the march holiday.

it has been a good time away from studying after the hectic first common test. not sure that i’m gonna score well on the exam though. i’ll be dead when i got the results. hope my ears will survive all the nagging.

well, i had training camp from tuesday till thursday. two training sessions in a day. morning run was always the most difficult part of the day. then we go on to shooting drills. the centres did 240 shots each. we could only end like 11.30 for the morning session. then we shower and have lunch. back to our bunk and sleep the rest of the afternoon off. evening training session starts at 4pm. defense was all we did for this camp. even when we were playing, the focus had always been on the defense. shower again and off for dinner. highlights would be the icing session on the second night and the dinner at 85.

i was exhausted when i went back to the hostel on thursday evening. went straight to bed to wake up on friday afternoon. went out to see amelia. but i needed to wait for her. so i went to watch ‘how to train your dragon’ which was only available in 3d. has been a while since i watch a movie on my own. it is really enjoyable and not at all pathetic like most  people would assume. i could focus more on the story that way. when i got out of the studio, i saw melissa queuing to buy a ticket and she was actually with wee liang. they eventually decided not to watch at cathay and to go to plaza singapura instead. walked with them there. melissa actually wanted to meet amelia, but they needed to rush for the movie. i went to eat ice cream with amelia at swensen’s. julian joined half-way. then we went for dinner with dhea. the four of us then went to buy a present for rizky. we bought him a miniature of anakin’s jedi starfighter with anakin and r2-d2 figurine. we all know rizky likes star wars. but there were so many choices and we were unsure which one to pick. so i picked the  one i liked. hope he shares the same taste.

anakin skywalker's jedi starfighter

anakin skywalker figurine

r2-d2 figurine

had a friendly match against meridian jc on saturday morning. it was scheduled to be played at school. but it was raining ceaselessly and we only had outdoor court. needed to wait for coach to find another venue, and so we played bridge. ms tan saw and was furious. she gave me her blackest face and nagged at me. but i didn’t care. then we all went to anglican high to play. we had a good match, winning by quite a margin. but we weren’t satisfied as we let the opponents scored too many points, showing that our defense training weren’t sufficient. it was already quite late in the afternoon when we finished our lunch. went to novena to accompany amelia while she was studying at a stabucks outlet. she is having her exam next week. i finished reading ‘outliers’ by malcolm gladwell there.

stayed overnight at julian’s place that night. nothing exceptional happened. julian and i went to the national library in the afternoon just to look at some art books. i found some movie art books to look at. gives me a sense of how a movie is made with all the visual effects, drawings, and prop. maybe movie-making is one field i can apply my future ‘electrical engineering and IT’ skills to. if there’s one thing i wanna do is to give every people an opportunity of watching quality television shows that can educate like those in america. people in indonesia are too ingrained in their telenovelic and mind-dumbing tv shows till they do not know what they are missing at.

went to watch liverpool vs manu earlier this evening with ariston at chijmes. it has also been a while. it was kinda disappointing. the match was plain. the players were not spirited. or maybe it’s also because of the fact that pool lost the match. damn, it’s gonna be hard to reach that 4th spot.

well, this morning school restarts. damn.