ACJC Part 1 (Flip Fantasia)

Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special down here in Birdland this evening. a recording from Blue Note Records.
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all that and liong dragging his "hiyak". i seriously cldn't continue the dance when he first did that. "dicknesh" was more than amused, staring at liong as though he was mad. honestly, i had fun during orientation. i know of many who didn't. but i was feeling alone in acjc so i kinda forced myself to make friends. i knew i had to enjoy my orientation or regret it later. and i sure enjoyed it. the diamond hawkers. so many funny moments with them. us spitting on vik during a game, one of the guys and i running out during shoe hockey after vik asked the "drop dead gorgeous ppl" out. my fondest memory? j-ang and liong daring each other to chat this guy up in the bus before the girls stepped in and told that poor dude to excuse our crazy guy friends.
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jump to the jam boogie woogie jam slam
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then 1sg4 comes into pic along with the dragonboaters. i like to think of my class as the misfits. "valentino" rhys, "tubby/jukebox" melvin, "lumpy/coinslot" ivan, "no-balls" henry, "owen" yuda.. just to name a few.. and most imptly, "lian" lynn, "lao da"liang, and "shuwen" justin with me, xiao koon, in tow. i really enjoy the times together, be it chatting with our gp teacher, crapping with mr how (our econs and form tutor) while ignoring jess, ky and kel at the our door staring in, negotiating for longer recess with "lao shi" (he's the head of chinese!) and rhys and i trying to beat each other at handing up maths assignments (nerd alert!!). skipping phy lectures was smth we all looked forward to. jin and i found tiny thrills in sneaking sweets into our mouths and not getting caught while ppl around us were all swooped down by mdm koh. and as unbelievable as it sounds, we watched castaway as a gp thing, skipping maths lecture in the process. plus sg3 next to us were annoyed to bits by our constant knocking on the thin container wall between our classes.. they ended up replying.
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bust the dialect, i'm the man in command
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mr how has to be my fave tutor of all time in acjc. he made econs fun. even our "project" was enjoyable, my grp coming up with the concept of a bendy double decker bus. after our presentation, he asked for permission to bring it up during lecture. we all agreed naturally. sg6 was always trying to steal him from us as they had him as a tutor too. but we loved him too much to let him go over to them. muahaha. mr how didn't even make punishment feel like punishment. he teased and joked so much in the lecture, calling ky "yandao" and jess was "leonardo di caprio". steph told me that in one of his lectures with their grp, liong and another friend were trying to see who could look more constipated. and liong won naturally.. only thing was that mr how saw it. he even asked "why the boy with the red face looked constipated". and i really look up to mr how. he did so much for me.. helping me back into acjc after my screw up and remembering me on the day i went back for my a level results. i salute him.
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come flow with the sounds of the mighty mic master
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and oh, i was really determined to make friends too.. i didn't want to know popular ppl.. didn't want to hang with the cool crowd.. i just wanted friends. futsal gave me a chance. the dragonboaters had a stand and i helped out that morning. got to know a few more people better. then i was trying to get my p.e. teacher to buy fishballs from me.. then he made this other guy buy from me.. in the end, the teacher ended up buying for that guy and himself. that "guy" became somewhat of a friend. plus, he's such a brother. when he saw me later at the futsal, i tried to exchange my fishballs for the hotdogs that the soccer dudes were selling. hunger was getting to me. then he offered me a bite of his. later that morning, he offered me some of the noodles he had 'cos he knew i was hungry. schweet!! and from that day on, kong (alongside liong) became of the crappiest guys i knew in school whom i could count on for his cheeky grin to make me smile.
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rhyming with the mic, i'm bringing suckers to disaster
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the dragonboaters were a fun bunch too.. the snrs even more. ray was the one i called before i got my O level results back. i cried so hard and he didn't even panic, asking me to keep calm and to call him once i get my results. baojin consoled me after i was posted to YJC. yiling, dom and coach worked hard at getting me back into acjc, calling me so frequently during orientation, telling me not to lose hope.
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Bucoo ducks but i still rock Nike
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dragonboating is an incredible sport. to those who scoff at it, i tell u that it truly is a team sport. pulling your own wgt. look at basketball.. soccer.. it's kinda easy to be a one-man show if that person excels. but in the boat, u have to pull your own wgt or impose on others. and that doesn't happen. i got to be the front man once. it was tough. everyone looks to the front pair to set the timing. being the drummer during a comp is not easy too. i did that once for the mixed boat. shouted myself hoarse and wong was seriously splashing a lot of water at me.. training was dead tough.. the punishment was worse. dragonboating is one hell disciplined sport. all the other ccas seriously thought we were crazy with our hardcore training. who runs 10 times round the track, stopping at each quarter of each round to do push ups, followed by sit-ups, pull-ups then burpees? a lot of ppl were impressed. kong even gave me a "thumbs up" once. and super circuits. machiam like army like that. and the diet was strict!
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with the razzle dazzle, a star i might be
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but we have our fun times too! went to watch iron ladies together and we laughed so hard. even our "initiation" dinner was hilarious. allow us to get to know each other better and explore gan's huge pad. v-day was funny too. the jnr girls bought all the jnr guys hershey's cookies and cream while the guys got us beanie babies. the guy snrs tortured them.. made them pick out a girl to give the beanie baby to. and they had to ask the girl nicely too! i got wong and he was really obliging. "i think you're drop dead gorgeous. please accept this doll" if u were under the scrutiny of the crazy guy snrs, u wld say that too! ahahah..
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scribble drabble scrabble on the microphone i blabble
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whenever it was time to break-diet, we wld go nuts. on my first break-diet day, we all went for kfc and long johns. i swear, i never felt so sick before. puked it out. felt horrid after that. my stomach cld not take food that rich! i had gone off carbonated drinks and deep fried food by then. the next sch day, i felt much better.. settled for one prata (yesh, prata was forbidden too). my stomach was good.. hee hee.
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as i flip the funky words into a puzzle
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sadly, i had to quit dragonboating after my first year. i had a right shoulder injury which spread to my upper back. it wasn't funny. had to go to the physio once a fortnight (somehow always during chinese or econs lecture or econs tutorial after 1st 3 mths). at the same time, i had poor time mgt.. my grades dropped like hell and i barely made it through the promos. i knew i needed the time if i wanted to do well for my A's.
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yes yes yes on and on as i flex, get with the flow words manifest
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but it wasn't all peachy. i wasn't close to sa5 then.. closer to the dboaters. none of my classmates were dboaters too. there were a couple of times where i felt neither here nor there.. that there were times i felt awkward to join them so i wld just hang with some of my classmates.. but it felt superficial, like i was using them. guilt and confusion seriously killed me at those times. i guess.. it was one of the reasons that i quit too.. oh well, i don't really regret the path that i took at the end of the day. it might mean that i wldn't be here blogging away.
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feel the vibe from here to Asia
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lastly, the 74 gang.. crazy us.. lynn was the prez, clarinda was the vice-prez and i was the vice-vice-prez. it included chang, pigeon, mal, ky, rabbit, steph and sometimes, jude wld join us. jude.. he was kinda worried that i thought he was gay after he and ky were acting intimately.. it was hilarious really. heez.. i guess that's it for today.. shall continue part 2 tmr!
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Dip trip, Flip fantasia