I just came back from a 4km run in the park. All I did was run. Non-stop. I started at the 0m distance mark from the first end of the park. After completing my first 100m, I pictured each hundred metre as if it was a big footstep made by a giant, and I was chasing the giant. As I passed by the 200m distance mark, I was thinking what a huge giant he must be. From the 300m distance mark onwards, I decided to start counting the number of footsteps that the giant has taken. So at 400m, I muttered "4" and at 500m, I muttered "5", and so on. Eventually I reached the other end of the park, covering 1300m as a result. I u-turned from the running track into the bike track and did another 1100m, so I counted "24" already. I wanted to stop, cos my original aim was to try out my 2.4km run. But I continued running, u-turned again and counted till "40" before I finally stopped. Then took a slow walk back to the circular palm court, rested at one of the stone tables there and played with the cat sitting on the table. The cat had a small wound at the right eye. I walked through the palm court, went to the mini-mart to get Coke with Lime and cup noodles before going home.

I kept a steady pace while running. In my mind I kept going silently "elephant, elephant, left right left right", while running. Then I try and synchronise my footsteps to that pace. Technically speaking my left foot is supposed to make a step on the 'left', then the right foot on the 'right'. But in the midst of running I realised that sometimes my right foot goes in on the 'left', so after a while the left right thingy didn't matter to me and I just concentrated on following the pace. Don't ask me why I followed that weird chant.

I ran from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. It was a nice and windy evening. From now on I shall go jogging in the park only after 7pm, cos most of the people would have gone by then and there'll be no one to block my way.

I just wanted to clear my mind and sort out my thoughts. And Bishan Park is the perfect place cos I have so many wonderful memories of that place.

I remember the time when I fell down in the park. Silly young me was trying to chase after the moon, cos you know the moon always seem to be following you when you walk right? So I ran with my eyes up in the sky at the moon, trying to "shrug off" the moon. Then before I knew it, I fell and got a big wound on my left knee that took 5 weeks to recover.

I remember the time when I cried cos my parents refused to bring me to the park.

I remember the time when I swung so hard on the swings that I fell on my bum.

I remember the time when me and a few church friends were playing with sparklers to celebrate New Year, and the NParks officials came over to reprimand us because we were trying to start a bonfire, and stupid Andre set off a whistling sparkler right after they left.

I remember the time when we celebrated Yicheng's birthday at the park, and Luke ran like a chicken to the toilet.

I remember the time when my aunt brought me and my sis to the park, and we melted 5 boxes of candles into one huge multi-coloured wax mess on the rock.

I remember the time when I spent the whole afternoon with Cheryn talking at one of the pavillions, and there were this bunch of Catholic High guys playing soccer and peering at us.

I remember those times when me and Shannon will just sit at our favourite bench and she'll scream at the mosquitoes but she'll refuse to whack them cos she doesn't want to dirty her hands.

I can't go on anymore. Everytime I think of her, my mind just blanks.

I ran past our favourite bench just now. It wasn't on the running track that I was on, but it was just behind all the rocks. I had a very very strong desire to make a detour to the bench to visit it, but I force myself not to. Heck, I don't even know if it's still there, cos the last time I passed by there was at least a year ago. Maybe I'll go there soon.

I want to say more, but I really can't go on anymore.

Chinese New Year is great great! Visiting people, catching up on lost homework, following up with friends and everything... It's been great!

Yep on the first day of CNY I went over to Eleanor's house for a visit! Gosh I sooo envy her for being the only child and enjoying her big room all to herself. We just lounged around, talking, gossipping, playing with her dolls, singing Christmas hymms even though it's CNY. Then she came up with this brilliant idea to go look at her bras cos I've never been in contact with them before, so she dragged me to scrutinise all of her underwear... EEKS. I really do not have to do that.

And for today, it was visiting at my grandma's house! Hmm I know how everyone says the grandparents visit should be on the first day of CNY, but my family has been doing this for the second year already and I don't know why. So anyway, it was just lunch at grandma's with my aunt and uncle. I'm glad there's no shark's fin! My grandma used to prepare that every year, but she stopped doing that now cos she finds them weird. HAHA whatever, I'm just glad there aren't any. I didn't really liked the abalone too cos I found them too rubbery. Blooiee.

After grandma's I took a long bus to Rhoda's house! Me, her and Kai Jie were supposed to be doing the Geography river flooding project at Kai Jie's house, but he was busy with visiting so me and Rhoda had our own date with each other. Her younger brother Amos kept coming over to show us magic tricks! I forgot Deborah stays near there too if not I'll have popped by... Haha.

And tomorrow is Bi Xiu's house! Yep it's kinda weird cos she's now in NJ also, and I find it weird to keep referring her as a Dale Carnegie friend. AARGH I'm just obsessed with details. Anyway it's going to be a Dale Carnegie outing tomorrow at her house, hope to catch up with those people!

Don't think of it Guan You, don't even think of it.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

Yep the talk at Catholic High Primary yesterday was great! I met Jun Ying at 7am at Bishan MRT, then we walked over to the school and met my teacher Ms Lim Ong Hong. Oh Ms Lim was my Chinese teacher when I was in primary 3, and she showed us at least 10 containers in different shapes and capacity FILLED FULL WITH CAN TABS. Yesh we estimate there were 5kg of can tabs. Whoo it was quite a sight...

And we proceeded to the hall to set up for the talk. Minor technical problems, but when the students were all ready we were raring to go. And the talk was super uber good! I spoke for most of the time, then the video of Soraida Salwala was played and Jun Ying had his 5 minutes worth. 20 minutes was all we lasted, and we enjoyed the applause after that.

I realised how much I miss the Catholic High school hall! It was sooo much bigger than NJ's, and yesh the feeling's really different. I used to be one of those kids in green pants sitting down in that hall, listening to talks or watching performances. And now I'm standing right at the very front, addressing a crowd of Catholic High boys who are all my juniors. And at that time, I think nothing gives me more pride and honour to acknowledge that I'm a fellow "cat high boy"...

After the talk Ms Lim treated us to breakfast at the canteen. Catholic High is big now... Me and Jun Ying were walking through a spice garden that included a mini-river. And I met my Chinese teacher when I was in primary 5 and 6, Mdm Chua Puay Eng!! She was one of my favourite teachers in primary school, and she's now HOD of Chinese. I met Mrs Anne Goh too! My science teacher who deemed that I "wasn't a very sciency person", so I'm in Arts now.

I saw Mr Lee Hak Boon in the canteen too! He's the Principal of both the primary and secondary section, and apparently he's not very well-liked there now cos he's too visionary and the way he does things is simply unconventional. But he gets the results, cos Catholic High is now in Band 1 of whatever whatnot, at the expense of all the good teachers quitting... So I saw him at the canteen, and I couldn't help but to go snigger in his face. He's always talking about giving back to the school and remembering your roots and blah blah, so I plucked myself right in front of his face, introduced myself and what I was doing there. And his expression was a shock disbelief, then he tried to act friendly and whatever... That, was absolutely priceless.

And the food! The food! I miss the Peranakan stall the most! The grumpy drinks uncle is still there, grumpy as ever; the expensive-but-great-food Malay stall is there too; the 40 cents soyabean drink; the wacky noodles stall uncle; the mixed veg stall; the fast-talking, hardworking auntie at the snacks stall... I MISS THEM ALL! Most of those stalls have been there since I was in primary school, so they've been working for more than 10 years now! I GREW UP ON THEIR FOOD! Anyway I got a dish from the Peranakan couple, Ms Lim's treat, and it was heavenly.

Jun Ying went home after that, with 2 large containers of can tabs which he intends to add to his tally. NAHH I'll have more can tabs than you at the end!! I went to find Mrs Pang, my Geography teacher, and I promised her to teach there in 6 or 7 years from now. I talked to Mr Toh (the Discipline Master) and realised that he's quitting in two weeks time. Crap, I really grew to like him. Met Mrs Bala and Ms Foo too!

Then I went back to NJ for their celebrations, and was just in time for the final 3 of NJ Superstar. Roman Lester won despite seeing some low-key song and went AACK for one second, because he's so darn popular and charming. Janvin, eat your heart out. HEE HEE! The class was in black with a red packet sash! I heard the junior class was in black too! Gosh I totally missed out on all the fun, but I don't think I could have satisfied both NJ and CHS in a better way.

After that I travelled back to Catholic High again, this time with Yong Yi and Alex. Met all the teachers all over again, then went off to the canteen to eat some more and then I went home.

Went out again at 1pm plus to go town with the first 3 months A01-ians. 8 of us turned up! Me, Sara, Benny, Janvin, Shih Ying, May Ee, Linus and Ginny! Finally caught up with Linus and May Ee after all these time! So it was us Team NJ and Team JJ, we went to Cine's Pastamania and spent the whole afternoon there. I was the only one not eating pasta cos I ate so much at Catholic High already. So while they were busy eating their pastas, I had my tiramisu and entertained them with all the befuddling games! Thanks a bunch Alicia for introducing all those rubbish games! Oh yesh she was there at Pastamania with her friends too. Benny and Linus couldn't get CHICKEN DUCK AT ALL! And May Ee looked confused over the travelling game. And the portrait game was still a classic! I'M SURE CRESCENT GIRLS HAVE SOME BEFUDDLING TRADITION GOING ON. I'M SO SURE. Ginny seems to catch on fast!

And youth service at night! I was scheduled to back-up sing for Biru, and the last song Centre of it All was actually in a high key, but she changed it to some very low key!! And I have to lower my vocal chords so low that I had trouble reaching them! And Rachel was being depressed. Then for cell, we just sat around and bummed around, talking nonsense.

And for today, I had a great day sleeping! Catching up on all my lost sleep. And I spring cleaned! I hate spring cleaning! I hate having my table in such a neat array! I think Chinese New Year is just an excuse for spring cleaning!! I can't find my things in a neat environment! I prefer a big mess where things are everywhere and I can be totally random and find just about anyting that I need. I've got rid of most unwanted stuff, can tabs still over the place, and my worksheets/notes in one big messy pile, but other than that it's one big clean neat area.

Talking to Christine about the colours of our underwear and green bras. Talking to Pei Rong about greener grass. And I'm a green oreo. GREEN GREEN GREEN.

I think Hai Hao is really the brightest Primary 5 kid that I know of. Okie I only know one P5 kid really well and that's him, but I really don't think I'm biased or unfair in my judgement in anyway. He really is a very very bright child! (SOOO BRIGHT! *WHIPS OUT SUINGLASSES*) He does his Maths at a fast speed and amazingly enough his answers are pretty accurate! And he asks me so many questions about the solar system, questions I know I never ever asked when I was studying that myself in primary school. NOW I WISH MY FUTURE SON WILL BE AS DILIGENT AS HIM.

We did another 5 rounds around the track for PE today. Then I ran leisurely with Regina and Huai Ying to complete their last round, so I did 6 rounds. Add that to the 10 rounds on Tuesday and I clocked in 6.4km in total around the NJ track. But I was peeking at Liyana's training log book and I was simply amazed at her dedication and her discipline in maintaining a healthy diet, and the exercises she does were simply enormous. Okay maybe it's time for me to do something about my broad jumps...

After school today I initially planned to go shopping with a few 06A01-ers to go buy their shirts and cloths or whatever, but Yurong called me and I decided to elope with her instead. So we went to J8 to get Shermin's birthday presents and I got stuff for my angel/mortal, then went to Jericho after that to play table tennis. I rushed off to GVN office after that cos there was a bird talk by Prof Wee Yeow Chin, and it was simply mind-blowing. I'm rather glad that at least I can recognise the common birds in Singapore now. Was showing off to Jaslyn about the woodpecker... Well I guess it really is satisfying to know such stuff. Maybe I can go impress girls or something... HAHA!

I'm going to give a talk at Catholic High Primary tomorrow morning, it's about can tabs cos apparently their school administrative board has decided to embark on this project again. I'm so looking forward to meeting them! Going with Jun Ying, and I can't wait... =)

My arms feel like jelly now. We had a gruelling PE today, warm-up was 2 rounds on the track, and that was okay. After that, for the guys we had to start running on the outermost 8th lane, and move into the 7th lane after completing that round etc. And in between each round we have to do 20 push-ups. So effectively by the end of PE lesson, I did 10 rounds (4 km) and 140 push-ups in total. And I realised that I was the only guy in the class who completed it cos Janvin and Kai Jie did 2 rounds and 40 push-ups lesser as they gave up mid-way. Should I feel proud of myself, or should I feel cheated??

Maths lecture immediately after PE. Gosh it was quite a task climbing up all that stairs and lugging my guitar, and we still had to endure a scolding for being late. AARGH. The rest of the day for me was extremly groggy, and I really needed sleep. Skipped GP tutorial cos I don't think I could have endured another debate about human rights. And Eudora you rock la! You're the first person to hear the song and the first person to give comments!

I just watched the Generation Next episode on Pei Ling. Well it was kinda good in a sense, and the video photography of it was quite sharp. All the sceneries and landscapes look much nicer. And I realised that I looked extremely goofy being interviewed. But the camera made me better-looking! Haha! Grant, Ms Yap, Jun Ying and Ken were interviewed too, and their answers made so much more sense compared to mine! I'm kinda really impressed with Pei Ling now, and I did enjoy my cameo role, as my face was featured quite a number of times!! =)

I seriously thought no one will bother to read all my past entries, but naah, I was proven wrong. Pei Rong read through all of them!! I'M SO HONOURED!! There's 200 odd entries there and she's read everyone of them. She's now my official stalker/biggest fan cos she can even remember details from the entries! Yup sure I'll give you your big big meal!!!

I'm beginning to really love the big A01 family. 05A01 is simply amazing, and 06A01 is equally adorable.

Okie I just added in the archives section for all my previous blog entries. Search around the blog, click around or something, it's there somewhere... I have never included the archives section ever in the course of blogging on this blog, mainly because I don't see a need to and I don't think anyone will ever bother reading all my past entries. But Eleanor absolutely demands to see an archives section because she wants to check back something that I've posted last time. "A blog is incomplete without a proper archives section!" Apparently that's wise words from her... Eh, Eleanor dear you don't even have a blog.

So now I've got an archive section, showcasing all my blog entries since March 2004. Give me 2 more months and this blog will be 2 years old. And in that time I have posted 228 entries in total. Now anyone can go spy on me and know whatever that happened in my life for the past 2 years. Or maybe I've got some secret admirer somewhere who will want to read all my trashy posts. Or maybe the Singapore government, for all their glory of trying to induce freedom of speech, will want to track back my posts and charge me with picking my nose.

There you go Eleanor... My blog is "complete now with a proper archives section".

I seriously think that no one will bother to read all my previous posts. Blah... Maybe I'll treat you to something if you have read EVERY SINGLE OF MY POSTS. If you do, please do inform me. But if you're my secret admirer or if you're spying on me, I guess you wouldn't say so anyway.

WHATEVER. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH THE ARCHIVES.

I felt quite accomplished yesterday, cos I managed to endure one whole week of lessons in school! Okie it's the third week of the year, but it's the first week of lessons for me. Still trying to catch up on all that I've missed out... It's been a week of staring blankly at the tutor/lecturer's face, or frantically flipping through lecture notes, or scribbling notes but not understanding what they mean. "So what are the main factors that increases river discharge? Okay let's start with Guan You. " And I'll blink. Blink again. Then stare at Ms Ting and blurt out some random answer like "climate", and I'm amazed to hear her say that I got it right.

It's not that bad trying to catch up either, ever since dropping Economics. I don't ever have to worry about all those rubbishy theories and "speaking in Economic language", and all of them said Ms Ng has grown to be some terrible monster in class. I get quite a lot of free time now too, eating or slacking around. Hanging out with 06A01 during all that time. And it looks like I'm going to be spending a lot of time with Jaslyn and Samuel for the rest of the year.

And suddenly everyone is busy writing letters to their angels or mortals! And I've sort of become the official postman cos I know everyone in the junior class and the senior class. You get people writing letters or notes during lessons, and the junior class writes their letters during their break times. It's kinda amusing seeing everyone trying to guess their angels, or the happy faces knowing that they've got mail. MY ANGEL IS AWESOME!! HAHA apparently my angel reads my blog too... You see, all I did was shout "Guan You's angel, I'm hungry!!", and 2 minutes later someone delivered 2 packs of gummy bears to me. AND HOW DID MY ANGEL KNOW THAT I LIKE GUMMY BEARS??? I'm not going to bother guessing who my angel is cos I want to be surprised on that day. And my mortal too!! She's a good good mortal!! AARGH I CAN'T REVEAL MUCH, LEST SHE KNOWS IT'S ME.

Green Link general meeting last Thursday. The response was good! Initially I thought there'll only be 5 people who will turn up, but there were about 15! And it turns out I know most of the people who were there, cos about half of them were from my junior class, another 2 from OG1, and another girl named Agnes whom I met earlier that morning. I think Jun Ying went high for that meeting. HAHA...

And I'm supposed to help out with the Total Defence song writing competition! I had to meet this girls called Celine and Agnes at 7am in the morning on a Thursday morning!! Gosh I haven't been to school that early since those OGL days! And it's a Thursday morning, when school begins at 8.30am! My brain didn't function at all, and the song had lyrics which didn't quite match any tempo... I'm just supposed to come up with a nice melody.

I miss my cell group. Haven't got to interact with them for almost a month already. But last night I was so tired that I just sat there and listened to them debate about Revelations.

I'm looking forward to teaching Hai Hao! Can't wait for Monday!!

This week is my first proper week of lessons in school for the new year. Stalia Estrellas seems so far away now. I wish Orientation will drag on for the whole term! Blah. The first time I picked up my timetable from Liyana, I felt like a blur kid. And when I started going for all the lectures and tutorials, I FINALLY REALISED THAT I MISSED 2 WEEKS' WORTH OF STUDIES.

First was Economics. I sat in the lecture hall staring at my notes blankly and listening to the bird chirping. Yep apparently a bird flew into LT1 and established a nest in one of the roof crevices. Then next came Geography. Human G was not that bad, at least Ms Koh understands. Physical G was the more demanding one cos Ms Ting just zoomed ahead with the lecture and what the hell is stream incompetence?? Maths was okay too, just that I didn't touch numerical solutions at all and they're already done with Integration basics. Literature? Well it was my only subject that I could catch up and still understand everything. WHEE.

I dropped Econs today. Filled up the form last night, and went to Ms Ng this morning. She had a mini-talk with me, making me promise her that I'll work hard and get 3 As by Prelims. I feel kinda guilty, cos she's been really nice to me and helping me not just with Econs but with my problems too, and now I'm dropping her subject. And now I'm going to try and avoid her cos everytime she sees me she's going to remind me about my 3 As.

In a weird sense, I discovered that I like Maths. After dropping Econs, I have much more free periods. I used that time to catch up on Integration today, and it was like MIND-BLOWING! I actually managed to finish the Basic Mastery Questions in the tutorial worksheet! And I actually was able to follow the lesson too!! That is some kind of major achievement to me. I detested Maths, and now I'm liking it. Blooiee.

And yesh, the new timetable has so much lesser free periods now, cos we don't have crappy Project Work and the Chinese people finished their exams, so most of our days are jam-packed. Unless you're a "3-subber", you'll only get breaks during lunch. Eh, okie most of us in 05A01 are 3-subbers now, except a handful of nerdies who still have 4? Okie they're not nerdies. They're the smartest and most capable bunch of students that I really admire. I think all those who're taking S papers are so noble. They're reading so many extra materials and their S paper questions look like Chinese to me!

We're playing Angel Mortal as a junior-senior class thing. I think it's working out great, except that I think SOMEONE is freaking out his mortal. "All I know about you is you're a guy, and that you're going to have 2.1 children in the future, according to human geography population statistics." I can't say who wrote that cos some of them juniors read this blog (I think) and I don't wanna spoil their fun.

I'm having fun with my angel and mortal! My mortal's great, and my angel thinks I've got a nice butt.

I feel different in school. Last year I was part of the people in secondary school uniform and bumbling around with the seniors, having fun... Now I'm part of the people in full grey, and I'm the senior now. It's a weird feeling. In the past it was saying hi to people your age and people OLDER than you. Now it's still saying hi to people your age, and people YOUNGER than you. My lunchtimes are spent with the junior class, and I keep bumping into all the kids from Orientation in between my classes.

And all of a sudden my social network increased again. Orientation has increased the number of people I know... All the Arella OGLs, and OGLs from the other houses, and all the kids. Jaslyn asked me why I'm popular in school. Blooiee.

Oh I took my height and weight yesterday. 165cm and 50kg. I LOST 4KG SINCE THE START OF THE YEAR!! I remembered distinctly that I was 54kg on Christmas, I think Orientation was stressful. Waking up early, being in Logistics Comm, cheering, rah-rah-ing, playing games with the OG/class, staying out late and still have to try and make the effort to interact with them online, write notes to them etc... And I fell sick somemore! Oh my fats percentage is 12%, according to the teacher it was quite a small percentage for a guy. JANVIN WAS 9%. I shall eat more in school.

I started teaching tuition for Hai Hao also! Kat made it sound like he's some problem kid, but I think he was great! He did all his Maths questions and they were mostly correct, and for Science his teacher haven't started anything yet, so I did the solar system with him and he was so fascinated by it! He was staring at all the pictures and asking all sorts of funny questions about stars and planets. Gosh I need Jun Ying's help. Today we even went out to stargaze, but too bad the sky was cloudy.

Green Link's having a General Meeting tomorrow! Jun Ying says about 75% of them are females. And I know like 20% of them cos they were from OG1 or 06A01. We had EXCO meeting yesterday and today. And I'm going back to Catholic High Primary to give an assembly talk about can tabs!!

I took the same bus home with Xiu Jing today. SHE THOUGHT THAT I WAS MALAY. Cos her logic was that Fadhli is a Malay and he's so fair he looks like a Chinese, and she always sees Fadhli and me together so she assumed that I was a Malay with fair skin too. And now Pei Rong thinks I'm a mature guy with at least 5 failed relationships. I think I'm severely misunderstood.

I shall go write a long letter to my mortal now.

NJC Orientation Stalia Estrellas has officially come to an end. Yesterday we had a final war game session, where all the students played against the OGLs. The coolest thing was, we OGLs had more than a thousand water bombs and Super Soakers and water guns!! So even though we were so much more outnumbered, we still had more water bombs than them and they can't enter into our D-zone. Yup, everyone was soaked wet... Logistics Committee people had a plastic suit over us, so we were supposedly immortal. HAHA. The tedious part was probably the tying of all the bombs. We sat down for almost 2 hours tying all the plastics into water bombs. ORIENTATION IS SOOO NOT ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY. Filling pails and competing with Mer and Tis and Weng Yin to see who is the fastest to tie a water bomb. Then Logi Comm sat in the sun and sunbathed, so now I'm red and my skin is dry. But it was worth it, cos seeing all those bombs fly and watching all those cheese try and catch the bombs but exploding in their hands.

And while the rest were having lunch, a few of us from Logi Comm went to clean up the linkway! We hosed the entire linkway with water, flooded it, then we swept all the water out. Gosh that took us an hour. And why do we need to clean the linkway?? Who cares about the flour?? No one is going to notice anyway... Blooiee. For class session they did the hand entanglements again, then Ruth had to call me in the midst of my lunch to go help untangle them. And they did it!!

Then we were dismissed to go prepare for dance party. Went out to Guthrie House cos there's a Cold Storage there. Met Alicia and Su Kai and Benjamin there. Then we had ice cream at Venezia and played the portrait game yet again.

DANCE PARTY! Gosh for the first time I realised the number of RV people in the college. They all turned up in their RV class jerseys, so there was this class where the jersey was pink, and there was this red jersey, and this orange and white jersey. It's like practically three quarters of their classes are in NJ!! But dance party was fun. We ran up to the podium, then me and Huai Ying mass danced in front of the whole school. FUNKY. Then while they were "bar-top dancing" on the tables, us Aerius OGLs had a circle of trust and we played truth or dare. I danced a bit with the class too, then they gave us OGLs each a card which all of them signed, and a big box of Belgium chocolates! A01 you guys are simply great! Then me and Huai Ying mass danced some more, and then we mass danced again on the table... Gosh.

Me and Joel carried long tables THRICE. We carried all the way from the canteen to the parade square, then after dance party ended we carried it back to canteen and we carried too for another table. By then I'm just tired and burnt and wanting to go home.

06A01, you people are just amazing. Just continue the way you've been, and stay in NJ after you get your results!! I just realised that they have another month in school before O's results come out. Hmm...

Another great day of orientation in school! Station games today. We went as a class, so it was 06A01 and the IP3 students. We went from station to station, about 16~18 of them, and the really terrible thing was that we won only ONE out of the ten odd station games! I think by the tenth or eleventh game that they lost, all of them were feeling quite down already. But I think A01 was still superbly enthusiastic in all the games, and they cheered really loudly for everything!! They managed to get every single person over the rubber band line! In the end I guess what we really took out of all the games were to have fun and bond as a class. THAT, in my sense, is true A01 CLASS SPIRIT!!

After station games we had a class session, then mass dancing. I danced with Huai Ying this time, and it's my first time ever that I managed to do all 3 consecutive dances correctly and nicely! Then we went out as a class for dinner at KAP, and like 90% of the class turned up! It really was encouraging to see so many faces. I MANAGED TO REMEMBER ALL THE NAMES!! In 3 days! We played all the befuddling games that our previous OG1 played with, and we had fun laughing at all the slow people who're so blur!

I'm still sick. Well, slightly. My voice is horrendously low and awful. I still can do the Arella 5-4-2-3 cheer though. And even though I'm supposed to "have pride in my own house" (quote Ruth), I still learnt the Lynova clap sequence! It's really cool!!

I think us OGLs of OG1 and A01 are just paranoid. Yep, me, Ruth, Joel and Rhoda. Whatever concerns that we had about not bonding with the class, I think we just dispelled that feeling ourselves. I feel the same bond now with the A01 people and the OG1 people! The A01 family has grown bigger and I think the junior class has so much more potential!

Say AYE! Oh ONE! Say AYE AYE OH ONE! Say we're the BEST! We are the very BEST!

Okie I'm going to have a good rest and sleep.

For orientation today we did war games! Too bad I couldn't join in cos I had Logistics Committee duty, and I ended up filling pails with the water hose and bringing the pails to the centre of the field and everything. YITING YOU ARE SO COOL LA. She was the only girl in the Logi Comm of about 15 guys? And we did a Logi Comm bounce and a Logi Comm cheer. Being in Logi Comm has its perks. you just follow instructions, carry pails of water constantly, put in the colour dyes into the water...

The field was entirely mucky!! When everyone went in with the water bombs and pails they started sinking into the potholes filled with mud and soil. Yesh it was quite gross, and it didn't help when there was some funny farm smell... But it was fun! I wasn't in the field playing, so from where I was at the grandstand, I could see blue and orange and yellow water bombs flying in towards my house clan! And our ally house Iryl did nothing! They just stood like elephants there, without attacking and no one attacking them, so they eventually won the war game.

It was a good game even though the field was the biggest yuck factor. But I didn't mind the mud, I was more concerned about the water cos I caught a flu after that. And now I have a slight fever with cough. BLOOIEE.

CCA Fair was good too. I managed to convince some of my OG people and class people to sign up. And senior junior bonding session! I think it was really fun and interactive even though everyone were all over the place! HAHA.

I miss my OG1 gang no doubt, but I think 06A01 is beginning to grow into me as well. They're a really great bunch of people who's super enthu about our class cheer!! Hee hee!!

Okie I need to rest now. I took flu pills and I'm going to be knocked out soon.

I wanted to blog about yesterday YESTERDAY, but I was too tired from everything. So here it goes... We had to meet at 6.30am in school yesterday to settle all the arrangements for the day, and OG1 met together officially for the last time for assembly. THEY GAVE US OGLS A GIANT BABY BOTTLE WITH LOADS OF SMALLER BABY BOTTLES FILLED WITH CANDY IN IT, AND THEY ALL WROTE A MESSAGE ON THE BOTTLES! That's so so sweet of them! Gosh why do we have to leave the OG?? Bahh we should stay together forever!

Walk-in and skit went so smoothly that I feel so accomplished! The walk-in was like, err just like that, while the skit was much more impactful in my opinion. The crowd was quite good, and I remembered most of my sequences and when I'm supposed to speak and everything! Whoo at least it justifies all the late nights in school and all the draggy house meetings... After skit I was soo tired that I just didn't have the energy to continue to be enthusiastic for class session. Oh yesh we met our new junior class 06A01! They look promising!

House session was next! We had a wonderful time cheering, singing the house song, watching bewildered people shake their asses on stage. Then it was another mass dance session and we called it an end...

Today was a long day too. No school cos it's Hari Raya Haji, but I still went out with Rhoda and Joel and the new 06A01 to get food for breakfast party. Yep at first I thought only 4 or 5 people will turn up, but in the end more than 10 people turned up! It was a pleasant surprise... We went Macs for breakfast, then to Cold Storage and got bread, etc etc. Everybody left home, leaving behind me and Rhoda, so we went to Macs to study, but we ended up chit chatting and talking about all kinds of stuff. Haha! We stayed there like till 3pm cos we didn't feel like going home and getting out again for OG1 gathering at Jonathan's house, then Ruth came along and we all travelled to Toa Payoh Interchange to meet Joel. Then Su Kai's dad fetched us to Jon's and we cooked our carrots and broccoli that we bought from Cold Storage. We overcooked it! So it tasted really soggy and watery... Haha. We ordered pizza too, had a great time playing carrom and bridge and some other games. Then we walked to the nearby park and played follow the leader and the tangling game and the murderer game! Forfeits included mass dance, running to the middle of the field to start a OG1 cheer. Haha there were guys playing soccer in the field and we just all ran towards the centre, they started panicking!! HEE HEE... OG1 I'm sure going to miss you real badly. Let's just run away to our little world shall we?

Then again, I'm supposed to be spending more time with 06A01. Hee hee!

I'm in a very high and delirious mood right now! I just painted 6 bottles in 6 different colours! It's gonna be for the 6 houses to collect their can tabs during orientation. And halfway through while painting them I suddenly thought of Guan Zhi!! Don't get me wrong I'm not gay. You see, Guan Zhi is my Art & Publicity Director in Green Link, and painting's supposed to be his job. So I was painting Iryl's bottle when I just went WHAT THE HELL!! He's supposed to be doing this, not me!!! HAHA! My mum got such a shock!

I painted my right hand for fun. It's multi-coloured now in 6 different hues.

My muscles are still aching! On Friday it was songs, cheers and mass dance. ME AND RUTH WENT CRAZY!! We joined in for all the dances whenever they played the music, and all the OGLs went high too and started dancing too... Rhoda got jealous I think... HAHA! Then was cheering so much that I lost my voice. Skipped cell groups to go home and rest.

And I think I've got the coolest OG!! OG1 YOU GUYS WERE FANTASTIC! I stayed up till 2am on Thursday night just to prepare wooden spoons for them as a parting gift. And I'm just so encouraged to see them participate in the cheers and mass dance, then it was some kind of emotional parting also...

Yup. I've heard of whatever scandals there are in the OG. Hee hee!

Then on Saturday we had a complete full-dress rehearsal! It was great it was sooo great! I could feel the difference if I really put my heart into it. For the past few sessions I was kinda unenthusiastic about the skit and walk-in, but I realised that all it takes for me was some guilty talk from Tran. Hee hee!! She kept saying that I can act if I want to and how good I was in OG sessions and everything, and I was just guilt-stricken. Blooiee. Now I can't wait for Monday.

Today was commissioning! Yup I'm now a Local Officer for Salvation Army... Assistant Recruiting Sergeant. Yar on stage I got the jitters, partly from the commitment that I'll have to put in now.

I'm really going to miss you OG1. But tomorrow's going to be a new class and a new OG, so eventually we've gotta move on... =P

TODAY WAS A GOOD AND NICE DAY! It was the first day in school that I felt energetic and alert from morning assembly right up to the time I stepped out of the school gates. I've decided: NJ Orientation 2006 is going to be a blast! We had a wonderful OG session today. After they chose their subject combinations, we had a jam-packed 2 hour games session as a OG at the atrium. And we thought up of all kinds of weird forfeits!! Okie that was just a generalised exclamation, but we really had a lot of fun!! I'm just tired to move my fingers cos I realised that typing too much results in tired fingers. What the hell am I talking about??

I think my OG is awesome. Even though they're not the expressive or noisy ones, they are quietly supportive of whatever activities that we're doing, and quietly enthusiastic without showing it. Some of them even act as though they don't care about the OG, but they're there for every session... Okie that's just what me and Ruth thinks. And we got hot guys and pretty girls in the OG!!

I went for my first GP lesson for this year... Ms Florence Yap is my new GP tutor. And we did some debate on ideals and values. It's not as if I'm being a cynic or whatever, but who cares? They're the same to me.

After school ended, us OGLs and the OG stayed back to bond together some more! We played more games, more forfeits which included a Clementi Town Secondary school song. Then all of us picked up litter from the school hall, then we weathered the rain and went to KAP for OG dinner. And it was a blast there too! Yep even though we were not as rowdy as the rest of the OGs there (Everyone's having orientation there la!!) but we had fun interacting among ourselves. Alicia was irritating us with all her repertoire of befuddling games. There were some which were drop-dead obvious la! But Christine and Ruth were always among the blur souls who don't know what's going on. HEE HEE!

Left KAP at 8pm, then was walking midway to the bus-stop when I realised that I forgot to retrieve the cake. So I had to walk back again to KAP. Now I'm chatting to Su Kai and Christine and Clarissa online...

Second day of school! Today was quite good even though I had lessons in the morning and that just totally sucked most of my energy away. It was just a Geography lesson, Economics lecture and Mr Whitby took us for Literature. Erm okay it was not that strenuous or stressful, but it's just a drainer on my brain cells. I like the poem that Mr Whitby did with us today! It was a highly R(A) sexual poem with so many innuendos, but being a Literature student enables you to appreciate all these without being overly alarmed.

Then us OGLs went over to the amphitheatre for a briefing, then to the hall to pick up our cheese and we had our first official OG session!! It was quite good! We played 007 Bang and this animal movement game. Rhoda and Alicia were supposed to kiss an orange together PASSIONATELY!! Navin was supposed to propose to Shaun! Then we had so much fun watching Eric and Tran doing some pole dance.

And we had OG lunch at the normal A01 tables! Haha me and Xiu Jing were smart. Hee hee. Ruth, Rhoda and me actually planned to just skip Maths, but then we mistook the time and when we sauntered into Economics tutorial, we were so shocked that Ms Ng was packing up and going. SHEESH. But the time spent with the OG was good! Or rather, slightly more than half of the OG. We just sat there playing all kinds of befuddling games, told lame jokes, talking about all kinds of nonsense. Then Alicia had to do another forfeit due to the Number Game, then she approached Sui Hang to ask for his number! Brandon had to ask the prata stall auntie out!! HEE HEE!

After Mrs Cheng's talk, I had a Green Link exco meeting, which lasted an hour? Loads of crappy ideas but it was productive! Had debrief, and us Arellites stayed back for yet another walk-in/skit rehearsal. Ended at 8pm, got a lift home from Joel's dad.

Hmm... I don't feel any different from the changing of the years. It still feels the same. Blooiee.

Erica is changing church. Went out with her and Ze Yun and Yurong and Shermin and Sarah after Sunday service for lunch. Haha me and Shermin didn't know that Ze Yun and Erica were together. How slow are we.

And speaking of that, me and Yurong had a "relationship" that lasted for 2 days? Haha.

I'm rushing all my homework. Didn't touch my Maths holiday assignments at all.

OG1 OGLs Ruth, Joel and Rhoda came over to my house yesterday to scheme up evil games, forfeits, cheers etc. "We're gonna kick your buns!"

Called most of the people in my OG. Then started chatting online with this girl named Su Kai.

And today was the first day of school!

OG1 is soooo quiet, but they're still cooperative enough. And besides, it's the first day of school, so we can't expect much either.

Su Kai thinks I'm weird. WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY THAT??

Should I do my numerical approach tutorial questions?

I stayed in school till 8pm today to rehearse the Aerius walk-in. They changed the song/movement/procedure yet again.

I'm utterly tired now. And my voice is a weak whisper now. Shouted and cheered too much.