Monday, April 28, 2008
HC ULTIMATE !!!i shouldn't be doing this right now, but i just can't stop rewatching the acjc ultimate frisbee training video, leaving geog aside for now. watching their video definitely makes me wanna train harder, much harder. keep training, keep pushing our limits, keep improving, keep building a stronger team. i really find their video really inspiring, it kinda strengthens the competitive spirit within you. all HC Flickers should at least watch it once ! i believe it would change training by a whole lot.
song: Foo Fighters - Best Of You
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12:13 AM
Sunday, April 20, 2008
A-D-Na ! Athena Faculty Outing !8 Degree Lounge, NTU Alumni Clubhouse
19th April 08
NTU Alumni Clubhouse
on the way up...
A-D-Na !
doing the melissa pose
band performance !
6e playing cards, with stanley behind the glass =O
emcees for the night ! david and xinying
faculty prince and princess first elimination round
pool challenge
ummmm LOL
melissa's favourite pose =O
6e girls
08s6e !
08s6e with ms ong !
three cheers for Athena Fac Comm ! great job ! =]
last night simply rockeddd ! loads of fun and enjoyment.
the venue for the faculty outing was really nice and cosy, nicely decorated as well. really easy for us to mix around with the crowd.
although 6e was kinda more involved in our own games and fun, could see that everyone else was having lots of fun with the activities up front as well. faculty prince and princess competition, egg-smashing, the longest string of knots etc etc.
lots and lots of fun =D
oh, let's play Heart Attack again ! =X
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3:46 PM
Friday, April 18, 2008
will continue the rest of the post tomorrow night anyway, first off, i've removed a portion of my previous post earlier this morning after reading linky's blog last night. guess i've misunderstood him based on the wrong impression after hearing the wrong things. rahhhh. guess i was too rash again to post up that portion. ok will continue the rest tomorrow ! =]A-D-Na, Athena Faculty Outing is on tomorrow evening !
update !
Thursday,
it didn't rain in the afternoon ! yes, finally it didn't. could have a proper training that ends at 7+, when its getting dark and we can't really see at the field. feels good to be able to play that much and have that much fun again =] gotta practice more vertical stacks ! its too messy and we're taking too long to set up. we need alot more practice for sure ! oh, and lay out is extremely fun !
dinner at kap was quite funny. we were talking about teletubbies, then we randomly linked to the other cartoons that were hot favourites back then like pokemon. all because of jiaying haha. lala =X
daryl rocks. daryl: go nb ! i choose you !
HC Flickers ! =]
[i sound like i'm getting high haha]
Friday,
my maths is really bad x__X
randomly sparred at the rooftop after school cos there wasn't any pattern training. uhh yar... so jackie, linky, kj and i decided to tag-team spar haha. just tag out once you've ran outta energy to continue. retarded fun haha, especially running 50 rounds around a 4x4 meters mat. and our best friend owned us yet again =O
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11:45 PM
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
felix you didn't turn up for training today ! whyyyyyyyyydid alot of exercises today, mostly cardiovascular training. building up more stamina for sparring in future, maybe a few months down.
sooo we moved on to learning punches and practicing patterns. i'm not in any pattern competition team so i was just hanging around, kicking targets whenever someone else was free enough to hold it up. haha
and so we sat down and began talking lots of crap while the girls were training continuously.
we refers to Mr. President [jackie], slyvanus, kj and myself
lots of talk and re-enactment of the pretty much useless guy who doesn't dare to go against stronger opponents but chooses to spar with other guys and especially girls who do not have as much strength as him 's actions and stuff about him
[ please refer to the post on 11th april if you wish to learn more about him ]
we were talking about things like the 360 slap and 360 fall and lots of other rubbish like how we are not interested in BGR but we're determined to get into a BBR, boy-boy relationship. girls might be going into GGRs as well,
oh and we made that guy become our best friend from today onwards ! x]
oh, thanks for being there to listen to me earlier just now. you know who you are haha. =]
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11:43 PM
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
oh yay blogger finally loads =ORAWRRRR
the frisbee training days curse has gotten end !
why does it always rain on tuesdays and thursdays?! resulting in us ending early or not even training at all >=/
boooo its suppose to be dry and really hot just like most of today at this time of the year.
hmmm, i just thought of the anti-rain dance thing that mr hon taught us back in sec one, during our sec one camp at chinese garden. hoho, what a random thought. i remember that it rained non-stop for the first two days of our 3-days 2-night camp, so the majority of camp was spent wet, soggy and cold. couldn't get to do a few of the activities and most of the rest were all carried out at times when the rain got smaller, but it was still drizzling. but finally, the rain did stop on the second night cos we did the anti-rain dance ! haha xD
we didehold our campfire and got to stay in tents for a night, making it more like a camp . the first night was spent sleeping under the sheltered multi-purpose area. everyon was sleeping together, it was windy and cold =/ but its still fun =D or at least i do find it fun, but i don't think everyone did.
so, morale of the recount, let's do the anti-rain dance on thursday if it starts to get cloudy !
[ actually i can't remember how it is done at all =X ]
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11:53 PM
Monday, April 14, 2008
hoho check out my first pair of soccer boots =O
its black and clean with three white strips !
uhhhhh ok whatever... haha
went to queensway last saturday to shop with daryl, lincoln and linus
and now lincoln, linus and i, the three of us have the same boots !
the boots are quite a good deal =]
somehow i like staring at it...
[ jiaying, i bet you're jealous looking at our new boots xD ]
went down to bugis to study for maths yesterday buttt it's not like i did any work =/
i can't study outside, not exactly productive or anything. arghhh
hence, i died for the lecture test earlier today
yayyy ><
ok that's all for another super short summary of the last couple of days
edit: oh oh, i can't go for frisbee tmr =[
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10:30 PM
Friday, April 11, 2008
tkd informal training ! sparring ! yay !haha i am soooo looking forward to more sparring
hmm here's my reflection of today's sparring, similar to felix's, think its gonna be noobier than his though
Round 1: Marcus (senior)
seemed like both of us were afraid of each other haha
well, he's quite big, and so am i. so of cos we won't go chionging directly at each other without some thought, unless you're like prepared to get zhammed back or being really confident of owning the other with the kicks you're gonna execute. only whacked each other a few times, not really very tiring haha. paid quite alot of attention to footing and stances cos he's obviously more experienced at sparring than me so i had to watch more carefully. not a bad experience =]
Round 2: Yongji
mixed sparring. guys gotta learn to control and hold back while girls gotta learn to tank
yongji's quite good actually. strong kicks and good guard. some girls are always leaving themselves wide open, easy to land kicks on them cos they do not guard. however, this isn't really a girls' thing only, some of the guys are also like that haha. she watches my movement quite well also, always prepared to block.
but i didn't really dare to zham hard =/ so i decided to do more blocking again, but i managed to do the double turning once ! yay xD
Round 3: Felix
more of turning around a fixed point cos felix kept going round in circles haha
we did whack each other though, got a couple of rather painful knocks while sparring against him. like the one near the ball of my left foot. ouch. wasn't really a fair match actually, considering our builts and strength =/
hmm anyway, besides these matches, there's another thing i would like to mention.
its about this guy whom i really have strong opinions about.
he's none other thannnnn the pretty much useless guy who doesn't dare to go against stronger opponents but chooses to spar with other guys and especially girls who do not have as much strength as him.
quite a long title for him, so its pretty much who this guy is haha.
firstly, he freaking makes irritating sounds for no reason at all during kicking practice. everyone gets pissed off by him. even guys with a much greater tolerance for bullshit, run out of patience listening to his sounds and totally stupid comments that do not go through his brain at all. oh wait, does he even have one? he loves to make comments about other people's kicks, trying hard to correct them when he can't freaking kick it properly himself. please, get it right yourself before trying to correct others. so yar, he doesn't even realize the fact that we're unhappy with that and really wish he would stop. some just keep quiet and tolerate while some of us did voice it out, but it seems like our words just go in from one side of his head and outta the other immediately.
next, honestly speaking, he's really weak for someone of his built. his kicks during practice are really fei. i think even a new-comer can kick harder than him. loserrrr. plus, he can't withstand our kicks. letting him hold the target will just result in lots of complain about how painful it is and how we shouldn't use that much strength. oh yar, and the stupid comments which i've mentioned earlier. we do kick that hard everytime cos we want to train up and improve, and when he's our target holder, it makes me wanna kick even harder if possible. haha. i sound evil =X
and now to the most important point about this guy. he is really really really freakingly humji.
he fought with the j3s before and all he did was to run away from them and making them feel .....
he doesn't even dare to face up to them. plus, he'll complain and complain, a whole lot of crap before that. hmm he had to spar against someone who has a significantly greater amount of experience as compared to him. all he did was freaking act like he got injured really badly like 20 seconds after the match started. please, you aren't from drama, your acting sucks. we all saw where the kick landed and all he did was to fake like it was really painful and he can no longer continue the fight. his opponent landed a kick and he lagged for a while before going "owwwwww very pain". what the hell... hey, just admit that you're afraid of your opponent. and he miraculously recovered from that extremely painful kick to your face right after the seniors decided to move onto the next match. ohhhh and why was that so?
when it came to mixed sparring, he was sparring against a girl who's much lighter in weight as compared to him. he was perfectly ok and did not appear to be suffering from the pain from the previous kick anymore. he pushed her down and kept punching her only, couldn't even land proper kicks on her. retarded punches with retard actions which he probably felt made him look damn cool when it actually made him seem more loser to us. his opponent was doing really well though, a number of good kicks, especially the one to his groin haha. jiayou ! own him the next time round he decides to spar against you again. the girls also think of him as a sissy now haha. great job.
hmm so some things i've noticed about myself during sparring
i keep pulling my leg back once i hit the opponent's guard, not pushing through all the way like how we usually do while kicking the big target. hit and instantly shifting it back down. maybe its cos of the impact that sorta makes me do that =/
pushing through is rather important actually, possible to get the opponent to move to the position which is advantageous for you to follow up with more kicks. besides that, you can stun your opponents briefly and probably cause them to lose their balance. yup.
domination isn't that easy. doesn't take much to say that it's always important to dominate your opponent to gain an upper hand and do not get dominated instead, however, its much easier said than done. may be due to the fact that we're quite inexperienced at sparring, we do not really attack and show that i am stronger and you are getting dominated. yushu explained it a couple of times and we're always answering that we understand the concept of dominating but we're gonna need alot more practice. haha.
now its more of knowing how good or bad everyone else is, cos we train together every time, so we're roughly able to gauge ourselves against our opponents and fight accordingly.
yup, that's about all for today's tkd training.
and i guess its probably not making much sense to you haha
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11:26 PM
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
"how was council camp?" , that question that everyone has been asking over the past couple of days"it was fun, did lots of fun stuff."
haha, was really lazy to elaborate on all the specific details about the camp to everyone, especially when my voice is in this condition right now
anyways, here's a brief summary of the whole thing
the camp marked the start of the 35th's council term, exposing us to the difficulties and demanding situations that we'll be experiencing in time to come. the punishment and scolding did send a message to the elects the road ahead will definitely not be easy and we must be prepared for it. besides that, bonding between the elects began and everyone should be able to recognize everyone by name, or at least by looks, now. every now and then, there'll be discussions on what posts every individual will be aiming for and the reasons for his/her choice. seems like there are some posts that are pretty hot while some are not even mentioned haha.
hmm, i personally felt that the camp could be improved if there were games that involved both 34th and 35th. getting to know each other over the meals and during the short interaction time in the night, with 2 seniors and 2 juniors to a group, is kinda sufficient, but it would be better if there's more interaction if possible.
and the campfire was kinda cold =/ rahhh, needa get better sound systems to get the crowd going !
yup, that's about it, end of summary.
really tired these few days ><
rawrrr needa get more sleep and more water !
ok lazy to blog already =X
frisbee training tomorrow ! =D
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11:32 PM
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Apollo [12]-------
Ang Zhe Wei Jeremy 08A15
Chiu Howard 08S7B
Ho Zi Hao Ivan 08S77
Koh Mei Shan Sheila 08S79
Lew Kwong Hoe Dominic 08A14
Martin Widjaja 08S71
Mok Ying Ming 08S75
Tan Wei Ting Terence 08A14
Tan Ze Lei 08S77
Teo Wei Ling 08A14
Wan Chien Yang Alfred 08A14
Wong Qi Han 08A14
Ares [13]
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Chee Yen Hui Marianne 08S76
Chen Chi 08S70
Chen Ye Hui 08A13
Chng Hui Ting Rachel 08A13
John Peter Ong Yong 08S70
Lim Jia Chen 08S72
Lim Jia Wei 08S72
Liu Zhao Bo 08S74
Ng Yi Xian Jolene 08A10
Pang Khang Wen 08S70
Soon Kian Keong 08A13
Tan Shi Min Elaine 08S7A
Tan Yan Ying Rhea 08S74
Artemis [12]
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Cheng Lijie 08S63
Chia Sheng Hui Christopher 08S6B
Ee Cheong Seng Elson 08S6B
Fransisca Santosa 08S6F
Jolyn Foo Wan Ting 08S61
Li Xiao Yao 08S63
Lim Pei Yi Sherry 08S6P
Tan Lian Seng 08S6D
Tay Ming Yang 08S63
Tay Xinjun Coco 08S6H
Wu MengYu 08S61
Zhang Wenbo 08S63
Athena [13]
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Chan Xi Wen 08S62
Chan Xian Wen Zara 08S68
Chua Yao Hui 08S68
Ho Xinyi 08S60
Jonathan Quek Junhao 08S6E
Koa Yi Xiang Sherwyn 08S6A
Li Xiang 08S6G
Lim Ke Wei Matthew 08S64
Liu Hao 08S60
Soh Kah Loke 08S66
Tham Wei Yang Wilson 08S6C
Victor Gan Yixiang 08S64
Wang Zijing 08S64
well, first off, congrats to the 49 other individuals who made it into the 35th !
really hoping to know you guys better and work together for the upcoming events in the year =]
things are as such and the elects can't be changed no matter how hard we grumble.
the 34th have said that they do have reservations about our batch of elects, and i do not disagree with that.
sigh, don't exactly know what else to blog about this already, kinda talked about it a few times with you guys in school already.
let's see how things progress over the year...
hmm, it was pretty disappointing for me when the nominees who i felt had the capabilities and are deserving to be part of council did not get in. instead, some who were just more popular or more humourous in a sense attracted more attention from the faculty, therefore, earning themselves a place in the 35th
however, you guys mustn't ever feel negative about not making it in !
would like to share quotes from lincoln's blog at this point in time, i felt that his posts over the past couple of days were extremely well said.
" They say people who fall lose their confidence. But for people like me who never had confidence to start with, Ive never lost a single bit. Instead, Ive gained some. This is the second major disappointment in my life. Sorry, but Im not shattered by it.
Life is like a river. Although Ive capsized, Ive got back up. And Ill continue moving on. Faster. Steadier. The water will dry, the road unwinds. I paddle on. "
" So lets picture it as a river. The river flows, and you see three paths. You choose one and then in that one path it branches out another three paths. And if this keeps on happening you would keep on thinking "hey if i took the other path earlier, might it be better?" And the deeper you go, the more choices you make, the more you regret.
But have you ever thought that if you didnt make the choice, you wouldnt know that you made a right/wrong choice. And since you chose the path, you can now identify the characteristics of a better and a not-so-good path, and so the next time you are presented with more paths, you would choose the better one.
And now lets picture a straight, one-path river. Of course you would feel more relaxed and happy because theres only one path. No choice, no nothing. Everything is fixed for you. You dont have the burden of making a choice. And every obstacle you encounter, you tell yourself "Not like I have a choice, so Ill just have to face it." And surprisingly, you wouldnt regret on anything, because the path is set, the problems are bound to be there, you just live a life set for you. "
i believe that everyone who had made a choice to run for council, three weeks ago, made a choice that they wouldn't regret even now
the whole campaigning period has definitely provided lots of take-aways for every nominee
getting to know your group members even more each day, making new friends both within and out of your respective faculties, having so much fun together with the other nominees
i mean, everything has just been extremely memorable for me, running for council is indeed an unforgettable experience
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1:35 AM