The spirit of Changkat....

Qin Quan aka Tong Xue remarked...
"Alan... looks like Lao Tian dun wan to let you play basketball today..."
How wrong he is...
Lao Tian wants to let me play.... But he wanted to only let me play after 6...
With the help of the spirit of Changkat though...

Victor first called me to enquired me about my availability... Of course..i can! What else can i do, if i am not spending time with vivien. Obviously, Basketball is the most natural choice of all.. hehee

But i had serious doubts though.. The floor was wet, and according to my 10 yrs of experience... We would be likely to end up jus shooting balls and bantering at most...

Surprise! Zhijian and Tong Xue were there as well!!! That makes 4! And a couple of calls later... The list looks like this...

1. Ban Kok aka The Killer (in Chinese)
2. The 114 brothers (Simon N Zhiwei)
3. Robert
4. KC
5. Shaq
6. Wei Jian
7. Bryan

That probably sums up how lifeless all of us are on a saturday night... Obviously follow up at the kopitiam till 1am in the morning.... Simply outstanding....

5 papers in 6 days...

End of my 4th paper in 4 long days... and 1 more on mon
I am really not bad huh?
Still managed to survive till now... Hahhaa
But it's really a BIG BIG test of my endurance...
Cooped in Sk or Central Lib with no basketball and.... Cannot make it...
Been dependent on that odd Sms and phone calls to survive till now...
Cannot make it man...
Will you see this post?

Alan's off to a bad start...

Money & Bankin was not good...
Think i m complacent...
Never expected THAT kind of questions.
My fate is no longer in my hands...
Ultimately, have to depend on the others to falter...
Angry at myself... Just couldn't nick maximum points as usual...
But will this time prove costly?
I dunno....
I've been managed to scrape through almost every semester...
Cannot really remember when was the last time i got 6 marks deducted immediately other than Macro 1 and Foundations for Econometrics. Labor Econs too... Where i got a B+
B+ is not good for me...
A- is the min. acceptable grade as usual...
WIll be keeping my fingers crossed... That this sem is no exception...

Surely....

Felt a sense of relief as i reached sengkang....after 3 days spent in Tampines...
Slowly....But surely... I've been feeling it for Sengkang... as my home...

I won't know how to describe this feeling.... But tampines will always be a special place in my heart. But it's really moving too fast... If not for the 2.4km walk yesterday night(i won't forget the circumstances leading to that walk though, i really do not want to mention it here, but it brought us from the lib, to my fav. study corner, then back to safra), i wont even had felt the changes. In contrast... Sengkang... Changes had been captured.

Finally today signifys the end of the monumental effort to finish all my readings and lecture notes in preparation for my papers. It's either i thrashed them, or i will be thrashed. Hoping definitely, it's the former rather than the latter.

1 year....

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Y.Y.
I am not an handsome or charismatic guy, i do admit. Neither am i witty or intelligent enough to really please the gal of my dreams. In addition i always in some classic boopers with the gal i like, that so much so, i already do no know how to tackle love again...

Familiar? Guys and Gals.... Welcome to the 1 year anniversary of my personal yet much publicised blog space. In this year, i've changed the name from Home of Xtra09 to I m Alan. And of course, much had changed ever since...A lot alot.

If you all will remember, or happen to read the Y.Y. post, it was the post that changed or rather, charted the course of 2005. I did say then it was very much a one sided affair then, i supposed it's still is now, albeit, it's not very much though :p

Yesterday was amazingly sweet and i shall hold it in my memory forever and ever... And this morning i've finally thought of a clever clever little idea :p Will need to gather my best friends to help me pull this stunt off though... And the unlucky guys are Wei Ge, Mc, the Goat & maybe Mr Yap! Never in my wildest dreams do i expect i will reach this stage of things with her. Well, if you guys are guessing....congratulate me then.. . This fool typing over here has not managed to win her heart yet.... :) But....Happy 4th year Anniversary!

Other than Y.Y. This is also the year that i will always remember for Piggy Jill. An ill fated, undeveloped and confusing relationship... However, much i have liked her then, i've decided against it on the night of the SMP appreciation ceremony. All i can do now is to hope that she leads an happy life, and be strong. It's been an exceptional year for both of us, and alot of mutual support was there to tide us over cisis over crisis. Well, However, pitiful or sad as it might be... Some things are just never meant to be...

Arsenal has finally managed to be back to their free flowing soccer play finally, inexplainably, i've always thought of my fate linking with the Highbury club ever since i supported them. Hopefully this will means that i am finally back to my best, or reaching my peak, at the end of this semester... I cannot afford to slip...No way... Even Arsene Wenger would not had approved of it then! :p

It's the end of yet another semester... It's been horrible, yet satisfying....Will be looking forward to another Great Result from xTrA09.....

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Awakening of the Giants...

First of all.... A big Thank You to Sir Alex...
The belligerent manager finally had his day, after all the nonsense his old trafford boys had put up for him since last season. He looks really pitiful at times, but too bad... He still has to live with the likes of Rio, Ruud, and alan smith...

Next better PLAYER, JOSE... Well, you claim you weren't going after any records, but it just feel great to see Chelsea beaten in its 41st game.... Luckily Chelsea is not being beaten by a team of vouyeurs, otherwise Mourinho might just go and bang his head against the wall :p (Tongue firmly in cheek, of course!)

The Giants had finally woke up after a long long slumber. For the first time in this season, all the Giants, barring Chelsea, won!

1. I am Proud to say, Arsenal is back...for the moment at least...

2. Liverpool finally scored an away victory and scored more than 2 goals.

3. Newcastle is on a roll after 4 consecutive victories.

4. The biggest cheer, however, is reserved for Sir Alex and the Red Devils!

Now it's up to the rest of the premier league to put JOSE down...., Even if they don't, rest assured that the Awakened Giants will....

听海

As i walk past "Chuan Guan Zi"this afternoon, the familiar voice and the tune of A mei's song too sang out long familiar memories as well. I was grinning, unexpectedly. Memories of the past looked so sweet and innocent then. No regrets, but i could have been more courageous then. What i could have done then, nobody knows.

写信告诉我今天海是么颜色
夜夜陪著你的海心情又如何

But one fact remains then, i am too timid, and really a useless bugger only capable of playing ball and performing on the court then. Sometimes i really wonder how she's doing right now. Jiajie was the one who realised who i had an eye for then, when i make the detour to the bus stop that she normally boarded instead of going to the one that i am suppose to be going. In the end my best buddy, Young Lee had to keep asking me to concentrate on the basketball instead of throwing glances at her during PE lesson then. Going to the food court in Tampines Mart with Young Lee was indeed borne out of an urge to see her again...and again...

我揪著一颗心
整夜都闭不了眼睛
为何你明明动了情
却又不靠近

It was the talent quest of 1998. Perhaps, no...It was the thailand trip of 1997 perhaps, when i was so impressed by her rendition of 值得, when she had to performed in the tour coach without any preparation. Or perhaps it's the song dedication then where she dedicatedA mei's "bad boy"...
Perhaps Perhaps....

听海哭的声音
叹息著谁又被伤了心却还不清醒
一定不是我至少我很静
可是泪水就连泪水也都不相信

Bloopers after bloopers.
The most glaring, perhaps was the one that i chased after her to the bus stop after being encouraged by the members of the g league, only to end up giving stupid excuses like" they asked me to" upon probing. Sinkai and Swee Long, too ploted the only movie to date i had with her then. "Armageddon" in fact was the one. Unfortunately though, I was too mesmerized by her to enjoy the show. My heart was beating wildly then, and the only thing that was really enjoyable was the song "I dun wan miss a thing" in the end..

听海哭的声音
这片海未免也太多情悲泣到天明
写封信给我就当最后约定
说你在离开我的时候
是怎样的心情