibsen.htm
Stay tuned folks for next entry. Its a surprise party for our dear little friend from LATA gang.
Featuring the best of the best vege meal in town ( quite expensive lah btw, a meal cost 4 bucks tmd)
This is one poster that shocked me when i entered the vege restaurant.
Looks normal rite? Look closer...
Western meal the vege style. Effort man.
There's even jap meal for it. My goodness
Serving an array of dishes
Dearie was still down with rashes , slight fever and a really blocked nose. How i wished i can use 铁杀掌 to force out all the viscousness from within her nostrils.
After having lots of fibre in our stomach, we made our way to NLB Bugis to catch a play Mabou's Mimes Dollhouse. Before admittance, i bumped into USHER ah bao, my dear fellow 'B' BC in 284. Its really amusing watching an uptight looking man doing ushering.
I kept looking at that boy before the show starts. I was trying very hard to irritate him with my glances and stares. If NTU ODAC ever imparted lifelong skills to me, one of them would be to irritate others ( * imitates hp vibrating in silent mode *)
I wasnt really prepared to pick up the figurative expressions used throughout the play. I tried to keep to my senses and make sure that my head wasnt dancing around. Oh well... this whole play made me felt that i should have paid more attention during my literature classes during secondary school.
For those who are keen to find out the play i experienced:
http://www.hotreview.org/articles/toyingwithibsen.htm
Stay tuned folks for next entry. Its a surprise party for our dear little friend from LATA gang.
6/22/07
Friday Admiralty Night Skate
Friday Admiralty Night Skate is something i've always looked forward to since the days i slip on my pair of slalom skates. Its this very intuitive avenue for me to run away from the day's nonsense as well as for me to focus on something i really love to do.
This week AND the previous wk has been an eventful one. Real eventful ( though i still have yet to clinch an interview. L.O.S.E.R) . Posted some pictures in place of wordy stuff. Bear with me if you cant get the chronological order of the events. I had too much pictures taken over many events for the past few days. Here we go:
1. I went for Stong Trip with some of my ODAC old bird friends. ODAC renewal session for me.
2. I went skating with my Lata group V, R, P, X and dearie.
All giving a go on cones
guess who's butt this belongs to.
Look at what happen to the parade commander after going for odac trips...
My pseudo girlfriends. My slaves mua ha ha ha~!
3. From today's Friday Night Skate, Terence taught me how to do a katzatchok( a particular cone trick move see http://universkate.free.fr/English/Slalom/tricks/kazatchok.mpg ) properly.
4. Collected my convo gown from Serangoon Broadway today as well. Got into a small conversation with this sweet gal who served me in the studio. Cheap thrill session.
5. And while i wasnt around, the lata gang went to drink WITHOUT ME! sigh....
See! The parade commander... did i remember him saying he WONT drink?
Aw...! Our parade commander is surrounded by MORE GALS!
6. The lata gang met up for OCEANS 13 in causeway point. Prior to that, they had a gruelling badminton session coached by our dear miss R. Gosh she really had me fooled when she said she wasnt good in badminton. Diaoz!
Here's one classic picture before we were admitted into the show:
7. I went for a night excursion on thursday with my skater boys and some gals to labrador park and had prata session at Eu Tong Sen. Drove a 10 foot lorry around. Felt good cos i was given the exposure to drive automobiles that my Class 3 license can permit.
Oh yesh, here's part 2 of Lata pictures:
One thing that didnt go well this week though, was that my dearie fell ill with nasty rashes and a slight fever. I pray that she gets well soon, well enough for me not to worry about her!
There are more pictures to come actually. From all over the shop. Guess its time for me to sort things out on my lappie and start backing up files before i start working. God Bless me.
This week AND the previous wk has been an eventful one. Real eventful ( though i still have yet to clinch an interview. L.O.S.E.R) . Posted some pictures in place of wordy stuff. Bear with me if you cant get the chronological order of the events. I had too much pictures taken over many events for the past few days. Here we go:
1. I went for Stong Trip with some of my ODAC old bird friends. ODAC renewal session for me.
2. I went skating with my Lata group V, R, P, X and dearie.
All giving a go on cones
guess who's butt this belongs to.
Look at what happen to the parade commander after going for odac trips...
My pseudo girlfriends. My slaves mua ha ha ha~!
3. From today's Friday Night Skate, Terence taught me how to do a katzatchok( a particular cone trick move see http://universkate.free.fr/English/Slalom/tricks/kazatchok.mpg ) properly.
4. Collected my convo gown from Serangoon Broadway today as well. Got into a small conversation with this sweet gal who served me in the studio. Cheap thrill session.
5. And while i wasnt around, the lata gang went to drink WITHOUT ME! sigh....
See! The parade commander... did i remember him saying he WONT drink?
Aw...! Our parade commander is surrounded by MORE GALS!
6. The lata gang met up for OCEANS 13 in causeway point. Prior to that, they had a gruelling badminton session coached by our dear miss R. Gosh she really had me fooled when she said she wasnt good in badminton. Diaoz!
Here's one classic picture before we were admitted into the show:
7. I went for a night excursion on thursday with my skater boys and some gals to labrador park and had prata session at Eu Tong Sen. Drove a 10 foot lorry around. Felt good cos i was given the exposure to drive automobiles that my Class 3 license can permit.
Oh yesh, here's part 2 of Lata pictures:
One thing that didnt go well this week though, was that my dearie fell ill with nasty rashes and a slight fever. I pray that she gets well soon, well enough for me not to worry about her!
There are more pictures to come actually. From all over the shop. Guess its time for me to sort things out on my lappie and start backing up files before i start working. God Bless me.
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