Monday, October 15, 2007

irritated rantings

I'm only irritated because somehow my conversation with my dad drifted to suggest "Why didn't you let me upgrade? Kwong a national sailor has almost the same problem as I do, and his cardiologist let him upgrade. We're all sports people who have been training for the past 10 years and nothing has happened. "

We've talked about it before and im still equally disgruntled. To be honest I don't think i would have been as disgruntled about the health grading if we hadn't talked about it this evening. I mean in the end the bunch of us who are in PES E will just laugh about it,try to get a good vocation, and gloat about our lack of reservist, but when you think about all your other friends going to do all the normal stuff, its kind of pissing off.

Compound it with a lousy math paper and you get more disgruntled. Could have done the paper a lot better.

My letter says " Please bring along your medication. A refrigerator will be provided for storage of your medicine... Only recreational activities (which are game-based) and static exercises will be conducted."

I would laugh at it, but when I thought about the rest running off to A and B, this position felt rather irritating.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Portraits to last a lifetime

Darren cries 'I want my xiao ji!' on the last Wednesday ever. Luke's a natural.
A rare capture of Dt not stoning.
 Angsty Kiat.Speaking of angsty, .14+bloke's performance of 'In the End' should be up soon.
Hope sern doesnt kill me.
 loke sai..haha
And tp looks happy.
Some really heartfelt message about my time in ACS (I) is begging to emerge, with thoughts of never ever walking out the gates under the same context moving me to realize that our time here has really come to an end. The past 6 years have been so rich, and it is no doubt that something that you put a large part of your life into will inevitably bear high returns and at the same time, hold a part of your heart ransom. It is actually the old ACS, if you could call it that(of course each preceding generation will hold a more substantial claim to the old ACS)- the sec1 to 4 years that are and will continue to pull at my heartstrings. The modern, new institution of fast change will always be different from the edge of the world 3.14 and 4.14 classrooms, side field soccer, afternoon trainings and prefect camps. Back when there was only one yellow level staffroom and where the idea of life in ACS(I) ended in sec4, midway through one's educational development. Sure, the additional 2 years have completed my path before tertiary education, but this is an experience and culture never before set in our school. Its new, it breaks from the norm, it alters the ACS (I) experience. So while I've had a heck of a time with my class the past 2 years, and the journey with the cohort has been exciting,disheartening at times and and yet promising, life of ACS(I) students will undoubtedly never be the same again. I just thought I had to acknowledge the times of the ACS boys who have been through it from the start, considering that a lot of the celebrations and recollections have been about our IB life. I guess when we look at it in its entirety, it is then that we truly know our place as ACS boys.

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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Portraits of a lazy cat, on a changi morning





It was quite a cute cat, Mich and i tried to entice it to get into the sun..didn't help that it stopped responding to the name Rembaldi.



view from an elephant's butt


And there were other animals too. The interesting thing about these kind of explorations is that you never know what you're going to find. Plus if you have a camera, all the better.

I don't quite like this one as part of the series with its b&w sepia tones..considering that it doesn't accurately reflect what the morning was like, but the place was rather rustic.

There's something unexplainable about these exploratory walks. I don't think I can go to a place like this without going around to take a look. I won't try explaining the fascination or satisfaction derived from it, in fear of getting it jinxed.haha.But so far its been something to experience alone.It isn't one of those silent zen, peace like times, its actually the opposite. Its quietly exciting, when i step onto the walking path, and getting off the path onto the rocks is equally exciting too, although our algae murky rocks aren't the nicest.Oh well, maybe go back sometime,although if i were to go at 9 again it might be boring the second time round.Will probably wake up earlier like i originally intended to. Sern woke up at 9.00 to laugh at me ' HAHA...want to wake up at 5.30 so action..' or something along those lines..before going back to sleep. Ah well its kind of strange that i didn't talk about the party itself, which was fun and hilarious as always. More about the nutters some time soon.

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