A new life, a new beginning

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Hello,

"It's 0512 now and I haven't slept a single bit =X
There's a lot of work today, not surprising at all though, judging from the recent developments in the world, resignation of Japanese DM, appointment of Japan's first female DM, UK terror bombings and many others."

Finally woke up from my long long sleep on my bed, was too tired when I reached home this morning. I didn't even have time to blog at work and I only slept like about an hour. Work was alright though I made some mistakes here and there, mistakes which I will definitely learn from them to improve on in the future.

Back on last Sat, I went to Kallang Stadium with Sufyan and Glenn to watch Singapore vs Australia friendly, the final match at the stadium before it will be demolished for the sports hub to be built. It was truly a different experience from watching the match live on television. Listening to the Kallang Roar, be part of the Kallang Wave, cheering on for the teams, groaning at every chance missed - it's a total new experience for me. The Lions played well against Australia even though they lost by 3-0. There were good saves by Lewis and brilliant chances for Indra and Khairil Amri but both hit either the bar or post. Playing against Australian players who, for some of them, are playing for clubs in top flight premiership football, it is definitely a good experience for the Lions. A 3-0 scoreline just shows the difference in terms of technique and tactics. Nonetheless, the Lions still deserved our respect for fighting hard in this match. Mark Viduka scored a brace, both headers while Harry Kewell added one in between both goals. Australian players who played in the EPL and Serie A included Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Lucas Neill, Mark Bresciano.

After the match ended, there was a closing ceremony for the stadium where they commemorated all the athletes who contributed significantly to Singapore realm of sports since the national stadium opened. Every time an athlete was introduced, the crowd roared and applauded. Then, a video was shown in which every memory of the national stadium was displayed. The scene was quite touching. The national stadium bears all the memories of athletes who had persevered to achieve results for Singapore. Finally the ceremony ended with fireworks over the East stand. To be able to catch the final match at the national stadium is something I will definitely remember. Thanks to Sufyan and Glenn for asking me out to watch the match haha. Pictures coming right up!!

Sufyan and Me!

Singapore Veterans vs Malaysia Veterans!!

Last lighting of the torch ) :

Singapore and Australia teams!!

KICKOFF!!

Shi Jiayi about to take a corner kick

No. 10 HARRY KEWELL!!!

Final score 0-3

Glenn, Sufyan and ME

The Lions applauding the crowd

Fireworks!!

My personal favourite (:

That's all for now,
haha I hope it's a long enough entry :p
hellmos signing off...

Labels: kallang stadium, last match, sleep, work

My mind's unweaving/ 5:02 am

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Haha I suddenly had the intention to put [translated by...] on the first line just now...

Well I am back after another week of work (actually I think I only worked one night duty, two actual work-days last week). Hongyue's leaving soon, so he cleared his off on Thurs and he's clearing them all this coming week. Thurs was games day, so we had a brief introduction to touch rugby before moving on to soccer, 5 a side with 3 teams. I realised we had decent players among us, it was the first time I played street soccer with them. Well, I am sure looking forward to more soccer in the future ;)
Work was usual on Fri, although spam could suddenly change from something cosmological to poetry, haha quite unexpected.

Then on Sat, I had my first Section A outing (inclusive of Clong!). It was meant as a farewell outing for hongyue who's leaving us for his medicine course in NUS. We met at Plaza Singapura for movie at 1600hrs. The movie was Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Though the movie was pretty short, I felt that it was rather nice but some parts were really very lame. The Fantasti-car and Silver Surfer sure reminded me of that cartoon which I watched years ago.
After the movie, we walked over to Fish and Co for dinner. It's my second time there and the food arrived very quickly. All of us got the New York Fish and Chips. Then Nik and Clong had to leave first for duty while Kangwen had family matters so he left too. The payment surprisingly took quite a while. After that, the remaining four of us, Soon Heng, Junxiang, Hongyue and me headed to Clarke Quay for a drink. We went to Brewerkz. We ordered a Kölsch tower which is German beer in a 4 litre container (tower). They gave us four glasses, each glass is around the volume of a can of beer. We had a lot of fun chatting and knowing more about one another. We talked about girlfriends, bachelorhood, ORD, family and even rugby. Hongyue was quite depressed which he strongly denied but maybe it's just the beer because he did not really like beer in the first place. But I must say the beer is much nicer than the normal ones I drink. It's less bitter. Halfway through, the place started showing the South Africa-New Zealand rugby match live and Junxiang who was a rugby player started talking about rugby to us. To admit it, I did not know much about rugby except for watching a few matches and knowing a few things here and there. But after that match, my knowledge had surely improved, all thanks to Junxiang. In the end NZ won SA 26-21. It was an enjoyable time to drink with them, I realised I like drinking haha. I drank 3 glasses which was about a litre and I was not drunk, maybe a bit headache but I was still able to talk, response, take bus home myself, joke around. We stayed until the match ended which was around 2300hrs then we left.

Well, it was an enjoyable day for me, especially the drinking, and I am looking forward to more such sessions in the future!! Although I am sure all this drinking will surely add to my waist length, so I guess I should start running regularly. That would start from the day I get my No. 3 then and it's a promise to myself.

Alright, that's all for now...
hellmos signing off...

Labels: dinner, drinking, movie, section outing, work

My mind's unweaving/ 7:11 pm

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Yay added a song to my blog,
Life by YUI!!!
Very nice song!!! Haha...and it's a BLEACH opening song!!!

Enough said, listen for yourself guys...Haha
Back to topic,
It's been almost two months since I got posted to this unit. Everything seems fine so far, a bit of changes here and there but I am definitely proud that I actually improved in my Bahasa Melayu (Malay). Now I can translate without relying much on toggletext, which is good C:

I can't talk much about work here, it being in NS. So I shall refrain from talking about work C:
A few more weeks before the acceptance to university closes. I have gotten both letters but I have yet to make a choice. I have more or less made up my mind already. I don't think I should say so much here, just in case they go around reading blogs and decide not to give me what I want =X Well, if you want to find out more, just ask me personally and I will kindly tell you. Recently, I tried googling my name and turns out there are other people called cheeyen as well but I think they are mostly girls haha. Well, I managed to find myself mentioned in blogs of other people as well haha.

I just had a chat with my friend, he just decided on choosing environmental engineering at NUS. I asked him why NUS, he replied that he always like NUS better and he added that it didn't mind because we still have two more years to choose our courses. That was quite true in some sense, I don't really have to think much about it now but what about the girls? This period of time, I can say, could be one of the hardest times for them, to choose the correct course and not regret in the future. There are a lot of factors concerning this. Even I am helpless when it comes to advising my friends on what course to take. It's like the battle between the heart and the mind. The heart goes for whatever it desires while the mind, being the "educated" one, would definitely go for what is best for it. It's not easy for the heart and mind to agree with each other and this leaves people all confused and worrying about what to choose. And to add on, with other "educated" minds around influencing your thoughts, how can you choose the one that your heart desires? This is just how the world functions, people work for the salaries and job prospects yet where are the devotion and enthusiasm that you should find in a career that you like?

Enough said, I think I crap too much, this might make people even more confused. To all the people having a hard time choosing, especially the girls, choose carefully whether with your heart or mind, and be prepared to face the future. Whether or not, you will regret, it's all in the future.
Before I end, an extract from Jeryle's blog (subjected to my editing):

"Universities, they're just like girls.

Firstly, us guys, we need to work damn damn hard to get into a university. Us guys need to work damn hard and be so damn lucky to get into a girl. Get the drift?

There's initially, that 2 years of JC life. Oh yeah, sometimes thats how long it takes to get the girl you want too my friends. In that 2 years, you can slack it off, but pay the consequences by the nose. You don't work hard, you don't get your girl. You see, spaces in universities are limited. Just like the limited amount of eligible girls. So competition is intense. Tough.

You can work really hard too, and off course reap the fruit of your labour, in getting your course of choice. Of course there are those weird exceptions when you work damn hard, but still don't get your uni place and those that don't work at all, but still get the course of your choice. Lucky asses..

Then there's that phase of applying, you know how it's like. Paying money to apply for a uni, just like forking out cash to go on dates with your girl, TRYING to give it a go. Most guys quite kiasu i think, apply to all 3 universities. Heng heng can get into 1 of the 3. Reminds me of how some people during valentines day, ask many girls out at once, wait to see the response, and then decide whom to go out with.

So yes, i see many people in literal pain, having to chose between universities. See la, too many girls give you a headache, each has their own good points, making it hard to choose. Then, when no uni sends you a letter, also headache. No girl likes you, you also feel the heat. SIGH.

See la, can't live with them, can't live without them. Worst part is, better choose carefully, because just one wrong choice, and you're probably screwed for the rest of your life."

No offense to girls here, just for laughs maybe...
I actually wanted to blog on some bad stuffs but my lazy self just would not allow me to do so, so I shall not do it unless the stuffs start coming back to me...I hope not C:
That's all for now, hellmos signing off...Navy Open House tomorrow!!!

Labels: choices, heart and mind, song, uni, work

My mind's unweaving/ 9:36 pm