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well... the holidays have arrived... not much of a holiday actually...
tmr have to go back to school for a full day of physics..
ok but friday and saturday is free, so that's good.
then sunday go church and have youth comm meeting to finalise everything for church camp.
then next week is a whole week of camps, including church camp, then after church camp got 2 weeks to do revision for maths, econs, and physics. cos right after the hols is the H2 papers.
there's no football training until end of midyear exams so it's a good rest i guess. though considering the form i'm in, i wouldn't mind having training..
before the hols had gp and geog h1 papers.. i think i should be able to pass.. or maybe not for geog heh.
nothing much happening.. just preparing for church camp. should be fun for the PLHers. youth comm has almost finished preparing everything.
i think that's all.. not much else to say.

big boot to the face!!!

well.. got some time now since there's no football tonight. tmr night then the epl season climaxes. all matches played at 10pm and shown at the same time on different channels!!! ahh!!! i have a super lot of dilemmas!! should i watch the liverpool game? but we've got nothing else to play for this season! should i watch man u and chelsea?? title race deciders!! or should i watch the relegation dog fights??? see who survives out of reading, birmingham and fulham to live to fight another day in the best league in the world!! hmm.. i think i'll switch channels every 5minutes!! haha.. mum and dad are coming back tmr night too. nooo!! i mean, yay!! hahaha. man, we really need to fix our living room TV. i miss watching it on champions league nights. mum and dad's room is real cold in the middle of the night and i need to bring my own blanket there.
hmm... studies-wise i guess i'm still ok... don't understand what's going on half the time actually lol. ok, that's not okay heh.. mid-years are fast approaching!!! totally dead!!!! hopefully i can survive somehow, like how i've done all these years.
church camp is around the corner too!!! need to start planning everything!!! program has been pretty much decided. just need to fill in all the little details which decide the outcome of the big games! haha. read too many of rafa's interviews already.
well.. suddenly i've found myself starting three consecutive games for cjc! wow. like, totally exceeded all my aims and expectations this year. at the start of the year, it was just to get into the cca, then it became no.1 priority to get into the A-division squad. soon, sitting on the bench contented me, and my 7-min debut was like whoo!!!!! then playing the last part against sr, and then starting my first full game against mj. then due to my performance at sports day, coach said i deserved to start against anderson. we beat them 2-0. :) i could have scored early on, but pity the volley fell to my left leg instead of my right. then i started again against acsi. we lost that one 2-1.. pretty much finishing our season. i could have scored from a corner near the end of the first half, but my effort was just inches wide with the keeper beaten. think i should have thrown myself at the ball, instead of trying to touch it in with my left leg... why don't my chances fall to my right boot!!!??? :( well, that's no excuse.. the ref was totally crap lah. gave me a booking just cos i was too close to the freekick and the guy kicked it and i blocked it. i'm pretty sure i was 10yards away, dumb ref. blind mouse.. in any case it's a soft booking to give, since it was only 5min into the game. then the rest of the match i had to watch my tackles and couldn't go in hard, for fear of being sent off. cos the stupid ref gave a freekick for EVERYTHING. worse than epl refs.. now i'm suspended for our last game on monday against hwa chong.. -.- (two yellow cards accumulated means a one-match suspension) oh well... at least something good is gonna come out of that... cos... i am ironmannnn... :) 7pm at j8.. it's a crysiz... hahaha...
so now it's for me to hold on to my first team spot. have to keep playing well to ensure i become a regular starter:) it won't be that hard if i keep doing what coach says i think. yup!
and triple H is the new wwe champion!! 12-times baby!! hahaha.
IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!!!

football, football, and more football!!!

ok why there are 3 footballs is cos there are 3 things about football to talk about!!
first, cjc's A-division season is virtually over. it's still mathematically possible to qualify for the semi-finals but i think mj just has to get one more point and we won't be able to catch them. we lost to serangoon jc 3-0 last friday. i got to come on as a sub for the last 20min or so, but by then we were already 2-0 down so couldn't do much. let in an unlucky first goal, and it just crumbled after that..
then on tuesday we played against mjc. we drew 1-1 with them. what a great result! just that we could have actually got a win!!:(:( it's like some fulham team drawing with arsenal lah. haha. and wow what a surprise! i actually STARTED the game!:D like wow. before the match, we were warming up and coach suddenly told me i was starting. so i was like o.O to throw me into the starting line-up in the MJC game is like o.O!!!?? MJC dude!!! best team in the country along with vjc! heh, so had to get focused. but lotsa stupid things happened. first, my glasses strap came out and i threw it to the bench to help me get it fixed. then they somehow got it fixed, so i wore it back, but when i went for the next header it broke! o.O then they somehow got it fixed again lol. good thing 2nd half nothing happened to it lol. i think we actually played as well as mj, if not better than them, so a draw was disappointing, but still admirable. i was playing centre midfield in a 5-3-2 formation. i think i more than equalled their center midfielders:) but our season is kinda over still.. haha..
2nd thing.. liverpool have been knocked out of the champions league!!! :(:( dang.. looks like risse's own goal in the first leg proved decisive. without it, we would be through to the final cos of torres' away goal. but oh well.. another thing the a-division has taught me is that football is like that- you win some, you lose some. don't matter how well you play, in the end, it's a funny game and so many unexpected things can happen. so you just have to live with it, and get on with the game..
3rd thing.. today was cjc sports day!! i had to do time-keeping for the track events cos i'm my class PE rep. didn't participate in any events this year cos i didn't go for the heats. can't remember why, probably cos i was busy with football or something. our class won interclass basketball. nico is a monster!!! that guy is yao ming in disguise or something lol. he gets EVERY rebound!! haha.
we had interclass football too. my interclass record has not been good actually. i've only ever played two games, one in pri 4 which we lost 3-0 and one in sec 2 which we lost 1-0. so i've never scored in an interclass football match before, let alone win one. but today.. the interclass hoodoo was finally broken!!:)
1st group game - 5-0. i managed to grab a hat-trick for this, before subbing out to let rahim play.
2nd group game - 6-1. got another hat-trick. then subbed out again to let rahim play. also needed to conserve energy for the upcoming matches.
semi-final - 2-2. got both goals in a topsy-turvy match which their centreback was body-slamming me the whole day. 1st half he had my number but 2nd half when we started punting more balls along the channels for me to chase then i got the better of him. scored a great volleyed equaliser before grabbing what i thought was to be the winner. but they got a last min equaliser and it went to penalties where we lost 3-1. i was supposed to be our last kicker but didnt get to take cos we lost before my kick. oh well.. disappointed.. but.. that's football.. at least i feel proud to have lost to the winning team. and kenneth ching scored at crucial times for their team in both the semifinal and final.
3rd&4th placing - 5-0. i scored 4 for this game. bringing my total tally for the tournament to 12 goals in 4 games. i counted, and it's confirmed i'm the top scorer for this year's event. too bad they don't have a golden boot award:( kenneth ching was 2nd with 10 goals. heh. but coach was watching and i think he might have been taking notice of it. i might have solved his fox-in-the-box problem lol.
so i guess today was a fun day.. disappointed not to have gone up to get a medal, but i guess i can take pride in the fact i won the non-existing golden boot award. haha. heh.. i think this is the 1st sports day since primary school which i've not gone up to take a medal. and this is the most fun sports day i've ever had. maybe cos for sports day in holy innocents' pri and maris stella we don't have interclass football.. hmm...

football stuff!

ok posting here again which is a surprise haha, considering the little time i have.
but yesterday and today stayed home cos i've been sick. hopefully will be well enough to go back to school tmr cos i needa catch up on all the missed lessons!!
liverpool drew with chelsea 1-1 too but it's only the first leg. bad news is chelsea have an away goal which means we'll have to score at stamford bridge no matter what. super unlucky. risse scored an own goal with the very last touch of the game. sigh.. but that's football.. i don't understand the 4min added on anws. and the ref was total crap. gave chelsea a foul for everything. but i'm confident that we can still go through to the final:)
we (cjc) lost to vj 1-0 too, last thursday. though coach said it was the best performance from a cj team in 4 years. we lost to an unlucky goal too. other than that i think we matched vj in terms of play. football is a cruel game..
on monday we lost to innova jc 2-0. lack of focus and too much complacency lah. but at least i got to play the last part and coach said i played well:) he blasted the rest of the team though.
so that's played 4, win 2, lose 2 so far for our A-div season. 6pts from a possible 12. our season is virtually over unless we get a win against mj and hope they slip up elsewhere.
hmm.. other than that i don't think i have much else to say..

finally

whoops looks like i haven't updated for abt 3 weeks. been really busy with school and everything else.. studies have been wack. need to balance with football too. trainings have been killer. and quite a number of them get postponed last minute cos of the bad weather as well-.- haven't been playing that well during training i think. good news is we're still 2 for 2 in the a-div, beating dunman high and millenia institute so far. the big game against vj is on thursday. been really tired out during this second term. not been able to sleep much.
well, at least there were some good things that have happened in the last 3 weeks. there was the maroon 5 concert which i went with YC. whooo real cool!!! once in a lifetime experience. we were 12 rows from the front and the music was super loud we almost went deaf haha. but worth the $185. lol.
went for the st. nicks fiesta with the twins, YC and renyi. pretty fun. just a pity renyi couldn't win a prize hahaha. and the root beer float was great!
april fools was pretty quiet. didnt do as many pranks as i did last year. though i managed to do quite a few good sms ones. the best being on mum when i told her i was going out with a girl for lunch hahaha.
last week was pretty lousy though. not one of my best weeks ever. actually it's not much but i think everything is just piling up as usual. so i'll probably endure for quite a while more til the end of the year and then i'll get emo again during nov/dec. that's been the trend for the last 2yrs haha.
oh we went to watch semi-pro too! haha. funny show. was laughing throughout. it's one of those typical nonsense will ferrell shows, so unless u have that kind of sense of humour, don't go haha. it's the kind of show like dodgeball, blades of glory, balls of fury, ya that kinda stuff lol..
oh yeah and liverpool beat arsenal and are through to the champions league semis!!:) next up is chelsea. looks like man utd are running away with the epl title too, unless chelsea can somehow stop them. any team but man u, please, i can't take it anymore.
well... what i have on my hands is football, studies, youth comm, PLH band, etc and all these already takes up all my time and energy la. physically i'm getting tired. hmm.. i'm getting along pretty well with my classmates so socially it's ok.. mentally- looking at my studies i say mentally i'm er... bleagh.. spiritually not been able to catch up on my bible reading and quiet time.. so also needs some work.. emotionally not good as well.
ah well.. just keep going cos once you stop you're dead. haha.
not much else i can think of right now..
not sure when the next update will be cos of school and everything. anws, will see how often i have time to use the computer..
peace out people. make sure you bring an umbrella with you when you go out. cos singapore is raining down on me.

easter retreat

today there was no PLH in church so for the first time in a few weeks was quite relaxed haha. got confirmed during the 8.45 service along with marie and kara. and people like hannah, yiying, cybil and rebecca got baptised. quite amazing to see all of us who have known each other for so long now go through this on the same day. now we are all ready to live our lives for Christ and be members of the church, from last time quarreling during sunday school and stuff like that lol. personal thoughts about getting confirmed won't be here cos i'm also not so sure what to write about. i pretty much did all my decision making back in december so there's nothing much new i guess? was thinking how funny i would look getting confirmed without my hair lol. oh ya i forgot to mention, CJ soccer team has had to shave our heads for team bonding so now i'm nearly bald hahaha... anws after service quite a few of us went up to the MPH to play the music instruments. quite funny to see all of us so interested in music. it's such a wonderful thing actually:) haha. david and jon and i were playing backstreet boys songs on the three guitars lol. actually the two of them have really improved alot. main thing now i think is to work on their strumming.

well now it's time to talk abt the easter retreat! first i must thank the youth comm for putting in alot of effort and ideas to make the camp possible and the great organisation throughout the camp as well. special thx to yiying who was chairperson of the whole easter retreat:) and uncle sim kang and all the mentors like aunty cat who helped as well:) the seniors who came back to help conduct the games were really really alot of help as well! took alot of things off the youth comm's hands which i am super duper grateful for.

ok, first day youth comm had to reach church early at 2pm to prepare for the people coming at 3pm. i was at the registration counter with my crew cut and army cap so i think it must have been like registering for the army to those people who came for camp lol. i was kinda barking out loud orders as well. haha. sorry, too much NCC in me:) then after grouping them up on the spot we told them all their groups. for this camp youth comm decided to let youth comm members be part of the groups to help foster fellowship. and also to have a young person as the leader (prepare for the next generation of PLH leaders! lol) and an older person to be assistant leader to help out the leader. the group names were the most creative word the leader could think up, and it's quite sad to see some of them having their vocabulary limited to words like "baldy" and "botak" lol.. then we had mass games which were all quite fun but i dont think i'm bothered enough to write abt it haha. at night we had 3 talks as well. dad's talk was probly the most interesting as it concerned BGR haha! dont really wanna resay what he said but i think the main point is we are not ready yet fullstop. i also read a funny bible passage to the PLH during my night announcement. it's 2Kings 2:23 onwards. go check it out yourself! then at night after youth comm meeting and having some band prac, went to the conference room to sleep. it was abt 1am when i went in. talked to david and jon til 3am, then david took out his phone and played "shape of my heart" by the backstreet boys and started singing. then as usual i sang along as well lol. jon joined in too and we sang lots of songs like toybox ones (tarzan&jane, the sailor song, best friend) then some other backstreet boys songs like "i want it that way". actually it's so cool that we still like these songs now cos they're quite old, like about 10 yrs ago i think haha:) then some worship songs like "testify to love" and "our god saves" and "rain down". easter retreat of cos must sing worship songs man! lol. actually david jon and me have quite a cool singing thing cos there are 3 of us then two can sing the normal part then the last one can sing the different part or echos, like a cool arcapella. especially since backstreet boys songs got a lot of other special effects hahaha. and those songs like "testify to love" we know we would "zao sia" so we purposely do it very funnily and cause the whole room to laugh haha! real hilarious, i think the whole room was having lots of fun at 4am in the morning. ok i slept for like 2 hrs and woke up at 6.30am. all the boys were up already and as usual, i'm the last to wake up during camp lol.

2nd day we had the workshop in the morning. actually it's quite standard cos it was just talking abt no sex til after marriage which i already know. so kinda hard to pay attention during the thing. can't believe how they had a workshop for 4hrs just on that one topic o.O ok, but credit to the two people who presented it to us cos they put in alot of effort. after that was the amazing race! the stations were all walking distance around church and we had to be back in church by 3.45pm. oh yes, my group is called "botak". thanks alot to keng gene our group leader. but i must say with two groups being named after me there is no question about my influence LOL. keng gene was group leader, jon fong was assistant leader, members in comm were me and samantha. other members were like kara, amanda, jon quek, christel leong, daphne, daniel, ben kee, si'en, sheryl and peter fu. amazing race was pretty fun! first station was at scape park and we had to do stupid nursery rhymes with actions in front of a crowd lol. "we're from raffles!" but anyone seeing si'en's st. nick's pe shirt would have known we were lying haha! then 2nd station was at smu had to solve puzzles and do star jumps. 3rd station was at fort canning where we had to pick up chopsticks with our toes. last station was at plaza sing. had to take photos of items in the super market so we split up. si'en and i were one group and had to take photos of some lime bitters thing, which we think is a spice, and alphabeto which was some pasta lol. after LOTS of searching at the pasta section we finally found the alphabeto thing hahaha. so stupid la lol. then last part no time already so didnt manage to find the lemon lime bitters. had to rush back to church and our group came in 3rd place. really felt like a real amazing race! just that the prizes were goodies and not a million bucks. think the seniors were superb in thinking up the stations cos it was really creative!:)
ok then back to church were we had some wrestling matches. despite not being fully fit i still decided to put my title on the line cos i am a fighting champion! HAHA. first up was jon! actually jon is quite big but somehow i can beat him everytime. so my record against jon is 3 out of 3 lol. this time was relatively fast compared to the royal rumble match at BBC. but it still tired me out. then next was david. after the tough match against jon i was in poor condition to face david but i didnt care cos it was just so fun that i wanted to wrestle lol. this time david was harder to pin than during BBC. it was quite a close fight. at the first part i almost lost cos david did a fast attack that got me on the ground and i managed to get out of it in the knick of time. it woke me up a bit that it was gonna be tough so i decided to go in harder. david was trying alot of fast attacks at my knee to get me off the ground but after his first pin attempt i was ready so could counter them. i had many close pinfalls on david but he managed to get out of them except for one at the last part which i think he was already pinned but he said his other shoulder was not down yet. so was pretty disappointed that i couldnt beat him in the end cos i had been more offensive but dad came in to stop us cos we were late for the final debrief so the match could not be concluded. there was a good crowd too cos the boys were watching so we gave them a fun match! haha. so i will be working hard to keep in shape for the next match cos david is the no.1 contender to my championship and also bcos jon will be looking for revenge haha. we havent played pool for awhile as well and i think i'm still the champion since our last game haha.

well i think easter retreat was really good! great job to youth comm once again! think we are getting better at working together and there's still church camp to come! it was great that si'en could come too! glad you had fun haha. only pity is that you missed the talks.

well.. this week is gonna be quite packed again. but i guess i'm more or less getting used to it. tmr is our first A-division match of the season against dunman high. dont think i'll be playing cos i still havent got my jersey yet! stupid shop take so long. then tuesday the jersey will arrive and also going to maroon 5 concert with YC!:) then wed got light football training and parent-teacher meeting. thursday is A'div match against hwa chong and friday will most likely have training again. then sat is the st.nick's fiesta and sunday is church again. also need to go make contact lens to wear during competitive games. besides all these still got to do school work and all that jazz. haha.

and tonight is the BIG GAME!!! the biggest game in the world: when liverpool meet manchester united! tonight will be at old trafford so it's a bit daunting but i think liverpool definitely have a good chance of putting one over our great rivals. if the whole team plays well and players like torres, gerrard and mascherano are on song then i think we can get the win. it's been too long since a win in the league against the scum so really can't wait for the game haha. still got about 2hrs more til 9.30pm. then the other game is chelsea vs arsenal. hope arsenal win and hopefully we can do arsenal a favour in the title race by beating man utd and at the same time having some hope ourselves cos if we win tonight it's an 8-point gap with 7 games to go in the season. oh man can't wait! haha.

ok i think i've said too much. this post is probably a good contender for longest post i've ever done lol. i end now.

argh

ok the workload is getting to me.. got lotsa stuff to do. such as preparing for easter retreat, quite alot of school work, football trainings and everything else.. super tired. i will go straight to sleep right after this post.. been coming home like 8pm everyday this week and having a late dinner. football team has morning run tmr at 6.45am... and school ends at 5pm tmr. what nonsense.. then there's easter retreat on friday. which means not alot of sleep too.. getting real tired. headache sia.. i'm getting a bit irritable too.. guess that's what happens when you sleep too little. i've only had like half a term of school lah. dunno how i'm gonna survive the next 3 terms. 9 more months.. but next year gonna be even more busy.. die die liao.
had football training today too. super tiring. think i have a fair chance of getting into the A-division squad. we're giving coach a selection headache. so he says tmr he'll tell us who's in the team and who's not. supposed to tell us on monday but he still hasn't decided yet. then the A-division tournament starts next week too. so if i'm selected there'll be no time to rest of whatever.
oh well, no choice. just have to keep going. think i need a very very good afternoon nap this sunday before the man utd vs liverpool game at 9.30pm. that's something to look forward too:)