Messy and Disorganised

Well, it's been a long time since I last blogged, and I mean REALLY REALLY LONG time. I wanted to wait another year before blogging again but I couldn't resist the temptation. Besides, my reader (note the use of the singular word form) really wants me to post :) I'm not going to update everything that's happened since the last post, that'll be too long. Instead, here's what has happened recently. It's been 1.5 years since I entered CJ, JC sucks. Time isn't on anyone's side when 'A' levels are drawing closer. I can really feel the pressure, besides, I really want to do well for 'A's. Although I haven't succumbed to the stress, I'm pretty sure it's going to hit me real hard soon, it's just a matter of time. Thank goodness I have the June holidays, no wait, I don't have holidays as a JC2. I just finished planning my revision schedule (yes, don't judge me) for the June holidays  and basically, everyday is packed. Well, certain days are less packed, so that's probably when I'll meet up with my reader (I keep my promises haha ^^) 81 days to prelims, let's make these 81 days count. Besides, I always scrape through. After all, it'll all be over in another 6 months. After that, I can go out all I want for the next 5 months before I serve the nation, but that's another story and I shan't bore you. I think I'll be posting more regularly, but no guarantees, blogging kinda takes off some of the strain I've been facing. Although I have no blogs to read (ahem ahem). I can't be bothered to change my tagboard (if they still call it that) because of my single reader, anything just whatsapp hahaha  :) I've been facing many different problems nowadays, such a wonder I've still kept my sanity. You'll have to forgive my lack of coherence and flow, I'm just typing as my thoughts flow. Thoughts are messy, they rarely flow, but somehow, they make sense once you manage to string them together. But isn't life like that? Sometimes, you get the feeling life is all 'downs' without any mode of climbing up but somehow, it all works out. No matter what, there'll always be a time where everything works out for you, you just have to have faith in it and press on. I guess the cliche phrase would be 'never give up hope' which is true in a sense, because once you lose faith, you start to lose in life. I've found a new quote online that says ' When you stop telling yourself you're losing, you'll start winning ', tell yourself you're a winner, tell yourself everything's going to be okay, tell yourself everything will work out, because in the end, those words are what drives you to that ever so elusive stage of life where it's all a bed of roses. Just some motivational words from me, to me, and my reader (if you want to read) hahaha I've become more philosophical, perhaps that's one way the stress got to me. Hey, meet up in June okay? After 13 June, I still remember hahaha! Well, 'til next time.

Well, I'm blogging from my phone, so shan't elaborate much :) I'm posting because of popular demand.. Hahaha! Well not exactly, I just had a conversation with an old friend of mine (forgive me, it sounds nicer this way) who prompted me to post. Basically she's the one whom I always compete with in whatever exams and would give her a lollipop if she won me, or toing, no wait, the toing was a birthday gift, I just threw it unceremoniously behind me into her face. Sorry. Well, I'm a reader of her blog and here, it's a sign I've read today's post. Thank you!!!! I can't remember half of the stuff there.. You have wonderful memory :) thanks for the cake ;) well, it's been almost a year since my last post and in those months, I've shed countless amounts of blood and sweat because of O levels and also my aunt. Yeah, she's still the dictator, and yes, she's still alive (damn). It's my birthday today, I'm 16 :) I can watch NC16 movies already!! Yay! Hahaha!! Oh btw, you're the first person that texted me happy birthday :) I thank you for that. Spent my birthday outside with my uncle, quiet birthday lunch, then shopping spree at Prologue Ion, bought 8 books. I also got more chocolate. Right, my thumbs can't take it, shall go back to my book. Goodnight! Good luck for your results!! (You know who I'm referring to, you're my only blog reader), yes, we'll definitely keep in touch, I still owe you a US trip to factory outlet stores :)

Tell you what, I still read your blog and can you please at least say hi at my tagbox, it's not there for adverts y'know?? :) So anyways, it's almost 2012, if the apocalypse is real then I'm really screwed, other than that, I'm fine, "O"s next year but well, all the best for everyone taking it. I've done some intel snooping and I've found out my form teachers for next year, Gao Yi and Lee Poh Tin, if you don't know who they are, they're like the worst combination of form teachers one can have. 4E1 is so screwed for next year, SS teacher is Ms Tan, Chem is no longer taken by Mrs Sia :( but Mrs Evelyn Tan (no emoticon for I want to kill myself), Phy teacher may change, and we still don't know who is our EL teacher, how screwed is that? The holidays have passed by so quickly, and it was filled with some ups and downs, but more ups than downs. At least I have CCA to go to to at least spend those few hours with friends. Christmas was a bore I guess, my birthday at home was even worse, if I did not elaborate before, I "celebrated" it with the interior designer, some workers, my aunt and the maid. At least the SMS-es cheered me up, even the facebook wishes. Thanks to the 3 that SMS-ed me to wish me happy birthday :) Especially one who gave me a pleasant surprise by calling to wish me :) It's now New Year's Eve, soon to be New Year's. I'd like to wish all that read my blog (current count: 1) a Happy New Year and all the best for "O" levels 2012. Gambatte!!!! I don't know the Korean equivalent for that, maybe you could leave me a translation on my tagbox.

Oh and one more thing, this is the Ajusshi signing off :P

Well, I'm blogging because it's my BIRTHDAY!!!!! I'm 15!!!! Well the only bad thing I can think of is that I have to do chin-ups for next year's NAPFA, but who gives a damn. I'M 15!!!!! I'd like to thank Grace for messaging me at 12 in the morning to wish me happy birthday, also like to thank Firzanah for passing me my gift yesterday. I think that's it, unless you count Facebook wishes. Well, I have chocolate, diary planner from my aunt (free gift from some design company), another diary planner from a family friend (free gift from UOB Business Banking), the helper is going to get my gift, ohhhh!! And money!! Well technically supposed to be red packets but my grandfather passed away last last week so I can't receive any red packets, but I still can get "pocket money", so i'm looking forward to receiving my "pocket money" for CNY 2012. Well, seems like my blog is officially dead, my tagbox is now a place to advertise cars and fridges, hopefully no Canadian meds though. So I guess I'll update when I want to update.

Updating by popular request.... Yeah right, only 1 person reads this anyway. I'm rather lazy to blog, and I have no idea what has been happening lately. I only know I've been accustomed to watching Law and Order SVU lately. It's a nice show. Well, it's the only show I watch on TV now, the rest are all downloaded. Friends, The Big Bang Theory, The Nanny. I'm moving, but not to another neighbourhood or anything, just a few blocks down. Guess where? The condo next to mine..... Long story, we rented it out, moved to my current place, now the tenants are moving out, so we're selling the current place and moving back. So the past few weeks have all been a bore, just looking at doors, furniture and stuff like that. I'd rather stay at home, at least the computer's here, and I can do my holiday assignments, I've finished Chem, History and I'm almost finishing EMaths Set A. That's all. I'd rather do my homework than go out, because I know the places would be boring warehouses or shops that have doors or sinks or stuff like that, and it's not even Ikea! At least Ikea's interesting, and there's good food, those places don't have a food court for miles! I've been sleeping at 12 and waking up at 11 for the past 2-3 weeks, I like it, it's the holidays!! Oh yeah, because we're moving, we have to shed some weight and throw some stuff out to make space. Without my consent or without me overseeing, my aunt threw away my novels, including all 7 books of Harry Potter (the Deathly Hallows was bought on the day it was released in Singapore mind you, it has sentimental value in it) and Lord of the Rings, how painful is that? It's like having part of your soul ripped out, I don't care for those ebooks, I still like the touch of paper and actually flipping through to read, not just holding up a tablet and mindlessly dragging your finger across the screen. It sucks, now all I have are those "reference" books aka World History, WWI, WWII, Weather, Geographical locations and political information on countries etc etc. None of them interesting enough to keep me preoccupied while I'm on the throne.... At least one good thing to look forward to, class reunion on the 15th, other than that, I've got nothing on my agenda other than "sit and rot". Have a pleasant day!!

Right, which should I narrate about first, let me do it in chronological order. I came back from STC (Survival Training Camp-for those not in NPCC) in Ubin, held at the oh so famous Camp Resilience. It was a fun camp, very very fun, but unfortunately, my last NPCC overnight camp on Ubin. The 1st day was the mandatory tent pitching and some ice-breaking games. The theme for this year's ATC/STC was "tribal" so we had tribe flags given to us and were told some bogus story about tribes in Ancient China, and our Camp Coordinator failed his geography, inner Mongolia was NEVER located in the Himalayas. Then I cracked a joke to myself when he said, "And further up the mountains, lived..." And I whispered to myself, " The Dalai Lama." No one caught that but I laughed silently, damn, forever alone. My group had Ron, if no one knows, he/she/it is one of the 3 Legendary F**kups of Bukit View NPCC. He's super slow, like literally slow and thick. Let's just leave it at there. So, my group had the tiger flag *rawr!*, and we named our group, ummm... a very hard to spell out name ending in tiger. But that's not all, my group was the least enthu group in the entire camp, like literally when our group instructor would ask whether we play games or discuss a new cheer, the answer would be either silence with the occasional person saying, "anything." It rained the 2nd day, but it stopped in time for the campfire, so we had a campfire, and also a very very good campfire performance by Bukit View NPCC, I don't want to boast here but I think of all the Area 18 schools there, I think ours was the best. The 3rd day passed by very quickly, area cleaning, receiving of our STC badges, and finally, a short van ride to the jetty and a boat ride home. I think a rather memorable last few moments at Camp Resilience, of wait, I'll be back, HRC next year!!! After camp, I slept from 3pm all the way to 8pm, woke up just in time for dinner, then slept again 'til the next morning, rushed to school for debate training, ended later than expected, then rushed to West Mall to meet up with the remaining members of Static Drive for our jamming session, it was good, it ended well too, as of now, Static Drive is currently inactive but still together, furthermore, as our 'manager', Victor, pangseh-ed us, we have decided that we shall no longer have a manager, but still keep an editor, which is still Siwei, so we decided to vote for the leader and right now, we are inactive, but do 'like' the band page, return the favour for voting for Big Bang :P Tuesday was a boring day, but fast forward to Wednesday, class outing/BBQ. We gathered at West Mall at 11am, left for ECP at 1pm, all because we had to do a last minute booking of the BBQ pit, buy the food and items needed for the BBQ. So it was a very last minute thing, but we pulled it off. Raining? Shift the charcoal into 1 of the aluminium trays and put a grill on it, there, indoor BBQ-ing. The food was relatively nice, what with the rather experienced BBQ head chef, ME! hahaha. It was F-ing hot, it was impossible to flip 2 hotdogs consecutively, I had to flip, blow my hand, and flip another one. Then it stopped raining and we shifted the makeshift BBQ pit back to the permanent BBQ pit to bake the potatoes and BBQ the chicken. The potato was bland, but then again, we didn't buy the sweet potato, but it's food, so don't complain, especially when I cooked everything except the chicken. Left at 8 with Jerrold and Fauzan, nearly got lost but found our way back to the bus stop, then took the train to City Hall, changed to the NS line, then rode it to Newton, alighted, resurfaced and took 67 back home, after the walking and everything, I reached home at 10.15pm, 15 min before my curfew. I smelt of smoke, well who wouldn't after spending about 3hrs BBQ-ing food. Today? Nothing much, debate training, then came home for lunch and I slept on the couch, I literally collapsed on it, well, it was a tiring week so far.

Right, I'd better post something before someone *ahem* starts spamming my tagboard or inbox prompting me to post something. hahahaha. A pretty uneventful 3 days of foundation, tomorrow's the last day, the famous 11/11/11, or to be more precise, the day WWI ended with the signing of the armistice at 5am, which stated that all guns were to stop firing at 11am, thus ending the 4 bitter years of war that saw fighting take place in Africa, Belgium, France, Russia, Turkey etc. etc. that claimed a few million lives and changed the entire map of Europe as new boundaries were drawn and the League of Nations was formed, but that was a complete failure. Okay, enough crap, I'm ill. To be more precise, I've been ill for the past 2 weeks, I've been coughing and sneezing non-stop, well the sneezing stopped now, but I'm still coughing out buckets of phlegm, some of which contained blood, well I wasn't worried, after a day or so, the blood turned into pink phlegm, and when I checked just now, it's back to that disgusting colour of phlegm we are so familiar with. Well, that's about it, oh, and I've got another camp tomorrow, a 3D2N hell on Ubin, hope I'll pull through this one without collapsing or anything. Well, seeya next week, perhaps.

Back again. Camp was fun!! It was very tiring but it was still fun. It's much better to be on the other side of a bunk inspection or a burglar drill. Hahaha!! Much much better. Beret on the floor, chairs overturned, bags and towels and slippers everywhere, and they're not yours!! And when I mean yours I mean your squad. The camp was an overall success, I must say we really pulled it off within 2 weeks of preparation. Kudos to us. Downside of the camp was less sleep for the CLs, I mean I only had about 4hrs of sleep for 3 days and 2 nights, the 15min nap on Saturday helped a bit. The burglar drill was less intense, in our time, we had to hold it in pumping position for god knows how long, in my squad's 1st year, the annual camp burglar drill was essentially PT session with more scoldings than usual, the 2nd year was less intense though, only a changing parade. This year's sec 1s are really really better off than us, not in a good way, I mean I could tell the scoldings have been toned down a lot since 2009, even when Insp Zaki "kicked" the bottles when they were not arranged neatly, he only kicked 1 group's and it was just a tap. Back in '09, the bottles could fly from one end of the area to the other, and mind you they're 1.5litres and filled to the brim. 8 complaints for the whole course of the camp, have their discipline standards slacked, parents butting in again methinks, I mean if you knew your son/daughter joined NPCC, a uniformed group, you'd know what to expect, don't just go calling and complaining and taking all the fun out of punishments. Anyways, enough said, some things from camp are best saved in memory. Foundation was a bore, a sleep deprived me nearly died yesterday, I slept from 5pm on Sunday and woke up at 6.07am on Monday, and I still felt tired, and to make matters worse, the last lesson was Physics, and it was raining. Physics+Rain+Sleep deprivation= Zzzzzzzzzzzz

I got exiled today in history lesson, now Nicholas is on the other side of the classroom, well, at least Fendy has joined me in Siberia, but it ain't the same without Nicholas. Yeah, I'm touched, 1 person still reads my blog, and yes me occasionally reads the blog on my links that's still alive and whose author is a Big Bang fan. Who arh?? :P

Siao, someone still reads my blog!! I'm so touched! Hahaha!! Off to camp tomorrow, be back on Sunday. Bye bye! :)

I have no idea whether anyone still reads my blog or not, personally, I feel that I might revert back to the old leather-bound book( not that I have one) or maybe change it to something like Star Trek: "Captain's Log, star date 2011, met up with classmates today.." Hahaha. Anyways, to that person who told me to start blogging at the end of the exams, I would like to thank you for that candy stuck on a stick, I have no idea what it's called :P hahaha. Yeah, thanks :) Well, it's all slack today, well almost all slack. The only real lessons we were having today was Chem and AMaths, That Mrs Prasad arh...... She's crazy, after exam straight away start AMaths lessons :( Sian. Camp this Friday, hopefully I will survive, I haven't even packed fo- Wait, what am I saying? I can pack in 30min 1hr tops, well, one less thing to worry about.

Alright, I'm happy. I'm quite happy about my results, there's still room for some improvement but I'm still happy. Happy with my EMaths, overall I think about 75%, my AMaths is better than EMaths, hahaha!! Overall about 89%. I was also surprised with my SS marks, I thought I would get freakin' low but in the end I got 39/50, I was told I was the highest in class :) so overall my Combined Humanities should be 77%. These are the only A1s I got, had I studied for Physics and Chem, I could have gotten 2 more. They're all A2s, with Bio getting me a B3 due to some calculation error (I had an A2, but Mr Lim counted wrongly, but my conscience is clear, I have gained some Karma), English was a B4 and Chinese bringing up the rear with a C6. These are the overall calculations from the EOY papers, hopefully I maintain my good class and level positioning when the report cards come out. I have failed in my Chem, I have failed to get a damn A1, into exile I must go. I will go to Siberia for the holidays to memorise my Chem textbook. Hahahaha! Well, I'm still quite contented with my results. AEM was fun, we built a model wind turbine so glue and paper everywhere.

Well, as promised, I'm finally posting in my super dead blog. I have also promised to write an essay so here goes. I've been absent all this while from blogging because I haven't felt like blogging all this while. Besides, I've been playing computer games so that may explain my absence from blogging. I've got Blackshot and Fallout 3, both are fun games and Fallout 3 is the best. If you're into FPS and role-playing games that is. Anyway, in my absence from blogging, I have started to roam Wikipedia for juicy news or historical events. I still do. I look out for historical events that happened on that specific day and I click and every time I see a new word or a place or a battle etc I click again, so I would start out reading on Napoleon and end up closing the Wikipedia browser that says Theory of Relativity. So, it's official, I have no life. I've done some reflection on my life this year and some comparison also. It seems that as carefree as I am now, I'm never as carefree as last year. Last year, I could have gone to the science exam or maths exam without studying (not trying to show off here), but this year, I find myself constantly referring to and flipping through notes feverishly just minutes before going to the hall. It seems that there's something that's stressing me out and I think I know the cause. I don't blame anyone but isn't it enough already? I've got a lot at stake whenever I enter the exam hall, I have my positioning, overall marks, eligibility for awards, WHETHER I CAN GO BACK HOME SAFELY WITHOUT SEEING MY LUGGAGE AT THE DOOR WITH A NOTE SAYING: I CALLED YOUR FATHER, HE'S TAKING YOU TO JOHOR, YOU CAN STAY THERE FOREVER. Well, that's just me though. I've learned to live with it. What with all the good-for-nothing child I'm being labelled as. I still don't get it, just because I'm from a neighbourhood school doesn't mean I'm stupid or whatever, or even that in order to score an A1 in some Raffles fucked up, snooty, rich, well-funded, elite Institution I must score 10 marks more than what I get in school if I get an A1. First of all, we all take the same fucking 'O' level exams that's catered to all students, secondly, well, just shut up about this elitist talk because anymore and I swear I'm gonna blow. Okay, so I don't want to plaster this blog with profanities so I'm gonna fast forward to now.I've been watching The Big Bang Theory lately and it's such a funny show, I can't describe it here, you need to see it to feel the epic humour in the show. Oh, I've got back my papers today, I can't say I've did badly or did very good, well there's room for improvement. I just need to get my facts right, handle my points, be clear with my definitions and BUCK UP FOR MY DAMN ENGLISH PAPER 2. English was not so disappointing as I expected but I was hoping I could've scored better. Besides , I'm not going to let that ruin my day, I've got AEM!! Some thing about solar, wind and another type of renewable energy. I felt like sleeping, but the quizzes were easy. And I reiterate.Ngee Ann Poly is not a school or a group of schools, it's a whole TOWN. I tell you, if the poly were to lock itself down, it could sustain itself for heck knows how long. They already have solar panels and I heard there was a wind turbine generating electricity from wind. It's got multiple eateries, sports areas, I wouldn't be surprised if half of the Poly is underground. Well, it's getting late, and I hope this is a decent essay for the person that persuaded me to update. Thank you and goodnight New York!!

I have not been blogging properly for months now, truth is I can't recall much. Ahhh... The monotony of school life, wake up, breakfast, school, tuition, dinner, homework, sleep. I owe my teacher(s) homework and consent forms. On top of it all, my aunt is pestering me to go for Chinese tuition twice a week, like that's possible. Firstly, I don't want to go twice because it's really cutting into my "me" time, secondly, I really have no more time to slot in another tuition session, and finally, studies have shown that as long as you hate the subject, you'll never do well in it no matter how many tuition sessions you've been to. Wake up Brendan, you've gotta get outta your slumber, this ain't no honeymoon, "O"s are next year. Do you want to go to HCI? Buck up man, pass your damn MT, get an "A" for English, Sciences, both Maths and your Humanities. I used to be taking these so-called "leaps of faith" where I've plunged into total and complete ignorance of upcoming tests, it worked 99.9%. Now, it's all down to elbow-grease. No more leaping, no more slacking, it's total war, war against all subjects. This is my own personal declaration of this year's EOYs. I, Brendan Tan of 3E1'11, hereby solemnly and sincerely swear that I shall get an A2 for my EL paper 2, A1 for AMaths, A1 for Physics and A1 for Biology. If not, my computer shall be taken away from me until I get the desired marks in the next round of tests. Until next time, this is me, signing off for probably the last time this year.

Dear sec 3 &4 life,

BRING IT!!!!

Yours sincerely,

a student

Okay, quick post today. Today was our last first aid lesson. Also the test and a last practical session. I think I miss our trainer, "Encik". He always told us stories of his experiences in SCDF and before that. It rained heavily during lunch and we got drenched on the way back to school, while waiting for the rest to come back, Ming Hong, Victor and I did A.Maths in the lecture theatre, basically completing the square and we did a bit of logarithms. Anyways, I got full marks for the MCQ test at the end of the course :)

I'm so happy today because so many things happened today!! For starters I woke up at 5 to go to school for the NPCC Day ceremony. The speech went well. Anyway, we got back our exam results.
MT P1:36/60
MT P2:35/70
MT P3:8/20
Bio P1:34/40
Bio P2:54.5/80
EM P1:53/60
EM P2:61/80
CH P1 (SS): 31/50
Actually, we also got back our A.Maths exam paper but I left halfway through class so I couldn't remember the mark. I left halfway because 10 selected NPCC Cadets had to go for the weapons handling and safety talk at HTA in preparation for the shooting competition. Truth be told, I wasn't their first choice, it actually snowballed to me when the selected one (Colin) didn't want to go. Anyways, I'm so happy, even though I got locked out of the house for 1 hour I'm still happy. I don't kow why, but I'm so happy. I think it's happiness, well either that or hysteria.

Cool, I'm blogging in the afternoon at 12.15. I actually woke up at 9 but I went back to sleep and woke up at 11 instead. Anyways, we had the first aid course on Saturday and yesterday. It was alll pretty basic, like recovery position, CPR, bandaging etc.etc. Funny thing happened yesterday, we just had lunch outside and by we I mean Victor, Ming Hong and I. We were on our way back to school when we saw some guys doing someting to a tree, turns out they were going to smoke out the bees. Anyway we asked a couple of sec 4s and one of them said they were going to burn the hive. They just smoked it, I think the smoke was laced with pesticide. Anyway, we stood back and watched. It all happened in slow motion. The pest controller smoked the tree, we heard buzzing and saw a large black mass expanding out of the tree. We all shouted "run!!!" and shot off in different directions. Victor and I hug back abit to see the retreat of the bees, Ming Hong ran all the way back into the eco garden. Victor and I ran back into the DC area and watched the bees, we hung back and saw the bees drop one by one into the parade square, like if 6 whole squadrons of minute planes attacked the school and the anti-aircraft guns managed to shoot them all down. So when the bees were grounded, we heard buzzing and actually the scene was kinda fantasy-like. Anyway the teachers all came out. The rest of the first aid students joked about not treating bee stings but being able to resuscitate the bees. Going to watch Thor later.

Well, it's official, all the "major" papers are over. Chem, Phy and Bio Paper 2, A.Maths paper 2, E.Maths both papers, Hist, SS and MT Paper 1 and 2. Oh and EL paper 1 and 2. All that's left is listening comprehension and the Paper 1 of the 3 sciences. I screwed up Phy Paper 2, Chem Paper 2 was easy and Bio Paper 2 was strangely enough, quite manageable. I just need to get full marks for the Paper 1s and I'm home and clear. Or at least I think it's that phrase, or something else. Playing runescape on Friday after Chem paper 1. More good news? Well, First Aid Course on Saturday, Monday and next week Saturday; I'm the so-called spokesman for NPCC Day along with Victor and I'M GOING FOR OBS!!!!!!!! Oh yeah!!! Now, it's time to watch HIMYM then Top Gear, then I'm going study.

Well, I can't say that my blog is still alive and kicking like it used to be, however at least I'm updating. For starters, I'm currently working on compiling physics notes as I rarely open my physics textbook. These will be lighter, easier to carry and easy to refer to. Also, we've all gotten back our chemistry and maths CA marks, both maths. I'm glad to say that at least I got A1 for one subject. I failed my A.Maths CA and I got through E.Maths with a 60++ I could've gotten higher for E.Maths but the weightage was more on the common test so.... Anyway MYEs have already started a week ago and I have no idea what will happen to my results, or me since we're on that topic. Stupid chinese let me down, stupid A.Maths THREW me down and not only did A.Maths throw me down, she picked me up, threw me down from a higher level and drove over me with a train carrying 6x10^23 tons of matter. If I pass this A.Maths test, I think I'm going to go to Vegas and try my luck on Blackjack, just sayin'. I'll probably loosen up once the exams are over.......

My blog is dying, I know, I'm so stubborn to the point I won't even admit my blog is y'know, dead. Anyway, I've got a few things to post so I'll just post them. I had NPAP on Sunday, 16/04/11. The actual parade, dammit it was so damn fun, the atmosphere was like that at a funfair of some sort, plus the people clapping gave you the emotional support to endure the rest of the parade, which mind you, took about an hour or so, plus we had to endure the mentioning of the 55 schools achieving the Gold Award. Carried the rifles back to the armoury for the GOH, saw Clarence, Fendi and Junhui there. I invited Clarence. By the time I got home, it was 10. Ok, NPAP over, MYEs are coming up, I think the carefree Brendan is gone, heck, he left 4 months ago...... Stressed cannot describe what most of us is feeling. Had sergeant test yesterday, it was OK, I passed, it was quite funny, you have to be there to know the 'funny'. I didn't sleep at all. After I came back from CCA, it was 7.30pm, I had dinner until 8 then crashed on the couch for the next 2 hours, after that, I showered, changed and did my homework. I tried to sleep at 12 but I couldn't so I spent the entire morning from 12am to 5.45am watching two and a half men on the computer. All the while, I was drinking coffee. I had a bit of a diarrhea in the morning then I felt nauseated for the rest of the day, I blame the 8 cups of coffee. I didn't vomit, I just belched for the entire morning, I drank 7-UP when I came home, it helps with the gas, except that once I reached home, my body apparently knew I was home and the rest of the gas came out of the back door... Damn, going for a day without sleep sucks.