Saturday thoughts

Today there was remedial chemistry at 7.30 am. I had no choice but to get up early. After the lesson Ernest asked whether I can help him sell flags as it was SJAB flagday.I told him there was home detention today...

Actually i know that something is not right. I do not feeel like studying. Things are mot what they seem. However as Mr Leow said when I blog I just write I just say good things never bad... But how to express my innermost feelings when I know that people who may not like what I say about them may be reading it? He said that students have had their blog taken down because of what they had written...

That is why I must be careful when I blog...

乐极生悲 describes what I feel. Just when things are going on fine, again I know something bad will happen...It was what my father said yesterday when he was talking to my mother...

Da Vinci Project

Today I reached school at 6.45 am. Went for an easy jog with my team members.

School finished at 3.15 p.m. becauase the biology teacher could not finish teaching.

After that Li Ming's father came and drove joel, li ming and me to joel's house to finish the chinese project on Da Vinci. Joel's mom was very nice and bought lunch for us as we were all hungry. Thank you aunty! I forgor to tell my mother about it as we had problems finishing the work. When we left at 6.30 the project was almost finished.

We also admired Joel's hamsters. They were really so cute...

Annual School Cross Country 2007

Today was the school cross country. It was at Bedok Reservoir Park.

I woke up this morning very excited. Anyway I was there at 7.40am and did the warm-up.

We waited for the rest who were coming from school.

At 8.35 it was the teacher's race. Mr Yon came in first and Mr Ong came in second in Men (Open). Miss Tan Pei Shan was first in Women (Open). Congrrats to all these teachers in charge of our CCA cross country.

First the Boys C division ran first. Then Girls C Division. Then it was Boys B Division, my division. We started at 8.55.

I ran slowly in the beginning. Ray was in front of me and was breaking the crowd.After the the 2km mark I started running faster and pulled away from the pack.Many girls were blocking the way and I had to avoid them.

At the 3.5 km mark I only saw girls. So I started to speed up. I reached the bend just before the finishing line and heard a lot of shouting.

Everything was a blur then but I knew I had made it when I saw all the teachers at the finishing line...

Yes I came in first in a time of 18m. This is a personal best for me...

Sigh! Actually though I felt very happy that I won, it was also bittersweet.
Why? Because cross country CCA closed down last year under Mrs Ku. It was very terrible last year. I hated the school and what they were doing. I felt like quitting school and not run anymore...

In a way I am glad Mr Tong came. At first I thought he would not do anything or do little. But then he starte doing things. He found some 'B' boys for me to run with and then this term he opened up the CCA and there are now Sec 1 boys. He even let me start a blog to talk about our school cross country team. But the best thing happened at the school cross country today. He allowed me to take a picture with him wearing my gold medal. To me, it meant that the school recognised what I was doing. All the sweat, the tears, the pain is now worth it...Even if no other teacher in the school support me , only Mr Tong, to me that is enough...
I know that 18m at the National Inter-School Cross Country is very possible now...

Training at CCAB

This is even week so today we finished school at 1pm. There was an add maths test on logs today. It was tricky...

At 3.45 pm we assembled in school to go for training at CCAB. Mr Ong and Mr Yon came down with us. Here are a few photos our training...










I felt really happy today. Mr Yon and Mr Ong were really concerned about us and how we trained.They took the time to talk to us individualy. This is the first time two teachers ever came down for training. It felt very good to be part of the team. It was also the first time we had more than 10 boys training...

saturday lesson

Today had to get up early to go to school for chemistry remedial lesson. Five in the class did not turn up. Before we left, Ms Tan said there would be another remedial lesson next week, same time same place. Oh well...No choice but to go.

I enjoyed creating the HIHS athletics blog and I hope the team members will also post...

The URL of the blog is

http://hihs-athletics.blogspot.com

Training in school

Today school ended at 2 pm. All of us self-marked our chemistry homework and packed our bag.Then Miss Tan reminded us about our remedial lesson tomorrow at 7.30 a.m. We all groaned.

3 p.m was CCA time. But it was a CCA training with a difference. For the first time the training was held in the school. Mr Ong ,one of the trainee pe teachers and my maths teacher trained us. He made us run 10 x 400m, then we went to the school gym for 10 sets of gymwork.We tried all sorts of equipment including dumbells.It was extremely tiring as I tried to carry 15 kg.(I nearly dropped those dumbells.)

Then Mr Tong talked to us after training. He told us that if any boy who ran below 20min next week at the school cross country, that boy would get a tee-shirt. I think that tee- shirt is almost mine.... He also gave incentives for running 50 km. So easy...


For the first time in over a year, I felt very happy. We are now a TEAM!

Sorry but see who has horns in the photo below...However as you see we are very happy including the sec 1's:

2nd page

New page at Googlepages

Yippe!!!

The URL is http://gareth3ying.googlepages.com

See yah there!!!