it's time to blog again after seeing that i haven't been blogging ever since i posted that poem about the people who flew. oh well, now i have so many things to blog about because so many things happened and i don't know where to start. (why do i have the feeling that my blogs posts always start this way?) okay i shall just start so i'll get started somewhere (:

thursday (20/03/08)
it was community day, meaning i didn't have to wake up early. this was fortunate seeing that i slept at 430 the previous night (or morning or whatever). yay for enough sleep for once! i can never seem to get enough of it. but anyway, had to rush down to school at 12 plus to finish packing all the moor house shirts into classes. and trust me, packing according to sizes is confusing! but we finished and we managed to start on the banner (:

it was then when i had to rush off for community day! teaching softball to some guangyang primary students. i really didn't know what really to expect, how the kids would be like, what we would eventually be able to teach them and all. we waited for a long time and so i ended up throwing with jerome and nicholas. adn finally the students came on the bus. there were only 11 of them. honestly, i was quite shocked because under the context of community day, i thought that each project would be a wide scale one. one which would really satisfy the meaning of community we all had in mind. but we continued anyway. i thought it would be very important to bond with the children, so i tried as hard as i could even though i scarcely even knew them at all.

what i saw that day was another slice of innocence. or what it means to just enjoy a sport and play without pressure or expectation. to enjoy totally what we do to its fullest. to not be afriad to show true emotions. and that, to me, is what true innocence constitutes. it's all about being true to yourself and everybody else.

as the kids were spilt into two groups and taught how to bat and throw, i just sat next to them observing how they were reacting and responding. all the guys just made so much noise and each wanted to always be next to put on the softball glove and attempt a throw or a catch. it's not really surprising considering that it was probably the first time most of them even heard about softball. and it was very heartening to see them really wanting to learn and get a chance to play. the same thing could be said about their batting. i really feel all of them were trying to hit the ball as straight as possible and as hard as possible into the net which we set up for them.

then they had some mini-competition followed by a modified softball match between the two small teams. even though as they batted and fielded, they didn't really know much about how to actually play softball, they jus did what seemed most logical to them and tried to get the runner out. even when one guy forgot to run after he hit the ball, he just laughed when he realised and continued running, eventually scoring one run. and the amazing thing in it all is that they were actually trying to play competitively. they compared hits and how far they could go, they compared who could catch better to be the catcher. i really enjoyed watching them play. and even when i ggot whacked square in the stomach by one of the hyper guys making a wild swing with the bat, attempting to hit the ball away, it didn't seem as painful.

at the end of the day i asked one of the guys, "so did you enjoy yourself today?" he gave me a smile and replied, "no. can we play longer? i wanted to play longer, like 5 hours! and i want to be a catcher." well that really summed everything up. it's just the beauty in the game and the attitude. the willingness and the simplicity.

maybe we should all check ourselves?

but anyway, i rushed up to finish painting the moor banner after everything was over. and then had to rush home and rush again to dhoby ghaut to meet the 4K guys at 730. shoujian's birthday and we decided to go out (: met junyong with his super chio (okay maybe chio is the wrong word) outfit and we went over the plaza sing in search of shanzhi and co who were already there.

when all the 4K guys (plus an aarongoh) finally arrived, we trooped over to the fish and co glass building (which bytheway i find very chio also) to have dinner! thankfully they had a table for around 16 of us! and the best thing was, halfway aaron hatched this plan to hijack the live band's performance and sing a birthday song to shoujian. and so we did, rather successfully (: dinner was great cuz we could just laugh and joke around, have some fun and relax after a stressful first week of term 2 and chill. not to mention try to find shanzhi's veryveryvery small m2 card which he dropped from his phone. we were sitting on the 2nd floor and koonchong eventually found it on the first floor xD

and since weeping decided to have swordfish collar for dinner, we decided to make a parody of it. below are two broken bones from the remains of his dinner. "ouch, i broke my collarbone!" daniel says.



we reached city hall and walked through raffles city before realising that it was getting last and we should go home. shoujian still wanted to walk to the top of raffles city and come back down again. haha i really love my class (: class spirit 100%. yay! so we all finally split up and went our ways. i reached home at about 1115.

friday (21/03/08)
good friday! went to church in the morning and the drama team performed out skit (: i think it was not bad although everybody kept laughing all the time. and so everything was quite normal, until lunch! you see, we were at a coffeeshop in angmokio and it started to rain. as we were sitting on the outside and had very little protection from the rain, jeremy decided to do this:

i really couldn't help but take a photo of this. it's really such a jeremy moment xD

after that i was supposed to go back to school to train for soccer with 4K guys! turned out it was storming so i had to take 13 to bishan and get stranded at the bus stop. and to make matters worse, the 13 i was taking was leaking and flooding! so water was flowing in from the sides which was super scary! heh. thankfully i got to school in one piece and we got to play some soccer for the first time in a very long time.

i shall post about T&F (today) tomorrow.
tomorrow is inter-class so wish 4K luck.
i love 4K.

quote of the day:
"i can easily outrun him. i was playing with him tomorrow." - k******* in reference to soccer.

check back tomorrow (: