3 more freakin days..

the first week of exams is over and its practically over.. only BM paper tomorrow.. and then english and EST on tuesday.. and on wednesday is EST and history...

i cant say i did ok in the first week.. i guess its expected if you dont study..

ok back to the weekend.. yesterday my family and my aunt went to E&O for my dad's birthday dinner.. he turns 48 this year.. but his actual birthday is 29th which is tomorrow.. the food was great... it was a buffet.. sorry there is no pictures.. i didnt take any.. but it ended badly.. stupid manager rejected the coupon.. lazy to elaborate so just use your imagination..

then when we reached home, i went straight to the tv and watched Manchester United vs Boro.. i missed the first 15 minutes i think.. united were already 2-1 up with goals from Nani and Rooney... Aliediere scored for Boro.. then in the second half, Rooney back-heeled to Tevez and he put the ball at the back of the net.. Tevez scored another goal later.. he shot it and it hit the defender... the ball deflected high up and just dropped into the goal..

Nani

Rooney

Tevez

oh i didn't go for training yesterday.. had school and there was exam so.. will go back to training on wednesday..

i guess that's all.. i aint gonna say "Ivan, out!" anymore.. so END...

ok i know i'm supposed to be studying but i just cant stand it! nothing seems to be going in my thick skull..

so a few days ago, i got my chance to drive again.. not much, just the usual rounds at the empty car park in front of the shop houses.. i can say i did pretty well.. and my mum told me to give it a go on the road so i turned out to the road and drove up the slope.. it was pretty good but i was very careful..

and the usual training routine on Saturday, went for the morning runs.. i feel i shud try to finish my laps quicker... i've been stuck at the 33minute - 34minute range for 3 weeks! and i got a small but bad blister (or whatever you wanna call it).. had to train with that blister so i struggled with my movement on court.. but still did ok..

there were also football matches shown live on tv Saturday night.. it was Manchester United against Aston Villa.. United won the match 4-1 thanks to goals from Rooney, Ferdinand, and Giggs..

so today i woke up at 11am.. sms-ed Nicole and Justin.. they were at their church just a 5minute walk from my house.. so i had my breakfast, took a bath, and walked there.. they had this fund raising for the youth camp so i went to support Nicole.. bought the muffins she sold and it tastes pretty good.. unfortunately, i couldn't stay long because my aunt was on her way to my house and nobody was home except the maid.. so i had to rush home and it was so HOT! i was already sweating when i met Nicole and Justin..

so my aunt made lunch and we ate.. invited Nicole and Justin to come over to my house for awhile but they had no transport.. maybe next time.. the whole afternoon was boring, i had to pretend i was studying.. so at night, i had BBQ chicken for dinner.. so i guess that's it.. i'm sitting in my room hoping to find out the results of the F1 Brazillian Grand Prix... i hope Kimi becomes world champ.. i guess i'll stop here... its 2.30am already.. exam is on tuesday.. wish me luck.. XD

the one thing i have to do is STUDY!

Ivan,out!

friday was a holiday.. i have to wake up early for a holiday... my mum decided to take me for dana... in other words, we bought food for the monks at this sanctuary at Penang Hill... went to the sanctuary at around 11am.. it was called Isivana.. there were only two monks that day though... english educated monks mind you.. here are some pictures i took...

Isivana.....

at the back of the lodge...

a river running below..

and a Buddha statue..

after dana i went to a temple.. its just like a 30seconds drive down from the lodge.. its called Bat's Cave Temple.. there was a cave, but definitely no bats... not that i'm complaining.. haha... once again, i'm just gonna show you the pictures...

Tua Pek Kong..

Goddess of Mercy

went for lunch at a coffee shop nearby and went home after that....

so saturday morning, morning runs as usual.. not good this time.. finished at around 33minutes 50seconds.. and to Max and Nicholas, if you are reading, i never said my times were the best... i only said i improved.. =.= so after the usual exercises, booked court again and played with Max, Nicholas, Ryan, and Ryosei... training after that was the same.. but the guy everyone never wanted to see back in training, Raaman, is back!! argh... gave him a hard time though.. haha.. so after training i took my shower and my parents picked me up and went to Light Street (was it Light Street?)... there is this Bar/Restaurant called LA Galaxy (yes, like the club)... the food there is awesome, well, kinda...

i'm kinda lazy to talk more so i'll just stop here... till next time...

Ivan, out!

FINALLY!! the painting is over!! no more painting today.. yesterday we painted the classrooms on the ground floor (barely).. there was no assembly yesterday morning.. so went to the field for football with Vickram's class.. played wonderful football... managed to score a few goals.. i even set up a few of the goals...

after football, we got started on the painting.... Mr. Samad was furious after catching us playing football earlier when we were supposed to be painting.. so we painted until 11.30am and went for our break.. we were supposed to continue painting after eating but knowing guys and football, we decided to play again before continuing..

so this time, it was form 4 against the form 5... those who finished PMR didn't even play football and we, who haven' even started out exams yet, are playing.. isn't Free School just awesome? NO! haha.. it was 12 against 12 and the extras have to watch from the sides as substitutes... i was in the first team and i stayed on the field for the whole match.. scored a few goals again...

so today, no more painting.. after 2 long biology periods, left class to join Melvin's class this time.. but no football... instead we played BADMINTON (yes Nicole, squash player here played badminton in school just now)... played a full 120minutes with Melvin, Dexter, Mervyn,Justin (yup, he cut class and joined me), and Vickram...

after that was our recess.. what happens after recess is is totally useless... slept most of the time.. so that wraps up both days.. tomorrow i will be playing football again.. my class has PE tomorrow... i guess that's it...

oh wait i forgot one thing......... JUSTIN IMPROVED HIS FOOTBALL!! but he's not so hot in badminton... work harder Justin! XD

Ivan, out!

i beat my time again... last week i did 12 laps in 34.12, this week, i finished in 33.40... i woke up at 6.30am this morning and decided to go back to bed.. it was a mistake.. i finally woke up and i checked the time it was 7.10am.. i was supposed to leave my hse at 7.30am.. so i rushed and left at 7.45am.. when i arrived at Bukit Dumbar, the team just started running.. lucky me.. today is the first time i've seen Max and Nicholas in a very long time.. they just finished PMR..

so after runs we did exercises as usual.. and we found out that Max CAN'T skip! its funny when he does it... LOL.. after runs Max and Nic bathed and headed for Queensbay.. but i have training.. booked a session and played for fun with Jee Nee, Andria, and Jonathan.. it was fun but Jonathan kept throwing his temper.. how un-gentleman like of him..

when training started i pretty much beat everyone but struggled against Kok Sin, my coach.. i lost to him 9-2.. then i played against Jisha... i didnt struggle but the score was unexpected.. 9-7.. then i played against Jonathan and i wiped him out 9-0.. haha.. he was soo pissed.. and finally, played against Dennis and beat him 10-9.. that match was fun..

took a nap at the squash court while waiting for my parents to come fetch me but most of the time i was sms-ing.. so i slept when i reached home..

went for dinner as soon as i woke up.. and just my luck, the restaurant was showing the live telecast of Manchester United against Wigan.. watched the first half then left the place.. went to Giant.. but i had Kee Tat updating me just now.. i'm definitely be watching the replay...

Manchester United won 4-0! that ends the so called "1-0 disease".. the first goal was scored by Carlos Tevez... shortly after, Cristiano Ronaldo scored and later scored another... Wayne Rooney finished a satisfying day by scoring another goal..

Tevez

Ronaldo

Rooney

so i guess that's it...

Ivan, out!

1-0

that is the score of the match between Manchester United and AS Roma.. the match was boring at first but United started to play better football and created many chances.. Wayne Rooney scored the only goal in the match for the Red Devils.. United now top their group in the Champions League and are favourites to go through to the knock-out stages...

back in action : Wayne Rooney

so school this week was totally whacked out.. on wednesday, Justin, Greg, Zac, Royce, myself and a few other guys volunteered to paint (yes.. PAINT) a section of the ground level of our school block A... we only had to scrape the walls on wednesday.. so before recess we still had out P.E. unfortunately the malays from our "wonderful" school hostel decided to play football today.. i mean, for god's sake! stay indoors during puasa man.. you are only cutting into our time.. sheesh! so its indians and chinese against the malays.. we were SO outnumbered.. so we lost and got humiliated.. i got so frustrated i started throwing myself around putting in two-foot tackles on them.. i think i managed to bruise one guy.. GOOD!

and so on thursday, we started painting the walls... we did a pretty good job for non-professionals.. but we couldn't cover the whole stretch.. so we had to continue today.. started at 7.30am... but this time, the guys mixed too much water with the paint.. bad idea! the paint was so watery it could barely stick! more work for us then.. we did our best and up till one point, we just couldn't take it anymore.. and it was recess time so Justin and i left and sat at the canteen.. after recess we didn't even bother to continue painting.. instead, we went to the field and played football under the hot sun.. i scored a few nice goals but i have to give credit to Justin and Kannah... Justin has improved alot in football and managed to intercept alot of the passes (but you still gotta work on your kick boy).. and then Kannah, wow! its been awhile since i've seen him play and he's a decent goalkeeper now..

so next monday, we have to continue painting.. but now we move in to classes.. how messed up is that? we paint classes which aren't ours! so tomorrow training as usual.. i'm gonna try to beat my revious time of 34mins and 12sec.. so i guess that's it..

Ivan, out!

UEFA Champions League

That's the score we Manchester United fans hope to see again this season...

So, the second round of the UEFA Champions League starts tomorrow morning.. Manchester United will play Italian side AS Roma.. i'll be waking up to watch the match so let's hope it isnt disappointing..

Cristiano Ronaldo & Ryan Giggs

AS Roms's captain, Totti

nothing much in school.. might have to paint classes tomorrow because i'm in some kinda program along with Justin, Greg, and Zac.. but hopefully its not tomorrow.. i wanna play football.. haha.. skipped class to play football with Melvin's class just now but it was kinda disappointing.. i had a chance to score but my shot didnt curl enough to be on target.. oh well, try again tomorrow.. i guess that's all for now.. Ciao!

Ivan, out!