Friday, March 21, 2008 . 10:49 PM
1+ months of studying + worrying + lack of sleep were all culminated into 3 short days of examinations (OK technically, around 5 hours, but spread over 3 days)... And then came the short, brief period of reprieve which some of us might feel that we deserve.
Okay I'm not gonna blog about a review of the examinations (Glori is gonna bash me, but who DOES that kind of stuff man O_O), but rather what happened post-examinations :P You know, we should always remember the fun times in our lives... Lolz. So my post can sort of be like a sequel to hers. Hahaha.
Straight after the physio paper (which ended at around 1100 - 1130), the Medicine Year 1 soccer team made a beeline for the handball/street soccer courts at SRC. It was raining when the paper started, but thankfully it had stopped by the time we had finished. Donning our soccer gear, we immediately started to play.
Most of us hadn't played for over a month. As expected, many of us were rusty and it was almost like "kampung" soccer at first. So we were losing balls, shooting wide, and mostly running into each other. Lolz...
Then my OG, who were on their way to the bus stop to catch a bus to Vivocity then Sentosa, decided to show up at the SRC, yelling my name at the top of their lungs. I didn't hear them at first, till one of the guys said, "Hey Han Yang, you've got a fan club!". Then I heard them. My reaction was like "Zomg O_O". They were all girls some more... Naturally I got a lot of stick from the soccer guys after that. Thanks a lot, girls. It didn't really help that I lost the ball and made a bad tackle in front of them, prompting Glori to say that I was trying to act cool... Thanks a lot. Seriously... First you malu me, then you, in the words of Girider, carry out an "unprovoked personal attack on me". Lolz. I hope they don't come and watch any future soccer games I play man. I don't have nerves of steel. Hence my unwillingness to sing/play instruments or sports in front of people... As in in front of a few people. In front of a crowd is OK, cos you can ignore them... Sigh. Sometimes I wonder how I'm gonna learn magic and pull it off convincingly like if I keep on getting nerve attacks like these...
The game wasn't too bad! We played for around 2+ hours and I scored twice (yes Zeying, you know what THAT means... :P) but I couldn't sustain enough stamina to grab my hat-trick :P Have yet to do that in NUS... But all in all, fun stuff. I seriously don't know what form of exercise I would do without soccer... Without soccer, like half my life is gone. Haha... Okay that's an exaggeration but you get the idea...
I managed to catch Alvin coming from the med board meeting about the new curriculum for future batches and so I hitched a ride in his car (making his seat sweaty and his car stink) to go to Sentosa to join the girls! Haha... Getting there was damn funny. Alvin assumed that they were at Siloso Beach, so he handed me the map and I topo-ed us there while he drove. Then as we were walking along Siloso Beach, he called one of the girls and found out that they were at Pelawan Beach. Lolz! So we hiked all the way there...
That afternoon at Sentosa was quite relaxing... We just sat around, sang songs, played guitar, (Glori was hogging the hammock), and when the hall people came, we played frisbee! Yes. I played 2+ hours of soccer before that and there I was playing frisbee soon after. I must have been crazy. Naturally, I didn't do much running :P Not to mention it's uber hard to run on a sand slope. We must have looked like we were having a lot of fun cos two guys from India asked us if they could join in... Hahaha.
After the soccer and frisbee I was positively aching all over, with a sunburn to boot. Okay I understand it looks bad but it happens ALL THE TIME. So relax... My skin is like that. I'm used to it. I'm used to people calling me red, lobster, and dunno what kind of nonsense la. So sometimes I get a little sian when people make such a big deal out of it... Lol. Like I've told so many people before, I'll probably die of hypertension (cos of my high salt intake) or skin cancer (cos of sun-ray non-resistant skin).
Well, we went to Secret Recipe at Vivocity for dinner after that... Their Chicken Cordon Bleu isn't half bad... As is their Green Apple Kasturi. Haha... Had a fun time just sitting there crapping and sharing food and stuff... After that Zeying and I left the group early to go home as the rest wanted to play arcade (but didn't do so in the end)...
I was feeling dehydrated, burnt, and pain all over by the end of the day... But it was fun.
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Today I felt the after effects of all my extreme exertions of yesterday... Haha. I couldn't sleep past 9 for some reason (either my body was aching too much, my skin hurt too much from the burns or cos of my body clock... which incidentally never works the way I want it to) Then it was straight to the Xbox 360!!! Hahaha. Went out for lunch with my family after that at Jade Fullerton! That place never ceases to amaze me... They have wonderful service, with excellent food. Their codfish (the main dish) was so exquisite, so tender and soft... Good stuff. Then... It was back home and more Xbox 360-ing!!! Hahaha. Jon Teo and Shuo Jie asked me if i wanted to go out and club but I don't do that sort of thing and I was aching too much to move so oh well. I wanted to meet up with them though. Maybe tomorrow...
I have to do some more stretching before I sleep tonight if I'm gonna play soccer again tomorrow.
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I think John Mayer and I live by the same virtues... Stuff like what he wrote in his two songs "Bigger Than My Body" and "Vultures" are stuff that I always think about whenever I reflect upon my life... Some lines are like answers I used in my Medicine interview... Lolz. He's like my inspiration.
This is a call to the colourblind
This is an IOU
I'm stranded behind the horizon line
Tied up in something true
Yes I'm grounded
Got my wings clipped
I'm surrounded by all this pavement
Guess I'll circle
While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry
Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for
Why is it not my time?
What is there more to learn?
Shed this skin I've been tripping in
Never to quite return
Yes I'm grounded
Got my wings clipped
I'm surrounded by all this pavement
Guess I'll circle
While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry
Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for
Cause I'm bigger than my body now
Maybe I'll tangle in the power lines
And it might be over in a second's time
But I'll gladly go down in a flame
If a flame's what it takes to remember my name
Yes I'm grounded
Got my wings clipped
I'm surrounded by all this pavement
Guess I'll circle
While I'm waiting for my fuse to dry
Wait for my fuse to dry
Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body
I'm bigger than my body
I'm bigger than my body now
"Vultures" by John Mayer
Some of us
We're hardly ever here
The rest of us were born to disappear
How do I stop myself from being just a number?
How will I hold my head to keep from going under?
Down to the wire
I wanted water but I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes to take me even higher
Then I'll come through like I do
When the world keeps testing me, testing me, testing me
How did they find me here?
What do they want from me?
All of these vultures hiding right outside my door
I hear them whispering
They're tryin to ride it out
They've never gone this long without a kill before
Down to the wire
I wanted water but I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes to take me even higher
Then I'll come through like I do
When the world keeps testing me, testing me, testing me
Wheels up
I've got to leave this evening
I can't seem to shake these vultures off of my trail
Power is made by power being taken
So I keep on running to protect my situation
Down to the wire
I wanted water but I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes to take me even higher
Then I'll come through like I do
When the world keeps testing me, testing me
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
Archangel