First Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010

I guess, things got really busy after my birthday... :p Back-logging now then... Let's start with the most significant, YOG 2010.

The first youth olympics games in history! :D How can I not be part of it? My position? VOLUNTEER! :D

I guess most of you will recognize all those purple peeps walking around during august 2010, with the red/green/blue pouches. :) Yupz! That's us in general.

I was assigned Liaison Officer, hence we are a little more special, we get a messenger bag, the one red and white which looks like a crumpler. :D Many people asked me where to buy, sorry, NOT FOR SALE! :p

We are not supposed to post much things about yog, so I'll just give snippets of what I did.

As liaison officer, and being one of those lucky few whose assigned principal (range from IOC presidents, NOC presidents, Athlete role models etc), in my case, one of the NOC president and his spouse, did attend the entire yog. :D Visiting games venue, tours, sight-seeing, shopping etc were the daily routine, where you need everything at your finger-tips.

The three of us (him, his wife and myself) started out strangers, who had little interactions. There was slight language barriers, but all this ironed out gradually. :D Those special moments when his country won the gold medals, I cheered along with them. His countries' people were really united, friendly etc. By the 3rd day, we know each other pretty well, coaches, athletes, press peeps, etc. :)

All fun and happy experiences alwasy comes to an end. When it was time for his departure, we were pretty sad. Lots of photos were taken, ate a few meals together, and the moment of goodbye. I had to take lots of effort to not start crying at the hotel lobby... T.T

He asked me to go for London Olympics 2012 and Nanjing 2014, those will remain on my agenda. :) We are still in contact, and hopefully he will be back in Singapore like he promised soon. :)

To all who had been part of the SYOG 2010, I hope you had as much fun as I did. To those who haven't, its just too bad. :p

15th July 2010

Happy Birthday!

:D It's my 20th birthday today! Yum, I just ate the feast my mama prepared! :D Delicious dinner, yummy cake, wonderful dessert and fantastic gifts. :D

Thank you all for your well wishes, the wonderful presents and being there for me these past 20 years! :D:D:D

1 more day to my 20s... (JC onwards)

After all the fun experiences in secondary school, I moved on to Anderson Junior college. :)

I was in one of the last PAE era, but nevertheless, I was in AJ both PAE and JAE. :D I admit, its a little old. But, come on, old schools have more 书香 feel what. :pActually, AJ is a pretty fun school if you know where to stick your heads and legs into. :)

Here, I met a group of really fun and interesting friends. :) The Tings, KT and Yt, and we have the 形影不离 ZH and RJ, with close by YY. Then we have C being Yt's baby (someone remind me how this came about). Next up, Ym the martial arts warrior, D who resembles JJ Lin, the double Js where JT often can't stand JC's mumblings. Lastly, L, the person we termed '木头' due to her sometimes blur reactions and who just became my coursemate.

Studies was super hectic for me. Honestly, I really cannot stand lectures... Coz, its so quiet, little interaction etc. When there are parts you simply don't understand, you are lost for the rest of the lecture. :[ My grades were one of the worst I've seen in all my years in school and franky, its pretty tedious to get promoted and most importantly, graduate. :)

How can I miss out one of the most important element in school? CCA! :D
Contrary to sec sch. I came in being better than my seniors... OMG?!!?!? I was like what the crap... Can you imagine you go into a CCA and it was you training your seniors rather than they train you? Yup, you get my idea. Luckily there was also Y(my batch) who had lots of experience in micromouse... 2 against them... awesome. In the next 2 years, having being elected section leader, I kind of 'revamp' the section. And thanks to me, club funds were usually busted for the year. Okay, face it, we have 3 sections (robotics, web-design and programming) in the CCA, and given the amount of funds given (3 zeros and a digit in font which starts pretty near 0), I really wonder how is that ever possible to expect us to achieve anything. Techno stuff are EXPENSIVE to start off with. Budget burst, but glad we came back with an award in J1. :) J2, we collaborated with adss and went to USA to participate in the VEX Robotics World Championships. Guess what, we came back with the highest award of the competition, Excellence Award. :D:D:D Flying the Singapore Flag on stage with those cameras and video-cams clicking away is just awesome. :D YEAH! :D

Graduated from AJ feeling great about all I've experienced. I'll miss the same seat I sat at every morning, the bias chops n grills auntie, the friendly veggie lover stall auntie, the hall piano which we sometimes go for a jam or two, the bookshop auntie, strict but friendly and last but not least, the CXtreme lab where I sometimes go to study (coz I hold the key all year round :p)

Now, here I am in NTU, pursuing Mechanical Engineering. Took up CCA with WSC FoC TC, currently busy with writing proposal for the upcoming project. :D

Rest day in a few minutes time. :D Gonna go relax relax. :p