Just came back from Jack's Place for a birthday lunch, even though it's still 2 days away. gonna be going out again tmr afternoon, then cutting cake that night. i think all this celebration is gonna make me too fat to do anything once coach george takes over training. well, i guess that's what the ad hoc training is for, provided i have the mental discipline to have 18h of self-training over the next 2 weeks. ok, i'll summarise: i'll probably have maybe 2h on the first session, then give up completely.
my mom says she's considering merging my birthday present + my younger bro's birthday present (abt 2 weeks after mine) + all our christmas presents to get a nintendo wii. if this happened last year i would be busy jumping for joy, but now the reaction is not so strong anymore. of course im still happy and excited, but... oh well, i guess i might simply be growing out of games. still looking forward to MKWii and SSBB though :). suggestions on other fun wii games?
i cant believe im still posting stuff here when chinese A levels is just tmr. i cant believe i've been posting regularly every day. honestly, i thought i would run out of motivation after the second day, but it still hasnt been very long so i'll keep my comments to myself. given something like bryan's blog, 4 posts would be able to last till next year, yet it hasnt been till the end of the week yet. oh well, at least if i suddenly give up on the blog now i can say that i tried.
and chinese A levels! dammit, how the hell do you study for a language paper? that's been the question running through my head the entire week. sure there are the 10 texts, but that's abt it. everything else is luck and impromptu thinking. of course, there's also the second draft of I&R, also due tmr. and there's OP dry run, on 3 nov. why does all of this have to happen back-to-back?
i have been thinking abt wat will happen in the future. funny how people tend to think abt the future only when the present is nearly done... but anyway, now that the school term is slowing down to a stop, i started thinking abt the stuff awaiting me during the holidays and beyond. first and foremost, theres the ogl stuff. i spoke to lionel a few days ago and he was still preparing a lot of stuff for it. didnt hear from him for the meet-the-ogls session, but then again he's my classmate, so i guess the formalities can be spared. banner painting and informal walk-in practices, then in end-jan the actual thing will start. wonder wat it will be like, hope my inner emo-loner doesnt come out. random thought: will being an ogl clash with H3 (assuming i get in, of course)? gotta rmb to ask a teacher one of these days.
and of course, there's hockey training. im alr foreseeing clashes between hockey and ogl stuff, but im not sure which im supposed to put in top priority. oh well, since most trainings are from morning to noon, i guess i could just rush to ogl stuff afterwards. gonna be tiring though, and the thought of having holiday homework awaiting me at home is not exactly comforting either.
last but not least, my H3 application. will it go through? i hope it does. NJC is releasing the list of recommended H3 applicants on 3 nov, so im hoping the school will give me a good birthday present (please? (: ). how will it clash with all my other stuff? will there be many important lessons in jan? how many will i miss due to ogl stuff? will it further interfere in hockey and my regular studies? will i be able to cope? so many questions, so little answers... they can't even provide a simple timetable right now, so i dont even know if it will clash with cca trainings. will i be able to change to another schedule if this one doesnt fit? if i had to choose between hockey and H3, which should i choose? have i overloaded my schedule next year and doomed myself? am i being selfish here, worrying abt all these extra-curricular stuff while there are ppl out there worried abt their normal studies? dont even feel like thinking abt any of this...
now for the song! this time it's not PTH anymore. it's from another band, System of a Down. they have a significantly heavier style, something that makes u want to run around start headbanging and start a mosh pit. this song is Sugar, the first track from their debut album, and still a SOAD classic. the MV is disturbing, and yet it sets u thinking about our perception of news. are we really informed of wat's going on in the world? if there was a war going on, how many of us know about it because we lived through it, and how many people know about it from the news? keeping in mind that the news has to sensationalise their stories to get more people to watch, how reliable, really, is our information? how much do we actually know, and how much of it is just over-hyped "sugar" which we naively digest from other people? Sugar is awesome stuff :)
