haha tomorrow is our trip!

and sorry i havent been able to upload pictures of my class' madness, because i lost that stupid link cable from phone to computer! haha but i shall find it when i come back

and i guess its now very early in the morning so i better get to bed if not i wont be able to go tomorrow! haha i wasnt feeling too well this morning but NO SMALL ILLNESS CAN KEEP ME FROM POLO TRIP! haha ive been waiting for this trip for 2 years and im not gonna let it pass me by man

though malacca is such a letdown... haha but still fun la get to spend some "quality" time with the guys haha tomorrow is our match against kl youth team (under 18) and i want to swop shirts! hahahah sportsmanship is very high on our agenda

anyway, il be posting some pics of our madness when i get back!

bye! miss me :D

aiyah that means 4 days without fm leh. i sure die!

haha i cant believe now im doing some maths stuff my mom made me do

good riddance la, who ask me never study properly during the term lol now have to do and cant play my beloved football manager 2007 with cake hahaha

anyway, i shall upload some pics of what our class did this year, cos some of them are really qutie memorable... all the fun we had in our class, doing "class deco" and needless to say, the gay couple of hiok and jorel! hahahaha

i miss my class so much and its only the start of hols (yeah, i wish) haha but we'll still be the same class next year! haha okay back to maths im just trying to escape it

oh and here are some great videos to kill your time with. ALI G forever!



haha this video is brimming with anti-beckham sentiment, something that is made for me! haha james milner > david beckham pls

haha aiyah just go youtube search for ali g and sure have comic relief

hai how could you do such a thing!?!?!

hes like the nicest guy and you could bear to do such a thing...

hah you suck la...

an update!

haha i went for work last week and now i decided that im not going anymore... we spent like our whole day working our asses off for them for a few days and what they do? they mistreat us. yes, they mistreat us.

my friend he after be concierge for damn long he go take a mineral water bottle with the hotel logo on it to drink cos he very thirsty, then the GM saw him doing that and screwed him then threw him in so lousy obscure department that no one wants to do. filing lol

so i also not happy lor! so i dont go and ive been telling the rest to not go too. hah we go on strike! even paid workers can quit lor, so non paid workers can also quit right! hmpf haha quite pissed with them for treating him like that la

heh anyway, on a happier note, i returned to training on friday after a week's absence working for that stupid place. haha i thought i would perform really badly cos thats what usually happens to me after not training for some time... but i actually played well! haha duno why maybe a break from polo improves how quick your mind responds? haha

and im going on a trip from 25th-28th november to malacca with the polo team to play the KL youth team and hwachong (i duno why must play in malacca lol) and some other team i think probably malacca youth team or something heh

and we are playing the indonesian youth team on monday and frankly, im not too excited about the prospect. haha rj beat them by a few goals only and rj always thrash us when we play them. but thats not something that i should be dwelling on la haha anyway friendlies are to make friends! and thats something i love to do

heh oh and by the way, youth teams refer to teams consisting of the best players from that region in the under 18 category lol so we die

who wants me to buy some stuff from malacca?

happy birthday boy hope you enjoy it wherever you are.

haha and ive been feeling damn lousy for the whole day from last night.

argh

haha hi everyone!

today was my work exposure programme briefing at the oriental hotel, so i woke up very early for my standards (at 9am) and slacked around before making my way to the hotel and reaching there at around 11am.

we reached there and just slacked around before we went to find the lady who was supposed to brief us and show us some videos (yes, boring!) and after that we went to have lunch. haha lunch was good and then we had to go back to the briefing room to watch videos again.

the videos are super sian! and they are like propaganda tools talking about what oriental mandarin's 11 pillars of success crap and duno what else it was about hahahaha

anyway after those videos the lady who was in charge of us brought us around for a tour of the staff area and quite cool la never knew hotels had such elaborate basements haha a new experience!

she asked us whether we wanted to watch another video but we all said we didnt want to so in the end she just told us that if her superior asked us whether we had watched the video we just say we watch before then can already so she just let us go home early hahahaha

rocks to have such an easygoing person in charge of you la haha i think we go there just give them free labour only lor haha im in the concierge department like got alot of guest interactions, which is good la, cos im talk cock king what. hah

anyway, gtg! tomorrow got work again, sigh. training sia. BORING!

hey hi people!

im back from ccal camp and our last two gruelling matches in the u16 competition which took place during camp and so we had to leave camp to go those two matches, feeling tired and dreary and out of energy...

haha anyway i tried to post last friday but it didnt work! i duno why stupid blogger. or maybe cos i tried copying and pasting some crap from this website http://swimming.org.sg/wpcompetition_local-2006_U16.html

haha go read the matches about ri team A vs women's team and vs great white aquatics! yeah ehh i got special mention okay! haha though they spelt my name wrongly...

haha anyway i think that the ccal camp ive experienced these past 3 days was nothing short of inspiring, because its like everyone getting togeter and having this shared experience as a batch of ccals together, and it really shows that we are not just ccas, we are all rafflesians, striving towards that common goal, which is to bring glory to the school.

it really makes me feel proud to wear that badge/crest over my chest knowing that i will do my utmost best to fulfil this privilege given to me, cos its not only a privilege, its a duty too, a duty to uphold the 183 years of excellence that ri has had. haha i guess thats a tall order but i think its good! haha

anyway let me recount the past few days...


monday

was the start of ccal camp. i reached there and got into line and did all those camp stuff like attire check and the confiscation of handphones and wallets (though i kept mine) and went to AVT to listen to alot of talks and speeches on the topic of the rafflesian spirit.

haha i think mr eng and mr magendiran are brilliant speakers, though mr eng doesnt look the like. hes like one chunky pe teacher who doesnt speak clear english, but he has a flair for making speeches and enabling people to like see the scene from what he is saying. haha i really could imagine it. and of course mr mag was as usual the brilliant speaker that he always is, and we polo guys got off at around 3 to go for our match.

i went home and did some business (a general term used here, cos business is something you have to do before every camp) and went off for the match against combined schools. i think we were very nervous or something but we kinda played quite badly and i played badly too like i wasnt totally focused on the match. maybe because of the camp but i cant give excuses la haha

anyway final score 6-9 we lost and i went back to dinner and back to camp feeling damn bloody rotten and feeling like i let everyone down. i guess everyone was feeling the same way and aha i didnt have a good night's sleep to say the least la haha i was really feeling damn damn bad

but i alleviated the feeling la hahahaha cartharsis i went to suan all my groupmates there about my great dinner i had which was long john's (while they had mamee noodles) hahahaha i xing4 zai1 le4 huo4 ohwells


second day tuesday

we woke up and started packing up before they suddenly summoned us to fall in and do pt. hah i got my mc from physical activities so me and brandon sat out and slacked so we saw them doing push ups so we faster volunteered to clear up the campsite if not we would have to go do too because our medical excuses only covered the running part. haha we damn slacker

haha then we kayaked from changi point to loyang there me and weixiang went crazy in our kayak. hahaha we would kayak super super hard until like damn damn fast to near the front, and en route banging several kayaks (not on purpose, of course) hahah and then drift to the back and chiong to the front by banging alot of kayaks again hahaha so that way we reached loyang. haha we also banged the instructor's kayaks quite a few times lol

at loyang we played some games like some game that had one of us leading all the rest of us with a new language that we made up on the spot to navigate through a maze and make it to the finish. haha and other games like seniors planting themselves in a few lines across a patch of grass and we have to cross them to win. haha eventually all the groups won lol we rock! haha i was damn sneaky.

and the last game was tug of war. haha my group got second for that one cos we got beaten by the sheer power of the titus ting and their group even beat the pe teachers! hahahaha and my hand got blistered before the match, how champ of me. haha but all for fun la

then mr adrian chng and another pe teacher drove us to changi point where we picked up our bags and brandon's mom very kindly picked us up from there and we went brandon's house to replenish our energy supply. haha. we reached there and slacked in their living room while brandon went to bathe and his mom brought all the energy food like gatorade and muesli bars and hash browns and chicken pies and alot alot more until we actually felt like we could play against acsi later hahahaha

after that we set off to toa payoh, again kindly chaffeured by brandon's mom and we reached there before realising that mr anthony lim told the guys that the match was at 7pm when it was actually at 6! but luckily we ri guys have this policy of reaching the matches 1 hour early so we called all of them and they were able to make it by 630pm, in time for warm up.

i started the match feeling quite nervous, since it was against acsi and stuff like that. but as time wore on i lost this nervousness and started getting in my stride hahahaha what acs? we went into the first quarter break with a 1-0 lead before briefly trailing in the second quarter 2-1 and then we equalised to end the half at 2-2 against acsi. haha ehh must thank me okay i made some good saves then!

anyway after the halftime break i felt really burnt out already cannot jump anymore hahahaha but i continued to play and they didnt threaten much and we never looked back, just scoring 8 goals without reply. haha i subbed myself out in the third quarter break cos i was dying already and after getting subbed out i just lay on the floor and took in deep breaths. hah camp could have killed me

after the match i was just smiling blissfully and i couldnt even walk properly just staggering from side to side hahahaha but that was really one blissful moment indeed just looking at the faces of everyone and seeing that smile on their faces, knowing that we had done it.

we went for dinner afterwards and went to brandon's house again so that he could get his stuff before we went back to school. haha i bought for my groupmates alotalot of stuff like drinks and chips and i bought for the other group that we always work with group 7 some chips too. haha i was a very popular person yesterday with alot of people coming to take food hahahha


third day today


today was last day and they had pt in the morning which we sat out again. haha they ran around and around and we sat down there talking about last night's match and woah im damn happy again man! haha i feel a true sense of achievement. but let it not blind me, nationals is next year and theres still some time to it.

after pt we had a short talk before we went to unpack all our stuff and pack up our tents. haha in the end some group koped our tent and anyhow packed so they tents were mixed up but the pe teachers didnt care they say they would sort it out later haha how nice of them

we were released at around 4pm and my group had a group debrief which ended some time later and i went to junction 8 to have "lunch". haha a real belated lunch but anyhow, still nice food. haha i miss my groupmates and GIs already!


i think this camp has taught me much la and made me real proud of that badge hanging just in front of my chest. i hope i will make myself and make the institution proud, and fulfil that duty that has been handed to me by my peers when they voted me in. haha

haha sorry for the lack of updates!

yeah as cake said, ive been playing football manager in my free time, which isnt much to start with. and ive been feeling very tired after my matches for RI team A in the u16 competition.

yup we've been playing in this competition and first day on monday we beat CSC 28-3 or something like that. haha for this match i played first half and had no business at all didnt even make a save. then second half i let brian play and jiaolian say let them score a few goals so we obliged lor. haha give them face

second match on tuesday was against great whites. alot of familiar faces la, like aaron and pradeep (i duno how to spell his name) and benedict and jordan. haha we played quite okay against them. final score 12-2 again i played the first half for this match and i kept a cleansheet then i let brian play and unluckily for him they were resurgent after the break and managed to score two goals although he played qutie well. haha

The final score may seemed like it was an easy game for Raffles A but the game was far from one-sided. Great White gave their opposition a run for their money as they displayed grit and determination in their defence. It was only in the middle of the 1st quarter that Raffles A managed to break the duck through Koh Jian Ying in a rare counter attack move. Throughout the rest of the game, Raffles A’s counter attacking play was contained by Great White’s zone defence. Despite that, Raffles A’s fluid attacking moves in the zone formation created opportunities for shooter, Brandon Chong to deliver from the perimeter of the zone. Raffles A’s goalkeeper, Seetow, had a superb game as he was constantly barraged by the Great White attack and his line was only breached in the 3rd quarter. With this result, Raffles A tops Group A and will play the runner-up of Group B on Thursday, 2 Nov. Tomorrow’s game will see CSC play against Great White for the final spot in the winner pool.

after this we qualified for knockout round against national women's team. the winner of this tie would go into the group of top 3 while the loser would go to the group for the 4th-6th playoffs. haha and we won it 5-3. it was a really really tough match and i think we were really too complacent yet quite nervous because of the weight of the expectations. haha the women were quite good, much improved compared to start of the year, probably cos they are now coached by sai meng, our national youth u18 coach. hah hes very good la.

anyway in the match, i let in an early 1 on 1 from some woman and there went my cleansheet! argh after that i was quite angry with myself so i started playing better and i saved this close range wing shot from another woman and plucked another woman's shot out of air. haha first half we were leading 3-1. second half the ref anyhow sack people, i duno whats his problem. sack them also duno the rules. haha anyway we survived the storm and i saved alot of their shots but they still scored two but we ran out 5-3 winners. and guess who got man of the match? look no further.

Both teams were neck to neck from the start with the ladies drawing first blood in the opening minute of play through Dyan’s quick flick at close range. The Raffles boys came right back into the game and equalised with a Koh Jian Ying goal from long range. Recognising the opposition goalkeeper’s weakness in saving long range shots, Raffles A’s following 2 goals by Tom Yet and Lim Shang Cong came from beyond the 5-metres mark. With a 2-goal margin by half-time, the National Women’s fought back strongly in the 3rd quarter which saw a flurry of exclusion fouls on the Raffles boys as they desperately hung on to their slim advantage. Despite 3 consecutive man-up situations, the ladies were unable to breach the tight defence of Raffles A. The best player of the match must surely be Raffles A goalkeeper, Seetow Shiun Yong, as he continually frustrates the National Women’s attack. Raffles A will join Combined Schools and their traditional rival, ACS (I) in the gold medal playoff.

haha not bad eh? haha yay but they spell my name wrongly