[
12/31/2004
|11:06 PM]
[ Current Music | Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River ]
2004.
okayy this year i must say i enjoyed it a lot. secondary two is supposed to be the year where the students pia their commitments and excel in them, for example, waterpolo. my two main commitments - union and ncc. okay i shall split the two of them apart. starting with ncc.
ncc, hmm it was going down at first when senior mark took over, the whole part was in turmoil, every training attendance less than 20, and i was guilty of skipping a few deliberately, we hated training, or rather the ncos. that time only the real enthus one held on, one by one we lost our passion and faith in ncc. pathetic man, we actually had to beg some platoon mates to come for ord because its the last training. and sergeant lujie took over, orienteering came, and slowly the situation improved. and now we are united. yupp 2004 also saw myself making friends with stanley, daniel and co. and yupp u could actually feel the difference of attitude they have. yupp that motivated me, and i got best improved cadet in that camp. next year will be an interesting year, just sit back and watch the show.
union. man it all felt like a dream. all started from selection camp, poof. im in sust, and one of the two secondary twos. really pressurizing, but seriously in sust, u really get to know true meaning of what a huazhong councillor is, the joy of being one, u don't get this in consortium level. and investiture was the most memorable event till slc, i cried on the night when we sang peng you together in lt4 after investiture for the celebrations. every saturday, the whole sust would come back to rehearse the entrance, the formation and our skit and boy it paid off. and this, i felt, was the peak of the unity of sust because after that, we kinda splitted up to our jobscopes or to our organizing teams. hardly seen the 18 of us together after this. slc was one of the most heartbreaking and heartwarming events for me, everybody just cried on the last day. got to work with ny councillors, and i was put in a fun committee. and we really didn want it to end. its always the case. track and field, woohoo rocks, whole union rushed into the stadium early in the morning to get space for banners and seats for the school, a real memorable thing to do. while the athletes get the points for the school, we get the atmosphere, we get the spirit in the students running. and finally orientation, my first event as os, and yes i said lots and lots of time, i grew up from this event, and yahh i chose the best ot ever. yupp and got silver for model councillor award.
wow. both commitments, both have awards, but are these results and achievements the things people look at whne they judge you? what matters most is the impacts these commitments make and the changes they bring about, whether it is to your attitude or to your character.
being in sust also means i am busier than any other counciilors, and i tend to lose my friends along the way because of my work. some of us are not as close as we were last year and i have been wanting to be a normal student. sometimes, i just want to throw that rectangular badge on the floor, why am i so foolish, zi zao ma fan, keep taking up optional commitments, nobody forced u to take up the union. and i have no life because of this, meetings after meetings after meetings, and its really mentally tiring. i am tired, i want a break, probably that's why im walking now, hahah, but that's really selfish, you think greg isn't tired? you think yida isn't worn out? they have to just hold on and go through another year, just for the school, because the council is brand new, it needs a direction, and they know they are the ones for it.
improve and strive on next year. haven thought of resolutions. hmm oh heck.
i didn't forget about you. kayy, remember i was rushing down to the performance, one person teased me about her, saying that her performance was going to start soon, but i didn't give a damn. Instead, i asked about your's, my mind was all about being in time for your performance, i can miss everyone elses'except yours. From then on, i knew i had to have you. and yepp i will keep on improving.
/shiwei
[|4:05 PM]
presenting the ot.
/shiwei
[|3:03 PM]
[ Current Music | Robbie Williams - She's The One ]
well i think i should update.
orientation is finally over. and im feeling exactly how i felt when x-slc ended. glum. and after these two events i truely realized and understood why some of the seniors after leaving the school for so many years, coming back to see how the events are running, they got too involved in union and as a result didn't want to give up.
same for us, the 16 of us, i know we put in our heart and soul into this event, and although we felt real relieved, most of the feelings were actually the other way round.
okayy ot stayed overnight throughout the three days, from sunday afternoon to wednesday night, in a room that eventually became smellier than chiajone's pe t-shirts =P and lots of people fell sick of course, and it was real funny, night by night, one by one went home. on the first night it was branden, second was yuan chang, third was me.. well, i had a fever from the first day, think the air-con during the first night was too cold. i was going all fuck, hey come on, my event, and im sick, is god playing a trick on me or wad. and seniors told me to go rest in ops room after i make my address. i couldn believe my ears, i don't want to be an os just in name okayy, i want to make the entire cohort know im the os, all 449 of them. so i was begging them just let me be king for that 3 days. the speech was okayy, my first ever successful public speech (: okayy i should be ashamed instead.
first day ended with water bombs, thanks jackk for the flour on my hair (i hope mediatech got that down on film) and being drenched from head to toe. i was beginning to like orientation.
second day, running nose came in, wearing the jacket chiajone lent me. *reminds myself of yida's lost jacket. anyway, second day was ep3 orientation, didn really involved me so i went ops room to rest as i was really feeling dead. seniors came in, asked the st john's to check my temperature. 40 deg, boomm, i was sent home before i could say anything. was in tears, can't they just let me continue? it's just one more day and one more night. so i was off in a cab home.
third day, i came to school at around 9.30am, still remembered myself talking into the walkie-talkie, " shiwei to all walkie talkie holders, i'm back in action." and im glad i did that during the cheers competition and mass cheers. and the touching mr gan's and greg's words that made me cry in front of the whole cohort, hahah some buddies told me some group members were also crying with me. rock on hwa chong.
wahahah. okay i remember two sec ones the best! urm eugene the one with the dyed hair in grp 6 i think, and stephanie (because of his name) in grp 8. esp that eugene so punk can.
and looked what he wrote for me. so sweet :D
hey shi wei, this is your junior from the hwa chong
orientation. i don't think u'll remember me but i just
want to thank you for the great planning and fun
time you organised for us at the Sec 1 orientation.
i am really touched by the spirit u shown by
coming on all the days of orientation even though
you were sick. on behalf of all my other group
mates, i just wanna say thank you for great time
we had with you.
p.s i'm the one with dyed hair
these three months of preparation, is certainly a turning point and a wake-up call for me. i said this a lot of times, its my fortune i chose the best organizing team ever out there, and im glad the team capitalized on that. this batch of sec ones is one of the best. and my fever was a blessing in disguise. =D
lots of people to thank here.
yuanchang: being the meticulous type, you are the way that always say, "stop, lets think see what have we not done." if it weren't for you, these little, tiny details will cause orientation to fail. and you have a good rapport among the buddies, making it easy for the buddies to listen to us. i really chose the correct AOS and im really glad i chose you.
joshua: being secretary for the first time, you did a great job. before orientation, agendas and minutes were on time, attendance was full. during orientation, ops room and communications among the walkie-talkie was great and even widjaja praised you. just don't snore when you sleep :P
chiajone: at the beginning you were very hard to get, and it was hard to get you down for meetings. subsequently, you were like boxer in animal farm, the foundation of our building blocks, beside the money $$, you were very reliable, and yahh slc treasurer now, hmm, now im beginning to not believe kangjie's story. rock on!
suayu: my sust mate, being in prog comm last year, you were the most experienced, and indeed you displayed and passed down your "wisdom" to your committee members well. always on the go and in the know of the things going on. do not brood over it kayy. now 11slc. we got to keep that moving too.
zhenjie: imp. ( okayy to be continued. 4pm le. gathering time =P )
orientation is a success.
and im so damn proud of myself.
/shiwei
[
12/24/2004
|8:51 PM]
ncc gang.
/shiwei
[|8:50 PM]
tingwei. shiwei and branden. think branden tip-toeing
/shiwei
[|8:50 PM]
aphelion gang at registration booth!
/shiwei
[
12/13/2004
|1:11 AM]
i feel so terrible. i think its one of the worst days this year. was crying like hell laa. okayy the ot took the advisors for granted and treated them like slaves. ok i want to say that i have absolutely no intention of that. slaves? hah, i dun even dare to shout at them. wad slaves? and the size limit thing is crap laa. send to hotmail a 5mb document when it can only take 2mb and only realizing it the next day when its too late?! and the address is my fault, thurs was the deadline yet i could only hand it on sat morning. procrastination. fine i really learned my lesson the hard way.
okayy i edited some of the parts. cannot disclose too much.
okayy tmr we are meeting them. i really hope they give us another chance laa. i know its the dunno umpteen times i've been asking for another chance. its a complete repeat of level day. im not asking much. just that chance to make a difference. i know u all are still concerned about the progress of the event. please continue to do so. please.
now i know what it feels like having to wait for something till 1am. your family's all asleep. with u facing the monitor, wondering why u have to do this. u can be in sleep right now, but u chose to be involved in this. u know this is gonna be worth it, u know that the event will progress smoothly, so u do it. and its just so frustrating when after hrs of waiting, u dun get the things that u were promised u will get. so u just give up on the whole team. i know the feeling. and nobody wants things to turn out this way. so please forgive us.
why issit so difficult to earn trust yet so easy to just throw it. i still remembered on friday u were still considering handing me the key. now its all gone. gone just like that. and i tell u i want to change, i worked so hard for it. cause it isn u whos affected by me, even teachers are, so i want to change! change for the better! give me that chance. give the team that chance. cause orientation is going to rock.
and yahh. happy birthday to huiping.
/shiwei
[
12/08/2004
|9:29 PM]
[ Current Mood | pissed ]
[ Current Music | Usher - Burn ]
fuck. just had a scolding from my mum. and i urmm talked back and in the end got whacked back moree. so unreasonable can. firstly it was liangxun, his hike is tmr and he needs a hiking bag urgently, i have one so why not lend it to him? so i asked him tocome over, then i asked my mum, she said cannot and kept scolding me for being too kind. wad the. then wad be selfish ah? okeyy since the bag cost $100+, she din wan it to be spoilt. okayy thats fine laa, i din really say much. in the end, lokky had no bag, his msn nick: Lokky Rules! From yishun, i went to bukit timah, beach road, harbourfront, jurong east, bedok, bukit pajang, then back to yishun.
feeling so guilty.
later, nicholas phang wanted to borrow some playstation games. HOW EXPENNSIVE COULD THOSE PIRATED GAMES COST? my playstation was like dunno broke down how many years ago, so really theres seriously no harm lending him the few disks. then my mum nagged and nagged say what, i am so stupid, say wad later must get back from people. den say ermm last time, people had to earn for every single thing, unlike now, so easyy. i was like .... fuckk mann. so i taalked back le. i said i assured her that i will get back the disk, and i was asking" HEY, wads the big deal?"
okayy laa, i was PLAIN rude. sorry. but yahh. its so overreacting can.
generation gap?.
/shiwei
[
12/07/2004
|9:27 PM]
[ Current Mood | annoyed ]
[ Current Music | Five For Fighting - Something About You ]
to hell with the tingwei thing. okayy, i know everyone has different views about him. all i can say that he isn perfect, like all of us, he makes mistakes. so just forgive and forget. even if you're like really bent at making him your life-long enemy or something, do it secretly laa, keep those bu hao ting de comments to yourselves. kayy. and btw, congrats on your gold yaa. =) work harder bahh.
ok shall remove that mask.
the four aspects of life you said you pathetically lacked in are now filled to the brim. SO JUST LEAVE ME ALONE.
/shiwei
[
12/04/2004
|1:02 AM]
kj me and yuan chang. last day in dna lab le
okayy. this was taken just before lunch, and its was just the 3 of us left laa. basically 2 people were sent to a clinic, while 1 had to go for co practice. today was really a bloody disaster. sean and mingwei cut their fingers because they apparently had a competition on cutting the strips of styrofoam. so cartoon. cause sean was so engrossed in the competition and he was leading, so he got excited, din see his middle finger and -cuts, blood immediately came out, and he was screaming "omg omg!" and scampered to the sink and immersed his hand into it. his face really went pale, and its really a chao deep cut, as if the whole finger was going to drop out, chao goryy. but sean din cry, hao yong gan =) and he was still joking lo. in the end he was sent to the clinic to have stitches.. blehh.
so mingwei was traumatized by the incident, and was really taken aback, keep saying, "its all my fault" and he was cutting the styrofoam at the same time, so he also wasn concentrating, so he cut his finger too. then he was like going "fcK!". everyone else thought he was faking laa, then we realized that he was crying. aww mann, in like less than 10 mins apart, another accident. so he got sent back home too. blehh. zhiguang had co practice so he left before lunch too.
/shiwei
[
12/02/2004
|9:48 PM]
third day of work attachment!
if you've been looking for me these few days and haven realized where i've gone, i went to the science centre for a work attachment.
ermm 11-5, with a 1hr lunch break. no PAY but never mind, good experience. we were attached to the dna labs to do experiments so that we can facilitate lessons. and all those CHEEM DNA STUFF CAN KILL. AND U DUN GET TO LEARN THIS TILL UNIVERSITY. OK LORR. THOSE CHROMOSOMES, GENES, AND ARGHH DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID. -faints. went to read my bio book, page 182 - 202, so fugging cheem can. don't even understand a fugging word.
luckily the experiments were quite easy laa, we were exposed to some 'high-tech' equipments bahh, maybe its just we din see those before. like those micro-pipets which can take 0.5 micro litres of liquid, see no use but its cool. we played with it using the dyes.
of course for every job, u have to start from bottom, so we did manual work laa. quite fun, like re-arranging those pipets, putting in the micro-tubes and pouring those dyes around. and yahh. mingwei spilled it 2 times. omg. he was real suay laa. the 1st spill was still okay, he managed to make the bottle upright again, so the spillage was just a smal patch on the table. however for the 2nd one, it was all over the floor, so we turned into maids lo. spraying ethanol then wiping the mess. the lab instructors also kinda bu shuang liao, though they were all smiles laa, after all they CAN'T show their anger or frustration, cause we are volunteers, can they?
okayy nvm so it was lunch, so we went long john at jec, ok 3rd mishap, mingwei spilled a cup of coke all over the floor, so toot lo. everyone staring at us. so we also bu shuang go niao him. arghh.
luckily after lunch, everything went quite smoothly laa. not too bad. 3 more days, and its gonna end soon.
/shiwei
[|9:46 PM]
mingwei's 2nd spillage
/shiwei
[|9:45 PM]
kang, me and sean. the lab suits rock
/shiwei
