After As, no more working Mio! It's time for CUTE Yui, who's eating some biscuit or something! Whoo! Which totally describes what I hope to do in the next 1 month plus! (: And there's a heart-shaped hair pin thingy which may spell good luck for my love aspirations HOHOHO!! :D

Go Yui!! So cuute!

Uhh, I guess feeling burnt out from going out too much after As deserves at least a one-sentence mention, so here it is.

Frisbee is so FUN! :D Besides going back to training since a loooong way back, trashing OAC juniors was kinda fun too (albeit feeling slightly guilty), Winter League today was nice/awesome too! Not only because I scored 4 times (hehe xD), but also because our team won!!! Yay! (:

I'm trying out new/revolutionary (for me) things for prom. ._. But seeing people just ponning got me thinking, like whether there's a point or if clemmy's right in that it's overrated. =/ Maaan.. sucks, but I guess i'll just look forward to enjoying myself tomorrow night (:

Awana trip coming! :D But somehow I'm not looking forward to it as much as say, 1 month ago. Rawr! But I suppose I'm still kinda excited, should be fun! xD

All right, 2 months to enlistment. FUN and PURPOSE all the way! No regrets, no looking back!

Lol after like 3-4 weeks the guy finally sent me the pics. No complaints though! (:




Yay! :D

Seeing as the top 6 entries on my Friends Page are all about As (I'm counting Rien's declaration of zero mugging today), I shall buckle the trend by proclaiming that...

I ROCK! <3

Oh, and I love you all! (:

and Mio is still DAMN cute! <3

This post is just to show off my new userpic, thanks to the website that dreamsofmishra  recommended. It's cute and nice rite? First off, it's MIO, and anything Mio is just, well, beautiful and awesome. Plus she's working, which totally reflects what the whole j2 batch is doing (or is supposed to be doing, unless your name is LU YONG QUAN or GAN ZI KANG or any such people D: )

On the other hand, SHE LOOKS SO CUUUUTE OMG XD :D (: ^^ *smile*

Unlike limitedcake   I can't come up with witty titles, so I had to settle for the boring and mundane. Anyway, for a recount of what happened, it would be better to head over to YQ's blog, and well, he put it well. (:

Gaiman was damn funny, and so engaging. It was totally worth the queuing in the sun to get tickets. Then we had to queue 4 hours in the sun till our feet were sore for an autograph. But it was still worth it! In the end I had to choose one book only, and I chose Fables and Reflections, because, well, I really like the stories in there. :D It was nice being in his presence again, second time in three days, but this time felt less happy. Either because this is the second time in such a short period of time, or because his attention was divided among less people on Friday. In any case, many emotions were flowing through, and I lack the linguistic ability to really describe properly, so...

Also today, I wore my procrastinators t-shirt, and more people commented on it than all my previous outings with it combined. Lol. Just as I entered the MRT, a lady said "Procrastinators, leaders of tomorrow? I wish!", and proceeded to ask me where I got my t-shirt. Then I met the photographer dude who helped me take my picture in the airport, and just to be safe, I asked him whether he has lost my email address or anything, and to explain why he has not emailed me the pic yet, he said something to the effect of "because I'm a leader of tomorrow" lol. And then Neil Gaiman, just as he finished autographing my book, commented "Love your t-shirt!" !!! :D Haha, cool right?

But I didn't get to say any witty lines to him or anything, so kinda regret it.. sigh. Anyway, all this ends today, so it's back to full-time mugging tomorrow. Big sigh. 

 WHOO yesterday was cool and awesome. Went to the airport at 10+pm to receive Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. Oh god I'm so glad I didn't go in the morning (I was mistaken for a period of time that the flight arrives in the morning), but I still had to wait a nail-biting nerve-wracking 30min at the airport. Ok, I guess it sounds quite lame, but I was really damn excited and nervous, and I couldn't sit still, and kept pacing around. ><"

But the wait was all worth it! Some girl screamed when he came out LOL. And all in all (including the Singapore Writers Festival people) there were only like 10+ in the welcoming/reception committee, so we kinda had a cozy, drawn-out autograph/photo-taking session. It's so cool how he takes the effort to personalise/do extra stuff for the book signings, instead of just autographing it and be done with it. Like he drew Morpheus on this guy's Absolute Sandman, he drew a grave and wrote the person's name on it for the Graveyard Book, and he drew a star for my Stardust! :D



Then I got some guy (I think he's one of the SWF volunteers) to help me take a picture with him and email to me. Amanda Palmer joined in the picture too, and I was just like in between them. Totally cool! (: Then all the fans got together for a group picture taken by Amanda Palmer, which she uploaded onto her Twitter, but it's blurry like hell and I know which blurred-face I am but no one else can tell for sure. Haha.

Then before he left I got him to sign on my arm, which was an action of retardedness, but I had nothing good for him to sign. Oh well. Looking forward to tomorrow's session and book-signing!!

Ok guys, I need help.

Staff of Feywild (1handed): 2 INT, 5HP, 6 ATT
Sly Deceiver Totem (not sure how many hands): 2 DEX, 5 ATT, 15 HP
Axe of the Dwarvish Lords (2handed): 4 CON, 4 CHA, 8 ATT, 6 vs giants
Armor of Asmodeus: 3 CHA, 10 AC

I would think the Axe is the best? But it needs 2 hands, so... 
Thanks in advance! (:

 Argh I have this deep sense of loss again. Omg, Gurren Lagann has to be one of the most awesomest anime I've ever watched. It is just.. so.. EPIC. It gives me hope, inspiration, belief.. 

It succeeds where many other mecha/shonen anime have failed, it surpasses what many other anime have succeeded in... Even though its primarily a mecha anime, there's so much more than fighting, and there are many emotional/sentimental scenes as well.

Simon's drill is the drill that will pierce through the heavens...

And my soul will propel me onwards, kicking reason to the curb, making ways with my hands, drilling through obstacles, nothing will stand in my way. Who do you think I am?

ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER! :D

Today I did something that I think required some bit of bravery, retardedness, and shamelessness. Haha. While Linus, Hiippy and I were making our way to Plaza Singapura, we saw some NY girls wearing tshirts that said "Free Hugs". (actually we already noticed them at the NY bus stop) But anyway, on the bus, we were contemplating whether they really meant what they were wearing, or whether it was just for some lame stuff. I was somewhat thinking to myself that they most likely would not give free hugs, but it'd be quite cool if they really did. However, there's only one real way to find out. So after we got off the bus, I mustered enough courage (thanks in part to some MMT post) to go up, and here's how it went:

*taps shoulder* "hey, do you really mean what your tshirt says?"
"no" *gives weird expression* (ok it was too fast for me to see, i dun know if its shock, anger, disgust or wdv)
"lol! i knew it!"

Then Linus and Hiippy were totally shocked that I dared to do that. Haha. But anyway, my motivation to do that wasn't because I wanted some free hug from some stranger, but like I mentioned above, it's like some social experiment thingy. I mean, you wear a tshirt saying "free hugs", you're more or less saying "hey! I'm giving out free hugs!", no? But then again, given the general Singaporean mentality... Haha. Or maybe their (or at least her) mentality was "This is Singapore, no one is going to dare and come ask me for free hugs!". Haha. I'm meng! :D 

I think as a society maybe we should be more open, friendlier, etc. etc.?

Or maybe I just wasn't hot enough so that's why she didn't want to give me a hug. ): Haha.  :D

Went to a Chinese sensei just now to have my leg treated. Have been feeling a niggling pain in my hip for quite some time now, and my family was kinda talking about injuries during breakfast so I brought it up, and my mom took me to a sensei in the afternoon. Recommended by like almost all my aunts and uncles, but it's my first time getting treated for sports injuries. It's quite cool, actually.

Apparently my injury has something to do with the nerve there or something. The doctor asked me to lie down and pulled my legs and stuffs, and I heard my spine and legs going *crack* and it felt quite good. Then she acupunctured my butt and put those high pressure suction cups. The acupuncture was quite cool... cos she was poking my butt and I felt some tingling-like sensation in my foot! o.O It's quite amazing how Chinese have developed these kinds of medicine. My butt's still sore from the suction cup thingy though. -.- But the pain in my hip has kinda gone so it's really quite shuang. Hope the pain doesn't come back.

In another scene, my emo-wave is still kinda going on. ><" Siiiiiigh. 

Just now, I read a book.
As I recall, it was a real good book
...
LOL

Um, anyway, yea it was a good book. Not so much that it was a book flowing with literary genius and deep symbolism and stuffs, but I could really identify with the protagonist in the book. Like really connect with him, feel what he's feeling (most of it anyway), understand his thoughts. It was like I could see parts of myself in him, and parts of him in myself. I guess I have never really felt like this before, and it really is a new experience, where (almost) every line and every page forces you to reflect/reminiscent/emo. I feel touched. And I think eventually the book will help me to get in touch with things and settle my .. er... emotions. Hopefully.

I guess I've just never felt this way before la. Like some books you go "wah, that's damn awesome/cool.. I wish I could try" (a la Artemis Fowl, Alex Rider, etc.), some books you go "wonder what it's like to be in that situation/really feel that" (like some fantasy/romance book?), some books don't leave you with time to think (action/thrillers, though Harry Potter might fit in here as well), and many others. This book, well, I partly feel like I'm reliving my memories, I partly look at my memories with new insights/through new angles, I partly am in the book myself (not a very large part though).

In any case, I felt a strong connection with what the character's going through, and at the end of the book, he got through it, so why can't I too? (: 

As usual, my posts on events come a few days after the event itself, but this doesn't mean that I value the events any less or feel any less about the events. Just that I think I need some time to marshall my thoughts. 

Anyway, we got Champions of the Super Pool, which in other words, mean Third place. In case you are wondering why "Champions of the Super Pool" translates to third placing, let me tell you that "Super Pool" is a overglorified term for "Loser Pool" (ie the pool for the non-finalists). Elated, of course I was. After all, it is our very first Ultimate Frisbee (one in many to come hopefully :D) medal, our very first top-three finish, the culmination of months of arduous and persistent training, the result of our combined and synergised efforts. However, I must admit that this was the least that was expected of us (or rather what I expected of us, and I belief many share similar sentiments). We went into this competition knowing that we are at least third best, and the challenge was getting into the top two places, which sadly, we did not manange to do. However, this does not make our achievement any less worthy of celebration, and I am still extremely satisfied and happy at such a fitting conclusion to the end of our JC Frisbee days.

In any case, our standard is not that far from the finalists (RJ and ACJC). Compared to last year, we have improved by vast leaps and bounds. Measuring the improvement of the 3 schools, I have no hesitation in saying that our team improved the most from last year's showing. I still recall vividly how the Hammers team was hammered by AC team C and only managed to score 1 point against RJ team A. While the Screws fared better, it could be because their pool was easier =P.

In any case, we now have the ability to make games against us difficult and not so easy for our opponents to score. After all, we only lost to RJ Team A by 1 point, and if not for the time cap, who knows what might have happened? We were trailing 1-5, and battled back to 4-6 before scoring the final point and having to end the match because time was up. Given our momentum and spirit, well, I would really fancy our chances of equalising and even taking the lead. But in any case, I guess we did show rather fierce determination and indomitable spirit, showing them that we're no pushovers. For the AC match, the score difference was greater, and while it may be biased to say that the scoreline did not do us justice, we did put up a hard fight and showed great team cohesiveness, and I guess that's all that matters at the end of the day. Things got rather emotional during the AC match and I kinda teared a bit, but thankfully no one saw ><". 

Anyway, losing to AC in the semi-finals placed us in the loser (i mean super) pool and after winning two more matches (against HCI Team B and RJ Team B), we got third! (: Before Frisbee, I have never really trained and played in a team sport before, and I'm really glad for the various trainings and all my time in frisbee where I learnt many things. Though I may not be the most committed or skilful of players, I'm glad that the team has given me a chance to be in the team with them. (:

Thank you very much, everyone in Team A, everyone in HCult, and everyone who is/was a part of HCult (including Mr. Yeong, of course). Thinking back upon Saturday, memories of many beautiful plays and various epic moments flash through my mind, and trying to pick out the best one or even a few best ones is like trying to say which cloud is the most beautiful in the sky. Thus, I shall not attempt to do any such thing (I assure you this is not due to my laziness or any such thing), and instead enjoy the memories of the 5th Inter JC as a collective whole, from our training months ago to Saturday. 

Looking back, my frisbee journey through JC has been a thoroughly enjoyable and beneficial one. All of us have grown together with the club. From last April, when the club was just started and numbered less than 30, and we were still trying to throw a proper forehand for more than 5 meters, to this year when intake was about 50, and where we have imba people throwing all manner of throws. Of course, I wish to continue playing Frisbee even after JC, beacuse I think it's a sport that I really love. 

The very first medal that HCult has won; that is the legacy that our batch (the 2nd batch of HCult players) leave behind. I hope we have made our seniors proud, and that our juniors will continue to improve upon what we have achieved, and make us proud in turn.

HCult Disc in! Frisbee Flying High! :D

 Um.. it's tmrw! Last year's memories are still fresh in my mind... feeling totally excited, anticipation, getting thrashed but still having fun. It's the culmination of about 1 year + of hard work and training. Of countless times playing till we cant see the disc, much less see sijie and like everyone else. I find it hard to express my jumbled/mixed feelings, so I shall do so through lyrics from various songs. Though they may not directly reflect my true thoughts, they should be close enough, and you guys can treat it as a song quiz too! :D

1. "Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be alright"

2. "Ready set go it's time to run
The sky is changing we are one
Together we can make it while the world is crashing down"

3. "We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end"

4. "Apart from the wandering pack
In this brief flight of time we reach
For the ones, whoever dare"

Lol this reminds me of skying. Must sky tmrw!

Ok that's all I guess. Haiz. Must go rest/sleep early. ><"

Jiayou, HCult! :D

Lol more mugging. I think i'll underperform for BT2.. haiz.. I really wouldn't be surprised, and I would more than deserve it, given the amount of effort I put in. Sigh. Ok let's go through it really quickly/shortly. GP essay should be quite ok, if not for the fact that I used the probably-overused example of MJ in my "can music change the world" essay. Compre nothing much, same same as usual. Econs was quite screwed.. didn't study enough. Chem.. hmm.. quite a number of stupid and careless mistakes, hoping for paper 1 and 2 to save me. Maths.. might be able to get an A.. depeding on how well i answered the questions that i did. Physics.. lol screwed. 83% for paper 1 and 2 to save me! ><"

( LJ cut to save space on your friendspage )
On a totally separate note, I've gotten a new dpic thanks to tnepres and her newly created LJ account, which was created partly thanks to me! Welcome to LJ! (: Anyway, isn't she (the dpic, not tnepres !) so cute? The cute wink, cheeky twitch of the mouth and funky hair. Haha. She's sandara of 2NE1 which is this uh.. girl group from Korea. Too bad normally her hair is like 100x more funky than this, which really crosses the line from "cool" to "guailan". Sad. Lol. But anyway I really like this pic! Tifa is still hot and <3 but I guess it's time for a change. (:

Hmm.. sometimes when I finish a good book/anime/manga I will somehow feel a great sense of loss. It's like I don't want the story to end, I want the story to go on and on, neverending, so I don't have to stop seeing the characters. But as Gaiman says in Sandman Vol. 1 Preludes and Nocturnes, it's about knowing when to end your story, if not it'll end in death. Hmmm...

Somehow.. the characters become like a friend/companion to me, journeying with me through their adventures, sharing their lives with me, helping me go through parts of my life as well. Sigh. But of course, all good things must come to an end, and it's with a sad heart that I bid farewell to Yui's weirdness and lovability, Mio's shyness and beauty, Ritsu's energy and bounciness, Mugi's childishness and maturity, Azusa's cuteness and coolness. Bye... ):

I think they have really inspired me to really go and start a band or something. It seems really fun! ^^

On another note, I'm welcoming back Haruhi and her gang.. looking forward to it! (:

Yay I got 2270. And that's from doing 1.5 practice papers. :D Or maybe I'm just lucky. (: Hmm.. I guess I don't really deserve it.. but oh wells... full marks for math leh! ^^

Ok.. back to blocks ><" 

 Somehow it seems quite surreal: a few months of hard work will culminate and end tomorrow. It's hard and potentially time-consuming (sorry, I'm just too lazy) to list all the work/challenges/hardships we have gone through, but I guess it was really fun and hopefully will all be worth it. 

Yesterday, emotions threatened to overspill again, and it was much harder to keep them in check and force myself to focus on Bike Hike. I guess I'm really quite sick and tired of pushing all my emotions to one corner of my brain and focus on what's happening, but I guess all of us need to do this when more pressing matters arise. After all, it really is not good to wallow in one's grief ><". Apoolgies to Fern, Debbie and Andy. 

On a happier/more cheerful note, I really had fun staying back till 11:30pm at Tiong Bahru CC with most of the rest of the batch (and alex working our asses off for Bike Hike (call us last minute if you will, but every event is like that), with our super efficient assembly lines and laming around listening to the emcees' script. XD

Today, Bike Hike will start, and tomorrow, it will end. I hope that nothing bad happens in between, and that we will be able to have a successful Bike Hike, that we can give the participants a Bike Hike that they enjoy, that we will be satisfied with ourselves at the end of the day (the next day, rather).  (:

Let's go, 34th! <3

Ok, it's finally the end of the last recce, and Project Speedway: Velocity Redesigned beckons next week. The culmination of our hard work for about 3 months....

Recce itself was... quite okay.. but somehow less fun than last week (AND NO ITS NOT BECAUSE CERTAIN PERSONS ARE NOT IN MY GROUP -.-) ... Um.. treated 1 wound and fixed 4 bike chains lol. Jas, Linette, Rachel, Jia Xi and Lu Qiang. Quite okay la.. other than the fact that like I'm the only guy, but they did really well and no major accidents happened. Other than when a speeding car almost crashed into Rachel and Lu Qiang as they were crashing together in the middle of the whole damn road. -.-  

Was really quite tired.. almost fell asleep a few times before launching into selfsinging or singing with Jia Xi, which then woke me up sufficiently to continue the trip. Oh, other than the time when I microslept for like 0.5 or 1 second, and I jerked my bike which Linette saw immediately, and sternly reminded me not to sleep. Then she refused to entertain me after that. How to stay awake? Lucky I had enough sense to start singing to myself so all's cool. :D

C'mon guys, jiayou for one more week! :D <3Whoa!

People usually use the phrase "I gave my sweat, blood and tears" to express the gargantuan amount of hardwork/effort they have put towards an endeavour, usually in the figurative sense. To describe yesterday, I can use that phrase literally. Lol. A lot of sweat, quite a bit of blood, and a few drops of tears. ><"

Argh! We were 30s or less away from our very first HCult medal, and we blew it. But I guess it's not that that really counts. I must say that I truly enjoyed playing in Team 1, and I wouldn't have wanted to play in any other team (no offence to the rest :P). There were times when we played with telepathic-like understanding, and there were times when the flow of our play was - I wouldn't use perfect, but - quite beautiful. Truly, every member of our team was involved in every game that we played. Though not everyone scored, we all contributed much to the team and it wouldn't have been the same without any of us: (in no particular order)

Marcus - Haha. What can I say? You put in like dunno how many % effort la. Thanks for captaining the team well, and I hope we didn't disappoint you too much. ><" 

Xinmei - Thanks for the calm and cool handling! And I especially remember the awesome cup-breaking hammer! XD Nice one!

Cynthia - You really made some good cuts and nice catches! (: And a score from a throw that was particularly difficult to catch (courtesy of sijie XP) 

Zhiyang - Though somehow you tend to be overlooked, you still played great yesterday! (: Thanks for the nice handling too! And I particularly remember you scoring from Marcus' fumble.... Totally unexpected but damn cool la! :D

E-hui - (omg i'm so nice i spelt with small 'h'!!! lol) Nice cutting and catching! Sry for niaoing you abt your height in the semi-finals. ><" It's nice being teammates with you! (:

Joon fai (is tt the way to spell? ><") - Haha, though you're only a J1 you also played well! Nice cuts and runs into open space. Can see you being open lots of times lol. I'm sure you'll improve much more in time to come. :D

Sijie - Nat youth team! Haha. You played like some imba monster yesterday la. Handled imbaly, ran imbaly, scored imbaly. -.- Dun dwell too much on the last throw! If not for you (or anyone else, for that matter) we wouldn't have made it there in the first place! :D Haha. It's really nice to be on the receiving end of your hucks. (:

Yang Xuan - Haha. You skyed like almost every opponent la! And your bankai during the CJ match was really awesome! You probably D-ed more than the rest of the team and the CJ team combined la! Haha. Too bad you missed out on the last 2 matches. ><" But I really enjoyed playing alongside you too! :D

As for myself, I hope I played ok and I hope I didn't disappoint you guys too much. ><" Thanks for being tolerant with the multitude of mistakes I made. And I must say it was really fun! :D

Once again, thanks everyone! (: Let's jiayou for Inter-JC!