Saturday, 30 August 2008

teachers day

yesterday was pretty ok.
we had celebrations for teachers day. the dance and choir were not bad. then they had some performances by some bands. most of it was acoustic performances. only yiying's band had an electric guitar but they didnt even turn on the drive and they had this stupid tom-tom drums instead of a real drum set:( yiying's bass was ok. but the singer went super off and caused the whole thing to crash. haha.
afterwards coach adrian ho met with me, ben and iggy to talk. he said lots of stuff to the 3 of us regarding the training programme after exams and the captaincy. actually what he said was confidential and can't be put up here. haha too bad. but i'll just say that i'm the vice-captain. he explained and told us alot of stuff but bottomline is i'm vice-cap.
later went with YC and cheang back to maris stella to meet renyi and ryan. then we went to see some of our old teachers. like mrs tey, mrs loh, ms goh, ms jazilla, mrs champion, and mr chew. had quite a lot of fun talks with them. mrs tey didnt really say much though. talked quite a bit with ms goh and telling her how i passed h2 physics for mid-year lol. ms jazilla saw me and her eyes went big cos i was her worst student for chem last year. like really really worst. think she couldnt believe i got that b3 haha. she was like saying you got a C6 right? lol. then i told her i dropped chem in jc then she started laughing. actually i was really scared to see her cos i gave her so much trouble last time i wasnt sure what she would say to me lol. turns out she only said nice things. mr chew lye heng was also real funny. i said this year my chinese very bad cos he not teaching my anymore. haha. funny how my chinese teacher is like one of my favourite teachers.
saw mr dennis koh too (discipline master). he talked alot to me and asked me if i was in the soccer team. i said ya and told him i'm vice-cap and he was like congratulating me and said "so looks like next year the vice-captain of CJ soccer is going to bring them back to the glory days" haha.. talked quite a bit too.
after seeing all our teachers we went to cheang's house to watch "nacho libre" and jam. afterwards went for dbs.
yup that was my day ysd in short. time to do some work now.

Thursday, 21 August 2008

yohoho

yohoho and a bottla rum!
wow today was quite a funny day.
first in the morning i went to yiying's class to help her tune the bass guitar she borrowed from ben cos her class is performing for teachers' day. then i taught her how to play the song they are gonna perform. ("that thing you do" by the wonders)
i was suddenly doing some last minute thinking of auditioning for teachers' day with an acoustic performance but looks like the auditions have closed anyway haha.
then we had SD (student development, which is something like civics and moral education) and mr rajoo taught us about anger management. lol. quite funny and i guess it's a little bit helpful. though i think everyone has their own ways of dealing with anger and frustration. i dunno whether mine are good or not.
after SD was econs tutorial, break, physics lecture, and then chinese. i slept the whole two hours of chinese!! o.O cos just before the lao shi came in then i slept. the next thing i knew, mr rajoo shouted "I-Zack!! wake up!!!" then i awoke with a jump and looked sleepily at him and asked "what period is it now?" then he said "PW, what did u think?" haha... then gary said "whoa you sleep until your hair messed up all!" then i found out from my friends that the chinese teacher couldnt wake me up the whole 2 hrs haha.. first time she tried to wake me up i said "lao shi i donate blood, too tired already." the second time apparently she called me then i sat up with my eyes closed, looked around, and slept again. O.o wow. no idea. i dont even rmb really seeing my chinese teacher today. my pillow too nice already haha! oh ya i brought a pillow to school to use for my back. haha! it's a good rest for my back. the chair quite hard la. oh ya and sometimes i use it to sleep on. cos the table too hard for my face. lol.
ok then we had PE and stuff like that. and now i'm home.
and for some reason now i'm addicted to the song "gifts and curses" by yellowcard. it's about some spiderman thing with mary jane watson. here are the lyrics:

"Gifts and Curses" by Yellowcard

Maryy belongs to the words of a song.
I try to be strong for her, try not to be wrong for her.
But she will not wait for me, anymore, anymore.
Why did I say all those things before? I was sure.

(She is the one), but I have a purpose
(she is the one), and I have to fight this
(she is the one), a villian I can't knock down.

I see your face with every punch I take
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say, still I will always fight on for you.

Maryy's alive in the bright New York sky,
the city lights shine for her, above them I cry for her.
Everything's small on the ground below, down below.
What if I fall, then where would I go, would she know?

(She is the one), all that I wanted,
(she is the one), and I will be haunted,
(she is the one), this gift is my curse for now.

I see your face with every punch I take,
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say,
Still I will always fight on for you.

I see your face with every punch I take,
and every bone I break, it's all for you.
And my worst pains are words I cannot say,
Still I will always fight on for you. Fight on for you...


go listen to the song if u dont know it!!! man i wish i could compose songs like this...
oh yes i've finished writing all the songs i've wanted to write this year. second album complete:)
there's 11 songs in this year's album. decided to call it "Transition Period" cos i think i'm changing alot now. so ya just decided to call it that.
the album for 2006 and 2007 has 14 songs and is called "I was 15, single, and had a guitar"
yeah pretty crappy lol.
dont think i'll write any more songs to add to the album this year unless i've got some inspiration.
man i need to get a band together and record all these songs...

(she is the one), but i have a purpose,
(she is the one), and i have to fight this,
(she is the one), a villian i can't knock dowwwn!!

wowww!! and then the instrumental with the piano and violin and then the super cool guitar solo!!! wowww!!

man that was good.. haha..

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

blood donation!

wow today our school had this blood donation drive and football team supposed to donate together haha. it was quite ok. first go in there then like quite blur and not sure what to do. then must sign form and everything. anws, it wasnt really pain. first they prick ur finger and test it for iron or something. they suddenly prick it and at first u dont feel anything but after awhile then wow! it hurts! haha..
ok then u go to the chair and sit down and get ready. soon a nurse comes to u and gives u an injection which really is very pain!!! its supposed to numb the pain later when they take ur blood. and the needle which they use to take ur blood is really BIG!! like wow. i accidentally looked and it and got horrified. its really SUPER BIG and u will be like omg nuts is that crazy thing beneath my skin and intruding into my blood vessel now?? o.O lucky that one not pain haha..
ok anws it wasnt that bad. there was free food and drinks and everything and u get a certificate. then u get a bandage on ur arm. mine is pink lol..
well i wonder which lucky fellow is gonna get my blood and have some of my The Man powers transferred to him. haha some of the guys in class were joking that whoever gets my blood will turn into the incredible hulk cos too much radioactive substance. and dunno what, I-Zack's The Man blood too powerful already. lol. hmm this The Man thing which started of as a passing comment has become into some trademark thing already haha.
which reminds me that some of the class guys also said that time i should join olympics. LOL. then i said ya as if i can qualify, anws spore got enough good ppl can win some medals. now only got one silver... then they started blaming me (jokingly of course) that why i never join, now spore losing. and weijie said nvm even if i join i represent myself and not spore cos the medal tally will show my name at the top above china and usa instead of spore hahaha. crazy guys xD
well i just realised the prelims are approaching in 6weeks and i'm like blur about everything cos i've forgotten everything after mid-years. that kinda happens after i take a paper. everything i learn goes out the door and have to relearn from scratch. which is why i dont believe in studying throughout the year. cos if i study throughout the year and take all the tests i still forget them anyways. this only happens for studying but not for other things. haha. i got good selective memory.. and mr rajoo gave our class a good talk yesterday which made me think abit. so i will come up with a study timetable by this week and start by next week!! haha.. confirm one..
and to those people who have some misconsceptions of our family, e-sean is the hardworking one and i am the lazy one. e-sean studies alot! so give her some credit! i'm the lazy bum out of all the 3 siblings:p
ok time to play some guitar:)

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

wahaha

i'm finally back from grandma's house! it was a pretty fun time:) quite cool to be moving to a new environment for a while. and it's much easier to go school from there too. it's like 30min only. from my own home it's 1hour:( and the bus stop is like only 2min walk away.
gramma made sure we woke up every morning for Quiet Time and breakfast and so i wasn't late for school too. but every night we also had to sleep early haha.
anws, the youth comm meeting-outing on saturday was fun!:)
i ran 10km in the morning even though i had this like crazy pain at one of my gut muscle place things... after the run my legs and everything were all not tired at all but only had this really bad pain at the gut. hope it's nothing serious... i'm having a rest from running til thursday anyway so should be able to recover.
anws we met at 4.30pm at kovan mrt. grace, hannah, weng shian, and athelia didnt come. so only had me, yiying, yiren, weile, tim, angie were there. sam didnt come for bowling but joined us later for dinner. it's the first time we've ever met to do something outside of planning for PLH activities, so it was a good relaxing time:) the bowling lanes were closed at first so we decided to have our meeting at KFC to discuss abt upcoming PLH stuff.
at abt 5plus then we went to bowl. the first game i was top scorer, then second game we decided to play me, tim and weile vs yiying, yiren and angie. (based on the first game scores) in the end they won 222-211.. by 11pts only haha. i think yiren won the game for them with his score. second game i also deproved. while angie improved from last to even more points than weile and tim LOL. then we went to have dinner at KFC.
down there we witnessed the joke of the day:
we were talking about weights ok. (in KFC mah..)
Tim said something about being very light, so i said
"nvm lah. u still 14 right? got alot of time to grow."
Tim: "eh what? i'm losing weight every year leh."
me: "that's a scary thought... how heavy were you when you were a baby??"
haha!! yiying started laughing like crazy til her face was red and she couldnt talk properly lol. after all these years, this is the first time i see her laugh like that haha!
then we went to yiying's house and slacked and played some guitar in the function room. her electric guitar has not been used for so long that the guitar and the amplifier box had baby cockroaches inside!! o.O??? crazy.. i can't believe such a good guitar has gone to waste.. it just pained my heart when i saw it on saturday...
anws we went up to the house at 11pm and watched some stupid chinese show thing.. then it was lights off by 12am. then i told weile about some life stuff. tim was listening too haha. all the stuff i told weile was important for guys to know so i hope he and tim take what i said to mind. cos i was talking from experience ah.. so warning them before it's too late haha..
ok then next morning we woke up early and did Quiet Time and then had a macdonald breakfast. reached church in time for 8.45 service.
yes, that's our fun youth comm day. and it was not gay or boring, unlike what david thought it was lol..
i haven't really been watching the olympics. for reasons such as i'm not very interested and singapore also not in many competitions. also since i don't really have the time cos i'm out of the house quite often having school and football trainings. the football is also quite boring. good thing EPL has started again and liverpool won our season opener away to sunderland:) torres again, unsurprisingly. the liverpool website said that in rafa's 5yrs in charge so far we have not started the season at anfield, so it's pretty unfair. but nvm, at least the first 3pts are in the bag:)
37 games to go!!!

Saturday, 9 August 2008

happy national day one and all

yay 43 years already...
ok now let's talk about the celebrations.
yesterday i woke up at 4.30am, did my Quiet Time, then went to serangoon stadium to run 9km at 5am. clocked 47:25. bleagh... i think that's still not up to standard. i want to reach 5min per km. then went back home to take a bath, then went to school at 6.25am. we walked to CCAB to have our celebrations there. but i slept while they were having all the songs and stuff. then i woke up when we had to do the 3 dances but i stood still anyways. until the last dance where we do the CJ mass dance and i partnered wei jie so he spun me around like crazy til i was left sprawling on the floor when the dance was over and not able to get up cos i was too dizzy lol. super fun:)
then met ryan and renyi at j8 subway for lunch and talked. cheang came later with his friends.. then i went to the library with the NY boys. they did some studying while i did some big business in the toilet. then we went to long john silvers later cos ryan needed to eat an early dinner before going for church. then cheang met us again. ryan went to church, so me, cheang and renyi went around looking for a gift that renyi wanted to buy for his friend.
afterwards the two of them went off and i met yiying for dinner. she ate LJS first, when she finished eating we went to S11 foodcourt for MY dinner. haha. cos i want cheaper food:p
we left for church at 6.45pm. it's the first time i've gone for DBS. it was really good! i think uncle alex can teach very well. and we didnt stick that close to the book but discussed more relevant questions which is the best:) i dont like sticking to the book. it's not relevant enough sometimes. from now on i will go for DBS if i can. cos usually fridays i have football and it ends quite late. and the last 4years of sec sch my NCC was always only on fridays and ended close to 8pm that's why i couldnt go for DBS for 4 years. haha.
tmr after church gonna stay at gramma's house for 10days cos mum and dad are going away. i think there's not really a computer there so i won't be able to use the internet for awhile. quite troublesome. i needa pack a lot of clothes. cos everyday i need to wear uniform and pe shirt. most people only need to wear pe shirt twice a week for pe, but i got football trainings on wednesday and fri, plus need to go gym on tue, wed, thur, and run on thursday and saturday. then also need to pack for sunday's clothes, etc etc.. and my boots and shinpads and jerseys and everything. not to mention my bible, QT material, and school books, etc.. etc.. wow that's alot..
anyways i saw this quiz on timothy goh's blog. so i shall do it since i have time and probably won't post anything for the next 10days.

1. Where is your real dad right now? watching tv in the living room.
2. Name the last person you hung out with: refer to what i wrote before this quiz.
3. Name 5 things you did today: 1.wake up. 2.maths tuition. 3.go toilet 4.type this post. 5.eat
4. Last person you text-messaged? Si'en
5. What kind of phone do you have? Nokia 6500 slide
6. What do you smell like? not really sure.
7. What colour are your eyes? i think black or brown.
8. Do you have a chair in your room? yes.
9. What are you doing tomorrow? church and going to gramma's house.
10. Do you know someone named betsy? no.
11. Do you have a dog? no.
12. Do you remember singing any songs as a kid? yes of course.
13. Are you married? no. duh.
14. Do you play an instrument? yes
15. Do you like fire? depends. if it's burning me than probably not.
16. Are you allergic to anything? nope. fit as a fiddle.
17. Do you have a crush on anyone? er.. i don't know?
18. Do you take science all 4 years of school? yeah i take science..
19. Do you like butterflies? they're ok i guess
20. Do you miss someone right now? ya i guess so
21. Do you think they miss you too? erm.. it's quite a few people.. but i doubt anyone of them do.
22. Ever seen your school counsellor? no.
23. Have you ever wanted to be a teacher? thought of being a pe teacher or football coach. but i don't think so.
24. What is one thing you've learnt about life? God is in control. and don't rely too much on anybody cos u're on your own with only God by your side. contrary to tim's answer for this question, i say, don't keep your friends too close. no one in this world is to be trusted. no offence to all my good friends.
25. What is your favourite colour? red.
26. Is anyone jealous of you? ya they are.
27. What does your mum call you? i-zack, zack, boy, guy.
28. What do your friends call you? i-zack, zack, lum, the man, the chosen one, raphael, master lum, captain, alpha 1, and some other names having to do with being good at football and guitar. plus the usual, hey dude, hey man, yo buddy, and eh!
29. What does your hair look like right now? no mirror around at the moment but i'm sure it's ok.
30. Has a friend ever used you? yeah cos i'm too much of a nice guy, contrary to what others think.
31. Has anyone ever told you they liked you more than a friend? ya quite a few actually.
32. What have you eaten today? pancakes that mum made.
33. Is your hair naturally curly or straight? when it's short it's straight, when it gets long then it becomes a bit curly.
34. Who was the last person you drove with? er.. i'm not sure.. my dad? he drives the car.
35. The song you've been singing most to yourself recently? don't really have one this week. a couple of weeks ago it was "everytime" by simple plan.
36. What do you currently want right now? i don't know what i want.
37. Are you hungry? What would you like? not very hungry, i jsut ate some stuff. thanks.
38. What is your current annoyance? needing to move to gramma's house for 10 days and disrupting my whole schedule and lifestyle.
39. Are you waiting for someone right now? er.. no?
40. Name one thing you're looking forward to this week: football training and hopefully the friendly match against some other school.
41. Can you make friends easily? depends on the other person as well.
42. What would you do if your friend turned gay? er.. depends oh which friend la haha..
43. Do you plan out what you wear the day before you wear it? ya usually. so the next day can just take the clothes without having to decide.
44. Have you ever fallen for your best friend? er.. my best friend is a guy. do u mean best friend of the opposite sex?
45. If you had a chance to save someone significant to you, would you? like yeah duh.
46. How many times do you eat each day? last time was breakfast, recess, lunch, teabreak, dinner, supper, and midnight snack. now cos of jc timetable and all the other stuff, it's only breakfast, recess and dinner. and if i'm not too tired at night, a bit of supper.
47. How do you cheer someone up? usually say some funny stuff to make them laugh but i've found out it doesn't work on everybody. so sometimes must try different approach ah.. like just listening or maybe a letter or a little present.
48. Is it easier for u to fall asleep or be woken? definitely easier for me to fall asleep. just ask my teachers!
49. Think of one person, stick with it, you dont have to say the name, would you pick him/her up alone 100miles away even if it was your birthday? yeah i would. might make a good birthday actually. hmm... but actually nowadays maybe not.. see how lah. my birthday is not in 3months.
50. Have your best friends ever hurt your feelings? yes.
51. Give two reasons why you get distracted in class: 1. complacency. 2. it's not as interesting as some other stuff in my head that i can daydream about.
52. Do you think its funny when people get hurt? haha! depends who the person is.
53. If you had to guess, how do you think you're gonna turn out in life? i'll be ok.

40 secrets about yourself, be honest no matter what.

1. What is your natural hair colour? black.
2. Where is your default picture taken? er.. some photo shop thing at serangoon central. took it with anthony in sec3.
3. What's your middle name? no middle name. are those for question28 counted?
4. What colour do you hate most? pink. stupid gay colour.
5. Does your crush like you back? i don't think i have a crush.. if i did, the answer would be no anyway.
6. What is your current mood? mixed i guess.. brooding about some stuff.
7. What colour do you like the most? red.
8. What makes you most happy? lots of stuff? can't name all. right now i just want something happy to do with football.. can't be bothered with people.
9. Look at a poster in your room. Who's on it? steven gerrard. (liverpool captain)
10. If you could go back in time and change something, what would you change? a few personal things..
11. If you must be an animal for one day, what would you be? a party animal? haha..
12. Ever had a near death experience? i don't think so..
13. Something you do alot? sleep!
14. The song stuck in your head? none at the moment. though now my windows media player is playing "untitled" by simple plan. so ya, i guess it's in my head right now.
15. What is your desktop background? this is my dad's computer. it's a picture of him and mum.
16. What are you wearing? specs, singlet, boxers.
17. When was the last time you cried? er.. let me try to recall.. i think in june or july.
18. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience? yes.
19. If you could have one super power what would it be? super strength!!
20. What's the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? the face and hair together.
21. What do you usually order from starbucks? i don't go there, it's too expensive..
22. What's your biggest secret? what a scam!!! i'm not saying it on a public blog.
23. Favourite colour? isn't this the third time?-.- red.
24. Is it sunny or raining? it just rained.
25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or tv shows? nope. nowadays no time.
26. What are you eating or drinking at the moment? nothing. just drank some juice.
27. Do you speak any other language? english, abit of chinese, and we all speak one language: football.
28. What's your favourite smell? i don't have one. i don't really have a good nose.. erm.. if she's shampoo-ed it and stuff, then maybe.. a girl's hair. (like e-rae's!)
29. If you could describe your life in one word what would it be? one word a bit hard ah... how about.. mixed?
30. When was the last time you received a hug? can't remember.. girls only like to hug each other lah, they quite sexist. i think from renyi after we watched the dark knight and we were going home.
31. Have you ever kissed in the rain? never even kissed before lah.
32. What/who are you thinking about right now? who i'm thinking about is none of your business haha..
33. What should you be doing? my homework i guess. but never mind, there's a whole national day holiday to do it. and it's only econs, relax..
34. What was the last thing that made you upset/angry? er.. someone not saying hi to me and not talking to me and ignoring me.
35. How often do you laugh? not as often as last time i think.. but still reasonably often.
36. Do you like slacking in the yard? yeah slacking is good. don't really have a yard.
37. If you could have any last name in the world, what would you want? i still want Lum.
38. Do you act differently around your crush/significant other? yes but now i can hide it much better. so you wouldn't know:) acting skills and covering-up skills have leveled up!
39. Name one song that reminds you of an ex? i don't have an ex. but ex-crush then one song would be "everytime" by simple plan.
40. Who was the last person to make you cry? think i better don't say here lah.. later the person feel guilty or whatever heh..


ok that's been a good national day time-user:) i think i've done this quiz before.. wait let me check..
ah! i've found it!!! 20 august 2007. wow almost exactly one year ago haha. ok i think i'll do some cross-referencing on how my answers have changed after one year.
so long and goodnight.. so long and goodnight...

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

some random stuff

hohoho! sunday we had PLH extended fellowship time. had to go for mission trip meeting first, then when we came down for august rush i went to play abit of instruments. teach a bit of guitar and drums.. then went outside and played a bit of werewolf too. ate alot of potato chips as well haha:)
i think i can feel myself gaining abit of muscle. football training programme has given me the inspiration to go to the gym, run, and eat to add some meat to these bones of mine. i guess i'm still really scrawny-looking but i'm sure i'm a bit stronger. faster probably. and well well, i look better in the school mirror too haha! (my house toilet mirror abit too small to see the full body) i just hope the gymming doesn't stunt my growth!!! i have a feeling it will.. i'm now like 173.5cm o.O i thought i was 175. i wanna reach at least 180:( my weight now is 56kg. i think that's ok. maybe 58-60 by the end of the year would be good. i'm just scared if i'm heavier i won't be able to run as fast and my pull-ups might be less. ah well, see how it goes. appetite is growing too. need to manage my allowance well haha. if not i'll run out of money in no time. stupid inflation. even school food is kinda expensive.
oh ya my topper street soccer shoes has become too small to wear and my lotto ones have spoilt. so dad gave me a budget of $50 to buy a new pair of street soccer shoes. went to kovan heartland mall today and bought a kronos pair for $36.90. haha. so now i have 3 pairs of white shoes for school. one is a nike running shoes, only for days which i run. one is the $15 trail pair which looks like converse, which i only wear on days which i dont need to do any running or physical activity. and the last one is the one i bought just now, for days which have physical activity like PE, but no long distance running.
i also have the Lum 10 adidas black and red street soccer pair which the girls in church don't believe it's selling in some adidas stores. u guys probably can't find it in the stores cos people all buy until sold out already haha!
ok that's about all for now i guess..

Saturday, 2 August 2008

travel journeys

woahoho! it's been an interesting last few days.
well, actually yesterday and today. yesterday we had the J2 testimonial match which the J1s beat J2s 6-3. lol. think cos they lack match fitness. i scored two. one was a penalty and the other was a nice lob over the on-rushing keeper. justin, aaron, brandon and kesavan got one each. for the J2s, nick, stef, and xavier got one each too.
then we went to iggy's house for the bbq. ended up playing street soccer at the side haha. and andrew got voted as our player of the season. i voted for jordan.
today had band prac which took much longer than usual for me. my pracs usually can end at 12.30 but today end at 1.45. think cos got some new songs then the band had to practice more.
then me, david and jon went to walk on our "travel journey" lol. our initial target was botanic gardens, so we set of for it at 2pm. we walked to orchard there and couldnt find the burger king (cos david had coupons) so we had to eat at a food court instead. then we continued on after lunch at abt 3.30pm. in the end we reached botanic gardens i think about 4plus. we didnt want to spend our money so we kept drinking from watercoolers haha! i was quite tempted to buy a soft drink but luckily could resist. then we sat down in the botanic gardens for a while and talked alot wahaha. after a while since we had some time we decided to press on to NJC. so we reached there about 6.15 and i had to rush home for dinner. haha what a fun outing. but maybe no more until exams are over.
i think one of the days during the year-end holidays me and the twins will have another travel journey and this time we will travel overnight haha! if got people's house to stay then we'll stay there. if not maybe we sleep at a void deck. then walk to church the next morning. i think our rule is kinda like cannot take transport. and must spend as little money as possible lol.
okay the liverpool vs rangers friendly is gonna start.
byebye