Zion Olympics

Zion olympics was really enjoyable, it was an excellent friendship bonding activity. Congrats to Mish and Daryl, think they really did a great job (and of coz, the other ppl behind the scenes). Coming from a Catholic church, which is rather a more sombre and serious experience. This was abit of an eye opener.

Unfortunately, a good day always has to be spoiled by something. Was in quite abit of pain in the second half of the event, because of an old army injury. My lower back was trembling, on the verge of cramping up...It has been more than a year ago since i injured myself but it still rears its head now and then.

Was in 2002 or in late 2001, can't quite remember. But i was jumping off the standard obstacle course ramp (SOC) and i landed badly on my heels and fell backwards...almost going into the barb-wire. Felt a "crack" sound coming from my lower vetebre, and a sharp pain followed. Manage to complete the course in a decent time tough..but the next few weeks was hell.

Couldn't get up in the morning, sneezing brought about a sharp jarring pain, sitting too long was a problem, sitting cross-legged was even worse. Couldn't stand for too long and a full day of activity, running around and such...gave me a headache because of the niggling pain.

Doc said any strenuous activity in the next few months could make the injury permenant, which was really scary. But I came back into army exercises abit earlier..because it wasn't the best feeling seeing your whole platoon going off for exercise while u sit in an air-con room and ans fone calls.

However, during the last few exercises in NS...It started to hurt again and there was this long march back to my camp. Insisted to my Platoon sergeant and my Platoon commander i couldn't continue but they asked me to try. So I went and I almost nvr made it cause of the pain..

after ORD..nothing....no pain...

And now back in Perth..starting to hurt again...tired of looking like an old guy when exercising..why won't it heal.....

chris

Was reading someone's blog the other day. She wrote about how offended she feels when guys comment on girls things like "She's hot." She feels its not good because it reduces what you see in that girl..to the surface. She's like a piece of meat. Actually, I'm guilty of saying things like 'she's chio', 'she's hot', things like that..I guess I will forever be a guy's kinda guy.

BUT..in my defense..women are not the only victims of sexist sterotypes. Everytime the word "sexist" is used, it is always directed at a man, victimising a woman.

I am here to banish that ludicrious generalisation..

Ok yes..I admit, through history, women have always been in second place, reduced to housewives, exclusion in politics and in high office management positions. But then again..in recent times, women have been able to get away with an increasing amount of sexist remarks whilst men just sit there, either resigned to their fate...or bearing an inner grudge.

OKOK i'll go to the point. Everything men do wrong is attributed to our pride, selfish chauvanist views, our ego, our emphais on physical strength and our desire to remain seen as manliness. Drive fast? Get into an accident? No problem...blame the man's childish need for speed and pride, not willing to give way to a car that cut him off earlier. Made his girlfriend cry? No problem..blame it on his insensitivity, because all men are insensitive.

C'mon ppl...we guys are sterotyped as often as girls nowadays....saying all men hate to follow their gf's shopping, untidy, lazy or downright insensitive......is unfair as saying that all women can't drive and read maps. (yes although i admit alot of us can't stand following a girl ard shopping and alot of females can't drive.....BUT NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT)

Movies like Rambo, rocky and triple XXX, perpetuate the views that all men are macho wannabes..all only know how to fight...talk very little...act macho alot..basically, it makes us look..really abit stupid..and DUH..but not all men are like that..don't believe everything you see..

The MOST overused statement which is the MOST unfair..(mostly coming from the mouths of females) " ALL MEN WANT SEX"

Its so not true...I'm not trying to throw the punch back in the direction of females..but do you gals realise how unfair this statement is? There are alot of guys that can be unscrupulous..but alot of us respect females as equals too. Besides if men weren't interested in sex...the human race would have gone extinct long ago...and apes would be ruling the earth.

Another example

A female who strongly supports female rights = a feminist

A male who strongly supports male rights = a chauvanist

Not fair right..heh..so have a heart gals...let us make our harmless "she's hot", "she's chio comments"....we mean no harm

Have you ever gone for a walk in the rain?

I have, twice. Each time it happened was when something bad happened. It was at night, was walking all alone, thinking of whether what i did was a big mistake. Sometimes there is such beauty in solitude. You feel the rain on your face, the chilling wind and when you look up. You see rain as you have never seen it before. How it falls so beautifully, its like watching an orchestra.

In front of me I saw red clouds and lighting striking in the distance. Just kept walking towards the horizon, knowing I was never going to get there. Thats the story of my life actually, walking towards something, you're not exactly sure what it is...but you know its there.

The cars with their headlights just continued passing by, blinding me with each pass. The sound of the wind sounded like my persecutors tormenting me..I know I was wrong..even nature condemmed me. The rain fell even harder, pelting me and it started to hurt.

It was time to turn back..I saw the dark road..with the street lamps, looking like spot lights, guiding me back home.

She never knew about the tears that mixed with the rain which fell into the ground..

The storm was beautiful....it was..the perfect storm.

MOST FRUSTRATING THINGS THAT HAPPEN

1) When driving, you try to eat a pie, switching the pie from hand to hand so that you can steer and change gear properly...then...your phone rings.

2) Getting a parking fine, when you didn't intentionally park illegally.

3) Waking up, going for an early lesson, completing the lesson...and realise you haven't learnt anything.

4) When you need to make an urgent call and you realise your pre-paid card is out of credit..hence, i got a line..

5) Getting knocked by another car

6) Dealing with people who treat you very nicely sometimes, but treat you like crap the next...

7) My stupid alarm clock...which snooze button is spoilt.

8) Forgetting to charge my phone and leave the house with the phone on the verge of switching off.

9) Washing your car, cleaning it..and waxing it...and when you drive it out...it starts to rain.

10) Getting a lousy tutor who can't teach to save his/her life

11) You wear contacts, comb your hair and wear a nice shirt....go to sch...and you don't see any babes......but when you wear glasses, have messy hair and are wearing slippers...they suddenly all appear like ants.

12) When you cook rice....you add too little water..and it feels like you're eating charcoal...or if you add too much..then it feels you're eating mud

13) when they give you wings in KFC meals

14) When that hot girl you met 5 mins ago..is married with a kid (its happend to me before..not kidding)

15) Playing soccer, you see this guy wearing a shirt with the name "ronaldo" on the back....and when you play abit more...you realise he dribbles....like................my father......with a backache.

Mambo was good...

Went to mambo red yesterday..was pretty good..I enjoyed it. Probably cause i drank more than the previous mambos. And i actually enjoyed R&B for the first time (normally i hate R&B, i'm a mambo person thru and thru). Went with the usual suspects..plus scott,joel and jason from trinity. Here's the weird thing...the event ended at 3 but at 2.45...i was leaning against the bar cause i was tired and two bouncers came to escort me out..they said the bar staff said i was drunk..damn stupid..cannot lean against the bar with your head down. Blardy racists, bet it wouldn't happen if it was an aussie guy...

Later got cell potbless..haha..the hapless food coordinator is nervous (me). Hope everyone brings what they're supposed to bring..

Oh and anyway, last nite while i slept i had a dream. I dreamt I was knocked down by a car..at night..the headlights blinded me as it approached..then my dream ended there...

I can't rem what car it was..i only rem it was red and its license plate number is 8MU 671.....i wonder whose car that is....I hope it isn't someone i know..

chris

Yawnz..

Going to sch soon...have afternoon class. Super tired...super cannot make it...

I decided long ago, never to live in anyone's shadow, If i should fail or I succeed, at least i tried that's all i believe, no matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity....

this is a super short post..i have no idea what to write..

errr..driving concentration has been very bad recently..no close calls or anything but that day..super not paying attention..i turned at the traffic light in 5th gear...sighz...u ever see 5th gear downshift to 2nd gear anot..haha..yah jialut....even mish doesn't do that.

chris

Couple of things I've learnt about girls over the years (hehe no offence hor!)

1) Yes doesn't exactly mean yes, No doesn't exactly mean no. Yes doesn't mean No either...neither does No mean yes.....how do you tell? flip a coin.

2) They like flowers, but too many, and they'll hate it.

3) Take note of when your gf's period is, so she can't used the PMS excuse more than once a month to be moody.

4) Crying is emotional blackmail..so try to build immunity

5) If she had every opportunity to leave you, and she didn't.....she loves you.

6) Girls like cars that look nice, they don't give a hoot about performance.

7) You offend one girl, you offend all her friends as well. As well as her Father, mother, sister, brother, cousin, uncle, auntie......etc etc.

8) Sweet-talk wins you the girl, but doesn't keep her forever if you can't live up to what you say

9) Girls like a guy who's willing to laugh at himself, too much pride, too much ego puts you in the recycle bin.

10) If she usually nags you, and one day she suddenly stops....be prepared to lose her.

11) Her girlfriends will know all the information you know....sometimes even more than you....scary....

12) If she wants to go, let her go. Unless you feel your life is boring without many enemies.

Things I learnt in the army (old recollections)

1) It is impossible to pull out a grenade pin with your teeth, its hard enough to use your hands

2) If you fight in a war without ear plugs, you'll probably go deaf.

3) men get away with stuff, officers get away with stuff, sergeants nvr get away with anything.

4) If u get ippt GOLD, it DOES NOT mean you can carry heavy loads, its two different things.

5) If you get mistreated by a fucker in the army, chances are when you promote, you will become one yourself

6) If you cannot take it, just dial the SAF hotline.

7) It is possible to eat one meal a day without any side effects.

8) Doing a job well only makes u kena arrowed more.

9) If there's one thing worse than wet socks, its wet underwear, if there's anything worse than wet underwear...its having both at the same time.

10) When you're in the army, suddenly like all girls become chio to you. A girl you would normally find ugly in the real world..suddenly appears average. And a girl who is average will look very chio. (ie. Someone like mish suddenly looks like jennifer aniston)

11) Mosquitoes are the most irritating living things alive

12) Doing a job well takes skill.....managing to get out of doing it....is even more skillful.

13) When your piss becomes dark yellow, its time to drink water.

14) Never set up camp below a durian tree ( An officer once asked me to do that, bloody idiot)

15) Being surrounded by guys everyday doesn't make you turn gay, it just makes u go crazy.

16) When a bunch of guys sit around in the jungle at night, we all talk about our girlfriends and sex lives...so be warned.

17) Army is nothing like the way commercials portray, if you think its going to be like that, you better knock your head on the table and wake up your idea.

18) Being a scout..I'm happy that we had vehicles to get around..but why the hell do we stop so far away from the objective and walk????? SOMEONE TELL ME!!

19) When you call for artillery, always give the coordinates slightly more infront...so if you cock up, it doesn't land on you.

20) There are no chio women in the army, the only chio ones are in airforce and navy. So if you want to sign on...sign on in the airforce or navy.

CHRIS

More Big Problems....

As you guys know by now, afew days ago..i was involved in a traffic accident when this girl hit the back of my car. Well, i found out she lives in trinity and studies in UWA. So i made a trip down to trinity to meet up with her to settle matters pertaining to my repairs....

Ok..before that..she told me when she hit my car..she broke her radiator, fan and air con and her repairs would cost 3000bucks..which is terrible...while my damage is about errrr 250 bucks. But you see the situation is, she hit into me, so no matter how costly her damages are..she has to repay me for my damages as well. Luckily for her, she had comprehensive insurance.

So there i was, waiting for her at trinity for her....and she came along...and i can't believe I didn't notice this after the accident..

SHe's like really stunning, really pretty....guess i was too frustrated after the accident to take a really good look at her. So i sat down with her and talked about the accident..infact we started talking abit more about our lives and our studies..( i shall not disclose any information about her). She's like really sweet and told me she needed to stall abit for the payment because her mom needs to send her money..which was fine by me...

Was really one of the better things that happened to me all week...she's hottttt....it almost makes me feel bad to claim my damages from her........ALMOST....heh.

chris

Terrible day..a parking fine and a car accident...

Ok, Sunday began as a nice, bright and sunny. Picked up Melissa Goh to go join the rest of the church peeps for tim sum...Tim sum was alright, i found it quite nice. BUT..it was the most expensive tim sum ever, because after i went out..i found a parking fine on my windscreen wiper. 100 bucks....100 @#$%^&*()_ BUCKS!!!!! Thats extortion. They didn't even denote properly you couldn't park there..ok..i was slightly irritated..my mood wasn't spoilt yet.

I den proceeded to fetch Mel home..(turns out Mel also got fined 100 bucks last week). In the car, i kept lamenting on how ludicrous a 100 aussie buck fine was...and as i was approching the traffic junction, there was this idiot...IDIOT!!!! He was day dreaming and suddenly jam braked at the traffic light...the catch is.....the light was green..So he jam braked, the car in front of me, and i jam braked............The woman behind me also jam braked...just that she did it about 4 weeks too late. As a result..She ran right into my bumper....(ALL THIS HAPPENED 10 MINS AFTER I GOT FINED).

The car who caused the accident, obviously sped off. If he believed in God...i was going to arrange a meeting for him. So now...i was really really really peeved. I got out of the car...cursed abit...and i saw the timid woman driver behind me..She was about my age. And she was pretty scared and shaking..and i just couldn't bring myself to raise my voice at her...SIGHZ..
the damage to my car wasn't bad..but there were some nasty scratches..she on the other hand...had it far worse. I helped her check her car...to see if everything inside the hood was alright and i went off...not before getting her contact number of coz..

Poor old mel goh..sitting in my car..i think she was pretty scared also la...but ok..i regained my composure after awhile. Still had that sick feeling in my gut about how unlucky i was though..

Later had some bubble tea to calm my nerves..drove around abit...got the anger out of me..

later at night went to catch the charity shield match with mish at trinity!!

ARSENAL 3 MAN UTD 1.....YAY!!
at least one good thing happened today..

THINGS THAT I'D NEVER THOUGHT I'D EXPERIENCE, BUT I HAVE

1) Being knocked down by a car

2) Owning and maintaining my own car

3) Sitting in a car that goes from 0-100km/h in around 4 seconds..(scary)

4) Being called a tootface

5) Studying overseas

6) Walking to school

7) Sitting on a helicopter

8) Developing an interest in cars.

9) Represent my school in a sport

10) Appriciating the comforts of singapore..

Definition of the word "tootface"

For those of us that know "certain" people, we have heard of the word "tootface" many many times. For the large bulk of us, we don't even know what it means...and the people whom it originated from also don't exactly know what it means..

Well, one thing for sure it isn't in the dictionary, there isn't even a word "toot" inside..

Well anyway i think i've figured out what it actually means..

TOOT- A deragotary term, usually used to demean someone's intelligence. Loosely used, it is meant to call someone incompetent or silly.

Ways of using : Don't be a toot / you are such a toot / he/she is a toot.

FACE - I'm very lazy to define this word...primarily because everyone knows what a face is...

So what does tootface mean?? I shall try to define it..

TOOTFACE- It is an affectionate term, only used on friends. It is not meant as an insult, rather something you use to poke fun of someone. It undeniably sounds childish, something we would use in primary school. But its usage is getting more and more rampant.

Ways of using : Michelle is a tootface / chelsea is a tootface / jacinta is a tootface

hur hur hur hur

she likes me for me,
not because i sing like pavarotti,
or because i'm such a hottie..

i like her for her, not because she's fat like cindy crawford
she has got so much to offer..
why does she waste all her time with me..

must be something there that i don't see....i don't see.....

today I...

Today i woke up for mass,
to the smell of green grass

Drove to sch in the rain..
damn the weather, such a pain

mass was good, really felt happy,
which is good, cause perth is damn crappy

later ate lunch at vic park ten ten
lucky for mish, i had money to lend

or she would be stuck there, washing the plates
and i would laugh at her..with her housemates..

ANYWaY, went on home later, played computer game
blardy computer, so defensive, really damn lame.

Now i sit here, feelin stone
thats why i'm writing my blog, to moan and groan.