Kedah Meet

Some memorable pics taken during the Kedah Meet, 14 to 15 November 2009:

Good job to them and all others from PST.

Exams suxorz

SPM (Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia) exam is currently underway and should be over in a week or two. Looking at some of the questions the SPM candidates are facing this year makes me grateful I'm not in Form Five anymore.

I wonder if anyone ever answered their questions in this manner before:

Looking at clouds

Saw some cool cloud formations this morning at PISA. I've always liked looking at clouds. So it's not a surprise that my school teachers have often told me to "get my head out of the clouds".

I like the way how the clouds "shroud" the mountain, as if engulfing it momentarily. Or rather, as if the storm is rolling over the mountain, consuming it in the process.

Kinda makes you feel something's gonna poke its nose through those clouds ...

Strong winds

There were some strong winds at PISA today which blew off a piece of the roof.

Something that belonged here (circled in red) ...

... ended up wrapped around a tree.

Fortunately, no one was hurt when the piece of the roof blew off. A smaller piece broke off later and landed on the road (can be seen beside the speeding black car). Luckily, there were no damages either.

Fun and games

Gave the kids some time off for fun and games on Sunday.

I didn't notice the guy in the background trying to get to his bag on the right.

The game was filled with a lot of yelling and grabbing. Khai Xin on the left seems to have stubbed her toe. Either that or she's in the "one-legged penalty zone".

It was actually against my better judgment to give the kids fun and games when we're in competition season and with so many meets just around the corner. But the turn-out during earlier workouts had been satisfactory so I thought, "oh, what the heck!"

I doubt that we could afford many more fun and games sessions, so the kids better enjoy whatever little RnR they get during training.

That time of the month

It's that time of the month again ... reporting time, I mean.

Yay! Reports, reports, and more reports!Blechhh!

Ordinarily, I don't mind doing reports and I'm actually very punctual with my reporting. But this month, it's a little harder to do any reporting since my POJ (Piece-of-Junk) computer keeps hanging, restarting and simply turning itself off every few minutes.

Non-techies won't understand what this means.

So, I slowly took my POJ computer apart, carefully removing each part and remembering where it came from and how to put it back.

Don't try this at home kids!

And voilà! Narrowed the problem down to a bad RAM. So after chucking that bad boy away, I re-assembled my computer and amazingly, it turns on and stays on! Hurray!!!

Hmmm ... but now I seem to have a bunch of screws left-over. Oh well, optional screws I guess.

Ok, so now with my computer fixed, let's get back to doing reports ...

... or maybe not. First things first, right?