Competition

Finally the day I longed for had came. Today is a very special day. Today I went to participate in a training session for an upcoming competition. You might be wondering what a competition needs to have a training session before the real game. The name of the competition Is called National Educational Gaming Competition (N.E.G.C). You guess it! It is a gamming competition. The game is called Virtual Battle Space 2 (V.B.S.2) the objective of the game is to gain as many points as possible by eliminating enemies or buildings. In other scenarios, we must protect the building from being taken over. It is a shooting game consisting of 19 people in a team.
Everything was in a mess at first. We were supposed to meet up at the foyer. However, half of the team went off first before our teacher in-charge M.R. Sng came to meet us. A few of us could not find him at first. After ten minutes of the supposed time he appeared. He told us that a few of them have left. We slowly walked to the bus stop as we wanted to stall some time for my friend Xuan Ying to catch up with us from the library.
After ten minutes or so, we arrived a the Parkway Parade’s bus stop. Another of my friend wanted to buy a drink called “COY”. It was a type of bubble tea. I bought one cup there and it tasted quite nice. After another fifteen minutes of walk from there, we reached our destination – High Café. There, some of our teammates were already there. We started off by doing a training tutorial to know what the controls are.
Soon we all finished three of our tutorials. There was trouble trying to convince the people helping out at the café that we all finished the tutorials so fast. Soon after, we managed to have a practice match against each other. It was very fun. Due to our negligence to the time and our teamwork we only managed to play three matches. We spent like almost one hour just trying to ask everyone to cooperate while entering the game. I played a part as a medic to help cure people’s injury and mine to in the virtual world. At five we al left as most of us were rushing for time to go somewhere else.

DEBATE

Awesome! Today my class had a debate about who founded Singapore during history class. The class is being conducted by Mr. sng our history teacher. He was a fellow Victorrian too. He has since come to Victoria to teach history before he goes to national service (NS). He is very friendly and kind. However, when he gets serious he would talk in a very stern voice forcing­ us to keep quiet so that we can pay attention. During class, he sometimes side tracks a little. Showing us some other videos related to our syllabus. This way, we can learn and understand history easier.
About the debate, three students had been chosen to be each of the three representatives to might have founded Singapore. This three persons are Raffles, Farquar and Crawford. Varun was chosen as Crawfod, Wen Rui was chosen as Raffles and Peng Sheng was chosen as Farquar. It did not start that well at first. Everything was so confusing at the start. However, after a while it soon settles down. Though it did not sound like a real debate.
First it was wen rui who had to fend himself if he was the founder of Singapore. He did quite well reading off the text book. Then it was Peng Sheng’s turn. He did not know what to say. Kenneth had to volunteer to help him. I could tell he was well prepared. He also assisted Wen Rui and Varun. As both of them also did not know wad to say, he played the roll of three persons. It was kind of funny to have a one man debate.

Special Moments... ...

Today the most enjoyable thing happened... My dream had came through! Actually it had already come through since the December holidays – Christmas. On that very faithful day, my parents bought two big boxes of presents meant for me and my siblings. One of the boxes is bigger than the other. Every one was kept in suspense till we open the presents the next day. My brother and I kept on pestering our parents to tell us what the present was, but to no avail. ,my father kept on saying that it was a secret and we had to wait till boxing day to open it. After much persuasion, we finally managed to dig out a clue – it was something my sister always wanted. My father also told us that it was the last option to choose from. Immediately I knew what it was as my sister kept on talking about her experience at her friend’s house where she played a musical game on a console. Playstation 3 (PS3).
I knew it! It’s that! “Band Hero” the new musical game on PS3. It is a gsme that you need to hit the right beat with a guitar, drum set and or microphone where you have to sing. It has been quite some time since I played that.
Today was the day that we played the game together again. It was like the first time we played, the same amount of fun and laughter. Maybe there was more than just that. We laughed at each other when one of us could not hit the right beat. It was very fun! I wish that could stop at that very moment and replay it over and over again till it never ends. Or at least till I get bored of it. Playing the same songs over and over can be quite boring you know. This was the most happiest moment spent with my family

This isn't what you get every day

Like any other Saturdays, I would wake up at seven in the morning just to get ready for my tuition at 9 a.m. you may wonder why I must wake up so early, that’s because the tuition centre is quite far from my place. Though it only takes only thirty-minutes. Most of the time my parents would “waste” some time doing something else. Hence I would either be late or just in tim for tuition. Today was the same too. At eight-thirty.my father has not even waked up yet! I rushed to wake him up. As soon as he wakes up, I rushed towards the car outside. While entering the car, I accidentally knocked my head onto the top of the door. Instead of shouting ouch out loud, I tried to contain the pain in myself. You should not try this at home, it seriously hurts more when you try to contain the pain. As predicted, I was a little late. It made me feel really embarrassed. As you know, bad things come in threes. Nothing bad happened to me through the whole afternoon though I anticipated it. Maybe I was being more cautious or something or maybe the phrase that says bad things come in threes is just a legend. Soon, it was time for my swimming lessons. Everything went smoothly until I was being partnered with someone I don’t partner with usually.. Those who are the ‘supper gold star’ swimmers would do some life saving techniques such as clothing tow. Unluckily, I was paired with a girl. The first item was to do a tow called clothing tow – one would make use of a pair of pants to tow someone else without contact. We had to do six laps, three each. I started off first. I placed her pair of pants across her chest and then started. I really didn’t mind pairing up with her. She was kind off pretty. Through out the whole swim I felt that something was wrong. She was in the wrong position to be towed. I hesitated to whether to point out her mistake. If I tell I’ll ease my mself from the suffering but it can be quite insulting. When we finished, our coach suddenly scolded my partner. It was quite scary. Usually when he scolds, it would very frightening. Astonishingly, he did not raise his voice. He only scolded her in a harsh tone. Though it wasn’t very serious, I felt bad for her. I should have told her her mistake. Any way he was biased to girls Just as I thought the last bad thing was over, it wasn’t. That wasn’t something bad I supposed. While I was doing this block, the computer just blanked out. Everything was gone. I didn’t save the previous blog post! You may thing this is long but the previous one was even longer. Why must such thing happen to me!

THAT WAS FUN!

The thing that I can’t do well in tennis is that I cannot serve. Serving of the ball is the most important thing for tennis. Since I can’t do this important thing, I’ve decided to get acoach to teach me the right way. During the first lesson, he thought me all te strokes even the spin serve. The ground strokes was easy for me to learn as I’ve been learning them from my friends. The serve was the only problem. The starting few balls hit were difficult to control. Only during the second session he thought me the full swing to the serve. He also did a recap on the ground strokes. After the lesson I tried practicing the serve thought me. It was really tiring! I think I have got it. I did some drills my coach thought me before. After much trying, I feel that I have got the hang of it. Thus I will try it on my friends tomorrow. However, it is not perfect yet as it is not fast enough. The little sense of achievement made me feel happy resulting the “special” training to be fun!
After a while, I got tired and rested a while. After a good long rest, I called up my sister to come down and play with me. She did not want to come at first but after much persuasion she agreed. While she was on her way on my father’s car, I went to a near by vending machine to buy a can of ice lemon tea to reward myself for all my hard work. Then as I was walking back to the court, I saw my father’s car approaching while reflecting on my skills. As soon as my sister got ready we started playing. Not long after that we went home.