of belaying at sentosa
2:53 AM - Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday was taking off day to go to sentosa to help jeremiah with some belaying work in sentosa for some company's annual cohesion event. However, a couple of things happened in the morning which made me feel like it's gonna be a bad day.
1. I was supposed to wake up at 5 am but I stopped my phone and alarm clock when they rang at 5am and ended up waking at 5.45am.
2. I bought a popiah from the simei 7-11. The popiah was from the hot snacks section but the popiah was freaking cold. Wasted my 85 cents when I threw it away.
3. The 1.5liter mineral water I bought was spilt on the bus on the way to sentosa and I got my butt wet.
4. The dress code was supposed to be khaki pants but no one told me. I ended up being the only person wearing board shorts.
However, it didn't turn out to be as bad as I expected. When we arrived, we were roughly briefed on how to belay and it was rather easy to me because I attended something like this back in VJ. After that, I went up to try one of the high elements obstacles while jeremiah belayed me. He tried to pull the rope really tight so that I'd lose balance but luckily I completed it safely. Before we knew it, the participants started to arrive and that was when I realised they were all adults ranging from late 20s to late 40s and most were PhD holders. Also, a large portion of them were from China! But it actually went ok la, just that all they were rather rowdy and uncooperative at times. So the whole day activity started and adding up both morning and afternoon's participants I belayed approximately 25 people. The price to pay is sunburnt forearms, forehead and nose and an ugly tan line caused by my shades. other than that, my right bicep is now slightly larger than my left due to the belaying. But at the end of they day, have to agree that it was fun and enriching!
The following is what went on after the session...
Everyone was tired...except me, trying to squeeze out a smile.
woohoo! Abelised! *inside joke*
Nicest Shot!
(L-R) Top: Jeremy, Jinming, Emmanuel, Me, Songxin, Jeremiah. Bottom: Kevin, MingTai, Michelle.
of betrayal
3:11 AM - Thursday, October 11, 2007
People always say you never know how to cherish something until you lose it. In my opinion, people do not cherish something until they throw it away. When we cherish something or even someone, we will do everything within our abilities to protect it such that we won't lose it, and the fact that we lost it is because we did not put in effort to take care of it. What I am trying to say is that a relationship, doesn't matter boy-girl, boy-boy, girl-girl,etc, is very fragile and without proper maintainence, it'll probably just go missing without us noticing it. I would not do or say anything that I think will inflict negative pressure on a friendship, especially one which I cherish a lot, but yesterday one of my good friends did exactly that to me. I usually present myself to others as a jovial and fun-loving person that cracks jokes about others and doesn't mind others making fun of me. Once in a while, I could sense that this was dangerous. People think that jokers and clowns are always happy, that they do not have any worries or any secrets that they hope to keep in the dark. One of the elements in life I cherish the most is friendship. And the betrayal of your friend is the worse and most effective way if you want to spoil a friendship. Yesterday, I had the trust I gave a friend betrayed, and despite it being regarded a small matter, I was really disappointed and hurt by it. No doubt everything can be simmered down by a "just joking only", but how many time can we joke about things? There will come a time when a friends revelas something to you that he wants to be kept secret, and is it considered a joke to purposely let it out just to see if that frien can take this joke? I initially had a lot to say but right now my mind is in a blank. So heck it!But because forgiving takes much lesser effort and feels much better than hating someone, I have decided to forgive! But I hate it when you forgive a person and he or she still keep on apologizing because that makes me feel bad and I don't think the person who was in the wrong has the right to make me feel bad. So all is well now... peace!
of "secret"
12:34 PM - Monday, October 08, 2007
I just caught Jay Chou's "Secret" a few days ago and I think it's one of the better movies I've watched this year. I finally understood why he told the viewers not to reveal the "secret" to others who haven't watched the show because it'll probably spoil the whole feeling of watching the show , as it did for ming tai. It's one of those shows, just like 200 pound beauty, that can actually touch me and it set me thinking on having a girlfriend. Haha! Now I'm in love with the soundtrack of the song, the female lead and the storyline of the movie. Kinda unexpected from a newbie director like him. But yup, it's a great movie and everyone should watch. It teaches you not to reveal other people's secrets as you don't know how much harm you will actually do to the person involved. It kind of also sets you thinking how much will you sacrifice for love?On the contrary, I've been experiencing a lot of the hate feeling recently. We hated our friends in primary school for being stupid and getting poor results.We hated our friends in secondary school for being ugly and ah beng or ah lian.We hated our friends in JC for being overly concerned with getting good results for A levels.We hated our friends in NS for chao-kenging and wayang-ing.And recently, I've been hating a person for having the lowest EQ ever. The last time I felt this way was also in NS whereone of my platoon mate had the lowest ever EQ, even lower than the person I'm talking about now. To me, that's why I hate a person and not because he has some medical conditions. We shouldn't outcast someone for the latter reason because that is just being an insentitive bully. But the act of being really unhygenic, especially when it concerns his medical condition, is something that has to do with EQ and I hate him for that too! I really don't see him changing in the near future!Lastly, Pictures....or Picture, rather.
of wilfred's sins
1:29 PM - Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Wilfred is a sinner! Today he caused me to sin so much. Firstly, he caused me to go shopping with him instead of letting me have a well deserved sleep at home, thus wasting my energy.Secondly, he made me travel from simei to tampines then to pasir ris and back to tampines again thus wasting my money.Thirdly, he influenced me to buy something so that my trip out will not be wasted.Then, he wanted us to but a couples shirt which is really weird. (I didn't buy it in the end, he did!)Lastly, as a result of him asking me to go out, I bought a pair of FILA shades which is probably the 2nd most expensive thing I bought with my own money this year.So, you see, wilfred should really be punished for sinning so much.
of a great outing
1:15 PM
Yesterday was one of the best days I've had in weeks. Initially I thought it would suck, but as I've always said, things happen when you least expected it. When booking out after saturday's duty, emmanuel and I missed the 8.45am ferry and we had to take the 10 am ferry. That's 1 hour of sitting down and doing nothing. So because of that I had to rush home to change and everything because I was running late for the house comm lunch. And on the trip frommy house to city hall, rox told me that there's only 5 people that'll turn up because the rest backed out. THIS IS SOMETHING I HATE MOST BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE OBVIOUSLY DON'T SPARE A THOUGHT FOR ROXANNE, or any organiser. But anyway, when I arrived, the kushinbo booking has been cancelled so the few of us had to decide where to eat and we really took a long time. Eventually we had 7 people having lunch at NYDC which wasn't so bad. Then debbie joined us after daryl and ashvin left and we continued to some HK cafe for tea. The weird thing about these 2 meals was that the conversations were all revolving around andy's high pay, kaixiang's social night, who's getting attached and who's breaking up and how this girl or that girl has become prettier or uglier. The details shall be kept a secret! Then I accompanied debbie to tampines while talking a lot on the bus before going to bedok to meet yiting and kaming for dinner. This time, our conversations revolved around my work, kaming's 6 weeks sailing trip and yiting's special one. haha, and wonderful kaming gave us presents as well as treated us the dinner. I actually planned to spend more than $50 on meals that day but ended up spending less than $30. That's an unexpected bonus too!Anyway, HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY!
