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Friday, March 16, 2007

half-past march!

MARCH, started with nothing special on first. lol.

second of march was the day when the achievements of the Dragon batch was announced! it was the release of the A level results! hmm, i forgotten how mani 8 distinctions were there.. i think there were 13 or 15 of 8Ds or 9Ds.. i didnt go remember them one by one but, what the J2 batch achieved last year was inspiring and will drive me to work hard and do well for my A levels in two years time!i will get my all A's and be the top few students, yayay. haha. thats my aim lar, AIM HIGH!

SATURDAY, 3rd of March, VICTORIANS' DAY! er, sounds very formal but it's not a very big event lar. there was free prata breakfast in the canteen, served until lunchtime, but i didnt go get a plate of that.. wasnt really hungry. haha.
also, i heard from yu an later that day that they had massdance earlier in the day like 11am plus. not bad eh. i went to school at 12plus for the OGL training at 12.30pm.. I, along with like 7 other classmates signed up to be an OGL for orientation 2! i think our class is the most enthu one lar, to have eight people who signed up for O2 OGL (: yay 63 rox! LYNX ROCK TOO! there was a follow up second practice on Monday on briefing of games and teaching of mass dances.. i personally feel that the j1 student councillors arent good at teaching mass dance. some of the mass dance IN-CHARGE dont know the dances well too..

monday was an official FULL DAY OFF as requested by our ex-principal mrs chan due to the good A level results achieved. it was the first day-off declared by the new principal mr chan poh meng... i was neutral to it but the declaration of day-off was a special experience la..

moving on slightly to Orientation two.. a general description of the way the student councillors taught the newcomers was like this: along with the description in words, the mass dance in-charge (MaDICS) demonstrated the moves once and thats all... like huh, how to get it on first sight lor! they should at least let the new ppl try once wad... i think they noticed that a large portion the second intakes arent really on their feet, figuring how to move, but they didnt like command the ogls to pull them out and guide them along.. hmm, i did attempt to teach our new classmate, jeremy, on the second day of massdance session, but they really went real fast that i cant let him try the moves at least once.. nevermind.

the attendance of the J1s in general was... bad. hahaha. each house only consisted of a small cluster near the end of the second day.. but i think LYNX has the greatest number of people lor!! and our class has one of the best attendance! nearly perrrfect! and we stayed throughout the two days. S63 rocks lah! lol. oh yah, i dislike it when the emcees, mark & dhilshad, use 'one silent clap' too much... sometimes they use it like every other 30seconds or so, wth man... they can just SCREAM into the mike and scare us out that they get our attention or do something else right?

secondly, the emcees were giving HOUSE POINTS like free for any activity on the second day, which will screw the whole house point system lor. they nvr think of the consequences... one example will be that a house will get like 50 house points for just sitting down first in the hall, as compared to when people run so darn hard for cross country and they win less than 10 points for the house.. they also give 500 house points for some small activities, when the top house in veejay has less than 200 points then.. crappy lah. but the good thing is that the house points that they gave wasnt approved or converted into a small percentage..

also on the second day of orientation in the afternoon, it was super funny when the emcees asked for a cheer and phoenix cheered, ursa cheered, draco cheered, pegasus cheered, aquila cheered, lynx STONED. HAHA. cheering in silence! nice lor. yay. lynx rocks! the fact of that day still holds -- LYNX IS OFFICIALLY THE COOLEST HOUSE EVER, thank you (:

after orientation 2, was v tired that i slept and didnt do any work that night.. i woke up earlier the next morning at abt 4+ and tried to complete the economics assignment but hahah, i dozed off every other sentence anyway.. forgotten how much i wrote in the end...

friday, the last day before the march holidays, it was an okay day. the PE lesson was some slight exercise and a lecture which lasted about 35mins. ahhaha, ok what they taught ar... darn. i think the 3 principles are specification, overloading, reversibility. yup. i shant elaborate here. coz it aint very the crucial... ask me personally if u want, i will try my best to recall and explain whatever i have learnt frm there. haha.

in overall, 07S63 has 3 newcomers! initially, jocelyn, jeremy, kai xian, and wenting came. wenting disliked vj and so it's good for both S63 and her that she returned to her original nanyang jc.. during economics lesson, one student got transferred into our class, his name is mao zhicong, i think so.. he wants us to call him mao. unfortunately, kaixian got forced to transfer to 07S65 because they had alot of guys and required more girls so, aiyo. not very fair for her actually.. so, the new members of 07S63 are JOCELYN, JEREMY & MAO! welcome ppl, now our class has 14 guys n 11 girls, imbalance arh! haha.. during pae we had 12 guys and 12 girls, that was more special yup..

S63 went to delifrance, parkway parade, for lunch! it was our first meal outside after JAE! in overall, it costed $150.** for abt 13 people in all? that auntie which served us was friendly, funny, helpful! her name is audrey lim as seen on her name tag. i took the comments sheet and we all submitted the honest, positive comments abt her. and there was this one free baguette for us after the meal.. ok, i used to eat this long long baguette cos it's extremely delicious! yumm, haha

i intended to go FLY KITE on saturday afternoon but it was kinda late when my family was free, so i suggested to my dad to bring me to buy a new bike for me! yay. initially, we went to the bike shop abt a kilometre plus away from my house to look see look see.. and what the heck, the cheapest bike was a thousand odd. okay, i think those were all high-class mountain or racing bikes for competition so, we moved out and on to the bike shop located around katong, joochiat area that me & my bro bought our first 4-wheel bike, where i bought my second bike which was 2-wheel... after browsing the range of about 8bikes and making a small list of choices of bikes based on my how my desired bike looks for like 20-30mins, there were two models left.. and i took darn long to decide which one i should take, hahaha. i just had to make sure i make the right choice that i'll not regret mah. so all in all, me and my parents spent like an hour in that shop. i picked my current one based on colour, frame look initially. the deciding factor was the anti-rust for the spokes and frame, & better gear system ba... i wanted black colour cos it looks cooler, and stains are not so easily seen but only blue or silver was available, so i chose blue, as i think that silver bikes dont look really nice leh. i cycled my bike home that day, a distance of about 3.7km! haha. when i first got on my bike, i wasnt really used to it cos the seat was quite high, and a slight force on the pedal moved the bike a distance as the gear was low.. heres a peek of my bike lah, and the swing that i have at home but under-utilised. heh

the first night i went to adjust the tension of the front set of gears cos it wasnt working very fine, then darn, the chain came loose when i was testing gear-changing.. then i also went to adjust the back gear, wah, haha, i shouldnt have attempted to. aiya, gei kiang(act clever) . hehehe. cos the shop gave me this general bike manual mah, then i went to read it for fun. and actually it works for the front set of gears, but the back one wasnt exactly true so the gear system went siao siao, bleh. sunday was day-off for the shop, so i went back on monday late morning at around 11.30plus.. i got tan lines after that cos it was the noon, afternoon sun, hot sia.. also, i had a slight headache in the afternoon at arnd 4+, and only realisd in the evening that it may be due to exposure to the scorching hot sun for hours! after adjustment in the late morning, i cycled to ecp and to bedok jetty enjoy sea breeze, and back to siglap.. halfway thru, i realised that the initial gear problem was solved but another problem was created.. theres difficulty in changing to the other extreme gear. diao! in the end, after much thought that i better not gei kiang to try to solve the problem myself and yuan advised me to cycle down to the shop personally for another servicing 'for the future of my bike', i rang them up and i went down to katong area again! this was a real servicing sia, it took about 15minutes! thank god that my bike is thoroughly-serviced and still working safely! ((: heh. that uncle re-positioned the height of the front gears, the tension both gears and tested all the gears. hmm very fine. thanks uncle!

i toured around my estate that evening, conquered the steepest slope in the vicinity of my home, namely the opera estate 'hill'.. one day you should really go see it if you havent. magnificent! hahaha
i cycled on sunday monday tuesday.. haha. on sunday, i reached the fort road end of east coast park for the FIRST time! not bad huh. the end of the ecp there was just a large green piece of metal to block the pathway, and thats all.. haha. frm there, u can leave by the side to fort road towards tanjong rhu..

earlier on sunday i did some random rubbish designing for my file divider for each subject too... i shall display general paper and chemistry over here, haa. hope u'll like it lol (:

tuesday, i went to siglap park connector, which is a short distance behind my house to practice cycling without holding the handle! heh. i cycled up and down the park connector and met some people twice or thrice. super awkward lah. hahaha. for eg, there was one person who looked like a contractor sitting on a stone bench near a house under construction, then i passed by him twice. lol,

i shall skip wednesday and thursday cos it shant be revealed as yet. stay tuned till end of march for entry for 14th-15th march!

oh this can say, thursday evening, i went to the dentist's and changed my braces colour to green. GREEN FOR LYNX CATS YAY!

today is friday the 16th, my mum bought pizzahut for lunch! oh, and we tried this melrose chicken riblets... it's quite expensive i should say!!! 2 pieces for $2.95... heres a glimpse of 4 pieces. i think i'd rather buy 2 garlic bread with that money, it's more delicious!!

at 4.50pm i left home towards ecp via victoria sec nearby de underpass.. out of the underpass, i arrived at ski360deg and i began cycling towards fort road end.. haha, i reached one end and headed for the other end of eastcoast park, the entrance of SAFRA, and i travelled further up on the pavement towards changi airport and reached the junction bside the changi airport runway!

thats the view of the runway (:

i witnessed a commercial plane fly above my head, what an amazing sight! ahh, i wanna fly! (: i also managed to cycle a distance freehand around fortroad area of ecp, like a kilometre? heh, every attempt is a step closer to achieving the purrfect balance! (;

on the way back from changi end, when i was cycling across this bridge over the canal, there was a car closely behind me. tat instant, one female shouted,"be careful!" im very thankful that she's concerned even though we dont know each other.. i replied, "thanks :)"... she was among the group of 2 males n 2 females, inclusive, on the pavement of the bridge playing, chatting & taking photos together.. if one of the guys over there was her bf, lucky guy! haha. ok thats random. this's the bridge where the incident occured

at 6.40pm, i was at the end of the jetty, by the sea, enjoying the refreshing breeze again while in thoughts.... i saw this not-so-bad sunset too~

all in all, i cycled about 20km plus??? cos i cycled twice the length of east coast park! hahaha. great experience..!! (:

wow, it's 12:23AM now.. and i've been blogging for so so long lar. hahaha.

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