Monday, July 23, 2007
cheers can lift you up and also bring you down
Cheers can lift you up and also bring you down.
the day started with chapel (as usual), and we ended up counting rice grains and measuring their sizes for bio prac. BORING. and we counted corns the last lesson. today was a pretty short day in school cos the council had to go for a cheering session for the cricket's finals.
OK. *takes deeep breath. fyi people, i am the
CHEERING i/c for the student coucil, which basically means that i am in charge of organising and leading all the cheering sessions. the FIRST session for me as the i/c was SCREWED UP. i really flunked the whole thing so bad that i was feeling so down during the cricket's finals.
reasons:
1. i prepared the stuff we needed for cheering, but we didnt have banners cos daniel decided to loan the banners to the prefects cos they needed it too. and it was also mentioned that there would not be space to place banners.
then suddenly, RJC appears with BANNERS, and i was taken aback and i believed this made the council somewhat feel inferior. but it didnt really dampen our spirits, although i felt really bad that i should have prepared more.
2. cricket is a WEIRD sports game (to me at least), cos we couldnt cheer most of the time, as cricket is what i call a silent sport, cos there were many quiet moments, and we also got instructions that we shouldnt burst into cheers as that would distract the players.
so cheering was really limited, and we could only do short ones each time.
3. as the cheering i/c, i was ineffective.
i failed to deliver and lead the council for cheers, cos i swear i was so freaked out because this is the first time i am doing cheers with the council, let alone lead them. and prawveen made a comment : the cheering really sucks. i was deeply affected by his comment, and i almost flared up / break down. but i know i couldnt do that as it would display my unprofessionalism and inability to handle the situation.
and yes, i realised self-sympathy is the worst form of sympathy ever.
lex took over and things started to get better, and also partly cos everyone was getting tired of being high about the match.
IT LASTED FOR 5 FREAKING HOURS. NOPE, i am not complaining. :)
HURRAY, i am a cricket fan! (totally)
everyone got drowsy and tired of the match, so things just died down until the prize-giving ceremony when we cheered like mad for the cricket team. i feel bad for them, cos they won 2nd, and they really did put up a good fight against RJC at the start.
it was a great lesson learnt today for me as the cheering i/c. I'll BUCK UP. and i was EMO today. haha.
*sidenote: i am amazed by butler and lex's abilities to entertain themselves, they are a real joy to watch.
went out with bobbie and cheang jin for dinner (katong laksa!) and ended everything with a wonderful MERLIONSTER at BEN & JERRY'S!. yum yum. fyi, my favourite is cookie dough.
its exactly 30 mins more before my uncle's family arrives from at my place. its been 3 years since they came back from canada.
and the scary thing is that i heard that my cousin from canada is like REALLY BUFF now. apparently he's a tae-kwondo black-belt, which i knew long time ago. but he's like super BIG in size now. so yeah. freaky.
BUT BUT BUT, the thing i dread the most is that he might start speaking to me in some black men language, that goes: yo yo brother, check it out. whats up man, hows the air up there? ETC.
omfg. i swear i'll give the raise-eyebrow look, and then say: err.. hello?, in a british accent.
anyways, i am still excited to see my uncle's family, despite the fact that we are not close to each other.
long day ahead tmr, gotta start on my TOK draft (yes i know its very late), IOP (put my essay into ppt form), and chinese a2 work! (before chin siew moy goes berserk). YAWNs.
CAN ANYONE CONVINCE ME THAT ALL THESE ARE REALLY WORTH MY TIME?
cheer me up please,
deon
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