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15 December 2004 - Me, Myopia and (My Poor) Eye
Went to run on Monday night. Broke my personal best of 12:29 for 2.4km by 11 seconds. Haha. Very pleased with myself. Maybe it's because I was listening to all the fast-paced and rocks song which I transferred to player while running, therefore was adrenaline-pumped. Shall go and run tonight if I feel like it. Hehe.
Spent the whole of yesterday afternoon trying to revamp my site, simply because looking at the same design or layout for a period of time caused boredom and portrayed mundanity. So I experimented with this and that, with the help of a good friend of mine. Actually he did most of the work lah, but ultimately I picked the background and blah blah blah. So, I was "involved". Really grateful and thanks to him. Actually my design is slightly similar to my friend's blog lah, so it's quite easy to guess who he is. Lol.
Think my myopia is getting worse and worse each day. Haha. Perhaps I would shoot up to 10 dioptres by the end of the holidays. Haha. (10 dioptres is 1000 degrees lah.. Showing off my PW, lol.) Other than the usual daily activities like eat/sleep/bathe, I practically spent the whole day "torturing" my eye.. Hours of computer games (played until Level 114 already), EVEN MORE hours of reading (on my last book already, finally, shall start on my tutorials probably this weekend), and 1 hour of Double Happiness II (and 1 more hour of AR6 on Wednesdays) for TVs. Just take for yesterday for example, I read at least 6 hours plus lor. Haha.
It seems that my luck hadn't taken a turn for the worse yet.. (I mean, life will have its ups and downs right? It's all ups these days, someday the downs will come...) Received a letter yesterday, to inform that I have gotten "Good Progress Award". Haha. From L1R5 of 9 points to Promo of AADD.. Progress? Haha. It just underscored the fact and the mentality in my mind for the past 9 months or so, that scoring 9 for the Os was simply a flop, just pure unlucky, a totally unbelieveable thing. Perhaps the people over the half of the world simply lost my script and haphazardly assigned a grade to me. Haha.
Been spending some leisure thinking about the events that happened throughout the year. 2004 has been an eventful year, at least for me, no doubt. So many things happened.. Happy and sad, all these short anecdotes in my life definitely made me learn something useful which I could apply in my future.
Perhaps the "forced" decision of changing JC in March was the biggest thing that happened in my life. At that point, it seemed that all my hopes of future were dashed, everything was coming to an end and so on.. The feeling is so unique that only people who undergone the same journey will understand. Perhaps all the consolation did help to tide me over a dreadful period. Perhaps only till now, I would start to reminisce over the foolish and stupid things I did during April to June, and even to reflect over my immaturity over that period. Haha. I'm sorta capricious, right? Haha.
Should I share what happened? Haha. Hmm, on the first day I was posted to VJC, I was still hopeful that my appeal would go through (and my friends thought so), so I merely took the O2 (2nd Orientation) as a holiday, but it was on the second day that I learnt that my appeal failed. Simply felt down, and would also escape from all the activities. It seemed anti-social, but I just need time to sort out all the tangles and vines in my brain. Maybe the thought of "Why me?" would often sound in my mind, but it REALLY took time to tell myself life still has to go on.
Maybe it was lucky that I was posted to Jonathan's class, along with Terence as well. Blessing in disguise, considering I only had Kah Meng in S32 in HCJC. But I seldom have problems getting along with people in a totally stranger place. Then the first name I know was Yi Ning. CT Rep mah. It seemed like she was the FAQ personnel. All questions would be directed to her and she would also bear the responsibility of disseminating information.
Days went by, I spent most of the time mugging in the library. There was some catching up to do, considering VJ was faster than HC. But that wasn't the main reason. Escapism, you call that. I wasn't audacious and realistic to face up the anyone in the college. I seemed to believe I don't belong here at that time. I did miss my friends who were several kilometres away. Then, SMS was the greatest thing to do. And MSN as well.
Maybe it was the escapism who indirectly caused me to work hard and therefore impressed almost everyone during that F Maths test. I have to admit I was lucky to have NOT EVEN 1 careless mistake. Perhaps that did brought joy and hope in my life, for a while. Then class outings came one by one, I attended quite some of them and I didn't miss any on purpose, I think.
Then just as everything was in place, a caring Mr Koh for Maths Algebra, I thought he replaced Mr Yap in HC rather well, and some goes for Mr Lim for Chemistry. Then some dreadful thing happened... (Haha.. Cliff-hanger, should continue some other time...) Till now, you all can keep on guess what's the dreadful thing..
13 December 2004 - Lucky Charm
Have been enjoying a stroke of luck recently. Things have been going the way I wanted, or maybe most of them. Went to run on Friday night, then had stitches halfway, so struggled to complete 2.4km lor. Time was 13:36. Got excuse (stitches) so never mind.
Actually Saturday was a horrible day. To say that I was utterly displeased would be the grossest of understatements. Morning was bad. Afternoon it rained, and was somewhat drenched, due to me completing tasks for certain people. Then others were rushing me and someone, as if they expected a 2 hour task to be done within 30 minutes like that. Hallo! Can you people be a bit reasonable. I'm already trying my best. That so so so so so...UNFAIR. Don't feel like mentioning names here, moreover it's over. The bad mood lasted till late afternoon, and I thought Blackburn's loss would add to the misery..
Then received a call from my someone (haha, and I keeping all the names secret, lol) asking me to go for celebration with some people. (some people again..lol) Then went down, talked, laughed, played games. Haha. So funny. Spirits was lifted. Then as the night sky darkens, more laughter, more joy, (wow, I'm sounding so abstract, so profound). Was telling some of my friends that Blackburn would never win Crystal Palace, and it's either going to be a draw or a win for Palace. See, in the end, it was a 0-0 draw. Haha. Blackburn's first goal-less match in 55 or 56 games. Haha. Quite satisfied lah, though they were slightly unlucky as Palace's GK was on-form.
Then there was Star Awards on Sunday... Haha. The Best Supporting Actress so old, haha. So sad Fiona Xie never got in the Top 10 Actresses.. And how did Ivy Li managed to win the award? Haha. Is it because her husband in the story died, then very sad, pity her? Haha, joking. Must have reasons lah. Congratulations to Xie Shaoguang, winner the Zhu Jiao award for don't-know how many years already.
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