NDP

People keep asking me if I'm okay, perhaps it's because I've was looking so zonked out by Friday. This week has been one that has been quite deprived of sleep. Had an average of 4 hours every night..goodness, how did i survive. But, once again, i survived it, thank God :)

Common test is coming up for the kids this coming week, i sure hope they are ready. Am actually more looking forward to the National Day week!! haha, feel as if I'M the kids...hah. But it's always exciting to look forward to national day..always like watching the parade on TV, makes me feel all so proud to be Singaporean.
My parents just went for the NDP preview yesterday night..dad's a mega on-the-ball photographer, so NDP is a must for him every year to practise his shots. ;) Saw the pictures when we came back after dinner, I must say, i'm beginning to really feel the spirit of national day! heh, the sea of red and white, the fighter planes flying across the sky, the BIG singapore flag :)



Here is a pic my dad took. He's a fantastic photographer ;)












Was watching our own CHS NDP rehearsal on Friday afternoon..makes me think back to the times when i was in GB back in Sec school. It was always fun to be preparing for a parade, and be displaying the best side of our drills to the school on important occasions like founders' day. Drills were such a large part of my life back then...every year, we would prepare for our drill competition that would take place after the exams. Drills to me, is all about teamwork, discipline, endurance, quick-thinking & swift, precise & smart execution. Every command that is executed is done with pride and precision. Sometimes I feel that the drill that I see nowadays, seems to be lacking in something....could be because of my own background in drills, or perhaps drills just aren't as emphasized as it used to be before. Which I think is a pity, because, there is so much that can be learnt from just doing drills alone.
Whenever I see people falling out of the ranks during a parade/rehearsal, I wonder, what's happening?! Just like on Friday's parade rehearsal alone, there were around 4-5 people whose face had turned pale and were brought out. I thought guys are much stronger physically than girls are.. I must say, I've never seen any of the girls in my company fall out last time. But of course, some of the boys could genuinely be sick. But I think a lot of times, it is due to things like skipping breakfast etc, which can be avoided. I always made it a personal duty to ensure that i'm well hydrated and had some food before some major event. So it still boils down to personal discipline.

Heh, all of a sudden, feel like going back to visit my GB company. Reminiscing about the past always makes me smile. :)

But now that i'm back to reality, it's time to pick up that red pen and mark!

busy weekend

*STRESSED*

ZZZzzzzz..

Gosh i'm so sleepy..almost fell asleep marking my Algebra class test.. All due to the utter lack of sleep since Monday. Think i have been having an average of 5+ hrs of sleep everyday.

In fact, i just fell asleep typing this post! MY GOSH..that's a signal for me to jump into bed right now. Will probably say more over the weekend...

Be gone ZoneAlarm!

YEEEESSS!!!! I've successfully gotten rid of that irritating ZoneAlarm program! (contrary to some internet discussion boards about how difficult is is to get rid of it after the horrendous program after the upgrade that caused it to start shutting off the internet access..) My dad and I were just trying our luck in uninstalling the program, since, anyway, we couldn't access the internet no matter how hard we tried to shutdown the ZoneAlarm at the bootup of our computer. We thought that since we're already so stuck, even if we get stuck uninstalling it, we'd have lost nothing.

Was beginning to get a little worried at our first attempt to uninstall it, because everything came to a halt after we pressed the "uninstall" button. The computer just didn't seem as if it was doing any uninstallation for a long time...and it was then that i remembered that...i hadn't done a backup of my files on the computer for a mighty long time *yikes*. So anyway, while i was having my lunch, my dad decided it was taking too long and just switched the whole computer off (without shutting it down!). I almost fainted.

Anyway, after 2 more tries, ZoneAlarm was finally removed!! And that's why I can happily type this entry on my desktop...whopppeeeee...

Nice to see the sun shining brightly outside my window...as opposed to the sudden downpour and rain in the cloud-ridden skies in the earlier part of this morning.

Ah yes, I have replaced the tagboard on my blog with the "comments" link at the end of each entry of the blog. Am very proud of it because it was seriously through pure trial-&-error that i managed to get the links back on the blog. Had wanted to do it for a long time, but then Blogger had some problems putting it into the template automatically for me..which until now i don't know why. So had to do my own experimenting again..heh..
So yups, if anyone would like to leave a message, you can do it with the "comments" link.

OK, going to start on my work. Have been down with a flu the entire weekend, and didn't touch all the work that I had brought home to do.

Peace & quiet

Too noisy on my blog, beginning to really dislike the nonsensical chatter on the tagboard. Am surprised by the utter childishness and inconsiderate behaviour of irritatingly immature tags these few days.
Getting on my NERVES.
Thanks for the suggestion to remove the tagboard, i was already considering it. It's disturbing my once simple and quiet blog.


Much better now..

scary-looking fractured arm....

Had to send one of my NCC boys to KK hospital yesterday because he fractured his arm while playing soccer during training. Gosh, that's the first time i saw a fractured arm, and boy does it look scary. It's like, his forearm was....mmm....bent......and obviously bent...kinda weirdly-shaped and all. Must have been sooo painful. : Hopefully he's better today.

Funny but the boys somehow related to me in terms of being in my form class or my CCA seem to ALWAYS get injured. I remember last year, i had to send one of my NCC boys to KK too, that was coz he fractured his toe, and the bone was apparently protruding out from in between his toes. *gross* Thankfully i didn't see it, all i did was hear about the incident, and jump into the ambulance to KK.

The Sec 1 BURST camp last year was also full of injuries from my form class too...one boy fell while running and got trampled on and fractured his arm, and another boy fell into the drain because some other itchy-handed person lifted up the drain cover behind him.

Sec 2 BURST camp this year, MOST of the injuries that happened were from my class also. I think out of 5 injuries, 3 of them were my kids. One couldn't get used to the environment there (Jalan Bahtera campsite), and had to be sent home, one had a dislocated arm and i had to deport him to NUH, another one had a scission on his shin because he fell while playing dog-&-bone & smashed against something, and the wound just didn't seem to clot up, so had to bring him to the docs the next morning. *yikes* So many of my boys had injuries during this year's Sec 2 BURST camp...*faint*

Oh wells....praying that there won't be anymore injuries....at least for the rest of this year........please?

What is wrong with ZoneAlarm??

ARRGH. I am FRUSTRATED. ZoneAlarm (my anti-virus freeware) is causing my blood pressure to shoot through the roof. First it repeatedly asks me to upgrade the software...for WEEKS it's been asking me to download the upgrade. FINE, so i download it. And i upgrade it. And lo and behold, after i upgrade it, it cuts off my internet access completely!!! Something about this "TrueVector" file that keeps shutting itself down after the software upgrade that causes ZoneAlarm to shut off all internet access. I am so about to punch the computer........*grrr*
So how is it that i can still type this entry now? I have shut down ZoneAlarm completely...which means, if a virus creeps onto my comp now...i am dead....
HELP!!!!!