And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now
And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything seems like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive...
["Iris" by Ronan Keating]
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okay... time's running out, the prelims are drawing nearer. i havent touched a single bit of biology. biology! oh my goodness imagine the amout of "cellular respiration" and "growth and development" and "blah blah blah" i'll have to cram into my brain over the next week. argh. shld've started earlier damnit. but oh well at least maths and physics arent so bad.. (okay maybe i'm comforting myself but what the hell. haha.)
i walked to the expo for the comex IT fair just now. the freakin place was so crowded it was as if they were celebrating christmas early this year. inside the halls i cldnt see beyond the people around me, and the entire place smelt horribly of sweat. almost pengsan inside there la. but it was nice to take a look at what amazing gadgets people have invented. the mobile gps system from Tibo (yea i know it sounds like some nonsense dunno what brand that's probably made from cardboard, but it isnt.. the bloody thing cost $1099) looked really impressive. it covers all roads in singapore and malaysia, and gives specific on-the-move instructions how to get from place to place. reminded me of tom cruise's show Minority Report. so as usual the salesman spent 10000hrs explaining how wonderful the thing was, and i wasted his 10000hrs by just smiling and walking away. i think he was gonna throw the gps gadget at me in anger but cleverly decided not to.
back to football.. (i know, again. yes yes. haha.) i watched england play andorra last night and i think they might as well just award the walk-over to england. england won that 5-0. paul robinson cld have opened a kacang puteh stall and sell to the fans behind the england goal. john terry and wes brown cld have been his assistants and england would still have won 5-0. i think gerrard is fitting in very well into that right-wing position. he hits the crosses beautifully. who needs david beckham now? (yea apart from victoria la) anyway i really pity the andorra team. haha. according to the commentator, their manager has been in charge since 1997. so far he's led them through 50 games, of which he won 3, and all were against FYR Macedonia. alamak i think he should retire. lol.
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i went to changi general hospital on wednesday for a follow-up on the fractured left leg.. wasted a total of 2:07:89hrs there. (for the maths-idiots, it's 2hrs, 7.89 minutes) yea that was the digits on my stopwatch from when i handed in the referral letter to when i settled payment. so much for efficiency. anyway the doctor did all sorts of weird tests on the leg, bending it in every way possible. i was so worried it might pop again la. but fortunately it turned out all right. so the nightmare of a fractured leg is officially over. i can finally play football again. haha.
the unfortunate thing... 2 more weeks and the prelim exams start. so the mugging fever has already kicked in. i think i'm going nuts bcos of all this studying. i was at the airport's viewing gallery today and i saw a plane engine right smack in the middle of the taxi lane. yea i know i blinked and rubbed my eyes but the bloody thing was still there. so i decided that i must've gone bonkus.
liverpool was disappointing this weekend.. i know it's sad coming from an anfield faithful, but chelsea looked impressive. as much as i feel like thumping jose mourinho's face, i think chelsea was the most balanced team this weekend. even manchester united played awfully. (no i didnt forget the "well") to depend on a mikael silvestre goal (which was probably meant as a cross in the first place) to save their skin is pathetic.
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whoa havent touched this blog in umpteen years. must have been rotting badly..
okay i've been really free with nothing better to do, stuck at home with a cast on my left foot. knee fracture. i was playing a football match for Red Force FC at marina south. the opposition won a throw in on our right flank and they took it long, past allan's reach. their striker met the ball, and i went in hard from his right with a sliding tackle. my left foot got caught in the uneven ground, and my body weight got thrown over the otherside, so the knee went "piak". i had a look at the knee and almost pengsan man.. the bone was jutting out at the weirdest angle on earth (even the esplanade looked smooth), and the pain was stinging. so i shoved the joint back in place and must have chipped off part of my bone as a result, or so says the doctor. it hurt so bad i kept shouting every 4-letter word i knew. i must have shouted fuck a few times then. okay la many times. anyway.. i'm hobbling around now, stuck in a chair most of the time. thankfully it'll only be for 2 weeks. i'll be soooo glad to remove this cast.
been mugging quite hard the last couple of weeks.. starting to get kanjiong. exam fever kicking in. argh i cant wait for it all to be over. tjc's revision schedule is fierce. well i suppose it's fierce in every college la.. i hope it all pays off eventually.
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17:48
got back a couple of lecture test and assignment results this week: GP compre 32/50, c.maths 18/30, physics 17/40. there's still bio and chem left. my best subject so far is GP, for the simple reason that it does not require studying. the rest of the content subjs are still hovering about the pass mark.. but i think chem and bio should be much better. maths and physics are my worst subjects. so i suppose those are what i'll have to correct before the As. which is in another what.. 5 months. time really flies. college life is just too short.
anyway, SPA has ended for physics and chemistry, and bio will be over by the 31st of May. i havent heard any better news this year! haha. i'm so so so glad SPA is gonna be over. it's been a horrible experience. tedious, repetitive, and to some extent, unfortunately meaningless. but then again the 2 periods per week for each science subject occupied by SPA previously will be used a tutorials. omg. 6 extra periods of tutorials a week! my wallet's gonna be drained by coffee again. nestle's latte and mocha are quite good. haha. effective, too.
trained out tjc girls football team today with phileo and raymond and jon. quite different from what i'm used to. the pace of the game is much slower, and it's so much gentler. feels awkward to me. imgaine football without the jostles and sliding tackles and pushing and shoving. kampong style, too. lol. but credit to them.. our girls team made it to the semi finals of the A division championship, and guess what, they get to play at Jalan Besar Stadium!!! that's an experience to die for la. astro turf and proper gallery for fans. i'm jealous.
just payed $16 for the tjc dance society's production this friday. i hope it's good.. bcos 16bucks is a huge hole to burn in my wallet. nvm i'll look for clement and rachel if it's not good. they were the con-men. or con-couple, for that matter.
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whoa havent written a new post in quite a while. been horribly busy.
anyway.. the A division season for football has just ended for tjc, and i'm finally a free man! but it feels weird, with so much time on my hands. used to train 3-4 times a week. football was such a huge part of my life. feel quite empty now. lol.
but then again, it really is time to sit down, settle down, and start mugging. dont want to be forced to drop any subjs after the JCT.. so i'll have to target at least a C grade for every subj. what a bloody minimalist, huh. haha.
so the june holidays are fast approaching. think i'll be spending most of it mugging for the JCTs.. going to china too to visit some relations; so i'll be missing the marist dive trip. sadness. that was something i was looking forward to. nevermind.. i'm sure i'll have other opportunities to dive with them again.
one consolation: the A level SPAs are coming to an end soon. yay! haha. it's just been soooo irritating. it's more repititive than anything.. i hardly learned much from SPA, if u ask me. i memorised most the answers, which were all the same anyway.
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this wld be the 2nd time i've missed out on the national A division football tournaments. last yr i sat it out bcos i moved from MJC to TJC during the JAE, and this year bcos i tore one of my quadricep muscles. sighs. been brooding over this for very long. but i suppose there's so much more to life than just football, isnt there? so i think i shall stop ranting about this. hopefully i'll get other chances to play competitive football again sometime in the future. anyway football's taken its toll on me already. it's time i settled down into a more sedantary lifestyle and start mugging. but sedantary? me? i can hardly imagine that. oh well..
anyway i spoke to michael ystd.. the asian dive expo is coming to suntec city this weekend. sounds so tempting la. think i shall go look around. i'll be missing the dive trip this june; going to visit some relations in china. i cant wait to dive again.. i think its a psychological addiction. i totally love the feeling of being in the vast ocean.. the feeling of space and freedom is indescribable. everytime i'm in the water it's as if time freezes completely.
i dunno why i'm typing this now. i'm supposed to be in sch reviewing a video of our last match against acjc, but i totally forgot about it. i just came straight home after chemistry pract. just as well then.. got to study for tmr's bio test. i havent touched a single chapter. argh!
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