Table tennis practice was a waste of time. Why? cause we didnt practice a single thing.
No captain, no equiment, and only 2 other guys turned up. If i wasnt so sure i needed the practice, i would just appear on competition day where i at least can find somebody.
What a waste of time. Its not surprising why i devote myself to othello instead each yr. We have strong and close team, which has enuf power to conduct our own practice and get ppl to come down. And at the very least, the captains do not abandon practice without telling anyone and making arrangements. I was so pissed i smsed the sports sec threatening to quit if nobody can confirm practice and competition time with me.
Dear lord, why do i pity them and help them each yr? Thank goodness this is the last yr. And if i do come back to hostel, u can be sure it will not be to offer my services to the table tennis team EVER again (if one exists in the first place. how can a scattered bunch of ppl ever be considered a team? even if they are strong?).
Monday, December 15, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Photos on 'D' day
Photos taken of the team on the day of Semi Finals and Finals. So happy we won Gold! Gd job guys. :D
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
GOLD
We won! Hall 15 got the gold medal for the first time! :D And I shall have a gold medal to add to my silver one. hehe....
2nd was hall 10, 3rd was hall 6 and 4th was hall 9.
2nd was hall 10, 3rd was hall 6 and 4th was hall 9.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
1st in Grp today! Semi and Finals tmr. Why i nv join othello but help table tennis!?!
I nv join Othello this year but i came down to support my team. And help them to spy via umpiring other teams! Muhaha..... NOTS. Umpiring is boring. Nearly fell aslp once. And u gleam very little benefit from it oso. So dun try this method anymore, k ppl?
This yr's teams was all guys, cas i'm not playing and S went back to India. P is not interested either. Guess hall 15 is turing back into an all guys team.
But the Guys did very well. We beat every single hall in our grp! :D Tmr is semi-finals vs hall 9 and then against either 6 or 10, if we in finals. Actually, I quite sure we can make it. As the guys put it, if they are weak enuf to be placed as 2nd in the grp, we shdnt wry abt playing them. Tho this sounds super arrogant. :P
Even tho I nv join othello this yr, I agreed to help table tennis play female doubles this yr. It was out of pity mostly. Cas the sports sec approached me a few hrs ago to personally ask, and they sound prett desperate. Besides, my usual hall doubles partner did the taiji on me, saying "if she play then i play" so i cant do the taiji anymore. At least i will noe my partner oso. Last yr she wasnt playing, and the whole thing felt so crappy. I dun even remember what position i played and with who. Tho its most likely doubles. The hall people already noe i dun have the skill or inclination to play singles. If they request I prob wont play. And they prob hoping casting me and my old partner will help them secure game. I doubt so lah. I nv play so long and so physically weak now. My partner shd still be fit, since she's an all round sportswoman type, but i noe she hardlys plays oso. Table tennis is like one of her least faves. Hmm... so y am i doing this again?
This yr's teams was all guys, cas i'm not playing and S went back to India. P is not interested either. Guess hall 15 is turing back into an all guys team.
But the Guys did very well. We beat every single hall in our grp! :D Tmr is semi-finals vs hall 9 and then against either 6 or 10, if we in finals. Actually, I quite sure we can make it. As the guys put it, if they are weak enuf to be placed as 2nd in the grp, we shdnt wry abt playing them. Tho this sounds super arrogant. :P
Even tho I nv join othello this yr, I agreed to help table tennis play female doubles this yr. It was out of pity mostly. Cas the sports sec approached me a few hrs ago to personally ask, and they sound prett desperate. Besides, my usual hall doubles partner did the taiji on me, saying "if she play then i play" so i cant do the taiji anymore. At least i will noe my partner oso. Last yr she wasnt playing, and the whole thing felt so crappy. I dun even remember what position i played and with who. Tho its most likely doubles. The hall people already noe i dun have the skill or inclination to play singles. If they request I prob wont play. And they prob hoping casting me and my old partner will help them secure game. I doubt so lah. I nv play so long and so physically weak now. My partner shd still be fit, since she's an all round sportswoman type, but i noe she hardlys plays oso. Table tennis is like one of her least faves. Hmm... so y am i doing this again?
Monday, December 8, 2008
The Borders Temptation
Forgot today is Hari Raya Haji and happily went library only to find it closed. Dots. Oh well, Happy Hari Rara Haji to Muslims frens. Sorry I cant seem to muster more enthuism for it.
Anyway, since I couldnt go library, I went shopping at Parkway Parade which was just a short walk away. And idling browse thru watever caught my fancy, including the Borders Bookshop. And there I found the 3 for 2 Borders "temptation", or more accurately, promotion. I think i'm very lucky, that tho plenty of the books caught my fancy, none of those that were part of the promotion were ones I really wanted to buy. If Mecerdes Lackey's Bardic Voices Series were among those books, I prob wont be blogging right now, I would have given in to temptation and bought them i think.
Still, I couldnt resist coping down a few titles and authors to add to my Read List (the to borrow one, of course). Think I will spend the rest of today, sorting out a book lists before I go library tmr. Am planning to go Jurong library tmr b4 I go back to NTU. The main purpose is to support othello team for comps, but since i'm not playing, am considering going late. So library 1st, then NIE to return the library bks I borrowed on dad's behalf, then to hall 8 to watch the hall games and support my team.
K, shd really get to work now sorting out that book list.
Hm.... An extra note to do with the weekend before this: Congrats on your Wedding, Kor Iceman. May you and wife have a happy honeymoon ahead. Was really touched by everything, but most especially by the effort u put into ur own wedding. Can really feel how much you love and treasure your wife and I am certain the two of you will have a happy and blissful marriage. :)
Anyway, since I couldnt go library, I went shopping at Parkway Parade which was just a short walk away. And idling browse thru watever caught my fancy, including the Borders Bookshop. And there I found the 3 for 2 Borders "temptation", or more accurately, promotion. I think i'm very lucky, that tho plenty of the books caught my fancy, none of those that were part of the promotion were ones I really wanted to buy. If Mecerdes Lackey's Bardic Voices Series were among those books, I prob wont be blogging right now, I would have given in to temptation and bought them i think.
Still, I couldnt resist coping down a few titles and authors to add to my Read List (the to borrow one, of course). Think I will spend the rest of today, sorting out a book lists before I go library tmr. Am planning to go Jurong library tmr b4 I go back to NTU. The main purpose is to support othello team for comps, but since i'm not playing, am considering going late. So library 1st, then NIE to return the library bks I borrowed on dad's behalf, then to hall 8 to watch the hall games and support my team.
K, shd really get to work now sorting out that book list.
Hm.... An extra note to do with the weekend before this: Congrats on your Wedding, Kor Iceman. May you and wife have a happy honeymoon ahead. Was really touched by everything, but most especially by the effort u put into ur own wedding. Can really feel how much you love and treasure your wife and I am certain the two of you will have a happy and blissful marriage. :)
Friday, December 5, 2008
Christmas Caroling
Found the below annoucement on this mth's newsletter from books Kinokuniya. Hey Muh, u interested to go together? Invitation also extend to anyone who likes A Cappella Music or simply wants to listen to Christmas Carols. Of course, u could also decide to go by urself or with other ppl. Its free and no one is barring non-members from going in to listen. Warning tho, the books shops wont have a seating area, u have to be prepared to stand in order to watch the performance. Or shd u decide u just wanna listen, there is a cafe just by Kinokuniya Main Store, which shd be close enuf to here the carolling, unless the cafe's music is too loud.
Christmas Caroling In Stores
Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store
13th December 2008 (Saturday)
20th December 2008 (Saturday)
21st December 2008 (Sunday)
24th December 2008 (Christmas Eve)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Kinokuniya Liang Court
14th December 2008 (Sunday)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Kinokuniya Bugis Junction
19th December 2008 (Friday)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
The A Cappella Society Youth Voices
Get into the spirit of Christmas at Books Kinokuniya this December and treat yourself to a selection of favourite Christmas melodies at our Christmas Caroling In Stores performance by The A Cappella Society Youth Voices.
More affectionately known as the TAS Youth Voices or TAS YV, this group of young and passionate a cappella singers aged between 13 to 18 has bagged several awards including "Best Vocal Percussionist '08" and "Gold Award - Pop and Choir Category" at the 2008 A Cappella Championships. Hear them perform your favourite repertoire of Christmas evergreens including Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Joy To The World and Santa Baby at our book stores.
Christmas Caroling In Stores
Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store
13th December 2008 (Saturday)
20th December 2008 (Saturday)
21st December 2008 (Sunday)
24th December 2008 (Christmas Eve)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Kinokuniya Liang Court
14th December 2008 (Sunday)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Kinokuniya Bugis Junction
19th December 2008 (Friday)
5.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
The A Cappella Society Youth Voices
Get into the spirit of Christmas at Books Kinokuniya this December and treat yourself to a selection of favourite Christmas melodies at our Christmas Caroling In Stores performance by The A Cappella Society Youth Voices.
More affectionately known as the TAS Youth Voices or TAS YV, this group of young and passionate a cappella singers aged between 13 to 18 has bagged several awards including "Best Vocal Percussionist '08" and "Gold Award - Pop and Choir Category" at the 2008 A Cappella Championships. Hear them perform your favourite repertoire of Christmas evergreens including Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Joy To The World and Santa Baby at our book stores.
NEW BOOKS!
I found both The Fire Rose and Reserved for the Cat yesterday at tampines' San's Bookshop! So happy. I immediately finished reading The Fire Rose, even tho it cas me to stay up till 3:30am. hehe..... Havent read Reserved for the Cat yet. Am putting off reading it a little. Cause worried it might be the last bk of the series. >.<>
The Fire Rose is a story modeled after beauty and the beast. Where a young and beautiful girl was forced by circumstances to go to a large lonely mansion, and discovers that the master of the place is not exactly human! But that's abt where the similarities end.
This book is part of the collection of The Elemental Masters series by Mecerdes Lackey. Based on Magic which has purely European roots, mainly those of the British. The four Elements are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Elementals are mythical creatures that are of a particular element and the Masters work magic by learning how to control them.
In The Fire Rose, the Beast is a Fire Master (meaning a magician with mastery over the Fire elementals) who accidentally hybrid himself with a wolf, when he sought the power to transform from men to wolf and back again at will. Slightly different from a werewolf where one is constrained by the power of the moon and has no control over the transformation, nor ability to retain human mind after transformation to wolf. In any case it failed, and he was stuck in a half-man, half wolf form.
With hands turned into paws, there was no way he could flip thru books and conduct the research he needed to turn himself back to human again and therefore seek the aid of a scholar and translator to be his hands and eyes and help him conduct the research.
The scholar he found was a young woman named Rosalind Hawkins, whose father has recenlty passed away and left her a mountain of debts. Therefore, like the scenario in Beauty and the Beast, it was the doting but usless father that cas his daughter to have no choice but to go to the beast. Who had offered high pay for a job as a tutor or governess who noes Latin, Greek and Medival French. Of course the whole thing sounds fishy but Rosalind was in debt, with no place to stay, and needed a means to survive. So she went and then discovered there were no children in the house, and her job was to read and translate ancient scripts into a speaking tube, to an owner who claims to have been disfigured in an accident. And from there the romance unfolds...
I believe it was bcas this book is successful that she decide to write the Elemental Masters Series. The story has many bits that does not quite fit in with the series and the Elementals that appear have much more of a character and intelligence than those in the series. This particular book also tried to insert a bit of chinese magic into the story and forcefully overlap it with Western magic. She must have regreted it for I think she did a better job incorporating Indian Magic in The Serpent's Shadow, which is officially the first book in the series.
In any case, it is totally wrong to say the chinese equivalent of the Master of Earth is the Master of the Dragon, cas according to Chinese lengends and myths, Chinese Dragons are essentially creatures with powers over water, controling the seas and the rains. It would have been more accurate to style them as the equivalent of the Master of Water or of Air (seeing that dragons control weather like Masters of Air do, tho Masters of Air mainly control the Winds and not the Rains, they both can cause storms). It is only in the West that dragons are a creature of mainly Earth and Fire, the Chinese view happens to be opposite.
But then again, the story is based in the West (San Franciso to be exact), and therefore one can hardly expect to find Chinese dragons there, even in the chinatown quarter. So I supposed one can say that the Chinese Magicians in the story are trying to explain theirs titles in a way Westerners could understand. Tho I still refuse to agree that they will proclaim that their rightful title is the Master of Dragon, especially when he claims that his roots in Magic are styled after Chinese customs.
Hmmm....... Personally, I think it would be more accurate to name dragon as the symbol of water, the phoenix for fire (which she also selected), the crane for air (she picked eagle) and maybe the unicorn for earth. Earth is the hardest to pick when I considered, cas lion, tiger, the bull and horse could fit in too. But I personally think the Unicorn would be a stronger symbol of power. The alternative would be to style them after the 四神兽 (four god beasts) in chinese legend, which guards the four pts of North, South, East and West. Which in turn should then make it easier to overlap with the Western idea of magic circle, with the power of each element guarding a certain direction (or shd i say area or land?).
Oh well, this are more or less useless musings since i'm not studying myths and legends for a degree. And if i really were to do so i would starve to death. Why do i only have useless interests and at most average ability and talent in them anyway. Oh well.... watever. Shall just not think too much and read my books.
The Fire Rose is a story modeled after beauty and the beast. Where a young and beautiful girl was forced by circumstances to go to a large lonely mansion, and discovers that the master of the place is not exactly human! But that's abt where the similarities end.
This book is part of the collection of The Elemental Masters series by Mecerdes Lackey. Based on Magic which has purely European roots, mainly those of the British. The four Elements are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Elementals are mythical creatures that are of a particular element and the Masters work magic by learning how to control them.
In The Fire Rose, the Beast is a Fire Master (meaning a magician with mastery over the Fire elementals) who accidentally hybrid himself with a wolf, when he sought the power to transform from men to wolf and back again at will. Slightly different from a werewolf where one is constrained by the power of the moon and has no control over the transformation, nor ability to retain human mind after transformation to wolf. In any case it failed, and he was stuck in a half-man, half wolf form.
With hands turned into paws, there was no way he could flip thru books and conduct the research he needed to turn himself back to human again and therefore seek the aid of a scholar and translator to be his hands and eyes and help him conduct the research.
The scholar he found was a young woman named Rosalind Hawkins, whose father has recenlty passed away and left her a mountain of debts. Therefore, like the scenario in Beauty and the Beast, it was the doting but usless father that cas his daughter to have no choice but to go to the beast. Who had offered high pay for a job as a tutor or governess who noes Latin, Greek and Medival French. Of course the whole thing sounds fishy but Rosalind was in debt, with no place to stay, and needed a means to survive. So she went and then discovered there were no children in the house, and her job was to read and translate ancient scripts into a speaking tube, to an owner who claims to have been disfigured in an accident. And from there the romance unfolds...
I believe it was bcas this book is successful that she decide to write the Elemental Masters Series. The story has many bits that does not quite fit in with the series and the Elementals that appear have much more of a character and intelligence than those in the series. This particular book also tried to insert a bit of chinese magic into the story and forcefully overlap it with Western magic. She must have regreted it for I think she did a better job incorporating Indian Magic in The Serpent's Shadow, which is officially the first book in the series.
In any case, it is totally wrong to say the chinese equivalent of the Master of Earth is the Master of the Dragon, cas according to Chinese lengends and myths, Chinese Dragons are essentially creatures with powers over water, controling the seas and the rains. It would have been more accurate to style them as the equivalent of the Master of Water or of Air (seeing that dragons control weather like Masters of Air do, tho Masters of Air mainly control the Winds and not the Rains, they both can cause storms). It is only in the West that dragons are a creature of mainly Earth and Fire, the Chinese view happens to be opposite.
But then again, the story is based in the West (San Franciso to be exact), and therefore one can hardly expect to find Chinese dragons there, even in the chinatown quarter. So I supposed one can say that the Chinese Magicians in the story are trying to explain theirs titles in a way Westerners could understand. Tho I still refuse to agree that they will proclaim that their rightful title is the Master of Dragon, especially when he claims that his roots in Magic are styled after Chinese customs.
Hmmm....... Personally, I think it would be more accurate to name dragon as the symbol of water, the phoenix for fire (which she also selected), the crane for air (she picked eagle) and maybe the unicorn for earth. Earth is the hardest to pick when I considered, cas lion, tiger, the bull and horse could fit in too. But I personally think the Unicorn would be a stronger symbol of power. The alternative would be to style them after the 四神兽 (four god beasts) in chinese legend, which guards the four pts of North, South, East and West. Which in turn should then make it easier to overlap with the Western idea of magic circle, with the power of each element guarding a certain direction (or shd i say area or land?).
Oh well, this are more or less useless musings since i'm not studying myths and legends for a degree. And if i really were to do so i would starve to death. Why do i only have useless interests and at most average ability and talent in them anyway. Oh well.... watever. Shall just not think too much and read my books.
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