just keep running

2007-08-29T20:32:00.000+08:00

2007-08-27T22:34:00.000+08:00

why? WHY? WHY?

Why didn't I go for the FREE Running Fit seminar? The National Library was such a good place to be on a(that) Saturday evening! Why did I choose to go school and study instead? WHY?

Life is so cruel.

Probably no one, with the exception of Lester(wow!) knows what I'm talking about. Lol.

WHY?

Excuse me while I go slap myself.

2007-08-26T21:47:00.000+08:00

Participant of Singapore Bay Run dies at end of 21km run
By Susheel Kaur and Foo Siew Shyan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 26 August 2007 1622 hrs

SINGAPORE: A participant of the Singapore Bay Run, also known as the SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run & Army Half Marathon, collapsed and died on Sunday morning.

25-year-old Captain Ho Si Qiu, a platoon commander at the Singapore Armed Forces Officer Cadet School, collapsed at 7am at the end of his 21-kilometre run.

Off the record, people have got to stop killing themselves while running, swimming, biking etc etc. It's bad for the sport.

On a more serious note, this is pretty scary. First it was TC, then now this guy. And both were supposedly fit guys. (I'm not questioning their fitness by putting 'supposedly') I am considering making plans in case I drop dead on any of my runs.

Condolences to CPT Ho's family and friends. This is the second shock this year in Singapore's sporting fraternity. Lagi best Aviva happen again. Then jialat liao.

2007-08-24T22:47:00.000+08:00

Click lah
For the peanuts the tax-payers pay them, I guess that's the least they could do.

My legs hurt. This happens when you do a long run that you thought you could handle but in actual fact, can't. Lol.

5 days to Prelims! (Okay lah actually it's more. But prepare mah.)

2007-08-23T22:22:00.000+08:00

I think I am obsessed.

Haha!

I'm still alive, I'm surprised. But I doubt I will be for long when the full exam stress sets it. I woke up at 2am last night sleeping at my table when the last thing I remembered was going for a nap on the bed at 12.

2007-08-17T23:04:00.000+08:00

Waha, school has been been so good.

Ytd was a great day. =D

Today when the news came that Gopal (my GP teacher) was absent, a million thoughts ran through my mind but only one registered. Since she wasn't here, so her lesson from 1.30 - 3 was done for. And before that I have a 2hr break. And that means, I end school at...

11.30.

Amazing. I actually had time to go home for lunch, nap, slack, do loads of shit before the time came to study. I cannot remember how that feels like. All I remember is going home at the 7pm show started already. -_-

But in any case I stayed in school till 1.30 and left home, went for a run at 3.30. Broke-through, did from Boon Keng to SRJC and back. Totalled 12.57K in 1hr 5 mins. Not too bad, I think I can hit sub-2hr for 21K in Dec. =D

School was been messed up, except for small sections of canteen breaks. Lol.
__________________________________________

Had a small unexpected talk with Ivay (my CT- I found out many Singaporean students call their teachers by names instead of Mr/Ms) and I think what she said made a lot of sense and kinda made me made up my mind. Why settle for the not-so-good? I realised in terms of academics, I've always made it touch-and-go, pass can liao. Why aim for ABB?

I'm going to get AAA.

I can't wait for school to end. There are so many things to do outside. Drive, swim, bike, run, work, earn money, run a half marathon, run a full marathon, run an ultra-marathon, do an Ironman, earn money blah blah blah but we're stuck here doing things we don't want to do but absolutely have to. (read as 'forced to') Newton's laws makes no sense and no, I don't wish to be listening to a teacher for 2 freaking hours a week who has given up on the class.

2007-08-11T23:21:00.000+08:00

"During the Sydney Olympics Kenyan long-distance runner Kip Lagat was asked why his country produced so many great runners. "It's the road signs," he replied. "'Beware of lions'!" "

Lol!

So, life is boring, unfair, boring, mundane and probably unnecessary. At least looking at this and this makes me feel like there's smth worth working towards to. (at least for a while lah)

I just found out the legal driving age is still 18. I'm going to storm ubi right after my As to sign up for a driving course. After that, screw you SBS.

Cheers.

Oh, happy birthday Singapore. I thought you'd like to know that other than the parade and the army display, the rest of NDP 2007 was kinda crappy. I would have preferred Rush Hour 3.

2007-08-08T22:34:00.000+08:00

It's my dad birthday. Happy birthday Dad.

Jia Jie's ultimate guide to running
1)Put left foot in front of right foot.
2)Put right foot in front of left root.
3)Repeat steps 1) and 2).
4)Repeat step 4).
.
.
.
n)Repeat step n-1), where n > x.

Qn: Find the value of x.

The sun was being a bitch today. 11K become 9 cos I became too thirsty/dehydrated.

Distance: 9.25K. Time: 48:46.

Mug! Damn you, mug!

2007-08-06T22:24:00.001+08:00

Rich people with lousy attitudes ought to be castrated, hung by the toes, soaked in salt water and left to bleed to death.

Just a randon thought ppl. No harm done. Cheers. =)

2007-08-05T22:48:00.000+08:00

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you're unlike any other?
You'll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don't wanna ever love another
You'll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain
And bring on the thunder

Ran up to Kovan and back from Boon Keng. Nothing much interesting, except this was my first long run (to me at least) after the sore throat invaded my body. Almost got killed, pavement was amazingly narrow.

Econs tmr, and I haven't done the mock exam. -_-

Distance : 10.9km Time: 54:43

2007-08-01T20:08:00.000+08:00

I read the news of those Taliban idiots holding the Koreans hostage for 12(13?) days counting and kill 2 of them, wanting the Korean govt to release 8 of their Taliban idiots in prison. Yet, it's interesting to note the Koreans were Christians volunteers in Afghanistan.

Why can't these freaking Taliban idiots see these are good ppl? They killed 2, and there's a mighty high chance that the women are being raped as you read this. All these, in exchange for another 8 Taliban idiots. For what? The rich and the famous sitting in their ivory towers, thinking of what to do next for the Koreans, it appears that they aren't doing much at all. If they were, the killed 2 won't be killed are all the good ppl would be alive and free and the Taliban idiots, dead. No one cares.

Maybe my dad was right when he said the way to world peace is to create another Holocaust. Just need to kill the right people.

Pray for them people. (The Koreans, not the Taliban.)

2007-07-29T22:29:00.000+08:00

RACE ID: 05825-SIN-HMM-OLC
RACE: Half Marathon 21.1 km

Thank you for registering for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2007!

A RACE ID (above) has been given to you for identification purposes. A copy of this Race Confirmation Slip has been emailed to you.

Payment Acknowledgement Transaction No: 25582XXXX
Description: Half Marathon 21.1 km
Dinner 1pax
Date: 18/07/2007
Amount: SGD $36.00 (VISA)
Registration Details
Full Name: LEE JIA JIE

It's done. I shall attempt to clock under 2hrs 15 mins.

***

Within some 12 months, I've taken part in 10 races, including 1 vertical marathon and 1 adventure race. It's amazing to think I clocked a 13 min 2.4K last yr. =)

Anyway, just for the fun of it and to see how accurate it really is, I put the training log I use at Runner's World (where I got the pretty thing at the bottom left of sidebar) to test and to check if the distances it tells me I'm running are real.

Apparently, it's more true than true.

So else is there to blog about?

***

Ah, Mong's tag.

RULES:
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesnt make sense. NO CHEATING!
4. Tag 5 ppl at their tagboard to ask them to do this!
5. Bold the questions and with the answers, give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

1. How are you feeling today?
Leave Out All The Rest - LP
Hmm?

2. Will you get far in life?
Hands Held High - LP
This isn't making much sense.

3. Will you get married?
Lights and Sounds - Yellowcard
Yes yes. Big bang wedding, lots of lights and sounds. I can almost see it.

4. What is your best friend’s theme song
What I've Done - LP

5. What is the story of your life?
By The Way - RHCP
Ah?

6. What was primary school like?
Bleed It Out - LP
LOL? I was a peaceful momma's boy in primary sch. No blood.

7. How can you get ahead in life?
No More Sorrow - LP
Yeah I wish. Why am I getting all the LP songs?

8. What is the best thing about your friends?
Same Direction - Hoobastank
Really meh...

9. What is in store in this weekend?
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

10. What song describes you?
Lips of an Angel - Hinder
LOL!

11. How is your life going?
Welcome to the Black Parade - MCR
?

12. What song will they play at your funeral?
Famous Last Words - MCR
Lol, not bad.

13. How does the world see you?
Checking Email - Plain Sunset
Another "?"

14. What do your friends really think of you?
Given Up - LP
.....

15. Do people secretly lust after you?
Scars - Papa Roach
Ouch?

16. How can you make yourself happy?
My Sacrifice - Creed
Damn I hope not.

17. Will you ever have children?
Valley of the Damned - Dragonforce
!

***

Think this is a shoe?

Lol! It'd be cool when you're running in those Nike Frees and suddenly the shoes jump off you and go Kwuzhichichichik! and you're barefoot looking like an idiot and there's a mini robot with laces in front of you.

In case you're haven't figured it out, those aren't for running.

Bye ppl!

2007-07-22T20:50:00.000+08:00

I shall blog about a full day today.

[Edit: I finished the 10K in 55 mins. Not too bad.]

Woke up at 5am for Mizuno Wave Run. Saw the rain, dammit why does it always rain when I have to run Bedok Reservoir? Anw, left house at 6 to get to TP, managed to get a cab.

me: ah hi uncle, TP pls. The stadium there. Thanks.
driver: ah ok. wa so early u go there for what?
me: ah, for run. got run going on.
driver: wa raining also run, siao ah?
me: -_- no lah it's an event.
driver: ahaha okay run how far ah? marathon ah?
me: um no lah not marathon. quite short, 10K only.
driver: WA ten thousand click ah?! i run 5 click beri good oreadi!
me: (LOL) umm no it's TEN clicks.
driver: orh ahha okok (goes on to talk about his son and all, which is pretty humorous talk. damn funny)
*we reach TP*
driver: this one right?
me: ummm looks like it.
driver: (asks random guard standing outside gate) eh brudder, marathon is inside here ah?
me: (damn it's 10K not marathon!)

Anyway, Mizuno Wane 2007 is probably the worst race I've ran. Even ATC was better.
Baggage despoit was into a goddamn TRUCK.

Firstly, VIPs were late. I don't if you're an MP, CEO of VGO or CEO of Mizuno, Japan. Damn, I don't even care if you're Japanese or Indian. But dammit, if you're got transport, can you dammit don't be late? In any case, they were (by 10 mins).

Starting gantry was small. Path way from TP out to Bedok Reservoir was minute. A Lego set would look huge next to it. There were bottlenecks within 5 mins into the race, and I was already walking cos I just couldn't find the space to run. Half the time I was swearing away, and the race barely started.

Out to the reservoir. Rain made the gravel path look like a mud-bath. I did it before, so I just chionged. Overtook a few ppl I recognized along the way. Made it out to the main road. Water point was a disaster. They freaking gave out NEWater bottles. And they didn't even prepare for it. Skipped both water points.

Footpath was about 0.25m wide. I spent half my time trying to overtake slower runners. They have this special ability to hog the whole pathway. Got sick of it, went onto the road. Saw a few nice runner girls. =)

with the free maxim, lol.

Met Daniel and HK(how to spell his name ah?). Spent some time warring with them. Then I went to chase more runner girls, lmao.

Turned back into Reservoir. Ran for another I think, 2K? before I heard the emcee over the system. This was where the fun/chaos started.

I spotted the circular gantry, which I assumed (wrongly) to be the finishing point. (Trust me, I wasn't the only one.) Started to pick up my pace so can end with a better timing. 25m away, I had a killer stitch (of all times). I decided to bear with it and just chiong anyway. Passed gantry (not finishing line, but I thought it was). Stopped. Heard some idiot screaming that the finishing line was further down and that we had to run more. Jogged with a dulan face down to the real line cos of the damn stitch. I saw a lot of dulan running faces around me.

I swear they look identical.

Godammit, if the place was not the finishing line, why the crap did they put the damn thing there?

There was more to come.

Goodie bag collection was an ass. The queue was never ending and the inadequate ah-mas staff didn't manage things well. Most ppl weye cutting the queue. I took 30mins to collect my goodie bag. By then I was damn dulan already.

The baggage was the most legend.

The truck(s) were open and some runners were standing inside and shouting out number tags and throwing out bags that have happily found their owners. I, sadly, wasn't that happy. I stood there for 15 mins or so, but my bag was no where in sight. Wait somemore.

And more.

And more.

And more. (You get the idea.)

I caught wind that there were more bags on the OTHER side, from the other truck, but apparently there was no staff no direct anyone there, cos everyone was happily bidding for their bags in the sole truck.

Walked over, found my bag sitting on the (muddy) floor like a prized gem. In all, I spent more time queuing for my goodie bag and baggage than I spent running. I find it hard to believe that the organizers did not allocate any manpower to facilitate the redistribution of the bags. The ppl doing it were actually participants in the run.

Like I said, this is the worst race I've ran. The interesting muddy path, the nice runner girls =x, the singlet and the shoe bag didn't make up for the lack of manpower, the lousy organization skills and the misplacing of the god damn finishing line. The worst thing in a race is not to know where the damn finishing line is.

Sgrunners forums are blazing with comments now. Lol. I shall boycott Mizuno events for 1 year. Time to stop running and start studying. Next race will be on 2 Dec. Already signed up for 21K again, lol.

Bye all.

2007-07-12T21:37:00.000+08:00

The aftermath of the MYEs is more or less over, and I THINK I have performed average bah, although I did expect a better grade for Math. But CCDE for now is kinda good for me, and omg I passed physics (45.8%). That has to be the greatest miracle this year.

Physics P2 was funny cos I answered a question with data from a question that came later in the paper and the marker wrote : HA! HA! 1 MARK FOR RESOURCEFULNESS!

I guess I shouldn't complain.

I have taken an interest in libraries and free books for reading. I'm still at one of the Adrian Mole books and I hope the librarians in TPY do some magical book-keeping so I can somehow eventually find The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe and The Broker by John Grisham.

I provided the titles and authors so maybe(just maybe), some kind soul would buy them for me.

SCM registration will open on 16th July. I'm surprised to get a 20% for running last year. That would save me about $9. Money seems like a rare commodity these days.

www.mapmyrun.com is a wonderful site, next to fanpop. Allows me to click my distance and all. Pretty accurate.

My run today. It's a there-and-back thing. Saw Yiliang somewhere along the way. He seemed surprised to see me running. I guess I just don't look like a runner.

Bye ppl. Tag leh. Don't lidat lah.

[Edit] Did I mention they made changes to the time tables? Yep they adjusted (not improved) it. Now I end later, and have more lessons(including another 0.5 hr of econs, which I absolutely do not need). Yay! I love NYJC. And my ability to lie blatantly through my teeth. Heroes Season 2 should consider hiring me.

2007-07-09T21:07:00.000+08:00

Ha! Months away from bowling and still quite a good score. My PB somemore. I must be really tyco. I hope my luck doesn't run out soon.

Half way into 2nd game. Look at the 3rd row, that's my score. =D

Didn't get as lucky in the 2nd half, still ended up up a new PB. I'm quite proud of it. =D Today and tmr will probably be the last days of rest. After Wednesday, I think it's back to the mugger and no-lifer life.

Saucony had updated the site with the results.

567 3375 AMIR ABAS BIN RAMLAN COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:29:30 00:58:26
568 2712 LIM YONG KWANG COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:29:26 00:58:29
569 2602 LEE JIA JIE COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:28:26 00:58:29
570 3599 LIAU NAM YEOW COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:29:35 00:58:32
571 3109 LIN ZHIWEI ALEX COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:30:12 00:58:34
572 3658 YING MING HUA COMPETITIVE MENS OPEN 00:29:01 00:58:36

I managed to get 569th out of 1369 people in the cat. Not too bad =D. Grand total of 58mins 29 secs. I shall do a <53 mins for Mizuno.

Bye ppl.

[Edit]
Singapore will be having it's first official ultra-marathon(I think) in 2008. Details here. 50K. And if you read the route, its like a round island run =x. Maybe in 2009 I try. Lol.

2007-07-08T22:50:00.000+08:00

So I didn't make my target timing and hit a 58 mins for the 10K Saucony PAssion! Run. Not my fault la, got exams. In any case, it was quite a good run. I'll leave out the details.

***
Anyway, I managed to catch Linkin Park Live! Well, sort of.

So LP was performing In Tokyo for the Live Earth nonsense(Let's not go into how ironical this Live Earth thing is and all) and I, being wonderfully informed by Roy, decided to go online and stream the damn concert all the way from Tokyo to Singapore. All thanks to technology, I was watching Linkin Park perform LIVE while I was in Sg and they're were in Tokyo. Live, nevertheless.

So after their first song(In The End), the lights were suddenly dimmed, LP stopped played and this extremely irritating japanese just on and on in Japanese that went like *^&*%^&$*^*&%@^$%#@@!&^@&(to me at least) for like 20mins, and I was swearing, wtf? Could you like, stfu and let them play. And all this while LP was just standing on the stage fooling around with their equipment.(I later found out the Japanese fans decided to go crazy and push down the barricades and they had to stop to regain order.)

Well then the 'Live' concert went on until they sang 'Crawling'. I was quited amazed the Japanese know the words to the song. I mean, they know English! Wow!

Awesome, awesome.

2007-07-06T22:17:00.000+08:00

I actually have loads of things to blog about over the exam period, but the exams took away all my inspiration and now I'm left with nothing.

The exams were, ok lah. I just hope the results are acceptable. Didn't study much, don't expect much.

Today was probably the most blog-worthy day in a long time. Woke up at 7, went for 8K run, den swim, den pool-ed and went library. Home, slept, pool-ed again at cine den watched Transformers, again. I swear it's a must watch. Today is probably the only day for a break before the education whirlwind comes back on Monday.

Nothing much to blog about. Life is pretty mundane. I need some enjoyment.

Saucony PAssion! Run on Sunday. I hope to clock <55mins for this. Then Mizuno Wave will clock <50mins, den SCM half this year will be <2hrs. Master plan for running.

I need a master plan for studies. Lol. Bye.

2007-07-01T22:03:00.000+08:00

Every single word you said, sticks around inside my head
and I wish that you would write to me,
wish that you would write to me
Every single thing you say, hits me every other day,
and I wish that you would write to me, wish that you would write me,
Cause I know

I just wanna be with you
Don't want to be without you.

C'MON LET THE FCKING EXAMS END SOON RAHHHHHH I WANT TO RUN PLAY WATCH MOVIES SLEEP PLAY RUN RAHHHHH.

2007-06-30T23:11:00.000+08:00

ah finally. Some time to blog.

It seems like a long time and so many things have happened. I have studied until it feels as though it's not worth studying anymore (not that it was worth it in the first place). But I shall blog about more things w/ pictures after MOE decides to stop torturing my ass on Thursday.

I guess the death of the RJ guy Thaddues Cheong is pretty old news by now, but I think his death is really a damn sad thing to happen. For someone so bright and so full of potential, bright future, young and all, it's really sad for him to go just like that. His 2hr 9 mins timing was amazing. It must be hard on his family. The ST had a picture of his family at the wake during the final hours the other day and I swear, it was one of the saddest pictures.

I think life is very unpredictable these days. Anyone could just go and leave the world anytime.

Study. Wil be back. Bye!

2007-06-24T22:48:00.000+08:00

Ah school is back! The joy! Ah!

Lost 3 in 10 minutes. Bye.

2007-06-20T22:22:00.000+08:00

Hello.

If I had like, a real Deathnote, I'll probably write in all the names of all he physicists who caused me all the misery in studying physics. Newton, Amphere, Coulomb, whoever, all put inside the damn Deathnote.

Oh wait. They're all already dead.

Well then.

Lee Jia Jie
Died trying to understand physics concepts.

2007-06-19T22:33:00.000+08:00

This amazing commercial is courtesy of Roy aka the many-names-tagger. Made me kick my own ass for slacking.

2007-06-19T22:21:00.000+08:00

Ah okay I'm here again when I should be studying.

This is the after-effects of ATC. Quite cool leh, the last time I actually peeled was like 2 damn years ago.

Anyway, remember the PowerBreathe I got for free?

I saw it on retail at Running Lab at Novena while I was registering to Wave Run.

It's worth like, a whopping $140!

Amen. I'm going to use it everyday.

Okay I'm going to study. Or watch Heroes. Bye.

Oh, I just installed Snapshots! on the blog. Chio not?

2007-06-16T23:05:00.000+08:00

I'm sure by now almost everyone would have heard of the infamous RK House.

Well then, one fine day, Jia Jie together with Henry, Raphael, YiQian, Peak Siah and Priscilla decided to pay a visit to the legendary RK House.

Then Henry aka The One decided to order their famous Murtabak.

henry: you got what murtabak ah?
rk house aka noobcake: murtabak..we got mutton murtabak.. you want the small one, big one or medium one? the small one valy chip only, $5..
henry: gimme small one.. ~~with pork.~~

And so he got his ~~pork~~ chicken murtabak and he was happy.

Then everyone went around PORKY-ing and PORKEMON-ing.

Them everyone was happy and we went back to mugging and that was the end of the RK House trip, which was initiated by Henry who wanted to go there and shout PORK! and run away fast fast.

Evidence.

~~PORK!~~ RK House!

Aw man I'm like so screwed. MYE is in about a week and I'm less than halfway done I'm starting to regret when it was one month ago and I was thinking to myself, aiyah still got a lot of time lah! then I went to sleep. I guess good old Kwek (refer to post on Friday, 8th June) was right when he said time ~~fries~~ flies.

Oh well. Wish me luck.

2007-06-14T23:40:00.001+08:00

Okay I'm here to blog about ATC! But I haven't got all the pictures, I kinda wanted some that's with the photographer of NTU. =&

I'm kinda lazy to type. A picture says a thousand words.

I was kinda messed up by the singlet cos I was worried it'd be as messed up as last year's, but apparently this year they got better.

Yep so with that, we were flagged off at 9.45 with 27km ahead of us.

this was taken after, that's why we look so cool.

Yep so basically, we ran from Pasir Ris(PS) MRT to PS Park, where we kayaked out to find 6 markers and back. After that was a 5km(not too sure, I'm bad at distances) to the trail cycling route, where we(or rather, I) made the first mistake. Once out of the water I tried to gather my bearings when I saw a team wearing bright red shorts running towards right.

hmmm *JC. Seems reliable. Follow!

Apparently *JC were in the wrong direction. So after 10mins or so of running, we turned around to the right direction and continued following the map, where we eventually ended up in rural SG.(I had no idea where the hell we were) Then we had trail biking, which was really trail biking. My ass just went thump thump thump. But that went over, and we went on to the trail running section that was supposed to consist of the river crossing and tunneling also. By then I had 2 gel packs down.

And a lot of water too. Halfway along I had to stop and relive myself in the bushes while worrying about the team behind catching up.

Then came the river crossing, which was smth like a cargo net draped over a river but folded up. So you had to just get on the damn net, open it up and go over. Kinda shaky, but it was fun.

Then came more running, by then it was running along bushes and lallang as tall as a human + uphill too. The scenery along the way was kinda cool, hard to find in urban SG. But anyway, so we ran and ran and ran...

Until tunneling. Kinda boring, just cross the tunnel full of mud. By then I saw the first sign of civilization(roads) since the race started, gathered we were somewhere in Tamp. Then we went to the next checkpoint at Tamp Ikea. By then I had cramps at my calf alr.

The rest of the race was pretty mundane, from Tamp Ikea to PS Park via the drain den back to PS MRT. We kinda walked half the race away. But it was still a good experience.

My watch says 5 hrs 5 mins, but after deducting waiting time and all, my team took 4hrs 35 mins, coming in 18th out of 43 teams. Not too bad, considering we didn't really train. Lol. And the team number was IS18. Lol.

I was clever enough not to kill my Mizuno on this race, so I wore my cheap NB instead.

Before.

Which was a good decision.

After.

I kinda earned myself a "war scar" during the kayaking cos I dunno, my life vest wasn't on properly?

And HA I won myself smth cos the emcee was giving some PowerBreathe thing and the qn was really dumb and I was really near him, so ya I kinda went ahead. =x

His name is Eugene and I dunno wtf he's doing in this pic.

Well anyway, turns out this PowerBreathe this is a "dumbell for the lungs" or smth like that. I didn't really think much of it cos, it like plastic and all.

Until I saw THIS.

It reads "OFFICIAL INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINER FOR IRONMAN."

THIS IS FATE.

Well then yeah, the race ended and everyone was happy and all and dancing around with IJC and CJC and God knows what else. Lol.

Team NYODAC! Or at least half of it.

After rest.

3/4 of IS18.

Snr Terrence, us and err.. IJ intruder?

The emcee Eugene.

And the best part. RED BULL.

But it wasn't the drink. It was..

Nvm.

NTU ODAC pls upload the pics you all have leh. Ppl waiting leh!

Well.. ya. That's it. MYE in 1.5 weeks. I wanna watch Transformers.

Bye.

2007-06-13T23:04:00.000+08:00

Thought Gatsby was cool? This is the real deal!

Doesn't 2:28(1:15) look vaguely familiar?

2007-06-11T20:55:00.000+08:00

There I was, happily sleeping and recovering from the race when I was rudely interrupted by the screaming(s) of my parents(at each other).

Things aren't looking so good now.

Will blog about ATC when I get all the pictures. My abrasion still hurts like bloody murder.

Meanwhile,

Ownage.

Bye.

2007-06-10T21:44:00.000+08:00

ATC over!

Never win anything though. But expected lah, didn't train much. *JC swept everything. I just realised like won more than 7k worth of prizes. That's just gay.

I'm sunburnt! And I'm happy bout it cos I get burnt like, once in every 2-3 years. (The last time was when I went for my 1-star, which one was in 2005) And the abrasion on my left shoulder is killing me.

Will blog more about ATC when I get the pictures. For now, I must study hard!

No actually for now I will sleep. I study hard tmr. Bye!

Note: The dancing man on the post on Friday is my principal. Yes, NYJC's principal.

2007-06-09T22:56:00.000+08:00

Isaiah 40:31

but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

ATC HERE I COME.

2007-06-08T00:30:00.000+08:00

I like to move it move it..

omfg.

I'm still in shock.

2007-06-07T22:07:00.001+08:00

This stupid song is in my head and it refuses to go away.

iiiiiiii, cannnn giveeee youuu gatsbyyyyyy, gatsbyyyyyyyyyy, gatsbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

2007-06-07T00:33:00.000+08:00

Lol. I'm seeing a lot of funny convos today.

2007-06-06T22:03:00.000+08:00

Damn! Why wasn't TK like this during my time?

2007-06-05T22:11:00.000+08:00

Mr Ong says he wants the J1s to go for full marathon this year, then Ironman in Feburary next year. Hahahahah!

Mr Ong (talking to someone else): aiyah, bring all go full marathon end of this year lah.
me (being me, interrupting): Mr Ong cannot lah. Minimum age for full is 18.
Mr Ong: Really?
me: Ya.
Mr Ong: Where's the closest Ironman ah?
me: er, Langkawi, Malaysia. In Feb every year.
Mr Ong: Okay lah bring them there next year.
me (super stunned): er...Ironman is 3.8km swim, 180.2km bike and a full marathon.
Mr Ong: Can one lah.
me (more stunned): cannot one lor! not at this age anyway.
Mr Ong: Must aim high mah.

LOL. Aiming high is one thing. Being realistic is a total different story.

He has no idea what pain is all about. Underestimating a race is the worst thing anyone can do, all the more when it's an Ironman. People take years to train for their first and he expects a bunch of 17 year olds to do it while juggling college studies. Haha!

Good one, Mr Ong.

The video shows it all.

2007-06-04T22:22:00.001+08:00

Typed a long entry, decided to screw it.

ATC in 5 days. I shall go there and do my best!

"If you want to win a race you have to go a little beserk."

Bill Rodgers, four time Boston and New York City Marathon Champion

2007-06-03T23:03:00.000+08:00

The ST Forum page had this letter a few days ago of this kid who got 4 A Level distinctions and 2 S Paper distinctions but failed to get into his/her course she wanted i.e. pharmacy or some shit like that. To which ernest asked "walao! lidat also don't want, what they want?"

I think they want 4 A Level distinctions and 3 S Paper distinctions.
Or 4 A Level distinctions, 3 S Paper distinctions and A for GP. (The guy got a C.)
Or 4 A Level distinctions, 3 S Paper distinctions, A for GP plus some weird foreign language paper shit that they got an A at.

I know, there's bound to be some of these weird, sick people out there. In one of those XJCs.

I'm weird and sick too!

I only take 3H2s! I haven't start fighting alr lose liao. Life is so unfair. Zzz.

I honestly think if someone is rich, he/she doesn't even need school. What for? All they need is to hire people who are damn experienced in A Levels, ex-teachers and all that shit, people who know how exactly the papers are marked. One for each subject and he's covered. 8 distinctions? No problem! Got money, can liao. Some people spend more money on tuition and other families spend on food. Amazing. It's unbelievable how life can be so unbalanced.

Okay maybe this isn't enough.

I spend $280 for 4 sessions of math, and I'm bleeding through the nose alr.

Hemoglobin has 3 sub-units blahblahblah.. Or was it 4?

I am suddenly worried about my future.

father: eh, newspaper got this guy A Level distinctions and 2 S Paper distinctions also cannot go U leh. How?
me: er, i think pharmacy (or some shit like that) hard to get in lah.
father: then you go U (if I get there) going to take what?
me: er.

I realised I have no idea what I wanna take in Uni. I'm kinda bent on working in ISD/SAF, but I have no idea what qualifications they look for. My dad says ISD any degree also can one. Where got like that one? I just hope SAF sends me to Sandhurst and I'm done for life, although the probability of that happening is about as high as the probability of you ever seeing Gundam riding a bike.

Eh.. ya.

2007-06-02T22:47:00.000+08:00

Okay this is here so my blog wouldn't look like it's all words.

Okay just kidding. This is damn funny. You might wanna turn the volume down a bit if your folks are around.

2007-06-02T16:38:00.000+08:00

This is once again, from Mr Wang. I think it's the super advanced version on the "if you think you can, you can" theory. Apparently it's called mind-hacking. These are just excerpts, pls go to the blog for the full article. It's really interesting. And long too.

Once you realise how malleable the human mind is, you will begin to see the endless possibilities. Life becomes vastly easier, if you can master just one or two mindhacking techniques and use them regularly. For example, suppose that you hate maths. If you could actually hypnotise yourself into loving maths, being excited and thrilled by formulae, equations and so on, aha ..... you'll see how very easy it could be, to succeed in doing well in maths. You just won't be able to keep yourself away from your maths textbook.

To better understand mindhacking, you must first understand that what we normally think of as objective reality, is actually highly subjective. What you think that the world is like, is mainly a result of what you think. What you believe that your circumstances are, is mainly a result of what you believe.
.
.
.
Or two NSFs, A and B, are platoon mates in the same SAF unit, P. They are of the same rank and the same vocation, and their meals, pay, training, living conditions etc are identical. A thinks that army life is quite fun, exciting and adventurous, and he thoroughly enjoys the friendship and camaraderie of being with his army buddies everyday - these are the best days of his life. B, on the other hand, is so depressed about army life that he is secretly comtemplating suicide.

In truth, the job in Company Q is neither good nor bad, until someone thinks it is. Life in SAF Unit P is neither good nor bad, until someone thinks it is. Nothing in the world actually is, until someone thinks it is. That is why Prince Siddharta, you see, was trying to tell you that reality is just one big illusion. Albert Einstein agreed.

Now, if you are a mindhacker, you will learn the arcane arts of tinkering with your own mind. You will consciously choose the kind of thoughts and beliefs you want to have, and then you will penetrate into the deeper levels of your own consciousness, and you will plant those thoughts and beliefs there. And then you will be ready to play with that big illusion known as reality.
.
.
.
So if you ever have to climb a mountain, run a marathon, give a public speech, study for difficult exams, work under stressful conditions, deal with difficult people, whatever else ....... all you have to do is steal the relevant mindset, and go deep, deep, deep into your own brain, and plant it there. You can do it, if you know mindhacking.

I'm going to hack my mind and plant in the thought of me getting 3As for A Levels, getting a job in ISD, finishing the Ironman and many others. Excuse me.

2007-06-01T21:18:00.000+08:00

I got the following from Mr Wang, which is actually a pretty good read from time to time with a really diverse range of topics. Anyway. his following post was kinda interesting.

Consider the people around you – your family members, relatives, friends and colleagues. You’ll probably notice that most of them have never really failed in their attempts to achieve big goals.

That is because most people do not even have a habit of attempting to achieve big goals.

So here is the surprise. Looking around us, we actually find very little evidence in the world that if a person regularly attempts big goals, his success rate will be low.

How many people do you personally know, who regularly pursue big goals, and regularly fail? Probably none. There – see my point?

What then is the secret to achieving big goals? If you ask around for people’s opinions, the most common answers will probably be things like “talent”, “luck”, “drive”, “determination”, “hard work”.

None of these answers are wrong. However, the first step to achieving a big goal is actually to have a big goal. And that is what 90% of people lack.

Ask yourself – currently, what are your five biggest goals? Go on, write them down on a piece of paper. Or list them in the comment section, if you like.

What – you don’t know what to write? You need to think about it for a few minutes? Aha, this shows that you didn’t even have any big goals. If you don’t instantly know what your biggest goals are, then you can’t honestly say that you have any big goals.

Back to my title. So how do you achieve greater success than you ever thought possible? Well, the first step is straightforward. You must think that greater success is possible.

Five biggest goals- that is pretty interesting. Just for the sake of boredom, I shall try to list them out.

1)Get a job.
Okay this is quite mundane and probably on the list of almost everyone, but I reallt wanna get into either the SAF,

or the ISD.

I bet you don't know what ISD is. Lol. Don't know why, I seem to have this unusual desire to work in the armed forces when almost everyone else wants to go in and get out asap. Okay maybe I'm weird.

2.Complete the Ironman

Swim 3.8km, bike 180.2km, run 42.195km, brag for the rest of your life.
What else is there left to be said?

3.Grow. Not just physically.
I wanna believe again in religion. I think one of the reasons I'm religion-insensitive is probably cos of my family, which I shall complain about in another post. But believing feels really good, it's kinda makes this world a better place, giving you Someone to believe and confide in. Such friends hardly come by these days.

4. Hm.
5. Hm.

I'm not very good at this, am I?

Well, the J1s have put together a new blog for Odac! It's pretty amazing.

Okay my attempt to make this blog interesting has failed. Miserably.

Cheers.

2007-05-27T22:37:00.000+08:00

I would think in a junior college, most students are actually mature enough to think. Recent gossip(lol?) made me feel otherwise.

It's interesting to see how some people place others in such low priority. But that's okay, cos we don't need recognition. Not from you guys, at least. But the final straw comes when people go along uttering blasphemy in an old-school-abstract kind of way. It's quite sad cos I used to respect these people for certain reasons, but ~~maybe~~ I should give my respect to the sweeper that keeps my void deck clean everyday.

Well, what else can I say? A lot of other thoughts run through my mind, but if I plaster all of them out here this post would really become quite vulgar and out of hand and I'd be really tempted to run into the armoury in Amoy Quee, whip out a M-16 and go on a trigger-happy voyage. Okay just kidding.

Well, clubs think. (Read, odaC. C = club) We actually use our brains. That's why no one dies on a mountain somewhere up north and no one gets killed on the roads on a bike at 2am in the morning.

To finish this, let's just say I can't really expect the same effect from others.

Ya, others.

Okay it's okay if this doesn't make sense to you. It'll only make sense to some.

2007-05-23T22:39:00.000+08:00

Water PT today. I don't like water. At the end of the day, I think I'm more of a land person than water. I mean, I rather carry a full load (more also can) and go trekking for 8 hours than to swim 30 laps. Lol.

Or run 10km. Or anything.

Cannot lah I must learn to like water! If not how to do Ironman?

Well then again I have other things to worry about. The probability that I'm not going to finish the syllabus for mid years = 1. I haven't even started!

My blog is getting very boring. Agree?

Linkin Park's at the top!

I'm kinda looking forward to the trek on 2 June. After hearing Mr Ong's hour-by-hour description of what happenes to the human body during trek with a full load, I'm quite interested to doing it. Lol. Okay maybe I'm sick.

This video is hilarious.

Ok bye ppl.

2007-05-21T22:17:00.000+08:00

My life is pretty boring. Either that, or I can't be really bothered to blog these days.

I just planned my mid years revision (okay I tried to) and I kinda realised I'm fucked cos I will never have the time to finish everything I've learned since I've stepped into nyjc unless I could turn back time to like, April? In which the case I wouldn't start studying by then anyway.

Heh who cares. I've got ATC on 10 June and Saucony PAssion Run! on 8 July. I wanna go kayak, bike, run, swim(okay maybe not swim) and everything else, I just don't wanna study. Zzz.

"I like running because it's challenge. If you run hard, there's the pain - and you've got to work your way through the pain. You know, lately it seems all you hear is 'Don't overdo it' and 'Don't push yourself.' Well, I think that's a lot of bull. If you push the human body, it will respond."

Bob Clarke, Philadelphia Flyers General Manager, NHL Hall of Famer

2007-05-16T23:35:00.000+08:00

This little poem/long quote/whatever is probably old news by now, but I just wanna post it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Stop thinking that you can't and start thinking that you can. And the rest just falls in place.

2007-05-14T23:20:00.001+08:00

HA I managed to get my hands on MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT right on the day it was released world-wide. Not like it's a big deal here, but it's still cool lolz.

It was funny while I was walking to Sembawang @ PS cos there was where I reserved my CD. It so happened while I was walking in the guy called me to inform me my CD was here.

*ring ring *
me: Hello?
salesguy: hi Mr Lee?
me: Ya you are?
saleguy: ah I called to inform you that your LP CD is here already.
me: Ya I'm behind you right now.
salesguy: -_-

The free poster is kinda huge. That's my file there for comparison. I can't find any space on my wall to put it up. But it's really good looking, and of good quality as well.

I think the album's really different from LP from previous albums. It's also really diverse, has many different sounds all over the place. But it's still cool. =)

I've been spending the whole night listening to the album and there's a chem test tmr yay!

Aye whatever. There seems to be a problem with blogger at the Create Post page. Anyone has the same problem?

2007-05-11T23:15:00.000+08:00

This is also about limits. Reaching them, exploring them, exceeding where you thought yours were. Or maybe, coming to the conclusion that there aren't any.

Limits? What limits?

2007-05-11T22:31:00.000+08:00

I thought the Ironman was pushing the human body to the limits already.

Until I was flipping through Runner's World and found the SPARTATHLON.

Spartathlon is a 246 kilometre (152.85 miles) ultramarathon race held in Greece since 1983 between Athens and Sparta.

THE RACE.

The race starts at 7:00 am, usually on the last Friday each September, at the foot of the Acropolis. It runs out of Athens toward the coast and runs along the coast towards Corinth via Elefsis, Megara, and Kineta. The route reaches the Corinth Canal at 78.5 kilometres and the runners hit the first of six major check points at 81 kilometres.

After Corinth, the race heads toward Ancient Corinth, Nemea, Lyrkia and at 159 kilometres, reaches the top of Mount Parthenio. From there, it continues south toward Nestani and Tegea, before reaching the main Sparta highway just before the 200 kilometer mark.

Runners must pass through 75 checkpoints along the way and each checkpoint has a cut-off time. Runners outside the cut-off may be pulled out of the race although tardiness in the first half of the race is generally tolerated. This tolerance begins to fade after sunset and in the last third of the race, organisers may pull out runners who are either outside the time limit or who display extreme fatigue.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS.

In order to run in this race an individual must meet at least one of the following requirements:

1. The individual has finished a race of at least 100 km in less than 10 hours, 30 minutes.
2. The individual has already competed in Spartathlon and has reached the checkpoint "Nestani" ( 172 km ) in less than 24 hours, 30 minutes.
3. The individual has already competed in Spartathlon and reached the finish line.
4. The individual has competed in an event of more than 200 kilometers and has finished the race regardless of the time.

Legend! 246km is like, 615 laps around the track, 103 consecutive 2.4 runs and 6 consecutive full marathons! All the way from Athens to Sparta! (Runners are also required to kiss the statue of King Leonidas, male leading actor of 300 hehe)

Damn legend. Record is 20 hrs 25 mins. Amazing.

Everyday I learn something new.

2007-05-06T23:11:00.000+08:00

"The Ironman has always been finishing what you've started, about being able to do what you've set out to do, maybe not as fast as the person in front of you, but certainly faster than the person who never started."

-John Collins, Founder of Ironman

2007-05-05T15:32:00.000+08:00

Watching Team Hoyt's videos makes me feel ashamed that I get tired after a 10km run.

2007-04-30T22:42:00.000+08:00

LINK!

Who says breaststroke cannot do triathlon?

"Živný completed his first Ironman at the age of 42 and finished with a time of 15 hours 8 minutes. Two years later, in 1985, he broke his all-time record and completed an Ironman with a time of 13:51.

Then came the Super Ironman in 1999. It wasn't an easy race. Not only did he fall from his bike before the race, knocking out a tooth and bruising his ribs, it also rained during much of the race."

"The race always starts out with swimming, which he considers the hardest. "I can only swim the breast stroke, and that makes me slow," he says. Živný regularly swims in lakes that are as cold as 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit)."

Steady liao lor! Learn freestyle for what? Just breaststroke all the way! Ok melvin was right lolz.

By the time I'm 45 years old, I wanna finish my first Ironman. Within the next 27 years, I'll gain experience in local tri-s and half Ironmans. After finishing my Ironman, I shall die a happy man.

I really can't imagine how these triathletes finish their first Ironman. Running a full marathon(42.195km) is painful enough, talk about a 3.8km swim and a 180km bike route prior to that. Damn, it must take a whole lot of mental power to get through that.

I guess it's what makes them wanna do it.

And one day I will. After I finish my full mar by the time I'm 21 and start earning real money. Check back here in 27 years, ya?

Lol I'm serious.

2007-04-29T12:33:00.000+08:00

sand + gravel + pebbles + dirt + rain + run = shiok.
NB terrain run was okay. Nothing much to say about it.

ZZz damn sian. Econs test tmr and I don't feel like studying. JC life is crap.

2007-04-26T22:17:00.000+08:00

ROFL.

2007-04-26T18:20:00.000+08:00

Food poisoning's over. I'm back alive, fortunately. (or unfortunately) Went for a run instead of water PT to prepare for NB run on Saturday. Felt more alive than staying at home, doing nothing but shit, puke, sleep and repeat. Shall go swim tmr to try achieve my lifetime goal of attaining IRONMAN status. Hehe.

I guess this is just a short post for now. Will get back with a long one once I manage to get my neck over the ever piling load of tutorials to be done.

Just a short video to share.

It's nice if you understand the meaning.

Bye.

2007-04-24T10:50:00.000+08:00

Sick. Food poisoning. Puked out fan choy. Puked out dinner. Gonna puke out breakfast soon. PHY SPA in under 6 hrs. Tutorials to be done, exams to pass.

gahh.

2007-04-22T15:46:00.000+08:00

hello.

I can't remember the last time I ran up a mountain and down again (if I ever did it before), but I did that this morning. Finishing the 10.5km Mt Faber race in 62mins, I guess I could have done better if my knee didn't kill itself on the down slope.

My knee seems to be getting in the way of a lot of my runs.

Roy is really legend.

Next up, New Balance Real Run Club Terrain Run. 8.5km of terrain on nyjc's 30th anniversary. ahah I have half a mind to just run the race and go home to sleep.

Ok bye my chem tys calls my name.

2007-04-15T22:21:00.000+08:00

LINK!

2007-04-15T20:35:00.000+08:00

I shall stop being a bitch and post about smth happy. Or rather, I'll just let the pictures do the talking!

In random order:

2007-04-13T23:08:00.000+08:00

It's going to be hard to try and say this without appearing to be a bitch, but I'm really fucked over the PW results.

I was damn confident my grp could get Band 1/A. After all, I really felt our OP was really good and the model really topped it off. I wasn't even thinking about anything else other than the A.

And now, after the fcuked PI, GPP, GPF, WR, the OP and the fucking model which costed our wallets over $100 and a hell lot of time, I had to settle for a B. And NYJC suck balls so much, only 3% got A. That's like a pathetic what, 30+ students?

For comparison, MJ and VJ had a 50%, HCI 80%. National average is 20%.

I think it's fucking stupid to say that getting B/C is really good cos everyone else did worse. That's true, but only in NY. Once out of the school gates nyjcians can all suck balls cos everyone else holds an A for PW. To me, saying that a B/C is good is just a way of comforting yourself. And let's not compare ourselves to schs like -- (0.8%) cos that's also just another way of making that B/C look good when in reality, it sucks.

I'm seriously doubting NY's ability. Honestly, 3% is fucking pathetic. NYJC is a 30 year old college, yielding a 3% A while MJC is a 5 year old college, yielding a 50% A rate. Either the number's supposed to symbolic, or else Kwek should really feel fucking ashamed for losing out to a JC 6 times as junior as NY is. At 3%, I guess it's pretty obvious its not the cohort that sucked. It's probably the teachers.

They said the PW committee's holding a evaluation to find out what went wrong. It's so ironic, the ppl spearheading the evaluation are precisely the ppl who lead us to this shit hole in the first place. Neither do I expect them to stand in front of us and admit they did smth wrong in the process. They'll prob say it's us or even better, just shut up, keep quiet and go. That's what they do best anyway.

It's not a matter of how impt the PW grade is. Nvm that a B/C is an average grade. The thing is, our input isn't matching the output. It's just fucked.

I'm trying not to bitch about this,but I am really fucked over the grades. And I don't think my grp did anything wrong. At least, we followed every instruction. And because the fucking ppl at the top (the ahem PW committee) made a mistake somewhere, we have to bear the consequences.

I think I've said this plenty, but this school really sucks.

Fuck this crap.

[Edit] I'll like to stress that my grp did way more to deserve Bs and Cs. Okay now go screw nanyang.

2007-04-12T21:06:00.000+08:00

Jia Jie loves Thursdays. He thinks that Thursdays are the best things in the world.

That is because PRISON BREAK is shown on Thursdays.

Yes. JC life is that sad.

2007-04-07T15:58:00.000+08:00

What's Linkin Park up to?

Linkin Park is currently in the studio mixing their new album, "Minutes To Midnight", which will be released on May 15 in the US (May 14 worldwide), the first single, 'What I've Done' is out now.

Uh! After a wait that lasted like forever, LP's finally back. I shall be camping at some CD store on 14th May.

I think the video's quite interesting. Not like their previous vidoes. And the song's awesome.

I got home at 2am last night after scaling Belumut. It's interesting that we took a longer time going up than down; the latter is supposed to be more tiring/dangerous. I prefer the later parts of the climbing, the initial only had me using my legs and higher up can use hands, more cool lol. Less tiring too.

We missed the turn around time by like, 1.5 hrs? We were supposed to turn around by 3pm but Mr Ong say just chiong, can one. So chiong lor. So in the end we got to the summit (fake crown rock, real crown rock, fake summit then real summit) and turned at 4.30pm for the descent. I was already preparing my torch lol.

The summit wasn't exactly impressive. The one I scaled in NZ was way better.

Got back to base at 7.30pm. No water. Heavy bag with stupid static rope inside. But it was quite cool trekking in the sub-dark though. Part of me was secretly hoping we couldn't make it back to base and had to make camp there HAHAHA.

Okay sorry.

Overall I just didn't like the rush during the descent. High probability of injuries. Would have been much better if customs didn't screw up the schedule. Ong suddenly wanted the reins to be handed to J1s so Ming Jie was in charge instead of Adam. And lol, he kept going DOUBLE UP DOUBLE UP lolol. I think some ppl behind we quite pissed. Lol I was quite surprised that MJ was suddenly in charge. But we still made it down in time. ~~Damn.~~

My damn knee cranked up during the climb again. Sometime during the ascend I felt the same pain I felt while I was training for the marathon. And I thought to myself, damn, this shit is back. And damn, it was there to stay. All the way up the pain was there, esp for the climb up the crown rock cos I did a flying jump up the rock and hit my knee zzzz. The descend killed my knee more cos I had to jump down and down and landing on a injured knee isn't exactly a great feeling.

Stupid crap. Mizuno Run in 2 weeks. I hope my knee heals in 2 days.

Shall upload pictures when I get them. For now, I shall go ~~mug~~ slack/rest.

2007-04-05T21:48:00.000+08:00

Wa damn exciting.

Gg belumut tmr. I'm secretly hoping we get trapped there and be forced to make camp there. That will be way coool.

Ok bye. Cya in 24 hrs.

Hopefully.

2007-04-03T21:28:00.000+08:00

2007-04-01T15:23:00.000+08:00

Hoho sports carnival was okay, I just think the logistics sucked quite a bit.

Frisbee was ... cos I was still eating breakfast at bedok while the rest were playing.

Db was ownage cos we owned the other 3 boats by like, a boat or more? Probably more by brute strength than skill. Lol.

Run was damn good (actually it was more of like a small portion of the run) because...

well it was just good.

Hehe.

I've been banned from nigth cycling by my parents cos of my wonderful results. I guess that more of a good thing than a bad one cos now I can study and focus on the Mt Faber run. Lol.

Ok nothing else to say. Must do econs, cannot make Jeeva sad.

Bye.

2007-03-27T21:11:00.000+08:00

Well done, Jia Jie. After so much studying, so much staying in sch, so much looking at TYSes and shit, you stil managed to get a stupid D for math after paying so much for tuition and a god damn U for physics. other people are getting BBC/AAA and well on their way to their distinctions for A Levels and here you are, trying to pass. Idiot.

Well done, Jia Jie.

2007-03-26T21:09:00.000+08:00

How to be a real man:-

1)Wear nothing but your underwear.

2)Get a red cape.

3)Get a real cool looking peacock helmet.

4)And get your army to dress exactly like you do.

There you go. Victory guaranteed.

300 proves to be one of the best shows I've ever laid my eyes on, comparably to the LOTR trilogy and whatnot. Nvm that it's M18, it's not my fault that the guy at TPY Eng Wah never check right?

Yes, it's not my fault.

300 talks about an army of 300 Spartans from a city famous for its warrior philosophy, going against an army of over a million Persian troops. To cut a long story short, the Persian army goes through an undeniable hard time defeating the 300 troops, which eventually triggers the whole of the Spartan army to go to war.

Undoubtedly one damn good show, with the Persians trying to kill them Spartans:

wa siao liao!

and vice-versa.

what?

Correction. The deed was already done in the latter photo. Apparently the Spartans succeeded more that the Persians did.

Nonetheless, the movie is amazing generous with the amount of blood its willing to spill; even the movie title is written in blood:

with the never-ending kills, even the most cool flying-slice:

i can fly!

The Xerxes guy looked quite freaky though.

I HAVE BIG BALLS YEAH

I personally loved this scene:

Ha. Amazing show.

2007-03-22T23:31:00.001+08:00

hello hello hello.

I'm very lazy to blog cos I haven't done so in a very long time and there really is nothing to blog about.

I'm really tempted to go for triathlon sprint this year but I'm rather put off by the fact that I still can't do freestyle at all.

Come 21/22 April, I will self-proclaim myself two-thirds a triathlete cause the night of 21st will be spent night-cycling around Singapore(which can easily reach a route of over 100km I heard) and at 5am, find a place to dump my bike, somehow find my way to Henderson CC(God knows where this place is) by 6.30am and start the 10km Mizuno Mt Faber Run(got ascending slopes leh!) with my legs still burning away.

And somehow reach home alive and make it for school the following day.

Ohhhh, I can't wait.

2007-03-16T22:39:00.000+08:00

After a brutal fight with my math tys and reality, I realised that I can't do integration for nuts.

And the block shite starts in 3 days.

And I haven't started physics revision.

I'm so fcking screwed, just shoot me.

Ha ha ha.

2007-03-15T21:44:00.001+08:00

AHAHAH wtf. Wtf wtf wtf.

2007-03-10T22:25:00.000+08:00

Taken from Roderick's blog.

Rocky Balboa: Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.

You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done.

Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!

2007-03-09T23:16:00.000+08:00

I think it's okay if parents don't interfere with the kid when he's studying for exams, but I think it's plain infuriating when they make things worse by bothering you with minor matters and making the environment so stupid for studying by quarreling.

It's a concept my parents have yet to understand. Perhaps it's why they like to choose my exam studying periods to go against each other and throw the house into chaos(It was the same for my O Levels and promos). I suppose it's cause they think a noisy and shouting environment is more conducive for studying or they maybe they just think getting As is just as easy as walking out of the house every morning.

Maybe I should just jackpot Us for my block tests and prove them wrong. Than Kwek will become my best friend and I will own the A lvls.

Okay just kidding.

Pass all subjects for block tests. Mission:Impossible.

2007-03-08T23:00:00.000+08:00

Screw this econs shit- I give up doing the damn essay.

Screw all this studying, all this chemistry, physics, math and econs concepts I'll never use in future. Screw all this time spent worrying about exams. Screw all this useless mugging- nothing gets into my head anyway. How can anyone study when the J1s are screaming orientation everywhere you go in school anyway?

I swear, this education system is nothing less than being f-ed up. If my dad was printing cash I would have gotten myself into a overseas college. No questions, no hesitation. Just a plane ticket and off I go.

Sadly, my father doesn't earn $20k a month and I only live in a 4-room HDB, so I guess I have to stick with this shit for now.

Shall blog about happier things(don't seem to have much happening lately) when block tests are over.

2007-03-05T22:38:00.000+08:00

Today is a damn legend day cos it's the first time in the last 1 year 3 months that I actually sat down to study econs and UNDERSTOOD THE DAMN THING HAHA. I NOW KNOW WTF IS FISCAL POLICY, HOW MONETARY POLICY WORKS (I didn't understand the exchange rate policy, so screw it.) But HA! I finally understand smth bout econs!

Okay. Bye.

2007-03-04T21:58:00.000+08:00

Dear Ms Jeeva,

If a picture says a thousand words, can I submit one and a half demand-supply graphs in lieu of the 1450 words essay assignment from the last December holidays?

Regards,
Jia Jie

2007-03-03T23:05:00.000+08:00

It's rare(almost never) that I blog twice in a day, with a time interval of less than 10 mins at that. But I couldn't resist it. Look above. That's a copy of a tutorial answer sheet uploaded on the school online portal for everyone. Thing is, it didn't come in a Word doc. It's a JPEG image.

That's damn...

Unprofessional.

So I'm supposed to read my answers off an picture?

Should have went to SA. Dammit.

2007-03-03T22:24:00.000+08:00

Hello. Long time no see.

I have lots of things I wanna blog about, but I'll probably forget them as I go along.
So let's just see how far I get.

My grandma crashed my house after a little tiff last Sunday with my aunt after my VM. You can imagine my irritation when I got home after not winning a VM to find my room invaded by my sister cos her room was invaded by my grandma.

I guess it's pretty much a responsibility thing. The other house is a condo unit, has a maid, has people at home everyday. My house is a coughtinycough 4 room HDB, no maid and no one at home from 8-6 everyday. I guess it's pretty obvious which is the better choice for an old lady to live in.

I think taking part in the VM in a competitive nature has opened my sights up quite a bit. Don't know why, just feel that way. After everything, I'm not too sore about not winning cos the team was quite a fair bit from top 5. And in any case, they only gave trophies to top 4 teams(all CJ ahem). Makes me wonder if there's some conspiracy involved.

I feel like going osim triathlon relay. Who feels the same way and can cycle and swim, tell me pls.

I passed Chinese. Screw the language for the rest of my life.

I haven't played pool in a very, very, very long time.

There are loads of other stuff I wanna blog about, but I don't have pictures and I hate it when my blog is all words. So let's just forget it.

I'm so going to pass block test.

Or not.

2007-02-28T22:20:00.000+08:00

A number of things.

I seem to have an infinite number of tutorials to complete.

I have a proposal to settle.

I want to learn how to tread water.

If you can(successfully) teach me, I'll be forever grateful to you.

I want to pass A Level Chinese.

I want to pass block test.

I think Kwek's arguments all don't make much sense.

Damn random.

2007-02-25T21:19:00.000+08:00

My mum says it's okay that we didn't get into top 5 cause it's only a medal more that we missed.

When I set my sights on the VM, I wasn't looking much at the medal.

Among everything else, the medal was just a material item of showing success. I wasn't looking for a medal. I was looking for the glory of winning.

It was something that kept me through the trainings and the actual event itself.

It was also something I failed to get even after the numerous trainings and all that talking.

Ah fuck it.

2007-02-23T21:50:00.000+08:00

Lol wtf. My comp cannot play sounds anymore. My room now sounds like a graveyard.

In under 2 days, NY ODAC will be going against the odds (and 58 teams, 5 CJ teams and 66 storeys) in the National Vertical Marathon, attempting to place the 4 teams into the top 5 positions.(which is pretty much an extremely hard task to achieve) It'll also probably the first time I'll be taking part competitively in an externally organized race.

About 6 weeks ago, Uncle Kwek gave a little speech on school budget and nicely launched himself into an argument about CCAs taking part in competitions. (SYF, A Divs etc etc) His take was that if they're going, then they're gonna have to win cause the reputation of NY was at stake, so to say. He also added that if they're not going to win, then they shouldn't have to go, lest they put NY's name to shame.

It didn't hit me as hard as it should have, but only like 2 weeks later after I read some article online did I realize that what he said was quite wrong at that point of time. Being a principal of a college, he should be promoting values like sportsmanship blahblahblah instead of saying stuff like "if you're not going to win, then you better not go". You get the idea.

But standing at this point of time with the NVM in under 48 hrs, I'm going to have to say he was right in some way. What's the point of a competition if we're not there to win? If we're going to be present at the competition, we might as well make our presence felt.

Training for everyone has been pretty much crazy enough, considering many of them are new to this. For now, what really matters is that few minutes up that building. Just a few minutes.

Then I'm going to bring back the damn medal and make Kwek give it to me.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a marathon to win.

Pray for me. Lol. Bye.

2007-02-20T20:59:00.000+08:00

Lol wtf.

This (chinese) new year must be a really sucky one for me.

First, my hp died. Then, my comp speakers died. Now I'm stuck with a pile of undone homework due tmr and a IE test on thurs.

And NVM in 5 days.

Die liao lor!

And pls allow me to say I'm not a water person. Tried to swim at yck this morning. Totally cmi. Lol. I tink I'm better off running.

This has got to be one of the coolest messages Windows gave me.

[Edit] oh I forgot! I saw CPT John while I was house-visiting the other day at Jurong. With his family. Not bad, he still remembers me even after I MIA from HQ so long.

His wife is damn chio.

OK sorry. Bye.

2007-02-18T23:59:00.000+08:00

yo.

This year CNY seems slightly different- it lacks a certain atmosphere, making it really dull. Then again, I don't really like CNY cos I don't see the point. It's just a waste of time.

The dumb thing is NVM 2007 is in 7 days and here I am, spending the day away guzzling nonsense like prawn rolls and pineapple tarts.

And I just messed with some security shit on my hp and somehow managed to lock myself out of my phone. Now I'm living on my dad's hp with my SIM card with all my contacts gone. I feel like an idiot.

Pls pass me your number. I've lost it.

Ok bye.

2007-02-16T21:55:00.000+08:00

Performance was like shit today. Don't know wtf is wrong with me.

Screw the chinese new year.

2007-02-10T23:10:00.000+08:00

hello everyone.

The O level results just came out yesterday, so congrats to everyone that got whatever points they wanted. To everyone else that didn't, life goes on. Or as Tan Kee How would put it, move on.

For everyone that got like, a single pointer or anything else that's impressive(I realise this is relative), please be happy and go show off your results like, now.

For all those that didn't get that impressive a score and feeling really shitty now, please don't be.

At some point 6 months down the road, no one cares what the hell your L1R5 was anymore, especially if you have problems passing your H1s in JC.(like me)

So if u're got 8, be happy about it while you still can. If you got 41(I think it's possible), don't worry cause it won't take the world long to forget that.

Ahdui. My legs are damn pain now.

OK byebye.

2007-02-08T22:03:00.000+08:00

Behold, my wonderful results from the physics test that was held on the Monday straight after the Odac trek (which btw, burned my Sat and Sun away)

The test was upon 40.

Good luck to everyone getting back their Os results tmr. God bless.

2007-02-03T22:32:00.000+08:00

Life is boring.

Expose yourself to a interesting piece of essay here.

If I'm not wrong, Gayle Goh's a Singaporean blogger in the leagues of Mr Brown, Molly Meek, Yawning Bread etc etc. And he's an ACJC second year student. (I THINK)

Reading his blog makes me feel so ashamed.

2007-02-01T21:54:00.000+08:00

About time I blogged.

Trek!

I'm telling you, this picture is worth millions. =)

Adam just looks cool with that thing over his head.

My grp. =)

Ha this picture totally cracked me up.

TOM TOM TOM.

School has been pretty boring. Math's still okay. Chem understandable. Physics's greek to me. Sometimes I forget I take econs. All I really wanna do now is to win that VM.

Ha ok bye. Be back when I'm free.

2007-01-28T21:52:00.000+08:00

Trek was whooooooooooooo! fun. Was glad the j1s enjoyed it. Kudos to Wen Hui for organising everything. Will upload more when I get my hands on the pictures.

For now, I need to go figure out what to do about the physics test in about 11 hours.

Byebye.

2007-01-21T21:54:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone.

Meet my best friend. His name is TOM. Jia Jie likes TOM.

Everyone, say hi! to TOM.

Can you see TOM? Clue: TOM's not the back image of the person.

Welcome to the Tunnel Of Mud.

2007-01-19T21:49:00.000+08:00

I'm feeling stupid and idiotic because I heard something somewhere that (in my opinion) shouldn't have been said. It's interesting how words can make or break your day.

Whatever.

I have loads of shit to finish this weekend. After the trek recee tmr, I still how to somehow find time to revise Mac series, study everything for Chem test and finish all tutorial. All in a sunday. Not to mention the worrying for the upcoming training and the VM.

Life's becoming really bitchy.

2007-01-14T23:00:00.000+08:00

My house phone bill totally owns.

I don't understand why Singtel even bothers sending me the bill. The envelope, paper and the postage probably costs more than the bill itself already.

2007-01-13T00:31:00.000+08:00

I have to stay committed. Faithful. Strong. Dedicated. I can't afford to falter.

And that's exactly what I'm going to do.

I'm going to run this race and win this war.

2007-01-09T22:48:00.000+08:00

Just added a song. I think it's beautiful.

I apologise for my previous post. I was too messed up to think straight and just typed and posted it without much hesitation.

Why is it some people slog and fight with all they have for something they've always wanted and never get it, while others acquire it even without lifting their fingers?

2007-01-05T23:30:00.000+08:00

I [edit] hate it when big, major arguments branch from small, stupid and minor disagreements. I don't see the point in making a mountain out of a mole hill when someone disagrees with you over something as [edit] trival as a strand of hair.

My family doesn't see it that way. Right now, there's a gale blowing right outside my room over something so stupid, it's not even worth mentioning. It's so [edit] stupid, and I [edit] hate it. For every hour I'm in the house, there's 30 minutes of unrest. It's no wonder I'd rather be out of the house. At times like this, I'd rather be on a [edit] 1 hour trip to yishun, just me and my iPod.

And it's downright disgusting when they try to hide it. Things are the way they are. No [edit] point trying to hide anything under a facade just to look good.

[13/1/07] Edited. Must stick to my resolution number 9. Lol.

2007-01-03T21:58:00.000+08:00

I'm such a sucker for technology. I walk into my room telling myself, ok today I'm not gonna on my comp. I'm gonna do my GP. 2 minutes I'm listening to the whirring on my CPU and the typing of my keyboard, with the 4 GP assignments thrown all over my table, completely ignored.

One day, I'll get killed by technology.

The rain's back. Together with my never-ending desire to sleep in lectures. Cannot ah, must fight.

2007-01-02T22:17:00.000+08:00

GP hwk got dateline. Tmrw, 1400hrs.

HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME?

2007-01-01T17:57:00.000+08:00

First post of the year. Hehe.

Create and Heart Awards was great. Too bad I couldn't stay to the end. Mong had a really cool shirt on.

Since every one's having resolutions and all that, I might as well join the crowd. It's a tad late, but never mind lar.

JiaJie's New Year Resolutions for 2007
1)Start learning the guitar at least halfway.
2)Decrease my dependence on the computer/Internet.
3)Hit 25 pull-ups and hit under 11mins for 2.4km run by June.
4)Quit fast food.
5)Pass econs.
6)Study for Prelims/As. And do well for them while I'm studying.
7)Quit being emo.
8)Continue to grow spiritually.
9)Stop swearing completely, even when I'm hopping mad.
10)Save at least 1 person.
11)PES A/Get enlisted.
12)Get better resolutions for the following year.

Go slp liao. Bubye. =)

[Edit] Mong, if you see this, PH and I have yet to pay for the tickets from LAST YEAR and I just realised Jason and your shirts still with me from LAST YEAR. How ah?

2006-12-30T22:21:00.000+08:00

Long post. Might get boring. Warned you.

This post is going to be in lieu for tomorrow cos I'm not gonna be around to blog tmr, and I definitely have to blog about this year.

In a lot of ways, 2006 was an ass of a year but in many other ways, 2006 had been a blast.

In 2006, I

-travelled out of this continent without anyone from my family.

-met loads of great people along the way.

-seen a real cow poo.

-sat in a real tunner(sp) for the first time.

-went white water rafting (in NZ) in a river so clean, I'd rather drink the water there over any drink in Singapore.

-took part in a running race for the first time in my life.

-finished a half marathon for the first time in my life.

-"celebrated" TK's 50th anniversary with a ~~$120~~ $30 ticket.

-had all 4 female NCC officers leave the unit (damn) and be taken over by a man.(double damn)

-seen Fort Minor Live at the Indoor Stadium.

-bought a pink water bottle.

-got exposed to the horrors of a (lousy)JC.

-seriously considered the prospects of a military career.

-got screwed really bad by PW. (That's my PW model)

-photocopied my face. Don't ask why.

-carried the state flag. Or rather, a corner of it.

-realised what a really lousy teacher was like.

-been labelled a mugger. Again, don't ask me why.

-got into a class where (almost)everyone was taller than me.

-and finally, got saved.

In the past 5 months or so, I've grown more spiritually than I have in the past 16 years. Sometimes I look back to the way I was before and I cannot believe how everything has happened. I wanna thank everyone who has been there all along since my first visit to hoGc and people who have walked me through this spiritual walk. I'd never have been able to made it alone. People like Mong, Andrew, MeiPing, Daphne, C5. And Him.

2006 was a great year. 2007's going to another one. And many more great years to come. God bless.

Happy New Year! (In another 24.5 hours or so)

2006-12-29T20:56:00.000+08:00

I finally watched Death Note 2: The Last Name after the 1st movie proved to be a need-to-watch-part-2-to-finish thing. Supposed to be a class thing but in the end everyone PS-ed and left only Meiping, Osborne and I. Quite sad case lolol.

Overall Death Note 2: The Last Name would be a great ending to the whole Death Note movie saga for anyone who had no idea the Death Note manga ever existed or never read it at all. The twists aren't exactly present in every movie around and with the plot and everything, Death Note proves to be a real good show. But I think it'll turn out to be pretty boring for anyone who had finished the manga- the movie would seem to be really condensed and shortened. I don't suppose the producers had a Death Note 3,4,5 etc etc in mind. So the movie was a little disappointing compared to the manga which had Light being a lot more clever and Mello and Near trying to catch his ass and all. But yeah. It was quite a cool movie.

Then the 3 of us walked around. Aimlessly. Lol.

OK lah. Bye.

2006-12-28T21:52:00.000+08:00

Ooo, the touch of wrinkled toes. Feels great. Behold the result of running from Sun Park across Pasir Ris flyover and back in the midst of the insane rain of Singapore at 12am in the morning while having my feet soaked in rainwater. And enduring the wetness of my socks and shoes all the way back to school. Oh yes. Great.

Edited my blog skin. Bye.

2006-12-25T22:31:00.000+08:00

Awesome Xmas. This Xmas holds a lot of meaning for me.

I wanna thank everyone that gave me a card. Xmas cards never used to hold much/any meaning to me. But today, they do. Thanks to Meiping, Deny, Fanglynn, Jenn, Leon, Mong, Audrey, Hilda, June, 3sa and everyone else who gave me a card. Sorry if I left your name out. Thanks. Greatly appreciated. Thanks a million. Add another million while you're at it. God bless you people.

800 people in a room with a purpose. Life had never been this good before.

I'll be away at camp from tmr to thursday. Bye people. God bless.

My blog seems to be getting really boring.

And oh, Merry Xmas!

[Edit] I just did this Blogthings thing and I think it's absolute crap.

Your Expression Number is 3

A natural performer, your destiny lies in writing, speaking, acting, or teaching.
Imaginative and unique, you have a natural creative talent in the arts.
You're also a natural salesperson. You can easily sell your ideas and yourself.

A total optimist, you are enthusiastic about life and living.
You are friendly and social - and people are taken by your charm.
Your role in life is to inspire, motivate, and raise others' spirits.

At times, you can seem a bit superficial.
Sometimes you're a bit unfocused and too easygoing.
You're best off when you don't dwell on trivial matters, especially gossip.

What's Your Expression Number?

You people tell me, how much of this gibberish is true about me?

2006-12-24T22:36:00.000+08:00

With school threatening to reopen really soon, 2 extremely evil thoughts invaded my mind just now.

What if:-
1) Adrian Tan was lying to us this year and JPoh is STILL going to be our math teacher next year to screw us all one more time for the fnial year.

OR

2) JPoh got transferred down to teach the J1s next year and Rudi gets her as math teacher. Again.

If I had to choose between the 2, I'm going to have to go for the second one.

Sorry Rudi. You're a nice guy and a great friend, but JPoh for another year, I can't take it. Sorry.

Hehehe.

Yeah. Merry Christmas. In another 40 mins. =)

2006-12-23T22:00:00.000+08:00

If you think your life has no meaning and you're free on the 25th, talk to me. I'll bring you to a place and show you the way of life.

Ok lah, maybe I won't show it to you. But I'll bring you to the place! Faster, talk to me. Msn, email, sms, anything. You know you want to.

Hehehe.