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The results are out! And... Constantine... You are going home tonight. Haha. Sad. My fellow rocker's going home. Hope that my other rocker pal makes it... The results are out! And... We got Gold. Not bad. Although we didn't get the honours. I think nobody got honours, not even ACS and RGS. Hmm... Never mind. When I'm in RJ, I'll make sure that the honours are in the bag! Hopefully... Haha. SYF has been a fun experience. The time spent training with my fellow RIGE people has been real fruitful and insightful. And funny as well. They're a bunch of jokers. Can't wait for the RIGE June Camp and combined Amazing Race with RGGE. Good job RIGE and RGGE people! RJGE people too! To tell the truth, I was kinda nervous the day before. During piano I kinda screwed up all my running notes. Haha. Then I got Shirley's SMS. Yeah. Thanks Shirley. Then somehow I had the urge to go and look at the present she gave me. And it calmed me down... It reminded me why I took up the g

Hey people... Long time no BLOG. Ermm... That was lame. Well, as always, near every exam period, my dad has decided to take away the PS2 and the com. Well, thats why the only place to do it is in school, ILLEGALLY. Well, never mind. Catch me if you can. The moon was really bright and huge today. Its a reminder that he's watching over me whatever I do... Thank you for making PoP such a success. Now we'll just have to wait and see... Thank you for Napfa as well. Two more things I wanna commit are SYF and CT. When the time comes, I know you'll do whatever your will commands, and I'll follow as well. Joel, that was real weird. Giving Timo that kind of thing for his birthday. What do guys need that kinda of thing for? To wear? I don't think so... Use as face mask, put on head, wear in place of PE attire? And Ms Low found it too. It was funny, but more sick than funny. One of the seven greatest sins, lust, rears its ugly head... Bah. I think I'm getting sick, as in di

Napfa's over! And I'm so glad I passed, considering that my fitness is never that good. Haha. Now I can play soccer while other people are doing their 2.4. Haha. I just passed my 2.4 by 21 seconds. Lucky. I ran at a constant pace until the fifth round, then walked one round, and sprinted the last round. Uh huh. I got a new phone and I'm addicted to the games inside. One of them is mahjong. Haha. And i'm a good player. I keep trashing the opponents. And I suscribed to the live scores announcement service. Then I can recieve soccer scores even when I'm not watching! Yeah. Awesome. Yesterday was learning journeys day, it was boring. After that, 8 people from RIGE went to Orchard to LAN, hoping that even with uniforms, we would be let in. But no. Haha. We were rejected, so we went to Cineileisure to eat. Hyqel had to eat Halal so we couldn't go for Japanese. So we went to Long John Silver's. Wanted to try pooling or watching a movie, but there was no time left.

Hmm... I'd like to dedicate these songs to ya guys out there! Thats What Friends are For - Elton John, 1985 And I never thought I'd feel this way And as far as I'm concerned I'm glad I got the chance to say That I do believe I love you And if I should ever go away Well then close your eyes and try To feel the way we do today And then if you can remember Keep smiling, keep shining Knowing you can always count on me, for sure That's what friends are for For good times and bad times I'll be on your side forever more That's what friends are for Well you came in loving me And now there's so much more I see And so by the way I thank you Oh and then for the times when we're apart Well then close your eyes and know The words are coming from my heart And then if you can remember

In the light of International Friendship Week, I'd like to thank all my friends who have been so helpful, so nice, and those who've just been there for me, even in little ways... I've realise that my friends are all awesome people. Being someone's friend isn't easy. You have to listen to them when they spill out their troubles, and its never nice. Anybody who's a true friend with someone else should be respected. Well... SYF rehearsal was ok for me. Chairman was really nervous I guess... He told me he wasn't happy with the performances either... But I felt it was ok. Deserving of at least a gold to tell the truth. But... You'll never know... Haha. I'm an optimist. I think it'll be gold with honours and I'm confident of it! Although it isn't perfect yet. PoP practices are so great! We're going to do awesome stuff on next Saturday. Everything's going smoothly... And know what? I prayed, and they didn't schedule any guitar practi

Well... Finally found a skin that truely fits what I believe in, what I am. Haha. I've been searching for months through blogskins. When I searched for soccer, the ones that came out were... Well... Not as good I guess. Wen I searched for guitar, all the good ones came out. Haha. The only thing I don't like is the scrolling thingy at the bottom of the page showing American I**** at certain times. I'm gonna change that. Uh huh. Monday... Was ok. Assembly was a talk about the tsunami and relief efforts or something. Didn't pay attention at all. Then PE was the usual conditioning stuff. I asked the teacher how to work on the triceps. Need to work on my muscles I guess. Its like I have none. Haha. Found a toad at the scrum machine after PE. For some reason, I was the only one brave enough to touch it and carry it all the way to class. I shouldn't have brought it to class anyway. Kenny put liquid paper on the frog and coated it with hole puncher dust. Bah. Me and Wing Ch

Hmm... I seriously am very disappointed with the attitude within the PoP band. Really. Well, on Friday, you know what happened. That one I still could accept. Just one thing to say about that. No matter how pissed you are, concentrate on God and it'll be fine ok? The big disappointment was on Saturday. Where was all the focus? On the sound quality or God? Where was all the faith? In the drain. Where was all the love? Lost at that one period I guess. Bah. Every single thing we do should be for God, not for ourselves. Even if the sound quality is lousy, even if its good, even if we do it downstairs, even if we do it upstairs... God will do his will. Does it really matter where we do it? No. I just don't get why there was even a discussion. Thinking too much about technicalities instead of God proves something. We aren't taking enough time to examine ourselves as a band for Christ. Instead we think about other kinds of stuff. Wordly stuff. Well... Sorry. Didn't mean to be

Twins. They can be real nice or real not nice. They can bring you double the pain, and double the joy. Haha. It was their birthday yesterday. Yeah. Same day as Shu. And we went to Pizza Hut at Lot 1 to celebrate. Ate lots and lots of stuff. Got a baked rice, some chicken wings, a pan pizza and a soup. One thing I know: Pizza Hut's baked rice will never beat Swensens! Haha. Well. They're one year older, hope they get more mature and don't cause problems for my mom and dad anymore. And of course they don't bully me. Although I doubt that will ever happen. Haha. Oh Yeah. The twins are out of the Amazing Race. Brian and Greg. And I was rooting for them. Bah. Too bad. Their close relationship just impressed me I guess. Hope the twins become as close as that in future. Who knows? Liverpool won 2-1. Courtesy of fast and early attacking in the game. They kinda faded later though. Scott Carson... I ought to hit you in the head with something. Luis Garcia's goal was insane! P

Wow! NAPFA five stations test is finally over and my results really surprised me. I got 9.7 seconds for shuttle run, 29 cm for Sit and Reach, 2 pull ups, 40 sit ups and 252 cm for Standing Broad Jump! I'm happy I passed. I'm even happier that I beat a lot of sportsmen at the standing broad jump section. Haha. Lets get 2.4 over and done with so we can play soccer! Yeah! Physics lesson was interesting. I volunteered to be the time keeper and had the chance to go around and look at the performance of the other teams and their products for the heating device. Clifton's one was emitting a weird smell. Gabriel's one was shaped like a potato and was leaking. Well... Our group was ok. Haha. Timekeeping was fun. I was shouting out the time left to everyone cos everybody wanted to know. Well. Muggers will be muggers... SYF is coming close. And it doesn't help that Common Tests are a day after our SYF performance. Haha. Bah. Our SYF's on Thursday, 28th April. And theres Po

Haha. Well. For the first time in YE history, all existing guitarists played for worship! Haha. Well. I was on bass, Tim was on electric and Rachel was on acoustic. I think we sounded good. Except that the bass amp kinda screwed up at the last minute during offertory. Well. Good job Char! Played My Happy Ending by Avril Lavigne during the PoP practice afterward. So far, the songs done are: Superman Accidentally in Love Still Love Song BBQ My Happy Ending Hero The last song is Live for Love United. Well, the v key on the laptop came out. And I just noticed that I use a lot of words with v in them. Well. I use more words with w in them. I'll write the remainding of my post without the w then. And the v as ell. Ell, its funny ho people ant to kno more about you after reading your BLOG. I guess a BLOG really brings you closer to others and also gies you a ay to reeal your true self to other people. Some people like me ho are kinda quiet are really happy and blessed to hae this kinda th

Saturdays are always really really busy for me. Lots of stuff to do, and lots of things to think of, and lots of homework to chiong at the same time. Well. Well, went for guitar at 1, and the attendance was dismal again. I was real pissed cos CO dirtied the room and a lot of people didn't comve. At least the quality wasn't compromised. The instructor said that to get gold, we would have to improve our runs and some moe stuff. I believe we can do it. Rushed home and changed out of uniform, cos my parents were going to IMM to collect my bro's specs and celebrate their birthday early. We ended up going to Bali Thai and eating lots and lots. I like the way Thais cook their vegetables. It really improves your appetite. Afterward, rushed to church where we had PoP practice. Idol came again with Mel from SJC and Joel. They were using the computer for something but I couldn't quite figure it out. Paul was there too, so I asked him to make me swords and he made me two. Maybe I c

The people in my school are master pranksters. Really. Seriously. Here are the major pranks for today: 1. Theres one really smart guy who put up a notice at the junior block saying that the junior block was unsafe so everybody had to go to the hall. Haha. 2. Another really smart guy went to switch up all the school registers. Too bad he did it too late. 3. Kai Yang made a real lame one by tricking us that there were no announcements for assembly today. 4. The whole class went to Bio late, and the reason we gave was this: "Sir, we thought you were playing an april fool's joke on us so we didn't come..." 5. Some people didn't pass up their homework, and the reason for this: "Sir, we thought you were playing an april fool's joke on us so we didn't pass up..." 6. A certain teacher played a trick on me by saying that there was homework and then it was actually an april fool's joke. Bah 7. I tuned my guitar to E minor tuning purposely and let my br