Cloud Strife

2006-02-28T20:22:00.000+08:00

Lol long time no blog. Been kinda busy with DotA yeah, and the preparation of files as well. My new iPod came two days ago and I swear I'm NOT GOING TO LOSE THIS ONE. It's black and it's really nice but I don't think I can finish using all 30GB of it. I'm going to sue Apple too. iTunes screwed up my carefully prepared library by changing all of the times lol. A 4 minute plus song became 36 minutes would you believe? And not just for one song too.

PE today was okay today. Had to do a rerun because I failed last week's 2.4 lol. If I had known that we were gonna have to do a rerun I wouldn't have ran 14 minutes when I could have run 6 minutes faster lol. Walked four rounds and ran the last two rounds at almost full speed when I realised that I was going to fail again if I didn't sprint. Made it just in time lol and Kent Toh almost wanted to fail me because he could tell I was trying to pass right on the dot. Woots. 14 minutes and 20 seconds for 2.4k. If I had taken even a second more I would have had to go back to school every Monday and Wednesday morning for jog. Did two chin-ups and got permission to go play soccer when the bell rang lol.

Vaness came again today and he upgraded our training. Lol. Double weights instead of one for warmup but I think it really helps since I can tread water with head AND weights above water for maximum twelve seconds now compared to 7 or 8 last time. Still, I hope Vaness would just screw off.

2006-02-21T23:14:00.000+08:00

Lol just realised I haven't blogged for close to a week. Anyway, Ke Wei came for training today (again)and I hope Kee fires him soon lol. Sandra Tan was laughing at my crumpled, torn and soggy piece of MC because someone dripped water all over my wallet and my shirt. Went to Coronation to DotA with Zhihong, Chenfeng and Hanlin and owned them easily. Too tired to do anything else. Bye.

2006-02-15T21:33:00.000+08:00

Lol feeling really sianed out now and my eyes are freaking tired plus I don't seem to be seeing properly in one eye. Lol. Anyways, just a little update to keep this blog alive.

Had a 'date' with my coaches on Tuesday (Valentine's Day)and I nearly died dammit. Eight laps of treading water with 5kg waits continuosly (no stopping)for warm up then eight sets of stationary water treading with double weights and shoulders above the water for 15 seconds a set. After that was weights: 5kg in each hand before lifting them up to shoulder height and lowering it slowly for 3 seconds before doing some spastic drills that involved us flapping arms. Bloody hell. If Ke Wei comes every single day I'm going to quit and join library. Lol. Just joking. Went to DotA after training with Wenyuan, Sean, Clement, Chen Feng, Hanlin and Zhihong but got owned both games somehow.

Cross country today was pretty slack. My back was still hurting from Saturday so I got Zijie to replace me for competitive running while I walked the entire thing with Davin, Nicholas and Zhihong. I'm pretty sure we finished in over 40 minutes but no one made us stay back and clean up the place. Went to DotA again after x-country and owned Wenyuan this time. Lol. After they left played two games with Zhihong's mates and though they weren't that good, I got killed like millions of times. That proves the theory by everyone that more than two games of DotA each day makes you a noob. Shit. Halfway through my mum called Douglas (because I told her I was going to his house to do a project)and found out that I wasn't there but I managed to get out of it with no major incidents. Yeah. My nose is like uber blocked now and I can't see properly plus I've got double science tests tomorrow and I don't feel like studying. Bye.

2006-02-11T21:54:00.000+08:00

Just had another argument with my parents, so I'm feeling damn pissed now. They blame me all the time for not talking to them about my school life, social life, etc. But have they ever thought about how the conversation ends up? I tell them about funny stuff I encounter during school hours, but all they ever do is to question me about why I did this and why I did that, until it feels more like an interrogation than anything else. If that's the case, why the hell should I even bother? Same thing about my studies. It's my studies, so I'll take responsiblity for it myself. Who the hell needs you to hover over me and watch over my every action. I've got HP, council, polo HRP and all those type of stuff, and I'm stressed enough already as it is, and you come and tell me what to do? Just shut up and watch when the results come out. You say the way I study is ineffective, but I've never even failed a single term in my three years at school. My results may seem bad on the surface, but have you ever thought about those details that are not included in the Term Progress Reports? Why the hell should I care about term tests when they are worth about less than 2% of my final year grade? You want to talk about efficiency? I'll tell you about efficiency. Why should I waste my time on something that doesn't even significantly affect my results that really matter? I study when I need to, and I don't when it's not required. Why should I even waste my effort in studying for subjects that I have confidence in getting A's and B's for? You want better family relations? Just leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.

2006-02-08T20:41:00.000+08:00

Lol just a note: to read the post below you have to change your character encoding to Unicode. Just go to View>Character Encoding>Unicode

2006-02-08T20:22:00.000+08:00

喂，我的华文是不是很厉害？我这样做好像在写作文，挺勤劳吧？这是我自行做的，希望何老师会给我一点所谓的'ACE points'。今天没什么特异的事情发生，老师们也没什么抓我的袜子和头发，算是很幸运的啦。真想不到我的话语程度竟然这般厉害，你们服了我了吧？哪一个矮冬瓜不服我先打他妈的臭兰教。再见了，但下次可能要用印度文来打，看看我讲家乡话行不行。。。说说笑而已啦，可不要当真。

2006-02-05T17:08:00.000+08:00

Lol feeling really sian now so just decided to blog. In case Douglas wants to know, I've fallen back to my ways last year which means that I'm slacking again although there's a mathematics test tomorrow. Well, I tried studying but I can't figure out how the bloody hell general solutions will help you solve for the x-intercepts. It's kinda pointless anyway, since I'm not gonna spend the rest of my life from 18 onwards drawing curves based on equations.

Got roared at by Samuel Lim on Friday for not printing out my Tutorial 3 and submitting my PowerPoints. Lol. At least I did them. Then SLim was commenting about people in my class and drawing parallels between them and characters you see on Cantonese serials. Alexander became a guy who's the perfect husband and boyfriend on the surface but turns out to be a conman. Jiasheng became the family man and stay at home dad and SLim pointed me out as a person who rapes people for the fun of it. Lol. Went to see him after school and he said it was because I looked 'sneaky' and would do well to change my image (hint hint: pull up your socks and flatten your hair). Had FooXC after school and was doing my best to suppress laughter as FooXC said something about our 'PowerPoint having some problem and can't be opened'. Lol. Of course there's a problem: we uploaded a Word file as a PowerPoint file. IM me if you want to know how.

2006-02-02T19:48:00.000+08:00

Kinda bored so I thought I'll just update. Went to KAP yesterday and flirted with Ronald McDonald (whatever), ate 3 McFlurries and finished around half of my book. Anyway, training today wasn't too bad, since we were 'studying' in the library until 4, before we went for training. Did 2 groups of gym, then 4 groups of treading water with single weights for 30 seconds.

2006-01-25T23:39:00.000+08:00

Feeling damn jaded now and not in a mood to do anything. The stress is probably getting to me. Screw homework.

2006-01-24T22:18:00.000+08:00

Shit I just lost my Literature notes so FooXC is going to kill me. Seem to have a habit of losing things this year so I'll just make a brief list: my wallet, the class key (for half an hour), my phone (I'm using my dad's crappy old phone now which doesn't work half of the time), my Zen Micro (which I left somewhere in J8 2 days after I got it). Shit shit shit can't seem to think coherently or blog in complete sentences anymore. Soon I'll descend into leet speak and the readability of this will go down.

Anyway, gotta go still got loads of work to do and try not to text me or anything since I've already received tons of angry messages from teachers and friends on why I haven't been replying to their messages. I don't like my dad's phone.

2006-01-23T17:18:00.000+08:00

Been really really busy lately so I just haven't found the time to blog. Sec 3 life is like so screwed up you don't even have time to take a breath and rest. Guess what? Even I'm getting stressed. We have like loads of presentations and projects to do I can't even keep track of what I have to do. Loads of work to do and no time to rest and so my brain isn't working properly half of the time.

About the only thing I enjoy about school nowadays is Maths lesson. While my Maths sucks, I do have lots of fun saying stupid and random stuff in weird times during Maths, something about hamsters and little birds and the number 27 (Xia Yang's register number). Ohterwise, school is just an endless stream of rushing from place to place and seeing teachers for stuff only they can understand.

Shan't blog anymore. I'm not in a good mood and I have to do my HRP proposal anyway.

2006-01-17T16:26:00.000+08:00

Haven't been blogging lately, since I haven't been in the mood. Yeah. Anyway, didn't go to school today because I got a migraine(most probably caused by Zhuo Yan slamming the door into my face yesterday) and slept till nine. Played FFTA for the rest of the day, then watched a bit of TV. I expect I'll have to do some work, like ACE, or the many PowerPoint presentations, because I don't think I'll have time to do it since Sec 3 life is so busy. I'm already feeling a bit stressed and sometimes I wish I hadn't taken Samuel Lim's class. He makes us do like two or three essays a week. Escaped Vaness' 500 squats today, but I think I'll have to do it on Thursday. Damn.

2006-01-12T21:55:00.000+08:00

Yeah. It was freaking cold today. Really freaking cold. Probably because it had rained for a whole day. Anyway, like I said, it was freaking cold to the extreme, and you could probably hear me shivering from halfway across the pool. Call me useless or anything, but I don't have the thick layer of blubber that Nicholas is blessed with.

Vaness came today. He's our new assistant coach and although his real name is not Vaness, you'll just have to bear with me a while because I forgot his real name. Something like Ke Wei or Wei Ke or whatever la. His surname is Wu by the way. I'd bet he was sent over by Outram to make us lose, because there is absolutely no way we're going to win with his tactics. He like, plans scripted games. Ming Chong told me about the time where the keeper passed to the left flank and Vaness stopped the game because he gave specific instructions to pass only to the right flank. So next time we're playing the 'C' boys, we'll just camp at the left flank and see what happens to them.

Too tired to blog about anything else, so I'll just stop here. Council nominations are up, so you guys know who to nominate, right?

2006-01-11T21:07:00.000+08:00

Yeah, just finished dinner so I decided to blog. Not a good day for me though, I got told off by Jeffrey for my hair today and got caught thrice by Goh Yan Yih, Giam and Jeffrey for my socks, so I was forced to go off after council GM to get my hair cut. It's now disgustingly short and the back of my head feels strangely naked, so I hope my hair grows back soon.

Anyway, I'll be seeing my beloved Zhong Sheng Geng tomorrow for training for the first time in weeks, so let's all hope that we won't get scammed again. Damn. Just saw Kee's dog today on the main driveway and he actually told me to tuck in my shirt. Then I was like "Go to hell and go steal people's underwear and goggles and stop bugging me". Not that I actually said it, of course, but you get the point. Uncle Tan is an asshole.

Don't want to blog too much today, since the field trip was nothing special. All we did was go to Orchard and slack and I spent loads of money today plus I have to pay Jevon the 20 bucks for class fund. Damn. I'm gonna have to remind myself to wear Jeffrey approved stockings to school tomorrow, because I have to unban my account and see him about my hair. Shit.

2006-01-07T20:32:00.000+08:00

Hey. Been kinda busy these few days because contrary to what you think, I've been doing my homework. I don't expect it to last though, just trying to do my best to keep this habit for as long as possible and hope it sticks. If you have been in the same class as me for the last two years, you'll probably know that my first and fourth terms are the best, because I do my homework in the first term, but not in the second and third. So when the fourth term starts, my studies are like so screwed that my parents supervise each and every thing I do so I have no choice but to study.

Anyway, Samuel Lim and Chew Tyng Yong just gave us scary looking piles of notes to read. Plus we have to do an essay for Samuel Lim which is to be discussed next lesson. So I have to slog through stacks of history and chemistry notes over two days. History should be okay for me, since I didn't read a single thing Giam gave last year and still did exceptionally well in class discussions, but Chemistry is a real problem because my maths and science isn't so good.

My cbox is giving me problems again. Only my own cbox because weird enough, I can load everyone else's except for my own. Damn. Finally my parents are getting smart and giving me an incentive to do well in my studies. They're saying that they'll get me a new phone(long overdue) if I do well for my studies. I'm considering negotiating for a poddy because my contract expires next year anyway, but I really want to get the Razr because it looks so cool and my stupid 256mb music player can still be used.

Anyway, I've already been grounded until July, which effectively means that I can't go out at all during the June holidays because I lost a wallet. Yeah. My mum's real picky about losing stuff and all. Hopefully if I do well in the first term I can convince her to reduce my 'sentence' to just the one week holidays which won't matter much anyway because I'll have so much stuff on I can always sneak a few hours outside with my friends.

2006-01-03T21:31:00.000+08:00

Just decided to blog now since I'm like so bloody bored. Like everyone else, it's about school today, since there doesn't seem to be anything else worth blogging about. For the sake of those who don't know, I'm in 3L and the fat(some say cute) Joyce Lim is my form teacher.

First things first, Joyce Lim is like damn long-winded. We took almost 2 and a half hours to finish electing class management comi-whatever and unfortunately for me and the class, I was voted in for fag secretary. Then after, Joyce Lim asked me to do the duty rosters and naturally I had to type my own name in, then in the middle of it she was questioning the 'hip' spelling of my name(I spelled it as Chingto and she went "Oh, shouldn't there be a space? But then I guess like this more hip la") and the spelling of my words(I shortened 'please' to 'plz' and she told me off along with Yujie who insisted that it should be spelled as 'pls'). Anyway, went for recess after and ate with the old 2I'05 people along with Tag. Went for an uber boring consortium assembly tomorrow and there should be another one tomorrow so at least there are no lessons.

Anyway, I'm sitting next to Rui Yi now and in plain sight of the teacher's table so no more text messaging in class for me. Went to the driving range after school for a bit and practised a bit on my swing which was not too bad considering that I haven't touched my clubs for over a year. There was this noob at the driving range who was like, damn... ...noobish. Anyway, he was swinging then his club went sailing from his hands and nearly hit the guy two tee boxes away from me. Then I was like laughing like shit and his mum went up to the guy and retrieved the club and apologised like a hundred million times. Oh yeah, the evil me aimed at the black people picking up balls on the range and I hit their pink and green umbrella. Alright.

Anyway, went over to my neighbour's house for dinner and he got a picture of what he called 'the classic Chingto pose' which showed me asleep on his sofa in my windbreaker with my earphones on. Then I was like 'whatever la'. Anyway I don't think I have anything left to blog about so I'll just sign off here.

2006-01-02T15:29:00.000+08:00

Shit, now I'm really pissed. As most of you know, I was banned from using the computer until today, then just when I started a game of DotA, the bloody thing crashed and now I have sneak a few minutes on my dad's laptop. The worst thing about this is that if my dad catches me on his laptop then I'm dead. Like it was my fault that the desktop broke when I haven't been using it for close to a week and he has been doing all sorts of weird stuff to it.

2006-01-02T09:40:00.000+08:00

Yeah, finally got my cbox fixed, so if you want me to relink you, you can now do it on the taggy. Turned out it was the privacy service thingy and I had to resort to my old tricks to get the password to disable it since my dad miraculously used something else rather than his customary one.

Anyway, went out on Saturday with Qi Han and Douglas to watch Kong. As expected, I turned up in my windbreaker(Adidas), shirt(Adidas), berms(Adidas), bag(Adidas) and mp3(unfortunately, iRiver, since I lost my Zen like, 2 days after I got it). Kong was predictably all about CGI and special effects and likewise for such movies, the story sucked. Seriously. I plugged on my mp3 with an hour left to go and went to sleep and woke up halfway to see ancient biplanes attacking a giant gorilla. Whatever. Went home after another ice cream(I ate a total of 3 that night and 9 the entire day, excluding 2 mango smoothies that my parents paid for) and promptly collapsed on the bed in anticipation of car washing the next day.

I needn't have bothered. The next day, I woke up at 11, ate breakfast, did all the whatever nots people usually do and went to wash the car. And just after I washed the car, my dad went out to Bugis. And it just had to rain. So you see, I wasted an hour's worth of effort washing the car and now I have to wash it today again but I don't think my mum will pay me for this time's work. Damn.

2005-12-31T16:27:00.000+08:00

Yeah, so I made a new blog because I was kinda getting tired of my old one. There seems to some kinda problem with my cbox though, because my browser can't load it. It's probably because of some stupid antivirus program my dad installed because it totally screwed up my internet and he just simply refuses to remove it.

Anyway, I'll try my best to fix the cbox problem so I can reply to tags made, but otherwise, you guys will have to forgive me if I don't answer. Relink me on your own blogs, but you should probably do it on MSN, because, like I said, my browser can't load my cbox.

So, more about council dinner yesterday. It wasn't the sombre affair you'd expect it to be, us being councillors at all. Any illusion the teachers might have about us councillors being the 'definitive Hwa Chong gentlemen' is total crap and any of the seniors can attest to it because I was saying 'lanjiao' every minute and Mark was doing the same thing with 'wank'. Yeah. So after registration Mark, Terence and I went up to the front of the roon to do the famous Mr Bean dance and we soon got most of the councillors from our level to do the same which was really cool. Then we went for dinner after and after prize giving there was this dance which was like totally awesome. We pratically bonded every senior we saw and Jack Huang was like wearig this obscene g-string and we were like going 'oh shit'. Yeah, so yesterday was totally wild and we all had lots of fun. Gave Augustine a lift home before going home to collapse on the bed.

Orientation'06 is finally over, and Group 15 totally pawned the other groups' heads, considering that they were only there for a day and I didn't have much time to teach them cheers properly or anything. Rock on, Group 15. I'm in 3L'06, with Rui Yi, Jevon, Yu Jie, Darrell Leong and quite a few other good friends, so I expect we'll have lots of fun and make all the teachers hate 3L like they hated 2I last year. Alright. Gotta go now, because I'm not supposed to be on the computer until Monday and if my dad catches me that'll be the end. Poor Chingto. Ciao.