read about the earthquake at 12am plus last night. didnt feel any tremors though my area was one of the supposedly affected areas. so glad that there wasnt any tsunamis again. i was even thinking of going to phuket during my holidays coz it will be damn cheap la. 2 major earthquakes with epicentres so close in the span of 3 months is going to make me reconsider.
how's this for a bet between your friends whether it will rain tomorrow?
"It's not gambling. We have just created a structured investment in our newly created market called 'rain or not'. We are merely investing in our trading views. My view is that it will rain and his view is that it will not. It's the same as the structured investment 'S-warrants' the bank sells."
;)
thoughts running wild12:15 AM
mrs test today was alrite. the hot topics (tips) the lecturers gave were generally quite accurate and the questions werent too difficult. dont think i can score well though...coz there's only so much my lousy memory can take.
went to sentsa on sat with some new people. david and jianshun haven been to sentosa in months. finally got them to come. carol dragged her friend sheena along. a sweet little girl she is ;) . nice knowing her. remember pamela and her pretty friend nicole? they came with us also. what a strange combination...hee. well, seems like nicole couldnt stop attracting guys. while she and pamela were trying to play some volleyball, a group of old guys (relative to them) hit on them and asked to play volleyball with them. as they were playing, their friends tried to take photos of her. so sick~. how desperate can guys be? when the girls realised, they cooked up some stupid excuse to slip away. anyway nicole and sheena picked up the game relatively fast for girls. pamela was damn proud of it lah. even wrote on her blog...duh.
no mood to blog. post test blues? is there even such a thing? and its not even over yet. looking forward to the next day at the beach. guess the only reason i study is so that i can enjoy my beach day in peace and without guilt. what a freak~...
thoughts running wild12:08 AM
the dreaded medical radiation science end semestral exam is tomorrow! and i just started studying today. hope my luck wont forsake me tomorrow...
thoughts running wild10:32 PM
we got 3rd in the inter shs captain's ball competition!! played 4 matches in total. 1st round: we were up against one of the nursing teams. we managed to win comfortably at 11-2.
2nd round: our 2nd opponent was another nursing team which had a very tall basketball guy in it. sarina was the ball catcher in the 1st half and no matter how we tried, we couldnt get the ball past the tall guy to sarina. the 1st half ended 1-0 in their favour. we changed our tactics during the second half and i went up to become the catcher. luck was not on our side. before we got our act together, they scored another goal. it was going to be an uphill battle from then on but we didnt gave up. we ran our heart out and finally managed to score 2 goals by looping the ball high over the tall guy which i was still able to catch ;) . from then on, we started pressuring and marking them from their own half of the court and got numerous attempts at goal. our effort finally paid off and we scored the 3rd goal! when i got hold of the 3rd goal, i was so happy that i slammed the ball onto the ground and shouted. tink that demoralised the tall guy in front of me a little bit...hehe. we defended our lead well and kept pressuring them until we won 6-2 in the end. we deserved our semi final place after such a hard fight!
semi finals: the DTs were going to be our next opponent. they werent very tall but we knew we had a hard fight on our hand because they were very fast. turned out that they were fast, aggresive (not in a bad way la), accurate and full of stamina...haha. they ran and ran and marked our players so closely that we couldnt receive the ball easily. the gers were already very tired from playing the previous tough match (we only had exactly 4 gers so cant substitute) that their off the ball movement were limited. the dt gers sure know how to shoot too. they looped the ball high over me for their catcher. we were putting up a good fight at first but as we got too eager to equalise, they counter attacked and scored a few more goals. by then we were already totally demoralised (sigh) and we lost the match 11-3. we werent too upset about the loss as huiping and yvonne injured themselves and the dts were really good. a pity we didnt meet the other nursing team in the semis or we could have gotten 2nd. guess we cant complained so much ya. spare a thought for the team the dts knocked out in the 1st round ;) .
3rd/4th placing: this was just a friendly match between the pt and us. we even had our lecturer amarjit to help us. all of us took turns to play and we all had fun. the scoreline was somewhere like 11-6 or something. didnt really notice as we were only out to have fun =)
all in all the captain's ball competition was very fun. even though i missed my beach day, i didnt regret it at all. i tink we did rg proud...haha. thanks to all my team-mates (esp the gers who had to play every minute of every game) for giving their all :)
Sunday
i was itching to play beach volleyball so much that i went down to sunset bay alone to try my luck to find familiar faces to play with even though the mumbo peeps asked me to skate at bishan park. not much people was there but i was lucky to find a few people that i know. played a few games in all but i was the most satisfied with the last 2 on 2 game i played with steven. had a few good spikes and my first balls werent as bad as usual.
jeffrey and steven pulled me to play mahjong with them after dinner at samantha's house. 1st time playing mahjong at the house of someone i dont know. to cut the long story short, i had 2 amazing hus. one was a xiao san yuan ban se with 2 flowers. i had already pong hong zhong and bai ban and was going to bao fa cai. one fai cai was on the table already but steven played one fa cai not believing i had a xiao san yuan so he had to pay for everyone. luckily he had already won a lot. i would have play that fa cai if i were him also. 2nd was a ping hu very early in the game. that would be something quite normal. however i was waiting (ting) for only 7 bamboos so i couldnt win yet unless i draw the tile myself. jeffrey discarded a 7 bamboos but i didnt "chi" and discard another tile to ting pai. know what? i drew a 7 bamboos immediately. couldnt believe my luck :D . however the consequence of winning some money was a long and tiring day at school. never another overnight mahjong before a school day.
ps: sorry to those who dont understand mahjong ;) .
thoughts running wild11:11 PM
went for the inter ang mo kio volleyball invitational challenge on wed. it was the worst tournament i have ever been to. firstly there is a lot of waiting time. but i guessed that was unavoidable as they had only one court and its a one day tournament. but the thing that pissed me off the most was that i only played for around 20 mins for the 10 hours that i was there. i shall not elaborate much but lets just say that if we need outside help to win a secondary school then i think we seriously need to reflect on our training.
anatomy practical test is over. now that's something to be happy about. but somehow i dun really feel elated at all knowing that the end semestral exams are coming in 2 weeks time. that will mean i cant really enjoy myself. yea i know i wont be studying much anyway but i cant really find the mood to do anything else even when i cant bring myself to study. just like what happened this week. although the prac test is only on fri and i didnt study until thur, im feeling so sian even for the first half of the week. people have been asking me why am i always not in school this week but in actual fact i have only been absent for 3 days these 2 weeks. 2 days last week for working at the it show and 1 day this week for the inter amk invitational challenge. so guys, im fine :) , no more skipping of lessons from now on.
going to play captain's ball with my coursemates tomorrow for the inter health science competition. hope it will be fun~ ;)
thoughts running wild11:32 PM
just bought a creative zen micro at the it show!! had been eyeing it since the 1st day of the show and finally decided to buy it on the last day after the closing of the it show. i was able to hang around as i was an exhibitor so i dont have to join the crazy queue. have to say im pretty pleased with the player so far. its really small and the user interface is easy to use. im so loving it~ ;)
dun ask me why i chose the dark blue. i would have gotten orange or green but only black, white, silver and dark blue were available for the 4 gig version.
anyway working for starhub at the it show was quite a pleasure. the people there were very friendly. only downside: the endless stream of customers and questions :( . hope to work in their not-so-busy roadshows in the future.
thoughts running wild11:54 PM
the term break has ended. nothing special happened this week. volleyball, shopping, working, beach and a mini birthday celebration for sean.
participated in yet another beach volleyball competition last saturday. really grateful to tracy for asking me to join them. played 6 matches in total, won 3 and lost 3. even though we have 2 good players from temasek poly in our team, we still couldnt get into the 2nd round because there's so many good teams around and its the first time we're playing together.
"would you rather have wings to fly or spend the rest of your life wanting it?"
chanced upon this question. how would you interpret it?
i believe that many of us wish to be freed of all worldly pursuits and be able to fly freely like a bird. but is being able to fly really such a wonderful feeling once u can experience it everytime, anytime u want? or is it better to never know the actual feeling of flying and let it remain a beautiful and perfect dream in your heart? sometimes you may want something so much all your life but when you actually get it, it shatters that ideal that you hold dear to you and you would rather not have it in the 1st place so that you can continue to dream about it.
it might even turn out that if you get what you want easily, then you wont even appreciate it that much. instead the process of wanting something so much and working towards it will make you appreciate all the small things that bring you closer to your goal and make you a better person even though you might never get what you want.
haha all this is making me sounds like a pessimist. seriously im not :p ! im actually very optimistic. well, im not so optimistic about starting school tmr..... ;)
thoughts running wild1:46 AM