hectic past few days its been
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
My >week long blog rot has ended, about time. This week has been really busy with the moving of house, stupid EoM and other miscellaneous small stuff. Found out lots of shocking news this week too, the exceptional ones; one that's within my family and one of a bloody long grudge I'll hold against someone.
I couldn't remember the start of things last weekend, but one of the days had tennis in it, so here are some shots that'll make up for my forgetting of content for last week.
TPJC tennis courts, for Joseph cuz he doesn't remember what they look like. But these are more for angles than the full court itself.
(not me :/ )
Facing the 'titanic', coined for it's bow-like structure where the stand lies.
Played King of the court, but the sweltering weather and persperation in my eyes kept me from playing well, along with the fact that I didn't play for a while since. Played in between a long break, hence the uniform not sports attire.. Candid by the way, but pretty nicely taken at an angle. Don't know who took my cam and snapped it, but kudos.
Returning to Damai to collect the SGC on the same day. I didn't take many pictures, and the school was pretty dead by 3pm, when we went over. 3rd degree. Somewhere on an older post, I had the same tree-etch, much to Zheng Wen's repulse. Should put that and this side by side in another post or something.
So finally moving on to the move. Sometimes I find it unnessecary to repeat what Joseph has already covered, but in short, it was really tiring and hectic. There, simple, succint. The change has been an eye opener more and more each day, until someday soon it will become the norm and climbing the flight of stairs doesn't seem as unusual. Have got to try the pool again though, but I haven't a picture of it, plus I'm too lazy to take one now as I've already uploaded all the pictures.
Maybe
whoever you are would be close enough a friend to be invited over someday anyways. Heh.
My room, desk and cabinet in
wenge wood, a dark tone that I love for it's simplicity. A bit messy though, and not as cheery as Joseph's. His wood's of a lighter tone, so's the paint and all, hence his looks literally
cooler.
The sun setting, from the third storey deck. Man, the clouds look magnificent.
My parents planned for this link between their bedroom and study to be brilliantly designed. Antique chairs and a marble table juxtaposed against the cold concrete and granite of modern minimalistic designs.
My parents bedroom, a new king sized bed and dark brown curtains.
The flight of stairs up, with this arty lamp that gives a radiant glow in the night.
So there are some of the rooms and stuff, sorry I'm too lazy to take more. Monday came, with the start of a new route to school from different bus services. It actually is faster to school from here, though geographically not, but in relation to bus routes, it is. Saves me barely 10mins though.
Took this during Tuesday's PW, one of my group members, Kenneth, happy go lucky most of the time. He joined canoeing and has since improved in his pull ups by about 6+ if I'm not wrong.
Ok so now's the more or less real update, the TPJC Road Run this morning. What a shame I didn't stay a week earlier at Lagoon View, or not I could've woken up minutes before reporting time and crossed the underpass simply. Met Kristy, Su An and Danny at Kristy's bus stop, late and rushed, but thankfully Danny's GP teacher offered us a lift and we were spared the long walk from the connector.
Rain poured as soon as we got to the Lagoon hawker centre, however, and the road run was delayed. Much worse, when it finally began, the 5km competitive run was shortened to 3km. Those who should've fallen back due to poor endurance didn't, and I ended up getting 66th place among 180+ students who participated. Expectations were higher, but then again the machine of the canoeing team was pretty much the Kenya of any marathon. So realistically? I don't mind 66th, being second in my class.
Dad has encouraged me to go for the Standard Chartered half marathon end of the year, and I think I'll be going for it. No use trying out another 10km, might as well advance and push limits. I took some shots before the run, partly cuz I was assigned to cover the road run under the college publications for the newsletter, and also cuz there should be plenty of photo ops at such a large gathering, plus there's the beach. Here're a few.
To emphasize on the limitations of a wet weather, the students are huddled in shelter, occupying nearly the whole of the food centre. Like a school outing with no wet weather programme. Oh wait, it
is.
Myself, Shermaine and Cheryl. Shermaine left early thinking the rain wouldn't let up and the event would be postponed. Can't blame her, we all also thought it was futile waiting, but lucky it wasn't postponed. Wouldn't want a wasted day having to wake up so early from the start. Cheryl's hair seems to be getting browner and browner. Lotsa people think we swim since there's noticable brown.
These two, were experimental shots initially, and after much patience I managed to capture the first, with raindrops splashing off the drip tip. The Ixus 75 has its limitations when it comes to extremely quick shutter speeds. That's only for SLRs and the professional ones, but I think this does a good enough job.
The black background was done using flash up close, until the point that any little void between the camera and past this leaf would result in darkness, from the proximity of the flash unto the leaf itself only. Dunno if that makes sense to you.
My class, luckily happening to be in Falcon, the house that has two of the college's famous runners, one a hi bye friend of mine, Muhammad Alsyaari. Won in all events he participated in in sports day, if I'm not wrong. Amazingly fast. The other, Shawn Wee. I wouldn't be too sure about his house but Kenneth said so. A national runner. For the first time, the house I'm in isn't the last few.
Raindrops falling off the sheeting over the benches.
Cheryl's and Sabrina's shoes, after the run, en route to parkway for lunch.
Went home without any plans after lunch. Could've chosen to go over to someone's place, but the lack of anything to do there and other factors made me decide to go home instead. Played a lil of Battlefield 2, wathced Iron Man online for aome much needed entertainment, then I think I'll be getting down to econs just after this post.
Hope there're no more unpleasant surprises for the rest of the week. This saturday I've got to cover the opening of Sungei Tampines, a river that doens't seem to go by Tampines at all, for the second article I'm assigned to for TPJC link. Wonder if it'll be dry. Need to go out and shop or something..
penned by joel at 4:29 PM
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