I feel... kind of like I've just done one of the most stupid things in my life.
Something in me knows that it's not really that important, and yes, it's true, I don't really need it since I'm graduating this semester, but still.
People train long and hard for this, people work for this, people fight for this; and I gave mine away.
I don't know why. Sylvia says it was nice of me to do it, but I *know* that I'm not a "nice" person. So I don't know why. I really don't know why.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Finally..!!! My IVP Gold trophy, which has eluded me for the last three years!! :D
Good competition for the whole team as well, and for the first time, we won more awards in the higher Recurve categories than in Standard.
So, first time shooting 90 arrows instead of 72; my individual score on Saturday was actually quite lousy, I think.
My 60m round went fine; score of 211 out of 300. Good, I suppose, considering that I only finalised my sight for 60m on Thursday, when I went down to Zhenghua to shoot with Wai Xin and Weiquan.
My 50m and 40m rounds, on the other hand, were not as good, at least not by my own expectations. I missed the board twice in each round, and ended up getting a score of 230-plus for each. If I'd landed those arrows, my 50m and 40m scores would've been nearer to 250... damnit.
Tired, lah. Plus my stupid cough wouldn't leave me alone and go infect someone else.
But it turned out to be good enough. By the end of the FITA 900 round, I was ranked third, but first for IVP, since the two girls with higher scores than me were not in IVP. NTU held both Open and IVP Outdoor together, so technically, this means that IVP archers will be ranked in both categories. So in Open, I was ranked third, and in IVP, ranked first.
So, individual knockout on Sunday for Open; damn shocked when I found out there's IKO on Saturday-- I haven't been to a competition that had IKO for almost two years...!
But went well, haha. Me versus an NTU girl first; 3rd vs. 6th. I forgot her name. Oh dear. I won by 12 points.
Next, me vs. Winnie Khoo from RP. She's actually pretty good! :) The two of us were talking crap half the time, behind the shooting line, *at* the shooting line, walking to collect arrows, talking nonsense while collecting arrows... *rolls eyes*
It's actually the first time I've ever been friendly with an archer from another club during competition, haha. I usually keep to myself and only talk to NUS people. Must be getting soft in my old age. :P
Beat Winnie by just one point. Really close. In the first end, I led by one point, in the second end, she led by one; in the third end, we tied, and in the final end, our arrows had almost all the same score: we each had one yellow, one red, one blue, but one of mine in red cut the line. XD
So, onto gold medal and bronze medal match for myself and her respectively. Me against a girl from HTNS, she against Crystal from NTU. I ended up losing to the HTNS girl by just 7 points, but at least it was a good fight. I knew she'd be pretty tough to beat anyway. :)
So 2nd place in Open instead of 3rd; IKO actually turned out to be a good thing. Lol.
I wasn't in the team event, but Linette, Mengyi and Serene later beat the NTU girls' team to get Gold for team. Yay. NUS now officially holds both the FITA 900 Ladies' Golds. XD
At the same time, Joseph, Joshua and Connor beat the NTU team they were up against to get bronze. That was a great moment, man.
The best picture of the whole competition. Hafiz with Joshua halfway over his shoulders; Connor and Joseph in the background on the left. A little to the right is Mengyi, and that's me hugging Serene.
Now for more pictures.
FITA 900 Ladies' Team: Linette, Serene, Mengyi
Gold Medal
FITA 900 Men's Team: Connor, Joshua, Joseph
Bronze Medal
FITA 900 Ladies' Individual (Open): Me!
Silver
(the guy standing in first position was just collecting the trophy for the girl coz she'd left early, but his club made him stand up there and take the picture, lol.)
FITA 900 Ladies' Individual (IVP): Me again
Gold
Standard Class Ladies' Individual: Sin Kei
Bronze
All the medallists, plus Coach in the middle...
...and one of the whole team. :)
Good competition for the whole team as well, and for the first time, we won more awards in the higher Recurve categories than in Standard.
So, first time shooting 90 arrows instead of 72; my individual score on Saturday was actually quite lousy, I think.
My 60m round went fine; score of 211 out of 300. Good, I suppose, considering that I only finalised my sight for 60m on Thursday, when I went down to Zhenghua to shoot with Wai Xin and Weiquan.
My 50m and 40m rounds, on the other hand, were not as good, at least not by my own expectations. I missed the board twice in each round, and ended up getting a score of 230-plus for each. If I'd landed those arrows, my 50m and 40m scores would've been nearer to 250... damnit.
Tired, lah. Plus my stupid cough wouldn't leave me alone and go infect someone else.
But it turned out to be good enough. By the end of the FITA 900 round, I was ranked third, but first for IVP, since the two girls with higher scores than me were not in IVP. NTU held both Open and IVP Outdoor together, so technically, this means that IVP archers will be ranked in both categories. So in Open, I was ranked third, and in IVP, ranked first.
So, individual knockout on Sunday for Open; damn shocked when I found out there's IKO on Saturday-- I haven't been to a competition that had IKO for almost two years...!
But went well, haha. Me versus an NTU girl first; 3rd vs. 6th. I forgot her name. Oh dear. I won by 12 points.
Next, me vs. Winnie Khoo from RP. She's actually pretty good! :) The two of us were talking crap half the time, behind the shooting line, *at* the shooting line, walking to collect arrows, talking nonsense while collecting arrows... *rolls eyes*
It's actually the first time I've ever been friendly with an archer from another club during competition, haha. I usually keep to myself and only talk to NUS people. Must be getting soft in my old age. :P
Beat Winnie by just one point. Really close. In the first end, I led by one point, in the second end, she led by one; in the third end, we tied, and in the final end, our arrows had almost all the same score: we each had one yellow, one red, one blue, but one of mine in red cut the line. XD
So, onto gold medal and bronze medal match for myself and her respectively. Me against a girl from HTNS, she against Crystal from NTU. I ended up losing to the HTNS girl by just 7 points, but at least it was a good fight. I knew she'd be pretty tough to beat anyway. :)
So 2nd place in Open instead of 3rd; IKO actually turned out to be a good thing. Lol.
I wasn't in the team event, but Linette, Mengyi and Serene later beat the NTU girls' team to get Gold for team. Yay. NUS now officially holds both the FITA 900 Ladies' Golds. XD
At the same time, Joseph, Joshua and Connor beat the NTU team they were up against to get bronze. That was a great moment, man.
The best picture of the whole competition. Hafiz with Joshua halfway over his shoulders; Connor and Joseph in the background on the left. A little to the right is Mengyi, and that's me hugging Serene.
Now for more pictures.
Gold Medal
Bronze Medal
Silver
(the guy standing in first position was just collecting the trophy for the girl coz she'd left early, but his club made him stand up there and take the picture, lol.)
Gold
Bronze
Friday, February 15, 2008
A Valentine's caper.
In which Gerri bakes an Oreo cheesecake for the first time. :)
I've only ever baked cheesecakes before, never the version with Oreos added. So for this version, I used 11 cookies for the crust (which still turned out to be pretty thin); which means 22 Oreo biscuits, with the cream removed and added into the cake itself later, so I used less sugar in the cake since I figured the cream would make it pretty sweet.
Then just went about my normal cheesecake-making process, cheese and (less) sugar and eggs and all, and then threw in the remaining um... 19 biscuits, broken up into chunks.
The mixture turned very brown indeed. Lol.
And it very nearly overflowed the dish that I use for baking cheesecake all the time! I hadn't considered the fact that adding in the cookies would make that much of a difference in the volume. :P
But it turned out okay; Joseph and I had two slices of it each, he took three slices home for his grandma and his parents, and all the archers in RVR had one slice each. :D
Everyone said it was nice; pretty good for a first attempt, I think. Haha. But I think Connor was right in that the crust was a little soggy. Sigh. The biscuit crumbs refused to stop clumping together when I was making the crust; they're really different from Digestives that way, and I have no idea why! Oh well. Shall try to improve on that on my next attempt, haha. ^_^
In which Gerri bakes an Oreo cheesecake for the first time. :)
I've only ever baked cheesecakes before, never the version with Oreos added. So for this version, I used 11 cookies for the crust (which still turned out to be pretty thin); which means 22 Oreo biscuits, with the cream removed and added into the cake itself later, so I used less sugar in the cake since I figured the cream would make it pretty sweet.
Then just went about my normal cheesecake-making process, cheese and (less) sugar and eggs and all, and then threw in the remaining um... 19 biscuits, broken up into chunks.
The mixture turned very brown indeed. Lol.
And it very nearly overflowed the dish that I use for baking cheesecake all the time! I hadn't considered the fact that adding in the cookies would make that much of a difference in the volume. :P
But it turned out okay; Joseph and I had two slices of it each, he took three slices home for his grandma and his parents, and all the archers in RVR had one slice each. :D
Everyone said it was nice; pretty good for a first attempt, I think. Haha. But I think Connor was right in that the crust was a little soggy. Sigh. The biscuit crumbs refused to stop clumping together when I was making the crust; they're really different from Digestives that way, and I have no idea why! Oh well. Shall try to improve on that on my next attempt, haha. ^_^
Monday, February 04, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
I feel.... lousy.
I came to school today just to check into my residence and collect my room key, get my ISM registration form signed and submitted, to work, and pick up a book that I have on hold in the library.
And that's about it, since I have no classes on Mondays this semester.
Did I also mention that this sem, I have a one-and-a-half day school week? *evil grin*
So, work. I have a 2-4 pm slot for webcast, and my 5-9 pm slot for computer lab duty. Yay, I've just made... $40 today.
But I have to go back later and clean my room... sob. At least it's not as dirty as it was when I checked in last sem. No lizard shit all over the place and everything. Everything's just mostly very dusty, and dust is easily dealt with.
I was still packing my stuff this morning and neither of my parents could send me to school in the morning so my stuff's all still at home. My dad's offered to help me get my stuff over tonight though, so I guess I'll be making a trip home after work.
This is turning out to be one of those terribly random posts.
I made a cheesecake yesterday, and by this morning it was all gone. I brought some of it over to Joseph's house for him, and he said it was nice. His mum said it was nice too; even asked for the recipe, which made me feel a little... I don't know, silly? Coz the recipe's really simple and it really doesn't take long to make, and asking me for the recipe makes it sound like I spent so much time on it, but I didn't, and I just feel like a horrible cheat or something somehow.
Or maybe I'm just being weird.
Shall go do the reading for Pereira's class now. I'm determined not to slack off on readings this sem, and it may be my last ever semester, so I'm determined to make good on it...!
I came to school today just to check into my residence and collect my room key, get my ISM registration form signed and submitted, to work, and pick up a book that I have on hold in the library.
And that's about it, since I have no classes on Mondays this semester.
Did I also mention that this sem, I have a one-and-a-half day school week? *evil grin*
So, work. I have a 2-4 pm slot for webcast, and my 5-9 pm slot for computer lab duty. Yay, I've just made... $40 today.
But I have to go back later and clean my room... sob. At least it's not as dirty as it was when I checked in last sem. No lizard shit all over the place and everything. Everything's just mostly very dusty, and dust is easily dealt with.
I was still packing my stuff this morning and neither of my parents could send me to school in the morning so my stuff's all still at home. My dad's offered to help me get my stuff over tonight though, so I guess I'll be making a trip home after work.
This is turning out to be one of those terribly random posts.
I made a cheesecake yesterday, and by this morning it was all gone. I brought some of it over to Joseph's house for him, and he said it was nice. His mum said it was nice too; even asked for the recipe, which made me feel a little... I don't know, silly? Coz the recipe's really simple and it really doesn't take long to make, and asking me for the recipe makes it sound like I spent so much time on it, but I didn't, and I just feel like a horrible cheat or something somehow.
Or maybe I'm just being weird.
Shall go do the reading for Pereira's class now. I'm determined not to slack off on readings this sem, and it may be my last ever semester, so I'm determined to make good on it...!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Today was a day of... mixed blessings. But maybe more up than down.
Didn't start off right; I woke up late for work, at 8 am. Normally I wake up at 7 am and leave the house by 8 am to catch the 8.15 am bus to get to Tanjong Pagar by 9 am.
So I had to take a cab down instead; bloody expensive since it's peak hour and there's ERP as well.
But during lunchtime, when I went to submit my December timesheet, the lady asked me what I was doing in Uni. So I told her Soci, and then she asked, "How do you feel about media?" (The company I'm working in is an advertising agency.)
I was kinda stunned, but I told her I'd never had any experience with it and went on to ask her some other stuff about what it would involve. In the end, she took down my number.
Then, after lunch, someone gave me tickets to a movie premiere; it was a Chinese movie, "Linger", and I didn't even know anything about anyone in it, lol. My sis told me the lead actor was formerly from F4, and later on while we were in the cinema, Joseph told me that the lead actress is very famous in China too. *shrugs*
Was kinda weird though, coz the premiere was really a gala premiere, so the lead actor was there. Maybe just for the fanservice. When I got to Cine tonight at about 8.50 pm, the outside was packed with people and there were black Merces and Beemers driving off and a few security guards, the kind dressed in black suits and wearing earpieces. I think 80% of the population in Cine tonight was female and under the age of 20.
Joseph and me actually contemplated selling the two tickets that we had to see if we could get maybe 50 to 100 bucks for each of them. :D But we ended up going into the theatre and despite the fact that it was supposed to start at 9 pm, the lead actor probably didn't even step *into* Cine till maybe 9.15; continuing to excite all the fangirls outside with his mere um.. presence.
And we were sitting in the theatre for another 15 minutes, I think, and wondering what was taking so long, before the lead actor came in and gave some little speech before the movie started. And Joseph got a little fangirly. Lol. He got really excited and he started taking pictures of the guy with his phone. And then he moved to seats further up front to take more pictures. Maybe he'll post those pictures on his blog. :)
Anyway, back to the office; just before I got off from work, the two ladies I sit next to asked me if I could continue come in once a week to carry on the work I was doing for them. Apparently, they churn out the data that I'm putting together once a month, but this year they've requested the reports for one whole year at one go instead.
So I've been offered a part-time job and I think, along with some interest in taking me on for a permanent job.
And to top it all off, when I got home, my mummy got me the two Cirque du Soleil DVDs that I wanted!! :D
Didn't start off right; I woke up late for work, at 8 am. Normally I wake up at 7 am and leave the house by 8 am to catch the 8.15 am bus to get to Tanjong Pagar by 9 am.
So I had to take a cab down instead; bloody expensive since it's peak hour and there's ERP as well.
But during lunchtime, when I went to submit my December timesheet, the lady asked me what I was doing in Uni. So I told her Soci, and then she asked, "How do you feel about media?" (The company I'm working in is an advertising agency.)
I was kinda stunned, but I told her I'd never had any experience with it and went on to ask her some other stuff about what it would involve. In the end, she took down my number.
Then, after lunch, someone gave me tickets to a movie premiere; it was a Chinese movie, "Linger", and I didn't even know anything about anyone in it, lol. My sis told me the lead actor was formerly from F4, and later on while we were in the cinema, Joseph told me that the lead actress is very famous in China too. *shrugs*
Was kinda weird though, coz the premiere was really a gala premiere, so the lead actor was there. Maybe just for the fanservice. When I got to Cine tonight at about 8.50 pm, the outside was packed with people and there were black Merces and Beemers driving off and a few security guards, the kind dressed in black suits and wearing earpieces. I think 80% of the population in Cine tonight was female and under the age of 20.
Joseph and me actually contemplated selling the two tickets that we had to see if we could get maybe 50 to 100 bucks for each of them. :D But we ended up going into the theatre and despite the fact that it was supposed to start at 9 pm, the lead actor probably didn't even step *into* Cine till maybe 9.15; continuing to excite all the fangirls outside with his mere um.. presence.
And we were sitting in the theatre for another 15 minutes, I think, and wondering what was taking so long, before the lead actor came in and gave some little speech before the movie started. And Joseph got a little fangirly. Lol. He got really excited and he started taking pictures of the guy with his phone. And then he moved to seats further up front to take more pictures. Maybe he'll post those pictures on his blog. :)
Anyway, back to the office; just before I got off from work, the two ladies I sit next to asked me if I could continue come in once a week to carry on the work I was doing for them. Apparently, they churn out the data that I'm putting together once a month, but this year they've requested the reports for one whole year at one go instead.
So I've been offered a part-time job and I think, along with some interest in taking me on for a permanent job.
And to top it all off, when I got home, my mummy got me the two Cirque du Soleil DVDs that I wanted!! :D
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Anyone who's been reading this blog for long enough knows that I love Cirque du Soleil. For the longest time, Alegria has been the only show which I really love; I've only seen Quidam live, but I still love Alegria more. Dralion didn't really seem like a very coherent story to me and Saltimbanco didn't really do it for me either. So yep, I just remained stuck on Alegria and its beautiful Flying Man act and the contortion and the Russian bars.
Until during the recent exam period, I don't know why, but I did a search for Cirque stuff on Youtube and a whole lot on Varekai popped up. And then I saw the second most beautiful Cirque act that I've ever seen: the Fall of Icarus, Anton Chelnokov's aerial contortion in net act.
Icarus is a character from Greek myth that many people are probably already familiar with; Wiki it if you like. Cirque du Soleil takes the story of him falling from the sky and runs with it; Varekai is the result.
And Anton Chelnokov here tells the story of a boy who's fallen from the sky, lost everything, and now has to start all over again. This boy does things in a net 20 metres off the ground that most people can't even do on flat ground.
The act and the music together is just... love. Sad that he's not in the show anymore though; such a beautiful boy.
And for gratuituous ogling:
Until during the recent exam period, I don't know why, but I did a search for Cirque stuff on Youtube and a whole lot on Varekai popped up. And then I saw the second most beautiful Cirque act that I've ever seen: the Fall of Icarus, Anton Chelnokov's aerial contortion in net act.
Icarus is a character from Greek myth that many people are probably already familiar with; Wiki it if you like. Cirque du Soleil takes the story of him falling from the sky and runs with it; Varekai is the result.
And Anton Chelnokov here tells the story of a boy who's fallen from the sky, lost everything, and now has to start all over again. This boy does things in a net 20 metres off the ground that most people can't even do on flat ground.
The act and the music together is just... love. Sad that he's not in the show anymore though; such a beautiful boy.
And for gratuituous ogling:
