Monday, December 31, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
HOHOHO.... MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! How was your presents? I had a really unexpected gift... one that pains me till now... the gift of parting with someone whom I have been really attached to since I was born.
...
My tooth.
OK, I won't go into details about how my tooth dropped out. Just say that my molar tooth was just way too attached to me just like how I was also way too attached to it that it took four jabs of numbing medicine to pull it out so that I would not have a gum infection.
T_T
Guess that I would have to put it under my pillow at night so the tooth fairy could trade it for something valuable (yeah right, like tooth fairies exist).
Anyway, on a brighter (or darker, depends on how you see it) note schools starting the next week! Everyone better get prepared!
Goodbye!:D
...
My tooth.
OK, I won't go into details about how my tooth dropped out. Just say that my molar tooth was just way too attached to me just like how I was also way too attached to it that it took four jabs of numbing medicine to pull it out so that I would not have a gum infection.
T_T
Guess that I would have to put it under my pillow at night so the tooth fairy could trade it for something valuable (yeah right, like tooth fairies exist).
Anyway, on a brighter (or darker, depends on how you see it) note schools starting the next week! Everyone better get prepared!
Goodbye!:D
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Heyys... I was playing Maple a few days ago when there was a new christmas event coming up, in a new town called Happyville. I completed the quest and is close to leveling up soon.
Welp, my point is, christmas is just a few days away and it's time to get those presents!
Haha, here's a pic to go with the festive season... spent the whole morning and afternoon drawing it and the nighttime putting the words. Enjoy!:)
Welp, my point is, christmas is just a few days away and it's time to get those presents!
Haha, here's a pic to go with the festive season... spent the whole morning and afternoon drawing it and the nighttime putting the words. Enjoy!:)
Sunday, December 16, 2007
It's been a long time since I posted... the blog's been dead for a while. I alomost forgot my password to my account and it's a bit messy at the moment... just bought my sec 3 books!!!
Anyway, exactly a week ago I had my Goldstar swimming test in Queenstown Swimming pool.
I arrived Queenstown swimming pool bright and early in the wee hours of the morning of 9 December 2007 to get ready for my goldstar test. Looking around me, I found that I was one of the earlier people in my swimming team to arrive. At about 9.30, my coach came to support us for our test. This lifted my mood up a bit. It was a rainy day and the sky wasn't willing to clear up until the afternoon, it seemed. But I was feeling cheery because I was a little overconfident about passing this test, I guess.
Then at about 10.10 our examiner called us to take our attendence. The rain had turned into a drizzle. About 30 of us gathered around him and we took our attendance. Afterwards we were called to the diving pool to do our first item, grabbing our life jackets while in the pool. After grabbing our life jackets we are supposed to lie on our backs and put on the life jacket. That I did, but then the buckles were all mixed up and soon I was a tangled mess. The examiner told me and another girl who had a problem putting on the life jaket to get up and redo the whole thing again. Meanwhile, the others who passed would proceed on to the next part: Jumping from a three metre board. I watched the other people jump from the 3m board, feeling a little left out. I had very badly wanted to do this. After everyone had jumped (with the exception of me and the other girl) the examiner tested the two of us on putting on the life jacket. That I did sucessfully at last, and soon I can proceed to jumping the board. I was the last person to jump, and when I got to the edge of the board holding on to my life jacket as I was instructed to, four words I commented about the board that morning came back to me: "Aiyah, chicken feet lah..." Very Macho right? It doesn't seem very scary right? But then I was scared out of my wits when I did the biggest mistake of my life- I looked down. " Once you are ready, you can go." came the voice behind me. Patient, comforting and the last thing I needed. Determined not to embarrase myself in front of 30 plus people, I jumped in.
An andrenaline rush. And the next thing I knew, I was in the water. Deep in the water. I do not know how far I got in but when I surfaced, everyone was cheering for me. I passed the first task.
The next task was to swim two laps in your pyjamas and tee shirt in 2 minutes 30 seconds, which was quite impossible for me. 3... 2... 1... the whistle blew. I jumped into the swimming pool and swam as fast as I could in breastroke. By the time I completed my first lap, I was lagging behing all the others. Out of breath, I tried swimming as fast as I could in freestyle. I was the last one to reach the wall when the whistle blew to indicate 2 minutes 30 seconds have passed. My timing was 2 minutes... ... 27seconds!!!! I really breathed a huge sigh of relief when I heard my timing because I was sure I was going to fail. I was happy, but breathless.
After a toilet break, we took off our pyjamas and proceeded on with the last task: swimming 30 laps in 45mins. The first ten laps is to swim backstroke, then the next ten to swim sidesrtoke and the rest frontstroke (breastroke, freestyle, butterfly). The whistle blew and I started swimming my laps. The sun was glaring in my face which only made it harder to swim the backstroke. Then when I started to swim my sidestroke, the sun disappeared behind a cloud for quite a long time a the water became quite cold. The elements are not on my side, I thought to myself grumpily. When i started to swim my frontstroke, some people had already finished the test. Suddenly I did not feel so good. I had wanted to take it slow and easy for my front stroke, that is, to swim breastroke for the first five laps then freestyle in the last five, but the examiner told me that I was lagging behind a long way and had to find a way to catch up with the others so that I could pass this test. Meanwhile I was praying to God; Please God, help me pass this test after I had just managed to pass the 2 lap swim.
I was the only one in the pool when I swam my last two laps and convinced myself that I could not pass this test. Anyway I still used the last of my energy to boost myself because I wanted to go home early.
When I got out of the pool, the examiner had a grim expression on his face. Then he broke into a big smile and said, " 43 minutes 39 seconds" I could hardly believe my ears. I had passed the whole test. That must be the greatest day of my life!! I thanked God profusely and went to tell my father the news. He was really glad for me. This test is very important to me as i had spent about 1/4 of my holidays in Queenstown Swimming Pool practising for the test. All my effort had finally paid off. I can rest easy now (:
Anyway, exactly a week ago I had my Goldstar swimming test in Queenstown Swimming pool.
I arrived Queenstown swimming pool bright and early in the wee hours of the morning of 9 December 2007 to get ready for my goldstar test. Looking around me, I found that I was one of the earlier people in my swimming team to arrive. At about 9.30, my coach came to support us for our test. This lifted my mood up a bit. It was a rainy day and the sky wasn't willing to clear up until the afternoon, it seemed. But I was feeling cheery because I was a little overconfident about passing this test, I guess.
Then at about 10.10 our examiner called us to take our attendence. The rain had turned into a drizzle. About 30 of us gathered around him and we took our attendance. Afterwards we were called to the diving pool to do our first item, grabbing our life jackets while in the pool. After grabbing our life jackets we are supposed to lie on our backs and put on the life jacket. That I did, but then the buckles were all mixed up and soon I was a tangled mess. The examiner told me and another girl who had a problem putting on the life jaket to get up and redo the whole thing again. Meanwhile, the others who passed would proceed on to the next part: Jumping from a three metre board. I watched the other people jump from the 3m board, feeling a little left out. I had very badly wanted to do this. After everyone had jumped (with the exception of me and the other girl) the examiner tested the two of us on putting on the life jacket. That I did sucessfully at last, and soon I can proceed to jumping the board. I was the last person to jump, and when I got to the edge of the board holding on to my life jacket as I was instructed to, four words I commented about the board that morning came back to me: "Aiyah, chicken feet lah..." Very Macho right? It doesn't seem very scary right? But then I was scared out of my wits when I did the biggest mistake of my life- I looked down. " Once you are ready, you can go." came the voice behind me. Patient, comforting and the last thing I needed. Determined not to embarrase myself in front of 30 plus people, I jumped in.
An andrenaline rush. And the next thing I knew, I was in the water. Deep in the water. I do not know how far I got in but when I surfaced, everyone was cheering for me. I passed the first task.
The next task was to swim two laps in your pyjamas and tee shirt in 2 minutes 30 seconds, which was quite impossible for me. 3... 2... 1... the whistle blew. I jumped into the swimming pool and swam as fast as I could in breastroke. By the time I completed my first lap, I was lagging behing all the others. Out of breath, I tried swimming as fast as I could in freestyle. I was the last one to reach the wall when the whistle blew to indicate 2 minutes 30 seconds have passed. My timing was 2 minutes... ... 27seconds!!!! I really breathed a huge sigh of relief when I heard my timing because I was sure I was going to fail. I was happy, but breathless.
After a toilet break, we took off our pyjamas and proceeded on with the last task: swimming 30 laps in 45mins. The first ten laps is to swim backstroke, then the next ten to swim sidesrtoke and the rest frontstroke (breastroke, freestyle, butterfly). The whistle blew and I started swimming my laps. The sun was glaring in my face which only made it harder to swim the backstroke. Then when I started to swim my sidestroke, the sun disappeared behind a cloud for quite a long time a the water became quite cold. The elements are not on my side, I thought to myself grumpily. When i started to swim my frontstroke, some people had already finished the test. Suddenly I did not feel so good. I had wanted to take it slow and easy for my front stroke, that is, to swim breastroke for the first five laps then freestyle in the last five, but the examiner told me that I was lagging behind a long way and had to find a way to catch up with the others so that I could pass this test. Meanwhile I was praying to God; Please God, help me pass this test after I had just managed to pass the 2 lap swim.
I was the only one in the pool when I swam my last two laps and convinced myself that I could not pass this test. Anyway I still used the last of my energy to boost myself because I wanted to go home early.
When I got out of the pool, the examiner had a grim expression on his face. Then he broke into a big smile and said, " 43 minutes 39 seconds" I could hardly believe my ears. I had passed the whole test. That must be the greatest day of my life!! I thanked God profusely and went to tell my father the news. He was really glad for me. This test is very important to me as i had spent about 1/4 of my holidays in Queenstown Swimming Pool practising for the test. All my effort had finally paid off. I can rest easy now (:
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