euphoria

THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a
neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down
when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no
children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown.The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and
pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you?Just what the heck are you doing? That’s a new car! and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?" The young boy was
apologetic.
"Please, mister…please, I’m sorry but I didn’t know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no one else would stop…"
With tears dripping down his face and off his chin, the youth
pointed to a spot just around a parked car. "It’s my brother, "he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can’t lift him up."
Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly
swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the fresh scrapes and cuts. A quick look told him everything was going to be okay.
"Thank you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy! push his wheelchair-bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home.
It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was
very noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door.
He kept the dent there to remind him of this message:

"Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"

God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts.
Sometimes when we don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It’s our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise! every morning. Face it, friend - He
is crazy about you!

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without
sorrow,sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it

have been studying around, everywhere the past few days.  yest had chinese oral. ohhs haha. no comments. then went to 老地方, prata house with estee, shuwei and yb. then to BK to study for the rest of the hours.

today. met up with shuwei, estee, yimei to study at j8. we were seriously eating more than studying and we sat for only abt 20 mins to study before going ard shops looking for food or toilet breaks. haha. first location was coffee bean. then it was freezing and yimei said she was becoming a cube of ice. haha so we decided to shift ‘house’ to delifrance. we were in FRANCE. yest we were in burger king and yb called it UK. so we actually ‘travelled’ to diff places. haha. okay so lame. and we played a little ‘treasure hunt’ game. looking for someone which we had no clue of. okay, i guess we were BORED.

yimei is offically the dinosaur cum slim girl, she ate hell alot and spent like abt 20 bucks on food yet shes so slim ! so unfair !

currently addicted to this msn game. HEXIC ! so fun to play ! and i’m gonna train myself to be a pro ! haha yeah right….

study sessions are alway so fun and i dont want the holidays to end.

okay i’m super bored but i dont want to study ss. cus its so dry and boring. oh wells. i’m ending here now.

chem prac was horrible. oops.

have been studying in sch for the past few days. so yest , studied for 6 flat hours. cldnt take it anymore and decided to catch ALOT LIKE LOVE with shuwei, estee and sui.

ohhs i must say that movie is so not worth it. super draggy and so predictable. not as nice as i thought it would be. so pple out there who have high expectations, pls lower your expectations or you’ll be disappointed. there are only some parts in the movie that are appealing. for those who like prince and me like JO. haha maybe you’ll find this movie nice.

its gonna be eons later before i watch another movie in the cinema. oh wells back to studying.

love this song. ‘bad day’ daniel powter.

feeling good today !  started off with studying in school. managed to complete some work thou.

trg was GOOOOD (for the first time in weeks). LAST holiday trg. LAST in my stnicks years.
javelin girls felt good, did well today. i think everyone had at least one good throw. :)  guess we started off well. had the nats comp feeling. we did a run thru of trial throw, first throw, blahh. not bad. shuwei and i broke pbs ! i dint see my throw but they said it was obvious tht i broke so yeah. its ard 28+m. hope its the start of our peak performance.

i hope the 3 of us, bdiv javeliners cld all get top3. its not impossible,we are there. so just do wht we gotta do on tht day girls. lets work tgt.

looking fwd to next trg ! :) 

all the way throwers.
all the way stnicks athletics team !
we can do it ! double champs !

went bowling at kovan with vanessa,kelly,sam. haha GREAT FUN ! highest score was 128. :X was super off today and super no luck. kelly,van and i played a total of 21 games. shiok :))
wanted to continue thou if not for the fact tht we were almost going broke. last four games we 3 combined and played under the name ‘trackers’ haha but sad to say, we werent up to the challenge of hitting 120 in a game. so we decided to lower our standards and settle for 80 instead. heh. our scores were 81,82,83 hahaha. conclusion, we cannot combine. play individual better. at least not so lousy. tsk tsk .

got the BOWLING FEEL NOW. i wanna go again !!! hurr. well at least this holidays i have done smth i wanted to do since so long.

feeling euphoric and crazy over bowling again .

hey guys, lets aim to hit 120 nxt time when we 3 combine okay ! we must ! our ultimate goal !

did cip for ju eng home at bugis and i found out tht bugis is a shopping haven ! its like town compressed into one. gonna go there shopping someday.

came back in time for track camp. seriously speaking, the motivational talk this year wasnt as fabulous as last year, but nevertheless ms lim’s words of wisdom had some effect on me. the camp was relaxing, free and easy. glad there wasnt time restrictions. we all had this party bag in which everyone exchanged encouragemt notes to each other and it was really sweeeettt reading the notes. after that, went to the forum to fix this 136 piece puzzle which was our motto for this yr : VICTORY FAVOURS THE BOLD.

then we sat ard the track as a whole and the sec4s did a sharing. some were really sad thou and i guessed we all realised tht we wasted our secone year. a pity there werent pretty stars to gaze. we ended abt 12+ and then ms lim carried on her talk with the sec4s. her life story, til abt almost 1am. we almost had the opportunity to sleep on the track thru the night but unfortunately, luck wasnt shining on us, it started to drizzle the moment all of us placed ourselves on the track. what a pity, our last year. last camp in stnicks.

west coast was hell lot of fun. played capts ball at first and then telematch. wow, telematch was amusing, tiring , gross, but fun ! had to do pushups, eat a whole lot of coco pops, drink one whole bottle of mug, hahah but my grp got 3rd ! not bad an effort, felt like puking after tht ! got a tweety bird kite thou. its kinda like a picnic outing. super funn.
then had this pyramid challenge ! we split into event grps and each grp send out 7 reps to do climbing relay. throwers were last but its was great effort ! :):):)

MANY THANKS to the organising team who planned this camp. really GREAT and FUN. you guys rock.

realised i’ve been seeing the whole team for consecutively 5 days. all the double sessions and camp. wow.

tmrw bowling with kelly, sam, vannessa. its been so long since i last bowled.hope i wont embarrass myself haha. hope for some shopping tmrw.

throws were lousy again. i really dont understand why, whats wrong. did only 2 GOOD throws during morning session. all comments are contradicting. one said, head too high. another, head not high enough. hurr ? like who to listen to ? okay i knw theres alot of prob with my cross step but how to rectify it ? thats the prob. i’m trying. get back to basics one might say. yeah i know tht but there aint much time ! problems problems…
-not in right postition to throw
-last step, already facing the front.
-arms not high enough
-not flicking much
-throw too fast. not in position yet or rather no position.
-not building up momentum in cross step. all steppings same size
-over stepping.

oh yeah so thts it. so hard to process all the info and MAKE it right. well not only me have prb with throws from wht i see, many others too are frustrated with their throws. crapp.

okay, forget abt it.

anw today’s double sessions were tiring or rather i was tired even before training started. my first time being late for trg !  heh. was relieved to meet yimei at the st 13 gate. haha. in fact i was hoping to meet someone
played capt’s ball cus we had too much time to waste. our circuit was done within 1hr30min. fastt ehhh. heh. simple reason.

hmmm.TRIALS TMRW !
i’m so screwed. how? with all the mind-boggling flaws in my throws wht can i expect from tmrw’s trial ? i’ll prbly disappoint myself. i’m really scared for the first time for trials ! shitto. argh. whts with me ? i think i shld do wht i’m comfortable with. oh fine. take it easy.

HELPPPPP ME  !

i predict i’m gonna break dwn in term3 when theres simply no time at all for me to take a break. lessons will be intensive esp for our class. mrs fung just showed us the tests lined up for T3. the tests are just so immense tht i dont think i can survive. just maths and amaths alone is enough to make anyone gasp in horror and fear. and not to mention the heavy chaps of ss which mrs tan showed us long ago. like 3 chaps per test ? oh wow. i’m so anticipating. theres more on the way.

better go do some stuff now.
things to be done :
-encouragement notes
-6 lit essays
-chem hw
-chem tuition hw
-start practicing for maths !

new word learnt :
trepidition = fear, anxiety, apprehension

best suited to describe my mental state tmrw !

yimei and i are super fascinated and dying of amazement after we left the new ava from bio lesson. THT was the BEST bio lesson ever. we watched an intriguing video on HUMAN BRAIN and we left the room feeling WOW, gaining a great deal of BRAIN knowledge. the video showed life’s examples of how our brain is so mysterious yet contributing to many of our actions. its unfathomable indeed. really WOW. so much info to absorb and i only realised the importance now. a feeling of incredulity and astonishment overwhelmed us while a sense of apprehension holds us as we view the importance of breaking a network formed amidst our brain. we realised the importance of our brain contributing to wht we feel, see, touch and hear and we fear tht anything might happen unknowingly and we might lose these senses.

one word : CAPTIVATING

amazing fact : the part which contains our memories is called the hippocampus !

week 2 of holidays is over and our holidays are coming to an end FAST. stress and anxiety is building up as we move along to the month of JULY = nationals. what to expect ? i seriously dont know. term 3 is gonna be hell for me and i’m gonna take it as it comes, but for nats ? i have no comments. training so far has not been really productive and i’m not at my peak now. my back is aching and my cross step is screwed. well done, amanda. oh wells, i hope week 3 of holidays, intensive DOUBLE trainingS and more studying will certainly be effective. i have no time to lose. its now or never, i can choose to make it or break it. like ms lim said, time is tight and we cant afford to waste it, we need to compromise. so week 3, i’m waiting for you. bring it on !

layout for week 3

mon 730-9 training
        930-11 maths
        11 - 1 chem
        2  - 5  training

tues 730-9 training
        930-1 free to study anth
        2   - 5 training

wed 730- 9      training
        930-1230 free to study
        130 - 4     CIP flagday
         back to school for TRACK CAMP

thurs - finally a break to WEST COAST (track team)

fri - rest day prob, study in sch

sat - chem tuition (test)
        bowling maybe ?

sun - maths tuition

: prayer :

dear lord, i just pray that you will teach me to spend my time wisely and plan my time properly. that is all i need right now. dear lord, i just hope that you will keep everyone in the track and field team safe from injuries so tht we can perform to our best abilities in july. lord, i just pray tht you will comfort those who need you and heal those who are unwell. help those who are weak to stay strong and those who lose hope, to remain positive no matter what happens, because we know that all we do is for you and you have our best interest at heart. i pray this in your name. amen.

bio prac was bleahhh. haha. needed to count number of black seeds in a kiwi fruit ! i was like ‘are you joking mann?’ then ’smart’ me go and act smart, do 2nd qns first, when actually supp to do 1st part of qns 1 cus it needed 45 mins. ’smart’ me tasted the solutions and predicted the results. haha. so gonna fail badly. anyhow label the kiwi fruit, and cucumber exocarp,endocarp,mesocarp,pericarp…. well well expected.

tsk !

went to town AGAIN. for seminar. truly a waste of time. at least i completed my compre in town.

mr and mrs smith opening today.

went to kelly’s house afterwards. watched ‘you got served’
nice hip hop street dancing movie with great choreography but i prefer HONEY ! :):)

now watching the typical singaporeans fighting over the ’superstar’ title. more like making a joke out of themselves ? super hilarious !

feeling free tdy ! but hafta complete chem hw.  ohhhs.

timeout.

oh crap. lit seminar was a total waste of time and money. except for the notes that were good. like totally falling asleep and the only way to stay awake is sweets ! i’m so gonna develop diabetes looking at the rate i’m eating sweets.

well, after that studied with yb,estee and swei in delifrance.
had some random talks though. like err.. haha irony, bio i was studying and here we are talking bio-related topics.

did integration test and it is a killer. so cannot finish within the stipulated time. oh bummer. hecked the time and still cant do haha.

so now i’m left with studying for bio. sexual reproduction in mammals chp, and wht am i doing online ? and btw its so not studying, more like reading. i cant help it if my brain doesnt want to function and absorb the info right ? RIGHT !

hahah and danfong had a dream abt me. weird dream thou. abt me liking valen and she didnt even knw tht valen existed ! seriously weird. lke so no link. hahaha

better get dwn to studying bio now. aint planning to sleep tonight. gotta get my bio facts right first.

chem lesson tmrw and i cant wait to see mrs ang ! she’s finally back and starting lessons officially tmrw. i will try my very best to stay awake during her lesson !

training tmrw too and i hope i can stay constant. although the thought of it makes me dread trg. oh wells, guess i have to hang on during this period of time. counting dwn to nats and last trg. dang !

adios.

wonder hows valen doing in USA ?