Left school early (12pm) for Speech day today. Yay!
Actually, I went to Orchard with Jasela, Carmen and Yuk Yee to eat. We had a great lunch at Breeks and had a fantasic chat about inter-college rivalry as well as crazy ideas like bombing NJ food across to Hwa Chong or getting Hwa Chong welfare to deliver food to Bishan. Cool right?
We decided to be fashionably late to the speech day. we were instructed to be in school by 3, Speech day starts at four. We reasoned that we would maximise satisfaction (econs, aha!) by enjoying ourselves in air-conditioned comfort instead of being lectured and told what to do in the stuffy hall.
We reached BP at 3.45.
I came well prepared. I brough American Gods by Neil Gaiman (fantastic book btw) and famous amos cookies to while away the interminable speeches. Ms Tay was looking at me in ABSOLUTE envy. Coz, while she had to be tortured, I was immune, happily doing my own thing!
It was great seeing my classmates again. Especially you, Yuting! (Muz mention you right?) But I forgot to bring my camera, so unfortunately I have no pics.=(
A group of us went for dinner at pizza hut. I think Ashwin had great fun crapping. Well, we had great fun listening to his "crap".
Oh, This article is really cool. So talent counts, but hard work counts for more. Take that, Purvis!
Friday, July 28, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
The end of a busy week
This week has been super duper hectic. For one, there were JUDO FINALS on wednesday,
hence I couldn't concentrate at all on monday and tuesday (read: tons of work not done and needing to be caught up)
Monday: Racial Harmony day briefing + stress test frm 1-5 then piano lesson
Tuesday: Chinese Listening + Training
Wednesday: Judo Finals, Debrief, Dinner with Team
Thursday: Napfa test ( 5 items +2.4) after school
Friday: H3 econs from 4-6, Tuition from 8.15-10.15
Saturday: Racial Harmony event 6.45-1300, went to Queensway from Woodlands to buy shoes
Sunday: Judo from 10-1
Its no small wonder that I'm feeling dead
But the A Girls are the judo team CHAMPS! YAY!
The atmosphere at Yio Chu Kang stadium was electric, with Raffles and Hwa Chong on opposite sides cheering and cheering and cheering...
The whole place was just buzzing with energy and noise- i couldn't stand being inside, so i went and sat and paced outside the stadium, with led to numerous people asking whether i was stressed.
After the event, the whole team went to NYDC for dinner. (No pics, cos my camera ran out of storage space) It was great for the girls, cos we were all on a high from winning. However, the boys were despondent. At the debrief we were overhearing things like "do better next year" and general gloomy faces all around. But for all of us, it was the perfect end to the season for the seniors, and something to aim for next year for the juniors.
Jia youz Judo girls! We'll repeat next year ok?
AND, thanks a mil for the awesomely CUTE voodoo doll! =)
OK, i just realized that most of my friends (besides the judo ppl), don't really know what judo is about.
1. Main form of "attack" is throwing people (yea, thats they most basic way i know of explaining, i suppose)
2. The aim is to try to throw your opponent onto his back. Thats an IPPON or full point in competition, and the match ends right away.
Heres a video of a throw (uchimata in this case), ending in Ippon
Uchimata
If your opponent lands mostly on his back, with less force, thats a WAZARI (half point- 2 wazaris make an ippon)
Opponent lands on the side- YUKO (1/4 of a point, not accumulative)
Very very minor landing- KOKA (1/8 of a point, not accumulative)
The team event is where each school sends 5 people (of different weight category) to fight.
Each bout lasts for 3 minutes. And after all the 5 bouts have been fought, the school who has won the most bouts wins.
Does that make the team competition less confusing?
hence I couldn't concentrate at all on monday and tuesday (read: tons of work not done and needing to be caught up)
Monday: Racial Harmony day briefing + stress test frm 1-5 then piano lesson
Tuesday: Chinese Listening + Training
Wednesday: Judo Finals, Debrief, Dinner with Team
Thursday: Napfa test ( 5 items +2.4) after school
Friday: H3 econs from 4-6, Tuition from 8.15-10.15
Saturday: Racial Harmony event 6.45-1300, went to Queensway from Woodlands to buy shoes
Sunday: Judo from 10-1
Its no small wonder that I'm feeling dead
But the A Girls are the judo team CHAMPS! YAY!
The atmosphere at Yio Chu Kang stadium was electric, with Raffles and Hwa Chong on opposite sides cheering and cheering and cheering...
The whole place was just buzzing with energy and noise- i couldn't stand being inside, so i went and sat and paced outside the stadium, with led to numerous people asking whether i was stressed.
After the event, the whole team went to NYDC for dinner. (No pics, cos my camera ran out of storage space) It was great for the girls, cos we were all on a high from winning. However, the boys were despondent. At the debrief we were overhearing things like "do better next year" and general gloomy faces all around. But for all of us, it was the perfect end to the season for the seniors, and something to aim for next year for the juniors.
Jia youz Judo girls! We'll repeat next year ok?
AND, thanks a mil for the awesomely CUTE voodoo doll! =)
OK, i just realized that most of my friends (besides the judo ppl), don't really know what judo is about.
1. Main form of "attack" is throwing people (yea, thats they most basic way i know of explaining, i suppose)
2. The aim is to try to throw your opponent onto his back. Thats an IPPON or full point in competition, and the match ends right away.
Heres a video of a throw (uchimata in this case), ending in Ippon
Uchimata
If your opponent lands mostly on his back, with less force, thats a WAZARI (half point- 2 wazaris make an ippon)
Opponent lands on the side- YUKO (1/4 of a point, not accumulative)
Very very minor landing- KOKA (1/8 of a point, not accumulative)
The team event is where each school sends 5 people (of different weight category) to fight.
Each bout lasts for 3 minutes. And after all the 5 bouts have been fought, the school who has won the most bouts wins.
Does that make the team competition less confusing?
Saturday, July 01, 2006
End of CTs and Judo outing
Yay, the CTs are finally over.
And I know I'm going to flunk them and I only have myself to blame. Sigh.
Anyway, I had to go to school just to take the silly chinese tingli. Silly cos I'll spend ONE hour travelling to bishan, ONE hour travelling back, for HALF and hour of ting li. Very clever.
Anway, i thought it was going to last for one hour and was sorely disappointed that I couldn't go with my judo friends to Kbox, but since it only lasted for half an hour, I was free to go. YAY!
Kbox was very amusing. I didn't know any chinese songs (nor english songs to speak of that matter, but nevermind), so whenever i joined in, i think that part would sound out of tune hahax. Oh, and Wei is a very good singer, her range is fantastic.
After Kbox, we went back for training. It was fun. The RGS girls were having selections for national schools so we had self training and got to practice what we wanted- this was really precious. Practiced the uchimata I learnt on thursday. Then Mr Tan called me to go fight Sarah out of the blue. So I went there, looked blur- he looked amused and just went to fight. I was like pulling and pulling and decided to do something. Suddenly she was on the floor, I was going to do ground work and i head 'ippon sonomate'. I stood up, looked blur - he looked amused again and I went off. Till now I have no idea what i did. Probably uchimata ba.
And I know I'm going to flunk them and I only have myself to blame. Sigh.
Anyway, I had to go to school just to take the silly chinese tingli. Silly cos I'll spend ONE hour travelling to bishan, ONE hour travelling back, for HALF and hour of ting li. Very clever.
Anway, i thought it was going to last for one hour and was sorely disappointed that I couldn't go with my judo friends to Kbox, but since it only lasted for half an hour, I was free to go. YAY!
Kbox was very amusing. I didn't know any chinese songs (nor english songs to speak of that matter, but nevermind), so whenever i joined in, i think that part would sound out of tune hahax. Oh, and Wei is a very good singer, her range is fantastic.
After Kbox, we went back for training. It was fun. The RGS girls were having selections for national schools so we had self training and got to practice what we wanted- this was really precious. Practiced the uchimata I learnt on thursday. Then Mr Tan called me to go fight Sarah out of the blue. So I went there, looked blur- he looked amused and just went to fight. I was like pulling and pulling and decided to do something. Suddenly she was on the floor, I was going to do ground work and i head 'ippon sonomate'. I stood up, looked blur - he looked amused again and I went off. Till now I have no idea what i did. Probably uchimata ba.
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