boom-di-ah-day boom-di-ah-day boom-di-ah-day boom boom Boomz!

(Ris Low is just shingz.)

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Turning operational is the best thing to happen to my NS life so far. (Though, my bunkmates are commenting that I’ve already turned ops at least 3 months ago in terms of my bed-cupboard area [read: messy].) Now that we are done training, it’s time to do do real stuff. As in, really real stuff. Like protecting an entire off-shore island. And I’m not referring to the one that’s infested with Number Fours. Plus, all the privileges like bringing in food, magazines, mp3 players and my non-existent PSP (xmas is coming – hint hint).

One down side, however, is being confined over weekends for 2NTM. And the fact that the 2 weekends that are taken up this year are the ones that I really really want to spend out of camp.

(And I’m totally not looking forward to Ex. Falcon and ATEC.)

1 year to ORD LOH.

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Jubeat online play at Zone-X centres are down. ): At least I cycled about 11km today. Home to Lot 1 via Zhenghua Park – CCK Park PCN to Grandma’s at Cashew to Home. Cycling is <3 and extreme happiness. <3

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Please please please no duty next weekend please please.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

kimi no shiranai monogatari 君の知らない物語 – supercell

Bakemonogatari　化物語　ED

Romaji Lyric	Kanji Lyric	English Lyric
itsumo doori no aru hi no koto kimi wa totsuzen tachiagari itta “konya hoshi wo mi ni yukou”“tama ni wa ii koto iunda ne” nante minna shite itta waratta akari mo nai michi wo baka mitai ni hashaide aruita kakaekonda kodoku ya fuan ni oshitsubusarenai you ni makkura na sekai kara miageta yozora wa hoshi ga furu you de itsukara darou kimi no koto wo oikakeru watashi ga ita dou ka onegai odorokanai de kiite yo watashi no kono omoi wo “are ga DENEBU, ARUTAIRU, BEGA” kimi wa yubisasu natsu no daisankaku oboete sora wo miru yatto mitsuketa orihime-sama dakedo doko darou hikoboshi-sama kore ja hitoribocchi tanoshigena hitotsu tonari no kimi watashi wa nani mo ienakute hontou wa zutto kimi no koto wo doko ka de wakatteita mitsukattatte todoki wa shinai dame da yo nakanai de sou iikikaseta tsuyogaru watashi wa okubyou de kyoumi ga nai youna furi wo shiteita dakedo mune wo sasu itami wa mashiteku aa sou ka suki ni narutte kouiu koto nanda ne doushitai? itte goran kokoro no koe ga suru kimi no tonari ga ii shinjitsu wa zankoku da iwanakatta ienakatta nidoto modorenai ano natsu no hi kirameku hoshi ima demo omoidaseru yo waratta kao mo okotta kao mo daisuki deshita okashii yo ne wakatteta no ni kimi no shiranai watashi dake no himitsu yoru wo koete tooi omoide no kimi ga yubi wo sasu mujakina koe de	いつも通りのある日のこと 君は突然立ち上がり言った 「今夜 星を見に行こう」 たまにいいこと言うんだね なんて 皆して言って笑った 明かりもない道を 馬鹿みたいにはしゃいで歩いた 抱え込んだ孤独や不安に 押し潰されないように 真っ暗な世界から見上げた 夜空は　星が降るようで いつからだろう 君のことを 追いかける 私がいた どうかお願い 驚かないで 聞いてよ 私の この思いを 「あれが、デネブ、アルタイル、ベガ」 君は指差す 夏の大三角 覚えて 空を見る やっと見つけた 織姫様 だけどどこだろう 彦星様 これじゃ 一人ぼっち 楽しげな　ひとつ隣の君 私は何も言えなくて 本当はずっと 君のことを どこかでわかっていた 見つかったって 届きはしない だめだよ 泣かないで そう言い聞かせた 強がる私は臆病で 興味がないようなフリをしてた だけど 胸を刺す痛みは増してく あぁそうか 好きになるって こういうことなんだね どうしたい？ 言ってごらん？ 心の声がする 君の隣がいい 真実は残酷だ 言わなかった 言えなかった 二度と　戻れない あの夏の日 煌めく星 今でも思い出せるよ 笑った顔も 怒った顔も 大好きでした 可笑しいよね わかってたのに 君の知らない 私だけの秘密 夜を越えて 遠い思い出の 君が 指をさす 無邪気な声で	On a day like every other day, You suddenly stood up and said, “Tonight let’s go see the stars”“You say good things once in a while” Said everyone as they laughed On a street with no light We walked while having fun like idiots. In order to crush, The loneliness and uncertainty we were carrying. I looked up from a pitch black world The night sky seemed as if it was raining stars I wonder when, I started to Chase after you. Please, somehow Don’t be surprised and listen To these feelings of mine. “That’s Deneb, Altari, and Vega”, You finger pointed at the Summer Triangle. I remember and looked at the sky. I finally found Vega, But where are you, Altair? If it’s like this, you’re all alone. The cheerful you who was one next to me, I couldn’t say a word to you. Truthfully, I understood my feelings for you, Somewhere a long time ago. I found it, but I won’t tell you. “That’s no good, don’t cry” Please let me hear that from you. I was a coward and put on a tough face, I pretended to be uninterested. But… The pain piercing my chest increased Ah, I see. To like someone, Is something like this. What’s the matter? Try saying it? My heart is beating I’m fine by your side The truth is cruel. I didn’t say it, I couldn’t say it. We can never return. To that summer day, To those shining stars. Even now, I still remember. Your laughing face, Your angry face. I loved you. It’s strange, isn’t it? Even though I know that. Something you don’t know, A secret for me alone. Across the night, From a distant memory, You pointed with your finger, And in an innocent voice

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Just completed a 10-episode marathon of Bakemonogatari last night, finally caught up with the series at ep.12. The rest of the 3 episodes will be aired via webstreaming from tomorrow.

Senjougahara Fascination!

Now, to book in to camp, once again.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

birthday

Why is it that, even after
1. removing the display of my birthday on my profile,
2. keeping my 11B out of sight for at least 3 weeks
3. keeping a low profile for a week
…my bunkmates still remember when my birthday is?

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Birthday celebs this year had been awesome. Though, having pizzas for 2 days in a row, lots of cake and other junk food over the weekend, plus not much PT in the week after that, had made me terribly unfit, so much so that when the super-xiong PT resumed on Thursday, I was almost breathless after 20mins of non-stop running and couldn’t keep up with my pre-pizza pace.

Nevertheless, I’d really like to thank everyone for
1. Pool @ Beauty World
2. Lunch @ Wishbone
3. CTR @ Aaron’s
4. Pizza @ Pizzarella
5. the Oreo Cheesecake
6. the stayover
7. everything else.

(:

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Have I mentioned that constructing a ghillie suit is horribly tedious?

And why why why have I not received any offers from NUS? ):

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

Our insignificant existence

Went on a Melancholy of Haruhi anime marathon last weekend, and I came across this little recollection by Haruhi, which I can’t help but find it similar to what I had thought about many times when I was younger:

Say. Have you ever realized how insignificant your existence is on this planet?

I have. It’s something that I’ll never forget.

During elementary school, when I was in sixth grade, the whole family went to watch a baseball game at the stadium. I wasn’t particularly interested in baseball, but I was shocked once we got there.

There were people everywhere I looked.

The ones on the other side of the stadium looked like squirming grains of rice all packed together. I wondered if every last person in Japan had gathered in this place.

And so, I asked my dad, exactly how many people were in the stadium? His answer was that a sold-out game meant around fifty-thousand people.

After the game, the path to the station was flooded with people. The sight stunned me. So many people around me, yet they only made a fraction of the people in Japan.

Once I got home, I got a calculator and did the math. We learned that the Japanese population was a hundred million and some in social studies. Divide fifty thousand into that, and you only get two-thousandth.

I was stunned again.

Not only was I just one little person in that sea of people in that stadium, but that sea of people was merely a drop in the ocean.

I had thought myself to be a special person up until that point.

I enjoyed being with my family, and most of all, I thought that my class in my school had the most interesting people in the world.

But, that was when I realized it wasn’t like that. The things that happened in what I believed to be the most enjoyable class in the world could be found happening in any school in Japan. Everyone in Japan would find them to be ordinary occurances.

Once I realized this, I suddenly found that my surroundings were beginning to lose their colour.

Brush my teeth and go to sleep at night.
Wake up and eat breakfast in the morning.

People do those everywhere.

When I realized that everyone did all these things on a daily basis, everything started to feel so boring. And if there were so many people in the world, there had to be someone living an interesting life that wasn’t ordinary.

I was sure of it.

Why wasn’t that person me?

That’s all I could think about until I graduated from elementary school. And in the process, I realized something: Nothing fun will happen if you sit around waiting. So I figured I would change myself in middle school. Let the world know that I wasn’t a girl content with sitting around and waiting. And I conducted myself accordingly.

But in the end, nothing ever happened.

Before I knew it, I was in high school. I thought something would have changed.

…

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.

Pause fillers

By a moment of chance, I found myself attending a Toastmasters’ meeting at my neighbourhood CC.

It all started on Thursday when I saved the Documents_Checklist.pdf file onto my brother’s memory card so I could go down to the photocopy shop to print it. Then I did not put it back into the camera.

And as I was coming home on Friday, my brother was all, “Damn you.”, because he needed to use the camera.

So I went down to the CC to pass him the memory card, and found him in the conference room. Turns out that the toastmasters’ club meeting was about to start in 15mins. So what happened was that, my brother had to leave halfway to ‘go on a hot date’, so I took over his role as the AH counter, even though I’ve no idea what was going on.

It was actually quite a pleasant experience. The Zhenghua Toastmasters’ Club is a fairly new club, at an age of barely over a year old, and the people there are friendly and accommodating, not only to the new and unconfident speakers, but also to the guests.

As the AH counter, I was supposed to note down on a piece of paper every single instance of any person in the room saying ‘Ah’, ‘Uh’, “Mm”, making any repeated words, or any other pause fillers. As the president of this club has mentioned, pause fillers are used by people to get their audience sense their existence, but are frowned upon by the club.

I have a habit, however, of making it a point to include pause fillers in my speaking. [I even use it in SMS ._.] So it was quite a challenge for me not to use them during the session.

I also attempted the table topics section of the meeting. I was supposed to give an impromptu 2min speech on the topic that I’ve randomly picked from a bunch of topics [think Scenes from a Hat]. I’ve always liked impromptu speeches, so I was more than eager to try it out. I think I failed miserably, but at least the people there were, at the very least, entertained.

All in all, I thought it was a fun experience joining that toastmasters’ club meeting. Would love to officially join the club, but unfortunately, they only meet once a month, on weekdays. So maybe I shall join the club next time.

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Walked 7 clicks from Aaron’s house to Thomson Plaza in 90mins flat. whee.

Till the next time, it’s me, woonie, signing off.