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Friday, March 28, 2008
Okay, I'm in a soso mood now lol. I just figured out some good and bad news for myself. But for starters, some recent events.
Yesterday was X-Country. My target was to get top20 top15-ish. But let's leave the results for later =D. The feeling at the start was intense lol. Me and Charles were up at the front, and there was one scary realization. Me and Charles were the only Lau house at the start. To my right, there was one whole bunch of Mitchell, and left was one big chunk of ARcher and Means. Behind me, 1 or 2 Lau. Oookay. With the starting horn, close to everyone chiong lol. I was just jogging at my own pace which was relatively quite fast because I didnt want to lag behind. Then after maybe less than 5oom, those who chionged like, stopped to have a breather, while the rest of us all jogged past them. I tried to make myself angry lol. Some Bio terms here. I was trying to invoke an adrenaline rush. And adrenaline is produced in situations of anger, stress, fear and anxiety. And seeing i was really afraid, stressed, or "anxietied", I kept thinking angry thoughts. Like "Hey! He just passed you! He can't do that!" "You're better than that are you? Oh well. Guess you're not" Followed by a self reply," Yes I CAN." Lol. This was what stopped me from running. Male pride? I guess so. After 2km, my legs stopped hurting, but my lungs felt punctured lol. But I continued nonetheless. My pace wavered. My method was to just walk. Dont let that momentum stop. Tired, jog slowly awhile taking breathers then drastically increasing pace. Close to the end, like 1km / o.5km left? Nicholas overtook me, Then I overtook him back after awhile. Then, He suddenly increased his pace! He said he just stretched his legs more. ARgh. Damn his long legs=p. Haha. So He overtook me and I gave up trying to overtake him. Close to finishing line, I chiong =p. Almost overtook this guy in front of me, but didnt =p. Oh well. And what did I get?
.... No.15! Whoopee! I achieved what I wanted =p. I guess this wasnt about whether I was able to achieve it, or rather whether I wanted to achieve it=p. Maybe I could've pushed harder, maybe I could've gotten top 10, maybe I should've ran till I was close to fainting. Well, a lesson learnt is knowledge gained. I can achieve anything I want as long as I want to, work hard at it. I want to be the very best I can at basketball. I want to get at least 10points for L1R5. The latter is a rather daunting task, but hey, I can do it! I want to continue playing volleyball =D.
And, on to the good news and bad news. Good news first i guess. Well, it may not be much to you, but it sure is enough to put me in a good mood. I have an account in a fantasy basketball league where i control a player instead of a team. www.cyberdunk.net . In there, I'm a 2.37m tall center named Kei Wong, and is one of the star players of the team Baden Winners =p. Haha. And, I just got MVP for today's match =p, with 37points, 22rebounds, 4assists, 2blocks and 1 steal! Sorry for thsoe who dont understand basketball terminology. Haha. That was great, and can count as possibly one of my players best game. His best game was 32points, 17rebounds, 11assists, 5blocks 4assists I think. Haha.
Bad news? I can't enter the TEENGAMES basketball competition. As luck would have it, it is directly in the middle of my Thailand Voleyball trip ==". Man, I made a pact with a close friend of mine to enter this year ='(. Sigh. Hate to break it to him. Oh well. Enter next year I guess. At leat I'll have more advantage being a 17year old entering u18.
Aaaand that's it for today. I'm still tuckered out from X-country. Anyone knows how to make a pain in the hip go away? My left hip bone really hurts if I try to exercise too much ==". Oh well. End it off now.
Things aren't so bad.
You learnt a lesson.
You've gained knowledge.
Knowledge that you achieve that which you crave.
That which is unique, among the ordinary.
Keith Wong. =D
My chinese name is YiHeng. It means yiyi pingheng. Which means balanced life. Is it not irony when that what my name means, what my parents wish for me, when what I crave for is being unique, being special, living a special life? Yeah. Yeah, I guess it is ironic.
10:22 PM
Monday, March 24, 2008
Mdm Eng. My form teacher. My english teacher. Has anyone else noticed that english/literature teachers are VERY opinionated? As in like, they take most things personally and then to use their vast vocabulary to over exaggerate what we're doing and our intentions? Yes. That's opinionated. Well, I may not be the first to say or notice it, but I think i might be first to rant about it. What has she done to step on my toes till I had to blog about it? Well not much. I understand her job and all, and I respect her. I could learn alot from her, and I could not. Well anyway, on to today. Apparently, whenever she would go through comprehensions, I would get ultimately bored at first. Arrogance on my part or just plain boredom, either one, choose your pick. To be fair, I fare well in compre sometimes lol. I could either choose to sleep, or read finish that novel i bouthg a month ago titled, I Am a Cat, more on that later. Since she had already called my mum about me sleeping in class and i wasnt feeling tired, i opted for the latter. Obviously, she caught me after awhile. "Keith, I'm going to take it as a personal insult if you dont put away that book." Or something like that.
She takes things way too personally ==". And that's not what pissed me off abit. What pissed me off was that when I glanced to my right, there richard was, proudly sleeping on his desk ==". Did i mention my intense hatred for him in many posts before? Yeah, I DID. Again, more on that later. So that's what pissed me off. I mean, richard was so obvious in his sleeping, and yet she caught me and not him! Argh. Anyway, I payed attention and learnt a few things. Yay for me! Another thing, you can't hear the tone in writing, so I'm gonna say, that was sarcasm. Lol. But still, I listened.
And another thing, which is... how much Richard is an asshole without even trying. Honestly, I dont even knows whether he tries, but like, he's the biggest asshole I know! A bigger one than my brother, who prides himself in it! Lol. But I dont hate my brother for that, even though I am the target for both ==". At least my brother is civil. Richard is like a blind, senile, erectile dysfunctional howler monkey. Yes, I said it, howler monkey. When he yawns he almost resembles a howler monkey howling. What did he do this time, you ask? Well, almost something simple enough. He added oil to the fire. Duo zui, in chinese, which directly translated in english means more mouth. Haha. Gary was giving a presentation in class about Venice. No offense to him whatsoever, but I felt he didnt do the presentation right. It felt like he did a poor job of copy and pasting wikipedia text. So, I remarked out loud that he bombed, like 3times? Obviously, MrsLee, scolded me. And, richard added an extra remark which made me pissed off because if there's one thing i hate about him, actually there's many things, is that he always does things at other's expense for the sake of attention ==". Honest to goodness, I swear I tried to be nice to him, but every single day, it's these little things that he does TO ME, that makes me pissed.
Which, totally linked to another subject which I did not plan to rant about, my height. Dammit. I might be short, but the least people could do is pay me basic respect. Okay, first in TAF duty. I asked a couple of guys to stop because since they didnt want to jog, they'd do jumping jacks. First time I told them stop, they didn't. I took it as a personal attack to me saying that they need not be scared of me because I'm short. I've had enough of that. I shouted at them"OI COME BACK HERE." Note the full stop is not an exclaimation mark. I punished them, they walked off, i told them to jog, never mind i call them back. Again, first time they didnt listen. I shouted AGAIN, two of them came, the third ran off. I told the third one to do his punishment when he came back, but he didnt want, totally disrespecting me. Argh. If I was 170cm this wouldn't happen.
Went to 108 play after school. Played 2on2 with macpherson ppl, whom are basketball school players I think. What I can say is, again, disrespectful ==". I tried to be a good sportsman. First, they acted noob, anyhow taking shots before the match started, leading me to think they were otherwise ==". Then, they humiliated me. Hell of alot of times. Passed right over my head like over 10 times FOR FUN. Even took me as a training post up dummy. Nevermind, this is part of the match right? I defended all I could. Then, when I had the ball, they let up.
You know, I don't mind that they've tricked me, heck I dont care that they humiliated me by using their height, because that's what they have to do right? attack weak points. But, DISRESPECTING ME is crossing the line. I went all out against them, well, close to, and they let up. Heck, i could have let up when they posted me. Not defend at all. Deny them the chance to play. By letting up, it implies that they were looking down on me, both figuratively and literally. Which, goes on to me developing a sense of loathing for macpherson players.
And now, on to that book, I Am a Cat. Basically, it's what goes through a cat's head when he sees what japanese humans do, filled with wisecracks, anecdotes and words of wisdom. You could say, that it's a cat's blog.
Aaaand that's pretty much it for today. I'm gonna train my dribbling, so that whoever disrespects me, I'm gonna diss you right back. I may be short, but dont wrongly disrespect me without knowing me first. Every human is entitled to a basic amount of respect. If you dont give that to everyone, then you, sir, are either a high class uppity snob, or a retard. Take your pick, or you could just give people a basic amount of respect as a human being.
Since you already have people looking up to you, you may as well give them a reason to.
Since you already have people looking down on you, don't EVER give them any reason to.
Keith Wong.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,10:09 PM
Thursday, March 20, 2008
| What Keith Means |
 You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip. People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. |
This. Has. got. To. Be. THE. True-est. Test. I. Ever Took. Every single part of it. And I'm no clouded by ego or anything, but what i see in that test, is soooo totally me. Coincidence? Maybe. But then it'd be one hell of a lucky coincidence=p. I do have amazing ideas, and I will carry them out =D. After all, those who are crazy enough to say they can change the world are usually the ones who really do change the world.
Today, started off badly so I won't mention it. Today was kinda great too, played a nice round of basketball =P. And for the first time in my life, I actually cut class without an excuse. I feel incoming karma for the next few days... Oops.
Happiness depends on ourselves. -Aristotle
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,11:12 PM
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
As of now, I'm in love with the songs Bowling for Soup makes. And, I think I may fall for the beatles sooner or later, once I have their album =p. Haha.
I'm posting now because I want to draw attention away from the last post. And no, I'm not emo about it, I was just reminiscing about how emo I WAS. Eh. Let's not start a rant now. I just noticed that that last post, was the 200th post of this blog. Hah. So, happy 201st post!
People that are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,8:12 PM
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Anyway, one thing to rant about. Life is being satisfactory to me, despite the fact that right now my life is pretty much quite sad really. Elaborate? Okay. Well, during the camp, I noticed soemthing similar. I'm not gonna name names or whatever, because I'm jsut saying it for the sake of explaining why I feel my life is just sad, even though I am perfectly satisfied with things are now. Okay well, it seems that whatever close friends I have, at least close friends to me, would really much rather hang out with their friends. I would hang out with my friends too, but my friends are hanging out with their own friends. Sad init? Why do I say similar? Cuz this exact thing happened to me before. From whom? Huiying.
If you're seeing this, well okay, if you're not, okay too. There was a period of time of when I was really SUPER DUPER emo. If I can remember, if any of you people wants to go read it up, i think it's the august15 post, october20 post the 5th point starting with"You were always there for her". Which pretty much led to that november thing. So we can say things started falling from there. To continue, what is this about really?
Let us now name names. Whenever we would go out, me, alvin, kwei yee, hui ying, ching siew, cherry to a movie or anything, somehow and someway, hui ying would talk to alvin all the time if I did not talk to her. I tested it too. I totally kept quiet one whole bus trip, sat by myself, and she was chatting away happily with alvin. Even sat there silently seething at myself as she attempts to draw a portrait of alvin. I was her friend first. She was my buddy. He was my best friend. If they conversate with each other what was i left with? Oh, and No one noticed anything out of place with what i was doing too, that is to say, blasting emo music. Btw, read the october20 post for more info on that. The whole of last year, she meant more to me than anything. I always saw her as the sister i never had, someone i can actually turn to, someone that makes me feel like I'm actually someone that matters. It was a platonic love, you might say. Platonic means purely spiritual; free from sensual desire, free from physical desire, in a relationship between two persons of the opposite sex. I didn't care about getting a girlfriend anything or whether anyone at school talked to me or anything, you know why? Because I had her, or rather them to talk to at the end of the day. They were the fuel that kept me going. When she broke that friendship with me, the bond that holds all of us together as close as before naturally broke. Now, I rarely even go out with friends to watch movies or anything. Because they have their friends. And that bunch of names I mentioned up there? They were my friends, and I was their friends, so every outing with them was most likely the happiest times of my secondary school life.
What am I saying? I was jealous. I was green eyed, and really really jealous. I was jealous of alvin. He always had everything I wanted. Height, being an example. That naturally suavity being another. He always stole my jokes too, and it always worked for him better than me. BUT I DIDN'T CARE. BECAUSE I HAD HER TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, HER TO HANG OUT WITH, HER TO LAUGH AT MY INCREDIBLY LAME JOKES, SHE DIDNT CARE ABOUT WHO I WAS BECAUSE SHE LIKED ME JUST THE WAY I WAS. SO IMAGINE, HOW MUCH IT WOULD PIERCE THE HEART WHENEVER SHE PREFERED TO HANG OUT WITH HIM THAN ME. BUT I DIDNT CARE ABOUT THAT EITHER. BECAUSE I KNOW SHE DOESN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE ( OR DOES SHE? ) AND THAT I WOULD ALWAYS BE A FRIEND. So everything fell apart after that, my whole life, my whole essence, what drives me on, what gives meaning to my life.
Alright alright. It might sound right now that I love her alot, and I admit, I DID. But, even then, it was just platonic love, I loved her as a sister, I loved her as the best friend i ever had. Also, I believe that event was what really led to all that downturn in my life after that event. I lost a group of close friends. As a result, I got desperate for companionship and got myself a girlfriend of which the relationship was broken up 2weeks later. For the record, I blame myself for that breakup. And you know what was the most fscked up thing about breaking that friendship with hui ying? The very reason why hui ying wanted to break that friendship with me, was because she wanted me to become christian and stay away from alvin for a reason I wont divulge, or stay the way it is now and break the friendship with her. Now, if it was just a decision to convert or not I can accept. What's fscked up is that she's still friends with the very person she told me to stay away from, of which I refused. She was forcing me to choose between friends. No one in the world should ever have to make that decision.
My point being? This is the reason of which why I feel my life is just sad. These things keep happening to me. My friends would raher hang out with their friends, which I would hang out with my friends too except their my friends, and they're hanging out with their friends. So where does that leave me? Playing my handphone music and being bat shit crazy to keep myself entertained.
Okay, so I lied about keeping it short. Sue me. One last thing to end off. Something that happened to me which I would like to comment about. That something is NOT the above thing, so dont assume.
This is me.
Just as you have the right
to uphold your orals and principles,
I have my right
to just be who I want to be
despite others' displeasure.
As you criticise the things I do,
you are really cutting down your own right
for others' basic respect for your principles.
That is to say, this is me.
a 15year old looking through the world through the eyes of a child
Or as I like to put it, this is me,
batshit crazy, and nothing you say
can make me into who you want me to be.
This is me.
Hi, nice to meet you.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,10:03 PM
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
"I Melt With You"
Moving forward using all my breath,
Being friends with you was never second best,
And I saw the world crashing all around your face,
Never really knowing it was always mesh and lace.
I'll stop the world and melt with you
You've seen the difference
and it's getting better all the time
And there's nothing you and I won't do
I'll stop the world and melt with you
(You should know better) Dream of better lives the kind which never hate
(You should see) Trapped in a state of imaginary grace
(You should know better) I made a pilgrimage to save this human's race
(You should see) Never comprehending a race that's long gone by
(Let's stop the world) I'll stop the world and melt with you
(Let's stop the world) You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time
And there's nothing you and I won't do
(Let's stop the world) I'll stop the world and melt with you
The future's open wide
I'll stop the world and melt with you
(I'll stop the world) You've seen some changes and it's getting better all the time
And there's nothing you and I won't do
(I'll stop the world) I'll stop the world and melt with you
The future's open wide
I'll stop the world
I'll stop the world
I'll stop the world
I'll stop the world and melt with you
(I'll stop the world) You've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time
And there's nothing you and I won't do
(I'll stop the world) I'll stop the world and melt with you
I'll stop the world and melt with you (I'll stop the world and melt with you)
I'll stop the world and melt with you (I'll stop the world and melt with you)
And that's that. Okay, even though it's abit repititive, it's a great song. Go listen to it on youtube if you don't believe me =P!
Being friends with you was never second best =D.
[Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,3:14 PM
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Why did I sidetrack to all that? Simply put, because of what I want to say as of now. I am satisfied with my life. I may not be happy all of the time, I may be sad some of the time, but at least I'm happy most of the time. And, that's probably enough. So, ya might say that, yeah, I am happy with my life. I am satisfied with it, and nothing short of a major disaster can change that. Forget about emo! Emo is a waste of time lol ==". Sure, it's good to think about things once in a while looking emo, but don't let it take so much of your time that you miss out on your life =p! Make sure to stop and smell the roses, but not too close, because roses have thorns. And I think, isn't that sorta of what happiness is? Being satisfied with your life? Sure, I can and will say right now, of course there are things that I want, things that I feel will make life alot better. But, I will not let the thought of maybe not ever having what I want get me down! I have what I want to need in my life, and isn't that enough? Of course it is =).
Whoa. That is alot, of rheatorical shit right there. Now, back to business.(basketball)
Wanted to post something I found on a basketball blog. Yes, you heard me right, there are people willing enough and have enough time to actually blog a whole post about basketball. Man, are they living the life.
"If great point guards and centers are the Gods of the game, than great perimeter players are the humans—capable of great things, able to change the world, but limited by their relative lack of power to the Gods to change at their will, and not able to have their flaws forgiven. Pistol Pete was created to be the perfect basketball player, and was as quick and as fluid a ball-handler and shooter as ever played the game, but lacked the blessing of the gods, and, like Cesar or Alexander, fell humbled without achieving the holy grail or even an MVP award. Then the Messiah came. "
"Like Jesus, Jordan was all the more powerful because he contained the force of the divine wrapped in the trappings of humanity. Jordan was not gifted with Wilt or Shaq's dominating physical force, or Magic and Larry's ability to affect what was happening on the entire court when they had the ball in their hands; he needed to be humanly perfect to be great, and like Jesus, he was humanly flawless-the quickness, the leaping ability, the coordination, the ball-handling, the mid-range shot, the defense, the relentless determination, everything. He even lives in parables; of being cut from his high school team, of perfecting his defense and his jump shot, of playing through the flu, of treating every scrimmage like a game 7. But as with Jesus, Michael only appeared to be mortal-he held inside his human trapping the ability of the divine, the ability to produce miracles when needed, to walk across water and over Craig Ehlo and Byron Russell and come out with six championships."
Things I highlight in red, are things that I feel are well said. Me personally, I have no idea what position I can or would like to play. Would like to, is an easy question. If I really had a choice, I want to be a small forward. Or a shooting guard. Or a CENTER! But alas, answering those three choices respectively, I'm too small to be a small forward ==", I don't have that perimeter shooting that comes with that shooting guard, and probably the easiest to answer, I simply do not have the god given height, talent nor size to be a center. In fact, I don't have the talent nor height to play any of these positions. Thinkingrealistically, yeah, most I can train hard at shooting and ball handling and be a shooting guard.
Now for the harder question, the position that I can play. Well realistically for my height, the position that would be right for me is point guard, usually the shortest player on the team. BUT, lol, I don't have that ball handling nor the court vision. Well, I "personally" think I have at least a higher than average court vision, but I don't have that good passes. Sure I could train, but that would take me time.
My point being? I wanna train basketball. I want to be the greatest shortest player that ever lived lol. My plan is to use either basketball or volleyball DSA to get into SAJC, just in case my marks don't cut it. 10 for both arts and science to get in! Granted, arts would be easier for it has 5 subjects. I used to think B3s would be nice. Sadly, in O levels this is not the case. 5 B3s = 15 points = Uh oh.So yeah, i would use the DSA if I don't get at least A2 for my maths, sciences and english. If I do, well that would be grrreat.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end. [Larry Bird] [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
8:45 PM
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Just wanted to say that I'm moving house mid-august. So I'm worried about how will they mail Olevel stuff to me and such. Hopefully everything will go fine. [Keith wrote this, thanks for reading! =D]Y,
9:43 PM