Nearly Breathless

The NAPHA 2.4 kilometre run had just ended a couple hours ago. Unfortunately, I did not perform as well as I had expected. I came in 34th out of the three classes of students and clocked a time of 12 minutes 50 seconds I think. Running may seem easy, but it's easier said than done if there is insufficient practice. The 2.4 kilometre route is six rounds of the school field. I initially thought that six rounds around the track would not be that challenging. But I was wrong. After just running three rounds continuously, my stamina gave up on me and I started to breathe heavily and I had a stitch somewhere near my stomach. The feeling just terrible. I can't stop running, or I would risk getting a lousy timing, but I was suffering in silence. What Could I do? I could no nothing but just try to survive the subsequent three rounds.

Finally, after much endurance and perseverance, I managed to cross the finishing line and survived the "horrifying" ordeal. However, just when I thought all was over, I started to feel intense breathlessness in my chest. I felt like dying for a few moments, but every now and then I was able to take in deep gulps of air to satisfy my exhausted lungs. In the end, I got through the entire P.E. lesson and I lived on to write this post now.

So, did you have a similar experience as me during the run? Or was yours an enjoyable one? Please comment. Bye.

Posted on Term 2 Week 6

Is Doing Your Duty Really That Difficult?

What duty am I talking about? Class duty roster of course. Recently, I have somehow became the Assistant Facility Secretary. I do not really know why. Previously, I was only assigned to fill up the duty roster column on the whiteboard and that's it. Subsequently, the Facility Secretary started pushing all the work to me, making me check if duty has been done or not and all the other random stuff. That was how I became the Assist. Fac. Sec.

Doing duty soon became transparent in the eyes of some classmates whom I shall not name. They started to skip duty or just do duty halfway and leave. Then they tell me that they have done their duty and it was other classmates who screwed up the cleanliness. They duty of sweeping the floor has the most problems. I cannot really check if sweeping is done unless I see it myself, which means that I have stay back in class and waste time. There is this classmate of mine who does not do his duty. Ever since, he was assigned to sweep the floor till the end of the year, but this does not seem to work, this classmate still does not care. He apparently does not click with the Fac. Sec. He told me that he would only start sweeping the floor once the current Fac. Sec's reign is over. What's sweeping the floor got to do with the Fac. Sec. ? How ridiculous. So I just told my form teacher about this classmate, and he was humiliated and said to be sabotaging the class by not doing duty. I really hope that this classmate would do his duty and not leave the filthy floor for me to sweep.

The blog title is clear. Is doing a simple duty really that difficult? Please leave any comments regarding this matter. And Keng Soon, I hope you read this post. Bye.

Posted on Term 2 Week 6

Ended Addiction

Yes, I finally quit MouseHunt. If anyone was wondering what MouseHunt actually is, it is a game on FaceBook where you click on a virtual image of a horn every fifteen minutes and check if you have caught any mice. Why did I quit. Basically, I began to find the game boring for the past two to three weeks and I went online on FaceBook less often. Also, I realised that playing games is a really bad thing for me, proven by my MSG in Term 1 -- 3.0, which is far below expectation. I took a rather long time before coming to a decision to quit the game. Reasons being that I was of the highest ranking in class, not too bad actually, and my game account seemed to have the most resources needed for the game.

The quitting procedure was quick and nice, no hesitating and nothing. I just told myself that quit and everything would still be the same, no more game addiction of course. To prevent myself from actually playing again, I gave my entire account away to Zhi Xin, I wonder how is he doing having total control over my account. The account password was changed and life went on as usual, no side effects like quitting a drug addiction. Another reason for me quitting is because I started playing another game, in moderation, called Maplestory. The game did not make me become addicted, since self-control was in operation. The game is perfectly fine to me, even Martin, Justin, Jim and Darren plays it. Similarly to MouseHunt, I own really high-leveled character accounts in Maplestory, since I used to be a game "spammer" during June and December holidays.

To end of, I just want to ask a simple question to other people who still play MouseHunt. Is MouseHunt really that difficult to quit. Even so, I think priorities and time management should play a part. Place priorities on important things and do not become addicted. Bye.

Posted on Term 2 Week 5

Movie Marathon

I recently created this thing called a Movie Marathon. It meant that I would watch many different movies in a day. And so I did. I remembered that I watched six movies. I watched movies like Avatar, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and The Hurt Locker. These movies are all spectacular and I really do not mind watching them again and again. Overall, I felt that this Movie Marathon thing which I tried out was a total failure. I became so tired after watching all six movies. My eyes were terribly exhausted and I felt as if I was blind. This is bad for eyesight.

This post is very short. Just some opinions about what I have done to myself. Please leave your precious comments. Bye.

Posted on Term 2 Week 4