Monday, June 30, 2008
School has just started. CTs are over, fortunately.
things have happened around me that i would never have thought would happen. And I don't exactly know how to react.
Instinct tells me to hide away in my shell and pretend nothing has happened. but circumstances tells me to empathize and help if i can.
so i choose to help.
i'll be praying that everything goes well.
and my competition is this saturday. 3 months of piping all for this. it better go well too.
posted @9:05 PM
Friday, June 13, 2008
i'm back from class chalet. i must say, this one failed to disappoint. i guess, like what ben said, we didn't have the critical mass, but we were alright where it counted.
so it started on tuesday, the motley bunch of us at white sands. dinner. chalet. rooming. arcade duly checked. records still there. skills still honed. people staring thinking we were out of our mind.
day 2. morning swim with ben. i guess morning swims are good for burning fat. then again, i can't even confirm that swimming helps to burn fat. went to school for pipes, then went shopping with ben. back at chalet, cooked. mixed up salt with MSG. and the sauce was sour. swimming was a good cure. but polo with a large raisin of a ball isn't the best of solutions. st tried to be a perv. and, um, succeeded. fell asleep on the couch for an hour then went to try and take pictures with care bears at downtown east. a pity we didn't look too small. and we didn't have tickets. back, dinner, arcade and cards.
day 3. routines fall into place. the rest of the 4P people come! bball. arcade. bomb making is a tedious and smelly process. but all for a good cause. tried barbecue/swim/birthday bash was fun. happy birthday to ben and gan! happy birthday to daniel and chee too! night comes and people have to go. we all walked down to cheers and tried to buy beer. goodness. if the big one fails, how are we going to be able to get any? but we did, anyway. talked away as usual. then konked out at 3.
day 4. failed to wake up at 7 as usual. so went for lunch with leo hp gan then went home.
it seems strange, really. our class, well, this class chalet was much much smaller than before. there was much less hype and everything. and we camwhored alot more. when we were playing bridge, st was playing it ends tonight by TAAR. i don't know why, but that really made it feel strange. like our class was going to fall apart and by tomorrow, we wouldn't be one 4P again. our class is legendary, really. there is NO other class that will ever be able to replicate what we did (or didn't do in RI). so really, there isn't a magic formula that we had. we just behaved as how we did among other people. masks come off, everyone shows his true colours with 4P. and that's what makes us special. i was thinking of blasting won't go home without you, but that would have been really anti-climatic and besides, i'm sure we really wouldn't forget each other.
oh well. i have ranted enough. back to photosynthesis. and piping. and i haven't gotten viva la vida yet. grrarh.
posted @2:07 PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
hmm. i have been starting to revert back to firefox lately. maybe it's because safari keeps crashing on my com for no apparent reason. or maybe it's because firefox 3 is coming out soon :D
but i totally prefer the safari start up screen. i mean, can you seriously beat the apple homepage as a start-up screen for any browser? yeah i know i can probably change my homepage from the firefox start page to the safari one, but i'm lazyyyyy.
then again, firefox has themes. well. how cool can that get? it's just that themes won't be available on firefox for quite a while when 3 comes out. ah well. and safari's font is so much nicer than the firefox font.
like. whatever.
haha anyway class chalet is today :D and pipe training is tmw. and the day after. and so on. then there's bb camp next week. hmm i shall try to have fun. and get coldplay's new album in the meantime.
posted @10:19 AM
Thursday, June 05, 2008
class cip is over. and life goes back to normal. no more waking up at like 6.45 because i have to go to yishun.
I do know that there are some things that I have learnt from this experience. I have learnt how to shred paper quickly. I have learnt that taking care of 7 kids for 8 hours for 3 days leaves you very drained. but perhaps I know now that i should be grateful for what i have. it's not the kind of gratefulness for the material possessions or money that you have, but instead, its the gratefulness for the upbringing that i have received. i don't exactly know how to put it in words, though. all i know is that i'm glad that i have parents that love me.
i will miss the kids from blue group. even the crazy, noisy, attention seeking one. it has been fun interacting with them. even though the camp commandant thinks you guys aren't patient enough or don't work well together, screw that. you guys rock, ok? don't ever let anything get in your way. not even the camp commandant.
ah. camp commandant. i shall call him mr x. initially the relationship between him and our class was sort of ok. then it started to border on overbearing and insensitive. downhill all the way. i mean, there isn't really the need to flash insensitive pictures for people to see. and that putting down a group of people in front of everyone else isn't exactly a positive stroke. and of course, when you ask people for help, make sure that it isn't in vain. i'm quite sure that i could have used that few hours of my time in much better ways. and of course, tahanability isn't a bloody word in the english dictionary. neither is patientness.
i don't know how the results express themselves tangibly, but i guess the class has bonded from this experience. there isn't really any possible way to measure how well a class is bonded, but if it's a good measure, our class has indeed started talking more. and we have managed to get some things done over these past few days. and class dinner! even though there were only 15 people there, it's a good sign. things are getting better for the class. yay!
and lolol there's the exco. i don't know how it will turn out haha, but we'll see.
so anyway i have spent the last 4 days of my time at class CIP. maybe a few hours at ikea, a few hours at plaza sing, and all the other time sleeping. i don't have any photos from this camp (they're all with mr x) and i doubt he would let any of them be published anyway.
anyway time to go back to studying :/
ah, life!
posted @11:39 PM
