happier days like that

happier days like that

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After much whines and complaints about school, I am happy to say this week has been great so far! And it's Wednesday already, so even if Thursday and Friday totally suck, I'll have a good more-than-half week. Haha. Okay I'm not making much sense, but the main idea is - Yay, Wednesday over and there're only 2 more days left in this week! (:

I swear it's the power of the camera that makes days so much better than usual ones. Or rather, the sucky ones. Heh. My blog has been pretty plain as of late, so I went on a mission to camwhore in school! Mission it is called, I've never given myself an easier & happier task.

Look!

SJI - 1AA2 paying us a visit.

My seafood counterpart - the Prawn. :D

All my lovely girls! <3

Carol and I discovered that the backboard makes great backgrounds for pictures. Haha.

Chinese; otherwise known as the S period - Sleep/Slack/Study/Snack. (:

Mine, Sheryll's, Yan's.

Shu and I during PCCG today.
It was supposed to be career talk and I guess we all kinda decided to be photographers, specialising in self-potraits. Haha!

The pink stuffs we that we proudly own. (:

Yan did my pretty French braids!

Mel & Shu!

Hear no. Speak no. See no.

I won't know how to survive school without them. <3

Then there was physical training after school. I really like training on Wednesdays in school, despite it being physical training. It's so fun training with all the other CCAS!

The bulk of our training was made up of 2sets of 16 x 30m sprints & 70m jogs. It wasn't too bad, but my shin was absolutely killing me. I discovered that this horrid thing is called shin splint, whereby your calf muscle somehow ends up moving against your shin bone, which causes a sharp pain along the muscle line near the shin when you run. Gosh, does it kill! I seriously hope it'll go away soon! Because it not only makes running painful, it makes going down stairs a total torture.

Went over to the cafe with Fran and Kaiyi after and met Shiyan and Eleen there again! We ate a lot of stuffs including fried rice, fries, poh piah, banana, ribena, starfruit H2O, carrot cake and Hip Hop jelly! It kinda made Nick really worried for Fran but it made us all happy girls.

We talked about how to sleep in class and not get scolded, collecting drool in your mouth while doing so then spilling the drool all out when you wake up, unglam sleeping positions and everything else under the setting sun. It was so funny and we all caught Fran's laughing fit. We laughed and laughed and laughed until our overworked abs couldn't take it anymore. :D

I haven't laughed so much in so long and it made me a really happy girl. Laughter is definitely very good for the soul, better than anything else.

Oh, and one more thing that got me on a high - the pretty, pretty skies! The skies were so lovingly beautiful when we walked over to the Sports complex. Of course I couldn't resist pictures.

Fran holding up the brilliant skies.

Uhh, my fellow vice-capt and captain Chye.

Miss Tan & Fang!

Such an artistic picture, hor?

Ahhhh! Pretty skies get me very excited and jolly.

The golden sunset.

Who can resist such pretty skies? I just kept staring and staring, walking with my eyes trained on the endless blue. I think nice blue skies kinda makes everything perfect, and they make days like this so beautiful.

my legal bitchy lovely

my legal bitchy lovely

Yiting's 18th birthday bash today! Gosh I swear the bus service to her place is longer existent. I waited and waited for what seemed like hours, but the bus never came. So I finally took a cab and arrived at her place at 7pm. When I told her I'll try and drop by earlier at 4pm. Heh.

Okay fine, I didnt wait 3hours for the bus. I'll tell you what happened. I was really early at first. I stopped studying at 3 and was ready to go and bathe, but then it occured to me that it was really still quite early and I was kinda tired. So I decided to take a short nap. And ended up waking up at 5.45pm. Hahaha! There, you should never attempt to be early.

Anyways, her house was flooded with people by the time I got there. She had like, 100 people on her guest list! Most of them are her friends from PJ so I sat outside near the frontyard with Huihui, Hamidah, Cheryl and a few other 4/3 girls and caught up about school, boys, parents and everything else. Just like the good old times that I like so much. (: We seriously should do this more often!

It was a great party, with lots of talking, eating, laughing, shouting, camwhoring and at one point of time the BBQ pit caught fire! Haha. I was too lazy to venture outside through the smoke to take pictures but the whole house was filled with smoke and I went home smelling charcoal. Haha.

Huihui & me sitting outside. And Yiting when she was finally free!

My much missed babes.

Because she said that was such a typical picture.

And we took more. Haha!

The empty space behind was supposed to be an 'air-well', Yiting kept telling me. But I still haven't figure out its purpose in the house after all these time.

While we sang her the birthday song, she was on the phone. Tsk!

After making her wish, blowing out the candles.

Her HUGE peppermint chocolate cake!

The crowd in the house. There were more outside and some upstairs as the party 'migrated upwards' somehow.

What we've been eyeing for the whole night! :D
It's watermelon by the way, in case some of you smarties think it's pumpkin, like one of my dear friends did. Hahaha.

The girls of Sports Class'05.
Still going strong after 2 years. <3

To Yiting: My loveliest bitch! You're finally turning 18 on the 24th! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Legal at last! No more sneaking drinks and into pubs. :D Thanks for the party! Catching up did me a lot of good. (: You'd better be extremely grateful that I didn't post a certain video up here or mention anything about the subject involved eh! Haha. I promise you a decent present after Chinese New Year! Too bad you don't have a mega rich friend here. Until then, I think the next date we should look forward to is 4th Feb. Heh, we know why. <3

first goal

first goal

Match against JJC. We started out with pretty high hopes of winning because after all, JJ is pretty on much on par with us in terms of experience and maybe skills. Some time during the first half, we let in a goal because we didn't fight hard enough.

But then we fought back and scored our first goal! First ever goal! And it was beautiful shot from Fran, who dribbled past the defenders and then sent it right in. OUR FIRST GOAL AS A TEAM! First of many many to come. The sound of the ball hitting the back board was so exciting! Everyone screamed and jumped and hugged everyone else. Definitely a moment of pride and exhilaration! :D Like I said, this team just keeps getting better. (:

Eventually, the final score was 2-1. Disappointing because it was a match that we could have won, but we learnt a lot more important lessons from this match. I'm beginning to like this U18s' Tournament more and more. Every match you learn something, and it's a pretty good feeling to know that. With every match we improve, and I know we can go really far together. <3

All of us, smelly and sweaty after! :D

The camwhores.

More.

And it's never enough.

The team that makes me so proud. <3

honoured

honoured

Physical training on Wednesday was insane. Absolutely insane. Here's our training plan:

• 3 rounds for warm-up. Which was pretty fun because it was kinda like mass PE with so many CCAs on the track! There were the trackers, swimmers, netballers, ruggers, basketballers, volleyballers and frisbee players. I think we overtook all of them! Haha.


• Agility.
  
• 3sets of 4x200m sprints. Which adds up to 12sprints - 2400m in total.


• Short sprints and footwork. Which consisted of 15 sprints of about 20m.


• 50sit ups, 50squats, 60push ups, 60Superman, 120lunges.

And the best part - the whole team completed everything together. I am so proud of us all. No one gave up today, everyone put in their best and pushed each other along and man, we felt so good after that. Like Dawn said, you will amaze yourself if you just let go and not hold back anything for each and every run. You will have the energy to sustain through out.

Our watermelon parade after that was simply mouth-watering. We had to hold the red piece of fruit for so long and resist the temptation to bite into while we waited for everyone to do our AC Hocks cheer and Yam Seng. The first bite into our melons saw all 20 odd girls floating up to heaven. It was so damn good!

Swim PE the next morning was a bluff. Everyone told me that it'd be good for muscle aches because the water is supposed to relax your muscles but NO IT'S NOT TRUE, I'm telling you guys! After I got out of the water I could hardly walk straight! And stairs have never been a worse nightmare.

It's not like I swam a lot actually. After a few laps, I was really tired and I told Sir my toes were cramping up. Haha. And then when we really had to swim laps, Shu, Carol and I just swam to the middle and turned around while others went all the way to the other side and came back! Hahaha. It made us look like really good swimmers. Heh. I am so going to switch to Beginners and join the rest of the people in the shallow pool and blow bubbles instead. I think that was what they were talking about when they talked about 'relaxing your muscles in the water'.

Pitch after that was cancelled and we had a gym session instead. Chare came by and planned our workout programme and took as many unglam shots of us working out as she could! But it was definitely nice to have her around. (: Poor Fang went all the way to CCAB only to realise we were all in school.

Like, Wednesday, all of us did good, despite all the aching muscles and difficulties in sitting down and standing up. This team just keeps getting better.

And finally, I think I'm ready to proudly annouce this at last: I was appointed the new vice captain of the team, along with KaiYi on Monday. :D

Honestly, I wanted to blog about this as early as Monday itself, but I've been putting it off the whole week because I didn't exactly know how to face it. While I was really happy and thrilled about it, I came to realise that it wasn't going to be as smooth a journey as I'd thought it'd be. and thought that if I just didn't face it, then it won't catch up with me and I'd be safe where I was.

Because I only joined hockey less than 2 months ago, it wasn't uncommon to hear people say that it's unfair that I'm suddenly vice-captain now. In the whole of this week, people heard, judged and talked. Honestly, I was really sad and disappointed, especially when I realise I didn't even have the support of those who I had whole-heartedly trusted.

I wanted to turn down the position of being the vice captain because the pressure was so sudden and evident. And the disappointments and judgements hurt; I've never felt so doubted. But thank God for the bunch of really supportive and encouraging people around me, who picked me up and talked me through and pushed me on. You know who you are, and thank you so much, dears. In a few days, I've learnt a lot and grew up a little more.

To my team, I know I'm almost totally new to this sport and this team, and I thank you girls so much for taking me in, first as a team mate, and now your vice captain. I am really honoured and proud and will always be. I may not be your favourite person or the top-choice candidate on your list, but I'm gonna promise you that I will give my very best to this team. No less. And I will NEVER give up. I hope you guys will try with me, and we'll work hard together as a team to make everything work.
Well, I've never thought you'd hurt me like that.
AC Hocks, Rocks my Socks, AC AC AC Hocks!
Still Your hear me when I'm calling, Lord You catch me when I'm falling.

barely surviving

barely surviving

Those two words pretty much say everything there is about my J2 life. I'm barely surviving! Which explainns the total lack of updates recently.

I guess I'll just touch on the main points of the past one and half weeks of school. Related pictures will be inserted at some point of time, hopefully. Haha.


First Week of School/Orientation
For the OGLs, no doubt it's probably been one helluva week, screaming, dancing, cheering and running around covered in mud and starch for 4 days. This batch of J1s look like nice juniors and I do hope they enjoyed the orientation programme! Because I enjoyed my own very, very much. (: And I love this year's theme: "Red, blue, gold; Watch it unfold."

Third day of school I fell sick. The powers of school eh. Haha. I just stayed home and sleep and watched OC. Compensate for the sudden switch of my bio-clock. I think my body wasn't used to that yet. And perhaps still isn't.

The J1s girls at The Talk, which I stupidly crashed.
I was like the example of 'everything you should not be', as quoted from Yan. Haha.

May, Sheryll&Yan, Shiyan.

Crashing Shiyan's OG.

Look at the colours!

After physical training on Thursday.
We had to run 2.4km while the whole J1 cohort did their Mass Rally.
It was extremely embrarassing.

Saturday there was the CCA Open House again. I really don't quite understand why the school has to do this like, 3 times a year - at PAE, JAE and Open House Day. It's really boring for us school kids! We played abit of hockey and shot a few netballs until the banner tore because of the balls that landed on it. Haha! And at the end of the day I realised I had alot of pictures of Daryl Tay somehow.

Vannie stopped me along the way just to camwhore! :D

Many pictures of Daryl, somehow.

Hockey is love. (:

Bored teachers challenging. Ms Tan holds the record of 110.

I couldn't wash this away at the end of the day! Haha.
That is after I bathed.

I forgot what happened on Sunday. As in, I seriously cannot remember. I have no inkling at all. Uh oh. Well, I guess it shouldn't be anything too significant then.

Basically the first week of school was pretty much sucky because Mel, Sheryll and I were missing May, Yan and Shu. ): School was really lonely! And the rain just made it worse. Boohoo.


Full Blast School Week
There were hockey trainings on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, PE on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Trainings are tough but I like how the team really try and stick together. (: PEs were kinda non-existent because we managed to sneak our way out of it. Haha! I hope Mr. Mark Ng doesn't find out or he's gonna wanna shoot us all again.

Shiyan, Eleen, Malone, Azmi , Daryl Tay and I went to send Clare off on Wednesday after our trainings. .The dear girl's flown to Manchester in case you school kids haven't noticed. We were so tired that once we got onto the train, we just plooped our asses down on the floor and started doing our work and eating Pocky. Until some MRT undercover came and scold us. Heh.

I was so sad at the airport! Everyone was just waiting and dreading the moment when she had to walk through the gates. Clare was such a brave thing, she didn't even cry while I couldn't hold it in anymore. Boo, I hate goodbyes so much.

The guys.

Us girls.

All of us. <3

Clare babe! I hope you had a safe flight and you are all settled and nice there now!

Then there was MUTS - Movie Under The Stars, on Friday after school. Hung out with the netballers and Fang abit in the Cafe after their cancelled training. Gosh, I've never seen the Cafe so crowded, filled with people trying to grab a bite before the movie. Click was funny and sad as usual, and yes, the crybaby cried again. Haha. Because it was raining, the movie was screened at LT4, to my preference. It was fully packed and spilling over with ACSians, old and new. Lovely.

And the crowd made a big hooha when the netballers came in and sit on the stage, because I think one of them accidentally pressed the switch to close the curtains. Hahaha!


The Second Weekend
I went to meet Amanda to go to Peninsula to redo my grip and get new balls for the team on Saturday. I loved her cheongsam top! Too bad we forgot to take pictures. After that I went to meet Sarah at Queensway to get socks for the team for U18's. Queensway was majorly crowded and to my dismay, it took me so long to find socks! On the bus back, we talked and talked about our happy and busy lives and the world's insanity.

And finally today! Our first Under 18's Hockey Tournament game! Which also happens to be our first ever full-time, full-pitch and full-team game. We played against Northland's 'B' girls, who are the North Zone champions.

If you look at the goals, we lost really badly because the final score was 18 - 0. But I think considering that we only have Fran and Donica who are experienced, us being an entirely new team, this being our first game, Northland being a strong team, we didn't fare that badly. All our girls fought really hard and gave their best on the pitch. Even though we made mistakes, we kept trying. And I guess that's all that matters. Most importantly, we learnt so much from this game.

This game really made me feel alot. And I mean literally. I got whacked by the ball so many times - the ankle, the shins, the hands. And the drama-mama one was when some girl's flying hit landed right smack on my head 2 minutes before the game ended. I remember hearing Jocelyn scream and then suddenly everyone was crowded around me before the tears started coming. I couldn't help it! It was really quite painful at the first instance. And then right after that a bump came up. Good thing there was no gash. And please don't laugh at me if you see me with a purple forhead tomorrow or soemthing!

I wasn't the only one who left the pitch brusied. Poor Jialing got whacked above her shinguards like, 4 times while trying to defend the goal; dear Jocelyn was whacked on the hand as well, and it was swelling pretty badly; and so many other miscellaneous bruises.

It's okay, we may be a little bruised perhaps, but we're all good. We've all got battlescars to remember our first match by. :D Haha! And I seem to have one for every significant event of my life, e.g. when the dog bit me above the lips when I was 4 years old. (No kidding, there's still a scar.)

So yups, that's what I've been busy with all these days while you guys kept coming to a stagnant blog.