along the cobbled sidewalks of life

Saturday, September 27, 2008

i guess it worries me somewhat what i have the time to actually blog. in the midst of my exams. whatever happened to the don't use computer thing i used to impose upon myself during major exams, such as now.

i really need to start running. it's almost 3 weeks of no running. 18 days to be exact. if i run tomorrow i'll break it. if not, it'll be 19 and counting. omg. when my exams end on the 6th, i think i have only about 2 months, or 8 weeks before my biggest obstacle yet. gg. may i find the determination to somehow fulfill my wish of clocking up a mileage of 40km a week. lol. come to think of it, i better make it more soon. if not i'll die. ><

strangely, i'm missing you.

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 11:43 PM

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Friday, September 26, 2008

omg now i wish i have tickets to the f1 race. ah well at least i'll be able to watch it at home and study at the same time. yeah right study.

chem sl paper. ahh!!! i hope i'll still be able to get 7. it's like very very outside chance.
history hl dbq. o man. i'm not sure if 7 is still within reach ><

i've decided to slack today and study over the weekend. i have a feeling i'll fail. ah well.

today after history paper, mark yeo, junyi and i decided to follow rene, ronald and henry to wah chee. rene and ronald were going there to eat i think and we decided to just follow and get a drink or something. yeah in the end only rene and ronald ate. haha at the table the conversations we had were quite funny.

there was one point in time, somehow indians got brought into the conversation, and then henry went "but you're not indian!" to rene, i didn't really understand why, but maybe not full indian? he said it like at an audible level. and well well guess what? the moment he said it, i noticed that the two tables next to us had indians sitting at them. and i have a feeling we got stared at. haha and henry didn't realise it until after a while. and all 6 of us were like... o dear. hahaha and then ronald went, maybe they don't understand english. omg haha damn funny! then we didn't dare to say any indian stuff. explicitly. and before long, i wanted to tell them about the adwyn incident, where he asked someone whether he has watched the youtube indian slapping video and then as he said that 10 indians walked past him in the corridor and stared at him, then he ran inside class. haha i was like, did you hear about adwyn asking someone whether he has watched the indian... then i kept quiet. omg and at that moment, the table behind us was occupied by indians too! so effectively we were cornered. seriously from my point of view, our entire right and back were occupied with indians. in front was a pillar and to our left was the common walkway, so yeah we were cornered. haha then when as we stood up to left, none of us wanted to be the last in case we get beaten up or something. haha but thank goodness rene was there, so not so bad.

anyway, to clarify, this is not some racist comment. i have nothing against indians. but i just find it quite amusing that as we were going to talk about it, i think rene brought it in somehow, we became surrounded. freaky. freaky but insanely amusing and funny.

sc

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whimsical nonsense @ 11:48 PM

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

i'm not counting chinese. so yeah.
my promos start tomorrow. english p1 and econs p1.
i scared. because i'm not worried about it. that really freaks me out, how i'm not worried.

so it begins

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 10:31 PM

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

i have never felt so screwed for an exam.
this is even worse than mid years.
i have not been studying for 3 days straight.
i have not even started proper studying (where i actually retain information)
i am bogged down by stupid things like ... (must remain politically correct -.-)

i am so screwed.

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 10:57 PM

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

and so the world is crashing.
wall street is like reeling from one of the worst disasters the world has seen it experience.
if money makes the world go round, well i wouldn't be surprised if sooner or later, we die.

looks like we kill ourselves not by destroying the environment but by destroying the very thing we created to survive, money! as in like destroy money because the whole financial world is so screwed up now.

bah i'm not making sense. incoherent fool i am. i blame fake studying.

fake studying (sam chan's definition): putting on the act of studying and not retaining any information without the intention of doing so

i am so screwed. i spend hours to write out notes, and i cannot remember a thing. this is super pissing and frustrating. i really need to start planning my time properly, and plan out how and what i'm going to study. die. i need more discipline.

looks like i really started waaay too late and i have to pay the price for my folly.

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 11:28 PM

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

something i found on lloyd's blog, which i have no idea whether it's dead or not.

Your Debut Album

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to Random Quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you’ll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.
3 - Go to flickr’s “Explore The Last Seven Days” http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that’s your debut album.

well my supposed band name, album title and album cover are as follows.

band name: pastida
album title: populated by pond scum

i must say it is quite funny. it's entirely random!

ok i need to start studying properly for real!! wasted another day. ><

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 12:05 AM

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

well on monday, my younger sis asked me to watch the youtube video of dashboard confessional performing hands down on the tv programme "live from abbey road". which is what i did. not bad i guess. haha and then she asked me to check out the strings version of hands down. it's a video with one tree hill in the title too. done by the string quartet.

o man it was so good! haha i kind of got addicted to it. i love strings! er not so much classical music though, not really the biggest fan around. yeah but for like songs like hands down, mr brightside, more er, contemporary? i don't know, yeah, so for such songs, i love it when they have strings. i think it makes it sound really good. maybe that's why keep holding on by avril lavigne is my favourite song.

and now i'm listening to the strings version of other songs. ahhh! hope i don't get distracted.

on a random note, i need new earphones. the tip and speaker for my left earphone fell out ><

i volunteered to do my tok presentation tomorrow. i'm whacking my ee oral defence slides. maximum 4 anyway. i should be done soon. my english assignment is due on friday. shall start tomorrow heh. by friday, i should be done with all my current work. that means i can start revision and studying full scale.

yes!! i really really need to start studying like crap. as hard as i have ever done so to make up for all the lost time. time lost in the september holidays, in the first week clearing work. omg. at least hopefully i think i can study smarter for subjects like history.

please please, i don't want to get a 5

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 11:29 PM

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Saturday, September 06, 2008

i guess it is an understatement to say that i like the song heels over head by boys like girls. the acoustic version is nice. too bad i don't have it ><

well it has stopped raining now. at least for the time being. who knows when it's going to start pouring or even drizzle again. i hate those light drizzles that just goes on forever! can't stand it. i very much prefer a heavy downpour that lasts for like 45minutes? even if it last for 2 hours at night, i don't mind i guess... i have no idea why. maybe it's a stupid weird part of me. ah well.

i managed to finish huck finn yesterday. like finally. now i have to somehow find a way to do my english assignment. i haven't even read the question :S
not to mention my TOK presentation which i completely forgot about. what the...
maybe i'll wake up tomorrow morning (if i actually can) and try to write out stuff so that i'll have something to do in the afternoon after church and not fall asleep
i got to start some kind of study plan, so that by the time exams start, i'll have adequately prepared for all the subjects. man i'm so dead. ><

it does not help that i have encountered problems lately. social, emotional, whatever you want to call it. and i guess the most pressing spiritual problem. sigh.

at least running is still something i enjoy. although i have a feeling i'll lose that joy soon. somehow when things start to get worse, and i think thank goodness i still have this, i lose it the next day. i guess it never rains but pours.

hang on a moment, isn't that the way i like it?

and i'm left wondering why. still.

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 11:40 PM

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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

i need to study.

guess what? i'm not ><

die. die. omg confirm die. ahhhh!!!!

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 11:27 PM

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Monday, September 01, 2008

nike+ human race is over. wow. my first competitive race of such a scale.

or i should say "competitive"

first, i was in the green wrist tag section. which is like majority of the 11 000 people?
i was in the second wave, somewhere in the middle. so i have the first half of the second wave people and the rest of the green tag people of the first wave.

that's at least a few thousand in front of me. the first 1km was super crowded. what the...
joshua tan and i had to like swerve in here and there, say "sorry! excuse me" every few minutes as we squeeze in through gaps. nice. i guess i wasn't really very satisifed with my timing. 1 hour 21mins+ (i didn't notice seconds). factor in about 15 minutes or 20mins of waiting time since i was second wave, factor in all the walking and stuff. maybe, maybe i got below 60mins. but i guess that's my primary aim being met, but i would have like to try to reach 50mins. too bad i couldn't try since it was so crowded and the last marker i saw was 7km, so the last 3km was ran at a normal cruising pace. boo!

at least i felt tired at the end, because we sprinted the last like 200m or something and overtook about 100 people? haha i don't know... but i was full of energy to sprint. i think before the sprinting bit, i was only like 83%? ok maybe 85% spent. yeah cannot pace properly because no idea how much left. boo!

but overall not bad run la. just too crowded to be counted as competitive. not to mention half the people there register for the goody bag, for the boys like girls concert and like started walking already? nike should put some race etiquette thing like run on the left, and overtake on the right. makes things easier. yeah... o well. good training.

the concert was spastic. ok some of the acts were not bad i guess. like the beatboxer dude just before boys like girls. and i guess the great spy experiment? although not exactly my type of genre. and it's like everyone is there to watch boys like girls. and you have all these acts before that... so weird. everyone is like quite mellow. the cheers not so crazy. then when it's boys like girls the crowd goes wild. i feel so sad for those earlier acts. you're like performing to a crowd you know that isn't there for you, just playing for the sake of playing. ah well. life's like that.

boys like girls were good. great stuff. but i sat far far away. like at the side, about 100m away from the stage. haha had to take care of the bags of the people who went into the crowd. not my kind of thing. thankfully i had joshua tan for company (:

dinner at carl's junior with lots of people. wah super hungry. haha. o o i saw kim at the race village thing! (: as in the rjc one, not the 5.13 one. although i did see that kim too.

time to start getting into the studying mood ):

sc

whimsical nonsense @ 12:43 AM

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