...Hi...

Haaai!~

2012-02-13T00:17:00.001+08:00

http://huyt08.blogspot.com/2010/02/hi_27.html

有时候看到这个我三年前的回忆，不禁让我觉得—那是多么美好的时光呀。。。

（喜欢韩嵩的，一些部分不能读！）

还记得当时我和老薛还算是谈得来的朋友。但回新后，经过几次和他的同桌，就TM再也受不了了。但这是多久以前的事呀。

当时刚拿到奖学金，就有机会出国，而刚好还没到功课很多的那个学期。

整天就自由自在的生活着。在数学考试的前一夜，我们那一房（刘君毅，李曦晨，我，薛宸）打电脑打到凌晨2点，结果只考了50%，但那也是唯一一次的考试…

记得好像第一天的晚自习后我就跑去外面那商店买了一个冰激凌，吃的很爽。当天晚上就和学长们切磋DOTA，还没来得及虐掉他们。。。他们就自知理亏，“下线”了。

第一天我们04号房玩到了2点多，过后躺在床上看《大旗英雄传》（当时我对那有60多个频道的电视感到非常有兴趣）。不知不觉就到第二天了。。。早上，就下雪了！那是我记事时第一次亲眼看到雪；休息时与当地的人打雪仗，果然被他们给虐了。当然，那个脑残的学长，说了一声“China畜生”，被他们听到了，结果就被狂暴。。。

与当地人打篮球是件蛮美好的回忆，当时天气又好，打球就算出汗，过一会儿就干了。还记得，一直是我们三；我，薛哥和老刘挑战他们。不能说是百战百胜，但也算是完爆了他们嘿嘿。

很期待每逢星期二的来临，因为从旅游回来后，晚餐都可以自己在外边解决。

前两个星期在麦当劳荒废了后，学会了去找日本餐，北京烤鸭，还有简简单单的兰州拉面。

噢对了，来北京的第一个周末，曦晨的姑姑带我们那一房出去吃川菜。

我只能说那是一个非常。。。刺激的经验，不知多少次要将那个水煮牛肉放入水中，才肯去吃它。连凉菜都是辣的。。。

最后的日子都是荒废中度过的。。

我们没有去欢乐谷

你会说我们的北京之旅真的很无聊，但有没有想过，我们是，这一批，前14名去BSC的人

在这整个华中，是我们14个最先去的。

We helpedyou blazed a trail…

Hai..! Han

2012-02-11T14:41:00.002+08:00

Lalala Han Happy Belated Birthday.!!~ Sorry i didnt get the CD burnt properly last July. And it took a while for me to upload! enjoy eh

Hai..

2012-02-09T11:48:00.000+08:00

Been a while since i've stuck to the custom of beginning my posts with "Hai..."

You've probably have guessed it, the New England Patriots didnt manage to overcome that last hurdle, the New York Giants, which were the same team that dealt them a nightmare end to their once perfect Dream Season...

So Eli Manning crafts out his own legacy... much to the expense of Tom Brady's one.

Sometimes i wonder if i really changed, or that same attribute of me is still somewhere within my heart, preparing to release it anytime soon. I probably toned down a lot "irritating, annoying" people with my pathetic jokes ( i dont have any), and constant harassing them, with the same stuff over and over again. When i learnt that that wouldnt bring any peers, i had to just tone down. I mean, the feeling of having no one willing to pair up with you in your lower secondary days is just an insult to the way you have been, or initially thought, the correct way, to behave and converse with your friends. Guess there's some kind of an awkward phrasing here, probably to make it equivocal.

Toning down sure boded well for me, but when you are too close to someone, that "old self" of me probably comes back, and yeah, they tolerate me cause they have been with me for too long. So whats the point of saying this? Probably a self-reminder that i cannot take friendships for granted, or that i should be equally pardoning to the mistakes my friends commit too?

I think my temper's decent enough, i didnt really flinch back in the primary school days when they make racist jokes at Chinese, but sometimes just too good at my own peril. People tend to take my joking for granted. It might be probably due to my constant downplaying the important of stuffs that are supposed to serious, such that, when i really need to be serious, they still think i am having fun.

And when i try to make fun of them, at some point of time, they will definitely snap. Do they think they are the only ones that can get pissed off? I have been tolerant enough...

I'm supposed to do HBL right now, but the internet's failing on me.

At the end of the day, i think its really time to put a threshold on the amount of bullshit i can contain before i blow my top.

And doing this project has just made me, think, once again, why on earth do i have him again.

Rejoicing over not having him in my PW group was a really distant memory... but why do i have to remind my self, again and again that he's not suitable? I'm not even gonna hold back

I'm gonna give this song to him. If he knows the meaning of the title, then he will know what it means.

And probably a lil' bit for me too.

Time to detach myself from that daily routine

我习惯你走在我的身后

无论什么要求你全都接受~~~

SuperBowl 46!

2012-01-30T21:57:00.001+08:00

Please please please, give Tom Brady his 4th Ring!

Hai....

2012-01-24T23:41:00.002+08:00

I really wonder when was the last time a blog was used to portray of howone’s day went, and not merely reflections on how screwed-up this planet is,people’s morals, or the lack thereof. Or simply just giving their opinion onsomething that happened recently.

Ok freak. Actually I’m not gonna do that too with the following.

Introduce a song first…

Yeah its actually her fans’ favourite song right now, for a few weeksalready. Kind of gives one a warm feeling, especially if you are in a relationship…eh I’m looking at you Han even though you would never be here..

Yeah lets just move on, my mom’slurking nearby, and my dad’s on the sofa applying face mask (wtf -.-), wearingmy red shirt, cause he couldn’t find one when he went to bainian today (wtfwtf…)

Yeah, regrets during sporting events.

Yesterday I woke up at 4.30am, to watch American Football, the AFC Championships against New EnglandPatriots and the Baltimore Ravens.

I went to sleep before the NFC Championship, against the New York Giantsand the San Francisco 49ers.

Yeah, 2 players within these 2 matchup, probably did something, orreally, lack thereof, that will haunt them for the rest of the life..

Against New England Patriots, Billy Cundiff missed a game-tying field goal, fromonly 31 yards out.

Against the New York Giants, KyleWilliams fumbled and lost the ball when he tried to hard to make a push duringa punt return.

And

Both of them lost. In an important playoff game.

When they lie on their beds tonight, their minds would be filled withthat scene, and what would happened, if he actually made that field goal, or ifhe actually protected the ball well enough.

That’s for Night one.

The same case for night two.

So for night three.

And So on.

For the rest of their lifes.

Yeah you’re asking me what made you write such a post. Cause, likeeveryone else, I have regrets, sports-wise too. And, that scene has beenreplaying on my mind, every once and a while.

Festival of Sports.

Come on, yeah I know it was really a minor sporting event, but a ratherbig one in my JC life.

Sporting the Artemis Basketball Team 2 attire ( which is really just theFac shirt), I looked at the opponents we are facing for the first match…

Ares – Yang Jiafan, Jason, Bowen, and some dudes who look pro.

Eh damn it man.

And things weren’t looking good, when I missed, ALL my shots during thewarm-up.

Nevertheless, Lin Zhuo, our pro captain, still stuck with me in thestarting line-up.

Miraculously, we managed to hold on, and I didn’t miss a single shot ( 3of them), and the score was tied at the end of regulation.

Then , with the score at 13-14, Jason pulled up for a three.

Swish it went in.

Damn it man… 13-17 now.

I need a three-pointer man.

Passed the ball to Lu Hao. Got in my position, got the ball from ChenTianyi. Catch and shoot for three.

Swish! 16-17

I was so happy that I went back, smiling like a dick.

What I forgot was, they had the possession, and there was only 16seconds left in the match. Then they just dribbled the clock away.

Fuck.

Match 3, against Apollo.

We were sporting a 12 points lead, which became merely 6 after a fewbuckets by Wilfred, conceded by me. Yeah, it was a lack of stamina.

I asked to get subbed by Lin Zhuo.

After seeing Lin Zhuo missing the game-tying free throw, and Wilfredsinking the game winning one.

Damn.

Should I have stayed in the game?

I probably will never know.

Yeah, all these events were playing in my mind for every single day, thefirst few days.

Then, once in a while, it will come back.

Probably would hurt that our team ended with a 0-3.

If we took our chances, we will be 2-1.

OCIP Nanjing.

All I can say was that the trip was filled with awkwardness, especiallywhen touring the city. And not exactly what I had envisioned in mind. Each andevery single day, I had planned on what to talk, but all that came out weredaos towards her.

Need to buck up man Yangtao.

KuSo

2012-01-15T15:33:00.000+08:00

This is actually a rather sad song.
Heres the lyrics:
许嵩 - 医生
作词：许嵩作曲：许嵩
你说懂了爱不是浪漫
我的本分给你安全感
是他让你受了内伤
我努力恢复你健康
我也没那种庸俗的情结
可他还是在你心里边
偶尔梦中还窜到嘴边
其实我也能够了解
心碎一旦到过极限
用多少岁月都愈合不完全
我是你无奈的选择
你只想跟一个好人
我为你戴上了戒指
你的笑也还算逼真
我是你无奈的选择
却不是多么爱的人
只怪他下手太残忍
改变你一生

But.... knowing the kuso-guy i am, i cant help but resist changing the lyrics:
(Potentially-insulting version)
你说做简报真的很难
搞了半天都还没写完
是梁博要我们呈交
一整晚上都在煎熬
如果做不好就会减分呀
最后分数如果太低了
年底就要去苏格兰了
没有美国汉堡薯条
没有英国美味佳肴
花了多少钱
也不满足我了

同学一定要做简报
做完了记得要呈交
呈交后再做另一份
才能保证分数高升
同学一定要做简报
不要相信那铭宇姚
什么不做就不算分
他脑袋坏掉

(Guide for the upcoming J1 CSC students)
第一次上了中国通识
感觉什么都是不一样
有三位老师来执教
总共四个单元来考
要做问答题和案例分析
第一次考试成绩太低
同学们千万不要放弃
只要你们继续努力
必要时候吃点苦力
到了期末考
就会拿到A了

可同学我这有忠告
不管什么要做简报
呈交后再做另一份
才能保证分数高升
同学我这还有忠告
如果你们忘了呈交
那就等着拿0分吧
不要把险冒

But at the end of day, the original's definitely better...

...

2012-01-05T23:21:00.001+08:00

Hai

2012-01-04T18:15:00.003+08:00

Yeaah Nanjing was good, but not that great, as compared with the 2009. The only positives from this trip would be that my kids still remembered me and that my hairstyle was much better as compared to last time, where i couldnt even see my eyes? ( Dont go and dig up these photos). I didnt take a lot of photos during the trip cause i've seen it all, and, i really didnt want to spoil my old memories i had of nanjing. Thats also a reason i didnt keep a journal this time around. So i'm gonna post what i wrote last time round.

Sorry for the immaturity and the awkwardness in my writing, cause it was written late in night, and at that time, i was a secondary three student who was so noob and had gone through a lot of trouble to just pay 900 dollars for my SAP immersion trip, which included taking my end of years at 6am. But its still worth a look, there might be some jokes, like how Xue Chen asked me for Prickly Heat, and others. Yeah theres expletives, but come on, its my journal right. haha. Wrote down my feelings for the US trip too but... maybe next time bah

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虹桥机场-小

办完了手续就直接开始登机了。

完了，自己站错了队，导致自己最后一个办完手续。

就这样，搭上了前往厦门的航班。

再见上海。

一小时多的航班。到了厦门机场。

Wow, can you believe it.

Reached at same time?

Are you joking? For the first time, we get to sit in a crowded bus.

3hrs ride to the place we were supposed to stay.

WA, it was already tiring enough to get my broken luggage up the freaking dorm.

今天

土楼-和贵楼； -怀远楼

孔殿

无聊瀑布

我靠。十一点了。不知道，明天要参观五菜一汤土楼，需要休息时间。今天的行程明天再侃吧。再见!

14/12

又是这个时间-二十二点四十八分。

今天应该不会在十一点就停止了吧。行程就如终上所述-“四菜一汤”土楼；还有“东歪西斜”土楼。

就如照片里的风景，四菜一汤在高处看起来非常壮观，若不知道是土楼，还会真的像美国犯错，以为它是所谓的秘密“导弹发射地”。想起来美国人犯的错误，我觉得他们真的是多余。生怕任何国家会生产武器来威胁自己那已经慢慢衰退的世界第一强国头号。

虽然从远处看不错，其实一接近，样子与其他的土楼都长得差不多。就一些特别的椭圆形的土楼等等。可是在近处观看“四菜一汤”却认不出任何的一个“菜”

然后就坐了车到了“东歪西斜”土楼。确实名称不是很清楚。除了比其他的土楼要大了几十平方米，差别不多。还是那令人讨厌的商业化旅游胜地。到处都卖者东西。还有，进去土楼需要门票，那机器才让你进去。可是，在不远的小径，人们可以完完全全的绕进去。看看，付费的都是导游带领下的旅游团。看出来了吧。中国的商业化普及。

Arrived at dormitory after an hour of bus ride. Felt very sleepy and had quite a headache. The afternoon was dedicated to preparations for lessons the following day. Since the JC girls were responsible for about 99% of the teaching materials and planning, what was left for us would be to take on the job of cleaning windows, wiping metal grills, shifting computers, and sweeping the floor. I hereby pronounce that we are now proud members of S.W.A.T

After lunch, Yao asked me for the China national team jersey that I had wore for only once after purchase. When he tried it on, everybody was laughing like some shit. When he wore it out to play basketball, the children there were all staring at him, maybe with a sense of admiration in their eyes?

Finished the job at around 3.30pm.

First half of the afternoon was penalty shootouts between us.
Borrowing powers from the sacred red jersey, Yao (China) managed to get a 2-0 score against the black horse, YangTao (Bangladesh) in the finals of World Cup

The boxscore is here as follows :

Semifinals I

China 3 – 2 Singapore (TianJie)

Semifinals II

Bangladesh 2 – 0 Thailand (FangChen)

The second part was occupied by 4 v 4 v 4 tournaments. We challenged those playing basketball originally after China won their first world cup in history. And, we should see, 馆踢得非常成功。6连胜后惜败荣豪的单人表演，虽然是被明易的射投绝杀掉。

Tomorrow’s schedule – Morning would be painting while in the afternoon would be teaching ( for me only), and being the telematch gamemaster. Quite busy though, but it would be damn slack.

Self- Reminder – Before lunch – wear whatever you deem fit.

After lunch – OCIP hoodie.

Good Night.

16/12~18/12

2 days have passed after we began the voluntary work. Actually, as I write this sentence, another two days have passed. I was trying to begin writing about some memorable events that happened that day when somebody knocked on the door: Gunny’s group members.

Hence, I spent rest of the night hovering between Tianjie and Lin Zhuo’s room. Yes, we were super tired, cos of the incidents that happened that afternoon.

Don’t know who started it. (maybe it was me) Children, under instructions, crowd around some of us to ask us for sweets, and distraction tactics were used to free yourself – “这个老师裤子里有糖！”
“不不，那位姓林的老师裤子里的糖更多！”

This was how my class spent the 活动时间 for English lessons. Well, something worse was approaching us though.

Bringing the kids down to the field to play was a serious error and mistake. If I would give a Teammate Grade for the initiator, I would consider D+. It was a very serious turnover. It would be losing the ball in the dying seconds of the match when your team is at stake. It’s like that Carmelo Anthony turnover against the Lakers in the Conference Final, where a simple pass not taken seriously by Carmelo caused the ball to be stolen by Trevor Ariza, which converted it into a dunk.

Nuggets lost the series 2-4

Back to the main topic, once the children entered the field, they started to run around, with the main targets being, us.

Some even took up rocks and tried to shoot at me. Some rushed up to me, scissor-shaped hands aiming at my groin.

Nonetheless, it became fun, when I “ordered” them to dominate a guy playing 老鹰抓小鸡 with the primary 2s or 3s.

The guy was Xuechen! LOL

Can’t believe it, getting very tired nowadays, must be the repetitive work done by us, and the ever-so tiring teaching of primary three students. Most of the time, I would fall asleep before eleven, otherwise tomorrow I would have no energy to do whatever job asked to.

Even so, I fell asleep only after midnight.

Thursday, was the day where I was supposed to stay in a local residential area, also a well-known tourist attraction, one of the 土楼.

After doing the routine things, we marched to our destination at 6.50pm.

Well, at one look, it was a residential area, but not a well-known tourist attraction. In other words, it was a building that looked like 土楼 on the exterior, but just a “hotel” –like place.

I found out the day after that all the houses around the area were given the name tag – 福建土楼。The rooms were not bad, except the floor was as dirty than the dormitories; it contained television, and had wireless connection. (yay.) Purely cause I got informed of the news that kobe had scored another buzzer beater. This time it was against the bucks.

The problem was that television only had 4 channels. It was CCTV1, an English channel and some 2 other channels.

Camped outside for a while, tried to download replays- BFB vs MYM in F4F finals. It was a replay bug, and when the game was set to normal mode, we all freaked out.

All was well until Lin Zhuo slipped while trying to get his noodles and toppled the whole tea table . Tea sipped through the cracks between the wood tile. Leading to a “rain” for the floor below us.

Night was surpirisingly enjoyable. Slept through in one whole shot, cause I was sharing a bed with Tianjie. People deemed it as “f++king cold”, some even woke up due to the coldness..

Today was the beginning for the basketball training for the Primary6. From afar, I could see that the training was actually quite successful. At least, there was a decent number of people playing the sport, showing that It had a certain degree of popularity in the school for the sport.

Today’s dinner was amusing.

Yao acted as the 领导, and I crapped throughout the dinner, leading to himself and 朱副领导 (fangchen) falling off the chair. The laughters were too loud.

As the rest of us went to 土楼, we had nothing to do, so we knocked on the girls’ door. (actually they went out themselves, since they heard about the free visit to room 205.( I exchanged it for one day for 4 bowls of 泡面)) Then gunny and johnny began to talk about scandals with QiuHan, a fellow JC girl.

Crapped too much, the topic can be from Rong Hao’s girlfriend to I have a direct bus home.

There’s a huge empty tile on the top window.

Speaking of which, I will be visiting the local students’ homes tomorrow.

Sleep early.

Ended at 23.00 18.12.2009

20/12/2009

Well, I guess I changed font after my ending. Don’t want to talk too much today, cause we did work for the whole one day. Well, for some people who didn’t bother or were too lazy to check the calendar, the 20th of December 2009 is a Sunday.

For don’t know what strange reasons, I was selected to draw for the library walls. Maybe Han Song recommended me to do the work because of my sketching skills. Well, in my classes, my sketches weren’t really sketches. Though the teacher said it was good, he made a good point in which I still have difficulty overcoming it at this very moment -That I spent too much time on one art piece.

Well, there are 2 main steps to 素描. First, draw the outline, then shade. The problem with me was that in a 2-hour span, I spend 40 + minutes trying to draw out the outline, where witnessing people around me furiously scratching their pencil against the drawing paper.

Of course, that happened today.

I spent close to an hour to “unscrew” the drum drawn for the music section of the library wall. Well, it didn’t fit proportionally, or geometrically, and I spent the rest of the time, drawing, erasing, vice versa. In the end, I managed to unscrew the drum, and it looked decent.

That’s what I did for the whole morning.

Afternoon was filled with painting of my drum (Whee:D), and the guitar beside it.

Combined with a sketch of a Falcon, which many people said it resembled an owl. Guess what, it took my 10+ minutes to finish it. But still many erasing on the artwork, making it look untidy and messy.

My hand now has 2 other colours on it other than the colour of my hand.

Red and Black.

We stopped work 15 minutes before dinner, and then the primary three kids dragged us along to buy 2 stickers for them. The whole five of us. What superhero team consists of five members? It could be Power Rangers? Who knows.

Yesterday, we too went out with them, except on a much larger scale and longer time.

We will leave this to some other time.

Debriefing was held earlier due to some reasons: They wanted to catch a show with the children.

Well, when people are out to have fun, some have to left behind and act as “guarding dogs” right?

Whatever you call me then.

Was playing “My Player mode” for 2k10 when Xue Chen’s head popped inside.

“Yangtao, can lend me the Prickly ho..t…. heat?”

“Not mine how to lend you?”

“give some can?”

“You ask Johnny la”

“He also not here”

“Call him la”

“Never mind”

“Just go bathe “

“No.. no… it’s just that my below… quite …”

“Abrasion is it?”

“Y..ya”

“So you lending me or not”

“Call Johnny la”

“……”

Well, that’s the joke for today.

I’m gonna end at the same time as my last post.

Oh shit, just passed it by 1 minute.

Ended : 20/12/2009 23:01

待续

累

21/12/2009

“在床上写日记是人生一大乐趣”

~胡扬韬

Didn’t bathe today, because that water ran out again.

Hence,, it was much colder relatively, when I ‘m in my sleeping suit, compared to when bathed.

Today… seriously, I would say I wasted the whole afternoon in the library. Painting the tree took quite much effort and time. Then I had the need to visit the toilet.

After the lengthy trip to the toilet, I stopped by the ground floor, witnessing the progress of the beds painting. I joined them 2 minutes later.

哇不错，MP3在播放何洁的《发光体》。“无与伦比，这一刻起就要释放…”
随便哼一下。不知道为什么，现在晚上11：00准睡着，而早上连7：00也要赖在床上5分钟才肯起来。有可能是天气在作怪吧。今天早上结了霜。吃饭的桌子时不时的有雨滴掉下。而今天的油条已经沦为冷冻油块了。真不知道，在新加坡的时候，我是如何早上5：50起床的。

总的来说，今天在楼下的时间比较多。下午吃完饭后，与君毅等人把剩下的15个铁床中，消灭了8个。后来，在停了一阵子后，与傍晚6点多时与荣豪等吧剩下的90%做完了。明天花十分钟就能搞定了。这一星期的刷铁床工程也就在此圆满结束了。

All was well until end of basketball training.

Shooting hoops, when Cherntze screamed (well a better verb maybe?) to ask us to go to the library and do work. Han Song was so pissed, that I think he went berserk. We dashed up to the library and crowded the whole room. Han Song was guai lan-ing around in the room. After 2 minutes of bullshitting, we then decided to go down and paint the unfinished beds.

I was preparing to catch up with the people who went down first when the Vice- in Charge announced ; High school people with nothing to do please go prepare for your concert.

Well. No comments.

At night, went out with my group to the location that was supposed to be the location for the opera the previous day. From Lin Zhuo’s description, it would have been very noisy and crowded yesterday.
But tonight, pitch dark.

Well, maybe some vegetables nearby for me to steal them to my farm.

去开心网偷菜。

Tonight was memorable.

Saw stars.

I love Hejie’s 《忘了》。

忘了你给的爱…

忘了你的手多暖呀…

再见。

23：47

23/12

Well, today is already the last night here in Nanjing state, Fujian Province. 20 more minutes, in midst of people greeting Happy X’mas eve to everybody, we welcome ( well with sadness) our last morning in 长教小学,which will last after lunch.

Of course, everybody misses this place. It helps people to forget about stuff that are bothering them.

Can’t believe it, the Ipod is playing 《夏雪》. What a foreshadowing.

If one knew the lyrics of the chorus, one would understand the sadness in this song, together with the things that are happening to us right now.

雪下了你不在…

I’ve always thought about it after my homestay in Suzhou.

It had dawned to me, that I will never see my host, 张文鋆 ever again. I wouldn’t visit Suzhou anymore in the rest of my studying life, and even if I visit, where can I find him？ Most likely like he said to me in bed; “我高中不读苏外了。苏外高中不是很好”。

茫茫人海，犹如大海捞针。何况，若干年以后，谁还会记得彼此呢？

The same goes for everybody I met throughout the trip. Even one of the closest I’ve come to, my host in Shanghai- 李金玮. Quite happy memories were spent with him; maybe it was due to the extended duration compared to his counterpart in Suzhou. Until now, we didn’t even bother to exchange emails. Maybe I have to make the first move. (seems like dating). Well, after a few years if I go to shanghai, would I still remember his address? I can’t seem to recall it now. Would I still be able to see his grandmother, his dog which went for polishing, or his huge plasma tv; which allowed me to see Kobe Bryant’s buzzer beater against heat、节节高升（张韶涵）、节节高升（何洁）、我是大评委（何洁）. Especially the last 2 programmes. It helped me to secure Hejie’s position in my heart, knowing that she has set off again (or hasten up her progress). I will be looking forward to her new album the following year. If I ever have the chance, I would rush to get her album- because in life, you don’t get too much chances.

Some philosopher once said, each person have xx number of chances to become famous, but only 3% of the people treasure the chance. Movie, songs stars. That’s what we call those who took up the chance.

The same goes for us. Treasure the chance to get your favourite things, before it disappears from you.

The breadtalk people, who brought us to various shops, and even hogged the seats of their main competitors! Lol. Their advices and explanations really helped us to clear off our doubts, and to some extent, that even improved our confidence to do work in the future.

If I do not venture into China through a bread franchise, then I would never meet any of you at all. For the rest of my life.

The BreadTalk shop located at 老西门. To be more precise, the staff in there. Thanks for showing me how to make drinks, coffee and tea. Those who even betted their lunch on whether we were 大三 or 初三. In the end, the lady who taught me how to make combinations of tea coffee and chocolate had to treat the rest of the staff to lunch. Poor thing.

Byebye, with the high staff turnover rate in Breadtalk, I doubt I would see anyone of you in one whole group together anymore.

Dragging back to the main point, cause I’m sleepy.

三年二班. Reminds everybody of Jay Chou.

That’s the class I’m teaching.

Overall, a refreshing experience. For some people, I would require face recognition together with the name. For others, no; well cause they are special.

Don’t know when did I start to notice, maybe after the home visit, that the people sitting at the back weren’t that poor in studies after all. I just typed my 10000th word in this post. Congrats myself!

It was this girl, 淑嫔 ( I think so, couldn’t find the one with 女-update. I found it!). A couple of time I saw her bullying the girl beside her, cause she was quite untidy, and till an extent of despising due to the fact that her bag was dug from rubbish.

I thought she too was quite a student that is poor in studies.

But she was not.

At home visit, plaques of her well-doings were pasted on the wall.

三好学生

语文100分，全区第一.

You name it.

She’s bright.

Of course, added with good looks.

If her attitude towards the weak changes, I would say she make quite a good student.

Another guy, 志聪.

Lovable when he is behaving. When misbehaving, a fucker.

Well, I will miss all of them.

Last time to see them would be the 1 hour + span 欢送会。

Damn it.

一整片的森林，你在树荫里。

~《你是我的风景》何洁

Ended 0:17 24/11

Happy Christmas’ Eve

How I wish it never comes.

26/12 (0:00+)

Hi, just emerged from one of the most boring KTV sessions in this trip.

Even though it was the longest, but in my opinion, it was quite sucky.

The good point was that I got to sing hejie’s 《来自不同星球》. That’s the only good point. Actually things were well at the start, when we started off with Viva La Vida and some other English songs that I fortunately have heard before. Things went high when I started singing Akon’s “I wanna fuck you”. Everybody shouted damn loud at the echo for the chorus part. I wanna fuck you, FUCK YOU!

LOL

We were damn freaking loud; then Johnny they all returned from their purchasing of Nike bags, and we became louder. So loud that the girls from other ktv rooms went to check on us. Then we continued our frenzy with Taylor Swift’s Love story. The part where it sang “baby just say yes”, everybody was screaming.

Then it sucked.

They even asked for extension; an hour. Upon hearing, I was quite excited. But when I went back to the singing room, some guy was singing 五月天’s song. Bye bye.

I left prematurely by half an hour. Together with hansong.

Well, I guess it was the correct choice. In the end, I heard from gunny that they wanted to leave at 10.40pm, but rong hao refused and in the end they reached the hotel at 11.15pm. Guess what. They were grounded.

Anyway, how did I even manage to leave that school yesterday?

Thursday 25/11

The first part of the morning was spent in the library taking pictures of our finished masterpieces. I took particular pictures with paintings I drew. The falcon and my drum.

Then came the 压轴表演.

欢送会.

Actually, when we were taking photos with the principal, all 6 levels were already waiting downstairs. Hence we rushed down when our photo-taking finished.

欢送会呢，总的来说可以算是相当的成功的。校长讲完了尚未准备的演讲后，欢送会正式开始了。首先是由五年级的同学带来五月天的《天使》，以及张韶涵的《隐形的翅膀》。接下来，四年级带来了动感的《稻香》。问题就是，被唱到没有动感。

后来，薛宸的班级，三年一班，带来的是千篇一律的《细水长流》。某些歌曲呢，唱多了就会感到腻了。特别是这种重复着旋律的歌曲。

然后，就轮到我们初中部的表演了。呵呵。正扬表演了1分多钟的武术表演后，就轮到我出场了。嘻嘻。

我是负责综艺节目的，而当天我就是充当主持人那一角。可以说了，娱乐观众们的本责，我已经成功了。两个游戏可以来说并没有冷场，而且最终的惩罚也是蛮好玩的。表演后节目的女司仪问了我的名字，并且说我很搞笑。好的. Mission Accomplished.

To be continued tomorrow.

Hehe, time to continue.

Anyway, forget to say. Happy belated Merry Christmas people!

After my “performance” in the entertainment show, I had to go up the stage again, because my class was performing, We sang 2 songs – 我和你and 难说再见. Well, the kids performed quite well and didn’t show signs of fear or 怯场. Even though Gunny said that 简志聪 spoiled the whole performance with his shouting in the mic, overall I think our class did a good job.

Then the last class to present was primary 6. Maybe it was due to the small age gap, or due to the primary sixers’ compulsory stay in the school dormitory, it was the most bonded level in the school. (in terms with the coordinators/teachers/us.)

They presented a show first, followed by 《恋爱ing》. Quite cool as it was sang along with a catwalk performance.

Then Johnny and others performed the Ares Faculty Dance with JC counterparts.

IT ENDS with 《心旅》and《私奔到月球》.

After it, we went back to each of our class to bid the final farewell. We gave out the 17 books we chiong-ed throughout the morning and the 欢送会.

Some of our teachers cried, including the girls and lin zhuo. While the rest contained their composure. With the students shedding tears, each of us said something to the class as our final words.

Something that I said when they bade us farewell，“我说再见，不说拜拜，是因为我希望，与深信，总有一天我们会再次相见。同学们再见了！法兰西万岁！”

The last sentence was bullshit.

However after lunch the students looked for us, and we stick together, took pictures, until it was really time for us to leave. Students cried, but we told them. 不要哭。老师们只是你们人生中第n次来来往往的人。不要为我们的离去而哭泣，为了我们的存在而感到欣慰。果然，他们并没有哭。反而，有些人还追问我行李的密码。告诉了他们以后，我就溜了。

走之前，留给了个别人士电话号码。说了：“一定要记得打电话给我，要不然我们真的会失去联系的。”

在车上，我的老乡天杰说：“我好伤心呀”

睡着了…

遇到厦门的导游，给我们介绍了厦门的概况。现在我都忘了…就记得今天的一些事情。比如厦门刚建好了个环岛公路，全程路长达43公里。

导游说，再拐一个弯，十五分钟就到了。结果，我们在车上徘徊了一个小时。当中，拐了无数次的弯，经过同样一个中学3次（厦门松柏中学）。

吃完晚饭后，就逛了旁边的SM广场。规模非常的庞大。在五楼的ADIDAS 工厂折店买了个外套。打了5.5折后就值231元。当天就这样结束了。

25/12

25th, well its Christmas day!

Unfortunately, a group of 32 students and teachers have to spend their Christmas day visiting the most beautiful secondary school in China. Well, supposedly. (Rated by Sina.com)

We spent another 30 minutes extra on the bus because they couldn’t find the entrance. Sounds fun. No.

We sat at the conference room to listen to the in-charge saying the welcoming speech and introducing some facts of 集美中学. Then we were brought by another teacher to view about the school. Then we stopped by one particular block to study in one lesson.

What amazed me was that this school contained the “computer class”. 电子初一(9)班. That was the class we visited for their mathematics lesson. Wow, I could say that their computer skills would be above par, and around the same standard as urs. Also, I noticed that their concentration skills were very strong. Nobody visited other sites when the teacher sent the PPT that contained the material.

What did not amaze me was that the block’s exterior and interior totally sucked to the core. It looked more like 长教小学, just enclosed. Well, I can infer that Sina didn’t really do a very thorough and serious job in analyzing the school’s beauty. I’ve seen schools much more beautiful and larger than this.

After that we toured the 高中section, then quite a lot of tourist attractions around the whole school. I would like to say that the students have a lot of places to go after their school.

Wow, the tv is now showing the Artists’ impressions of the pavilions in Shanghai Expo 2010. I totally love all of them, but I really have doubts on when they can finish them. The expo starts on May, and many pavilions have yet to be built. But I’ve heard that they only begin to focus 100% on construction from May 2010 to Oct 2010. So how does the Expo carry on? One of the pavilion’s interior depicts the 清明河上图 covering the whole pavilion. How do you do that in a matter of a few months? Even if everybody works on it, it requires skills right? It’s a well-known and skilled Chinese painting. Even if it’s meagre printing, it still exhausts huge amounts of time right?

After the tour, we went back. Then celebrated Mingxun’s birthday together with Christmas. The rest is history. We went to KTV.

Guess what happened.

Too sleepy, I’m gonna stop from now.

End.

29/12 /2009 0:51am

30/12/2009

30/12/2009 意味着什么？

最后一天。

今天一个早上到了鼓浪屿。感觉非常好，到处有不同文化的建筑物。最后还登了岛的最高处。拍了200多张照片吧。在当地买了3盒厦门特产。鼓浪屿可说是蛮富裕的一个岛，面积虽然只有1千多平方米，但是好像什么都有。电影院、百鸟园、度假村。最后还什么钢琴博物馆。我靠。

当地做的宣传片也不逊。

下午两点多到了城市中心，参观了中心里最大的花园。我老觉得，中国人喜欢瞎掰，已让自己拿到第一名。比如华西村：你还叫它村呀。都应该改换成城市了。可就是呆在那赖着。这样一来，若任何的景点不是世界或中国第一的，就可以改成“国家农村第一宝塔阵”等等。

回到酒店时间3：30都没到。我们决定去SM逛一下。其一是逛它最后一次，其二是我想为妈妈买个东西。最终决定在一个MP5身上。使用的时候还可以，但不知道是否实用。

吃完饭后与整个组（缺一）到了对面的新华书店看了看书籍。7点时，就到了KTV唱歌。

虽然全是免费的，可是今天怎么也HIGH 不起来。应该是因为最后一天吧。

这一次旅行后，就没有类似这样的旅程了。一生后，再也不会这样了。

说好了吗？

明年回长教？

我不知道还会不会继续在这个文件上写字了。

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Ended 30/12/2009

2:14am

一言为定

Hai...

2011-11-29T15:11:00.001+08:00

曾经有位友人对我述，生命中的每一刻都是独一无二的。
然而，每天机械般上下学的我，始终体会不到那所陈述的意境。
久而久之，友人所说的那句话我也慢慢淡忘了。
直到，有一天，刚从出国深造回来的我，发现原来所有熟悉的一切，都统统改变了，
改变到连我，都无法适应。
    是吗？A都结婚了呀？
    什么？B被大学开除了？
    “喂，是C吗！我回国了，出来见一面吧！噢。。。他已经移民到加拿大了啊？”

........
春天，春花暖开，四处花草树木，空气清新，天气良好。小鸟刚从南方避寒飞回来。
他，站立在巴士站旁的指示板上，观察者四周：附近的花园正在举行一年一度的花展，
旁边的咖啡店人潮拥挤。

日子一天天的过去了，天渐渐变凉了，小鸟又要飞了。
“我一定会回来的，回到那我所熟悉的地方！”
在天气转寒的前一天，小鸟早已往南飞了，远离了他住了几个月的地方。

又是春天，天气晴朗。小鸟顺利地飞回来了。但是，那巴士站不见了；花园成了高楼大厦；咖啡店也被快餐店取而代之。
      看着路过的车辆，小鸟想道：“这并不是我要回来的“地方”！为什么，所有的都变成我不熟悉的东西了？？！”

小鸟不知道的是：
                   巴士车站因为有一次某国领导住在了附近的酒店，为了安全着想便把它拆了。
                   冬天里的一个暴风雪吧花园的花吹残了。取而代之的是一座行政高楼。
                   年底引发的金融海啸大大影响了咖啡店的业绩，最终只好关门大吉。

...................

因为生活中的每一刻是独一无二的，生命中的下一刻也会因此而不同。
一段时刻的回忆，只能属于那一刻。

Hai..

2011-10-22T22:10:00.002+08:00

Dont really know whether i can reach the summit, or where ever i want. I feel no sense of urgency within me.
Hopefully that mentality will change for the better the coming year.
But i hope it arrives a tad earlier: i have my SATs.
Probably in times like this, it provides you with the opportunity to bring out the best of your self?
Dont really know whether 10 years of education is that meaningful
Especially in the Singaporean context, probably.
After emerging from that decade's worth of studying, where would i see myself to be man...
It probably puts you in a situation where you become a jack of all trades, but master of none?
Its gonna be either English or Chinese, one of them that you will have to divert less of your energy too.
But even so, would the other one be perfect, compared to the natives like those in China/US?
We may be better than a master of one, but in this globalised world, i dont think anyone would be a master of only one expertise.
Probably considering the amount of people learning english in china is equivalent to that of the entire US population.
You would then say... " no noobs, my english standard is definitely better than those chinese because i live in a english-speaking environment"
So? In Business, do you really need extravagant language to strike a deal?
Decent english is suffice to get the sponsorship or investment you desire for in China.
Dont believe? Just look at the amount of Foreign Direct Investment in China.
I'll just stop here.

Dont

Hai

2011-08-03T17:00:00.000+08:00

Hai.

When you are feeling bored you always think of the good times that have been way past you. And, i'm doing this not because I have nothing else to do. Just recording all this down before it gets sent to the recycle bin in my brain .

Anyway, all these were typed 7 months before.

10. Burger King at Changi Airport Terminal 3

What makes it significant is that it is the first meal we had since the start of our immersion trip, and the last meal we had before we left for China. For us, it marks the start of a independent lifestyle, for the next 2 months.

9. Getting demon-ed by TJ

Towards the end of the four-long bus journey from Shanghai to Ningbo on our first day, for no particular reason, I suddenly find myself sitting next to Tinjie. That being the still-violent version of him (heheh). For the next 30 mins, i had the moment of my life.. and for a while i almost thought that i might be sent home on the first day of the trip due to broken bones, that is, until i finally managed to push Xichen and Gunny into the Lion's Den together.

8. Settling down for a beef restaurant.

In our first luch in Wuxi, most of us settled for a local restaurant that sold beef chops. What is significant for me is that for the first time, we fixed our own meals. It is also the first time I've received money from Wang DK to reimburse my lunch, after admiring the scholars from afar during the BSC Trip.

7. Xuechen gone in Wuxi.

I'm not sure whether this is significant enough. But i felt that this is rather significant as this is the first time that we had 18 members, an even number of people living in the hotel. This implies that nobody needed to squeeze together in a small room. What's better was what missed when Xue was gone, which was close to nothing.

6. In a certain Suzhou Jewellery Shopping Mall

This is significant because the things we've bought in the building were not from the mall itself-- All we did in the 45 minutes there was to grab a few chips from a nearby convenience store and read newspapers. In other words, this was the first meaningless plane we visited during the trip.

5. The shopping street in Suzhou

Forgotten about the name of the street.

BUt most of us went there before as they were brought there by their homestay buddies. This is the first free time we had in Suzhou, but it was ruthlessly wasted by wandering aimlessly on the streets. After a few rounds, we stopped at an electronics store, and they spent about 30 minutes there. This was when i detached myself from the group and strolled the streets alone, bought a book and stopped at a nearby KFC to read the book. From the above experience. I learnt that:

1. China's KFC is seriously overrated.

2. boy's indecisiveness when they go shopping

4. 8 Hours of free time in Shanghai

This marks the first time where we were given free time in Shanghai, and damn, it was long. It started after lunch, where for the next 2 hours we wandered around the streets of Nanjing Walking street and the nearby shopping malls handling out questionaries for our Breadtalk project. For no partciular reason, we wandered into a nearby arcade, stayed there for an hour or 2, spent 50+$ on the hoops machine. After that we continued to wander on the streets, took a few photos, and took the railway to Lu Jia Zhui, our scheduled meeting place for dinner. Settling for Pizza Hut as dinner, some of us got too comfortable and in the end, and even though we made it in time, we only had 10 minutes for us to marvel at the night view of the Bund. For once i started to enjoy Shanghai, with the accompaniment of my peers. Pretty sad though, that was during the end of our stay in Shanghai. But we had one last free time, before we emarked to Fujian.

3. Last free time available.

Visiting the Shanghai Technological Museum was significant, as the last time i went there on Monday, as a primary three student, it was closed. An eye-opening experience, just that there were like 200 primary schools in the museum at the same time, and threw whatever they had for picnic on the floor. Then, we wandered around the shops that formed the link between the museum and the railway station. After an unsuccessful stint at nanjing walking street, we took the train to 娄关山路, to 歌城, to sing K for Fun. The first 2 hours were enjoyable, while the last few hours were not so since we were concerned that we would be late to return. Already 30 minutes into our reporting time, we had to rush back to school asap. Wandering around the crowded streets at 7pm, jaywalking to look for a cab was by far the most interesting experience i had. The only blemish i had was that, upon arrival, we found out that we were the earliest to arrive....

2 & 1. Theres really no definitive moment, and even if there is , i dont plan to rank it so early in my life journey.

Splash~~

Hai

2011-07-22T22:12:00.000+08:00

Adjusting to life in new cca.
Hope i dont start to pon lol.
And NBA, please dont lockout, resume the season at 1st november k?
Derek Fisher, please do your part, if you had helped to lift the lockout, it would be one last great thing you did before you retire for good the next few seasons.

2011-07-17T15:21:00.002+08:00

Chris Paul over Deron Williams. All the time man.

Tracy McGrady over Vince Carter. All the time man.

John Wall over Blake Griffin. All the time man.

Westbrook over Rose. May sometimes.

LOL

Hai.

2011-06-17T17:16:00.002+08:00

Ever felt the urge for somehting to pass by so quickly, in order for you to enjoy what happens after that ? That something is usually an obstacle:
"Be it tests, exams, interviews, or maybe just a plain-boring sunday school class. If the answer is yes, then congrats, you're human. If its no, then you're probably a carrefree american. No, I didnt make that up just so that it rhymes. I've been through this a couple of times.

Honestly, the first time i ever gone through such an experience was during secondary three. It was a trip to Beijing for immersion. After just entering CSE, I was surrounded by new classmates, and new friends. The prospect of going overseas and sharing rooms with them was too much for me contain. In fact, the trip actually laid down the foundation for a strong relationship ( or hatred) between my classmates for the rest of my 2 years in BSP. The night before, i really couldn't sleep, turning around on my mattress, fanticising about the excitement i would bear just seven hours later, sitting on the carpet of Terminal 3, impatiently waiting for the boarding call to be made. That anxiety probably keep me up an entire hour. However, that same anxiety was never recollected when, as what i had imagined, 7 hours later i sat on the carpet, beside some fat dude who was my classmate, who i didnt really know ( It turned out to be xichen). all that i had on my mind was all the stuff I was gonna attempt when i touch down on China, and none of them were on remembering all that anxiety and nervourness I had the night before. I guess it is true; who would remember the bad times, when one is indulging in all the happiness one can ask for. The moment i touched down on Beijing's Terminal three, even the 1 degree celsius temperature outside couldnt cool down the excitement i had in my heart. And i was right : Within 2 hours of settling down in my dormitory, people were already playing bball at the school; right after the first night study session ( which was unbelievably slack, went to troll on youtube and facebook ( wasnt banned then)), I brought my first ice-cream at the convenience store downstairs, and gleefully consumed it outdoors, where the night temperature was probably... well it snowed the next day ; right after returning to the dormitory, we played games and watched tv till 2am, and all that was on the first day. I knew it was gonna be a heck of an experience : The rest of the trip didnt disappoint me .

God knows when did i become afraid of end-of-year examinations, perhaps it was when the subjects became content heavy, or maybe that something more excited followed suit directly after the examinations. Nope, it wasnt the NBA 2k10 scheduled for release on the last day of exams: It was another trip. Yes, another SAP immersion trip. The duration of the trip? Late October to End of the Year, across six cities across the coastal areas of China. Beat that man.! 10 Days before the test I was panicking : I couldnt concentrate because I cosntantly let my mind wandered off to imagine what would it be like in China, with my friends, especially what i experienced in BSC. I was dearly hoping for the exams to finish, so that i can quickly embark on my trip preparations, blah blah. All these, 10 days before the exams. However, when i rested beside the resturant table at the Burger King in T3, the first place i visited after checking into the boarding area, nothing on my mind was about the "crappy" feeling i had when exams were fast approaching.

Of course, the end is always great in these circumstances, but you miss out on the process, the journey. When hoping for something to pass by, you actually miss out on some things. When i hoped for the exams period to pass by last year, I didnt realise I was spending the last few months of an highly entertaining 4B1 Life in limbo state, purely studying and nothing else. Only when i realised all that had remained of my high school life was a pultry 2 weeks did i begin to cherish and live everyday to the fullest, together along with my classmates. Game 1, 2, 3,4 all started when we were studying for our O-levels... Now in Junior College, we had to rely on class outings to gather.

In fact, the most recent class outing was something i looked forward to ---- not before passing an obstacle. It was a CCA-related interview. For moments i was pondering on whether to skip the interview and go straight for the outing, which had already started, or to force myself to go through the interview, which i viewed as an opportunity to train myself. In the end, i decided to go ahead with the interview, and in fact, it wasnt half bad- i made a few people laugh; and i didnt miss much of the outing, and had the best 2 days of my june holidays. I'm glad that i didnt just choose to back out from somehting that never fails to send chills down my spine ( yeah interviews...) and chose to face it. Definitely built some character here.

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Oh, yah, Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks, 2010-2011 World Champions.

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2011-06-04T17:28:00.002+08:00

Help lol.
Maybe i should have brought up the idea of going back to China.
Well, at least its gonna be a productive holiday..

Heh

2011-05-26T01:17:00.002+08:00

Phew, all thats left is 2 more school days.

We need to watch the finals together, people.

Hai

2011-05-17T22:19:00.000+08:00

When something you advocate/promote so fiercely... backfires on you.
all i can feel is disappointment.
Sometimes i feel that there was no change at all, or a change to pacify parents.
Cant believe i took pains to portray you in a positive light in front of your critics, explaining to them that you are not that bad after all.
Change now, permanently
Or risk losing everybody.
~~~
Lakers got knocked out last week, and i received a rude awakening when i received a sms from gunny that morning saying " heheh :D"
And that was before i had all my hope in them surviving to play another game in Staples Center.
Dont know why, but i felt a sense of liberation when the Lakers were no longer in the playoffs.
The first year they won the NBA, i told myself, if Lakers get knocked out, i will never watch the rest of NBA playoffs. I thought i had to when they met Denver Nuggets in Conference Finals.
Then they won game 1. Hallelujah.
Last Year's playoffs, lakers won every game 1, so i had no worries.
But i painstakingly missed 2 games purposedly, to avoid the jinx that if i watched from the start, the lakers would lose.
This Year, i probably felt nothing much when Lakers lost both Game 1.
But all of sudden, that security was gone.
What security? Phil Jackson's team is 44-0 in series when they win the first game.
Something that i have always stated in my posts.
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Holidays are coming soon. hah.
-
Bai

2011-05-12T21:49:00.000+08:00

Using Gunny's catchphrase on the internet.

EHEH-.-

And its not because lakers were swept

heheh

2011-04-30T00:10:00.001+08:00

I shall declare yesterday (29 April 2011) a cool day.
4B1 2010 man.

Heh

2011-04-27T22:46:00.000+08:00

I think songs that are made without any money-making intentions are the best.

2011-04-26T00:48:00.001+08:00

Just glad that the day's finally over.

Hai

2011-04-21T23:59:00.000+08:00

Good day people.

Good Friday's tomorrow.

Faceoff's saturday.

Easter Sunday's , sunday.

Life is Good?

Nope.

First round of Playoffs has just started. And its living up to its hype. Go.

I guess every thing that belongs to the past is always in a special place in our hearts.

BSC, SAP immersion Trip, blah.

And i somehow miss the early 2000 years.

When, every team used to have their own superstars.

This was when, the shooting guard / small forward position was the most stacked in the league.

Allen Iverson, PHI

Paul Pierce, BOS

Kobe Bryant, LAL

Vince Carter, TOR

Tracy McGrady, ORL

Grant Hill, ORL

Ray Allen,SEA

And many more.

To be honest, i suspect that the Kobe-Shaq, one-two punch were the trailblazers for forming these superteams.

It was Kobe-Shaq, the best 1-2 punch in history,

then its was T-mac & Yao

followed by some Steve Nash & Amare

now its Durant & Westbrook,

and to some point Lebron James & Dwayne Wade

or Carmelo & Amare.

Not to mention those big-3 teams.

Oh wait, Kobe-Gasol. Still the best in league? We'll see come playoffs.

yes, we will only miss the things only when they are long gone.

Probably, Good old days with 4B1?

Hai

2011-04-10T17:57:00.000+08:00

Heheh. Lakers' haters couldnt be more happy nowadays. Right after their 16-1 start since the NBA All star weekend, the lakers have been 1-4, currently on a 4 game losing streak, and tomorrow, they would be meeting the Oklahoma City Thunder. A Boston fan will point out, that none of Phil Jackson's championship teams had 4 game losing streaks, let alone 2 of them the Lakers are currently having. I couldnt agree more. Lakers might not be a lock for the Championship anymore, but they still have the edge in the West. Talking about statistics, The No.1 Seeds in the West are 4-7 in Finals Appearance that same year, and 6-6 when they have the home court advantage. The record sounds decent, but not so for the other teams when they find out that since 1999, the Lakers are 4-0 in Finals Appearance, when they possess the homecourt advantage. Even so, let us see the last few years. Other than the Lakers, most of the No.1 Seeds in the West have faced early exits, that is evident in 2007 (Mavericks), 2006 ( Spurs), 2005 ( Phoenix), 2004 (Spurs), 2002 (Sacramento), 2001(Spurs). While that doesnt imply that a four game losing streak, or a potentially 5 game losing streak is no concern, it just means that it is never safe to be the number 1 seed in the West, unless your team goes by the name of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Let us analyse the paths of Spurs and Lakers.
Spurs:
For the first round, they face the Memphis Grizzlies, which is a young team, and had beaten them 2 times in the regular season. While playoffs are totally a different matter, i think the Grizzlies might snatch a game or two, while tiring the Spurs down in the process. Even if the Spurs advance to the Conference Semifinals, they either face the Oklahoma City Thunder or the Denver Nuggets, 2 really annoyingly fast teams. Again, if the spurs are able to finish them off in 4 games, then thats good, but obviously that is an impossibility. If the series lasts 7 games, the Spurs might run out of oil come Conference Finals time.

Lakers:
For the first round, they face a easy matchup, a New Orleans Hornets without Option 1B David West.
While for the second round, they either face Portland Trailblazers of Dallas Mavericks. Trailblazers might pose a problem for the Lakers, but if Kobe Bryant chooses to rely on his teammates, especially Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, the Lakers can emerge out of the series winners. For the Dallas Mavericks: they arent just a playoff team. Grabbing the 2nd seed last season, they got knocked out in the first round to the San Antonio Spurs, and 4 seasons ago, they lost 2-4 in the first round when they were the first seed, and that is their first year after their finals defeat.

So, if the Lakers wake up earlier, then the West is still Lakers' to lose.

The past week is quite ongoing and exciting. Council Elections week.
The first 2 days were the introduction of nominees and Q&A.
For those that didnt get in, move on duh.
For Xichen, its time for BSP Council.
Yao didnt get in as he calculated, and was grumbling over dinner, then he exposed some juicy stuff to us. Of course i wouldnt post.
Hint: It will get Lin Zhuo angry.
And angry did he get, when he confronted Yao on Friday.

and its time to revolutionise BSP man, it needs a good council to keep it running and its students interested.
Speaking of that CSC test's next week.
Hah.
Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics tomorrow.
I would rather the Celtics lose, so that they will not gain home advantage over the Lakers come Finals time.
Oh, did i mention, out of the last 40 players chosen to be MVP, only 13 of them brought home the Championship trophy that same year.
None since Tim Duncan, 8 years ago.

HP!

2011-03-24T23:41:00.002+08:00

K Happy Birthday Hejie. She turns 25 on the 25th.

Heheh

2011-03-17T09:50:00.000+08:00

A famous surgeon went into a car workshop to get his car repaired. The mechanic looked up, and knew at once who he was.
In an attempt to show off to the surgeon, the mechanic said, " come here Doc, i have something to show you." where he took out the faulty part, replaced it with a working one, and fixed it back to its original position in great speed.
Contented with his skills, he challenged the doctor: " Hey Doc, my job has the same nature as yours, replacing organs, and i even do it at a much faster pace then you. So, any idea why am i paid like, 10 times lesser than you?"
The Surgeon simply replied, " Try doing it with the engine on."

Heh.

I dont really bear any hatred towards you, but most probably because of your folks, especially the maternal side. Yeah i know they are separated, and i jolly well know the reason behind their separation. China has gradually become a materialistic society, where money trumps over everything, even kindredness & love. Well i reluctantly accept the fact that this has already become a reality, but that's your mom's prob, and i think you should fulfil your every responsiblity of being a granddaughter. What's with only returning back to the paternal side once every few months, when you are only a 2 hours ride away from their house, and you are bloodily still in elementary school? I have no objections with you choosing your mom over dad, but keep in mind that you wouldnt last long with your mom and your new family, partly because they themselves would NOT last long in the society with the uncertified degrees they doctorated themselves.

Heh.

BSP symposium ended 2 days ago, just felt that it was a good experience for me in terms of presentation. Overall, both Han Song and I didnt put in any effort, which might not be the case if we had gotten greater honours.

Heheh

2011-03-14T23:53:00.000+08:00

Yea BSP symposium's tomorrow, guess what, just finished with my script, went though it 2 times, and i'm bloodily done.

Who bothers to come our LT, when it is at some deserted corner of the school, 5 stories up? Duuude.

Left hand got screwed, doctor diagnosed it as some contact allergy- cant practice my erhu- what a sad life i'm living.

Why does the symposium take the whole day?

And, why does this post sound more like a daily report (patronising one)?

Amen.

Lakers vs Magic tomorrow

Heheh

2011-03-09T17:14:00.001+08:00

Yeh, its time for self-improvement.

its time to step up man.

Lets start with...

Previous previous post

2011-03-03T17:06:00.000+08:00

Let me add in another.

11. breaking gunny's headphones in Shanghai.
Bad news: We werent friends for 2 hours
Good news: It was good that it only lasted for 2 hours.

Lunwen rehearsal tomorrow. That makes me miss half of chemistry tutorial. Hallelujah?
Lets see how well-prepared are we tomorrow.
How to sneak into Dramafeste?

bangbangbang

2011-02-20T14:23:00.001+08:00

Last week, Confidence to approach people disappeared along with 60% of my hair.

Bleacherreported-style

2011-02-15T22:19:00.000+08:00

Yeah.

Every overseas trip is memorable, especially ones with friends accompanying you, and each and every single trip always carries many regrets alongside with them. So. Here are 10 of mine.

10. Not visiting the rest of the Pavilions at Shanghai Expo

I put this at number 10 cos, this is something that not everybody have done it, hence theres no need to feel isolated. But seriously, some of the Asia Pavilions (Japan, South Korea) were really too good for me to miss.

Fact: Yeah, I took the same plane with Xuechen to Shanghai, and we sat next to each other and played Pokemon Gold for the whole trip.

9. Experiencing too little of Beijing Life. ( BSC)

Honestly, being the “pioneer” batch of this 2010 Sec Four Batch to venture into Beijing Satellite Campus meant that nobody would be there to show us the ropes to the various aspects of a Beijing Life. As such, much of weekends were actually spent in dormitories either playing the com or watching live-telecasts of matches. Nevertheless, we’ve managed to blaze a trail for the rest of the people.

8. Sleeping on the bus (SAP Immersion)

As a direct consequence of staying up till 3+ the previous night ( or this morning), most of us hit the sack the moment we came in contact with the seats. Even though sleeping time gradually increased after we left Ningbo, it became much more of a habit for the rest of the trip ( for us to doze on buses). Hence, while in deep sleep, I practically missed the sceneries that I may never have any chances of looking at anymore.

7. Non-existent cultural immersions in Ningbo and Wuxi.

Why would I say that it makes no difference even if we didn’t visit these two places? In Ningbo, our most frequent destination was the immersion school five minutes away, from the hotel, and probably, the longest distance we’ve travelled ourselves by foot was probably crossing the road to buy soft drinks or Ice-cream. In Wuxi, the furthest distance we’ve walked was probably two streets down, from the hotel. We turned back after realizing it was a street full of bars. That was on our first day. The only meal settle by ourselves was some 豪客来 (beef steak store) 50 ms away from the hotel entrance. Maybe we were too lazy to wander around after we found out that Garena was playable in China. What happened to the immersion? I don’t wanna be a tourist.

6. Not getting the local hosts’ contacts.

Sorry, a bit lame here. That happened in both Shanghai and Suzhou. In Suzhou, we promised to exchange email contacts via the mobile phone, but 2 days after I gave the co-host my number, my SIM card ran out of balance; it took me 2 more weeks: when I landed in Shanghai, for me to top up the card. Who knows if he even called? For the case of Shanghai, it was just pure laziness, for the both of us.

5. Not given too much free time in Shanghai.

Practically the same as number 7, but its Shanghai we’re talking about here! Shanghai is China’s busiest city, and yet we are unable to experience the cosmopolitan nature of this city by ourselves? Damn whats’ immersion? For three whole weeks, nights after 7pm were spent rotting in the dorm, wandering around from room to room, and turning in at 11pm after a tiring and uninteresting day.

4. Spending on 10 minutes on the Bond.

You’re bloody kidding me. 10 minutes? As 12 out of 19 people could not decide on what to have for dinner, I forced them into Pizza hut. As a result of being in a too comfortable environment, a little more time was spent in the restaurant. We even went to the bookshop for a while. As a result, when we rushed to the Bond ( 外滩), we only had 10 minutes to view the night scenery before returning to the reporting place. There goes our only free time @ night.

3.Choosing to eat MacDonalds’ at ChengHuangMiao

I didn’t really regret it that much, until RongHao proudly announced that he devoured N packets of XiaoLongBao in (x<5) minutes. Yea, I may be an avid Mac’s fan, but I admit that that was really a foolish decision and a great regret of mine. Too tired from walking around the place, we had to settle for something that we can find 100s of them right here in Singapore. Anyway, never mind. Han Song Lin Zhuo and Johnny were there to share it with me.

2. Not getting Nanjing kids’ contacts/gave them too little stuff

5 minutes before I was leaving the school, I gave them my number and told them, “ Please Call!” But as I held my phone for the next 8 hours, there was not a single ring, except during alarm times. They didn’t call not because I told them English ( I told them to call in mandarin ), but rather that they were incompetent to call? Perhaps asking them for their number would be easier / The only gifts I left for them were the two unopened packets of Milk candies that I stuffed into their shirt and pants’ pockets. Even though I believe that people have to work in order to deserve something, I feel that they should be given credit for listening in English lessons.

1. 1.Taking so many photos, but always, always missing out on the MOST precious moments.

Throughout the SAP trip, I took about 6700 photos, but

· I missed out on our class’ performance at Ningbo’s farewell party

· I missed out pictures of us at hotel rooms in Wuxi

· I missed out on my local hosts’ photos (Shanghai and Suzhou)

· I missed out pictures of us on the Suzhou streets

· I missed out us on the Bond; ChengHuangMiao

· I missed out on the days in Nanjing which I Missed out

· I missed out photos of the farewell party (my emcee part lol)

· I missed out on the last few moments in Changjiao

· I missed out the epic scene of seeing Xuechen cry

· I missed out on our last day of the immersion trip

What’s a lot for 6700 photos if you miss so many picture-worthy moments?

School’s starting for real. Don’t wait.

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2011-02-09T22:46:00.000+08:00

I wrote an email to China 24, an English News broadcast that is shown everyday at 8pm on CCTV news channel, enquiring them about the possibility of including subtitles and improving the standards of the experts & reporters.

Seriously, who will, when asked about US trade protectionism against China, say that the "US is a joke"? Even if it is, you are an "expert", cant you phrase it into a more indirect way?

Anyway check it out @ china24@cctv.com

...

2011-02-07T21:57:00.000+08:00

Wonder why's everybody in a foul/bad/sour mood today.

That includes me too.

And no, its not that 4 goal lead we've lost during the weekend to Newcastle.

Something... hah.

Hai

2011-02-06T22:27:00.000+08:00

On Friday, after returning home from house visiting, i tried something new.

I turned on all the lights in my house; or phrased in an another way, i switched on every single switch that i could find.

Living under a rather stingy father, its not every day where you can turn on 2 light switches in the living room.

Then, after turning on the lights, i found out that: wow, actually my house looks rather decent.

Yeah. That's why you must always look at every aspect of something/somebody in order to fully evaluate him.

Just like how you evaulate the point guards in the L right now.

Rajon Rondo is the successor to Boston's houdini of the hardwood, Bob Cousy, and coincidentally, he plays for the Boston Celtics too. (what a fact). In a league where youngsters influenced by Allen Iverson have all emerged to become scoring guards, Rondo sticks to the pass-first mentality that was once a compulsory pre-requisite for all point guards. Like what Chauncey Billups said, he had troubles with his first coach, as at that time, the point-guard position was still pass-first orientated, and Billups was a scoring guard.

Wowing to average 20 assists per game this season, Rondo has managed 7.5 less, but nevertheless 12.5apg is still a remarkable feat, considering he holds a healthy 2.5 apg advantage over the next highest assister. One bad point is that he lacks the scoring instinct from mid-long range, hence opponents tend to overlook him when hes on the perimeter.

Chris Paul. I wonder how can people forget what chris paul has done 2 seasons ago when he was averaging 23+11 (shooting .503 fg) stats, and proclaim that the there are still a lot of candidates for the league's best point guard? In his peak year, he averaged 21.1 ppg and 11.8 ppg and 2.7 steals per game. Thats just pure ownage man. Hes the all-round guy.

Anyway, schools starting tomorrow, have fun everybody. Happy CNY too.!

Heheh

2011-02-03T02:00:00.001+08:00

Have Fun people, its Chinese New Year.

Heres to a better 2011.

Hai

2011-01-26T10:07:00.000+08:00

Yeah, it turns out Hejie's concert was very well performed.

And, it also turns out that the rumours i heard were true.

Hejie is free once again!

Now, lets sit back and see which company would she choose.

And this song rocks.

Hai

2011-01-24T10:48:00.001+08:00

Yo everybody, happy new year! (nah i just say it to anybody i have yet to meet in the new year)
today's 24 january, which spells the 6th day of the spring rush, also known as the "bloody long journey that i have to take standing to home in order to reach just in time for reunion dinner" before the spring festival kicks off.
Apparently, not surprisingly, not everybody gets the tickets they want for: One man queued for approximately 14 hours, before he was told that all tickets to Shenyang (i think) were sold out.
In 2006, the country promised to solve the shortage of train tickets by 2010; by 2009 it was pushed till 2012; and now further pushed to 2015. Wow, thats something no one would expect from the supposedly "most efficient" country in terms of building infrastructure and improving its economy.
Well, in the end, that guy managed to get 5 tickets (huh, i thought it was sold out), after using an extreme method: He stripped till all that was left was his undergarments, and barged into the director's office...

K dude, i feel you man, but... cant you just take a bloody plane?
News reports said that even though China has the largest number of rising middle classes, a lot of people are still unable to afford plane tickets-- however, plane ticket prices are not that far-fetched in China; one netizen took pains to compile a comparison between the plane ticket prices and train ticket prices--- it turns out that the price for Southern Airlines' First Class (oh there is one?) fetches for the same price for the first class room in trains, even though, the first class room consists of a sofa, a bed and a closet.
I just dont really get why the chinese are hesistant towards taking a plane. What happened to consumer's confidence?

The same stuff happened last year when i went back to China: after the last day viewing the Shanghai Expo, we (mum and i) decided that it was finally time for us to set off for our hometown of Wuhan. The first action taken by my mum was to visit the nearest train ticket booth. After queuing for 20 minutes, the cashier told us that the next train to Wuhan is the next day, 06:25. It will take 10+ hours and, i have to stand throughout the trip. The next train that we can find a seat is 2 days later.
So i just told my mum, can we take a bloody plane?
My mum refused to do so, citing security concerns.
"南航咧"
Come on man, its not like China had airlines sanctions posed against it, like Iraq.
It's not that bad.
Under my persistance, we booked a plane to Wuhan scheduled to fly off the next day.
And, in just 4 hours, we touched down.
Just in time for my uncle's birthday.

Today's 24th January
Hejie's organising a fanbase concert at 1600 hours.
And its at 欢乐谷.
I hope that the xx number of songs that she sings down the stretch wouldnt be the last we see of her.
Look how happy she is in her microblog.
http://t.sina.com.cn/hejie
Bye.

HI

2011-01-01T22:18:00.002+08:00

Damn i was selfish.

Family's health and career comes first.

And hope that Hejie's career can take off.

Hai~

2010-12-31T15:51:00.000+08:00

Hey Yo..

Its just 9 more hours to the year 2011.

Since i most probably would be on the way back from Church when the year 2010 finally passes on, heres to wishing a Happy New Year to everybody.!
Year 2010 has definitely been an eventful year:

Lakers winning their 2nd straight title,

Hejie having her 3rd albums....

are just a few events that are highlights of 2010.
So how will 2011 be better?

A three peat?

Arsenal ending their title drought?

Or her 4th album?

Happy New Year man.

Hejie's appearing on Shenzhen TV's 跨年 concert toNITE.

Have fun.

Bye.

Yeh...

2010-12-14T10:57:00.000+08:00

It is with a heavy heart that i start this post, as, you know, 1-0 loss.

Let me first summarise the past week

Last last sunday : Macdonalds for Lunch

Last Monday : Ditto

Last Tuesday: KFC for lunch

Last Wednesday: Burger King before departure

Last Thursday: abstained from fast food, i'm pure.

Last Friday: Ditto

Last Saturday: Aus' Macdonalds' Selections Meal for Dinner

Last Sunday : Same stuff for Lunch

Yesterday: Macdonalds @ Changi AIrport for Dinner.

Ok then, sorry boys, dont ever ask me out for Macdonalds anymore throughout the holidays.

That includes the routine we follow everytime after Church.

* The Australia's Macdonalds' Selections meal consists of :

1 Mighty Angus (Some damn gay beef burger)

1 Grand Angus

2 Quarter Pounder

4 Medium Fries

4 Coke

6 Chicken McNuggets (Which is one box)

It costs.... 29.95 AUS

Thats the abridged version. Now the details need to be filled in.

On Wednesday night, i was supposed to board the flight to Brisbane Airport, a task which i eventually accomplished, but not before filling my stomach (Had close to nothing for dinner). Seeing that i was scheduled to depart in T2, it had dawned upon me that Burger King was at T2, and for unforeseen circumstances, i did not stop at Macdonalds to grab a meal, despite sitting down on their stools to wait for Zheng Yi's sister to finish her trip to the restroom. So upon check-in, the only thing on my mind was to rush to the utmost right of the terminal, board the skytrain to T3, get the bloody meal, rush back, all in 30 minutes.

Well...

As i was walking to the boarding gates, i brushed past a sign saying "Burger King @ level 3", T2. Never mind. Exercise.

Etihad Airlines, was what i took. Turns out to be the "World's Best Airlines for the second year running", and it also turns out to be Manchester City's sponsor.

Upon arrival, we were welcomed by some australian dude in his 50s. He probably belonged to some transporting agent in Aus. Lingering around the meeting point, i found out that in order for the Internet Kiosk to function, one needs to pop 6 1 dollar coins in, all for 1 hour usage. Thats worse than LAN.

Whats worse was that the tyre burst halfway throughout the trip, and the dude ( who was also the bus driver) couldnt fix it due to a lack of both material and skill.

Thus we reached the first destination late. But... just in time for lunch hehehehehe.

Paradise Country, to be put in a few words, is just a commercialised farm that is earning money only because other farms in Australia failed to commericalise theirs. Shepherd dog, sheeps, horses, cows; wow.

Seaworld was on the schedule the next day.

Other than walking around aimlessly under the burning sun, we took the rides. Other than the jet rescue ride which went full speed ahead, i had to keep myself awake for the other rides/shows. (nah kidding, but you get the idea).

Movieworld, the next day, was just the Warner Bros Version of Universal Studios, and vice versa.

WB had Harry potter Superman, Batman blah blah under their brand. Took on 95% of the rides. Much better man.

On the last day, we rode on a Jet Ski, which allowed us to tour around the whole Gold Coast, while getting fully wet in the process. Hahah, SPLASH~!~~~.

Tried to catch the Chelsea vs Tottenham match, at 2:55am, but i fell asleep.

Woke up at 5am--- too late.

Damn, why are foreigners better looking?

Baye

2010-12-08T19:40:00.002+08:00

Bye bye.

Off to Australia till 13th?

Think so.

No way would i have met Andrew Bogut, since hes residing in Milwaukee right now.

Bryant scores 32 points in a win against the Wizards, while Yi jianlian manages a 7 point 5 rebound effort.

Tomorrow morning's Arsenal vs Partizan Belgrade. Seriously, for the sake of Arsenal's finance, please please please advance.

Damn

2010-11-25T22:59:00.000+08:00

Church Camp tomorrow.

How prepared are we? somewhere amongst 50-60%.

Who cares.

4-9 year olds.

bb.

Hejie is owning in the mainland now. (Appearing on the closing ceremony.!~

Splash.

No..

2010-11-20T23:00:00.002+08:00

Damn... Why arent all things going my way.

First Chinese Women's Soccer Team's exit for the Asiad games,

then Arsenal's collapse.

I think i really need to study.

Or practice anything.

Arsenal was leading 2-0 when i was practicising erhu.

Then i kept it at half-time.

The rest is history. Damn.

HI

2010-11-02T23:04:00.000+08:00

Time to do some early season preview.

The lakers are passable following their 3-0 start, but they were against 2 non-playoff teams and one that was weakened considerably after the departure of Amare. However, what was interesting to note is that, the Lakers let in the most points against the Rockets (110points), who later went on to lose to the Golden State Warriors 128-132, who then was held to their lowest point total yet this eason at 83 when they visited the Lakers.

Boston Celtics are... Just a fun team to watch. Not talking about the 50 assists Rondo made across their first three games, but how the games were won and lost. An opening night victory against the Miami, then a loss to Lebron-less Cavaliers and won against a revitalised New York Knicks in a close fight. What was similar in all of these 3 games was that the Boston Celtics' worst quarter is the fourth. Holding a 20 point lead midway into the third, the Celtics almost lost to the New Look Miami Heat before clutch plays from Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. Then a 15-point lead entering the 4th was blown, and they lost to the Cavaliers. The same scenario almost happened against the Knicks.
If Clutch happens on a nightly basis, then it is no longer known as being clutch. Much like how Kobe made only 6 of his 8 potential game winning shots, the Celtics would not be that lucky every contest, or else it might just run out when the playoffs commence.
And, who the hell really believed that the Heat can win 72 games?
Well, most probably those Americans on Bleacherreport. Some "Self-proclaimed first class citizens" even went as far as believing that the Heat would go 82-0, which is ridiculous even for a fanboy-ish comment.
The Chicago's big three was built with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman.
Pippen was a fairly average player until he met Jordan, (see his failures at Houston and Portland).
But in this case of the Heat, "Pippen"'s abilities are better than "Jordan's", so should they switch roles? THat would cost them some games before they come to the right decision.
dennis Rodman arrived at Chicago from Detroit a season after Jordan finally conquered the.......... Detroit Pistons, and went on to win a championship. He already had at least 2 rebounding titles to his belt before his arrival. His arrival just confirmed the fact that the Bulls would dominate for the next decade or so. But he wasnt known for being a prolific scorer though.
Throw in Chris Bosh for Miami, a guy averaging 24+10 every night, when half of his former teammates couldnt grab a rebound properly. Plus, he doesnt play a post game, and most of his shorts were through shooting. Hence,

Critics argue that Miami Heat will not gurantee absolute success by stating that 1+1+1 does not equal to 3.
Sure enough though, i personally feel that with Lebron and Wade, you get 1+1 = 2.5,
but add Bosh into the reaction, the yield is only about 2.75 (Note that this doesnt imply that Chris Bosh is only 0.25)
Hence, until they get beaten in June, Lakers are still the team to beat. (quoted from analyst)(Obvious i wouldnt praise the Lakers on a nightly basis).

                Bulls wouldnt have wasted large amounts of cash on Carlos Boozer, and wait for 3 weeks before he can make his anticipated debut, JUST because he feel on his bag and injuried his pinky, when he was trying to see who was at the door in his villla.
Bulls had actually acquired LeMarcus Aldridge from the draft, but traded it to the Trail Blazers for another rookie Tyrus Thomas.
Sad sad sad. here are some other examples.

Darko Milicic --> 2nd pick overall by the Detroit Pistons.
Guess what, this guy got selected before players by the likes of ... Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh... and Dwayne Wade.

Marvin Williams, was touted to be the next Tracy McGrady (though it isnt an apt one now), by scouts and analysts that caused him to be picked before Chris Paul, Deron Williams and Raymond Felton. Any one of them will fare better in Atlanta, especially with Williams' 14.7 ppg, unworthy of a 2nd draft pick.
Its funny how scouts screw GMs up.
Then there's Brandon Roy, who was mysteriously picked only 7th by the ___________, then traded to the Trail Blazers, due to a error in Darey Morey's predecessor's plan. (LOL) (Houston's GM). What luck. Then 2008 draft came and they picked Greg Oden ahead of Kevin Durant, the noob.
Then though, Trailblazers would have won 6 more championships, because...
1984 draft, The trailblazers picked Sam Bowie at 2nd. A high schooler. He ended up only scoring 5k points.
Guess who was selected after him. Some guy who was ranked 3rd in the all time scoring list.
Yea. Michael Jordan.

And who was behind he too?

Charles Barkley
Alvin Robertson ( led the league in steals for donno how many years lol)
John Stockton (all time first in assists).
Yawn.

On a side note.

Shanghai Expo had ended last Sunday, which was 2 days ago. The closing ceremony was held that night. Towards the ending a clip was played, which it portrayed the staff in the Shanghai Expo, hugging together as they wept for their last day working in the Expo venue. For the past 184 days, they have been doing their roles fulfillingly: be it the pavillion hosts, helpers or performers. And now, they have to say goodbye to each other, and when they do it, deep inside their hearts they know that they would never see each other again. As we speak, the venue of the Shanghai Expo is being demolished, and after next week, it is non-existent. Even if we as students leave the school upon graduation, we can still re-unite one day back in Hwachong, because we know that the school will always remain in its place. BUt for the staff of the Shanghai Expo, they would be disappointed that the next time they visit Shanghai, the place that they had spent 184 days in it is now replaced by residential buildings. The volunteers of the shanghai Expo, affectionately called 小白菜 due to their green-white outfit, were university students. Bonds were built between them throughout the course of the Exposition. Yes they no longer have to wake up at ridiculously early hours to report to the venue, but i am sure that they will dearly miss the times they had spent with their fellow volunteers in the Expo, as they might not see them ever again.
The phrase "I ONCE WAS a volunteer for the Shanghai Expo 2010" might not make one feel proud about it. Especially when it became a pastime. At the same time, the other channel was showing the fourth installment of Harry Potter, where a triwizard tournament was held. Once again, towards the end of the movie, students from the different schools were hugging and bidding farewell to each other. God knows when they can see each other again.

            Come to think of it. I would say that about 70% of the people you meet will not appear for a second time in the rest of your life. You may not necessarily notice it, but that is because you are constantly living the fast-paced life, without giving much thought.
Only when you settle down and clear your thoughts, then the startling truth would be realised.

As the SAp immersion last November had reminded me of: The more people you meet, the more people you will not see ever again.
Need an example?
自己想想吧

Good luck for Higher-Chinese O levels.

                                                                                                                                       Then I will go meet up with Old friends

HI

2010-10-25T20:16:00.000+08:00

Damn..

The male lead who shielded Selina...

is known as Yu Haoming.

Finished 5th in the competition i think.

Damn, if it was a publicity ploy, i would throw my fists at his agent.

YES~

2010-10-24T20:40:00.002+08:00

Yesss~~~~~~

Hejie's going on 爽食赢天下 !!!!

HAHA~~~~~~~~

HI

2010-10-24T19:17:00.000+08:00

And again it's time like this...

Where i again have to doubt Bryant's understanding of the triangle offence.
No personal attack though, but i would rather see the Lakers' rely on their superior inside to win games, rather than, the
somewhat imbalanced backcourt duo ( Bryant and Fisher, do you see the contrast?).
What people now complain that, the NBA is dying, because "true" centers are practically non-existent. Other than Amare Stoudamiere (dont want to look up the correct spelling) Dwight Howard etc., centers now have adapted the
european style of playing, that is, pick up their mid-range weapons and stretch their perimeter outside the paint.

But. Think
Lakers have a mix of BOTH
Gasol, well a Spanish himself, posesses a sweet mid range shot in collaboration with good post moves. He used to be soft, but that was after
the 2008 finals , where he got pwned by Kevin Garnett so badly, that people had begun labelling him a... softie. Yeap.
He went back to the same stage of the playoffs next year, and outperformed then Defensive Player of the Year, Dwight Howard.
Then, during this year's finals, he had finally gotten rid of that undesirable label.

Bynum, he plays like true NBA centers, which relies on their body to bang around in the paint. While Bynum's importance to the team is never overlooked, his style had limited his playing time. During the past 5 seasons, he averaged about 65 games. More importantly, it was his absence that had the Lakers spanked so badly against the Celtics in 2008. Honestly speaking, Lakers would have stormed to a 3-2 lead heading into Boston, if not for that slip-up in Game 4. (Gave up a 24 point-lead).
Alas, the Lakers made it up for that 67-89 win. Why? Celtics lost Kendrick Perkins to injury, another rare breed of the "true" centers.

See their importance?
Why has Jordan only got an average of 5+ assists in his career? That's because his in the triangle offense throughout the most of his storied career. However, the Bulls' frontcourt was in no way better than what the Lakers' boast now. Hence, Bryant's assists statistics should have elevated to either 7.5 or 8.0 apg. The 2 centers are competent enough to pose any threat to the team. INCLUDING MIAMI HEAT, who stupidly failed to sign Erick Dampier, a 7 feet center that can rival those 2 lakers have. (Instead that got Jerry Stackhouse, a SG)
2 seasons ago, the Lakers were 65-17. If I would to look at their schedule, i would probably pick up about.. 12 games that the Lakers shouldnt lose at all. Ok, we know the Charlotte Bobcats are the only other team that have a winning record against the Lakers at 7-5,(the other team, well 3-leaf clover happy?), that is because they focus a lot on defending the wing players- a.k.a Mr Kobe Bryant.
Examine this preseason's match against Miami Heat and Charlotte Bobcats. Bobcats emerged victorious; turn the clock back, when Bobcats managed to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers, twice. The feat even the Lakers and Magic couldnt achieve. Their secret? Defend the wings!
Whats the similarity or the link between these 2 teams? Well, Lebron James, a wing player.

If lakers would to rely and exploit more on their expectional frontcourt, one that no other NBA team possess, they would easily have reached win number 70, especially when Kobe was much more healthy then. Who knows, even Kobe Bryant, the one who sacrifices his 26ppg 5rpg 5 apg to a, probably, 23ppg5ppg8apg, might even get the nod for that year's MVP, and we need not make wild and ungrounded guesses about whether the Miami Big Three can pull off 70 wins. (Seriously what makes them think so?)

The Lakers have a very bad record without Kobe Bryant, but its improving right now. a 120-99 victory over the Warriors without Kobe, but a 105-102 overtime tough victory with Kobe, and the Warriors WITHOUT Steph Curry. Food for thought man.

Time for dinner baye.

Hai

2010-10-08T21:14:00.002+08:00

Damn..
I miss MM combo.
(Ming & McGrady)

HI

2010-10-02T20:59:00.000+08:00

Well... It seems that this is my 100th post.

But i deleted 100+ of them, after my father's criticism.

Nonetheless, nothing to be excited about.

Yesterday, was 1st October. Happy National Day, China!

National Day holidays in China lasts for 7 days.

Take that Singapore.

at the same time, Hejie made use of the 7 days... to promote her new album.

Shortly after the album release, she left hastily for france... To shoot a movie. (turns out shes playing the extra-marital partner) .

So, shes back, and 7 locations in 7 days.

Her first stop was Anhui, coincidentally my father's hometown.

She arrived in Nanjing today.

While i hope she ends her promotional journey on a high note in 7 days, i hope mine starts on one too.

Dunman High has already started their End-of-years, while English is on 7 Oct. For us.

Lets do it.

Again, i remembered i wrote something last year on a scrap piece of paper, before the EOYs.

"On the night before BSC, i was so anxious about the upcoming trip that i couldnt sleep for a hour or two, with

me constantly thinking about the state i would be 5 hours later. However, 5 hours later, as i sat down on the comfy carpet

of Terminal 3, would i still remember the anxious state i was in 5 hours before on my bed?"

Likewise, as much as i dread the upcoming exams, i constantly think of the events i would sink myself in after 11am on 20th October. However, when i indulge myself in rounds of basketball, would i still have vivid images of the anxiety i displayed 18 days ago, right here at this moment?

On a side note, bad news for Arsenal: Fabregas and Gibbs is out for the Chelsea match. Whats worse: Manuel Alumnia is too.

That meaning, Fabianski is in the front of goal. Amen. London derbies frighten me. Why cant Arsenal have the upperhand for once?

23 more days to the start of the 2010-2011 NBA season. Very much like this year's EPL, the new season is gonna be oh-so-GREAT!. With the Miami Trio looking to oust the 72-10 regular season record, the Lakers' trying to accomplish a 2nd three feat in 11 years, at the same time struggling to keep Bynum healthy. An Orlando Magic looking to rival the new Central division opponents down there at Florida, and a revitalised Wizards and Clippers trying to vy for a playoff spot with the addition of John Wall, Yi jianlian, return of Gilbert Arenas, AND the return of Blake Griffin respectively.

While today holds much more meaning.

Consider it a gift for motherland.

Guo Ailun. 28 points for China's U-18 basketball team. That probably sums up China's future in the 1-2 positions.

At the same time we dwell on China's hope, I certainly hope that the Miami Trio, replicate works of the Lakers' trio of Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor for 2 more years, before they unleash their inner potential.

Why do i say that?
Cause i want Kobe Bryant to win 7 rings and move into no.2 of the greatest player of all time.
Under the attack of the media, analysts, and haters, Kobe bryant has become the MOST underrated/unnoticed legacy.
You think, what crap are you talking about? Kobe bryant sucks! Received MVP only after 12 years, 45% career fg, bad relationships with O'Neal, sex scan.......
Told you so.
If y'all had the leisure, take some time to read this:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/464297-why-appreciate-kobe-bryants-skills-when-its-much-easier-to-hate-him
Its satircal.
Bye.

P.S the Lakers' trio of Chamberlain, West and Baylor did not win a single title in the 4 years they were togther.

Heheh

2010-09-26T20:41:00.000+08:00

just try it. Last to the Chorus. At least.

Hai.

2010-09-17T21:14:00.000+08:00

Pure ownage

even if its only for the first week.

Haha~~~~~~~~~~

2010-09-08T18:43:00.002+08:00

When is the album coming out?

Tomorrow!
《想要回到何洁》

Finally

2010-08-31T23:19:00.000+08:00

Ok, finally.

9th Sept 2010.

I waited for three bloody years.

HI.

2010-08-28T17:44:00.001+08:00

Had my first try in 2k10 for nearly a month.

Easily, the game was frustrating, i had no choice but to alt-f4.

last week's sabbatical was the Asian Youth Chinese Forum. Well, it was a blast.

Sadly though, i didnt bring along my camera, or so it wasnt in my list-to-bring when i moved in after the trip to Night Safari.

Its ironical, when i get impatient at my group members which like to take photographs of our school, and by doing so, they

lag behind and theres a huge gap. I clearly have no grounds to be impatient with them, considering the 6700 photo collection i had during my immersion in China last year. Yea, but however i still catch up to the group.

This prolly means that, if i brought my camera along with me this week, the number of photos i take would hit 1000. The trip to Shanghai expo lasted 3 days, and i already had 700+ photos stored in my sd card.

Being, a facilitator was, rather fun. Had 2 groups to facilitate during this week. From Day 1 to 3, it was the designated group, while Day 4 and 5 was the group picked by me, due to a lack of choice. (but i enjoyed it though).

Sometimes we, (the S4 committee), suspect that have we really reached the objective of this forum? The "forum", i would say only lasted for 40 minutes, in the form of communicating with the minister. (And by saying that, 95% of the questions asked were NOT from the floor, but instead from the already so-well prepared ones from the stage).

The definition of an academical forum is overlooked.

BUT. who hopes for a boring academical forum?

However, still i believe that monday's trip to Orchard was a waste of time.

why bring students to orchard? Window shopping @Orchard?

Never mind, since the plan was drawn by Wilson.

Camped at Kinokuniya , the assclown bookstore which had 90% of the books sealed up in plastic, for nearly 1hour.

There was this girl that fell into a relatively deep dilemma.

"Should I buy this BOOK???? Volume 69 had come out here, but over there in China volume 68 have not even been released!"

"But but but, its so expensive? It costs 20RMB!!!!"

I took the book from her hands and checked the price: 8.99SGD.

When did RMB become so strong? Lol

But at the end she managed to climb herself out, and brought the books.

See the (s) at the end?

One moment she hesitated about the price, the next she spent 40 SGD on them.

Wonder what would she feel if vol.69 was released when she returned back home?

Then, another member had a unhealthy obsession with BL. Well, a unprofessional term commonly used in China, for the definition of gay.

Why call it Boy Love when Gay sounds wayyy more gay?

okok. just joking.

Tuesday was some serious business.

Yep, of course after a good sleep earlier on in the morning.

Considering it to be a Cultural (take note) Academical Forum,

a forum was held between numerous professors and the students deep in the districts where bus 183 always passes by.

Sadly though, the forum got going 10 minutes from finishing time.

Estimated duration of the talk that morning, 2 hours.

Physics professors, an fanatic on China's greatest philosophist, and a late-comer which didnt prepare his speech.

Above are the ingredients for a sleeping pill.

afternoon was work.

For the students, while we lied down in the opposite room.

Then why do we need that sleep in the morning?

Exposed.

Wednesday was the forum.

Held a fresh new copy of the action plan of the largest event this week.

My job was to... 维持秩序? huh.

So, throughout the forum i stayed on my seats, and stared blankly at the Catholic high students, who always have an infamous habit of being late for seminars, when they obviously, came in late.

Night. was spent at Night Safari.

How Evian i was spelt backwards (spell evian backwards), that i had thought that the Zoo was really really just nearby. The KFC that i had been thinking about ever since I've been briefed about going to Night Safari was nowhere to be found in the premise. Substituting in its space were over-priced restaurants. huh.

But it was fun.

Its funny that one of the Indonesian in my group had difficulty grasping Chinese. I first noticed that during the Ice-breakers. That impression was passed down to the sole male member of my group. after communicating with her in Chinese, that male member stood forward and asked blankly in Chinese,"you understand?". It seems that he wasnt listening to the conversation that Indonesian girl had with the Zhejiang girl.

But that doesnt mean i was listening. Just nibs and bits of it.

Nevertheless she is a good member to be along with.

11pm was check-in time. And my god, being in Block D, the furthest block away from the canteen, coupled with a once maggot-infested room, I really stood transfixed in the ground.

With disgust.

The shower head spoilt the day after.

Thursday.

When i had really got to know the group members a little bit more, Johnny and Wilson decided to split the groups.

But, its still manageable, as the new group members were friendly enough, and with Ernest accompanying me as the other leader.

And, more importantly, Day 4 was a visit to Universal Studios.

Revenge of The Mummy.

5 times. we , as a group took it 5 times.

Including deceiving Yao to take.

he was screaming to God throughout the trip.

A very fine day.

Day 5.

Finale.

Early morning, LiuQ decided to cancel the entertainment sections of the show.

And, that means our effort that lasted till 2am that morning was all wasted.

The concert rehearsal was so screwed at the start, the dry run only begun at 5:45.

And we were pasting balloons when the guests were already in

And, thats what the Internal welfare will get screwed on, in Monday's after-action review.

The concert started off really very dead. Gunny's joke didnt even draw any laughter. I think he said it wrongly.

So when he said to watch our show, i had to shout at the top of my lungs, 好！！！.

That's the job of an internal welfare member.

When i shouted "韩嵩我爱你！"

The audi responded with laughter.

And thats how the atmosphere picked up.

The rest of the concert went on really smoothly, cept for Linzhuo's error in emceeing, which was solved by his wit.

Again the audi laughed.

Thats a positive error. (Hmm...)

It's nice to see what charisma, or attractiveness TJ brings to his group members.

The last item of the night, the song-singing component, 2 of TJ's group members went up to sing and wept.

And, well at the end of the concert, everybody took pictures, exchanged contacts... etc.

And thats the end of AYCF.

We all must look forward now.

We still have a long way to go in our lives, and if life permits, we will chance upon each other in the latter parts of our life.

Considering that the longest piece of writing was on the Lakers' "supposedly" fall from grace after a few Ls, which was proved wrong after their back-to-back, today's post is just something i would like to type out before i forget.

Nanjing's trip and Wuhan's trip, i didnt record them down, and its has always been a constant regret for me.

On a side note, Hejie's 2nd song in her album is released. Cant say that its catchy or so, but shes finally opening her voice after all that covering up in her recent songs.

But, the date to which the whole album is to be released is still unknown and remains to be seen.

Hais.

When is the album coming out?

Right..

2010-08-20T22:20:00.000+08:00

I studied for the past 4 days, stay back till fking 5pm everyday, took 4 tests in the last three days and such an appropriate treatment i receive..

Dun even bother checking up the dictionary. Class is permanent, and checking up the dictionary doesnt help.

HAI.........

2010-08-11T22:42:00.002+08:00

What the hell.

Stop filming la.

When is the album coming out?

Hai

2010-08-06T22:02:00.000+08:00

That is the only one from that competition held in 2005 which really stands out.

Signing for Universal Music is such a big deal.

and, i have to ask...

When is the album coming out?

HI

2010-07-27T20:05:00.000+08:00

How do you even survive when you despise the people closest to you.