The miracle isn't that I've finished the race. It's that I had the courage to start.

The only thing that is constant in this world is change.

4e3'07 BBQ on Monday! Reached Donavan's house in the afternoon, while waiting for SockYee, Haozhi & Haiqel to come. Carried the food & took the cab down to Pasir Ris Park, something unexpected happened, but still thanks Donavan for "saving" me! Food was awesome, that's always the case when you've HaoZhi bbq-ing the food. (: Hah, thanks SockYee for feeding us too. Lol! The few of us left at midnight after clean up, fortunately there's still bus for Yang Ling & I. Those live in Punggol, go away. Haha! Their last bus's at 1am, no worries at all. Most of you guys didn't change much afterall. Well, I enjoyed the bbq! :D

Mask time

Eugene Teooo! Funny thing's that we chose the same subject combinations but ended up in different class. Haha. But glad you've been promoted to J2, work hard for 'A' levels!

There, you see a shitface.

Look here!

Yeah, Donavan's experiencing some kind of constipation here.

Pit 17!

With them, you never get peace. Haha! Haozhi (brotherr!) & Gideon :D

Samuel & Yifang. All the best for 'A' levels too!

3e3'06 & 4e3'07 (:

Got home from bbq, slept at 4am. Woke up at noon, met Clarissa & Joshua for lunch before heading to church for EvokeYourDreams audition. Reached there early & we played around with the drums. Haha, & both of them kept bickering with each other man. Laughs. Okay, got down to serious business when various bands came. I was put in Room 303, so didn't get to see the bands perform. ): Audtion was held in L4 auditorium instead. But heard from Clar & Josh that Pre-Gig Jitters's not bad! Clar & I got to communicate over the walkie-talkies, hahah we were speaking too fast. Ended at night.

Woahhh lol.

Sound board that Josh & I deal with whenever on duty. Hmm, I've been thinking about this thing call "passion". Ahaha.

Thursday, reached school at 9am. Bus sent us to NUS campus! Fascinated by the things over at there, like some bizzare sale going on. Then, we took another bus to Prince George's Park Residence. Miss Sim brought us around, showed us the various zones that the activities will be carried out during the Pre-U Seminar. I foresee some injury in the participants during the games already, haha! Anyway, PGPR's gorgeous. Feels like staying in a Condominium, good life man those undergraduates in NUS. But of course, it might be pricey staying in there too. 3 others SPFs & I will be in charge of Zone 1, where 600 participants will gather. Crowd control again, which brought me back to the scene when I was at the Milo Youth Tryathlon. Hope everything goes on smoothly on that day, especially no rain please. Or else, the wet weather programme will be so ... hahaha. Self-explanatory yeah. Lunch with the SPFs at the nearby canteen. Took bus 151 back to Hougang, Mr Chow happened to board the same bus too! Lol, I thought all the teachers would have left already.

Had quite a long conversation with him, he was asking why didn't I choose to take H2 Chinese instead ... & etc. For the fact that I really love Chinese. But then again, it's all about Chinese Literature & History, which is probably less lively as compared to the current context. His reply to me was, "It's all in the language." All the "I could have .." & "I should have .." came into my mind. A lesson learnt is to make wiser choices next time.

But I'm glad that Minister Mentor Lee mentioned the importance of speaking Mandarin at home, be it English or Chinese-speaking families, even though English is the universal language. The trend is that Mandarin used to be the spoken language in most households, it's only in recent years that English has become the spoken language instead. But I disagree with his statement that speaking dialect will deteriorate one's standard of Mother Tongue; it should be preserved, not slowly diminishing. He also compared the statistics if one speaks dialect & the latter one speaking in Mandarin. He said, "With Mandarin, you can communicate with 1,300 billions of people in China or Chinese provinces." One guy actually commented that he probably wouldn't live that long to communicate with 1,300 billions of people. He was also unsatisfied with the fact the dialect should be "demolished". Haha, interesting.

Whenever I see peers sulking when it's time to go for Mother Tongue lesson, they really made me wonder why. I guess when things are within our reach, we tend not to treasure them. Take for example, the opportunity to learn reading & writing in Mandarin. Kids in other countries don't even get to learn their Mother Tongue. You see the difference, I've to agree when people critisise us, the youths in S'pore. Because it's so true. Now that Chinese's completely out of my life, sad to say, the only way to keep this passion going is through newspapers & novels. Sigh, it feels weird not having a teacher correcting your mistakes though. I wouldn't want the day to come, where I've no any idea how to write my chinese name. So much for reminiscing the good old times during Chinese lessons since I was Primary 1. Hmm.