[brush]
This is the world he painted
This is the world he saw
He wept in pure sorrow
For nothing could be done at all
Someday, one day, he hope that the rest
Would seek the truth and pull through the test
The destiny and fate of Man lies in their hands
For he who paints the world sees the world
In sorrow, yet ever joyful...
[hear me]
Saturday, July 22, 2006
hihi... it's been abt a week since I last blogged...
Grggh.... very flustered and angry with blogger... i typed a very long entry abt TnF and the entire middle portion of it simple "disappeared" after I clicked "publish post"... bleargh... this is irritating and now I have to type all over again... really puts me off. Lesson: save your post before publishing, as there is a high chance of losing information. Now I have to rmb what I typed and repost again, whihc is like a complete waste of time? Sheesh, life's never easy to begin with... oh well, what has happened cannot be undone... so i'll just continue...
TnF: simply fabulous. The atmosphere, the cheers and the intense competition. It's not surprising that TnF is an event that I'll always look forward too, not because it's more likely than not that HC gets double champs, again... but it's really more about the atmosphere and witnessing records being broken. There're no losers at TnF finals... all athletes are winners in their very own right, because they have done themselves and their schs proud... this is when we see true sportsmanship, where athletes shook hands congratulate one another after every race...
Stayed overnight in sch the night before the TnF finals, to prepare for banner hanging together with other excos and HSC councillors. It was really fun... staying through the night together and a huge bulk of our conversations were actually rubbish and lame stuff. Then we met with a situation: we've just been notified that we aren't suppose to use the fences of cck stadium to hang our banners. Blah, the officials were seriously getting on our nerves but nvm... we decided to comply and then started building tripods with spars and hemps through the night so that we can hang our banners without the reliance of the fence. ^^ was pleased that I was able to apply my np campcraft skills and put them into really good use, and I realised the usefulness of 1gyn lashings through creating tripods. With 3 np and 2 scouts, it wasn't really much of a problem. Hehe, take that officials, nth's gonna stop us...
5.30am: cck stadium. The stadium's pretty cool in the wee hours of the morning... (that applies to the weather too ^_^) and it's even cooler hanging up banners in the dark. There was a need to make HC's presence felt all around the stadium. By 10 we already got all our banners up when other schs are still putting up theirs... namely VS and SNG sry peeps, first-come-first-serve basis... We actually wanted to hang HC logos at the top and covering the "the " and "warriors" so that it will seem to imply "Home of HC" but I guess that was too much and in the end didn't do that, just hung up banners right across the field. However, the weather changed just as we were about to finish up tying the super-big HC logo and the strongs winds blew our big banner against the structure of the semi-d house, tearing some parts of our banner. Then we realised we forgot to make holes in the banner -.- and our banner was already flying like a huge kite with such strong winds...And worst of all, it started pouring really heavily, and thereafter, our banners one by one collapsed due to the strong winds. But of course we managed to prevail through such times of adversity ( eee... how come this sounds so cliche?). Somehow, it gives me great satisfaction to do council work, even it means waking up so early and staying over in sch and not eating for 16 hours straight. And it is this feeling of overcoming the odds, like the bad weather, and salvaging the situation that really warms my heart... I think this is what I truly like about council, serving the sch through council work and I'll never regret my choice of joining the council in sec one before as in the end, everything's seem so worthwhile... so satisfying, and that I truly found I place where I belong... I guess next year when it's time to go to college... I'll cry my heart out for the idea of parting with the memories forged so greatly in the high sch is just so unbearable for me... 12slc, council, np, 2N - the class of lamers, 4M, all ispark teachers, bsp peeps, and all others I met along the way who make my life so memorable... some of them even change my life forever... and by the time I get there, I would have certainy realised how my life is just like an emo roller coaster ride, ups and downs, spins and rushes, fast and furious, slow and steady... and when I look back I'll would like to go: " wow! it's my life"
haha... and VS and SNG were quite hilarious when they hang their banners. Most of the VS guys were more likely than not from np and they went around the stdaium, climbing here and there to find space to hang 8 of their banners zomg, totally beat us in the no. of banners, and also in the no. of times they violate the rules... and we still got the last laugh in the end when the strings of their big banner beside ours snapped because of the friction with our banner ropes, and serve them right for blatantly laughing at us when the structural design parts of the semi-d torn some parts of our banner because of the strong winds. And SNG was even more amusing. They actually placed "S", "N" and "G" placards in the middle of our array of banners and the strong winds just blew them of the ground. lol and we decide to be nice by helping them fix their placards and stuck them into the ground properly before such incidences happen again. We were thinking: why on Earth are we helping them to put their placards properly when they belong to them? There's no logic in it... and I honestly thought we weren't And at the end of the meet when schs cram the side gate to rush in with their flags, SNG girls actually told us off and demanded us to queue behind them when JC and I were just trying to make our way across to join the rest of our councillors? We weren't even trying to jump the queue. Money makes the world go round but we have to be more specific so I contend that "sense" makes the world go round, not "dollars". Anyway, what has happened cannot be undone, thus the matter shall rest... ^^ and I've come to realise the importance of diplomacy and sensitivity, where there must be a high-level of intelligence and wit in order to protect one's own interest efficiently...
And after the cheers and the competition, we emerged triple champs, and everything that we have done seems so worthwhile and justified. Victory is sweet, sweeter than the coke i'm drinking now... I maybe exhausted, overwhelmed with fatigue, and voiceless because of the cheers, but I'm not complaining, not one bit, cause we are triple champs and the sense of satisfaction at the end of the day overrides everything...
Lol, and the following we got a half-day off (thank god, if not I would have been dead with the amount of work left undone because of TnF finals but then again, I'm not complaining :0) but the most thrilling thing was that we got 10 golds in one day: TnF 3 golds ( A, B, C boys) , Judo 3 golds ( A, B, C boys), Air Rifle 2 golds ( A boys and girls) and Gymnastics 2 golds ( B and C boys) Wow, that's just incredible...
HRP reached 6K words and I've got 2 more chapters and a conclusion to go? yikes, ms sim says I've got to do a retrenchment exercise ><
Oh gosh, when will the Middle East conflict ever end? Again, innocent lives are lost and people on both sides are wounded by the air-strikes. Destruction and chaos are rampant across Middle East as tensions run high, and a full-blown war is immnent but in war there are no winners, just losers... nobody ever wins a war. Hope that militia faction leaders of Hizbollah as well as Israeli leaders will rethink about the consequences of their decisions and I realised that the innocent are always the one facing the brunt of the conflict even though the issue does not directly concern them. Sigh.. my heart hurts when I look at the victims of such a conflict... for just over 2 Israeli soldiers held as captives, but of course there is more at stake. I mean if I were the Israeli soldier held captive, I would have put a bullet right into my head, ending my life because it is certainly heartbreaking to see so many people die just because your country wants to get you out... makes no sense at all. I would have killed myself right away if I were the soldier. I certainly would, to sacrifice for the greater good. It is simply not worth it, to go through all these to save a soldiers' life. The innocent lives of others that die in the battles are just as precious as his, maybe even more...
That is why I contend that peace will never exist in the world; it's a matter on how we resolve conflicts before it spins out of control, just like what happened in the Middle East. Every Man is different and each of our interests are different too, thus conflicts will always rise between countries when there is a clash of interests and countries' security are threatened. That's why sensitivity and diplomacy is important... hope the war will end... in peace...
gtg mug, shall continue another time... over and out...
brushofmight
"Let there be peace on Earth, and Let it begin with Me."
And I'm still right here waiting for you, for you I will...
