American River College Cross Country Video 1

This is a very cool cross country video. It was produced in Director. After watching it i feel very inspired to run...I have a dream that one day we will have a school team that can run like that too. That would be just great...

Even the quotes are so inspirational...

Homework on sunday

Today when I woke up i still felt unwell. My sore throat had become worse and i still had a running nose.

I wanted so badly to run today. It was the National Juniors and my school had sent me to particpate in the 800m. I had been looking looking forward to it all week...

Last week li ming was down from flu. He had a temperature of 40 C on wed. Too bad i sat beside him. I think i must have caught it from him. He has beenabsent since. Besides me Joel was also sick. I think a few of my other classmates are also sick. For the saturday morning remedial class, six of them did not come. I know a few of them sat behind him that day.

Anyway what is the use of moping now? At lunch time my father talked to me quite long. He advised me that it was not worth it to run since i was feeling so uncomfortable...

I spent the day on my tuition and homework...What to do? Exams are coming up too as my father reminds me. There was english, geog, e maths and chinese homework to do... I also had to write my bio journal... School sure is tough...

Team HIHS Athletics 2007 video

Yesterday I spent some time creating a video of our school cross country team. I hope you enjoy watching the video as much as I have enjoyed creating it.

Friday - feeling unwell

Today was a public holiday but i was up early. I was looking forward to going running with uncle kalai. At 6.45 i was out of the house even though i had a slight cought. I enjoyed the jog with him. Uncle Kalai is a marathon runner.The most recent marathon he ran was the KL Marathon last month during march holidays. I wanted to go too if not for school...


Anyway i will be running competition with him and all my friends later this month. I really look forward to that...Even if it is only 10k...
I have never really thought if i want to run the marathon one day but who knows?

When I came back i had a sore throat so i took some medicine and went to sleep. It was good not having to go to school. Hope i will be better tomorrow as there is a competition on sunday...

Softball and service learning

What has service learning got to do with softball? Well nothing really just that I got to do both today. Or rather I was able to watch a softball match...

Today school finished at 2 pm. There was service learning after school today. Mr Sim came with us to Pertapis and he brought along a digital camera ro take photos of what we were doing.

We had buddy reading and we played games with the inmates.

But the highlight of the day was the softball match played in the school field at my sister's school. It looked like the visitors were winning. My sister said the man wearing a t- shirt with the words Mr Ben at the back of the t-shirt was the teacher in charge. He looked a bit sombre as his girls were losing. The visitors had a very good pitcher and almost every bat was a strike out. Both sides the coaches came and both wore a t-shrt which said coach behind.

For those who do not know, girls play softball and boys play baseball. They also wear t-shirts with numbers and their names on it...Will the cross country team ever get a T-shirt with their names on it??

Monday is journal writing day

There was physics spa today for index no. 23 to 43. All of us skipped english to finish it. I heard there was english journal to write but i have not done it. The topic scares me. It is how to ace the g.c.e. 'o' level english. Well i really want to ace it but i dont know how...My english is poor.Maybe by writing on this blog i can improve it.Also i dont know much words and spelling...I could ask my sister to help me... Will she?

Well i have no choice but to write it but I wish topic could have been more interesting like what I like to do in my spare time - running and i.t.

next time i will suggesr it to my teacher :)

There was training today in school and it started at 3.45 p.m. Mr Yon conducted it and he made me work. It was tough as i had stitiches having lunch late. We went to the gym later. Actually i find that Mr Yon can really teach... he explains what we did or did not do in the debrief. Ms Tan also came today to talk to us.

Sunday Run

This morning I woke up early as I wanted to go running with my friends. There is a competition coming up on 28 April -just two rounds around Bedok Reservoir. My target is 40m at most. I hope to do better than that.

We came at 7.25am. Mr Ow was there waiting. Mr Chua and the some of the others started running earlier. We ran together the two roounds in 55m. I missed Uncle Kalai and Auntie Roda. Later I heard they had gone to run at Mt Faber.Uncle Jo and his wife also came. They gave all of us us hersheys kissables.

Today we hads o many adults running together. After the run Mr Malek invited all of us to his condo for breakfast and a dip in the pool.

I love swimming. Even before I was in primary one, I already have the bronze award. Swimming 20 or 30 laps is no problem. But now with school work, tuition and running I have no time for it...

Too bad it rained and I was forced to get of the pool. The best part was the jackuzzi... The water was really warm...

I really like this club. As all of them are adults, they realy take care of me and look out for me. They run with me, pace me and help me correct all my running mistakes.They also motivate me to do better. Most of these runners are my parents' age. At first my father was shy to join them but the slower runners encouraged him to join and now mt father runs with them. Then the aunties help my mother and encourage my mother. Now she can run too...But so slow... My sister runs so much faster and better.

I am so happy my mother runs. One day I hope that all of us can take part in a competition together.When I started running she nver ran. But these people are so good to us. They encourage my mother ro run and I am so happy that she can run today. Keep it up Mummy! One day I hope you will be able to run by my side...

I know that I will never leave this group. Maybe it is because i am the only child there so they all sayang me... Or maybe they all take the trouble to make me belong and be a part of them...