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the sound of waves,
lapping the shore.
just like the songs you used to sing.
the gentle breeze,
caressing my face.
reminds me of you.
i see the sunset,
with your head on my shoulders.
your hand in mine,
we would have been so happy.
together.

not to be racist. but to all the chinese out there, happy chinese new year... =X

when the world doesnt care,
of bonds i'm unaware.
i'm just a peripheral atom,
a valence electron.

summoned at will,
an electron donor.
take while you still can,
i'm willing to give.

a nucleus of love,
to me, that's everything.
but to something so massive,
i'm but a tiny electron.

i miss the days. the nights.
i miss the warmth.
i miss bonds.
i miss. i missed.

get on with life.
i just need someone. anyone. noone.

thot i'd give a conclusion to my fencing in the novices. i'd say that i'm pleased with the way things turned out for novices lah huh. =) the two medals i got are both things i'm very proud of indeed. individual gold and team bronze.

for the team event, we started off on a bad footing. kinda stressed out when we saw that we had to meet RJC Team B in the semis if we got thru our stuff. though it wasnt supposed to be the case ACCORDING to our coaches calculation of the draw and stuff, but haiya, it was those kind of unexpected last minute thingies that no one really expected to happen.

anw, on to our first bout. from the start it was kinda unsettling. cos the first bout we had was against hongyun, cedric and minghao. in my opinion, it was supposed to be an EASY bout, but instead we had a hard time dispatching them. i dunno, maybe cos we were nervous or sth, started off on a very very bad note. with alot of mistakes and stupid errors, but managed to get them off. kinda shook our confidence.

second bout was the one we lost against rui's team. indeed they fought well and hard. no doubt abt it. but i must say, if we DID buck up, we might have stood a better chance. the score was 39-45 at last bout. was kinda disppointed with the first bout against alvin. i lost 5-2 and that was part of the reason why we lost the overall bout. started on a wrong footing and made the whole team's morale drop like siao. so i do admit i'm partly to blame =P.. ahaha. well. then things just went downhill from there. we lost the next 2 bouts and widened a hell load of points between us and the other team.

despite valiant efforts to chase back. i.e. winning a 10-5 bout against rui, and 8-5 against jingxun, we couldnt pull back fast enough to reach a final score of 39-45. i must say this bout really made me fence my best i ever did in novices. every point was so crucial and there were so many heated moments both against opponent and referee to argue for points. with both sides hollering their side of the story, there really was an explosiveness never seen before. what i brought out from the bout was to never underestimate ur opponent and how every point makes a difference to the score.

i suppose i had no regrets except the bout against alvin. and i've realised how ANGER and the drive to win really spurs u on to do ur best. of course i do hope that the drive will always be there for EVERY competition.. =) and i'd just like to thank my team mates weiwei and zhengyi. i noe everyone tried their best, so i'd just like to say thanks. it has been great fencing with u guys on the same team. all the encouragement and support that u guys have given throughout my bouts have been invaluable. and similarly, congrats to rui's team for winning gold in the team event.. =) u guys really deserved it..

its been a win-win situation. rui got his gold medal. weiwei his double bronzes. and my gold + bronze! =) i'm very happy and proud that we've come this far together! will be posting some pics next time.. =) till then. back to mugging. arghz.

my pride and my joy! =)






tmrs fencing novices team event.. may the best team win! =)

resident bitch is back. squabbled with piak panty todae again. that woman should really watch herself. just because shes menopausing doesnt mean tt she's got the right to rant n rave at any tom dick or harry in her class. gawd. teachers should watch their attitudes too. with the recent whiteslip craze, one really pauses to wonder the intentions behind giving out whiteslips and the alarming rate of trees being chopped down, not due to the rapid handing in of GP compres or essays.

she insisted on my sitting with the class, which i believe is absolutely detestable and disgusting. =X remb tt i dun really like my class. and its not as if they are the brightest kids to hang out with, just to mention one, akkkshaayy. ok. shant be mean. and i dunno whats her problem, seriously. i cant stand her. and i DO think shes trying to pick on me, so i went to tell jeanne tan. she'd better watch her boundaries. so what if shes got white slips. i've got so many ppl to back me up. goodness.

onto a happier note. todae was Bayley Dramafeste auditions! so many ppl turned up i was so surprised, even STTD kat! =) ahahah. and i was watching. it was so fun. so many j1s. basically the whole STTD cast from bayley waddle auditioned. and adnaan and bensen came down, ri dramafeste 04 cast! cant wait to work with them again! =) yay.

fencing team event is this sunday. and bio test is on monday. hope i can still rmb my ecology, homeostasis and tpt in plants. and i think i pulled my hamstring. so fucked up. =X it better heal soon. pulled it when i fenced weiwei last sunday.. then yesterday during fencing training strained it again.. argh. now i cant fence tmr.. and. it better heal by sunday. it better. =X

short day tmr. but i'm tired. zzz. nitesss.

the wounds u inflict thrust deeper than sabre.
they cut straight into the bone.
thanks for telling me.
now i noe.
goodbye.

SOO HAPPY. yesterday was Fencing Novices Championships 2006. if u dun wanna hear me brag for the next 5 minutes, skip this post and move down. =)

ahahaha. prior to the competition, RJC had an internal competition already, so i was seeded 2nd after zhengyi. yea.. so ok. thats besides the point, but it was based on that seeding that they drew up the poules stage thing. i should say i got into a good poule, cos out of the 6 people inside, including me, there was kwanrui and gerry. which meant 3 rj and 3 non-rj. the other 3 were, morgan, shaun and nazri.

cos there were around 33 fencers, there were 6 poules. started off with being in the last poule. but the draw was good. i fenced gerry and kwanrui first. so it kinda got me warmed up and everything. the first two bouts were terrible i shud say, but thank god, it was against RJ peepz. as in cos i've fenced them before, not to be arrogant or anything, its much easier to fence them again. plus even mark said i was very nervous, no feints no nothing, just went in for the attack all the time, kind of a no brainer, but thank god i managed to beat them, 5-2, 5-3.

the next three fencers were abit harder cos i've never fenced them before, but kinda saw them fence the others. so the impt thing abt poules is to WATCH ur opponents fence. the first was nazri. he was more of a hardcharger and stuff. so it was quite easy to fence him. after the first two i sorta calmed down, sorted my thoughts and got my confidence back. so it was just a few feints + step back, then he missed his attack and i did a riposte. other times was just a simple attack, but my hand came out first. score:5-0.

next was morgan, this rather plump dude who was quite funny. his favourite move was the stationary a-line, which was to stick his hand out with his blade in a line. it was quite tyco i shud say against his previous opponents cos they just ran into his blade, either that or their beat was not successful. but i think i executed the beat blade rather nicely, just nicely out of distance, beat and whack. so he did that same move twice against me, both of which i got the points, then his fren behind me started shouting "change tactic!" wahahah. so funny. =X went on to take the next 3 points. score:5-0.

cant remember much abt my bout with shaun. but i i beat him 5-3. so that was the end of the poules stage and we waited SO BLARDY LONG for our results to come out cos FS was highly inefficient. =X and when it finally came out, i was ranked 1st cos i think i had the highest victory/no. of matches, which was 1, which was the highest possible. there were quite alot of other ppl who won all their matches, but then they compared indices, i.e. Hits given out minus hits received. and since i got 17, it was the highest, and i was ranked first.

so next came the direct elimination of 15 points. first i got a by, which meant that i didnt need to fence the first round of 32, cos i was the highest rank mah.. so the winner of gerry vs kwanrui's bout would fence me. i fenced kwanrui in the end cos he beat gerry, and i won quite convincingly. cant remember the exact scores, but it was 15-8 or around there lah. didnt cross 10. did quite ok.

next bout was against nazri. the thing was to just keep distance all the way. cos he kept charging and missing. so it was a simple parry riposte. plus my hand was much faster than his, so in silmultaneis i got the points. =) another convincing score of 15-8 or around there. and didnt cross 10.

my next competitor was the winner of zhunrui vs zhunwei's bout. whichhappened to be weiwei. so i was forced to fence zhunwei. but by then it was the semifinals already, which meant that both of us were assured of bronze medals already. the winner of my bout against wei would go on to the finals, whereas the loser would get a bronze medal. i think i fenced ok against him, but he sprained his ankle or sth in a bout earlier against another person.. so i dunno lah. might have been an unfair win. another one of my convincing 15-less than 10 scores. =)

so i proceeded on to the finals against this jason guy who was two years my senior from some poly. quite a nice guy.. his silly fren joseph, whom he fenced in semis started taking pics?! lolxxx. nvm. so now was the finals, it was RJ on one side and the other rest of the world on the other. everything was going ok only at the start. alot of nervousness and simultaneis until half time made the score 08-06 to me. we had one minute break... then was the second half.. i think i fared better in the second half cos my opponent didnt attack. kept moving back, so i got to do my favourite slow-slow-accelerate-fast-bam! attack. got me most of my points to end the whole thing at 15-08 to win the gold.

just wanna say thanks to all who were supporting. and congrats to weiwei, mens sabre bronze. and womens sabre gold, wendy, and nicole who got bronze. did rj and rj fencing proud! =) team event next week. dunno how the teams are gonna be like, but i'm hoping with our positions, it will give our team a good draw. and yup, may the best team win. i'm hoping for a double gold. but team events arent my favourite because ur life is never in ur hands, but nevertheless, all the best!! i want a double gold! lolx.

and i've gotta juggle dramafeste. ack. lolxx

just came back from indochine@wisma. had a GREATGREAT time today. both fencing and after that.. lets start with fencing.

today has been the most successful fencing experience i've had.. or at least in my opinion i suppose. its like i'm finally beginning to see what mark and david have been screaming at us for the past 1 year or so about techniques, i.e. hand come out first, and all the feints, step back shit.. as in sounds ridiculous at first when i heard it, but after much practice i realise that it is indeed effective. fenced quite alot of people today, both dry and electric. i am proud to announce that i beat all except one. i fenced gerry, zhengyi, the two moks and jingxun from ri. fenced jingxun twice, lost once, won once.. =) so i think its not a bad achievement.

saw a few bouts here and there. gave a few pointers to others who "needed" my pointers.. ahahha. no lah. not needed. i was just being busybody. no. i was being a kind soul and yea.. hope that it helps. at least it does for me lahh. =X lol. quite pleased with myself. i did quite alot of nice moves fencing electric just now. esp the acceleration + whack move. its the slow slow then increase speed until finally lunge. i thought i executed it very nicely. =) hahaa. even mark said it was correct. oh and alvin didnt wanna fence me. =( dunno whats wrong with him. he always dun wanna fence the moks or i. tactical huh? =X

after fencing made our way down to the balcony @ heeren. but got so many people.. BLEH. =X terrible. had to wait so long. in the end we gave up, and went down to indochine@wisma. saw the food menu and nearly vomitted. the prices were like OMFG kind. but it was a restaurant. so in the end, we sneaked out and ate dinner outside at taka first before going in to join charissa and mingren and rongsiu in the "drinks" section. got a long island tea. was kinda bitter and sour. ok lah.. not too bad.. but mingrens one was definitely the nicest. some comfortable screw or dunno wad shit up the wall thing.. all those kinky names.

wei got a banana creme and rui got a margerita. the banana creme was quite ok.. tasted very banana-ish. =X lol. ruis margerita was OK. rongsiu got some singapore sling or dunno wad shit.. tasted like fruit punch. poor girl. kana cheated. mingrens comfortable screw was not bad.. forgot its taste but i noe it was nice.. charissa got a dunno-what. but i remembered it tasted better than rongs but not as nice as mingrens. so in between lahhh..

then we played "i've never". wah.. loads of horrible secrets came out. some disgustingly horrifying. others were just plain amusing.. and it was so fun that we played for 1 hour? WAHHHAHAH. lost track of time.. until some guy tried to chase us out cos he had new clients. left at around 1045 around there.. and i finally reached home, settled down and started blogging.. tt was my night.

today was rather enjoyable. thanks all for keeping me company. wahaha. =X actually i think that its quite fun having this kind of crazy no-brainer fun tt makes life interesting.. reuben's clique + mokmoks se7ens ROXXXORRRS.

PS Ganhup wanted me to sit in for 3H's chem tutorial lesson. but i didnt bring my intro to organic chem tutorial, cos we finished it already, then i ran off without sitting in. and he said he gonna give me white slip for ponning class.. WAHAHA. so funny. =P

taken from talkincock.com... this sounds SOO like me. =X whahaha. but i wouldnt be insulting geps. just wait when i come up with a mainstream version tmr.

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Woke up this morning at 6.00 am, and as usual, was filled with the urge to study.

So like I do every day, I propped my science textbook up against the bathroom cabinet as I brushed my teeth.

Occurred to me that because of this, I haven't seen my face in the past two years.

Intend to write a letter to the Ministry of Education urging them to print pictures of students in the margins of all textbooks so that this doesn't happen to future generations.

It's great to be a gifted kid, because you think of innovative solutions like this.

School was typical: Got top marks in Maths again. Most GEP kids are great in maths.

It's because we're intellectually gifted, you see. The maths problems are just so easy to us.

I wonder why other kids find it tough? Well, they have only themselves to blame! It's all so easy to become intellectually gifted at maths!

Just hire tuition teachers.

They must be cheap, because Daddy got me one for every subject.

Sometimes I think we're gifted because we have tuition teachers.

After all, despite what the school teaches us or says they want to teach us, we're ultimately graded on the basis of standardised tests, and it's the tuition teachers who drill us for that.

I think we should replace all the regular teachers with tuition teachers. I mean, why waste time? Let's just focus on what counts!

They say the GEP was set up so we faster kids don't get held back.

But I must admit, I feel held back even with the GEP. I guess I'm really light years ahead.

Maybe to slow things down, I'll ask my tuition teachers not to teach me so far ahead of my school, and also to ease up on the drilling a bit.

As it is, I can pass the 'O' Levels, but Dad said I should do it next year instead.

He said, "What's the rush? Enjoy your childhood. Anyway, you're already taking your SATs."

On my way back from school, I saw some kids running around in a field, kicking a spherical object.

It saddened me to think that even though they appeared to be my age, they were indulging in such primitive hobbies.

I mean, why aren't they splitting atoms like we GEP kids?

Surely their parents can afford particle accelerators too!

But I guess this is why we're gifted and they're not.

Sad, but true.

koped this from some chem teacher's blog.. hahaha.

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ZX complains that the gals are too disruptive during GH's lectures, and keep giggling about how cute he is.

Hmmm, I don't know to laugh or not.

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GH is a very weird creature. lolx. not cute in terms of looks BUT probably like another SQUIRREL, interesting personality? dunno how to say. i dun think i blogged abt this before. so here goes.. during his first organic chem lecture on Alkanes, i was sitting with the moks, which happened to be his chem class. but we were like at the extreme top most part of LT1. so when he was asking some organic chem question, somehow he was looking up, then he saw me. so he said sth like "ahh reuben, not sitting with ur class huh. ok. answer this question"

at the moment he called my name, i was RATHER shocked. cos tho i'm always hanging around his class in school, and like seeing him around, i've NEVER talked to him before.. and i dun think any of the 3H ppl will be so boliao as to tell him who i am. despite the fact that i always hang out around their class.. so HMM. that bit remains to be found out, with regards to how he noes me.

that was first organic chem lecture. so then second organic chem lecture. all went well. i think he saw me up there as well.. but nvm. there were no questions this time round. then when i walked down to the front cos i was going to physics lab on level 2... then he gave this ALL-KNOWING smile. lolx.. it was DAMNN weird but i dunno. so i just smiled back.. hes a really nice teacher lah. quite a good lecturer also. =P and a good thing is that he doesnt scream into the mic.

then after that in the afternoon, we had fencing exco meeting. then he walked past us cos we were having it outside the staffroom. then he walked past. he saw me. and SMILED AGAIN. like.. hmm. i smiled back of course. i'm looking forward to more smiling sessions. and i'm back to a stalking mood...

some trivia:

"Sep 2002 University of Southampton student Gan Hup Tan has been nominated for The World Leadership Forum Award for the Best Chemistry Student"

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss...

beautiful.

i think i bring alot of joy into people's lives. =) but who'd be the one who would bring joy into my life? you? or you?

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The Little Farmer Boy.

there was a little farmer,
who had a piece of land.
he'd nimbly choose his seedlings,
and plant them in the sand.

one day he grew so tired,
of planting corn and wheat.
he made up his mind, and said to himself,
""i'll plant something i cannot eat!

but it was never easy,
to think of something simple.
he finally knew what he wanted,
"ëureka! i'll plant a pimple!"

before he could start his planting,
there were things he the would need.
the biggest, and fattest pimple,
which he would use as his seed.

(to be continued tmr...)

Message: First, name 20 people you know.

1. rui.
2. wei.
3. chia chiew peng. god. wonder why did i think of her.
4. charissa goh. *chomp*
5. hulin.
6. YIHAN! who can forget my darrrrlingg yihan.
7. chenwei.
8. puyun.
9. aloysius ong.
10. dexter, whom i koped this silly thing from.
11. sherry, my other beloved OGL.
12. rongsiu.
13. lim jee nee? ahaha. kinda missed her.
14. zhihua. (my best fren in primary school)
15. bessie big boobs.
16. akkshaay. beloved councillor.
17. lester from mindef.
18. my grandmother.
19. mingren.
20. count beaucoup. who can ever forget YOUUUU... such a cutie-cle.

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Is 9 a boy or a girl?
that ones a pony. male pony.

Would 11 and 2 make a cute couple?
HAHAA. not really. 2 doesn’t really like people of 11’s gender.

How about 18 and 4?:
NO. my grandmothers married. and 4 has 7 ANYWAY.

When was the last time you talked to 12?
this afternoon during fencing cos she was being naughty.

What is 6's favorite band?
hillsongs? planet shakers? dunno.

Does 1 have any siblings?
yup. 2 siblings, no. 2 and a sis.

Would you ever date 3?
haha. u never know… =P afterall shes still single after so long.

Would you ever date 7?
YES YES YES..DEFINITELY. I’ll make number 4 so jealous.

Is 16 single?
for life.

What's 15's last name?:
as the name implies, boobs.

What's 5's middle name?
hu? =P

What's 10's hobby?:
filling up silly forms like this. =X hahaha. I think he likes anime a hell lot.

Would 14 and 19 make a good couple?:
ack. worst couple of the year.

Tell me a random fact about 11
she scored 98 for a ballet test and failed her piano exam for that year.

And 1
hes currently into agriculture. pimple farm.

Have you ever had a crush on 8?
yea. my best fren in church. love him loads. *muackz*

Where does 9 live?:
stable. lol. I’m not sure actually.

What's 4's favorite color?:
BLACK. her favourite.

Are 5 & 6 best friends?:
HAHAAHAH. they simply adore each other.

Does 7 like 20?
dun think so. rmb 4 & 7. and I think 20’s too ugly.

Does 8 like 19?:
dunno each other. =(

How did you meet 15?:
umm. throught charissa. heard of her in sec sch tho. always thot she was a cow. =X

Does 10 have any pets?:
umm. dun think so.

Is 12 older than you?:
nopes. I’m a few months older.

Is 1 the sexiest person
YES. or at least he thinks so.

Have you ever given 13 a hug?
hahaha. on graduation I think. dun really think why I’d give her a hug otherwise.


four cuties. wahahahah. =P

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