First Date!!

Me and sweetie went for lunch today... its our first date... haha.. so cute loh... so old liao still got this kind of thing but nonetheless its still first date and lunching on my birthday... damn shiok... we decided to go to Vivocity for lunch den came back... shopping plans were shelved cos she only had 2 hours cos of presentation at 2.

ended up at swensen's for lunch... and had a nice window seat with the hot warm sun and over looking to Sentosa... damn nice view... anyway, we had clam chowder soup and a maincourse of grilled salmon and lamb chops... so funny loh, sweetie eat until like wanna puke lidat... she was like dying... we were taking a lot of photos... cos the view is quite nice and cos its my birthday i guess... i think the waiter and waitress were staring at us... wondering how come these 2 people like that one... but nvm lah.. i dun care... haha... its was fun... i'm waiting for her to send me the pics... too bad we dun have time for shopping... its just a quick lunch and off... but still, its my best birthday present this year... 2 hours is not enuff sweetie.... can i have more time please????

My birthday... my 25th...

its been full of events since yesterday... had lessons till 3 and came back to hall to nap for a while before having a dinner with my arts gang... weizhen, jingting, rebecca... viv is out of sorts recently, karen dun really know the rest.. siying got another birthday to attend... in the end, the 4 of us went to Heeren, Marche... its not Marche anymore but its called V'lage or something... basically the same as Marche... had dinner there... where i was treated to dinner by the 3 of them... camera whoring for a while... before proceeding to NYDC for desserts... ordered this Band Aid and Elmer fudge... both are quite tasty... and extremely sinful.. considering that DP is coming up... its pretty bad to look fat on stage esp when one of the dance had to be topless... Its really the first time that they celebrated my birthday since year 1, other occassions, they merely bought me birthday present. this year the present was ------> winnie the pooh bear water dispenser... oh my gawd... its damn kiddish and i confirm wun get to use it cos i already has got a dispenser and the water cooler is just outside my room... but a gift is a gift... thanks guys...

before i reached hall i received an sms from esther asking if i am going for dance today... which is damn weird and immediately i knew something was on... after i came back, there was this handball meeting about today's game... maybe we'll win cos of my birthday luck... ok lah.. not maybe but we must win... den it was dance after that till 1... the whole group of them were acting strangely and i knew nothing good is going to come out of it when Van came to drag me down to see the pageant fotos... i purposely left my room unlocked to see what they were up to... 1/2 hour later.. i came up and my room fan was off and immediately i know they powdered my fan all over, waiting for me to turn it on only... soon everyone was crowding ard... watching the show... den tried to climb up to clean off the powder, thams ran in and tried to on the fan... but i threw him onto the ground... i think that scareded everyone that no one dared to come in to help him or turn on the fan... cos i looked really pissed... cos this trick was meant to be for barney... and i was one of the mastermind to have plotted for it... i mean i dun mind having pranks played on me lah.. but i got too much stuff in my room and too many stuff to settle with the impt docs lying ard for this trick...

in the end, there was the cake cutting session... during which 3 very cheeky monkeys sneaked into my room to messed it up... van, xintian and tingyu... my clothes were all over the place... my table messed up with my notes and books... colgate graffiti all over with messages like, "Jingpei, Happy Birthday!!" "Happy 25th!! from B2 and B4, 30/1/07" it was quite bad all in all cos they wore my clothes and ran all over the place... but still i rather this than to have powder all over my room... when everything ended, i took bout an hour to clean up everything and i had to carry the furniture one by one to the toilet to wash up... the worst was the wall mirror cos its damn heavy and the whole mirror is covered with colgate... all in all it was all done in the name of fun and i really appreciated it guys... thanks a lot... thou you all wun get to read this... sorry that i had to be fierce about the fan part.. cos there are really impt stuff lying ard that i cant afford to let it get dirty... guess i scareded some of them pretty bad cos i was really very fierce and i threw thams on the ground...

in the end, at the end of everything, i went down to b2 to scare the 3 monkeys about messing up their rooms... they were damn scared and screeching all ard... that they forsake tingyu and left tingyu outside with their rooms locked...

synchronised nicknames

me, margie and xingling got synchronised msn nicks... and we are taking turns to talk in order too....

Margie: Prinzessin Margie :: I try to discover...a little sth to make me sweeter
Xingling: cloverly fattish. oh baby refrain.. from breaking my heart
Jingpei: Jingpei - Feel 100%> i'm so in love with you... i'll be forever bluee.....

grown-ups ah... tsk tsk...

My birthday... my 25th...

its been full of events since yesterday... had lessons till 3 and came back to hall to nap for a while before having a dinner with my arts gang... weizhen, jingting, rebecca... viv is out of sorts recently, karen dun really know the rest.. siying got another birthday to attend... in the end, the 4 of us went to Heeren, Marche... its not Marche anymore but its called V'lage or something... basically the same as Marche... had dinner there... where i was treated to dinner by the 3 of them... camera whoring for a while... before proceeding to NYDC for desserts... ordered this Band Aid and Elmer fudge... both are quite tasty... and extremely sinful.. considering that DP is coming up... its pretty bad to look fat on stage esp when one of the dance had to be topless... Its really the first time that they celebrated my birthday since year 1, other occassions, they merely bought me birthday present. this year the present was ------> winnie the pooh bear water dispenser... oh my gawd... its damn kiddish and i confirm wun get to use it cos i already has got a dispenser and the water cooler is just outside my room... but a gift is a gift... thanks guys...

before i reached hall i received an sms from esther asking if i am going for dance today... which is damn weird and immediately i knew something was on... after i came back, there was this handball meeting about today's game... maybe we'll win cos of my birthday luck... ok lah.. not maybe but we must win... den it was dance after that till 1... the whole group of them were acting strangely and i knew nothing good is going to come out of it when Van came to drag me down to see the pageant fotos... i purposely left my room unlocked to see what they were up to... 1/2 hour later.. i came up and my room fan was off and immediately i know they powdered my fan all over, waiting for me to turn it on only... soon everyone was crowding ard... watching the show... den tried to climb up to clean off the powder, thams ran in and tried to on the fan... but i threw him onto the ground... i think that scareded everyone that no one dared to come in to help him or turn on the fan... cos i looked really pissed... cos this trick was meant to be for barney... and i was one of the mastermind to have plotted for it... i mean i dun mind having pranks played on me lah.. but i got too much stuff in my room and too many stuff to settle with the impt docs lying ard for this trick...

in the end, there was the cake cutting session... during which 3 very cheeky monkeys sneaked into my room to messed it up... van, xintian and tingyu... my clothes were all over the place... my table messed up with my notes and books... colgate graffiti all over with messages like, "Jingpei, Happy Birthday!!" "Happy 25th!! from B2 and B4, 30/1/07" it was quite bad all in all cos they wore my clothes and ran all over the place... but still i rather this than to have powder all over my room... when everything ended, i took bout an hour to clean up everything and i had to carry the furniture one by one to the toilet to wash up... the worst was the wall mirror cos its damn heavy and the whole mirror is covered with colgate... all in all it was all done in the name of fun and i really appreciated it guys... thanks a lot... thou you all wun get to read this... sorry that i had to be fierce about the fan part.. cos there are really impt stuff lying ard that i cant afford to let it get dirty... guess i scareded some of them pretty bad cos i was really very fierce and i threw thams on the ground...

in the end, at the end of everything, i went down to b2 to scare the 3 monkeys about messing up their rooms... they were damn scared and screeching all ard... that they forsake tingyu and left tingyu outside with their rooms locked... freaking funny

Bye Patrick....

just came back from the airport... seems to be going to the airport a great deal these days... friends going overseas... friends going for exchange... the latest one... patrick... going to Eindhoven for a good 6 months... every one is going to Europe.. tts making me damn envious... but thats not the point here...

its pretty sad to see people leaving... i love going to the airport... its a place bustling with life... you see a lot of things happening there, its just very lively...

but by the time CJ and Patrick is back, daming, xiwen, carmen and me would have graduated and hopefully found jobs... but its more like sad because u lost someone who has been staying beside you for the past 2 years... sharing so much memories and funny antics... anger... silly moments... lunch, dinner, supper, cooking sessions, soccer and mj, takraw... we are like brothers... almost... thou his last gift for me was to crash my car... but nonetheless...

a good deal of people went to send him off today, me, daming, barney, marcus, hongwei, chenyong, esther, vanessa, xintian, xiwen, tingyu, alvin, sze wee, koks, boyan and one more of his buddy... lotsa fotos which i will be uploading later...

have fun in Eindhoven bro... i'll be missing you... 6 months till we meet again... so sad rite? barney just came back and you had to leave... by the time u came back, me and thams are no longer ard.... sad balls... i'm feeling emo now...

my birthday tmr... one less buddy to celebrate for me... my last birthday in hall...

buang....

patrick crashed my car... its in for repairs now...
sad balls...
he crashed into the rear of a lorry.. the lorry is ok... but my car...
left headlight is smashed and dented in... bumper cracked..
sigh....

Definitely my Team-Of-The-Year, Softballers!!!

here's something which i cannot don't blog about and i guess the title said it all... The softball team this year is my team of the year... we are legends in our own rights. If things are correct as it stands, my year 1 team was the first team in Eusoff history to make it to the finals of softball, even then we lost due to bad pitching but it was a dream team, cos we have national players in yueping and lionel and the female national team captain ruoyan and super experienced players like lahiru, yingen, andrea, darren and cricketeers like dinidu...

but this year, this team is fresh.. totally newbies and the only people who played before are until jc level - shawn, christina, fabian and mandy and not forgetting a gift from heaven - Zane, a canadian exchange student who plays softball back home... and dinidu and me inclusive if u consider us softballers cos we merely picked up the sport in year 1. the rest are all newbies who enjoy playing the sport. we are the most inexperienced team in the whole IHG cos even KE7 has IVP players. grouped with KR and RH, who have traditionally strong softball teams, we were not even expected to make it past the group stage... the label of underdogs suit us well, we went in with no pressure and me and shawn's only hope is to sneak a win and make it to the semis so that we wun lose too much points that will be counted to the final standings of IHG.

Game on yesterday, first game against KR, we managed to shut them out in the first 2 innings with superb fielding which surprises even me, but KR fielded a slightly weaker team i guess, considering that they had already won RH earlier... but we were unable to capitalize on our good fielding. score 0-0. 3rd inning, momentarily laspes caused us 4 runs... and its stayed that way till 5th inning bottom where it was our turn to bat and last chance to win. I think they were a little complacent and we were a little lucky... their pitcher cracked and we managed to walk home 5 runs, the last was my walk which sent 2 people home and we won 5-4 unexpectedly when just before batting, everyone thought we had lost... jubilation seriously, a stroke of luck which turned things our way when we were playing well...

game suspended cos of rain and we had to play RH today in the morning... we were confident of beating them since we overcame the odds to beat KR... it was a morale boosting win and definitely it upped everyone's confidence. effortlessly, we beat RH 15-6 i think... and topping the group gave us a chance to avoid temasek who beat Sheares on the other side to top the group in sudden death... no difference actually since both of them are equally strong, but i was hoping that KR might be able to beat TH for us since they were techinically better than us. Semis was our secret objective and it was met.

the first semis was exciting KR was playing well and leading 5-1 going into the last inning... expectedly, they cracked again and edwin the culprit once again... temasek came back to life and won 6-5 at the end.. KR did a KR once again... Our game, we were not expecting anything as seriously they are 1 level above us and all we can do is minimize the damage. but unexpectedly we maz out our first inning with a 7-1 lead, that gave us the belief that we might actually be able to win it... sheares was slowly inching back into the game although we played well but they had really good batters and our batting wasnt that good. at the last inning, it read 7-4.

lots of uncharacteristic and dubious calls from the umpire incurred our wrath but we were hapless against it with very bad calls like balls were counted as strikes and sheares' stealing of bases and rough play... we had to let it go... 7-5: i got a feeling that we will win in the end but i din dare to tell anyone, cos i dun want anyone to get complacent or affect weihan's pitching... they chopped the ball at 7-5 and the umpire failed to call for it... me and ah nua were damn pissed... that was obvious biasness towards them... then they got a run in to bring the score to 7-6. at that point of time, everything looked as bad as it can be with their bases loaded and the next batter was their captain and one of their better batter... 2 strikes on him put the pressure on him and all he had to do was to bat a safe game and they will be home and dry... but at the last pitch, he batted a fly ball which headed outside, but ah nua went to catch it to confirm the play... in the end, we won... maybe we were lucky, i have to say but i think karma caught up on them... nonetheless, it was a fantastic feeling for someone who were not even expected to make it past the group stage to overcome all odds and end up in the finals... better still, beating 2 of the favourites along the way...

bond between the players are starting to show, we are legends in our own ways... everyone feels for everyone... its truly a team game for this year's softball team... you are the team of my heart for this year's IHG... no matter what happens, not even if soccer wins gold can come close to it... But for now, let's give temasek a fight and i am not going to give it up without a fight too... underdogs we may be, but it doesnt matter... if they want it, they have to fight for it too... we didn't fight all the way to gift the gold to you...

for now... i wanna thank my dear softballers... for extending my retirement... =)

something worth posting about...

complimented today by my fellow blockmate:

i said you have good stuff, and i think your performance as block head has proved that. you're able to walk the fine line between maintaining discipline and knowing what rubbish to allow. like, you take your responsibility seriously, but no one will call you authoritarian or anything like that.

i've kind of always wanted to say that, so i'm glad i have now i'm going off soon; goodnight

story of flu, 3 secs and 200 bucks

IPPT today...
i pushed it as far back as i could to the closing of my window... 2 more weeks before my window close. Preparations was as bad as it can be, firstly cos i never train... secondly, i got struck with flu and cough over the weekend... must be the rain and the fatigue...

anyway... i did get full marks for all my stations...but ended up with a silver instead cos my 2.4km run was 9.47mins... merely 3 secs... if i had ran earlier maybe i would have gotten my gold and an additional 200 bucks... costly 3 secs... i think this is the most expensive 3 secs of my life so far... damn... in fact, i was on course for gold until the last 400 metres when the flu caught up with me... was totally drained and breathless... how that sucked... maybe i am tempted to go take again and try for gold this time round. i'm very sure that i can do it if i am feeling better... to think, i was bed-riddened last nite without an ounce of energy...

if there is anyone asking me to take IPPT with him within the next 2 weeks, i will try for it again... otherwise i will take my IPPT in feb... cos next year, i dun have IHG trainings to back me up despite my natural fitness...

3 secs and 200 bucks.... damn it...

CJ Charlene-Jayne's Departure...

early morning 530am... awoken by patrick's call.. time to wake up and send charlene off... she is the first one in our supposed A2 gang to go for exchange and she is going for a year. NOC Shanghai.. something which i thought of applying for in year 1, but time factor and money factor wasnt really on my side.

Nonetheless, i woke up promptly and wash up before putting on jeans and grabbing my jacket and headed for the car to drive down. It was freezing and i can so imagine the airport to be much worse. the little traffice made the travelling damn smooth... 25 mins, i managed to get to airport from hall, considering that i was only travelling at 80km/h... witnessing the freaky accident outside hall made my driving more cautious.

upon reaching, just nice, carmen, wendy, yuan and xiwen arrived too... den we saw charlene in a distance before we went over to her in smiles. the next event which happened proved to be one of the most traumatizing that was to follow... CJ had handed a hand luggage to the girls, inside were all her documents for registration for school, laptop charger and other impt stuff... but the girls left it in the boot. Carmen was distraughted when she realised and tried to tell charlene about it, initially CJ thought we were joking with her and we hid the bag at some corner until she turned to look around and realised everyone's face was grave, except mine. cos i din know what was going on... it was at this moment that patrick and barney arrived, soon the girls turned panicky and started calling up the cab HQ to ask for the cab in hope of tracing it and retrieving the bag... it was the second worst thing that could happen now cos the worst definitely has to be leaving the passport or air ticket at home. it was 620am then, after an hour of frantic calling, barney, patrick and me tried the airport service counter to no avail...

the girls were on the verge of tears... charlene too.. she looked hapless... of all things, this had to happen now... i know that the girls must be feeling damn shitty and all for screwing up big time... and for CJ, she must have hated this but yet can do nothing about it cos they are her closest friends... totally sucky... den CJ's aunt came into the picture... I must say that i am very impressed with her and the way that she handle the situation. calm and poised and definitely very demanding and direct, no nonsense.... apparently the cab company failed to send out messages to recall the cab in the past hour but she made sure that they did it in minutes and i must say that she is very confident and sure of what she had to do... that was why i am damn impressed... 725am time for boarding but the luggage was still yet to be found. miraculously, carmen received a call from the cab company saying that the cab is on the way back to the airport to return the luggage. once stop, everyone rushed towards the cab and i grabbed the bag and dashed into the airport hoping that it is still in time. CJ re-arranged her packing and made sure that she has everything with her before checking in... time? 740am... last call for her... just in time...

it was all traumatic because i could see that the girls were really stressed and afraid that they had screwed her up. CJ's mum was being very nice by not blaming them but scolding the cab company all the time and her aunt was definitely the most authoritative person at that time, confident and poised... in the end all turned out well and smiles came back everyone's face. thou we missed out on the gathering breakfast that was planned but in the end everyone was glad that everything turn out fine instead. there was still a bit of time for a photo session, a short on albeit. of course the usual exchange of hugs and well-wishes... a year is definitely not a short time... we will all miss her... especially her family and her 2 younger sisters, one in mgs and one in acjc.

we proceeded to breakfast after that and her aunt gave us a treat... wow... later i learnt that her aunt was a chief stewardess.. that's even more impressive... we had a good session at breakfast... first time that most of us were present in a long time for a breakfast since cj and wendy left hall. and xiwen, carmen and yuan dun eat breakfast most of the time. perhaps it could well be the last time too.... cos, me, xiwen, daming and carmen are graduating, cj wun be ard... patrick is going for exchange... sigh... i miss the gang.. we were closer back then...

in the end, it all turned out like a typical classic movie ending where everything turn out well... I certainly hope that she is coping well over there, till then... i will be a year when i next see you CJ, unless i am flying to shanghai...

we must organise more outings soon...
I wonder how Louisa (CJ's youngest sister) knows my name as she call out my name when taking photo and bringing my milo for me... weird.. i must ask CJ about it...

No fluke!!

its tues already... takraw ended on sunday, with us becoming champs again. competition this year wasnt as tough as last year's. surprisingly our strongest opponent turned out to be sheares instead but they didnt do much more than a scare cos of our complacency. Finals was against TH, pretty much one sided except for the intensity cos of the rivalary between the 2 halls. but in the end its all friendship galore... Daniel did a Kristian and got injured in the first game against KR... he asked me to standby in case he really cannot play anymore... in the end, i'm glad that he trusted me as he named me as the number 1 sub for his regu throughout the tournament. wherelse all the other regus had to alternate the subs so that people will get a chance to play. I know i haven't been playing well lately, but he trust me enough to step up for him in the KR game and in the semis... i think that was good enough for me, of course i didnt disappoint... Dan pulled me one side after the tournament, and told me, "thank you for stepping up and covering for me, i always knew that i could trust you"

thou we won takraw, in the end, in my heart, it still wasnt good enough to cover up the loss for touch... touch was something special in my heart... something which i hated losing most besides soccer... Jit sent out an emo email... it was something which i had to agree upon, people will have to step up and be counted cos i dun have the chance anymore after this year... cos i am graduating...

finally saw my sweetie after so long, i knew she was injured... but still she played against RH... so proud of her... hehz..

time to step up training for softball and handball... its next up... but first i have to conquer IPPT on thurs, i hope i am feeling well enough, my leg injuries seemed to be getting worse...

pathetic legends

today was touch carnival... things ended... well... unexpectedly bad for us... we lost the title that was for our taking... not to say the least, we relinquished the title that we never lost before since the induction of touch rugby in IHG... its the most terrible feeling... getting beaten at our own game... i would say we played ok, but not to our full potential... jit, i know him, he said he wasn't affected by it and there's nothing else that we can do, sheares played better today, their game plan worked.. credit to them... but there are a lot of what ifs... which in my own personal opinion was not favouring us...

touch passes wasn't given to us... dummy half touch wasn't given as well... my try against sheares was definitely valid in my own opinion, but leander called for out... i think that would have changed the game... it was a defining moment... we became the first team to lose a match... reason being cos we din convert our chances... same thing for raffles game... chances are there, we din convert... meeting TH is the final match was the finale... we had to win and hope KR will do us a favour... TH proved resilient, as usual cos we are nemesis... a confusion in the defence allowed wayne to run thru me, second time today, i was guilty, cos me and ah nua went for the same person and i left the middle open... luckily daniel saved my ass... thou, it was his error that caused sheares' try. i think thats a little bit of hard luck and we had chances to finished it in the end but we didnt take it.. sighhhh... i left in a heart thumping try against KR, my one and only of my IHG career... error on my part for not trusting noel... my bad... cos i tried to cover him... luckily i made amends, scored afterwards.. and tts my second after hitting the winning try against KE... but we lost the war... i missed my touch gold.. i missed my medal... it would have been awfully sweet this year cos everyone was really playing like a team...

the what ifs will come back and haunt me... i am sure daniel feel damn shitty, jit too... what if leander had just allowed the try, it was a borderline call anyway....

ANGSTY!!

takraw tmr...

bugger-offed...

maybe i am too used to being in the first team for everything... my recent dip in form is certainly affecting me, i am not used to being dropped from the first team... its a sucky feeling, knowing what i am capable of and what i am now... its just sucky...

on what reason are they dropping me from takraw? considering that i am in untouchable form at the start of the year, true that my form has dropped, even paul can tell and he is staying in temasek... i think it couldnt have been that bad until i am not in the first 15. i am damn pissed seriously... i will make them regret...

soccer too, i am not in the first 11 anymore... why? no doubt i am not playing as well, but i know what i can do this year... oh well, alvin is the captain.. seriously i dunno what he is thinking about at times... nowadays, i am beginning to think that having a loud mouth can get people into teams... think soccer and takraw... and i know exactly who these people are... no point mentioning names... they think they are damn good and they have every right to comment... well, they are entitled to their own opinion..

for me its simple... i seriously think that i am robbed of my sportsman of the year last year... and now this year, i am being phased out... cos i am not vocal like some people, and there are those who are playing on reputation as well... whatever lah, suits me fine, it merely reinforced my belief that hall has never been appreciative of what i have contributed anyway and i have in no lack of evidences to back it up...

people just get disillusioned when things like that are happening... can't really fault me there... to me, its simple... jingpei is dead... there's no place for me in this hall which i used to call my home... maybe i really should have moved to temasek to join tong and the rest of the gang after year 1 when they asked me... why did i stick around...

i'm glad i am graduating this year... suddenly...

Happy New Year

first day of new year, everything seemed lazy and laid back for today, training later... cos competition is coming up this sat and sun... kinda crazy, i havent been able to let my legs heal properly, i need to get as much rest as possible in between trainings...

my last sem in school already, don't feel like studying much, but i wanna grad with a merit at least... den its working world. I'm worried about my job options and choices. what is there for me to choose from? I got my LB no doubt, but i want to have a normal job to supplement my income. looking into hotel, banking, media preferably. as long as they pay well, i will take it... I wanna go on a grad trip leh... but who to go with? where to go?? Europe is my top choice, but i havent found any companions, maybe just somewhere nearer... i haven planned anything yet... everything seemed so last min...

had a gathering last night at B4, me, alvin, patrick, hongwei, thams, jeremy, bingjie, ah nua, bernard... bbq... wine... beer... birthday cake... men's talk... stupid games... and to top it up fireworks from the distance... it was a good bonding session... fun and funny...nice and cosy... was suppose to celebrate alvin and ah nua's birthday but alvin pan tang... hahz..

she's on my mind, thinking of her throughout whole of last night, wondering how she is...