Sunday, May 23, 2004

Contrary to most people, I think that the 'JJ's Sports Carnival' was just a little short of a total washout. Only the efforts of the competitiors prevented it from receiving the grand award of a total flop. I had to admit that the events brought a heart throbbing experience, especially with some very close races and to see friends running. Sadly, those were just about the only satisfying moments in the entire sports meet.
Its was screwed right from the start. From the moment they decided to put it on friday, right after the common tests of J2s and right before the common tests of J1s. From the weather. From the rehearsal. From the commentators. From everything.
To me, there doesn't seem to be much of a planning process in the whole provoking event. Not enough competitors to gather for the march pass even after a rehearsal, which i don't see the point in having. No preparation work done by the commentors, making mistakes in reading out names of events and timings. Using silly 'scare tatics', in which no one is at the very least bothered or intimidated. What more could seriously happen? It makes people's toes laugh to know that there's a school event like this. It doesn't seem like more then half the school cohort is there, with people walking out openly during the meet. How hilarious.
JJ's always screwed up, in one way or another in almost everything. Haha! Maybe JJ's admin can just take a break or something and try again some other time since they keep messing things up. Please don't screw this batch of J2s any further. Go get a Kit-Kat.

- Flip-flop fall on your face
by Elfie @ 5/23/2004 01:30:00 am

Friday, May 21, 2004

Sports carnival today was quite tolerable because I was involved in it. Hahahaz... The intense competition during races, the nail-biting moments and certainly the swear-worthy moments were abound. Watching the races might make you want to yell with hope or frustration at your fellow house mates. Have you ever felt when you're in the midst of a keen competition and the adrenaline pumping through your system, threatening to rip your heart apart ? This cannot happen in air rifle though, will seriously screw up stability. HAHahahz. Heart thumping upon your chest will cause the gun to move back and forth, causing panic and who knows what in the mind. So in the true spirit of sports, losses should be accepted graciously and wins should be humbly accepted. Blame, well, it could be placed in team competitions (which we only saw today) but finger pointing should not only be restricted to others. If a team loses, everyone is to be blamed. Yes Owens lost the girls' fartlek badly, and I think it was partly due to the fall (literally) or the ball dropping of one or two or the stumble at the start. Every little thing contributes to the loss of time. But really, would you think "why didn't I run faster ?" or "why didn't i start off earlier ?". Self blame is inevitable but don't be too hard on yourself yea ? Actually shouldn't really blame others coz everybody screws at one point or another, just that they screw on that day. ahhahz.. Guilty of shifting some blame though, perhaps I should go reflect more. hahahz

Oh by the way, the school is blardy doltish. They didn't allow us to go out of school during the lunch break before the sports day and yet they left the gates wide open slightly before and during the sports meet. Huh ? Why don't they just let us out for lunch outside school or something ? It really was our problem if we left and didn't come back since they said we would be in deep shit if we do. By doing this, are they implying that they are not really going to do anything to us if we skip this since they are keeping us locked like animals ? Why didn't they think of that ? I had an urgent errand to run and had to sneak out with the help of my teacher telling the guard a white lie. hahahz.. Opps... made a teacher lie for me, so damned guilty. HAHAHz... But really, they should at least let us have more freedom and perhaps suffer the consequences of our actions, people will learn that way. And by leaving the gates open, people would just walk out during the sports meet despite the shoutings of the guard. Hahahahz... Moral of the story ? Open the gate during appropriate times.

- Of winners and losers
by G!M @ 5/21/2004 08:07:00 pm

Sorry for the hiatus from blogging in the rifle blog, there's nothing much to say. hahaz... Anyway, the impending sports meet could be quite boring because there will only be relays. Individual events are cancelled because of the fear of track people taking over (which is quite true because they trained for this). The field events were cancelled also, for reasons unbeknownst. Surely this is cramping talents that are not in the track and field team. What a waste of talents when sports meets are supposed to be a showcase of talents and the discovery of new ones. Whatever. I look forward to the Olympic games.. hahaz.. Rox. Hope the sports meet will be short. A quick death is better than a slow, painful one.

This is our last year together and really hope that we can have the time of our lives during the camp ! Oh yea, expect all of you to leave something in my autograph book ! hahahz... I wonder what life would be like without air rifle. Truly boring I reckon. No more trainings with you crappy people, no more hogging of lanes, no more stuffy range, no more standing in front of the fans and blowing our hair messy and certainly no more of our guns which we held on to like our spouses for about a year. Will not get to use our lousy lockers, smell the pellets, count the scores on our cards and will not get to slack around the range talking nonsense. Sad when you think about it in terms like that.

and tth, i think what you're suffering from is stress. hahahaz.. or the withdrawal from it.

- Boredom
by G!M @ 5/21/2004 01:14:00 am

Warning. Low level of activity detected in the blog. Blog Name changing to Wei Bin & TTH's blog in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1........Initializing.........CANCELLED!! HAHA!
Wow, the last post that people posted, other than me and TTH, is on april 28th. Of course, i attribute the low number of posts to the mid year common tests which had just ended. HOPEFULLY they used the extra time to mug for the test. Good luck for the results people, and whatever results you get, life goes on...hopefully you don't get to spend part of your holidays studying in school :p
Here's the catch, friday's jj's sports carnival. What a good timing, just right after the end of the common tests when everyone (i presume) have no intention of wasting time in school and every intent on having the extra long week end which could provide a good and well deserved break from school.
Actually, a sports carnival is not really that bad a thing, if only had it been planned as a real sports meet. There's only team events, which makes people wonder "Where's the 100m race?" (or the 400m, or in fact, all individual events)
Conclusion? JJ planning commitee sucks, always choosing the wrong dates for events (like love fiesta), and just having plain retarded mentalities. Whats the reason for not having individual events? Oh, because we don't want people who are good to hog the medals. What a dumb excuse. Please also give a reason why you're not rotting at home.

- Plans
by Elfie @ 5/21/2004 12:34:00 am

Sunday, May 09, 2004

Just to add on to the kowbeh's comments, talent time wasn't really that shoddy, some performances are really nice but the results aren't really that appealing. Truthfully, Geok lan and jiarong/jasmine should have won, in my very own humble opinion. Oh well...
What really infuriated me was how ineffiecient and inflexible the admin was. I guess they don't really take feedback well and improve or the people just plain can't multi-task or whatever. To think that they can come up with some fanciful idea like "No booking of seats for people who turns up late". Like everyone else are not booking seats. Please use some brains and think of some ideas that are feasible and will WORK, if the stupid admin even have a miniscule part to begin with.
Oh no, thats not the worst, some basket arrogant teacher (in charge of scholars?) even chased people out. Why? Because they were there early and ticket collections haven't started, it would cause things to get messy. Is that really the best that the teachers can do? To avoid any topsy-turviness?In fact, there are a lot of such people (especially staff in jj), so much so that nothing can really be done to remedy the situation. Zzz. Please try harder.

- Really? Really really?
by Elfie @ 5/09/2004 01:33:00 am

Thursday, May 06, 2004

I prefer simplicity. Simple in a sense that people just be who they are and do not try to hide behind every dumb wall they can find (and no, i'm not hiding behind the computer screen). Putting up a facade (especially a 3-sided one, you'll understand if u know who i'm talking about) for other people to see is just too energy consuming and simply inefficient. When You do not get what you really want, you go kick a humongous fussball about it. Like who gives a damn.

- Ignorance IS bliss
by Elfie @ 5/06/2004 12:05:00 am