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GOLD. 28 points. YAY!!! YiPeE~~~!!! What more can i ask for? LOL!
One of the best showing in napfa, gold has eluded me for a very long time, now i've finally got it! Was aiming for gold initially, but quite unexpected that i got a personal best of 28 points, only standing broad jump has prevented me from a clean sweep of As. Guess it was really my day, and tyconess is back in action! Was only expecting to get in the range of 23 points, but think i over-achieved myself for almost all of the stations!
Guess i was really fired up today! Almost all items were at personal best lah. Did the 5 items in the morning and only ran 2.4 in the late afternoon cos it was raining. Was praying real hard for the rain to stop cos i don't want to redo everything all over again, especially with such satisfying results. Then it will be all wasted lah...Finally the rain stopped and the weather was not bad for a run! Haha!
Maybe all those training at the gym with sherman and running all kinds of routes has really helped. Never taken so seriously before, but no choice lah, since next year army liao. Here's a breakdown of my results:
Sit-up -- 52. Record best, stomach damn pain. Maybe all those inclined situp that i did at the gym really helped, sometimes really very gek. Was asking Lan Guan to help me fake at least a 44 to get A if i cannot make it. Did until 45 and wanted to rest when i realised that there's still some time. So decided to chiong until 52 before time's up.
Shuttle run -- 9.88s. Again my best result ever. Thought i might have some difficulties with this station since i never practise for a really long time, but hecks lah, juz run! And try to remember the usual techniques. Got 10.24s on my first try, but since its only 0.04s from an A, juz try again! LOLZ! Finally i break the 10s barrier!
Standing Broad Jump -- 233cm. My weakest station this time, and one which i'm damn worried about, cos i couldn't even get a D a few weeks ago. My technique is always not right and i seem to have a mental block of jumping far. When i wear my shoes, i get less than 200, but when i take out my shoes and socks, i jumped a lot better. Don't why, maybe got more friction arh...without shoes. But anyway, was very relieved to get a C at last! Cleared my most difficult station:)
Sit and Reach -- 56cm. LOL, seem to have the least problem with this station. Juz stretch as much as you can lah. Got a scare for the first few tries when the strap keep on coming out my knees. No worries for sit and reach!
Pull-ups -- 10. Even i can't believe it. Never did 10 straight before, only tried to gek until 9 recently, 8 was consistent, but somehow, jus found the extra ounce of energy to chiong for a 10 and an A! Another unexpected achievement! Consider that i did less than 5 last time, a remarkable improvement!
2.4km -- 10.20. LOL! Personal Best! Another station that i can't quite believe it too, and something to cheer about :P Haven't ran 2.4 at the school track before this year, since we pon pe everytime when we need to run...Have been in love with running these days, and ran for a stretch of 7 days straight before in preparation for napfa. My last timing was 11.08. Aim was to hit below 11, but was quite surprised when i got 10.20! Juz in time for an A! Great improvement arh...Running on trackmill may be a lot more comfortable, but i still prefer running on the real track!
Yay! Hahaz:)
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.:Vince left his dream on 9:17 PM:.
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Napfa is coming real sooon, in fact its this thur! Have been trying to train hard for it, and doing some conditioning recently. Its the most important napfa for guys especially, with army looming next year...Think standing broad jump will be my greatest weakness now...I dun seem to grasp the correct technique when it comes to jumping, sometimes there is this phobia in me. I have to jump barefooted for the best results, since when i wear my shoes and socks, i jumped like less than 200cm? Maybe shuttle run pose a problem since i haven did it for a long long time.
But generally, i tink silver is taken for granted (like wad sherman says), and the thing is whether we can make it for the gold. Even people like cai jia shen can get gold and come and show off to me...wad the hell! But year by year, an item will sure screw up and cause me to be contented with silver, hope it doesn't happen again this year. And taking all 6 items at one go is no joke, since its my 1st time doing that. Who wants to enter army early?
Which brings me to the point of my obsession with running recently. Having been running for 7 straight days until fri, when the pain in my calves and hamstring give me no choice but to rest for a while. Throughout these days, i even found out some new routes to explore. R
Ran with sherman on monday around the nj road run route, which was around the terrace houses behing nj. It was around 4 km, but we ran a longer distance than expected...cos of a simple reason : WE LOST OUR WAY! Starting thru the nj side gate, turning right into the terrace houses after bypassing ny, it was the opposite to the usual route, and only sherman knows the way. As we were always surrounded by terraces, the run can be pretty boring and nothing exciting to be seen along the way. And its very hard to get a sense of direction. We made a lot of wrong turns and keep on ending up in th same position, frustration brews...But eventually, we finally reached the nj front gate, yay! Definitely, we ran more than 4 km...
Then for tuesday, ran with sherman again, this time to st nicks, and back. I thought st nicks was quite far from my house, but after running the route thru the other bishan park, and turning right up the slope, i realised that actually st nicks is not far away from our houses, in fact, its quite short. this might be a good route to use for the future. Go furthur and we'll see the chs campus last time at keban baru, when the current campus is undergoing upgrading.
Wednesday continue to run again with puikit, then thursday still got pe somemore. After that still played bball, and when i went back cathigh in the late afternoon, played bball with my juniors again. My legs are still feeling a bit pain, maybe i'm too hiong...the pain has already been there since a few days ago. But when i'm running, its would seem to jus go away for a short while...
Saw a very funny post in puikit's blog about the rationale of gals doing napfa. I seriously see no need for them to take napfa...why do they need these kind of fitness?
Juz came back from this year's 小品比赛, went there to support cathigh's cldds with ashhao and huaming. Seems like the standard has really decreased a lot this year, and i even see schools copying what we did during our days in cathigh. And they still call it chinese drama syf? funny sia, but everything is still the same, still a bit no0b as usual, only the name has changed...i nearly slept while watching the plays as a lot really cannot make it. Aiya, this is 小品 what, can't expect anything good right? Saw some schools copying what we did a few years back, looks like the aftermath effects of 面具 and 如来佛的第六根手指 still hasn't died now. Even heard some terrible misuse of 黄城 soundtracks, the most notable one being 等巴士's kiss the rain, which nearly shocked me...
Our play? Dun remind me, its one of the worst to come out of cldds in recent years, seriously. What's the fun of acting as animals when all of us are pure-blooded humans? chs cldds is really heading for disaster, and we were feeling quite disappointed and worried when we went back last thur to check their progress. The play was not the biggest problem. But the atmosphere was dead, the members were not committed, and there was no passion at all.
The huge influx of PRC is really a great problem, but then, there's nothing we can do about it. Maybe we should really propose a "How to save clddds" plan...I can't believe cldds has turned to become so dead after we left the school. I mean, in our days, although we were always crapping around, playing a fool, or even finding trouble, at least we are enthusiastic enough to do stuff, and the spirit of there. But now...i seriously dunno wad to say.
Even people like victor, whom i've seen him develop all the way since sec 1, told me that he dun wan to leave with regrets, especially when he is the current pres. He told me that he once looked forward to every wed during sec 1 and 2 when we were here, but now, he feels like quitting...I tink i've realised the inbuilt problems of cldds, but it may be a little difficult to solve. They seem to be participating syf for the sake of taking part in it, and even worst, taking past successes for granted. I know we can't expect them to reach the heights of our batch, but they are not even committed in doing it...sigh...
All the best to everyone taking their napfa!
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.:Vince left his dream on 4:40 PM:.
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The Part of You That No One Sees
You are unique, witty, and even a little snobby.
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atheism | | 83% |
agnosticism | | 75% |
Islam | | 71% |
Judaism | | 67% |
Buddhism | | 58% |
Paganism | | 50% |
Hinduism | | 46% |
Christianity | | 33% |
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.:Vince left his dream on 2:26 PM:.
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Well, the end of the road, the end of the journey, isn't it? We, the 26th generation of 黄城人 has to step down, and our juniors have to take over us eventually right? 我们终于要退休了!
Many thoughts went through my mind when the NEW generation of 执委 and 筹委 were announded yesterday. It's really different going through the elections as a j1 or a j2, although i didn't run for it last year. These will be the group of leaders who will decide the faith of 黄城 next year. At first i was quite worried about whether they can make it or not, but i guess its normal for us seniors to worry abt our juniors, we just have to trust them with the job.
Me, sheng xu and lee heng had a long "msn" paper chat during the 执委 elections yesterday, commenting on the candidates and everything, which finished the last page of my 天书!
2 new 灯长s as my successors, a start of yet another journey for them, but i can entrust this responsibility to them. Now that 掌门人 is gone, hope my disciples will bring 灯光 to greater heights and upload the glory and legacy! Hahaz! I guess i'm proud to have them as my 组员s.
Maybe we have officially stepped down, but as junyi says, my job as 灯长doesn't end here. There's still a lot of work to do in guiding my 2 new 灯长s to future glory, juz like how junyi spend so much time and effort to teach us last year. How successful they are next year? It'll depend partly on me frm now on. But there will come to a point when i'll have to let go and they'll are on their own.
Maybe there are things that i can improve on this year, things i've not done well. Sometimes its really frustrating when you feel that you have the ability to do something well, but in the end, it was not what you expected to be. But junyi was telling me, he himself also have this kind of regrets last year, 今年做过的东西，过去就过去了，想太多也没有用，只要尽力而为就行了。Everything has ended, there's nothing i can do. It'll be a fresh start for my juniors from now on, and its up to them to define what they want 灯光组 to be like next year, and to have their own style!
To have elections and 小黄城 on the same day was quite long and tiring, but items put up for 小黄城 were not bad lah, seriously. Especially my 灯光组, even thought of using the flourescent tubes and OHP to have lighting effects...but most of it were lame and niao......And got ppl actually guess that my baby photo looked like xinyu??? Wad the......that's the greatest insult of my life!!! Lolz!
Well, guess this is really the end. Jiayou for the NEW generation :)
Kanon really rox man! Very touching and emotional, i really cried while watching it lah. Haruhi is also another ownage anime. Guess i'm really caught up with anime these days. Not really an anime fan lah, but thnx to shengxu, got some cool anime to watch!
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.:Vince left his dream on 10:50 AM:.
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愚人节快乐！幸好今天是星期天，留在家里还是最明智的选择，哈哈！黄城收工后，又到了接棒的时刻。长江后浪推前浪，谁能成为下一届的灯长，延续灯光的火焰？老实说，我还蛮担心下一届的接班人是否能胜任他们的职责，把黄城做得更好。无论前台还是后台都没有一个真正的“强者”出现，也没有多少具备无限潜质的人选。。。终于要卸下灯长的职位了，是高兴还是难过？但对黄城的奉献绝不止于卸任之时。和组员们相处的三个月中，起码了解他们的性格与办事能力，心中已有两个适合的人选，但是要找两个又能一起合作的组长又是另外一回事了。选灯长还真叫人伤脑筋，尤其是今年的情况。他们所作的东西和表现的态度，和我去年作为组员时大不相同，也不知是好事还是坏事。分析了各个组员的本质，简单来说，无论交棒给谁都是一个大冒险。也许我应该更了解他们，更相信他们，或者他们真正有潜质也说不定。灯光 will be in safe hands next year, i pray...不知当年俊毅学长交棒给我时是抱有什么感受？也许是在我身上赌一把，希望我能胜任职责。担心有什么用呢？星期六等着看好戏吧！到底能不能成功，就看下一届黄城人的造化了。MaY 灯光 ShInE FoReVeR!::
.:Vince left his dream on 11:24 AM:.
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