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Thursday, January 06, 2005
1/06/2005 06:16:00 AM

hey everyone...i'm back to another day of "blog entrying"..hehez...lame lar..

yesterday night after writing my blog..i checked out the gym...it was kind of not up to date with the facilities...the superintendant was like telling me and benjamin that b4 us, no one used the gym b4...so no one bothered to care abt how the gym was...i kind of hurt my fists during my workout...maybe u r thinking how i did so with the gym facilities?...maybe "fist training" machine or something...yeah..kind of..this gym was not very gd in terms of variety...its still "useable" but its just tat the pin was missing in all the machines...so i suppose the last one that came in...stole all of them...the ones used for selecting weights and stuff...so everything was kinda too light...

but there was this punching bag in the corner..that i've yet to seen in the many gyms i've went to...its so cool...cos ever since uncle tan kind of taught me...oh..this is a secret...he asked me to buy a punching bag for training...so i kind of trained there and then totally just "anger management"...to train how hard ur fist can be lar...

then there was problem...uncle tan(the caretaker in our church)...kind of said i must wear gloves..i told him dun need lar..what for?...then he say..."okay..but at least must tie ur hands with a cloth(those type that street fighters use..i dun mean the cartoon video game..but real STREET Fighters also do so)"...so i was thinking of improvising...i took the cloth that i used for sweat...since i couldnt even sweat at all without many machines and the aircon so cold...and wrapped it around my hand...i just wrapped it one layer...it was okay at the start...but once i hit harder and harder...and use bigger hits...my fist almost bleed..cos the punching bag was like 40kg...and then it was tightly fitted with cotton wool or whteva de...then the skin is very rough...in the sense when friction happens..and my cool isnt smooth too..its like those towels that have friction de...got the mao mao thingy..lol

then i put double layer...it felt much better...but it was like i didnt know my last finger already like hurt le...i guess it would have been worst if i didnt train...oh..this is a secret too...:P

so thats how my last finger like very pain today loh...today wanted to go gym again...but its like the stupid uncle dunno why dun wan to open it for us le...say..we cant open it for u anymore..if u want, have to pay 25 dollars for a key..i was like going to argue back and my bro and ben could tell me is like going to say "what the heck?...i stay here...what is a condominium for if the facilities must pay one?..then the swimming pool must pay 50 cents for entry lar?...towel 30 cents for rental lar?"...idiot manz...heng my bro took me away...or else i sure complain de...

heng my bro tell me that the landlord,jenny has a key for us le...so we can get it from her tonight...or else i sure wait for my mum to come back then go and complain one...now is 5:30pm here...means 6:30am singapore...i always write entry when pple still sleeping de..hehez...

anyways, my mum just left today..got freedom until saturday night...she went to vancouver for a visit to the Canadian pastor's house...the one that came our church not long ago...maybe english section may not know him...

but she come back..i still must tahan for one more week until the 15th...then totally free le..she come here alot more naggy loh..haiz..cannot stand...

anyways, today was my second day to sch...knew a few more friends...at least this time is i take initiative de..but the problem is..i cant remember their names..and sometimes i just talk...dun even know their names at the end of the conversation de...

this is what today was like:

starting..go sch...then was talking on the phone with marcus back in spore..cos my mum usually dun allow me to use phone during sch days...so i ask her send me to bus stop only...then i try sitting bus and knowing the route here by myself...so took the chance to call marcus...also called Caryn lar...they are the only two that willing to call me and have bought calling cards de....so sad hor?

nvm...then i walked into the sch campus talking on the cellphone..the front desk lady was like "u just walked in like that?...and u walking thru?"...i was like "ya?...cant i?"...she was like "no..u have to sign in first..." as if i knew and that i was trespassing..i never talked to her the whole day later...asked everyone for direction but not from her...she is so damn rude loh....i did ask her where the orientation for today is held...but just walked away after getting the answer...not bothering to say thank u...:P

oh..i forgot..i forgot to sign out..lolx..tml sure get scolded by her de..but who cares?...just remember to sign in can le...

then today was an opening speech from the principal..its not as boring as how principals in spore do it lar...totally talk abt the sch and stuff...he was like telling us more detailed stuff,related to us and directly abt us...like the fire alarm,studying classes,ccas(they call them clubs here)...and many...his sense of humour is gd....he is like talking abt the residents that live here...then he say the girls then choose one girl to stand up and say "this is a girl" and the boys...he did the same thing to another boy then added "must be in their own residents"...haha...i was like duhz?...or else sure like spore's catholic jc...highest birth rate per year de..=X

my oral for yesterday was gd...a 13/15 mark...i consider it gd..but could have been better...if i didnt stumble on the words for tha passage...cos some of them saw b4 de...pronounce b4 in my head..but not aloud b4...

okay back to the orientation...they were like saying we have to get into clubs and get involved b4 the 14th of jan....no problem manz..i'll be the first to sign up for the basketball club and band here..hehez...and they have excursions and stuff...i wonder whether i can..cos me considering one thing at bronte..i'll talk more abt it later...

then the english teacher was cute...she's miss white..she told us where her office is..i'll sure be peeking in all the time..but today, she was like all around...so didnt get to speak to her personally...

she kind of brought stuff to use for introducing us to bronte college...she used a can to put a letter "I" on it..it stood for "i can"...while wearing a cowboy hat,fishing pants,old grandmother specs...all symbolism...cowboy hat meaning there are many cultures to learn here....fishing pants in the sense of daring to "dirty urself" and be adventurous in the world of knowledge...and old grandmother specs to open our eyes to see the world...i think my mum and my sis needs those...those pple that think music cant earn money...haiz...dun wanna talk abt that...ya...the oral teacher still agreed to me abt pursuing music...not in spore of course..but abroad...cos in the western world, music can be pursued to a large extent de...hehez..

everything was okay..then suddenly the principal called out 12 pple...he was nice...he didnt at first say why...cos it would have demoralised everyone else...but when we were in the conference room...he said we were the top 12 for the tests yesterday..hehez..yeah..even though my compo was crap and no content..i guess its just abt my language ba...

getting to the conference room was hard...i had to like ask three pple to get really there...and i was like already two mins later b4 i started searching...cos i thought maybe i could take a toilet break...but maybe it was abit too long..

the first person, a korean guy that was supposed to go for it too..but cos he didnt know where it was..he went for the normal class...i mean the normal ones that we 12 were supposed to be if we were not chosen...i dunno whats wrong with him..but he missed out on a great deal...

the second person was a chinese in the staff room..he had problem himself abt knowing where it is..i guess he didnt come out of his office much...then he told me first floor,across the elevator...actually i thought it would be second floor..my instincts told me so...or else i wouldnt be on the second floor searching..

then what was opposite on the first floor was an empty classroom...i waited there for two mins thinking "are they all late?"...then i asked the janitor that was sweeping...he told me second floor..then as i expected...."across the elevator"...lolx

then i was like late and they were explaining halfway...so i was totally dumb abt what was going on..:(..

after the lesson...asked liu yun(one of the guys i knew..he's from dunman high)abt wat was it abt..actually the singaporeans i know all very smart de....its like ACS,st nick girls' sch,raffles institute,dunman high...all also top 50 schs in spore...

he was like speaking to others..and kept on asking me to wait..i just walked off from the grp...cos the girls just stared at me...i didnt wan to talk to them...i dunno y..but i just felt that i rather have just very close guy friends here....

then walked around, looking for teachers to talk to...all not in their offices..then walked to the front desk, saw the stupid lady..still dun wan to ask her abt anything...then there was this girl..indian de...she sat in front of me at the orientation..i didnt see her yesterday....but she kept turning over..like wan to talk to me...but i kind of ignored her..and went on paying attention to the principal...

then she walked to me...she was very sociable...while we sat and talked..i gave her my email add...they all use msn here too...every person that walk past..she would like talk to them...i felt at last i found someone very sociable..but she told me she came on the wrong date....today she hadnt any lessons...so she came to sit in to see the newcomers....she can like just talk to anyone loh..i ask her "u know him?"..then she say "no...but this is the way to know pple or in another way, make them feel irritated if they dun welcome u"....hehe...she's funny..she's from indonesia...but came here and grew up since young..mixed chinese indian..but looks more like indian lar....but very friendly looking one...

she's a senior..and not newcomer..so disappointed...i dun think i will see much of her this way..she was like telling me there's a basketball team and also a band...so i'm in!..hehez

it was like i didnt know what the conference was abt..but she kind of told me half of it..cos the other half is new to the sch..

let me tell u guys abt it b4 u go "what was the conference abt..u idiot"...it was abt a university in new york...offering university classes while u are doing high sch...its like if i choose this....any university that i go next time...will accept me as a second year student...cos the first year is over le...in this six mths, instead of studying high sch stuff..i'm going to study university first year...so cool right?...

but the problem is...i wont be able to like go into activities in the sch and stuff..and maybe i wont even go to a university...but music also needs gd education status...so why not?...but actually i rather just take the AP program..its the one the indian girl explained to me....its a course that instead of having normal classes everyday...u will have 15mins added to every class u take..like maybe some classes u have to come earlier...some classes u stay longer....but every class more 15 mins only...then u already finish 1 year of university le...its not at NAZARETH...but why not manz?...

Nazareth is offering a course that every university around the world will recognise...but if at bronte...the AP program..u choose ur university..and only that one will recognise it...but it will still be in my education status...so maybe i'll clarify abt this tml again...we all are kind of confused abt it now...not even sure if what i know abt NAzareth is true...

cos while talking to that indian girl...one of guys from spore...the mother walked past...she asked me why i'm not with the grp...but i told her i didnt feel gd with them...when they talk as if i'm invisible..only this mother's son Marc..makes me feel very gd....cos he is always asking me questions and trying to get on close terms with me..liu yun that guy always turns his back towards me during the time we spend in the canteen..he still responds to me..but he shows me those type of fake "friendliness"....so i dun really like him...

marc is a total bookworm...finishing a book of like harry potter's fatest book in 3 hours..it would take me 3 mths manz..maybe its cos of my patience..i can only read up to 90 pages a day..if i really got the time and concentrationg lar...bt as a literature person..i totally concentrate alot and use much more brain cells than how pple usually take the book as a story...i think "how does this connect to that part last time?...why does the writer use this phrase instead of something else?....how do i feel now?"...and everything literature teaches u abt in depth studying of a story...

but he is very nice...took me around the sch...and even let me go into his hostel room...show me his book collection and stuff...nice boy...even though i always thought ACS boys are brats and show offs...actually even he thinks so..but he is totally different...nice and humble...rare huh?

that indian girl..her name is Jaz...actually not Jaz lar...its Jazberbel or something..dunno how to spell..but i request whether i could just call her JAz...so she allow...its like she's very open lar...talked abt christianity to me..said she wanted to convert b4...said maybe catholic...i asked her why not christian..but she kind of gave a childish reply "cos catholic has a lot of history and is very interesting"....she is into such stuff..she reads books like how beethoven was last time...the history of the beetles...i was like asking her who this guy was on the book..then she said "u dunno blah blah blah?"...he's one of the beetles manz...hahaz...obviously i knew the grp..know their songs..but why i care who they are?...at least i know elvis..lolx..=X

the way she socialise is very open too..like some pick up lines of "heyz..cool hairstyle"..."hey...show me that shirt..turn around turn around"...some pple just ignore her...then she will call them brats and stuff..the korean guy that i talked to...he was like "where's singapore?" to me..i told her...he walked past then she was like "that guy?...he's a jackass!..doesnt he know geography?"...erm...i was like, i know u r a girl...but u dun hav to get pple beating u up b4 u stop manz....i'm glad tat guy looks like a tough guy but was softspoken and a nerd...he looked kind of like that eurasian judge from spore idol..totally..just korean style..hehe

but overall, i admire her socialising skills...she almost talked to everyone that passed by..then i felt i knew how dao and cool asian pple are...pple in western countries just talk to everyone manz...while she was having a hard time talking to those that totally ignored her...maybe i expected more westernisers so i could use my mindset of "everyone is my friend"...but now i've just come from singapore to Southeast asia...

anyways, no sch tml..until i start choosing my decision whether to study bronte or Nazareth...if its Nazareth..since its plus university courses..i'll have to pay extra 3000 dollars...my parents dun support it...its a gd choice but i gotta think..even concentrating on high sch is tough enough..so what if the "gifted" program has chose me?..i dun choose the "gifted" program...maybe its really better just doing Bronte...the choice is attractive..but nayz, weighing the pros and cons..i rather not...in pri sch...i was also chosen for a gifted program that they say maybe can transfer sch to anderson or something..but i rejected the offer too..the sch was convenient for me...and i didnt wan to leave my friends then...but coming to pri 4...my class was the first class and all my friends were like so proud...so i didnt even call another of my friends in pri sch b4 transferring to a new sch...hehez...got a girl even confessed to me b4 i left...but the Cliff then, didnt care...

maybe clarifying what it is really abt will help me make a wiser choice...i rather just concentrate on my studies in high sch and do well..than take the challenge of doing university courses in high sch and not do well...then maybe i'll have to stay longer...:(

tml sch is at 2pm...not really sch...but its the meeting to clarify these stuff..cos b4 choosing, my classes are unconfirmed as we dunno whether to study at bronte or "at nazareth" in the sense that the teachers will come over to bronte to teach...and the nazareth courses will be taught in bronte...

k lar..i'll end here..go and have my dinner le...6:30 liao..byez

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