Today was the first hockey training in a very long time. and to make things more interesting, seng is off doing YLTC, meaning lim was in charge of training. i find that he has a very "bait and hook" style of doing PT. examples: he will say "do 40 pushups", then at 25 he will say "take a break, we're halfway there" AKA doing 50 pushups. also, when doing leg raises, he said "ok now legs down" and i thought we were done, but then he continued "but not all the way", so it turned out we were doing leg raises with the up-down leg movement too. finally, he said "ok after these pullups we go to the 'D' " and i thought we were finally done with PT and were gonna play the mini-match, but in turned out he wanted to do suicides -.- And speaking of the mini-matches, i think i have to start reining in my sweeps. cos of the adrenaline high during the match, i twice decided to sweep the ball into the goal, both times nearly hitting marcus' head... yup, need to practice some self-restraint there.
there was an exco meeting after training, and somehow i was suddenly tasked with the job of doing a 100-word write-up for the hockey seniors to put in some grad night video. i just opened my email inbox and saw an email from nigel saying that "everyone" should be involved and we should "discuss with the girls' team". well, if by discussion he meant something like "who's english is very good? *all eyes turn to me* ok settled", then we had a very good discussion. i have no idea how im going to go about it when we barely interacted with the seniors at all. oh well, this is where the most important life skill comes in, and by that i mean bullshitting.
went for the class outing after training. jj, kex, tz, qh and bren were there. lunch was at burger king, and afterwards we tried to discuss on the class tee design, but that quickly degenerated into laughing at threadless.com t-shirt designs. the only thing we managed to agree on is that we didnt want the shirt to be blue (keep that in mind). afterwards, chin joined us and we went to watch 2012.
2012 was just what i expected it to be: a mindless cgi-fest. there were some EXTREMELY epic scenes of buildings crashing and trains flying and volcanoes erupting, but there were so many deus ex machina-like elements thrown in to keep the flimsy plot together that it kinda put me off. the starting part particular made me roll my eyes because of the blatant use of big physics-ish words in a completely wrong manner. supposedly, the whole 2012 fiasco started because increased occurence of solar flares from the sun bombarded earth with neutrinos, and the neutrinos somehow "mutated" into a wavicle similar to microwaves, heating up the earth's core and causing tectonic instability and shifting. ok, ASSUMING that tectonic shift actually happens, the rest of the movie is plausible, but the whole neutrino thing is obviously just a load of hollywood bs. neutrinos dont "mutate", and even if they did mutate into microwaves, they got the whole heating concept wrong. microwave ovens work because they cause water molecules to vibrate at their resonant frequency. WATER molecules, not the molten magma beneath the earth's crust. judging by how magma molecules are much bigger than water molecules, one would expect them to have a much lower resonant frequency, definitely in the radio wave region, but radio waves would definitely not have the penetrating power of higher-frequency waves to go under the crust anyway, so it's another dead end. i think the story would be slightly more plausible using positrons instead of neutrinos (following hollywood sci-fi's weird obsession with anti-matter), because symmetry theory implies that, like electrons, positrons would spontaneously emit photons which would maybe form EM waves such as microwaves. however, i still dont see how any of this would result in the earth's core heating up. using occam's razor, it's definitely more logical to say that 2012 aint happening (at least not by the mechanism described in the movie) than to say that 2012 will happen given all these nonsensical assumptions.
however, the movie did raise a few ethical questions. should apocalypse really come knocking on our door, do we choose only to save the cream of the crop of humanity, or do we give everyone a fighting chance at survival? should we, as sentient beings and not animals, still adhere to "survival of the fittest" when it comes to crunchtime for the high and mighty human race, and if so, how would we even define "fittest"? where do we stop looking at this as a economic or darwinian issue and start looking at it as an issue of humanity?
dinner was at pizza hut, where yicen and j.gan joined us. talked cock, and jj started "sniping" kex, chin and i by taking pics of us with his macbook webcam. there are a few pics of me where jj set the photo effects to "reflection" such that it looks like im kissing myself (yup, he is THAT mature). going home on the mrt, yicen started us discussing on the class tee again, stating that she DID want a blue shirt (thus undermining what we took an entire lunch to agree on previously). a bit more random conversation, and im not sure what had happened to the shirt as of the time i got off the mrt.
yet another flash of light come through from the clouds. is it really the sun, or just another lightning bolt? do i have another ally i can trust in rebuilding this bridge?
here's a cool song i found why surfing youtube randomly. it's from this genre called neo-classical metal. it sounds like an oxymoron, but hear it yourself, it's really not bad. it's called Ghost Opera, by Kamelot.
