Friday, September 21, 2007
It has been quite some time since my previous post. Many many things happened within these few days. Well, good and bad of some sort (not really actually).
First was Yelun's treat on Monday. Seems like a 4-10 gathering actually. Haha. About 20 people. Seoul Garden buffet was great though the cooking wasn't too fun. Lol! Wasn't really up to stamina that day. Haha. Had some photos taken but lazy to upload here. Well, you can just go to Yelun's blog for the pictures.
Went to arcade after dinner. Daytona, the game where you played hockey on the table (whatever it is), and the funniest part of all - the "para para dance" by Chenyang! It was really very funny! His hands sweeping across to catch the moves and the combos he did (though it seemed more like boxing moves instead of dancing) was sort of accurate. Overall, he actually managed to get the top score for the machine! Amazing isn't it?
For the past few days, most of the us managed to get back many of our results (if not all). As for me, I pretty much am satisfied with my own ones already. Managed to get 10 'A's (out of which 8 A1s and 2 A2s which are both Chinese). Even won Tze Han in Physics for Prelim 3! Yeah! Remarkable achievement for me! Cassey almost topped the level for Chemistry but lost narrowly (extremely narrowly) to Tao Tao by 0.5%. It was such a waste! If not 4-10 could have topped 2 sciences (being a double science class, it's really a great achievement)!
Overall, I still lost to Cassey in L1R5 average by merely a mark. But well, if it had been anyone else I would have been very disappointed (Maybe other than Yenbing?). As for Cassey beating me, I suppose I'm rather alright with it. He's Cassey for a reason. Haha.
As for today, South Zone Colours Award prize giving ceremony was very boring. Hearing the emcees reading out the more than 600 names of the recipients seriously is extremely taxing for my brain (I have to control myself not to fall asleep). After a "hectic" 2 hours or so, the ceremony finally ended. But it wasn't that bad since I managed to spend some time sms-ing with Sam and my "Jiejie". Haha.
Sports Awards and Appreciation Night. Many many speeches by different individuals, prize-giving and buffet dinner. Sam managed to get the "Most outstanding Sportsman" if I'm not wrong about the name of the award but it doesn't matter. 3 coaches got the award for the coaches and Jon Cher got the "Model Athlete" award. I know many believed for me to get the award and wanted me to. Frankly speaking, I want to get it as well (though not having too high hopes for it). Though in the end I did not get it but I am still extremely thankful.
I'm thankful and glad that I have many many great friends, teachers, classmates, teammates, juniors, etc who have encouraged and came to me, telling me not to be too sad for it. For that, I'm already very happy. People chanted my name during the prize-giving, people wished and hoped that I would have gotten it. For that moment, it seemed like it was the happiest moment of my life. It made me realise that it was not what you get that counts but what others think of you that counts. For that moment, I could feel the support from everyone around me. I cannot describe the feeling I had during that time but I can say that it definitely wasn't disappointment. For these 4 years in CHS, I have made many friends and in that very moment, it made me realise how much support I had from them. Not saying that there wasn't any in the past, just that it was far beyond what I imagined it would be.
I cannot say enough to express how I feel right now. There's just this sense of belonging and friendship that I had felt. Frankly speaking, tears almost rolled down from my eyes, not because I didn't get the award, but because of the belief of everyone who had it for me.
Coming to think of it, I'm going to leave CHS in just a month or so...
For all my friends who had the belief:
To me, I may not be the perfect model athlete, but I'm sure that you are definitely my greatest friend. Thank you.
{11:05 PM}