Monday, April 27, 2009
i need to find time to sit down properly and work on my tok essay.
before that, i need to find the brains to know what to write and how to edit my essay.
the brains. if only i had that, it would be so much easier.
but i don't. oh well i guess i have to try and make do with whatever i have, even if it amounts to next to nothing.
runrunrun.
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 10:53 PM
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
i had a sort of brush with a stupid rugger from a rival school.
i don't think he's intellectually stupid, but yeah his actions were very unsportsmanlike.
whatever. it's over.
i guess that's another reason why i decided to join cross instead of rugby last year.
and yes i did consider joining rugby because i wanted to get fit and i like the game. but i would have gotten owned anyhow. and i absolutely hold no regrets joining cross.
did i mention that rugger had a jock face? the whole hey i have muscles come look at me d'oh face.
no i didn't. yeah he did.
i'm extremely unfit now. i need to get back some mileage and yet as i do so, i'm most probably going to lose some speed. urgh if only i could continue training on the track or something. but it'll be absolutely extra. unfortunately.
two days of unproductiveness. not good. not when i have ias due and an EE in my face. oh dear.
hopefully tomorrow will be more productive. probably wouldn't be but then again it will be because i will be rushing my econs ia due on monday. no choice. urgh.
the next time i may run is monday. that means 2 whole days of not running. ahhh not good. and i never complain about not studying for 2 whole days.
on a random note. i need to grow up i think.
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 11:06 PM
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
wow it's been one week since i blogged. and so many things have happened.
wednesday 15th april. failed to qualify for 1500m finals. ah well. kind of sad.
friday 17th april. 800m finals. finished 12th out of 16 runners. did a pb of 2:08.76 though.
saturday 18th april. primers rod. i'm officially out of the boys brigade 12thI
hm.
i need to muggerfy myself. thankfully i felt relatively productive today during math lessons and chemistry. if only i can keep up the momentum. there isn't much time left.
i need to think of a counter-claim for tok essay. i need to get it out of the way so i can focus on my ee.
i need to stop stuffing myself with unhealthy junk that's only going to make me fatter than i already am ):
random note. tonight's weather is really nice. the initial strong gusts of wind, the bright orange sky was such a perfect picture. the subsequent heavy rain made it a little less perfect, but overall it's still lovely.
what a difference ):
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 12:11 AM
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
by God's grace, i have qualified for the 800m finals. 15th qualifier. second last. but at least i made it.
tomorrow, 1500m heats. i don't know what to expect. possibly my second last race for acsi. ):
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 10:43 PM
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
next week will be one to savour.
looking forward to it (:
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 10:49 PM
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
i was just reading time. and under the page with "briefing" on it. i don't really know what it means but yeah i think it's the title of a regular. it talks about the world of disappearing newspapers. one by one, dailies cease their existence and they disappear into the world of anonymity.
it used the example of the state of Seattle. in the past, when one newspaper stops production, another comes in to replace it. however in this day and age, the natural process of replacement is not materializing. as far as my (poor) memory is concerned, the reason given was that the huge amount of resources required to continue the daily churning of a newspaper is a cost simply too heavy to bear any longer. a singular daily consists of DIY columns, comics, lifestyle sections, the news etc etc. besides journalists, you need a whole lot of other people with varying job scopes to put together one paper.
one day down. the whole process repeats again in 24 hours, for the next.
the article was written with the comparison of newspapers to online stuff, of opinion writers if i'm not wrong. i really wasn't concentrating too hard when i was reading, in addition to the fact that my memory isn't good. it concluded with something along the lines of living in a world without facts but rather in the noise of loud mouth opinion writers.
hm. personally speaking i find it rather sad that as technology moves ahead and as more and more people come to embrace it everyday, we are slowly letting go of the things that are of the past. i shudder to imagine a world where everyone gets their daily fix of news through mediums of technology. either watch the news or more likely, go onto the internet using mobile devices with internet capabilities and surf the infinite reaches of the international information super highway. sure it is more convenient. at one go with a few deft touches, one possesses the ability to access articles written on the same event but with varying perspectives. one can gain a whole lot more in a much shorter time. all with the added bonus of convenience.
i will not deny that it is convenient and with more benefits. however it just doesn't seem as fun as it is to read about the events that change the world on an a screen. for some reason, newspapers seem a, for lack of a better word, nicer way to gain such knowledge.
kind of ironic actually. that i'm typing all this on a blog. writing about my own opinion. when it is opinion writers that contribute to the ensuing death of the newspaper era.
kind of ironic how i have 4 tabs currently on my firefox browser. one is a blog (which again is a medium for opinion writers. however it's contents i assure you are nowhere close to opinions on global events). another is the live scores for the premier league, and obviously one is of blogger.
the last tab is of the bbc news website, with an article on the international response to north korea's lauching of a supposed satellite into orbit (i think).
the article made me realise how much i actually appreciate the newspaper (it is a very unconscious appreciation) and how i wouldn't want to see the day where it is entirely replaced by something else entirely. it made me reflect for a moment (however fleeting it may be) on the pace humanity is embracing technology, if it is a pace too dangerous as we fail to fully understand the course of our actions.
and yet here i am, getting my news on internationally significant events at on the bbc website. getting my sports news (primarily manchester united football scores) on soccernet's live scores. here i am being an opinion writter myself while visiting another blog.
i think one way. i do another.
i must be a man of irony. i must be leading a life of paradoxical proportions.
i must be an oxymoron.
or maybe, i am just, a moron.
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 12:02 AM
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Friday, April 03, 2009
there is something special about staying up on thursday nights.
three weeks ago, thursday night. i didn't sleep.
two weeks ago, holiday. so obviously i slept.
one week ago, thursday night. i slept at 520.
one day ago, thursday night. i slept at 3.
ee. world lit. history ia.
should i blame the seemingly never-ending flow of assignments and their respective deadlines of ib? maybe.
certainly i would like to do so. but somewhere inside, i know most of the blame should be placed squarely on my shoulders. procrastination and laziness are my weaknesses. my downfall inevitable.
i know. i don't do.
right now, it seems that is the worst problem i can ever have.
next monday i get my ee back. i have the weekend to mentally prepare myself for what is to come.
next monday leaves me with a week to whip my tok presentation into shape.
next monday is the third week of term two. too fast.
everything seems to be coming at a blur. too quick for me to keep up with. i try to squirrel back into my shell to hide from all of it. alas my shell has been lost amongst the chaos of events whirring in this world. so much is happening for a single student. how about a school of students? how about a singular adult who deals with more responsibilities? how about a nation of adults? four plus million people. how about six billion people?
mind boggling.
i shall just settle on the simple things. that is why i remain simplistic in my thinking, unable to proceed on to the next level. i fail to find the upgrade that many have already attained.
i fail to keep up.
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 11:21 PM
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
the time has come to be serious.
but it's difficult. this week is crazy.
for some reason, i'll fall asleep like 9+ whenever i'm trying to study. and then gg. ahhhh.
whatever. i want to sleep properly. but my room seems to have some draw for mosquitoes. maybe it's because of what my window faces. but it's irritating. the buzz of a mosquito. my worst nightmare.
yay 5 days consecutive of running. but i know it's not enough. i need to train harder.
sc
whimsical nonsense @ 12:38 AM
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Samuel Chan
7 January 1991
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shuqun primary school
Henry Park Primary School
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)
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