whee.

2007-02-21T20:01:00.001-08:00

hi im back and im sexy!

2006-08-10T21:43:00.000-07:00

go visit www.thedickdiaries.blogspot.com!

a joint blog by me, lennie, daniel and jason. we blog about our cool lives in school. come on and see! might have slightlyyy disgusting photos. but not that bad. if you're sensitive, then its viewer discretion. haha. just leave your views on the tagboard please!

and on the way also visit www.baller10.blogspot.com. because my clever little brother happily helped me publicised so i would help him publicise. hahaha!

havent blogged for super long already. a week, actually. national day was a bore. all those days were a bore, because my exams are coming and i have to study. actually, i just realised i only have one test left on tuesday next week. i guess its the exam pressure because of my brother. damn. it really sucks like that.

gonna try and pass the last test, then relax this holidays.

2006-08-03T21:57:00.000-07:00

the last 2 days have been so normal.

today, i had maths CCT.

yesterday, had nothing.

day before, had nothing.

ah this is sooo screwed.

tomorrow there's RGS dance concert. sandy's performing, LAWL. and i'm going with bryan and jason and ben yong. zzzzz. okay.

a poem i wrote for my English assignment. super random, i know.

Strangers to our haven
What was our sanctuary
Yet with these non-brethren
It'll turn into a mortuary

They intrude, the beasts
What they see, they seize
Yet is it not possible
to spare our lives at least?

okay. i know i'm going to fail that assignment already. this is like one of the worst poems i've ever written. and its supposed to be based on HG Well's War of the Worlds. never mind. i dont even know whether there's such a word as non-brethren. but just comment okay.

By the way, these few days i have absolutely no SMSes to burn. so try not to message me until Monday. thankews. (:

2006-07-31T06:34:00.000-07:00

tagboard reply to 'yeos'(: : i did say they have an unfair advantage. but hey, when we went to Malaysia we beat the Malaysians last year, so why cant we do the same now? basically its a team difference, and i'm just respecting that. sure, i dont like them bringing in the Malaysians, but the rest of their players are also skilled, and if they had rebounders, we die still. no need for malaysians.

yeah. thanks. the tagboard wouldnt let me put that in cause it was tooo wordy. haha.

anyway the weekend was a really boring one. saturday went to jason's house in the afternoon, when i went there he was trying to create a blog! hahaha. i tried to help him but he gave up on it in 15 mins. LOSER. jason reading this? (:

anyway we did our geography project, and we finished it around 5 plus. then when i left jason's house for my gf's house, (gf is Grandfather. haha jacked!) , i reached there 6 15. then i got jacked by my mom who asked me why i was 15 minutes late.

the rest is history.

sunday doesnt have anything worth talking about here. and today. oh man, today was oh so booring my toes just ran to the swimming pool by themselves. oh sorry, lame, i cant help it.

2006-07-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

catholic high basketball is realllllly good.

not just because they've got malaysian players who are 5 times normal height, but they've got imba defence and offence. okay, i feel they're not exactly that good on an offensive play but great defence leads to great offence when it leads to an easy fastbreak layup.

from what i saw today, there were zero open shots within the three point line. even when ball reversal was exceuted, no no, still no open shots. wow, i've never seen a c div team defend so well. and they forced steals like they were cracking nuts; leading to countless easy fastbreak layups.

okay they still had superb players. number 12 and 14 were giants, and they just dominated the boards. 14 had 3 blocks, 12 had 1. both could shoot long shots. number 7 was faster than anyone i've ever seen except maybe Allen Iverson. number 9 could shoot and foul-in. number 10 was shooting perfect 100% and playmaking. well, what i observed.

so catholic high is good. even if they did import malaysians, it was never illegal to do so. i think we should stop cursing about them malaysians, and respect the whole of their team for their pure skill, despite this unfair advantage.

2006-07-24T22:13:00.000-07:00

wow havent blogged for some time. sorry i dont blog on weekends, too busy playing dota hahaha.

anyway lets recount the events for the past few days.

MY BIRTHDAY was on the twentieth. sadly the great birthday present i got was a 20% pop quiz. it has since been increased to 33.33%, so whew! there's another one coming up this wednesday, so i'd better study hard. twentieth was a thurs. so there was nothing special about it.

Friday went to support the semifinal match, Raffles versus Newtown. okay, this has got to be the most climactic match i've seen so far, and the third 1-point win our team has had. first was Queensway, second was Newtown, now its Newtown again. Raffles was losing throughout, but the biggest lead they had was i think 7 points. then, with 15 seconds to go, we were down by 5 points. suddenly we could force so many turnovers, and at the last second Ravins got the ball for a breakaway layup and we took the lead to win. wow. he was fouled on that play, thats what makes it sooo surreal. he missed the free throw with 0.03 seconds left, but who cares? haha.

then i went bowling in the evening again! whee. this time i played much better. broke my previous record of 130, this time 155. okay its noob but i am a noob anyway. i had one strike in three games. the game with 155, i had one strike and seven spares wow! how cool is that. (: then i scored 134. not bad. the first game was an 85. ):

aha Saturday. another normal day on which nothing happened. at all. went to my grandmother's house, so bored that i played FIFA 06 and Stick RPG omg.

then Sunday! went out to Cineleisure with jason, amanda and shuen. wow it was rather fun. i ended up broke, had to treat them all to lunch at Pastamania. nvm, at least i got my present. it was this really nice Converse black wallet. then we went to watch ust My Luck, omg, retarded show. then we went LAN. lol. the girls just sat there while me and jason were playing dota. at least they played CS though. then we actually went to take Neoprints. lol. the pink shop feels funny even though its not the last time i've been into one.

okay thats all for Sunday.

happy birthday to me(:

2006-07-19T21:09:00.000-07:00

this feels bloody cocked up. i scored 3/15 for pop quiz. and that really sucks. when i studied and everything. i studied and practised so much, i paid attention during lessons, and now all i get is this piece of bullshit that says 3/15. thats fking low. screw. and now i dont know whether i'll be grounded or wtf. how the hell did i get 3 marks?

pythagoras can kiss my ass.

2006-07-16T17:58:00.000-07:00

whee my birthday is in 6 days.

wait, no its 4.

its on thursday.

yay!

hahaha sorry. the weekend was boring. friday was RI versus Yuying. RI won, 43-42. i had no idea it would be this close, but i just went down to support. Ravins played damn well. wow much better than the last time i saw him play.

after the match i had to hurry down to meet amanda at KAB cause i was superrrr late. i thought the match would finish at 430 but it ended at 445 so i had to rush down, cause she was there at like 445. i was there for like half an hour. after that i was going down to RTC to play bowling with my brother. only $1 per game for students yay. only on fridays in july. wow but my game that day was horrible, had like a top score of 92!!?? the last week i got 130. i know i suck at bowling ohman. my stupid brother owned me throughout ahhhhhh.

okay my bowling sucks.

262632(:

2006-07-16T02:32:00.000-07:00

wow havent blogged for 3 days.

okay nothing much, three days. anyway this weekends been boring. i received a few birthday presents whee! its kind of pathetically few but some of them are really cool. a converse bag. not the kind of gay kiddish bags but those kind of cool, uhm, cloth bags? i dont know how to say it. then my brother gave me a pair of Nike Lebron James wristbands hahaha. then i got a bracelet from my parents! manly. who. there's still angpow money and blah, but i wont name them.

friday was fun, Raffles Bball had the match against Yuying. i wasnt playing, as usual, but i went to support. we won 43-42. close match, but they reckon they didnt play really well. yeah i guess so. Ravins was man of the match baby,

2006-07-12T21:52:00.000-07:00

okay today was quite cool la.

school was okay at least. Mr Tousif, the coolest teacher ever so far, left. his hair is cool. wont look nice on me la, but complements him. hahaha. we took a photo together with him, the entire class. he's cool. okay sorry, i've been repeating that. right? okay, no.

anyway then after school went home like nearly immediately. kind of, stuck around for a while trying to prepare my chinese file. then i gave up trying and then decided to hand it up like tomorrow morning. before 7 20 no marks deducted. LONG LIVE YOULIANG! lol.

okay i'm abit hyper. but anyway. i met with poh sia, victor, and kaicheng. so went home with them on the mrt.

then when i got home today i was chatting with someone on the phone just now. as in, like 8 plus. then my mom scolded me for taling on the phone for too long. like, the call was 15:21. thats 15 minutes. LONG? damn that sucks. she says she doesnt likke me to talk on the phone for too long, and i have no idea why. is it just because its a girl, or she's worried about the telephone bill. i guess she just thinks talking on the phone is a waste of time. talking as in 'chatting'. this is not meant to be targeted at her or anything, mom if you read this, i'd really like to know why. please dont be mad at me!

okay. so thats that. i'm gonna add Tousif on msn now. he's cool. oops sorry.

2006-07-11T09:53:00.000-07:00

whee a boring tuesday.

tomorrow is Mr Tousif's last lesson, damn. i think he's a really good teacher, being young, he understands us and all. he can make jokes as well. unlike the other maths teachers. hahaha. he's got coolio hair too.

tomorrow is also math topical assessment, damn. i think i've studied quite a bit but i still dont feel its enough. i wanna get a 4.0 for maths! i just missed by 3 marks the last time.

okay enough about studies, lest you think i'm this hardworking nerd. today school was really slack. first it was the english mass lecture on stage sets, not that boring. then we had maths. then chinese/philosophy, my chinese teacher talks a lot of philosophy during his lessons. haha. then it was history. we used tablet PCs again! super slack, then edmund was doing all the work. i love edmund, he's a hot babe. (: after that was RE, kind of like a free period. we were slacking around in the library and bullying siowkiat. (: sorrayeee.

then after that, went home. met brandon yap on the way back. then took mrt back together. some random people on the train, nothing different from usual.

then went home to do some weights. i finally added more weight to my bench press, now i'm doing 34 kgs. i know its LIGHT. but at least now its like 60% my body weight? wahaha.

i'm going back to training! if i dont go i'll get fat. i think its this thursday. i've got to exercise self-discipline and go haha.

2006-07-10T21:00:00.000-07:00

i think i'll finally blog again!

i watched the world cup finals, because its a holiday for me today! RI shifted the youth day holiday to today so we can sleep in after watching finals. so anyway, i was alone in my living room watching the retarded match.

for like the first 15 minutes i was talking to amanda wong on the phone. lol. so boored. haha saying your surname everytime sounds kind of weird! luckily i had someone to talk to, watching it by myself just feels really funny. anyway in the first minute Thierry Henry( i think) got himself injured! what a great way to start the match. i was for France actually, but i guess the Italian defence was way too good. France nearly scored a second goal, one magnificent header by Zidane. too bad the italian keeper got it. anyway italy nearly scored too, but got called for offside.

heck i hate penalty shootouts.

but then there was the really weird part with Zidane being sent off! ohman ROFL. 'by the gods did you see zidane's headbutt!' quoted from my friend's friend. why the hell did he headbutt that guy? mood swings or something. 'one minute they were all chummy then pok! zidane heads! not the ball, the guy that is.' quoted from amanda. wong. haha.

well i'm thinking if zidane had stayed france might have had a chance. but no, retarded zidane had to go get himself sent off, GOOD DECISION, now your country loses. i dont even know why Henry came out towards the end of the game. i thought he was a rather big role in the offense, and when he came out i was kind of puzzled.

but never mind, Italy won already. they deserved it though, great defence!

i think the Cup must be covered in saliva now.

'lianglish'

2006-07-04T21:56:00.000-07:00

last post was on the 28th of june. today is the 4th of july. thats 6 days, nearly a week without blogging.

just didnt feel like doing so, there wasnt much going on in my life.

anyway, suddenly i've been assaulted by people on MSN speaking with the weird habit of typing in funny language. as my senior calls it, 'lianglish' because he says its used by lots of 'lians'. this weird language involves typing English with alternating caps and weird combinations of alphabets at the back of the words.

something very,very common: i lUrRb U WoRhXx!
in this case, love is spelled as lurrb and i have absolutely no idea why. worhx is something else that just leaves me scratching my head. however due to my increased exposure to the language now i think i understand that worhx actually is 哦, but the english version.

something else: tAgG mUa Bl0g! mUa bLogg RoX
this is something my friend yanyan is guilty of doing! (check the links section to find his blog. ) mua is actually another language(is it German? i forgot), and should be pronounced moi. also, rox is actually rocks, and 'x' replaces 'cks'.

this language really puts me off. but some people like it. what can i say?

2006-06-28T21:37:00.000-07:00

today was the first match against fairfield for the team, and though i'm not part of the competition squad, i am glad that we won. good job brothers.

now, to get into the team actually is 'an uphill task' for me, as my coach says. and well, now that i am not in the team, i dont feel really all that disappointed. i joined basketball late last september, and was way behind the rest of them, but i climbed up and stood a chance, no matter how small, at getting into the team. for that, i'm happy with myself already.

some people ask me whether i'm disappointed at not getting into the team. the honest answer is yes, but i'm never gonna take the self-pitying route and say, "damn, i could have done this better." anyway, i know i tried my best. please dont pity me for not getting into the team. people do fail, sometimes. and so, i'm not going to pity myself either. if i dont make it this year, i still have two more years. next year willl be less likely, because of me being in the junior year of the division. i'm aiming 2008.

and if i dont get it? life isn't basketball alone. i'll pick myself up, and move on, whatever the outcome.

i'm starting to do my weights consistently now, or maybe its just the spare time i have from not going for trainings as much as i used to. now, everything's gonna change. i am what i am. not what i was.

i'll go for the bullseye.

2006-06-26T20:37:00.000-07:00

i have soo nothing to post about because my life is as boring as it is.

tomorrow school starts.

like what the hell?! the holidays are over? this really sucks. i really cant stand school. and now i've got to trim my fringe already, damn. my school pants are too small, makes my ass smaller and smaller each time i wear them.

heck, though. i just realised that we're real lucky. TOMORROW school starts, and i'm still at home for today while the rest of you were in school studying. heh. at least RI is fair.

2006-06-22T22:32:00.000-07:00

today is another retarded day in the life of elias.

i mean, there really isn't anything to do besides lounging around at home. doing nothing. i haven't started on my schoolwork. but that isn't the point.

i didnt really get out a lot more the last few days, monday being the only exception. amanda's mom treated me and jason and kexin to lunch at orchard hotel, so that was nice. haha. after the meal we went out for a walk, and just loitered around taka. a while later jason had to go for GYM(woh). so it was me and amanda and kexin. we went to watch x-men 3 after that, at lido. poor amanda had to watch it a third time, haha, we forced her to. kind of. she was maybe 80% voluntary? heh.

the movie was not bad, but i watched it real late, and since everyone was talking about it, i already knew the whole story. still it wasnt bad. jeangrey looks like an old ahma when she becomes evil and all that. shadowcat pwns.

tuesday i stayed at home and did nothing.

wednesday was supposed to be a match, and training after that, but i felt kind of lethargic, and had a headache, so i didnt go. another day at home.

thursday was training. at SPANS. hate that place, really humid. that training wasnt bad. at the end of the training, coach decided to cut me, allon and sampson from the official training squad, since we weren't good enough for the upcoming c division. so as a token of appreciation for our help during trainings, he gave the three of us nike water bottles. hahaha. i like. of course not being part of the competition squad was disheartening, but at least i can say that i was part of the squad, and pushed them to their current state. raffles bball will pwn your ass even if i'm not in it.

so today is friday. another 24 hours wasted away, i should have slept instead of watching tv and rereading harry potter. anyway tomorrow i'm going daniel's house early in the morning for a history project, so gotta get some sleep tonight. oh yeah i have to call edmund chay.

bye for now.

2006-06-17T16:03:00.000-07:00

wow. back from malaysia again, for 6 days this time.

no wonder i haven't blogged for so long. haha.

this time it was for basketball. in the end, only one match was played in six days. it was supposed to have been three, but no, rain and other weirder problems cancelled the two matches. in the end we only played MCKK( Malay College Kuala Kangsar). they won, but they were good. their defence was just intimidating.

the first day was supposed to have been a match against College Yayasan Saad. but it was cancelled so we had training instead. nothing much about that. in the night we checked into century mahkota. we stayed in the serviced apartments. me, ryan chin, ryan tan and ravins were assigned to the same apartment. E & R & R & R. there were two rooms, but ryan and ravin's rooom had a broken airconditioner. haha. so in the end all four of us slept in one room. we stayed up till quite late though, about 1245 am.

the next day we checked out of century mahkota (noooo), and there was a 9 hour bus-ride ahead. the place was kuala kangsar, and it was further than ipoh even. it was expressway all the way though, and sleeping wasnt much of a problem. we reached the place after a long ride and with cramped legs. they welcomed us with food though, some mee goreng, and it was supposed to be our lunch at 330!? never mind about that. they brought us to our hostel, and IT WAS GREAT!

i swear i will never stay in a hostel ever again.
not ever.

the bed was okay, but that wasn't the point. it was the bugs that really got on my nerves. bugS. notice the capital S? the bugs were in the thousands. you killed them, they came back. and not just mosquitoes, mind you, but six thousand and twenty three other species of insects as well. oh man. i slept on an upper bunk, near the light, which meant that the light-loving flies loved me as well.

the next day was boring, again. it was match day, and the morning we went to some stream near the school. it was quite fun, and we were throwing rocks into the stream like no one's business. we even took a rock that required 3 people to carry, and tossed it down from the top of the bridge. it was probably about 300 kilos. whoo. the splash, baby. then, match, some kind of farewell function, and the night at the hostel again. (noooo.)

we left MCKK the next day! whooo!!! no more bugs! it was a 6 hour bus ride (if i'm not wrong)to KL. when we reached we went to Mid-valley Megamall for shopping. haha. i regretted brining only 50 ringgit, but luckily i had some sing dollars to change. i bought a t-shirt for myself(25RM), a Dunks VCD for my bro(15 RM), some chocolates for my dad(17RM), and a keychain for my mom(5RM). heh. then we had dinner at KennyRogers, and i ate a quarter chicken. next we went to the hotel, which was Crown Princess Hotel.

ohman it was excellent, fantabulastic, and stupendous. all at the same time. it was a five-star, which meant, like WOW!, compared to our residence just a day ago. rich. i love hotels. we all slept late that night, maybe 1 plus AM, playing cards, and stuff. i learned bridge. (:

the nexter day was supposed to be a match day, but thtere wasn't anything on in the morning. therefore, everyone was slacking from 8am to 2pm. woohoo. we all gathered in gerrard's room to watch Miami vs Dallas, game 4. Miami won, hurrah. three cheers for Dwayne Wade. later in the afternoon nothing happened, except we went to SMS Selangor for a match. too bad it rained. rugby still played though, despite the rain. after that, the situation on the bus was comic! chander had to shit! HAHA. he asked people for a plastic bag and tissue. HE WANTED TO SHIT ON THE BUS OMG. everyone 'ran' from him. LOL. luckily we reached our dinner restaurant in time for him to shit, otherwise the bus would have smelled like heaven for the next day.

the next day we went to Sunway Lagoon early in the morining till early afternoon. i didnt go for the wet rides though, i felt they were troublesome. instead i just stayed at the cafe and played cards with some of the rest, and played nicholas chong's PSP as well. i only took one ride though, a 360 degree rotating pirate ship. weee. it was FUN. i sat with teohong, weekuang and yifei. teohong had the daylights hocked out of him, he was clenching his eyes shut throughout the ride LOL! and shouting. poor him, awww.

then it was a 5 hour ride home. when we were leaving the place, it rained so bloody hard that we were all soaked. really soaked. just the same effect of having waded into a bathtub, lying in it, then coming back out. basically dripping wet.

then we slept on the bus, and reached school at 9 o clock, right on time. yay.

all in all, a great trip. (:

2006-06-09T23:05:00.000-07:00

today was a special day.

it was chander's birthday! hurray. as i said yesterday, we all went to chiong daniel's house. there was food, lentil rice of course. and i didnt really do much there, except just clown around and watch the rest clown around.

before that we had training. at marine parade cc. the weather was unusually superb. other than it being a bit wet(the courts i mean), the temperature was great. training was rather short, and we scrimmaged again. i scored 6 points. hahaha. two were jumpers, and i think both were rather lucky, or tyco, however you wanna spell it. but being lucky is a skill, and ha! both went in! whoo! lol. after that it was just some runner that i shot over someone, i cant remember who. an off-balance, in-front-of-basket runner. another lucky shot.

i'm so lucky today! apart from having to walk through the dastardly heavy rain this morning, the day was not so bad. i'm lucky to be not-so-unlucky today.

2006-06-08T23:15:00.000-07:00

i haven't blogged for a week.

the past week was a mad one. five days i was out, either basketball or basketball. okay i know i'm not in the team but i'm still gonna try and go support matches whenever i can. they're my mates after all, and i'm glad i have mates like 'em.

wednesday was jason's birthday(i think). he took us all to seoulgarden(actually he asked us to go to seoulgarden) and then we had this whatver you wanna call it, birthday meal or somehing. me and kieran were the only non-ruggers there, and that feels really weird. okay they're quite nice people but it still feels weird. then amanda and sandy were there too. the only girls. they looked kind of sad and i must say jason made a mistake in inviting just the two of them. i think he should have asked along more members of the female gender haha.

today is a totally wasted day. i didnt do anything the whole day except laze around. and as if that wasn't enough, i went to redhill for the match. then it had to rain. BEAUTIFUL. so i went home again. and wasted more time.

now i think i'm still as addicted to dota. that sucks. i dont know whats so fun about dota actually. yet i still play it. what can i say. yeah but i'm noob anyway, so dont come to me asking for a fight, it'll be fun for you and not fun for me.

the holidays are gonna be over soon, at least for me. we got two more weeks, and one week i'll be in malaysia. the next i'll have to rush my 3 projects(if i'm not wrong). there really isn't much time to do anything anymore. i'll have to enjoy myself in malaysia i guess.

now its only 11, and my parents are asking me to go sleep. this holiday sucks. really. i HAVE to get out of the house more, not just for basketball.

ANYWAY tomorrow is daniel chander's birthday anyway.

happy birthday chander! we're going and chionging his house tomorrow. and marine parade cc which is just opposite. it should be fun. i hope. if it isnt i guess after that we can all just go to the library and chill. haha.

got to go sleep now my parents are yelling.

2006-05-31T22:31:00.000-07:00

ohman we won converse 3 v 3 inter-school tournament.

yeah it was non-competitive. and we were playing against each other in the semis and finals. but so what? we won. haha. and we won joseph, yanyan and weekuang's team. TWICE. thats no easy feat. they were owning us in the first game, until i suddenly did something real stupid. i just tried an off-balance three, with yanyan's hand in my face. and i dont know how but the shot just went in. it was lucky, of course. it hit the board, then went in. it was like seeing a comet or something. it was two points of course.

then it was tied 5-5. woh. wee kuang tried a runner, i think. it missed, then it was our possesion. ryan chin did some funny hook thing that went in, then it was 6-5! and we won.

then the next match was more even. we won with 5-3. i had 3 points. i thought we would lose, mainly because the first match was only won because of the 3-pointer. anyways, i got my runner in this match. and a foul-in. then i converted the free throw. whoo.

enough about that i sound like i'm bragging.

anyway the prizes were a free jersey set, a basketball, a converse t-shirt and a medal. it was quite okay. and the whole thing was fun itself.

i wanna go shoot more threes.

2006-05-28T13:24:00.000-07:00

havent blogged for so long. not least of all i was in malaysia for 4 days. school trip. it wasn't very bad, considering that my group was great company. danfer's a sicko lol.

and anyway the trip isnt much to talk about here. the food wasnt bad, the rooms werent bad, and the itinerary wasnt VERY bad. but i'm not saying the 3 days were GREAT. it was acceptable. haha.

i think the holidays are gonna get real boring, real fast.

2006-05-21T14:08:00.000-07:00

havent blogged for some time.

i've been playing dota for the last few days, and i know i'm bloody noob, yeah, but i just started. taking lessons from zennon to help me lol. andi'm still not paqwning the computer like mad as he is, but i get like 4 kills in half an hour. AI is at easy level. see how noob!

never mind about that. been so obsessed with dota that i've nearly stopped blogging, and i think i'm neglecting personal PT. so i'm going to make an effort to play less dota.

okay i'll stop blogging here, off to play dota! heh.

2006-05-16T21:50:00.000-07:00

man havent blogged for a few days now.

today was a shit day, got back my history results. although my history overall is a 3.6 i still am not very satisfied with it. i think i barely scraped that 3.6. then, there's still my chinese. i think i'm just freaking SCREWED for chinese, and my mom is so going to kill me. 2.4 maybe? ahh it's terrible.

then now, just because i failed my science CT, i'm grounded. that means no movies, no hanging out or whatever you can think of. screw it, thats like being kept in a cage. ahhh f*ck.

just got hamachi(yes i know i'm uninitiated) but i still cant play because my mom just disallowed me from playing computer games on weekdays. AFTER MY EXAMS. how BS is that damnit.

my GPA is so f*cked.

my MOM.

2006-05-13T22:03:00.000-07:00

The dictionary defines ‘mother’ as ‘a person who is acting as a mother to a child; a female parent of a child or animal’. My mother is definitely more than this, and I have to thank her for being so.

What I would define as a normal mother would be a parent who takes care of her child, loves her child, and is willing to sacrifice anything for her child. My mother is that, and more. She does a lot of things for me, and these things I feel, many other mothers don’t.

I must appreciate her cooking for me, and my dad, and my brother. She is willing to spend extra time to cook, and I do know that cooking isn’t all that easy. It is kind of hot in this searing Singapore weather, and cooking makes it even worse. The main point is that she cooks it for us. Not for herself. No matter how much she cooks, she usually eats the least. And I eat the most. *sheepish smile* She cooks it so I don’t have to eat unhealthy, oily hawker food.

She cuts my hair even. And that, I am VERY sure, incredibly few other parents do, unless they are hairdressers or something. Yet, she isn’t. And I can’t help but feel a sense of security when she is the one who cuts it. It’s just different when hairdressers cut it. I know she knows how my hair should be like to make me look good, and so I can leave it entirely up to her, knowing that I won’t come away with some crap hairstyle. Of course, sometimes I do nag at her about leaving my fringe long, leaving my back, whatever, but hey, she listens!

She nags at me. Yes, I am saying that this is a good point, even though I really am rather annoyed/pissed when she does. I’m a rather messy guy, so each and every time after I finish using my table, it’s in a huge mess, and there are books strewn all over the place. She shouts at me, screams at me, tries to do something, anything to get me to pack up. And when all else fails, she packs it for me. It is kind of guilty for me, but hey, that’s why I’m saying she’s a great mom!

She helps me with my work, whenever she can. And she might only be able to help me with Chinese, but so what? She helps me. And she’s great at it. I can always ask her about some words which I don’t understand, and she knows their meaning ninety-five percent of the time. Maybe she is Chinese-educated, that’s why, but she still forks out about an hour and a half each day during my exam periods to help me get my Chinese right. And so, she loses one and a half hours of sleep for me.

This is definitely not all she’s been doing for me since I came into this world, and these aren’t very important things either. But just trying to imagine a world without her, these minor things do make a lot of difference. I took a lot of these things for granted, and now I shall do so no more. Thanks a lot mom, you’re the greatest. (:

2006-05-09T22:06:00.000-07:00

today, we had post-CT programme.

great.

first was the rugby match, then some arts appreciation, then back to the classroom, then va-va-voom. over. tadah.

jason kept asking me today whether ruggers are cool. i answered 'SOME are. but whats the definition of cool?' and that got me thinking. what's the definition of cool in rafflesians? is is not following school rules or mischief-makers? let me list down some of MY OWN criteria for rafflesians, RI students rather, to be COOL. yeah. disclaimer.

+ ankle socks
+ non-studious-looking hair
+ pants reaching the knee
+ not lame
+ not arrogant
+ poserish

uh huh thats about it. and out of all the above none breaks school rules. yay. in conclusion, RI students do not have to break school rules to be considered cool. ankle socks are allowed in RI, yay.

but wait! not over! i made up these myself, so please dont come to me and bash me up over it. heh. i know many cool people who dont fit in all the above criteria, haha. so its not definitive. examples: wee kuang doesnt wear ankle socks. siyuan's pants dont touch his knee. lennie is lame.

ah thats it. all cool guys are poserish, look at bryan koh's HAIR. whoo.

ok i hope you were entertained. (:

the TEAM.

2006-05-08T20:13:00.000-07:00

today i was thinking of a rather different topic. that is, getting into the school team, and actually competing for the school. i know many many of us in competitive sport CCAs really really want to get into the team, compete for school, get their jersey, and other stuff. but what's this other stuff that really comes in? i mean, actually i do really want to get into the team as well, but if i fail, i should not lose all hope. that would mean, one cannopt accept failure. that's really bad. i think i haven't really failed many times in my life before, but that is why i should get myself ready for it, if it ever happens. hopefully never.

back to this: what other stuff, reasons for getting into team, come in? i was thinking along the lines of personal pride. rather, one gets a sense of achivement when he/she gets into the team, and competes for the school. however, this can be viewed in a negative light as well; what if the person gets into team specially to show off that he/she is in the school team? i've thought bout this, and well, it can be quite true. as my coach once said, we dont like to lose. it's not about winning, but rather, its about not losing. if you see other people, your good friends, get into team, you dont want to be behind them, and so, you try your utmost to get into the team. this is a matter of your face, 面子, rather.

this is the one and only reason i can think of. really, what else is there? i think the pride part is especially important for many of us. and that is being glorified, by the notion of being in the team. but there are other ways to glorify oneself. why not just do PT faithfully, get strong, and there is just as much achivement you get as get when you get into the team. there is just as much to show off about as well. you do all this for yourself, and not for your face, your reputation.

2006-05-05T21:46:00.000-07:00

CTs are over.

time to relax, so maybe i wont blog as much as before. but my brother's still having exam, so i can't play yet. what s**t is that, noooo. i dont have anything to do.

anyway today school finished at 930, so i had loads of time to do things which i did not require for my survival. such as watching movies, bla bla. went to daniel's house, but before that daniel went to play soccer, jason followed, and lennie followed, leaving me with nothing to do. wth. so i stayed on the stupid stadium steps watching them play with balu, alimi, saiful, said, shang xuan, and nicholas pathy. some other people i dont know. yeah. balu was a GOD. man, he owned the rest. when he stopped playing, i stopped watching LOL.

ok whatever. so we went to daniel's house, tried our lip-synch video. in the end, bad bad bad. stupid JASON. brought his digital cam which could take about a maximum video length of 20 seconds. wasted time. argh. then we went to watch a DVD, The Day After Tomorrow. great movie, i didnt watch it the last time.

then, i learnt to PLAY DRUMS! coolios. daniel taught me, he's pro. wow i want a drum set too, damn fun. too bad my mom doesnt like noise, no matter how nice it sounds. awww. drums are fun.

damn i'm having a flu now, like what the hell. cant even do PT properly, and my parents dont let me go out for basketball.

PT update:
1200 pushups (710)
1200 squats (700)
1000 inclines (300)
500 lunge walks (200)
500 supermans (400)
500 burpees (350)

ahhh i hope i can complete by tuesday, with this screwed up nose of mine. this running nose can go take part in Olympics 100m already.

2006-05-01T21:33:00.000-07:00

changed my blogskin. please give me comments, just post on the tagboard!

also changed the song. Grillz by Nelly. to all my dEaRiiEx WorHx. (:

monday, labour day. today was quite slack for me,as in studying. other than studying for just 1+ hours, i did about half hour of PT. not a lot, but really feeling sore already. here's the list, i didnt blog about it the last time.

1200 pushups (300)
1000 incline chinups ( 0)
500 supermans (150)
1200 squats (200)
500 steps of lunge walks ( 0)
500 burpees ( 0)

the bracketed stuff is the number i've completed. oh my sonny. this means i'm gonna have to go really hardcore after the CTs. this PT is already hardcore enough, look at that! it actually means an average of:

110 pushups
91 inclined chinups
45 supermans
110 squats
45 steps of lunge walks
45 burpees

DAILY. madness. it can kill! this means i have to spend almost 45 minutes on PT daily. not forgetting my other stuff, like the crunches, bench presses, whatever. i want a six-pac. (:

okay that's that. yesterday, i went shooting free throws. decided to shoot 50 shots, and then calculate my percentage hit. it wasn't so good. i hit 28/50 free throws. thats a 56% hit chance, not very good, considering many many NBA players have career free throw percentages of 70+ percent. at this 56% the only NBA players i beat is ben wallace and shaq.

i decided to compare mine with wee kuang's then got depressed when he told me he hit 37/50. ahahahaha. nooooo. i lost to wee kuang! by 9 shots. not that i didnt expect to win him, but the question was by how much would i lose. 9 shots is a lot, and i am going to beat 37 shots one day.

just wait and see.

anyway today is the last day i'm gonna blog until friday. my common tests start tommorow and well, i will temporarily stop blogging. this is not going to take away my mugging time. i want a gpa of 3.5!

2006-04-28T14:53:00.000-07:00

okay today i will try and study more.

going my grandma's place later, so i will bring some work there to study.

some reflections. jonathan told me yesterday that my blog has a rather negative name. i've thought about it, but now i guess it's really kind of late to change the name already. i just wanted to think of a name which would stick, so i chose this. knee deep in hell is a phrase i got from the FIRST EVER Doom game created. it's actually a difficulty level. but never mind, i chose this name, i made it so, i cant change it now.

anyway some people have been telling me that they cant get into my blog. these people include yanyan, jonathan, yihao, jason, and some others. they say it takes an eternity to load, and even so, it can't load. i think this is a problem with the blogskin and i'm gonna change it like, now.

soon.

2006-04-27T21:57:00.000-07:00

why do the common tests like to strike at the most unappriopriate time.

i've got remedial at 2.00 tomorrow. by ms tsang, for science. i think this science syllabus is so packed it will kill you. thats not the only thing. tomorrow is the bloody p6 DSA trials, and i wanna go help out!

unfortunately, i cant, because of this science remedial. Noooo. i just smsed ms tsang, asking if i could take leave early. she hasnt replied. i think she's daoing me already. lol. crap this sucks. i think now all i can do is pray that tomorrow's science remedial will end early, then i can go help out, shoot some hoops.

this sucks. also, i got a sore throat, slight fever, phlegm. hopefully it'll go away by tomorrow.

THE LATEST NEWS FROM WALTER, CAPTAIN OF THE RI TENNIS TEAM.
remember my earlier blog entry about going to support a tennis match, then it ended up raining? well they played it today. so its double gold for RI, c div and b div tennis. RGS won gold too, and MGS and ACSI lost. haha. too bad for them.

2006-04-26T22:40:00.000-07:00

LJ day today. learning journey. stupid waste of time. my day, gone. first the NEWater plant, which i've already been to and that place just doesnt cut it for me. then, we had to go Kallang Tennis Center to watch tennis finals. however, due to the superb, astonishing weather, the match was postponed. just great, two hours wasted at kallang tennis center, and $3.20 wasted on a crap, unhealthy lunch of mcdonalds. must have been 1000 calories, fats, useless cholestorol.

this just sucks.

but at least there were some cool MGS tennis girls, and RGS girls, and CHIJ girls. what else, hmmm. ACSI guys. bloody tennis girls from MGS, their skirts were like freaking short! danny tells me this is so as to not restrict their movement, okay i get it. but still, they look nice in such short skirts. not in a perverted way though, but, well, i dunno how to say. they just look better, not whorish but goodlooking. yeah. haha.

okay but maria sharapova's shoulders are getting wider and wider. i'm beginning to like her less and less lol.

what a fine, rainy day.

2006-04-25T22:05:00.000-07:00

today, the last training until the end of common tests. not very eventful actually. like any other rainy day, we went to SPANS to train. again. in a short time of just 2 hours, we did rather little. scrimmaged, PT, fundamental stuff, nothing else. the scrimmage was rather good and bad at the same time. i was 1 of 2 from the field, the only one being a lucky shot that i managed to get off, while the missed shot was a rather stupid shot i just forced when i was being covered by three people. damn. should have done better than that.

but anyway. MM says i probably have one of the best shooting forms in the team. yay. i'm happy. but still, my defence and game composure is really bad, so i think i really have to work on that.

also, after the scrimmage today, i just realised how nice Ravins can be. during the game, him being our point guard, he was like calling the shots and stuff. nothing wrong with that. at one point he shouted at me, because no one was going to do the inbound pass. i didnt make a very big deal about it, but after the scrimmage, he came up to me to say, 'sorry i shouted at you just now.' man. Ravins can seem a bit mad at times, and kind of rowdy, but today i just realised that he can take a minor little thing like this so seriously, in a good sort of way. maybe its cos he doesnt usually scream at people, but still, three cheers for our Ravins. yay. i wonder whether he's reading this. ahahaha.

adidas vs nike?

2006-04-24T22:23:00.000-07:00

i did a survey on brand-concsiousness today. because daniel's RE group is doing on branding, so i'm gonna write about branding now. (i know i'm really brand-conscious, thankyou) nope, not my personal commentary. rather, i want to compare two of the top performance brands in the world. if you havent heard of them, you probably stay on Mars. Nike versus Adidas. man this is a tough fight. if anyone remembers, i think a few years ago, Nike was dominating the sport performance market. now, Adidas is a really major competitor, and these two are slugging out the price wars. its good though, means we get cheaper branded goods.

okay. the true flagship models of these two brands and their direct rivals.
Adidas Superstar 2 vs Nike Dunks
ClimaCool/ClimaLite vs Dri-Fit/Sphere Dry
T Mac 5 vs Lebron Zoom Air 3
F50+ Predator vs Mercurial Vapor
adidas_1 vs Nike Shox Turbo III

okay these are some of the major ones. i couldnt get anything for tennis, i'm not really into it. but when u look at this list, well, i think adidas is really going to overtake nike. really quickly. the superstar 2 is way more common than the nike dunks series. climacool is also more well-received than dri-fit. it even sounds real cool. for the Tmac 5, well, its also way more common than the Lebron. well, its into its fifth version already, what do you expect. for the soccer, well i dont play soccer very much, but i heard of the F50 much more than the mercurial vapor or whatever. infact i havent even heard of it! can someone please tell me if i'm wrong, i'm not exactly an expert on these things. okay, and the running shoes, the adidas_1 wins hands down.

adidas is now cooler than nike. a pity i dont have much adidas stuff. ):

2006-04-23T21:41:00.000-07:00

sunday already. now i think i shouldnt worry too much about my darn tests. that's what causes people to fail. this paranoia just gets on your nerves and makes u so screwed up you cant think and then, well, no surprise, u screw up. thats what i'm gonna try and avoid. so, to NOT screw up, i'm gonna play basketball EVERYDAY. :) nah. not really. just gonna try and get some exercise. on training days i get enough, but when i dont have training i'm just gonna do some pushups and crunches. hopefully i can carry over that habit until after the exams even. i just realised my abdominals are bloody weak. i had difficulty doing <40 situps wtf.

so that was it. i'm gonna resume my crunches. who cares even if NAPFA is tomorrow? i dont do exercises to pass NAPFA. i do it because i want to. its the same motivation for studying. u dont study because your parents want you to, right? u study because u get the satisfaction of doing well in your exams. okay nvm this is quite philosophical.

after common tests its gonna be fun all the way. no-holds-barred. yeah. monday is a no-school day, friday is vesak day, but after that, i'm not really sure. still, by then, school's gonna get more fun. i hope. haha. then i can go out like mad, catch some movies, yeah. bloody jason's going to hong kong. *jealous*. damn. but well, he's only going for three days. haha. and then after that we got malaysian montage. we're not gonna be in our usual classes, and that means i might be in a group of total strangers. not trying to be insulting or anything, but i hope i dont get sorted into a group of GEPers. some of them are okay really, like sampson, haha. but there are many, MANY weirdos in there. if its just among us special express then there should be some people i know at least, i know so many. whee. :) jk. but i think the whole trip will be a bore.

okay i changed the song in my blog. this is Fly Away by Nelly. dedicated to all the people who tagged:) which means amanda, miao qian, sandy, simin, jason, suhuan, siyun, fraser, alina, yanwei, alisa, glenn and alicia. hahaha. tag more! also for all my cool bball mates. yay. signing off.

my name.

2006-04-23T06:41:00.000-07:00

i was feeling bored, and alisa gave me an idea. from her blog. so i went to google and just googled something like, "my name in japanese'. hahaha. and then i got all these.

my japanese name. pronounced ERIASU.

일라이어스

and this is my korean name. i dont know how to pronounce it though.

إلياس

my ARABIC name! so cool. same, i dont know how to pronounce it.

darn. thats all i can find. the other languages like Portugese,Dutch,Spanish,German, whatever, dont seem to be any different. even Russian. hahahaha.

OH NOOOO i just realised this blogskin doesnt let you read this! damn. i'll try to find a way. in the meantime, well, i cant do anything.

okay its still early, but im TIRED.

2006-04-21T22:32:00.000-07:00

today is friday. i dont know why i'm so damn stressed just because the common tests are approaching. last year this feeling wasn't there. but maybe it's just because the teachers decide to throw all the assignments at us right before the CT week. bloody hell. but anyway, why should i even be stressed upp about it? i have no idea. i mean, as long as i know i have done my best in paying attention and practising, i should have no fear about this exam. yet i cant help it, feeling stressed. basically, that must mean i havent done enough to assure myself yet.

anyway we had training today. the weather sucked. it was total crap. first, while walking to BWL, it was barbecuing. sweating like a pig. then, me and joseph decided to play a bit of horse. bad idea. the sun was so intense, like GGM. then the rest came, we did warmups, and underbaskets. then it rained.

yeah, it rained. it was this heavy downpour which lasted for about 5 minutes. MM talked to us about the 2-2-1 trap, just some tactical stuff. then after it stopped raining, we went on court to actually try out the trap. the sun was back again, in full force. it was literally burning, when i played skins i could feel the heat on my skin, worse than usual. that really sucks. but an achivement then; i got through ryan chin's defence twice, by dribbling past him. i hope i'm improving.

then, we did some cross stuff, with the forwards(me!) and guards, which was just as usual. some confusion about the screening stuff again, but then it was resolved. then we scrimmaged. yay. this was by far the scrimmage where i feel i've been allowed to shine the most. not that i really can shine that brightly, but this is the first time i felt i played to my potential actually. of course, it was against a lousier team than the starting 5, but then again, previously i haven't been able to do this. basically i just scored 6 points, out of my team's 8. my 3 baskets was one underbasket and two high post jumpers. burned ryan tan the first time! yay. the other 2 was from a cool yanyan running shot. we still lost though, to a better team by just 3 points, scrimmaging to 11 points.

okay enough of basketball. i still gotta study tomorrow morning and i'm trying to get a new skin right now. okay i think i got it. never mind. good night. will be blogging again. argh.

2006-04-18T21:32:00.000-07:00

it's tuesday already!

common test is just two weeks away. i must say. my history is really screwed. my maths is rather screwed. my chinese is really screwed. my geography is rather screwed. only my english and science are okay(i hope). so what does this mean? it certainly means i have to really start bucking up. i still have 2 weeks. but this week i have a helluva workload, thurs being the deadline for history performance task, fri the deadline for, err, forgot what. next week's the deadline for chinese project and science performance task. oh damn, this is total BS. i dont even have time to study!

hey wait! why am i even blogging? i should be studying! precisely. so i am going to stop blogging for a while, until i finish what is required of me on that day. yeah. qutie cool huh. its called self-discipline. and so now i am going to see if i do have it or is it just some BS that i'm typing out right now. let's see.

2006-04-16T21:39:00.000-07:00

good friday.

a holiday! whee. went to orchard for some time today. one of my first times going to such a hip place with friends alone(last time was bugis. i know, i know, i'm so geeky). but first, i had some work to do. in the morning me jason, daniel and lennie met up at daniel's house(in orchard! now you see) to do this crappy project called SPEED RAMP. you dont want to know about it. something to do with F=ma and PE=mgh and whatever boring physics crap. yeah. and we did the design and that was that for the day! moving on.

me and jason had arranged to go and watch a movie. not just the two of us, mind you, cos that's oh-so-gay. we asked amanda and sandy to go along. so we went to lido, and, well, watched the movie. the two girls were like empresses, coming half an hour late, but never mind, the movie just started. so we got the tix and went to watch the movie. Eight Below. it wasnt much really, jst some family show about cute dogs in a cute, cold environment. and a cool trainer and his cute girlfriend. or whatever. never mind the show.

after that we went walking around. like going taka and cineleisure and heeren. and aimless milling about. met so many people like nicholas chong, yisin, the kenny guy and more. then we went to eat, jason kept saying he wanted to go LAN, we ignored him and went to cineleisure food court for treats. thats was it, a slow walk to orchard mrt and left for home. by then it was six thirty.

okay. then here i am now writing this. at least tomorrow's a saturday. but i have to wake up early to play ball. my coach is going at 08-00.

2006-04-13T19:58:00.000-07:00

whee. first post.

this is my second blog, no, third, so far. the first one was horrid, second one was slightly better but i'm gonna make this proper. first, i will lay down what i must abide by.
-No WrItINg lYykE TisSh
-be respectful; will not talk bad about teachers or political figures or whatnots
-try writing proper english
-try to write consistently instead of writing lots then suddenly slacking off

yeah. thats about it so far. i still have so many things to do like get a tagboard, get a blogskin, bla bla. so buzz off. =)