Sunday, September 05, 2004
5th Sept 2004: SPH Family Day!
Went to Sentosa Siloso Beach 2dae with my cousins. It was rather late cos the actual events and registration starts at 9.30am. But we went there at 11.30am so we sort of missed out a lot of 'fun' activities.
So after all the admission and stuff, we went for lunch wif tasted sucky. Real sucky. We had pathetic mee siam, cold satay and hot dog bread as hard as rocks, the cheese on the hot dog was like, undescribably unappetising. So after stuffing down the 'buffet' lunch, we went to redeem the freebies - red bean ice cream, easily melted candy floss and soft pop corn. We realli hafta understand why they have to compromise their quality of food due to the accomodation of so many pple there.
After that, I played soccer wif my cousins and we had cuts and bruises on our feet cos we played without our shoes. So after we got bored of it, we formed ourselves into 2 grps and played the 'Olympics Beach Volleyball Man Finals' and my group won the
"GOLD MEDAL" after drawing 2 games and winning the deciding game 6-8.
And when my older cousins went to play soccer, I had to accompany my younger cousin which is already a sec 1 student,
TO DIG SAND! And obviously, I dug up the deepest hole possible and his hole beside mine was definitely inferior. Nevertheless, we decided to dig ferociously on opposite sides to create a link thru our holes. Then we poured water in and my hole being the lower hole, filtered out all the salt bubbles in the sea water. And for some reason, we began standing on the sand structure which was the linkage to the holes and stomp on it and it broke and we cleared the mess by putting all our used paper cups into the holes and asked the younger cousin to treasure hunt them in 2mins.
Anyway, right after that, we went to sunset bay to try our luck in renting kayaks cos we were so enthu abt it. Then the i/c said tt we had to wait for 1.5hrs before we can rent the kayaks. So its goodbye Sentosa and Welcome back to home at Serangoon Nth.
We played 'Olympics Badminton Men's Singles Semi-Finals' and I in total, won 1
Gold, 2
Silver and 1
Bronze 'medals' in the games. It's lame and windy, so it just dampens our spirits. : (
After playing Lf2 until 9.30, they went home and I began chatting wif Khaiboon and other seniors until 10-11 sth then went to watch GA2 until 12 before going to slp.
This was when I had an argument wif my father cos he was toking abt how bad my English was and he wanted to put me into British Council for tuition like I did in P6. Then I said tt I have no time and he said that how then would he be able to help in improving my English. Then I said that I will learn independently and that I was already improving my comprehension skills already, but he keeps harping on how my English has dropped from 72 to 67 to 64 this term and blah blah. Then i got fed up and asked him why must he harp on all my weaknesses all the time, comparing how bad my skin was with pple like my cousins which for some reason have better skin than me, my height as compared with my cousins when he isnt tt tall himself, when he noes that it is almost impossible to work everything out overnight and he just keeps harping on it. The worst thing is I don't feel any sense of achievement for everything that I've accomplishment ever cos when I got 3rd in class, my parents were like
"good. It's normal right?" or when I was saying how relieved and how emotional I was after the IH nite cos we achieved so much, they only said,
"What's there to cry about? It's nothing significant anyway." I mean sometimes they really don't understand me despite our close relationship and I really do wonder why must I work so hard to get good results. Why can't I just get a MSG of 3.6 and let them say the same things as well? Sigh.. I really wonder why... :(
Signing off,
KX
9/05/2004 07:03:00 PM
