Life's crawling faster and faster...

We met up at Canteen 11 at 8.15am for our "Banana parade".



Da Qing and his "with Love" banana treat.

Then off we went.




When we reach, many were already there.



Another Saturday, I ran.
I am glad that my muscles was okay from the "medical supply" that Ivan gave yesterday.

As I was part of the team, I wasn't the "full time" photographer at the start. Dunming was sent here :)

But I felt that there's too little photos taken, so as expected (by myself), I took out my camera shortly after I finish my run.....
but am glad I did... again :P

At the start, I didn't take out my camera, so I sort of "missed" the preparation part. I hope Dunming did take down the moments for us.......
The matric number writing for registration moments, the group warm up........

and I hope he didn't miss the lousiest cheer on the grass.
"Hall 10!!!! Wuuu......"

haha :P

We had 2 teams. Team A and Team B. A total of 7 guys and 3 girls.
I was in the first Team.
It's a team of 4 guys and 1 girl.
And I was put as the 1st Runner.

-_-"

Sian, I hate to be the first runner!! Usually other teams will put their fastest runner as the first and last. And for last Saturday's Track event I was put as the last too -_-"
But after 1 whole night of discussion between the Road Relay Manager, Assistant Manager and even with the Track & Field Manager, they came up with a "powerful" plan.
They decided to put me as first as I am classed as a "independent" runner, meaning that I won't be affected by other "garang" 1st runners from other teams.

And Kenneth was placed the 2nd, as he "won't be able to take it" after I come back, and his "face" will push him to the max speed and endurance so that he will catch up to the rest in front.

It's sounds all logical....... and funny :P

Everyone of us enjoyed the moment.

And this is Junwen, my team's 4th runner.



Happy guy :)

Took lots of the rest of the runner's photos, it's very nice but shall not put it down, or it will be too full.

All of us was spreaded around the field.

And this is Da Qing and his stressed back view, looking at the watch.



And after the race, the welfare team came down with 100 plus in tubs. Wow, so nice of them for the preparation :)



We didn't got into the top few, but at least we got 10th. But the sad thing is that, we got disqualified (DQ). The judges said we are "pacing" the runners, maybe when Ivan ran up and down, at the side of the track with his video camcorder and me "taking the camera" and chasing after shots.

And only 3 halls got DQ, and from what we seen, there's easily more than 5 others hall "chasing and motivating" their runners, but all at the side and outside of the track.

Anyway, we appealed, shall just see what happen. But we are still glad that we completed the race "as a team".....

:)

After that, it's group photo time :)

Team A



They called it the "cute and power" team. haha! The 2 young looking ones in front and one with the bandana, and with the running order indicated......
it looks quite cute indeed. haha!

Then it's team B turn.




Then there's a support group..... Team C!!



They are the reserves, but more importantly, they took their time down and became the "morale supporters", when everyone else went back for the Chinese New Year.

Then a final Team Photo.



Everyone looks nice. And I will remember them :)

Then lastly, guess who is this?



haha :)

Then when we reach Can 2 for our "Waffles Treat" by our Team Manager Da Qing, I saw my BMT buddy again.



Jarrod Lim Hui Feng and Lim Jiahe

Both Lims.
Both BMT buddies.
Both 175 cm.
Both did the same maximum number of pull ups, jumped the same distance, eat the same amount of SFI food. (Spore Food industies - Army caterer)
Both live in Anchorvale Drive.
Both live on 15th Storey.
Both was placed as the first runner for the team.
But still.... both different weight since 4 years ago.....

and he's more huggable now too :P

Then after quite some time, the waffle auntie manage to finish making the waffles.



Da Qing and his treats :)

Don't see his face happy happy, we actually ask for all Cheese and Chocolate waffles.
The most expensive ones. haha~!

He must be 甜在脸上，痛在心里 (sweet on the face, but heart pain :P)

haha! Joking joking. He's a good guy also so he won't let us know that even if he really feels the pinch :P

(anyway, will he get to know about this one? with the all powerful "google search", some people find this place while searching for something else -_-")

Okay, this time, I put in quite some effort into selecting and touching up of the photos, and painstakingly waited while it slowly upload.... after I promised myself not to take so much photos "for others".

But Ivan wanted to make a video for the road relay event. And he wanted the pictures as well.
So as always, I tried to select and send out as soon as possible. And I did really lots of touching up as the strong sunlight contrast always make pictures go haywire.

After I sent him the link. This is what he says.....



But after he painstakingly waited for the download, this is what he said.




He exclaimed 2 times. Within a min.

Am always glad that in the end, people like the pictures, just like how I like it as well.

Another peak of my life ~preserved.

Life......
Live it once, live it good.
and remember it well.

:))

Friday are short for me, for this semester. Only had a 2 hr technical Communication lesson from 11.30am-1.30pm. After that, I stay on around school. Tried to revise but in the end, was still too tired so rested most of the time.

Stay on around SPMS (School of Physical and Mathematical Science) to attend a talk named Social Entrepreneurship: Business With a Heart. It was quite long, from 5.30 till 8.45pm. Although it's quite interesting, as they invited 3 "Social Entrepreneur" to talk about how their work have help people, I still did dozed off for some parts -_-"

Basically, there's 3 of the guest speakers, the first is Jack, the founder of WTO.
And you know what's WTO? It stands for......

World Toilet Organization.

haha!! He is funny, just like what his organization name suggest.
But he actually is a great man who emphasized on toilet hygiene in 3rd worst countries, helping much people.

Then the take home message from him was taken home by me.




And am so lucky, I bump into 2 of my primary school friends there :)
And they are also the organisers of the event.



Liu Guan Yi, Jiahe and Ang Jun Cheng!!!

And I still remember their FULL NAME!!! Wow!

both of them are in Accounting, and Jun Cheng is the Chairman of the committee! haha!
We have all grown up.......
:)


After that, I went back at 9.50pm, just in time to meet the Route Relay guys for a "meeting".

Then guess what....

It was actually a "carbo pumping" session.



haha!!
Initiated by Ivan, who is the "assistant Team Manager".
It still nice of him to make the effort to go buy 4 tins of fruits for the "lonely" route relay Team who stayed back while everyone went back for New year. haha!!

We didn't actually have any real meetings. But it's like a 陪寂寞的 Ivan gor gor session. haha!




He is in his last year, so it's like he is taking it down as memory :P

Haha, I like the fact that Blk 50 seniors are still as united as ever, they manage to still stay in hall after so long, and they really made good friends among themselves.




and this is Ivan (left) and Da Qing (right, Team Manager)

In their Lovely Couple Singlet. haha!

But I have been experiencing cramp-like small pains for the past 3 days already, most probably lack of rest and sleep. In the end, the Team Manager want to "act Welfare", and he said something which he regret lots.

I said:
"So tomorrow want to just eat banana?"

Da Qing replied:
"Okay, I go cycle outside to buy banana for you all tomorrow!"

"Eh.。。。.. 其实我很累.......“

Ahhh Haaaa.... Too late :P

Off came my bicycle key from me to him as the rest ask him to go buy a bunch of bananas.... at 12am. Big Sacrifice :P

And Ivan was nice as well. He is like a welfare medic also. haha! He has been offering to the team, his magically expensive "pure protein" which can cure muscle aches in 4 hours.

And he pass it to me without a 2nd thought.



Tried to pass him $10 from his accidentally revealing of the price of 1 packet.

"It's for the team", he says. "Don't worry about the cost......

Just do our best tomorrow."

Cool guy :)

Then here I am, drinking up "all his love" and going to sleep. Right after this post.



We are not aiming high, but we definately not giving up trying.
I hope that the "side effects" for the first timers who drink "pure protein" won't be obvious tomorrow.... Or my stomach may just run faster than me -_-"

Anyway, the "meeting" didn't even end with any updates, like what teams we will be in and what order... or anything. They deliberately hid everything from us for some reason.

All the best bah huh! :)

Prepare for battle.......

:)

Been going out early and coming back late most of the days this week, as usual. But there's still quite some interesting stuff going on in school.

On Monday, I helped my wushu club took pictures and videos for their 15 min performance for the Chinese Society outside LT1A.



The whole performance was really good! haha! didn't know we have so many well skilled kungfu people around. It looks like I am seriously missing out lots of it for the past semester..... can't do much about it anyway so..... okay loh....

Then on the next day, there's this Cyberathletic stuff going on outside the same LT1A again.




All of this row is playing CS.



But I saw 1 emo guy on the other side, playing DOTA by himself. ok, whatever....


Then this is the first time I saw Guitar Hero, from all the times I heard about it.



At night on Tuesday, I went down to SRC initially, to go run for the Inter School Games, route relay. But then, because the team manager was quite lousy with his management skills, I got downgrade from a runner, to a reserve then to a nothing. Ok, whatever. But I still got 2 free shirts. Anyway, I gave him some feedbacks about his style of handling, hope he will change in future.

After that, I thank him for the shirts and off I went for my FOC meeting.
And the meeting lasted from 6.30pm till 1.15am -_-"
No choice la huh... when shit comes, the only way is to clear it.
you won't want it to continue stinking. But I'm still quite lucky that some of them realised that I'm "overworked" even though I am usually assuring them that I am fine. But thinking back, although I may want to try and figure out my way, I am still glad that that they helped to ease my job scope, or I wouldn't stop my mental degrading and maybe start recovering from all the brain damage, and also come up with a new theory (again?).

Discovery: Most of the human race doesn't care much about how people feel and what they can do to make others feel better. And human behave in a way such that they do things because it benefits them in a way or another.

So I have come up with something.

The Joker's Theorem

The Joker's Theorem states that, if you are serious with doing something, and you are not treated seriously in return.......

why so serious.



So I should not be so serious with someone who doesn't treat things seriously. It just a waste of energy.

So I have learnt and decided to be "serious" when I am with "serious" people and stop wasting my effort if they are not.

Okay, maybe I should go play Serious Sam.



Seriously lame la Lin-Jiahe -_-"

okay, nvm.
Continue.

On Wed, I have training for Route Relay.
It's our last training already and I have missed the previous 2. One on Sunday night, which I didn't go for because of the Track Event because my legs just turned too "sour" and couldn't be neutralized in time.

The Tuesday one was skipped because of the meeting after the "ISG" event, as it lasted overtime.

But because I have been cycling around and lack of rest, I only managed 1 round of the actual route, and when they were about the start the 2nd slow round, and back to hall, my legs experience some cramp-like feeling and I had to walk the shortcut back.

A teammate was nice enough to turn back after he heard my calls to the group. And he walked with me back :)

Thursday was another long day, started from 8.30am in the morning and ended at 4.30pm with only a 1 hr lunch break.

And after I am back, I was so tired that a planned 5 min nap, so I have some energy to go bath, turn out to be a 2 hr knock out, on the table. my right hand and right leg almost felt like it's gone after I woke up.

Anyway, time flies and it was soon 11.15pm, and it's time for me to go visit Da Qing's arcade to play the "Legendary" Guitar Hero!!! I have asked him and his arcade hours are only that time. Anyway, he have to sleep early because of IA, so I told him that I will just try 1 game :)

It's my first time holding a "guitar". haha!
And Da Qing, my Route Relay manager, was amazed that as a starter, I am able to hit the buttons although it's on "Easy" mode. Anyway, I requested for a "5 button" easy mode because I will only get a chance to play once, so might as well make it a challenging one :P
But the "Expert" level that he selected for me got me stunned and killed in 10 seconds. So had to go back to the "Easy" mode.

Then after that, back to my room, writing this entry.


Anyway, something interesting that I have noted. I have many friends around. But interesting, almost 100% of the people only recognised me as the friend, who is a photographer. It seems like they know nothing about me.

So what else I do? haha.
I think it's because almost 100% of the people talk to me and ask me the same questions for the past 1 year, and that's why they decided to just remember me as a "person with a big camera" (although there's many other with even bigger camera but still, that's what they always say, when they told me how they remember me)

So what are the "same questions"?
ha, here's some of them......

1. So how's school?
2. Eh what's your course?
3. How's last sem?
4. You stay in Hall?
5. Where you live?
6. Are you involve in any school activities?
7. How to do this question...?
8. How's life!?

So are you one of those who usually ask this kind of stuff? Ah ha! You should change. These questions are used too much nowadays.......

I call it the "Hi Bye" lines. And because of these "Hi Bye" lines, I keep talking and replying the same stuff. And talking about the same stuff everyday you see friends, is no joke. It makes people emo, in a way. (it feels like..... am I just that? Isn't there anything else you care about, like what rice I eat to make myself so skinny or other stuff?)

And the worst part of it..... is that people just merely talk (for the sake of talking), and not even ask, or even tries to "understand" a friend through talking. I have a friend who just don't get tired asking "So how's tutorial?" for 2 semester,
A YEAR LONG.
If he's still here, I think he may still be asking me and in my current state, I most probably would have asked him to get a life instead of replying the same old line like some 老人痴呆镇 youngster. (老人痴呆镇 = Alzheimer's Disease)

Unless he feel high whenever I reply with this "aiyo, same loh. As always cannot catch up, Aiyo, don't ask me about tutorials... I get headaches"

At least offer to help me lah!!
(although I am lucky enough to have friends offering to help me, but I just don't feel it's right to waste their time, so I don't ask them much. Also cos I also don't have any other studying knowledge to give back -_-)

Okay, back to the "Hi Bye" lines topic.

Sometimes, it's good to give "real" feedback, instead of just using those few simple lines.

1. Hey you new hairstyle definately crap.
2. You look like 财神爷 for this new year. Been enjoying food lately?
3. You looked tired, you should rest more and take care of your body.

Okay, I am not teaching anyone to become "more real" and this is not some "skill" that I learn to "smoke" friends or what. And some worst still, these's people who actually used NTU as a "networking" place.

What da turtle.

And if you ever receive some crap comments from me. I just want to let you know that I treat you as really good friends.

I am not fake....... at least.
But still, no one knows me. About what I am busy with, why am I busy with, my beliefs, my goals, my favourite food or whatever.

Not that I know of....

This blog also doesn't contain a lot bah... So "reading me like a book" doesn't tells much.


And you may think..... how can it be almost 100% of my current friends doesn't knows me? haha.
I know because I am "talking to myself" most of the time.

Okay, one of my secondary friend say it's funny (I think he meant crazy") when he saw that "Jiahe is talking to Jiahe".... and vice versa somemore -_-"

But you know, I realised that I'm not really crazy. Yar, I know that those who are drunk won't say they are drunk, and those who say they are not mad are most likely mad. haha!

I just learned that this ability is called "intrapersonal" intelligence, from my module which I took last semester, "Working in the 21st Century".

Intrapersonal - one of the 7 multiple intelligence

haha, so I am still have some intelligence :P
But still, how I hope I don't have to talk to myself about 90% of the stuff. It's tiring when you have to "talk and listen" at the same time.

Okay, and that's why I say people should have a listening ear. It's really releases lot of stress. Amazingly, just by telling someone through talking will "share the burden" by half.

Anyway, yesterday on Tuesday night, the ICON Alumni Networking talk, where they invited ex NTU students back, was a great experience for me.

Not for the fact that they had these after that.....




But we get to listen to these great people giving advices on their past 10+ years of experience in the working world.



And most of them said some lines, which gave me some hope in life :P

"You don't have to have to be 1st or 2nd class honours to get a good job"

"Basically the honours just gave you a initial boost of income, the rest is mostly still up to your performance and intelligence." (stated by Gartner)

"I am just a 3rd class honours!"

"I don't even have honours!!!"


And I am writing it here to make more people feel less hopeless, and to give myself hope again when I seems to forgot every now and then.

Okay, time to sleep. Tomorrow still have a 11.30 am - 1.30 pm lesson in school.

I have just received some music from my hall friend, it claimed to have a"intelligence boosting" effect and some of them can induce a "good night sleep". Going to just play it through the night to try.

Anyway, I also came up with the same idea of using "music theralpy" last time.



haha! Smart eh!! Jiahe's hypothesis got some standard one leh!

(now does anyone wants to believe my Turtle's Law?)

Okay, hope everyone will get many many hong baos :)
time to sleep!!

Wishing you a Happy 牛 Year!

Early in the morning, at 6.30am, I woke up.
Was going to meet up for breakfast, on a Saturday, back in hall.

Today feels so meaningful.
Unlike most days, I feel a sense of direction.
For the past half a year, I think I have lost direction, lost some motivation, most probably due to too much brute force clearing and working problems out, alone most of the times.

but for today, I was meeting up with a team of people. And I know that everyone have the same common goal....

And today it's the day of the Track and Field events.

Although we all knew we won't win at all, I'm still happy for the simple fact that.....
we didn't consider giving up.

And it's when I'm with these kind of people, it gives life some sense of meaning. Maybe cos I've met quite a few lousy encounters for the past half a year or what, I felt especially alive today.

Anyway, my hall Publication side had some miscommunication, and I became the photographer of the event. (haha... photographer again...?)

But again, still I'm quite glad, I manage to take down "my own" memories again, and I had 2 more "students" also....

To pass on some photography knowledge :)

The sky was blue, air was nice and all.



After we went for 2 rounds of warmup, we went back.




It's feels great to know that it's "your" team who is going for "war".



And to have heartbeats as fast as those on the tracks, even thought I am outside the tracks.




And this is my first student of the day, as I was using my 2nd camera (the LX3), and passing some of my "Jiahe style" aura to her so she can duplicate my pictures.



Although most pictures seemed quite off as they are still not used to taking "fast" shots, I was glad that they manage to take a few picture with me inside.....



haha... this is the only few times I saw myself doing "something". Not just standing beside someone and look into the camera, listening to some "3, 2, 1.... okay".

And the pictures tells a story. Like what I always say.
It actually shows how I tried to caught back up to the person, who overtook me.

It's a 4 X 800 m, we are to run 2 rounds around the track, and I am the last runner.

This should still be the 1st round, right after that hall 9 “吃药” 的 fellow flew past me.

At the 2nd and last round, I was furiously trying to catch up to him. But the pH level hit ZERO for some time already, so he's still in front of me at the finishing line.



Wow, didn't know I looked like that. The max "sour-ness" seriously made my face sour.

Then right after the race, when I have just came in and walked on the grass.......
my noob student says............

"Let take a Team Photo!!" happily. As we came in like top 8 out of 16 halls.....

!!??
I am currently at pH 0... And I had to put in a few million % effort......

to change from this face




to this.......



just to give a 3 seconds pH 7 looking face -_-"

Couldn't stand properly from the maximum acidity. It's the first time I reach this level.
Anyway, it's only my 2nd time running for a track event. The first was in JC, when I came in second.... from the last :P

After a while, we went back to the sheltered area, and we decide to take some team photos again.

A picture of me at pH 2....



And guess which one is my sis? haha!
(my sis and I was in the same team, 4 X 800m..... the running duo, haha)

Then finally, end off with a bigger team photo.



Some of them went off already straight after the event. There should be like 3 more of them.

After that, went back to hall, done quite a number of stuff but still didn't manage to finish, I went out. And I have great lucks when it comes to taking short pathetic naps.... this time, I tried to take a 30 mins nap to "quick charge" a while, and some guy, dunno karma clash with mine or what, called me again right in between.

Hey you stalker, you should know who you are :P

Then with me all shag out, had to start dragging myself out, taking the MRT and sleeping through from Boon Lay to Pasir Ris, to celebrate Yiwen's 21st Birthday. Anyway, I sort of "missed" the highlights as I didn't noticed the "cake cutting" session was the earlier day, in her 2 day long celebration. Anyway, I couldn't make it also as I will have to rest early for the event in the morning.

Glad that the small group of us got to meet up again after so long.... ya it feels long to me.



Happy advance 21st Birthday Yiwen!!
And the next week is going to another busy week for me.... but still glad that I still have a "fighting" Route Relay team still training with me.....

run jiahe run.... :)
(and just an additional note: I don't call myself a turtle, I refer it to my journey, my life)

Was asked by my boss again to take photo for a Opening Ceremony, and because no one volunteered and even rejected.... I decided to help her out to save her the agony.




Anyway, the Opening Ceremony was much more interesting compared to last year when I was in the committee as a Treasurer.


And this time, it drew a really big crowd. And the steps allowed people to sit and watch the performance.



Good choice.

Anyway, I went for lesson from 9.30am - 11.30am, went to this area to man the FOC booth from 11.30am-1.30pm, went back for Graphics tutorial for 3 hours of pain and torture to draw.

Anyway, this is what came out, from someone who don't understand most crap that the lecturer said.

And we are suppose to turn this



into this.



in 3 hrs.

And I took more time than that..... Ended at 5pm instead.

After cursing and swearing to myself for the whole time, I went back to the booth after this ended.
It's 5.20pm.
And 5.30pm -7pm I had a photo assignment.
Yar, everyone who saw me wasn't surprised. I was the photographer again.
Think maybe they think it's my hobby again?

No, I don't think it's my hobby..... I think. Although it's always in my bag.

And at 7pm, I had to go for the NTU Open House Ambassador interview, because of canvassing.

Then I went there, then happen to have some cool people in my group who really tried hard to be "knowlegeable" and "highly sociable". Machiam like war ground. Sometimes I felt it's a bit too "power".
Didn't even had the chance to talk normally. Had a cool evening.
Hope they picked me.... for acting cool I guess. Anyway, I am glad I saw my primary school friend there....

Actually there's nothing much interesting to note down.....

Then on my way back hall at 9.15pm, I saw the NAF committee sitting at the same place, waiting to be debriefed by Chin Yuan the Chair.

So just waited for them a while, cos it will be quite a sad thing to have no group photo after a ultra tiring but yet successful event, so the whole thing ended at 9.58pm for me.




Went back hall, reach at 10.03pm.

Great, Route Relay training at 10pm.

Went down to jog jog.

Back in hall at 11pm.

Realised my washed running clothes flew off.

Went down to search, lucky it's found. Some friendly ah tiong help me hang on his clothes line.

Then went to a freshie's room, in the end had to forced a hamster out of the "tube" so we can play with it. Or should I say, we disturbed it -_-"

It's fat, quite cute.

Anyway, nothing looks interesting, so maybe just end off by posting a event.
It's about posting up your secret on a post card.

http://www.artjampostsecret.com/

The FOC committee received 1 postcard each, from the Publication Head (my boss) during meeting.
Anyway, I filled it in so if you are seriously bored and feels like being a stalker, you can always go to the board on some days to find this card.



If you can, out of the dunno thousands? Or similar cards?
Whatever...

My secret?
Actually it's just something I won't say or talk about.

And in my lack of sleep state, I seriously feel emo.

I don't care.... I am going to call everyone a stalker.

I don't advertise this place. And I don't want anyone to do it for me also.

And when posts doesn't seems as interesting anymore, the "stalker rate" increased.



Green - Page Reloads
Blue - Unique Views
Orange - Returning Visitors

Great. So people liked lousy posts.....

(when I wake up tomorrow, I won't care about this thing anymore)

Just feel like calling out to the stalkers.
haha.

stupid tired state -_-"

I am still me..... I think.....