Monday, July 31, 2006
My best friends...
By chronological order
MuQuan- Took the same bus from primary 4-6, saw him everyday played a tonne of stupid games like "charge", laughed a lot with him. Currently he went to RI i think, inevitably we distance but i still regard him as 1 of my best friends.
Thomas- A guy one year younger than me, but i had a very close bond with him. Like with edwin, would play soccer from afterschool to 6+, and we sat on the same bus as well. He introduced me to advance wars, an amazing gba game and everytime i play it i would have memories of him...he went to ri, i tried addin his msn but to not much avail.
Edwin Thong- Hah. Extremely close to him in primary 6, we basically stuck together everyday. After class, ate, played soccer till he had to go or till 6+. In my class in primary 6 he was probably my best friend. Love him (:, tho he is stupid enuff to go to ri.
John Peter Ong- Sat beside him during p6 i think, also pretty friendly with him in primary 6 but it was during sec 1 and 2 that we really became great friends. Hmm, shared a lot of funnay moments together with thong in primary 6 too. Somehow, despite not having too many similar interests (he poon cs, don't know shit about soccer, me viceversa), we share pretty similar beliefs, moral values, integrity, and understand one another.
Wincoln- Started to know him through high jump but what really pulled us together was our love for soccer. During sec 1 and 2, while qihan was slogging his guts doing weights, me and wincoln were busy owning the street soccer court pooooooon. When he still went to high jump regularly, we always played soccer aft training before going to the poolside and treating each other at our whim and fancy. He probably owes me a hell lot of money more than i owe him but i don't care (:
Min Jian- Our first meeting was through an msn convo where i thot he was a girl (chanminjian ger name pls), and we were shouting vulgarities at one another. In sec 1 and 2 years, we got along extremely well, john was kind of reserved when i suggested doing stupid things while mj was willing to play stupid games with me. One stupid game was this Taichi-18dragonpalms thing where we surrounded ourselves with tables, then tried using "forceful" or "yielding" palms to cause the other to fall onto the table. Arena was the class for the win.
Also, for a time i shared some wonderful times with songyi, xingyun, and zhu hui. Zhu hui left us for England and the day before his departure felt extremely weird and sad. We really didn't want him to go, but he seems to be alright in Englannd now. Hopes he visits us somneday.
As for songyi, for a time we would go home on the same bus together, go to the same hairdresser, play on the same soccer team. We don't meet up that oftenn in sec 3, but i still remember the past 2 years.
Xingyun is more like er..haha used to take the same bus as me home then we would huddle on the staircase leading to my house and chat about all sorts of things. Most commonly cheang, haha. Somehow, this discontinued, but i still remember.
Of course, i have plennty of onther friends but i probably wouldn't give my life up for all those. For my best friends, i would. Have a good day.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 8:42 AM
Friday, July 28, 2006
Reys received and controlled the pass from his captain, Xain. He felt two defenders dashing towards him and gritted his teeth. Throughout the game, those two had taunted and mocked him repeatedly, sending kicks and elbows into his body when the referee wasn't looking.
One of the defenders jumped in front of him, eyes trained hungrily onto the ankle of Reys. The heel of Reys lightly pushed the ball towards the defender but kept it well within his control. It was a taunt, daring the defender to come forward to tackle the ball away.
"Here Reys!" Xain called out urgently, coming from his right to give support. Reys took his heel off the ball and his ankle made to pass to the captain. The defender made a move to his right, preparing to cut the pass off.
With a burst of speed, Reys pushed the ball forward right at the moment the defender shifted his postion, catching him offguard. The second defender rushed to stop him, but a devious feint of the shoulder allowed Reys to push the ball forward a second time. Suddenly, he was in the opponent's penalty area unopposed.
The goalkeeper had already ran towards him, intending to cover the angle of his shot. A burst of glee ran inside Reys as he scanned the goal. All the taunts and hits he had to endure, he would now pay back. Then, his whole body was struck down and he fell screaming in pain.
An extremely agonizing pain had torn into his ankle. Blood soaked his socks and stained the grass red as Reys rolled around the ground in agony. The first defender he had dribbled past had slid in viciously, and now stood up with a sadistic smirk on his face.
That was the last time Xain saw Reys on the soccer field.
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"Dude, that is so uncool, eating packed lunch in a fast food restaurant." Guanvard, the team's centerback remarked as Samuel, the other centerback took out his blue-coloured lunchbox. Xain and his soccer team had settled into a fast food restaurant after a gruelling session of training.
Samuel ignored Guanvard's comment and looked down and continued eating as the rest of the team placed his orders. He came from a poor family, and was used to the taunting and teasing already. Guanvard on the other hand, came from a considerably rich family and cared tremendously about his image. In fact, nearly all his clothing was branded and he always carried the latest handphone.
"Dude, seriously. Get out from this table if you're going to eat packed lunch, I don't want to look stupid man!" Guanvard continued. He felt the other people in the fast food restaurant smirking and smiling at his table and felt extremely bothered by it.
"Stop caring so much about your image and shut up Guanvard." Xain stepped in.
"Goddamnit, you're making all of us look stupid!"
"FINE!" Samuel burst out in fury, snarling at Guanvard. Fingers trembling in anger, Samuel slammed the lid of his lunchbox and hurled it into his bag before he stormed out of the fast food restaurant. This time, the commotion really did attract attention from the surrounding tables.
"What the fuck is wrong with you Guanvard!" Xain lashed out, closing his eyes in frustration. They had not yet been able to find a replacement for Reys, and here, Guanvard was making even more trouble.
"Wait a moment. Isn't that the bastard Rick Shane?" Zlatan, the centre midfielder of the team said. The defender who had broken Reys's ankle, Rick Shane, had just entered the fast food restaurant. Scanning the fast food restaurant for a seat, Rick Shane found himself looking into the eyes of the Helmwell soccer team captain, Xain.
POOOON storytime i shall try to continue the story everytime iblog k! Someone has to supply me with topics rofl i don't got too many ideas
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 7:12 AM
waow the kid got 25/30 for that amazing double standard compo. I win pleasho.
Do you want to see what i placed in the student led conference portfolio?
I can hear you all, calling and begging. No.
I'll come back later.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 5:45 AM
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Nothing interesting going on lately. Anyways, here's something i wrote as an expository compo for English...
Double standards between teachers and students
Everywhere in our lives, double standards are a common sight. Salespersons approach people who look more well-off than others, as this means there is a higher possiblity for the well-off person to buy merchandise in the shop. As a student, i have found that the most common and obvious standards are actually in the school compound. The difference in respect accorded to teachers and students, the consequences both face when they forget to bring a particular assignment, how canteen vendors prioritize teachers over students during canteen breaks are but just some examples of double standards in the school.
No one questions the validity of the double standards. As an adult, the teacher is often given the excuse that he or she is extremely busy with work and because she is so completely overwhelmed by the workload he/she has, the assignment he/she was supposed to bring to class was forgotten. When a student forgets to bring his assignment, depending on the leniency of the teacher, he/she is either heavily reprimanded or given an extension. Either ways, teachers are often excused for commiting the sin of "forgetfulness" on a much more regular basis than students.
Students are expected to rise up and greet the teacher when he/she enters the classroom. During school events, the menial labour of carrying chairs and tables are always done by students. Canteen vendors can be regularly seen serving teacher who "jump" the queue, ignoring the couple of students who had queued and waited much earlier. These are all examples of teachers being accorded more benefits and privileges than students, even though all they have been doing is simply to do their job of teaching. However, double standards although seemingly unfair, might be necessary in the school context.
Picture the scenario of a teacher entering the class. The act of having students stand up and greet the teachers actually contains 2 purposes; 1. Recognizing the presence of the teacher and therefore according him/her respect, 2. Putting the teacher in an elevated status, achieved by the singularity of solely having to stand up and greet the teacher as compared to when greeting a friend.
The first purposes serves to focus the student's attention, preparing them for the lecture or lesson ahead. Since the teacher actually already has the attention of the students right at the start of the lesson, he/she can therefore start the lesson with the assurance that, at the very least, he/she has the attention of the students at the beginning of the lesson. The second purpose emphasizes the superiority of the teachers over students, with the teacher in a more elevated status thus commanding more authority. This is crucial in maintaining the discipline of the class, ensuring that the student fears the authoritative figure sufficiently as to not cause trouble or mischief.
Without this double standard, the likely scenario that would occur would be that students pay little to no attention to the teacher, according he/she little respect. Lessons are often disrupted by mischevious, inattentive students, and pranks might even be committed against teachers. The class loses its discipline and order, their attention easily diverted and distracted, being unable to pay attention to the lessons. In the end, the grades of the students suffer and the teachers' ability to teach is questioned, his/her job jeopardized. Here, the validity of the double standards is unquestioned, and is a necessity.
Another example would be the double standard when commiting the sin of "forgetting". Teachers claim they are extremely busy, with heavy workloads and tight schedules. Or that they, having to teach several classes, forget about the particular progress of a particular class, hence commiting the sin of "forgetting". However, some teachers fail to realise that many a time, students themselves have extremely tight schedules, such as organising leadership events, intensive extra-curricular activities made compulsory by the school, more special programmes organised by the school which they have to attend regularly, plus year-long projects. All these culiminate into completely-packed school weeks, with the only resting periods being the weekends, and even this is sometimes compromised by other school-based events. In fact, this seemingly leaves no time for a student's self-exploration of life in his youth, since he is already too occupied with schoolwork.
The obvious purpose of this double standard is to ensure students hand up their work on time. However, quality of work is compromised for time, with students having to complete work from other subjects as well. In the end, the true purpose of assignments, meant to encourage students to revise and gain a better foundation, dissapears in exchange for quantity of work. Therefore, this double standard is unfair to the students and does not have a positive function to it.
The third example is of a canteen vendor allowing teachers to "jump" queues over earlier students. Firstly, this has absolutely no relation to the learning or teaching in the school. It is actually a result of the establishment that teachers are of a higher status than students. As adults and teachers, somehow their need for food as compared to students is more important and urgent. Granted, sometimes teachers need to rush off to a particular place or class, but does that not apply to students?
After school, students might need to rush off quickly for some other activities and choose to have a quick lunch first. Some teachers politely ask if the students are in a rush for time, before jumping the queue. Perhaps the student might not be in a rush for time, but what about the students behind him who are also queuing? To outright reject a teacher would be awkward for the student, and embarassing for the teacher. Not only does this act not serve any purpose in helping the teacher better teach her students, it serves as a bad example for the students, who might then try to take advantage of others themselves.
The double standards that exist in school occur in various levels. Some are useful, while others, disgraceful. Some are necessary, while others, unjustified. As much as a teacher's authority is crucial in helping him/her teach her lessons, he/she should be just as aware not to abuse that authority.
End. Next post will probably be on how the Oral Participation system sucks in our school, for certain subjects. For me, at least. (Most of what i learn in IHC is pretty much common sense and i see no need to reiterate points that are fucking obvious)
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 7:02 AM
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Is blogging about your everydaylife boring?
Now that i've thought about it, not necessarily so. So why are some blogs such turn-offs?
Number1.It's because they either contain "emo" stuff. I find it quite disgusting for someone to spill and cry over small matters such as everyday quarrels with their parents. I find it quite boring to find out their new enemy each day, then see them posting insincere apologies online when in fact, there as nothing to be unhappy over with.
Do people give a shit about these superficial matters? No they don't. You often see teenagers complaining about how their parents suck and all. Whine,whine,whine. If you can't get what you want, either you are asking for too much or you can't efficiently get your message to your parents. Yeah, some parents are stricter than others, so, you're envious of other people's parents? I have plenty of classmates who have extremely strict parents and they go on life as per normal. Sometimes you see a hint of envy, but essentially, they absolutely do not whine to their friends about how bad their parents are. Everywhere i go i see people with handphones, honestly i do feel a tiny desire to get one too, but if i don't have it, be that way. It's not a big deal.
Or. you quarrel over some puny thing with your friend. It's okay, its interesting to pour out your feelings on why you feel your friend has let you down, especially if its justified. But puh-leese, cut out the subtle plead for sympathy, cut out the hidden daggers, cut out the "NONONO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS, YOU AWLAYS DO THINGS YOUR WAY" piece of crap which you could have avoided by telling her straight to the face.
Number 2.they go through the drones and bores of everyday life. fux you, you don't write about how you wake up, brush teeth, go to school in your school essays do you? Similarly, there's no need to tell us on how much fun you had with your friends in your "newest, new outing!", repeating how fun "playing lan voz!", repeating how fun "taking neoprints!" was, and then pasting a whole bunch of nonsensical pictures on the blog.
It's acceptable if you go straight to the point, talk about a fulfilling, interesting event. Not everydaycommon-things, kay! Oh, and if you want to talk about something "deep" or whatever, do it fully and not halfheartedly. Don't talk about how an incident about cat running over dogs was so heartless, then throw out a rheoteric (however u spell this!)question like "should we wake up!?" . Like OBVIOUSLY the answer is "no, only the blogger should wake upand close his blog". Superficial, fake, k->etcetc.etcetc.
Number3. speaking to friends in an ackutetone as if their blogs were an msn convo. Wow, i'm sure everyone reading your blog knows of your friend, the "spazzer, cheeko", or some random classmate of yours who you've decided to post a picture of you hugging her.
Here's a completely accurate example:
[picture of 2 fugly dogs]
"Luuk we're clownz l0l!"
End of example.
Anyways,Aran has a great way of making people feel good ):
He told me, after my training ended, that the coach had already selected 9 peoeple to start against the match against hcjc this saturday, and that i was one of the contenders for the remaining 2 spots.
Sounds good uh?
Only, when you think about it, contenders can mean everyone else in the soccer team excluding the 9. POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
But i feeel happy anyway, i'm no longer privategohan, i'm sergeantgohan because i fianlly crossed 170. WOOOOOOHOOOOO!
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 8:07 AM
Saturday, July 01, 2006
This is a common-everyday life post, but since there are 3 significant events today, i shall blog about it!
First, I had soccer training. I think i saw jiahui on the bus, but of course she didn't bother to say hi and i wasn't sure so nothing happened. Then, onto soccer, very tiring, drank huge amounts (i think at least 4 litres) of water and didn't feel like peeing at all because i was sweating like a fag.
So, i didn't know whether to go nyfunfair or not, because i was tired and i had no proper pants to wear, but eventually wore the bloody funny small pants anyways, since i was going to be bored at home. And Mark gave me a $5 coupon which i eventually lost, so i had more reason to go.
Anyways, the usual boredom, stand around look pretty pose set in. Then the other soccer people arrived and then they saw cheang! And me, who couldn't see very well couldn't see who cheang was and xingyun pushed me directly in front of her while i was pointing to her and she ran away.
Onwards, to the first event! Basically, i saw two people who's blogs i've flamed a bit (fine, i flamed cheang a lot more), cheang and vera. Vera pleaded with mj so badly to buy brownies, and her voice was fricking high and annoying. I wanted to say "hi i'm letalkid" but decided i was too cool for that! The other one is where i finally got a good look at cheang lolol (not the first time, during the third event. And then, twas funny, xingyun+zheng paid these group of people in charge of the podium to make an announcement and iype went up and said
"Hi, my name is Tay Zeng Hao (NO WAI!)and i'm here to dedicate a song for my friend, to Vera Shaw from class xxx. (mushy words which i forgot)"
Which led to many cheers, and later on, several sec 1/2 idiotic copycats dedicating even shitter mush-shit lines.
Which doesn't sound much but was extremely funny then ^_^
Second event! After being bored out of our minds, me and bx decided to go to buy some food. We couldn'tfind any proper, nice foodstalls so we were walking when we came across the ny carpark. So..we walked in and found a lift. the fux. NY has a freaking lift. obviously, since bx and me have never taken a lift before, we decided to take it! and went all the way to the 4th floor.
At the fourth floor, we saw the conference room, the boardroom, all the important rooms, as well as the computer labs and a few sec1 classrooms i think. FUNNNNNNNNNNN to explore, since we hardly get a chance to walk around ny freely. Then we saw the toilets and the girls door was wideopen while the guy's toilet was closed POOON. anyways, since the 4th floor seemed completely deserted with everyone at the 1st or 2nd floors, i shouted "ANYONE INSIDE!" and no one replied so me and bx peeked in booo itwas just normal, so whatever.
We checked out the male toilet...and it was just one single toilet seat+sink, like those disabled toilets. So, we were fiddling around, when bx found a secret compartment! It was where the cleaner kept all the spare toilet rolls and wehre the pipes connected, and then we saw light shining and behold! a very small, new path which led to a dead end after 2 metres! BX didn't dare so i snuggled past the pipes first and shifted to the open and i had a good view of everyone below me. FUUUUUUUUN PLZ
It was really quite exciting to walk into deserted places exploring places we've never been before. Then, we walked past the sec 1 classrooms and i was curious whether they locked it after we passed a few, so i opened the door and looked and omgwtf there were a few girls there. Like, we passed by so many classrooms and the first one i decided to open the door of contained people. With that, we SPRIIIIIIIINTED out of sight and continued our journey
Later on, we called kaisky and mj and a few others to explore the third story, and it was poooooon! At first, we simply explored a few more male toilets and found the same "new paths", then later on, we decided to explore the back of the hall and found the ny gymnasium. We only noticed the trampoline (which me and bx were the first to discover, yet again!) woooooo. And then i noticed some mini-whiteboard they had which they wrote messages on, and was horrified by this message which read
"Jia you! Come to HC gym sometime eh?"
And i was freaking disgusted and erased the thing off, replacing it with
"bingxiang was here"
Which bingxiang found freaking disgusting and erased off.
Anyways before we could have any bounce-trampoline fun, an ny girl came and pushed open the door to some room, which we later realised to be the gymnasium so we didn't dare to bounce on it POOOOON. Discoveries, discoveries.
Third event, me,bx,xingyun,gino,mj,kaiye were very bored anddecided to see if people were playing soccer, then we swept past a bunch of girls playing the nice swing. then we waited, and they left, then we went up! Me,mj,kaiye and bx sat on it whereas xy and gino went to sit on the benches watching us rock around the swing.
It's those kind of swings where there the seats are at both ends facing each other, then you sit and your legs are in the middle.
It was damn relaxing and enjoying sitting on the swing, as it ..swung...although i felt slightly sick after awhiile. then suddenly this cute, toddler called BALLACK rushed up, came from my back, held onto the poles of the swing and screamed "RAWR, YOU'RE GOING TO BE TRAPPED HERE FOR CENTURIES!" or something like that, but it was
really childish and cute. (K I FEEL SICK WRITING CUTE SO MANY TIMES)
Then, all of a sudden, a huge other bunch of toddles toddled to us, some of them getting on the swing, some pushing us back and forth, like we were surrounded by them, and ballack and his brother were trying to scare us (:! Then, they started to punch the back of our heads with their tiny fists, sometimes struggling and wincing to get on the swing, sometimes POOONING our heads, then we became a mass of screaming and laughter as we were overwhelmed by their childish innocence.
While ny throwers were stacking up benches.
Then a girl came and sat down, i think bx called out to sarah and i was wondering if it was cheang, then i turned and looked and then asked...and yea it was POOOON and i saw kaiye and cheang touching around and was even more confused andalso found out they are a couple.
So! A rather interesting day, where i met the persons behind the blogs i flamed, plus a chance to explore nygh, probably the last time i'll ever have the chance to, and having a great time with toddlers.
Fux this eventful day, tinker with guinsoo+boots of travel POOOOOOONS.
silverletal [Simple and Clean] 5:34 AM