29 June: A great day to end a series of bad ones

Man this sucks. I've not been feeling emotionlly well since Saturday. I'm doing this blog post to reflect and maybe see why. I think it started on Saturday, because on Friday night I was fine. 

Saturday. I broke my watch. The stupid pin (which has constantly been falling out) has finally dropped and gotten itself lost in the grass at ECP. Dammit. I feel so naked without my watch, and I'm getting myself frustrated by looking at my wrist and forgetting the watch ain't there. It's Tuesday now and I still sometimes forget. I hate asking the question, "what time is it?"

Another thing. On tuesday I sent a post in the TP Skate Club Forum, asking for people who want to do Urban Skating around the East Region. No one frikin' replied. Not even an "I'm intersted, but not free" statement. Which means NO ONE IS INTERESTED. AT ALL. Screw it man, I put it alot of effort to type out the damn post. Okay I can't get actually get angry at anyone, but it just feels so... Unfun. Fastforward to Tuesday, and I'm sensing some rift forming between me and the skate club in general. Well not all of them, but a lot, and I don't know why. Am I paranoid? 

Okay Sunday. There was a skate event on Sunday. At ECP. Where they were giving FREE T-SHIRTS!! Good right? Wrong. Leonard and I didn't get one. Background info: On Friday Toshi announced this event, and at that point, only Leonard and I put our hands up to show our interest. No one else did. Toshi said he'd register for us (I have a bone to pick here, but later) and I think it's fair to say that at that point, Leonard and I were the first to register. There were only 50 shirts to be given away, but we felt we'd get one. Back to Sunday. I arrived at Ray's shop at ECP at 3pm to grease my bearings. Then at 4.15pm I skated over to Hyper. AND THERE WERE NO MORE SHIRTS. On Saturday night, I found out there were more people going and that Clarence had had 10 shirts reserved for us. Leonard and I assumed that we were included. But dammit we weren't!

Now, about the rift I feel between me and the general skate club. I guess I'm only partially right. There are some people (no names here) I feel that somehow just don't like me. I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I can't seem to shake the feeling. On a lighter note, there are some people like Leonard, Marcus, Tyler, and Shen Loong who do like me. I'm especially grateful that Shen Loong likes me because he's the best slalomer we have and like I said in earlier posts, I'm honoured to be taught by him. He's a good teacher because he gives a lot of praise and encouragement, and knows EXACTLY where we go wrong, so we know EXACTLY what to correct. What he said to me today was AWESOME! He said that my Ma Brouk (yes I found the right spelling) is better than his! Woo hoo! Lol.

I'm so glad I ended this Tuesday with a bang, if not it would render my statement about loving Tuesdays false.

I LOVE TUESDAYS!!!

22 June 10: I love Tuesdays.

I love Tuesdays. 

PRSP first thing in the morning. I live Programming!! It's so straightforward, yet challenging, like a math or logic problem. I'm so in my element. I don't know why I didn't like prograing before. Hmm... Anyway, my primary goal is to be known as a whiz. My measure for that will be my reputation: how many people ask me for help. I'll know I've achieved this goal when I hear the words: "oh having trouble with PRSP? Ask Wesley." This is probably the closest thing I'll have to math (sob, no more math as a subject!). I feel good especially when I wear my skating gloves. It looks so Mission Impossible, like hacker's gloves. Lol.

After that we had BPM. I love BPM, because Ms Rita teaches us, and we can always expect something fun to happen. Like during the 3rd last week of school, we had to do a group presentation, then the following 2 weeks before the exam, we played a stock game. Today was just as fun. We discussed a lot of the trading/investing terminology, and not only did I get to revise what I knew, I also learnt new stuff, like I didn't know that short selling was also called contra, and that short selling is totally banned in Singapore. I was under the impression that one had to clear all short positions by the end of the trading day.  This is my second favourite subject after PRSP.

Then SKATING!!! OH YEAH!!! Lol, still so hyper. I love skating. I'm still maintaining my statement: "Every time I go for training I learn something new." Today I learned two new moves. Volt and Sun. Okay I learned Sun last Tuesday, but I couldn't do the J-Turn, so being able to do it now (albeit shakily) is an achievement for me. I also improved my Mega. I can go much faster and much more smoother now. Almost natural. After 4 days of not skating, I did have to regain my skating sense, but after one hour I was back in my skin. Skating felt natural again. So I felt good. :D The SHINE event is coming up soon, next Saturday. That means we only have 4 trainings left, including today. We need to be at our best, so only those who can do Crazy and One Foot can participate for Slalom. For slides, one must be able to do Acid and Power Slide. Thank goodness I'm slaloming and just finished learning Crazy. I already can do one foot. My Crazy is improving: I'm able to do toe after my back cross. I also have something to look forward to this Friday: Shen Loong is gonna personally train Marcus, Kienan, Leonard, Natasha and I some slaloming moves. Each of us will be learning a different move. For me, Shen Loong will teach me Malboro(?), which looks damn sexy. Very twisty and turny. I like. Shen Loong is probably the best slalomers I've seen in the TP Skate Club, and he's very good at picking moves best suited to us. Everytime he suggested a move to a person, that person's face will light up once they'd seen the move. I know I did. I also know Marcus and Leonard had the same reaction when Shen Loong showed them what he's be teaching them on Friday. I feel so honoured to be taught by him. :) Cant wait for Friday!!

I've also decided to organise something for the Skate Club. Urban skating!!! And I think my route is better, compared to the Orchard-Pasir Ris route, because 1) it's a circuit and 2) it's park connectors, meaning it's safer. I just posted the new topic on the TP Skate Forum. Maybe we can do it monthly, like the 4th Saturday of every month. I'm gonna pug hard for this, because it trains endurance, bonds people and would probably be a good "initiation" or "rite of passage" for future newbies. I really hope this idea takes off. This saturday will be the first one, and I'm gonna go even if no one else does. Let's see how many people reply.

Oh something good happened today. Phase Alpha has been set in motion. I feel happy.

I love Tuesdays.

16, 17 and 18 June 10: TP Skate Chalet

Man I'm getting lazy. I haven't written any posts for my blog yet even though so much happened in the last couple of days. Here's a basic summary though.

Wednesday.
CHALET!!! Pure awesomness. I played Magic with Daryl and totally owned his ass with W/U Defenders. He was very annoyed by my defense and control. When we played Tai Tee later, I used my control skills again to win 4 of the 5 games. I lost the first one cuz it was a warm up. Anyway, I won by my usual unconventional, come-from-behind win. When everyone had less than 5 cards in their hands, I had 7-8.  Usually the rest don't see me as. Threat because of my hand size, and because their usually distracted by each other. I win by combos. For example: put the 2 of spades, followed by a 5 card combo followed by a single or double. No one can counter it once I start it because I usually start it when each other player has less than 5 cards in hand. Again, Daryl was impressed by the way I controlled the game. When we played Mahjong, I wanted to control it too, but 1) there were other better and more experienced players than me and 2) it was only the 2 or 3 time i've played Mahjong with 4 players. It would be totally awesome if I could control that game too.
At night/morning we watched several horror shows like Saw, REC and REC2. I totally spooked myself out. XD

Thursday.
Got up late. Around 10am. Some of us had brunch at Subway. We went back to the chalet and played games until 5pm. Then we went for URBAN SKATING. oh yeah it's so damn fun.

We took MRT down to Orchard where we waited for Toshi. Shen Loong set up his cones and we started slaloming and attracting alot of stares. To make a long story short, when Toshi arrived, we skated all the way to Parkway Parade. We reached PP at around 10.30, 11pm and too a bus back. Then we had a whole night BBQ and mahjong. Super fun man!! I wa so thoroughly hyper during the skate trip but conked out on the bus. I hope we can do urban again.

Today!
Okay I slept at 5am this morning and woke up at 9. Then went to TP for project. During the chalet, Daryl showed me this girl, Tiffany Alvord, and she is amazing. She does her own renditions of popular songs and her voice is incredible. So when I went to TP, I watched her videos again on YouTube. And she is totally hot. One guy commented she looks like Daphne from Scooby Doo and I have to say I totally agree, especially when she has straight hair.

We finished out BBFin project (yay!) and almost finished the BPM project. We were way ahead of schedule. David and Jie Ni said whole day we do, but we finished by 4pm. Awesome.

Okay one last thing before I stop: phase Alpha is ready to go, and next Monday will see it implemented. Btw she smells really good... Lol

15 Jun 10

I got up late again today. Man I've really gotta stop doing that. I'm gonna start waking up early, if not when school reopens next week, I won't be able to get up. Lol. 

Skating. Learnt new stuff today. I found out that what I had thought was Sun wa actually part one of Sun. Shen Loong taught us part two. Kinda difficult, but I'm slowly getting the hang of it. I realise I learn by observation and visualisation. I look, think and can do it after a few attempts. Okay it's still very shaky but at least I can do it. Marcus learnt it so fast and mastered it. So fluid. I'm so envious.

I finally changed my wheels today. And what a woderful feeling it was. My skates are now so smooth!! I can do Crazy quite smoothly now. That reminds me, I was taught Vault (Volt?) too. It's actually just 2 J-Turns in between each Crazy.

Well, gotta pack for Chalet tomorrow. TP Skate Chalet!! Whoo!! Wednesday afternoon til Friday morning. Awesomeness.

I've decided to add events to my titles. So from now on, each post will be [date]: [event/lesson]
This is so that my posts will be summarized and will have a point.

New post for planeswalkerz.blogspot.com

14 Jun 10

No post yesterday cuz it was mostly Magic. I went for tournament. More on that in planeswalkerz.blogspot.com.

I went skating at Pasir Ris park today. Was supposed to go with the TP skate team but no one showed up. Lucky I called Leonard to confirm that he was coming so at least it wasn't a total waste of time. I eventually skated all the way home from Pasir Ris via the park connector. It was damn fun. I think I'm ready to go for the 42km park connectors. Yeah.

12 Jun 10

I was super tired and lethargic today. Dunno why. Maybe yesterday skating to strenuous or maybe my body just wants me to sleep and heal. Kinda grouchy, too. I went skating with Brendan when I came back from Bishan (more on that on planeswalkerz.blogspot.com) and I helped him distribute flyers. He treated me to a drink too. That was fun. 

11 Jun 10

I learned 2 things today. Skating is painful and skating is rewarding. I fell alot today. Finally more or less mastered crazy!!! Woohoo!! My mega is coming along nicely- I can go faster now. I learned how to do the hockey parallel slide and started learning acid and magic. That's when I fell and hurt my chin. I added another scrape to my right forearm while practicing crazy. Ah well. Man I love skating.

New post on planeswalkerz.blogspot.com.

10 Jun 10

A nice boring day today. I did some trading. And made $28. More on that in planeswalkerz.blogspot.com.

I've initiated phase alpha with her: building rapport. I'm gonna hang out with her as much as possible. The main part of this will happen when school reopens, but I just laid a bit of the foundations already.

9 Jun 10

What a wonderful tiring day. I woke up to such a bright and sunny day and I was like, woohoo!!! Finally a sunny day among all the rainy ones. I went down to ECP with Brendan to do maintainence on my bearings. We got to the shop JUST in time. A few minutes later, it rained. Brendan taught me how to clean my bearings. I wad trapped there til 12.30pm. I was supposed to meet my primary school at 1pm at Downtown East for lunch, then go skating/cycling at Pasir Ris Park.

It was damn fun skating around Pasir Ris Park. Tiffany showed me the skate ring and I found markings so I could set up my cones. Tiffany can't do back cross and can barely do fish, yet she beat me in doing crazy. I was like, damn! And she did it the correct way, without lifting your foot off the ground. I watched carefully and eventually managed to follow too. Yay! I also managed to do all the variations of my powerslide, so that's good. It means I don't need the wet floor to slide.

We played pool at 5.30pm. Nick and I paired up in the first 3 games and won all 3. Then I sat out while he and Bryan thrashed Scot and Tiffany. Then I played with Tiffany on my team against Bryan and Scot. We almost won!! I screwed up the last bit. I had a free ball, but the black ball was in an awkward position. The only stright shot I could find was a corner, quite a distance away. I should have been able to hit a straight one, but I failed. 

We all went home after that. We're doing another outing to Sentosa next Monday, and there will be more primary school friends there. Yay!

8 Jun 10

I love Tuesdays. I slept at 1.30am this morning and haven't rested yet. I'm going to sleep once I finish this entry. I was suppsed to go skating with Brendan today in the morning, but the weather consistently sucked. Kept drizzling, and when we thought it had stopped, it started again. Talk about unlucky. Then again, in a way it was good. We played MTG, bluff (Kenta was there), murderer and I got to practice DDR. I played on basic and this was only the second time I've ever dared to play. I got the hang of it and finally got my first double A!! On basic. Every holiday I learn a new skill, and I think this will be it for this hols. I nearly got a perfect combo, but I screwed up just before it ended. Damn. Ah well.

Okay skating!! Training today. Floor was soaked. We used the IT concourse first, but the floor was so impossible to skate on. It's so bumpy and rough. Urgh. We eventually managed to dry the street soccer court, but not totally, so sliding on the wet parts made us go really far. So fun!! Lol. I practiced my Mega today. Getting better at it . Faster and smoother transitions. Maintained my back cross and back snake, so no problems there. My crazy is improving as well. I'm slowly getting the feel of it. Kenta says you're not supposed to lift your feet off the groud except to heel-heel or toe-toe. I can understand why, but I can't seem to get it yet. I still have to lift up after back cross. Hmm. I have to master toe-toe. I gave up after a while cuz I just wasn't in the mood to slalom, despite my improvements. I went to practice my power slide. Now I know several variations of the power slide. Fakey power slide, double power slide and jump power slide. All thanks to the rain. My bearings started sqeaking because a bit of water got into them so tomorrow I'm going down to Hyper to buy the grease.

Man I'm tired. New post on Planeswalkerz.blogspot.com

7 Jun 10

What an interesting day. It's 1.15 am right now so I'm gonna keep it short.  My iPod hanged during startup but I didn't know what the problem was or how to reset it, so I took it down to the apple store at Parkway Parade, where I met up with Troy and we hung out. I learnt 2 things. If you hold either the Home button or the Sleep button, and push the other at the same time, it's a screen shot. If you hold both buttons down together for 8 seconds, you shut the whole device down.

Okay on the the rest of the day. Troy and I hung out, caught up and basically wasted time. But it was fun.

I came back home and started work on the survey for the JA company. Supposed to send it off by 11.59pm, ended up sending it at 1am. I was watching Whose Line videos on YouTube. Lol.

6 Jun 10

Finally! A break. The past few days have been stressful, with exams and so much logistics to do... Whoo.. I slept late for once, and when I got up, we (my family and I) had a prata brunch. I came home and promptly fell sick. Mostly a runny nose, so I took some panadol and chlomine and conked out on my beanbag til dinner. 

I've decided I'm going after her. I'm putting together a battle plan and initiating phase alpha when school starts again. Failure is unacceptable.

Never give up! Never surrender! Lol.

5 Jun 10

5.21pm.
Supposed to have gone skating with Brendan today but weather we very bad. Thunder and drizzle at east coast. So we played Magic at Brendan's place.

In the end it didn't rain. Sigh... Ah well, at least I got to watch Ninja Assassin on DVD at his place. So much gore. But it was cool. Except or this one part where he had a flashback. There was this girl at the Ninja training place with the main character, Raizo, played by Rain. Her name was Kiroko. Kiroko showed Raizo how to have a heart an be compassionate. She eventually ran away because she couldn't take all the violence, but was caught and brought back. And she was executed as a traitor. Raizo had to watch her die. It was very sad, but very quick. Blade through the heart. Eventually, all the ninjas died. Except Raizo. Yay.


12.36am
Just came back from a successful class party which I organized. I'm so proud of myself. This is the first time I've organized such a big gathering. 14 people. Out of the 19 we have. So many things went my way today, and I feel so blessed. Lol. We watched Shrek ForeverAfter. A good movie, as are all the Shrek shows. The main takeaway from this is that you don't know what you have until it's gone. At least there was a happy ending, and no heart wrenching moments, unlike Ninja Assassin, when Kiroko was executed. I'm still not over that. It's in the same vein at Final Destination. I would only watch Final Destination if I'm depressed or want to be depressed. Lol. I'm weird. I'm exectionally happy today because of a certain someone... (contented sigh...)

4 Jun 10

Holy crap I forgot to update my blog yesterday. Oops. Ah well, here's a summary of the last two days. Nothing exciting really happened yesterday anyway.

Today was my last paper!!! Hooray!!! Lol. It was a very busy day, and I skated to school yesterday and today. Had lunch with David, then spent the next three hours in computer lab, playing facebook games and watching Whose Line Is It Anyway videos. Whoo! I think that's it for now. I'm quite sleepy. Goodnight!

2 June 10

I'm so pissed with myself today. Exam: Systems Analysis (SAS)

Okay here is the question word for word: "For any of the FIVE SDLC phases, list it's purpose and..."

From the way the English language is structured, I feel that the question requires me to pick ONE SDLC phase and explain it. It's telling me that there are FIVE SDLC phases, and I was sturggling to remember when we were taught FIVE. I remember we were only taught FOUR, which can be broken down further into 8phases. I was so distracted by the FIVE SDLC phases, the I didn't look at the marks awarded for this question alone: 10. Which means, 2 marks per SDLC phase. After talking to my friends after the paper, I found out that I wa supposed to pick any five of the eight SDLC phases. Damn!!! Lost 8 marks at least. Sigh. Both my parents agreed with me that the English structure is ambiguous, so I'm gonna find Ms Audra, my Communication Skills tutor, since she's the only person I know in TP who is closest to an English teacher that I can think of. Maybe she'll agree with me an I can talk my way out of this one. Otherwise, bye bye cGPA of 4.0...

I have a lot of activities coming up. And I'm involved with organising most of them. Partially, at least.

5th June: My class party. Dinner then movie(s). 

9th June: Primary School Classmate gathering at Pasir Ris Park.

14th June: Primary School Classmate gathering at Sentosa.

16th to 18th: TP Skate club chalet and other activities such as beach party, paintball, movie marathon, urban skating.

I'm involved with planning the first 3, so I'm kinda stressed out. And tomorrow is my BPM paper. So many things to memorize.

1 Jun 10

Hmm. Had exam today. BBFin. I think I did okay. Took me a while to figure out Future Value Interest Factor Annuity via the long way, but I had time and I solved the question successfully. I used the FVIF/FVIFA ways, then checked using the PVIF/PVIFA ways. Since I achieved the same answer, I should get it correct or it means I made the same mistake both ways. Zzz. Ah well. 

I watched WLIIA again. Scene to Rap and 40 clips of Scenes from a Hat. Tomorrow I gonna watch more. I saw there were up to 69 clips on YouTube at least. 

Btw my Planeswalker Spark has reignited an the PLANESWALKERZ blog has been reactivited. www.planeswalkerz.blogspot.com