Well, its been long since I've been here.
And man its already time for sch reopen, and what i'd like to call the HOME STRETCH.
Nxt month will be a big month in due time.
First and foremost, our Prep. where we all will see indeed if all our efforts made during the June hols hv come to fruition. Then on July 9th, its the final in Berlin. Hope my spain/france will be there. aha. Moving on, im turning 16 on the 17th
[cool man nxt yr i can say im turning 17 on the 17TH. =.=]
And im sure it pretty much gets tougher from this month on, so yeah, thats the start of the home stretch.

Finally came back from m'sia on wed night, where i managed to watch plenty of tv there including world cup, and i also managed to finish my geog. o yeah! They just seemed to be inexhaustible. lol.

There was CHEM on thur, and boy was it boring. whats worst was that i left my pencil box in school. just hope i can FIND it. argh. of all times to be careless.....
oh well. on friday it was a mad rush of homework. think i did 2 Amaths papers from 8am to noon, had lunch, then continued with 1 more. really a marathon . lol then continued with chinese compre, then a history essay, and topped things off with revising physics TYS.
really, this is the stuff that laggers are made of. LOL.
towards the night the flu was getting really really bad, i think i must have been quite a concern to the environmentalists about how many trees i was going to burn at one stage. thankfully managed to sleep sound, although it wasnt so pleasant when i woke up. kept sneezing and sneezing, and i was feeling rather breathless [nonono not breath taken away]. so went to see a doctor and be it placebo effect or whatever, it immediately abated when i stepped into clinic. guess its pretty much the same reason which explains why u always see things when you dont need them and when u need them u cant find them. or why we nv express our feelings until its too late. ok. digressing way too much. lol.

so went home, took an awful long nap also to make up for the stressful friday. and then checked my messages. one of which told that Les Bleus finished 2nd after winning 2-0, which i was delighted at first. only until after awhile i realised they were meeting SPAIN. the hot team. damn. what a sad clash of interests. somehow i feel France can weave some magic.

Anyway. speaking of world cup, the referees have been awful. none worse than Graham Poll, who is the english premier league's best referee, who gave 3 yellow cards before sending a Croatian player off. boy, Australia could have ordered a replay just cos of that!
well so far, i believe the form teams have been spain, germany, and perhaps argentina, which, i think were brought back to earth in the round of 16 clash v Mexico, where they were so, so lucky to progress, thanks to probably the goal of the tournament by Maxi Rodriguez.

So that is it, probably the last entry for a long time. perhaps if SPAIN / FRANCE triumph in Berlin then i ll hv smth to write haha.

you know it makes sense.

ENCOUNTER CAMP last friday.
Okay it wasn't really a camp for me la since i only went for ONE day, bud it sure was a great day. Woke up extremely early [compared to previous days] to take 165 to Clementi INT, then switch to 96 to get into NUS campus, then take a shuttle bus to PGP. All that had to be done since my dad was overseas! arrgh.

But anyway it was raining real heavily la, and the lower floors were really badly flooded.
Still, straight away had a praise and worship session followed by sermon, both of which were the longest i've experienced, lol. Esp worship, wow the time just seemed to slip so quickly, but so meaningfully too.

Next was lunch and had some time to interact with the new CG members, and we are one sick bunch la, continually talking about how [fill it urself] the food was. Like what, old lady's fingernails [pieces of fish] with some dirt [black pepper] and maggots [rice...?] so disgusting la lol.

Hmmm then after that played "wargames" when it was nothing like it lol. Had to go around questioning suspects to find out who killed Shirley. And super frustrating la, as if the rain wasn't bad enough, there were still those freakish gamemasters spraying water as you rather enthusiastically. lol.

Anyway was glad to have a long break and wash-up, and after that it was BringItOn! and lol the bloopers were funny bud yeah northeast's AM static won! deservedly la. yeah. Man, it was a long day la, pity i cldnt stay on to spend more time having fun and fellowshipping with the grads. grp pple. yeah, bud i sure experienced God like i hv never before in that short 6~8hrs or so. =)

*and i also learnt that PGP's resorts at NUS look so modern frm the outside with tempered glass panels, bud inside it is total rubbish!

hmmm last few days it feels weird not being able to catch world cup matches live, bud im sure most of them were quite boring as well. such as England scrapping past Paraguay 1-0 frm an OWN GOAL. how silly. if anything i feel, the 2 big factors in successful teams is either a good defence, or a good attack. England had a great midfield but Crouch and Owen were hopeless up front man. Argentina however were so clinical in finishing of the Ivory Coast and their goals were superb finishes man, they are definitely favourites for this. Still, im backing Spain and France this time. hmm, the way things are going for spain in sport, Alonso continuing to win F1 grand prix[s]....Nadal beating Federer in the french open final, and alas Barcelona winning the champions league, nothing seems to be going wrong with them, so, why not the world cup?

Here we are again, already deep into the 2nd week of hols, and it only seems like the first.
But hoorah, World Cup is going to kick-off ever so soon! sigh, i supported France for WC 2002 and the 2004 Euro championships, and boy were they miserable tournaments. This time round I'm going with RED the winning colour of almost all sport, in spain and netherlands i guess. haha. okok, better not digress too much into football.

Hmmm, last few days, havent been doing much PRODUCTIVE stuff, bud anyway, this week in my schedule is science week, and i must say ive read the chem txtbk like a pledge now, cos of the freaking idiotic questions that are set. And i must quote out, some schools are really so weird. They set MCQ qns about mole concept which involves about 2~3 steps and its 1m. And in seectionA they set things name gas X which is, 1m as well. uhhhh =_=.

That's done for homework. havent even set foot on the lang papers. Well anyway, about my fears of cockroaches, i think i have overcome them somehow, using the concept of, erm, vaccination. you see, vaccines provide immunity to diseases by giving you a very weak form of that disease, so ur body can overcome it and be immune to it frm then on. Well, i guess by beating the sick hell out of innocent smaller cockroaches, im now able to whack big ones as well. cool huhh. the amazing applications of science onto psychology[which i suppose IS a form of science as well].

Anyway, havent been doing much but just chatting with friends online and on the phone and catching up on Teri Hatcher and the rest of the desperate housewives cast as more and more surprises spawn in the never-ending maze of lies, sex and deceit. haha.

On friday i ll b able to go for ENCOUNTER! at NUS which should be a world of fun and learning as well, esp after i had to miss service last week due to some unfortunate family reasons, haha. Speaking of that, mom forced me to go to a talk at the temple near my house [biggest in the country i believe] about 'Ups and downs', which was quite good also la. It had nothing to do about religion, for once, haha, and yeah there were impt points about learning how to let go in life and etc. Think it helped alot, although i listened to the whole thing with my specs off, eyes closed, lol. [fact that i didnt fall aslp must mean it was at least of OK standard].

So, till next time, cant wait for Friday at midnight where Germany will kick-off the hunt for the 'holy grail' at the fantastic Allianz ArenA in Munich. =)