Halfway Through This Year

Last night during ITAC prayers meeting, we did share about resolutions, where we asked about whether anyone could remember their resolutions set at the start of the year as well as anyone has achieved some of them or not.

Well, to me... I could still remember those list of resolutions which I put in front of my Gohonzon as well as being mentioned in the "opening months" of this blog. Well, I did achieved few of them... such as the IPPT victory last week. Meanwhile, I will continue to work hard, extremely hard to achieve the many rest of them. Throughout these 6 months or soo, gakkai activities and part-time studies have been keeping me busy. Especially gakkai activities, they had kept me occupied, and I been creating values and accumulating good fortune. These must not stop. And I must not stop. There's another 6 months to go to conclude whether 2008 will be a victorious one or a scr*wed one.

Blogging all these resolutions sounds like I am out to create victories in 2008. Well...I was underachieving these past years...just like Spain. The Spanish national football team had been perennial underachievers in football... but they have been proving to everyone that they can win as seen in Euro 2008. Well, they had broken their "karma" of "losing penalty-shootouts on 22 June" by beating the Italians on this very day this year. Then, they qualified for the final for the first time in 24 years by whacking the Russians(Sweet Revenge for the Dutch? When I was disappointed to see a attacking and exciting Holland being knocked out by the Russians...) by 3 goals last night. Come, Sunday night/Monday early morning, they will be facing the Germans in the final in the bid to win the trophy that they last won in 1964.

If the Spaniards can do it, I can also do it.
If I can overcome my "pull-up" flops and pass my IPPT, then i am should be able to achieve in other aspects of my life.

Meanwhile, here are some of the pictures taken during Chang Quan and Huiying's weddings using my own camera last Sunday.

Here's the Bride and Groom...

With my uncle's family...
With Our General Director, Mr Ong Bon Chai...
Me, Sihan and Doris... ITACians who attended the wedding...

A Victory that finally comes...

June 19 2008... the same day in which I spent the morning in the office reading up the "New Start" chapter of the Human Revolution, to prepare for the sharing at the upcoming ITAC prayer meeting.

I finally pass my IPPT in the same afternoon where particularly, I break my personal best in 2.4km run and of course, overcoming the "karma" of failing pull-ups . Many people may think that passing IPPT is like kind of chicken feet, but to me, it's a breakthrough in my life of recent years. For the past years, besides playing some football, overall my fitness is bad, and I don't even bother to go to gym for workout. It's the start of the 2008 that I enter gym on a weekly basis in a bid to improve my fitness and build my body. It was just late last year when I score a big fat ZERO in pull-ups without putting much effort but now I manage to do 6 pull-ups at one go. As for running, I endure my way up to complete that 6 rounds of run, with chanting of daimoku through my heart and thinking of all those positive things that may happen ahead and those blunders that happened in my past which inspires me NOT to lose this time.

While passing IPPT is just a first step to promotion as SGT (That's still a SGT course to go through for the first 2 weeks in July) and the first step to one of my resolutions of my "personal quadruple" to be achieved in August, it is not the end of my workout in gym. I will still be continuing to work out in gym and also attempting to improve the number of pull-ups. Meanwhile, I am thinking of playing some sports with fellow colleagues besides going gym during lunch hours, badminton or football anyone ?

Tomorrow's the first Combined Rehearsal of NDP. It will be a long day but it must be fun too. Meanwhile, hope to see my friends who are in the matching contingent of SCDF.

Feeling Emo ?

Before I start this post, once again I shall clarify something to everyone, especially those who knew about this story of mine.

After soo many months, I had got over her.

I really got over her.

Well... the question is... why do I feel soo "embarrassed" when I met her last Friday night ? It was at the same place where I was helping out with my fellow ITAC mates for the 90 Sec Presentation and she was there, attending another meeting over there. What a coincidence but soo what ? She gave me a very simple yet "may look soo reluctant" smile, or did she ??? But overall that evening, we were just merely passer-bys. just 擦肩而过...

It's disappointing to lose a friend after some incidents... but did she even give me a chance to know her better ? I am not blogging here to criticise her or something. Perhaps, she's not meant for me afterall. Merely a passer-by in my life but I want to thank her.

Without this saga which occurred not soo long ago, I will never have been stronger in my faith than before, involving more in gakkai activities and putting more efforts in polishing my life, doing my human revolution.

Alright... stop emoing about what's happen on that evening... after all, it's just a small matter thing when you met someone you knew which you never seen for quite a long time. While on this occasion where I mentioned earlier, I was doing some touch-ups on the props for the 90 sec presentation with my fellow ITAC mates. Well, I really cherished those moments doing things for Kosen Rufu along with my ITAC brothers and sisters. (Not to forget, my chapter side, though.)

And there it is, the actual day of the Nationwide SD meeting. It was also the same occasion when I was "officially" back to SD, taking up the CIC role again. Like what I told Jiyang previously during a dialogue with him, I am ready to give myself a 2nd chance as a CIC, after not doing well previously in my NPSD days.

The flag is nice huh...

Speaking of ongoing Euro 2008, I really respect the Dutch. They proved me wrong (I did blogged about them as being a team disunited, lack of Itai-Doshin Spirit, as proven in history.)

No one expected them to beat the current World Champions and its Runners Up by 3 goals, and it is not a one-man team, relying on a striker by the name of Ruud Van Nisterooy. There were also attackers like Van Persie, Van Der Vaart, Wesley Sneijer, Dirk Kuyt, Huntelaar, Robben... etc. A team full of talent.

Could they win the trophy which they last won 20 years ago? By the way, their current coach, Marco Van Basten, a legendary goal-poacher for his country and AC Milan, was the star of

Euro'88.

I shall not blog for too long... need to catch some sleep for Germany-Austria final group game clash. A do-or-die one.

我爱的人...不是我的爱人

She's there.... she's destined to be mine...... but she wants diamonds... but I always can't afford to have diamonds... something I always fail to achieve...

I am not talking about yet another love tale of my life.(Of course, I won't like someone who is THAT materialistic. And well in real life, if only there's a right person who is really there for me rather than "我爱的人不是我的爱人, 她心里每一寸都属于另一个人" or those one-sided, broken relationships or whatsoever relationship karma...) That "she" refers to the Sergeant rank that I am wanting for... come this August. Though it's gonna be bigger responsibilities in NS, it also means pay raise!!! But too bad... I have to overcome the "Pull-Up" karma. Those "diamonds" that I am saying refers to passing IPPT.

Last Tuesday was such a disappointing day. I could only do 3 times... rather than the passing standard of 6. No point of doing other stations when I got to achieve 15 points in other IPPT stations before I can retake just pull-up in the retest, since my scores in other stations are just average, I chose to leave before the 2.4 km run. There's 18 days left for me to pass the entire IPPT and qualified for that SGT course.

After some other disappointing moments which happened in my life recently, it seems that passing IPPT and going for the SGT course is the only thing that I can realistically achieve at this stage.

It's all or nothing.

Well... I missed my NDP training today. Not feeling well today... feeling emo perhaps. Nowadays I been also involving in the preparations the 90 sec presentation for ITAC as well as catching some EURO 2008 matches after the exams... while sacrificing some sleep for all these, I spent lunch hours going gym, training for my IPPT rather than taking some power nap. Meanwhile, something happened to my cousin. I don't wish to blog what really happen to him... for now.

I just don't wanna get tired... I just wanna play my part in the preparations for the 90 sec presentations alongside my fellow ITAC mates and other gakkai activities and encourage everyone around me. I don't wish to fall by all these mixed feelings and bitter disappointments...(Oh... are they really bitter ???)

Finally, to end this post, I shall post this video which has a part of its lyrics as the title of this blog.



我爱的人 by 林宥嘉... he's done better than the original singer, Jordan Chan... Though Jordan's version also not bad and his expressions in his MV is more EMO... it's such a sad song afterall when it relates about you like someone, but she is attached with someone else, and it seems that you do not have a chance afterall... that kind of sh*tty feelings...

Ha... call me king of 苦情歌(Bitter love songs) if you like...

It's Over.

And I don't wish to talk about how are the papers.

What I can say is they are tougher than what I expected... or perhaps I am just being complacent after clearing 2 papers which deemed to be soo chicken feet last year.

ACCA is not easy afterall... and that's a long, long way to go.

Now, I shall plan how my "June holidays" should go about. I don't wanna spend the whole month sinking into the passion and fever of football. Yeah... Euro 2008.

How times flies... it's seems like yesterday when the Greeks broke the hearts of the Portugueses. And I was disappointed back then... they don't deserve to win with such negative tactics. The likes of Figo, Rui Costa and C Ronaldo deserved though.

This edition of the tournament though...there's something missing. That's my beloved three lions...England. They did not perform well at the Qualifiers and seriously flopped in front of their home fans at Wembley, against Croatia in the decisive match. And it cost a place in the final tournament taking place in Switzerland and Austria starting this weekend.

Alright...no Gerrard, no Beckham, no Rooney, no Terry, no Lampard... but that's Torres, Fabregas and Casillas. I shall root for Spain in this tournament. But too bad... Raul isn't part of the squad. He deserves to be there though. Other teams good to watch are Portugal, France, Italy and Germany. I don't really like the Dutch though. They are a good team yet they are always disunited. Always the lack of itai-doshin spirit. (Many in Body, One in Mind...)

Meanwhile, my house is open for viewing of this once every 4 years 2nd biggest football tournament after the World Cup.

Well... June is not just about football. I shall contribute more and WELL... in my gakkai activities, most notably, preparations for September's Chapter Friendship Gathering. There's NDP rehearsals and trainings coming up also... around 2 more months to National Day, as well as various ITAC activities such as the upcoming Nationwide SD meeting. I just wanna create values in all these activities.

Not to forget, continue to go gym and train for pull ups.

Half-Time