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Sunday, October 02, 2005
this is gonna be a long post. so dun say i didn't warn you.
now did i just warn you that it was gonna be long?
okay gonna blog half english half chinese. so plz change to unicode if u want to see chinese characters instead of dunno wad half japanese half korean half indian characters. now wait that's 150%... okay nvm.
哈哈哈哈... okay. 今天还真是累... 星期六还得六点起床... 真是的...
ya darn had to reach barker at a ridiculously early timing. well at least it was in the hope that there would be an interesting talk waiting for us. 哈哈 interesting? we'll see.
so ya signed in but due to the large amounts of sji bowlers present... it was a lil troublesome... but still quite okay lar. haha haven't seen mi swl partner for months.
okay so it finally started after a short delay... with ng eng chin n jessie phua making short n consized speeches. jessie phua was damn bhb lar. 受不了... 真是自傲!!!
then came the blardy sid allen and his olympics dreams and bowling revolution speech. darn it took double the time stipulated and he only realised when he finally took a look at his watch when he was 25 mins overdue. but surprisingly din fall zzzZZZ.
break break break. gawd have more breaks!!! okay so ya came back had stupid lane talks blah blah and some mental talk which din relli go in. den came brad angelo. ahaha wad a joke.
now Mr. Angelo is a PBA bowler. n he comes up and tells everibody that his bowling style is wrong... wad dun learn from him... wad crap. crap crap. ahaha but quite ridiculously farnie.
rick benoit also came up and i wanted to pop him a qn: "u seem to share the same surname as a WWE wrestler... is there any connection inbetween?"... but of course that was a dumb qn and to save mi face i guess it was smarter not to say it.
Q&A was rather okay lar. last part... new hui fen went up: "wad do you think about spinners?"... ahaha dat was freaking interesting k. well at least im interested. SPINNERS RAWK!!! RAWK RAWK!!!
so dat sums up mi veri brief outline of the seminar in the morning. trust me that was supposed to be brief.
went tong's house and played pool and lost terribly. wanted to sleep but wif one raelene tang screaming at her top of her voice: "WHY IS Zinc 2+ and 3+???? which one issit????"... how to? she asked a whole load of other dumb qns too lyk: "WHY IS SO4 2-?" .... kp how to answer sia.
walked to tanglin and ate before entering school LATE. but then everione was late too so ahaha no one gave a freaking shit. tried to sleep in class but then again failed. again. yea its not tt easy to slp u know.
almost had a terrible headache but sumhow it went away... possibly the airconditioning of the hall soothened it.
the events that followed will forever be carved in the centre of my mind in ways more than one.
so sing sing then pray. usual right? nxt was parent's opening of the letter we wrote to them. okay i hafta admit got tears well up in my eyes... a little lar. coz thinking through the content which i wrote and suddenly it was yah. shant elaborate.
den lui's speech was all so usual and planned. WOW i got mentioned. ahaha "Wong Yew Liang"... but no lar credit relli goes to the entire team. shall elaborate on this later.
sing sing again... and guess wad... the guest of honour was next.
u know who he is? "Mr Lee Tai Yang"... yes yer thinking wad im thinking. its 太阳... ahahaha laugh... well know who he is? just admit it... you dont. but dun worry. i don't too.
but he's great. relli he is. coz our Mr. 太阳 soon embarked on a journey no one has ever gone before. which is to break mr. Lui's record ten times over, and set a new record for longest speech ever made in the history of this school - 1 hr in excess!
yup you r not blind. yer eyes are working in perfect order. one hour! that's 60 mins! that's 3600 seconds!!! gawd he think he making national day rally ar.
dun think one hour is short just coz the number one is a small number... its damn freaking long.
his start was pretty normal. but soon it developed into a verbal autobiography of his life. (in sji that is)... started talking bout his first day in school and that itself took bout 5 - 10 mins. soon started bout his first term and that took half an hour. second term was a lil shorter but ran longer than 10 mins.
u think he had enuff? one thing to note - Mr. 太阳 studied for three years in sji!!!
one extract of his speech:
"For my dinner... i used to go to this place where they sold the cheapest dinner! at 70 cents! you could have a full plate stuff on it with a choice of either chicken or char siew! do you all know wad is char siew?"
"For my lunch... i used to go to this place near my school where they sold the chepest lunch! at 50 cents! but i had to rush as usually by the time i reached the place it was already starting to close down and the cleaners would then be spraying water all around mi while i was eating."
"For my breakfast..." (the audience breaks out into a intriguing and half frustrated half laughing lyk crazy sign of protest)
ya so u think he decided to stop? no. he just changed the damn topic.
one more extract:
(after bout 50 mins)
"So that was 1956. but due to time constraints i will not go into the details of 57"
if at that point u din feel lyk whacking the man and leaving a scar on his face for life... well you have great patience my friend.
but Mr. 太阳 got the loudest applause of the night when he finally decided to stop. that i wonder why.
and with that everione finally could say that they'd survive hell on earth.
cerificates soon and ya got mi certs and stuff... boring lar.
wad was interesting was after that. calvin lim zhi yang, a class mate since sec 1.
sportsman of the year. (or issit sportsboy?)... ahaha. okay lar shall be good and dedicate a little column to him
i think many need a little bit of background on him.
firstly. wads the big deal?
okay a national sailor since a tender age, he has had success on both the national and the international scene in the byte class.
His major breakthrough came when he represented singapore in the Byte CII Euro Cup in Lake Iseo, Italy in June 2004. Having put the title away by the second last race, he didn't even have to sail in the last race... "but will do so which says a lot for the attitude of the Singapore sailors and their Hungarian Coach Andras." - quoted from scuttlebutteurope.com
He then went on to compete in the World Byte Championships in Ontario Canada. "The 2004 Byte World Championship was the biggest as well as the most competitive championship ever and it seems appropriate that all was decided on the last day of racing. The final three races were enough for Calvin Zhi Yang Lim of Singapore to take over the lead and become the 2004 Byte World Champion and Byte World Youth Champion. Calvin's consistency throughout the event was truly remarkable. He won the Qualifying Series and scored no lower than ninth in the Gold Fleet." - quoted from asianyachting.com
in the 2004 Byte Class Awards, the award of Male Sailor of the Year went to you know who. ya so i think i should put a full stop here coz its starting to sound a little quirky.
well actually all that information came from an easy web search. ahaha many might think why i just did all that... well just a little tribute to a classmate of mine for 4 years now, and ya hopefully we'll see you in the olympics.
u know when alfred nathan said that, everibody just laughed. wonder if that signifies anithing.
and then ahaha came quite a hilarious moment. they were presenting the trophy and it was quite a silent moment... guess no one thought of saying anithing and it was a lil awkward in a sense... so i just blurted out: "wah so zai ar" and everione turned and the attention shifted from mr. dimples to mi... ahaha fun fun must do it again sometime.
moving on... gave out other awards which i dun relli have much comments over.
of coz how can we not have a class dinner... so went to p.s. swensens... and wasted quite some time intially coz of a lack of tables for 25 pple... ahaha... well tt's quite expected aniwae.
so reached home onli at midnight... oh ya happy birthday cindy! and to all mi five friends too who so nicely have their birthday on children's day.
so its graduation. graduated! wow. fast but yet not so fast. gd but yet not so bad. or izzit the other way round. ohwell u decide.
its been quite an enriching four yrs lar i must admit. 208/03! din we just rawk the sports scene or wad. inter class champs!!! zai kia. and farmer fong and everithing else just make those times memorable.
406/05!! another class which simply rawks the sports scene. captains in almost everithing! ahaha... damn farnie. hmmm been quite lucky to have been in sports' classes for all mi four years of sji. well there are definitely super hilarious and hard to forget moments and im sure i'll never forget them.
bowlers! dun we just rawk or wad. okay bhb. but then ahaha we shan't hide the truth! since there r no golds this yr in the bdiv, then that makes us the most successful sport in the b division in sji!!! ahaha cool bo. all those times we almost dethroned acsi who just din wanna buldge (credit given to them too)... esp. stupid darn secondary schools league which was deservedly sji's. but all those times... i relli will miss them badly. well some of us are going to the same jc, and hopefully we can bring the same spirit wif us over there, which would then give us another chance to dethrone acsi. ahaha. well i dun think i can finish saying everithing in one para... but ya i think most of u get wad im tryin to say and ya i cant wait for milo!!!!
friends made in sji, especially close ones have been hard to come. glad to have spent such great experiences with each and everione and it's been a great journey.
almost at the end. almost. just feel it! right in the grasp of your palm. u either reach out hard enuff now and grab it, or...
lose it forever.
这一次还有谁... 能够陪在身边不会累... 让我唯一的梦想... 不会再一次轻易破碎... 不会后悔... 做好准备... 只有前近没有后退...
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