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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Thx everyone for the birthday wishes, and also the Fitness club members for celebrating it yesterday. Forgot to post it in last night's entry, 'cos it's kinda hard timing to remember... Here's the real news: Doctor says 3months to live, nurse says "No Lah!!". Who to believe? Your guess is as good as mine, but of course i'm hoping for the best.

Year 2005... I had only 1 word for this year: rollercoaster. There are so many ups and downs that I'm getting dizzy and feeling nausea, as well as exhausted. Let's recap on some of the highlights for this year, BranDon....

Starts this year by spending the 1st 3 months in CJC, my mom always says i shouldn't be there, why? I'll disclose 1 surprising fact about me: i had 2 prelims in MSHS, with prelim2 having a heavier weightage. I scored well for prelim2, but overall my L1R5 is still 21. Did i flunk my prelim1? No, i didnt. In fact i did not too badly, then why i still ended up in CJ? Because i foolishly let my friend copy my answers during the exams, not 1 or 2 papers, but 3 of my best subjects, Amaths Emaths and Chem. As the result, 3 F9s for my 3 best subjects. Shocking, eh? I don't have the face of a cheater but have the brains stupid enough to let my friend copy my works. This is one of the few actions i still regret up to this day. However, i will never regret my 3months at CJ. In fact, it was the happiest time so far in my life outside home. 1T37, a class i will never forget, 'cos the bonds between us is so strong, we were almost like family. Then came O'levels. Man, initially i thought i would get like 11 or 12 then i would stay in CJ but huh?! i got 9 points!!

I can never forget the feeling of that day; it cannot be described in words alone, because in my whole life i've never been a winner. By getting 9points I became the top few in my class as well as making my family proud among the relatives. I remembered I was choked with tears of joy when SMSes from both relatives and CJ friends poured in, congratulating me. 1 side-effect: i won't be able to stay in CJ anymore. This is the disadvantage of getting between 9 - 11 points; it can't get u to a top 5 JC, but it's too good to enter the lousier JCs. Hence after much lingering, i bid farewell to my CJ friends and ended up in SAJC.

The orientation really sucked; where got JC give 1 OG a tin of biscuits for lunch throughout the orientation programme?? Where got JC ask the J1s to do PT at the start of the orientation?? Their mass dance sucked too, CJ's the BEST man, cool and easy to learn. I was very disappointed with SA's orientation, fullstop. My first few days in SA wasn't really smooth, partly i was quite shy and also the surfacing of cracks within the family.

I joined Saints' Fitness, 'cos firstly i wanna be fit, and secondly Fitness clubs in other JCs are quite fun. SF?? Quite the contray, it is 1 of the most demanding CCAs i've ever met. To say the truth, the activities we went through in the June Leadership Camp were quite ok, but it was carried out quite... meaninglessly? That camp was also where i started my hatred to the TIC of this CCA.

Fast forward to the passing out ceremony for the seniors. i remembered we were a bunch of ultra low-moraled J1s struggling to come in terms of the expectations weighed on us. I mean, wth, it was so totally different to what we expected, why? Because of one man's belief, that SF should be a service CCA to the school and we have to 'donate our services' to every student in SA. That included gym duties, which ok all Fitness clubs in JCs do, and camps needlessly planned for people who didn't want to go. This is one fucked up thing i don't like. 1 or 2 camps, ok, but NINE CAMPS?! Bloody hell, i mailto:!@#$%^&*()(*&^%$ then you know, CB... We rebeled the morning after the passing out ceremony, the he cried in front of us while giving thanks to God at dismissal time -_-

Oh ya this year i'm more exposed to newer experiences, for example DoTa!! But i'm quitting soon after a few months of frenzy playing and that i am not pro, keep losing and hate the feeling of losing.Hehe, A'levels coming in about a few months' time and i still not up to gear yet.

2005 is a year containing both high jubilations as well as all-time low depression periods. Nice O'level scores, a bunch of wonderful friends in CJ, a class that has the potential to be the best *get my hint?* , promoted to J2s, wonderful Science teachers in CJ and SA. Then came the farewell day in CJ, family problems, 2nd successive loss in SJ competition, Fitness club sux but the members rox so-why-it-sux-izit-the-TIC, stress from studies, a relationship that ended before it even started was the biggest heartbreak, the threatening situation of family breaking up under pressure, suicidal thoughts in November, the wastage of holidays due to f---ing Fitness...

To my family,
i know i hasn't been a good son by being so occupied by 2 CCAs and the sense of rebellion, but i promise next year 2006 i will study hard as well as contributing alot more than this year. I want no rewards, except for PEACE in my family...

To 1T37,
although we might not be keeping in contact with each other as much now, it will be lesser during next year, but man you all are 1 hell of a bunch that i will never forget you all in my whole life. And to her, i'm sorry if i've hurt u, it ended 'cos i'm useless and i dont want to weigh u down with my problems. i hope u can understand and i tink i hasnt given up yet...

To S72,
Man, we really need more class outings! sorry if i've been vv quiet and low-profile in class but i think next year we will mature and bond better. Just have more class outings, ok??

To all my fellow Fitness kakis,
u all are truly wonderful!! i feel more at home compared to my class!! but that will change, 'cos my class WILL improve! but for this year, thx for the support u all hav given me and don't worry, i'll still be the BRA and the ultimate LAMER in this CCA. Thx for the birthday celebrations!! but i still feel like quitting hahaha =P

To my Marist frenz still keeping in contact with,
haha elton reminded me abt u all!! don't fret, you all didnt appear here 'cos you guys (no girls) are so important words cannot be described!! thanks for fulfiling the ten years i had in MSH, you all rawks!!! though we now are in separate ways, the Marist spirit shall never fall!

well, this will be my 2nd last post for this year, ultra long eh? Take care and thank (your name) for reading this...

//Brandon struck at 10:28 PM\\

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Actually today's susposed to be a happy day, i mean hey it's SYMBOLIC MOVE and SAJC is moving right in front of my doorsteps. i should have known....

For so many times in my life, things won't go well right from the first thing in the morning to bedtime. It always have been like this. i should have known...

Feeling sleepy, i slouched in my sofa while watching TV, sastified about what has gone right til my father prepared to go out and buy 4D. He's susposed to be confined at home for 3 months. After he left, my mother turned to me. i should have known...

"The doctor told 7th uncle (my father's younger brother) that your father has only 3 months to live, and he said he told us before he allowed the discharge of your father. Is it true?" Guess what, I have just received the biggest shock in my life... I swear the doc had never told us about the 3 months to live, but just plain listening to it... I was so damn speechless I just don't know how to react, whether i should laugh it off and say it's crap or i should maintain a strong front and cry when i'm typing this entry...

I attempted the chemistry homework... Struggled
I attempted to clear a stage in Frozen Throne.... Struggled
I attempted to maintain a strong front like my mother did... Struggled
I attempted no to think of the worst scenario... Struggled
I.... struggles to carry on living...

Untitled - Simple Plan
I open my eyes I try to see
but I'm blinded by the white light
I can't remember how
I can't remember why
I'm lying here tonight
And I can't stand the pain
And I can't make it go away
No I can't stand the pain
Chorus: How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
Everybody's screaming
I try to make a sound
but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again
So I try to hold onto a time
when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
I've made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me
struggles....

//Brandon struck at 9:23 PM\\

Monday, December 26, 2005

ZzZzZz... Now time is 12:34am, nice time to blog... Officially it's Boxing Day and it's 6 hours away from the 1st anniversary of that fateful earthquake, triggering tsunamis that caused deaths worldwide. Oh well, gone are the sad stuffs, for now it's time for a new HOPE...

Birthday's coming soon, on the 29th. I will always remember how my mum would jokingly chide me for 'popping out too early' from her womb, so that i can be the eldest for year 1989 *lol* I will be doing my 1st ever review, or lookback to a spent year, which in this case is year 2005, soon at the 29th night.

This year is special, 'cos Christmas eve n Christmas itself fell at the weekend, so it's a super duper long holidays compared to previous years. Haven't really enjoy my CE this year, 'cos I've spent alot on entertainment. Played Xbox, arcade, ate at Pastamania, watched Nar-bei's cousin, Narnia *pun* , go back play arcade again... Looks like my fists getting harder again... TW Bryan and Thomas just booked out of PTP a day before, looking at their bald heads makes me wonder whether PTP will be my destiny exactly 1 year later. Anyway, after finishing the movie me JC TW Thomas Gerwyn Lester decided to walk to taka, 'cos Derek (yes that pang seh kia) said someone familiar at taka *hmmmmm* Wow, if you were there at that time taka was practically filled to the brim!! Really, there's nowhere to stand outside taka; wonder what's going on there. We then decided to U-turn. Uh-oh, bad move...

"MERRY CHRISTMASSSSS!!!!" and a powerful shot of foam landed on the 6 of us. Man, the vendors were selling 4 cans for $10, some hyped-up teens decided to use a tactic: the gung-ho spray tactic. Anyhow spray, I think the 6 of us kena 'cos we too handsome *ha!!* No lah joking joking don't puke. Anyway we carried on, laughing our asses out after that spraying episode. Then we walked past a pub, man i was feeling high during that time when i noticed a sweet melody drifting to my ears. I looked at that direction of the source; it was a handicapped lady, playing songs with her harmonica. Suddenly i lost that high feeling for a moment.

The scene kinda reminded me of how not some S'poreans are enjoying the festival. The cleaners, handicapped people earning a living along the streets, all kinds of people whom are still carrying on with their daily lives. Even my dad, although at home but still, Christmas isn't any big day. To him, it's just ..... another day... Should I be out on the streets enjoying myself while the rest of my family was at home, in a totally different mood? These thoughts kinda dampen the festival moods...

Maybe I'm thinking too much again, LoL i should really change man... Then came Christmas, nothing special except I got thrashed by JIACAI *u heard that* in dota at home... Man i really have no talent for anything , cannot study, cannot play well. cannot do anything well...

Looks like the real highlight for this year will be my year-end review at 29th...

//Brandon struck at 12:35 AM\\

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Okok this is no sad post, 'cos I've been tagged.... Can I tag you back Derek?! Quite long never update, 've been hooked to games. Well I'm back and I have to carry on this funny game -_-

Rules of this Game:
1. Post 5 weird/random things about yourself
2. At the end of the quiz, list the name of the 5 people whom you want next to do this and leave a comment you are tagged in the tagboard and tell them to read your blog

5 not-so-surprising-but-quite-random facts about me

1) I don't like swimming or submerged into water for nuts, 'cos I got a slight phobia. Don't worry I'm not scared of bathing though ~.~

2) My keyboard and mouse are wireless *not surprising* but I only got it because my old keyboard is spoilt and my aunt is clearing her desktop before quitting her job -_-

3) I'm a 10 year Marist, but strangely I do not know alot of girls unlike a typical student in MSHS....

4) Linkin Park really rocks, they are my only favourite English rock band. The rest? Nah, I prefer Chinese songs...

5) I speak better Chinese than English, but I prefer writing English essays, 'cos I can't remember Chinese words somehow -_-"

5 lucky people I have chosen *pure luck hor*:
  1. Darryl (aha my christmas present for u)
  2. Sandy (aha i noe u nvr update ur blog, so 1 less person to complain y u r tagged)
  3. Kevin (aha indo-china!!)
  4. Eric (need some grass?)
  5. Ghim Kui (aha i choose u! use water gun!!)

Actually wanna choose Ian and TW but kena tagged by Derek, so sorry guys...

Erhmm... Sian, holidays ending soon, there goes my last year of real enjoyment in my life T.T


//Brandon struck at 9:52 PM\\

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Finally the nightmare is over, temporary; my body shudders at the thought of next year. 2 camps have passed and I'm a dead man walking, literally... I always hold my seniors in Fitness in awe 'cos I really admire them for their passion and spirits to this CCA. Maybe this batch of students, which is us, doesn't have that passion of theirs, and seriously it isn't anyone's fault. The Pearl system is down, CCA became nothing more than just clocking CIP hours and furthering your interests; as a method to destress some might say. I can still remember that time where we almost broke down in frustration and exhaustion after the seniors' passing out parade. I was the one who represented all of us on our views of Fitness, negative ones of course....

That feeling is coming back again, after yesterday's debrief by who else but him, HIM... Because of that camp 80% of our holidays are gone, wasted to the core. Yet, when everyone is praising us for our efforts and hard work he, HE, has to say that we are pitiful in the way we carried out this camp. "reasonably acceptable" is the other comment I could remember. Our hearts sank upon hearing that. Pitiful isn't the word to describle us, judging from the way each and everyone of us, the Dragon batch of Fitness, have done to this camp. I can proudly say that everyone of us, Zhengcai Benjamin Kevin Joshua Xukun Zilong Yunxiang Natalie Samuel Marcus and me, have done our best for this camp despite being the lowest intake in years. Demoralised, discouraged, anger, frustration, fatigue, shocked, these were our emotions after hearing his comments.

This camp isn't very well-done, all of us will admit, but it's not intentionally badly done. The misadventure in Day1 was our fault, we would gladly accept it. Day2 was worse, why the heck the canoeists' teachers took over the activities?! All our efforts to plan the activities had came to nought! It wasn't fair, you know why?? He used an activity which he spent about 1hour or so to plan to replace our teambuilding stations which we have spent so many time and effort in making it possible. Yet, lim allowed him to go ahead with the stupid concentration game phang planned, ignoring all our hard works before the camp.... All the talk about showing respect and think about others?? Bullshit! _l_ I've lost all respect to him now...

I think Eric and maybe ghim kui will see this posting, but I don't care now. I just want to vent my frustrations. So be it if the school catch me for insulting teachers, I'm already feeling numb over all the events in this holidays; fitness, stjohn, family, friends... Need a good rest and recharge my batteries. Hope the rest going for the retreat enjoy themselves, although I think lim's definition of enjoyment is totally different from us...

//Brandon struck at 12:52 PM\\

Sunday, December 04, 2005

tommorrow BEC test, I haven't study yet man... Nutcase, $50 for a retest, enough money for me to buy a Battlechest and play DotA at home. Oh well, lousy com, no dota -_-

Wanna guess the quote of this week?
"If anyone ask you to do things, he/she is using you, stupid..." Brandon's mom, 2005

Wow, nice quotes... WHAT THE HECK?! If I were to follow every word of her 'advice' then I might as well say SHE's using me when SHE ask ME to run an errand or something. Madness!! Might as well wear the Mask of MAdness and activate Frenzy!!! What's wrong with her? I can understand if she means that I should not be so stupid to accept every shit things anyone ask me to do... But from her tone it was as if EVRYONE in this world is so scheming, we shouldn't trust anyone...

If there's anyone I wouldn't trust for all the gold in this world it would be myself. I've cheated myself so many times I'm getting numb... My instinct almost always fail me, that's the greatest mystery of life. Everytime I'm confident about something, Heavens will play a joke and give a horrible twist. Everytime I feel hopeless about the situation, Heavens will sympatise and give it a turn to the better...

This coming 2 weeks I will be facing 3 camps, of course I don't feel hopeful about it... get my hint?

//Brandon struck at 10:34 PM\\

Friday, December 02, 2005

Fitnees Club is one CB CCA you wouldn't want to join in SA, i've learnt too late...

Still got what kind of CCA have so many kangtao to do during the holidays? I am already so burnt out by so many things and there are so many CB things to do at school. Freak loh, it's susposed to be holidays, period where JC students can get a breather after the promos and clear their minds before tackling the A'level, not spending 90% of each week on some knn CB freaking CCA in JC (freak is sub for some word ar, think at your own discretion) Now CCA no points in JC, only have a nice nice testimonial when you graduate. HOWEVER, you must realise, RESULTS COMES FIRST, NOT SOME FREAKING TESTIMONIALS LOH!!!!!!! Testimonials are only useful when you compare with some other students, so what's the use of having an ultra nice testimonial but lousy freaking CB results in A'level?!

I really, by now, see no point in doing the things in Fitness, it really sucks. It was as if Saints' Fitness has become a Saints' NS club, CB... Trek trek trek, objective objective objective... WTH *tis part of sentence is editted by the blogger to prevent any necessary troubles, feel free to guess the content at your own discretion, the blogger will not be held responsible for the content you think it might be*

I don't care if I'm caught for writing this in my blog 'cause it's my only way of venting my frustrations man... I hate this guy, from a nice nice Fitness club it transformed into a nightmare under his hands. You compare Saints' Fitness to other JCs' HnF clubs, where got do such CB freaking things during holidays? Freak lah CB now i'm wondering whether I would enjoy my last year in SAJC at the new campus. The only good thing is that the school gate is right IN FRONT of my home HAHAHA you can't see ME and if you want some, come GET SOME!!

I don't know what to look forward during this holiday period, haix.....

//Brandon struck at 8:29 PM\\