JORDAN.

the fitness star programme organised by the school seems to be a good one. managed to know where i stand in my napfa. with the zerofighter in chinups and the failed running, i think i need to really train up =/ and to be able to celebrate my 20th birthday before enlisting. haha. hopefully i can go for all sessions.

it's beeeeen a long time since i've exercised, and that could explain my aching body, at least it's a good sign that i didn't really drop that much from my sec 4 napfa test results for each station.

november is going to be a busy month. omg. reports, mp judging, and more weird events. ugh.

she's out of my league



the sudden stress of my mp is back again.

poster/flyer submission next week.
judging at the end of nov
and now our supervisor said our project isn't done. what is this?!

she'll share it with you alone



not a good day today. ugh.

hey hey hey, goodbye



i wonder if i'll be able to cope with this semester's schoolwork. my electives seem to be a pain in the ass since i hate wireless -.-

but after looking at yuming's first week's exercise on his electives, i think i'm lucky not to get those two.

netsec would be a fun subject. especially with a lecturer like soma, it'll keep my interest in it. that's a good sign. i think lecturers that can inject some humor into their lectures and teaching would always be good lecturers. and i think the lecturers would also need to be able to grab everyone's attention as well. my MMNS lecturer doesn't seem to able to grab everyone's attention. sigh. time to listen even harder during this few lectures.

with all that, i wonder if i should continue thinking about pursuing teaching as a career. the expectations and standards will just keep rising and rising as the years go by. by the time when i come out from ns, i'll probably be like 22-23? who knows how high the standards have skyrocketed till. teaching has always been my interest since young and i can't really think of other things that could take over it. i mean, teaching can be a fun thing, isn't it? you'll be able to hang around and mingle with younger kids. you can also have that family bond with each other. and when they graduate from the school, you'll remember the days that you and the students have spent together. those are the memories that i think it's worth cherishing.

after graduating from this course, i am still having large doubts on whether to continue studying something related to my course. ever since year 2 started i felt like quitting from this course and start another one. i've thought of accounting or maybe tourism. ahh, that thought of it just makes me feel so lost. right now what i have to do is to get through this stupid semester.

i wonder who i can sit with during lectures.

turn a blind eye



i have to think in a positive way.

i can do it.
i can do it.
i can do it.
i can do it.
i can do it.
i can do it.
i can do it.

just the though of you can drive me wild



i think i should have more responsibility in me. what happened last night doesn't seemed to be a good sign. to think that i could still think of another thing at that point of time.

the choir is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems that i don't have the power to control anymore.

i need to stand up for myself and not think too much about the future. since after the camp in june i started thinking about next year's committee members, whereas i am not doing a good job myself.

maybe i was too crude with my words, and maybe i didn't know how to express them well, or even know what i'm talking about, but what can i do?

just the though of you can drive me wild



what a day.
at least i could try to be supportive, in a way or another.

where are my listening ears that i needed?

spin like a fool



i guess i'm thinking too much. that much.


be as one



first few days of school was pretty good. the modules are going to be very tough though. hopefully i can pull through.

there seems to be lots of loner-ship in my current class and i wonder if i'm part of it.

long distance relationships can sure be a hard thing to maintain, oh well.

maybe i did the wrong thing to be a little good in everything, and not specialise in just one particular thing.

i should be happy that it's the last semester of school.

ohh, you make me smile



i hope that chance could come back again.

but then, it'll probably just fade away...

maybe i didn't know what to say



the long-dreaded school starts tomorrow!

ugh.

how i wished i could have enjoyed my holidays longer, by doing nothing.

but that won't stop the rain



i feel so seperated form my classmates. only me and the cow are in the same class together and the rest split up like mad. i was worrying about having to find project mates and also, WHO ARE WE GOING TO EAT LUNCH WITH?!?!?!?!?!

met up with the gang who went for the japan trip. we settled for a movie at cathay and watched 'Pandorum'. it's a movie that just got released today. i don't really like watching gore movies since they'll just freak me out. although some parts of this movie freaks me out, i just can't seem to understand the plot of the movie. not really a good movie i'd say, not much linkage.

headed to ishi mura for dinner at some place that i can't remember, and lazed around the esplanade till about 9pm. next gathering would probably be on next friday.

busy weekend ahead! and a large hole in the pocket. ugh.

'cuz one day you wake up



http://kevan.org/johari?view=sabrety

managed to come upon this when i was looking through my emails. used to be for some personality tests that justin, mming and the gang were using it, and i joined along.

oh how fond memories can be =)

maybe i was given the chances, but i wasn't smart enough to be able to catch them. it just kept going on and on and on, and i just didn't have a chance to realise it.

this blogskin is pretty interesting, guess i'll be using it for sometime.

never see your face again



timetable will be out this thursday.

hope it'll be a good oneeeee.

free day please!

sometimes i regretted for not taking the chances when i was young. i should have given a try and went for it. but oh well, bygones are just bygones.

remembered the secondary school days when me, tc and nick were betting on which of us will get a gf first. i won the most votes, but sadly, i'm the one without it. ahah.

the wonders.

a blind eye



i realised that if i fail napfa, i have to enter 2 months earlier. and if i enlist in sept, 2 months earlier would mean july. that meast i won't have a chance to celebrate my 20th birthday. omg.


ns checkup on the 23rd november. checked with some of my friends and they booked theirs in jan next year. ohman. is it a good thing to do the checkup earlier? :/

help pleaseeeeeeeee!

the feeling is still tingling around me. hmmm

i can make all your dreams come true



there is this weird feeling in me.

i just don't know why.

never see your face again



went drinking with don, weijun, javier, chris, kenny, sc and melissa at hazel hui's working place near city hall. good place i'd say, but the music seems to be pretty loud. somehow i still prefer the ambience at pasir ris park instead.

something has been bothering my mind, and i don't really know if i should just keep it, or say it out. maybe i'm not even prepared for this. probably i should just wait, and wait, and wait.

maybe she was showing signs, and maybe i wasn't really able to take it or at least understand it.

who knows, it might be.

one more week to school reopens. i wonder how screwed my timetable will be this time. hopefully there's a day where i can wear slippers to schoooooooool.

love at first sight



i'm back! i tried doing some of the entries while in japan but i keep falling asleep after writing a few lines :x here it goes. i can't recall everything, but i'll try my best.


DAY 1

went to the airport at 10.30pm. flight was at 1.10am. the group were seated at the back of the plane. arrived at japan at about 7.40am and met up with our tour guide and the driver for the whole trip. the first thing that amazed me was the temperature. it was like woah! free aircon. although the sun was quite scorching in the morning, but the cold temperature and the cool air makes up for it.





our first destination was the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine. its said that you could pray here for your studies. i think we're also quite lucky to catch a ceremony where it's mainly for children aged 3,5,7 to ward off evil spirits from them. headed to NHK TV station where it's half governed by the government. didn't really do much there. our first lunch was at some local restaurant. it's pretty good though, there's raw fish and some tempura.



proceeded to Genkai Nuclear Power Plant later, where it is the main power source for Genkai. after going through the guided tour, we walked to the greenhouse as there was still some time left before the bus would arrive. the greenhouse was an amazing sight. the flowers and plants are beautiful and the greenhouse is big. i saw pictures of a wedding ceremony was held here in this greenhouse. probably i would hold mine here too. heh.



all this sums up for the first day of the trip after dinner at a local restaurant in a shopping mall. the hotel room was pretty small, and their toilet and bathroom is seperated as well. wow.


DAY 2

breakfast was pretty decent for me. it seems to me that the japanese would always carry a tray and take whatever they could eat once and probably won't really go for a second serving. our first destination was the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Memorial Museum and Nagasaki Peace Park. it shows the aftereffects of what happened after the bombing during WWII. after that a we had a speech from the bomb survivor about what he was doing when the bombing happened. the after-effects of the bombing was quite serious to him as i heard that he has stomach cancer while his brother died from some other cancer. deadly.





my model for this picture.





the rose shaped ice cream is made by an old lady in the streets in the early morning, and she does it flawlessly!



for the first time in my life that i've actually in a ferry that actually transports people with their vehicles! it's pretty cool. and the wind is shioooooook too.



arrived at Kumamoto after the ferry ride and since we had lots of time before that, the guide brought us to Kumamoto Castle for some viewing. by then the bus had some problem as the brake was leaking. because of that, we were somehow stranded in at the castle for about 2hours. the bus company sent cabs to bring us to Gokase, which was the farmstay for the night. boy the taxi ride was a measly 90 minute ride. we're supposed to reach the farm stay at about 5pm and in the end we reached at 9pm.



the farmstay was pretty cool. 7 of us were staying at the farm by someone that i've somehow forgotten the name -.-. it was a 10minute drive up the mountaineous region from the town council where we gathered. the night air as the mountain is cold and shiok too. furogi-san, who was entertaining us the whole night, served us with lots of food for dinner and breakfast the next day and we couldn't finish everything. it's seems quite a bad thing for us when we couldn't finish the food. the farm had some plantation and some cows which are probably for contests and competitions. oh, and there was a huge language breakdown as we were struggling on how to speak jap and my cds jap book was deemed pretty useless too. -_-


DAY 3

our first destination was to visit Mount Aso. the volcano is said to be one of the active ones around in japan. the stench of sulphur was quite strong, but the view was nice as it's my first time seeing such things. =x



we made soba during lunch. my noodles were quite big since i had some problem cutting the mould into noodles. nevertheless they were still edible and good =x

headed to Umi Jigoku (Sea Hell) after lunch. it's some spring area where you could soak your legs. the foot spa was good, and they said the temperature was like almost 100 deg. ahah.



checked in at the hotel later in the night and i tried the onsen with reuben, royston, mervyn and john. we had to like strip all the way before we could enter the on-sen. since this could be a once in a lifetime chance and i was like forced not to say no, i gave a try. i felt very weird though, naked with friends. HAHAHAHAHA. the first time was during secondary sch day when we were camping with SJI students and they just completely stripped down all the way when they are bathing. how brave they are. the on-sen experience was pretty good, although it makes me drowsy after the end of it, and a slight difficulty in breathing. -_-

had midnight supper at coco curry house with a group of people. and this marks the end of day 3.


DAY 4

we had a visit to Honda factory. the factory that we went mainly manufactures small parts. most of the workers there are handicapped or on wheelchairs, more than 60%. the factors they used and the working environment makes it very friendly for those on wheelchairs.



headed to Kyushu University later in the afternoon and we managed to see some of their project and work the students had done. those works are amazing and it definitely explains uni standards. sadly i've somehow lost the interest for programming, if not i'd probably give a try on doing such animation which they took almost a year to complete it. OMG!



we had one hour to do some shopping at a place called Marinoa, but there wasn't really enough time to shop the whole place, although there were like a few things that i wanted to get. ohwell.



checked in at our hotel which we could stay for 2 days and not checkout the next day (like finally -.-) and somehow marks the end of day 4.

DAY 5

had a school exchange with Kurume National College of Technology where the students are like 16-20. we introduced ourselves with the japanese. my partner's called Mizuki. she's pretty friendly and quite outgoing too. the funny thing is that she showed me her pokemon toy that she was playing and she liked T.M Revolution. ahah. a fun experience.






my jap name written by Mizuki.


Citizen's Safety of Fukuoka was next. we were able to experience examples of big wind, earthquake, and fire controls. among the 3 of them i'ld say the earthquake was the most challenging one. at least we're lucky that these things won't happen in SG.

shopping! a group of 15 left the group as we wanted to have more time shopping around. walked around Canal City, Tenjin Underground Mall and some parts of Daimaru. this place seems bigger than orchard road somehow.

gathered at 9pm and we had our dinner at a roadside stall. it was quite cold and it started to drizzle as the typhoon was passing by. we actually planned to take cab back to the hotel, but the stallholders of the ramen roadside stall gave us lots of help. in the end we took a bus to Hakata station. we were also very lucky that we meet two very nice gentleman who offered their help with the rest of the journey. they gave directions on how we could go back to the hotel by subway and coincidentally, we'll be taking the same stop as one of the gentlemen and thus they were able to help us. boy we are sure lucky. after reaching Akama station by subway, we took a cab to the hotel. the cab meter jump very fast, the starting fare is already like 10sgd and each time it jumps it adds a dolloar more. omg! imagine if we took cab from the shopping centre itself, i think it'll be a bomb.




and that's the end of day 5.

packed my luggage for checking out the next day and we headed to the airport. home sweet home at about 3pm!

kinda enjoyed this trip, but just that there's probably too much time spent in the bus. plus i couldn't sleep in the bus most of the time and ms wong is so naggy -_-

at least i won't get the chance to go as a school again anytime soon.

story of your life



off to the airport. see you in a weeks time!

hopefully there'll be pictures.



i'm probably too slow and too afraid to approach her. maybe it'll just stay like that.

ohwell. i should be more open.

what don said is probably true.

when will i be able to make the first move?

our song

swear like a sailor