Joseph's Philosophy

Had a rather short day today.Practical was cancelled,no biophysics,CRS was the same as always and AP chem still rocks my socks

AP chem was the blockbuster today.
Thing was,he didn't teach today.Merely gave us questions on salt hydolysis and buffers to do.
And i guess he taught us well,i must say.Somehow,i have to try to incorporate some of his life-skills into my life.in order to make it more colourful and less regretful when i'm old.someday,i'm gonna be grateful for all these skills that i have learnt.haha

sadly,one classmate wasnt around to listen to all the skills.haha

3am-10am

Its a blast.
had a chat with jon and co. over at eug place yesterday night.left around at 2 plus.Had a few sips of whisky and beer.they spoke about pri school life and how many people have changed,for the worst.
and how some of them had a great influence on them.
was damn tired when i left.didnt have late night supper with janvin and chinn deee cause it was rather late,and my eyes are closing shut.

today's paddling was tiring,did the worst 10km ever.capped numerous times(which i dont mind),and the stroking,its damn heavy on the core muscles.

and i felt rather dizzy the whole day today,and my right leg's still very numb after all the kneeling...

Small World

As usual,family gatherings.Have found it rather boring to be left out at a side in a corner at my mum's gmom place,so i decided to sit down on a chair and listen to their convo.
Something struck me,when i saw that somehow familiar face.I told myself that if i saw a person once,and i see them again,it would definitely be a correct ID.Truth came when mum spoke about sports and said that her kid is in canoeing and the other auntie compared it to her daughter who's in SP touch rug,i sense a familiarity to the face and i was convinced that i saw her before at FC6 and several times around the track.

I thought of a few things today and after speaking my mind,i decided that the few things were rather insignificant,so i shan't bother about it.so can relacccc...

visiting tomorrow again..skool's gonna start....in 2 days.
revision begins then..
till then...

Reunion Dinner

Had it over at Seafood Paradise.A relatively new restaurant located at the foot of the Singapore Flyer.Ambience wise was pretty good,but table settings wasnt that good,and the lineup of serving each dish was damn fast.Servings wise was damn little too.But still felt full towards the end of the course.Would never return to this restaurant i guess.
I was rather shocked to see the snaking queue outside the outlet when i exited.I could say the queue went on till the entrance of the flyer.phwa.Apparently,these guys are the second batch of people having reunion dinner at the restaurant.at 7pm.
this tells me,never again..
i guess nothing beats good' old steamboat at gmom house and everyone around the table.no second batches,no worries about not having enough to go around.

and its gonna be a new lunar year in 1,1/2 hours time.
time for chinatown....

CNY mood

Its saturday again guys.
and its CNY period.like not much difference this year.Somehow,reunion dinner aint reunion unless its a steamboat,which exactly what's in store this year.
Paternal side,Restaurant.thats like the worst....no atmosphere,time restrictions,lousy food,less servings perhaps.
Maternal side,sian....dinner.normal dinner and maybe with more dishes.
But well,its still somewhat a reunion i guess.

on other news,i have been neglecting my studies.i havent been revising after classes,and i canoe more than i study.
gonna use this 3 weeks left to buck up..not very favourable i guess,another 3 weeks chiong,sigh..gonna be like last sem again...

Open up your plans and damn you're free

Surfing the net,eating starfruits drizzled with salt and listening to music,all these under the shelter of MLT 1,away from the sweltering heat of the warm tropical sun.It could be this magical,if only sans the assessment part.
Its too good to be true,but if there wasnt any exams,i wouldnt be in this MLT,slacking,probably in the library,or somewhere in town.spending money away or maybe thinking about "jiahong is the loneliest guy on earth"theory.
And those guys were right that day probably.
18 years-those few months=nothing much probably
but 18 yrs-half a year,is quite some time yo...
but then,thats another case.

so,lets just relac and have some coffee..haa

Turmoil

End of the week,with most projects settled,and ending it with a trip down to favourite hangout for lunch...finally,feeling better and not so stressed out.FINALLY MAN

and its pretty good to hang out in the library after school on fridays.can listen to your favouritetracks and then have dinner by yourself.

everytime don't have enough time to watch my POTC dead man's chest everytime i log in.
wtf sia..

Dilemma

i have no idea why.but sometimes,i do feel quite lost in my class.probably because its like an all english environment.
Having been through secondary school with splatters of mandarin and singlish in my clique.Its quite different when i suddenly get thrown into an all english environment.No,i don't mean that i cannot cope,but afterall,mandarin is my mother tongue and i find it more comfortable to correlate something to people in chinese.
i really miss mr chua's lessons.and with jw dozing beside my desk and the idioms and ways mr chua expresses.sigh.
wang shi zhi neng hui wei.

and the thought of somethings really bother me,like during maths today..wahlao...

18

It was kinda like a routine dinner.with family
and you spend it just like any other birthdays in your life,sitting there,eating what you like in a buffet spread,and suddenly,the restaurant's music changed to a happy birthday song.
Seriously,i was rather surprised,and i was sure that it wasn't arranged by my parents.So,it appeared that someone else in the restaurant has the same birthday as me.
But i felt kinda good,hearing a birthday song,last time i heard it was last year,in CJC.XD.it was seriously good.
ok,plain dinner.On the other hand,it felt like.wow,18 already.and you're spending it like any other
day of your life,and you seem to have spent time with everyone else in your life,teammates,friends,family.and somehow,you're lacking the other person whom you have never had a dinner with,went out together before.not to include that screwed up thing last year.
well,sometimes,paths just don't cut.

And i could just place this matter,at the back of my head,and think of it every once in a while,not everytime,to prevent it from taking up too much emotions in my mind and affecting my performance.

Belated Birthday

SCM has officially ended.yesterday.
all the shitty waves at kallang has finally become a thing of the past,unless...opps.
one dollar canned drinks,shower rooms with taps,small wooden rack to place boats,shared shed with DB,dead fish,waves,dizzy.all these has become part of the experience.

18 already manzz.
abit too old,too fast.Now that i realised it.

Friends of Kallang

It started out as a hate-givingup-withdrawing effort,but it turned out okay.
I didn't expect to feel this way.I was at the verge of sending that message of withdrawal,but now it turned out to be better.
Though the wind was still prevalent today,i managed to use it,and wisely too.At least i could try to get myself near the walls and continue paddling.And the feeling was great today.
I don't mind capping on that day,but i'd rather not!

People didn't mind helping you when you capped,like how the polo people helped benny today,and the sdba guys.
and how i was helped yesterday by this bunch of dragonboaters.
and i was really grateful,that jeff asked me to come over for training.like a final decision,made on the spot.and i hoped i could really finish the 14km,and have a good time on my birthday.

and best of all........1 dollars canned drinks^^^^^^

Overtime

i suppose its a bit late.but well,better late than never
2008
NUM-NFF,pms shit,chicken chop rice,cineleisure,earholes,cheap monday skinnies,havaianas,stock takings
CJC PAE-IG17,games day down at old police academy,mud slides,detergent,celebrating birthday in school(first time),getting caked,friday,saturday night out,1T28,dragonboat at kallang,caked again,CJC canoeing,MacR,grandstand trainings,CJC PE,foo kit meng,indon maths teacher,quirky bio teacher,romantic gp teacher,fun classmates,doing stupid stuffs,vending machines,nigella;bestmate.
Breako-underage party,working at NUM,heeren shops,PIMPLES
Poly-SPCT,biotechnology,fun classmates again!,audrey yuen,audrey chen,naggy maths teacher,sucky SP modules,FC6^_^,FC1^^_^^PIMPLES,smell of kfc,MacR,Coach Goh,C-1 canoe.
2009
more relaxed,better grades,diving cert,more good food.and well whatever that comes.

strong wind,choppy waters,heavy traffic

muscle memory
fast K2
twist
knee numb
stop the boat
relax
don't tense up
stiff

Walk of the Year

happy new year doods.

2008 was just yesterday yeah.
current mood is very sleepy and tired and all other things associated with not sleeping the night before.
It was an exceptionally special way to spend time for the new year.Walking around town has never been this fun.You got to see sights that you never expected to see on an average wednesday night out,only that the place becomes filthier as the time passes and dawn breaks.Macdonald's trash cups and plastic bags can be seen lined on the steps of marina square.
I first reached the cafe cartel with them almost done with their dinner.Had a cuppa water and then they decided to head down to orchard road,to chill.Orchard road was quite an okay place,other than the fact that little punks colonised most of the streets when time was reaching the next year.But that i didn't care.Introduced them to the three bucks coffee which you could get down at gloria jeans.they didn't like it.They had quite a time irritating me out there though.
Fireworks there was great,i especially liked the red ones and those that dispersed.

Then i suggested the tau huay place down at paradiz area.So we got out of our seats and decided to take the long walk,as usual with jw complaining.And so then,it was quite some time past midnight and some foreign workers decided to celebrate the new year by spraying foam at passerbys.Managed to dodged them but others weren't so lucky.I bet they took the advantage to do cheeky stuff by spraying at girls which were walking around and i felt rather pissy at this point.

We spend each hour of the new year in a different place,with jiawei taking naps in between each of them.First hour was the walk towards paradiz centre.It wasn't that much a relaxing one though.I have never felt so adrenaline-rushing for this walk before.Some punks decided to teach these pesky foreign workers a lesson i guess and they took time to hunt them down.Whoa,like stag season yeah.and we manage to hide at the busstop down at le meridien to catch the show. Second hour or so was spent at the tau huay shop near paradiz centre.It was a good and healthy midnight snack.just so that you excluded the dough fritters which we never got to order cause it was always out of stocks or i suppose they stopped frying them.
Second hour to the third was spent looking for Mr tea. at SMU.
Clearly,it would have been closed at such an unearthly hour.So we decided to lepak at Laselle.It was a good place,the grass patch.We spent a good one and an half hour there until we got evicted out fo the prohibited place by a security guard.
It was emo time over there,thinking back on how 2008 went and the oh-so-populaire topic of my failure.Pwahlao,for a whole year they have been talking about it man.And as usual,i felted....wasted.
Third hour.National Library.Met a second security guard,but this guy was friendlier,giving us a gentle reminder not to lie and sleep.then,They felt their stomach growling and decided to walk to suntec to grab some macs.Went past Bras basah,and i swear i have never seen so many people got drunk and wasted in my life before.you can see people holding their friends.and some stranger dude can be seen sleeping outside raffles hotel's aisle like so happily in his sleep,not knowing that he could be robbed of his watch and wallet.
MS was quite good,and we decided to sit at the steps when the mall was closed.Suntec wasnt quite an option cause the macs is deeper inside the mall.
At the steps,we saw people shuffling to the music brought by a guy.
By this time,my energy was draining off pretty much already.Checked out macs to see if it was open at five plus.and hell,it was opened the whole time.but i justed took a lil nap over there while the other guys ate.
And i got more and more tired as time passed.In the end,took 51 home and pwahlao,at 7 plus,you could still see people wasting away near my house.wtf man!


And i am-so-happy!
Seeing people that you know or you hadn't seen for a long time really makes you feel so much better.Saw weiren at gwc's busstop,issac at city hall's mrt station.
And the best of all,i saw goldfish!for two consecutive days at FC1!