Raffles Cross Country

Let's Revive this RIXC BLOG!!!

2010-06-07T13:25:00.001+08:00

HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO

LONG TIME NO POST!!!

IT'S TIME TO REVIVE THIS SUPER DEAD BLOG

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

HAHA
Sine Finibus =D

Hey guys!

2009-10-23T13:39:00.001+08:00

It's the end of EOYs! (At least to most of you all). Miss the wonderful times with you all.

2009-10-10T00:40:00.002+08:00

guys what is this? why so empty? all your lives so boring ah?

now let me give you all an insight into the life of a cross-country retiree, something which i'm sure none of you have experienced yet, though rest assured you all will in due course.

first and foremost you lose your tan. i used to have nice, singlet-shaped tan lines that left my arms looking all bronzed and sexy. now, having transferred to an indoor sport, i hardly have any tan lines. even if i do get some from pe, its those ugly t-shirt ones that leaves my arm looking like a yin-yang symbol.

secondly, you get fat. yup, sad but true, cross country retirees do get fat. and if even i get fat, what more you guys xD. my abs have lost its definition, while my obliques have certainly shrunk in size. obliques are the muscles above your hip bones, the one you get from doing side-planks. on another note, do do your exercises, they really help.

on a related issue, i do now have to watch what i eat. contrary to popular belief, quitting cross country does NOT mean you get to eat what you like. far from it! rather you have to watch your diet more than ever. when you're training you know that whatever you eat will be burned off anyway, be it on that 12km long run on saturday or the 40min ez run. now, you know that whatever goes in, stays in.

but there are certainly benefits. i do not walk around the school wincing at every step i take, as a result of that killer interval set the day before that made my body ache like mad. i get to sleep in on saturday mornings legitimately, seeing how i have nothing on and nothing to skip, for the matter.

you also start to appreciate competition more. now when i browse the newspapers and see advertisements for the new balance real run, or the nike human race, i get tempted to just signup and run. this never happened when i was training competitively. i remember dreading before every race, including vomiting my lunch out for the two times that i took part in track nats. to happen once is bad enough, but twice? i was making it a habit, man. i hated competing. now, i'm itching to run and compete again, though the thought of training kinda puts me off. but i think i will join some race again, in due course.

that's all i have for now(partly cause i'm lazy ._.) but yea, cross is not as bad as it seems. train hard guys, good luck.

Cbox Up

2009-09-05T22:55:00.001+08:00

Sorry for waiting so long for this cbox

Its up and you can tag anything you want. Spout Crap and Nonsense but just remember not to do anything stupid.

=)

YO YO YO

2009-07-30T22:36:00.000+08:00

Hey Guys,

Stop making it sound so emo that sec 4s are leaving, in reality, its only me wilbert yiyan and hongen (who is supposed to come training but haven't come yet).

And haha, we have not officially passed over yet (it happens on prometheum day my dear juniors), so haha stop trying to kick us we feel totally unloved =(

Another thing, Ben can you hurry up and put the tag board back its damn boring without the tagboard.

Haha cheers. Seniors love juniors. Juniors need seniors.

GL (on behalf of the very very awesome and fantastic batch of sec 4 cross country runners!)

New

2009-07-30T20:09:00.002+08:00

Now that the sec 4s have crossed, now comes another new beginning =)

All the best to everyone of you
Sine Finibus,

Ben

Cross Country!

2009-07-18T21:14:00.001+08:00

Hi all,

The sec 4s will either be going to JC or they will be only coming on Saturdays. I guess.

Nevertheless, we are still a team and we will still strive for the best! See you around.

Blog Dead!

2009-06-18T22:14:00.001+08:00

Dead Blog

2009-04-17T18:41:00.003+08:00

My Gosh this blog is decaying. The last post was 24 march. Now its 17 april

Ok now for the regular update:

TRACK NATS HAS STArTED!!! (i noe it's a bit late but who cares)
We might not have done to well for cross country but at least we still have track to fight for. So don't give up, we are all as a team and we win it as a team.

400, 800, 1500, 2000, 3000, 4x400. We can do it.

Sine Finibus!!

16 more hours to go

2009-03-24T17:02:00.001+08:00

16 more hours before the race we have been all training hard for. Raffles Cross Country is ready and raring to go.

2009-03-04T20:18:00.004+08:00

3 WEEKS LEFT.
(If you haven't already marked 25th March on your calendar, now would be a good time to do so.)

Oh, and the chatbox seems to have disappeared...
Offering a reward of (insert reasonable-sounding amount) for its safe return!

... nah, just kidding about the reward part.

No, seriously, where did the chatbox go?

RIXC expands into FaceBook!

2009-02-22T19:15:00.007+08:00

As Ben has already mentioned in one of his previous e-mails, a RAFFLES CROSS COUNTRY group has been established on FaceBook! (set up on the 19th/20th Feb I think)

Link to the group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=55661535043
[GRP NAME: Ex/Present RI Cross Country]

So if you have a FaceBook account, don't delay, click into da link and join the RIXC group today! Dang, this sounds like an advert.
(NOTE: You need to have a FB account to view the page)

I believe Ben has already sent out invites (to the FB group) to some of us via e-mail. If you don't feel like clicking the link above (maybe it's a virus, heh heh) you can just access it from your e-mail.

And so we end off with the usual...
Sine finibus

Interesting Quotes...

2009-02-21T20:29:00.006+08:00

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(On WINGS C'ships race day...)

(Wears number tag on shirt front)
Random guy: "OMG this number tag is damn heavy - keeps flopping around when running"
Derek: "Now you know how it feels like to be a girl and run =P"

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(Long run today)
GL: Ben, you see your whole family full of leaders. Got so many prefects. Then you leh?
Ben: Wha-at?
GL: You should have the leadership gene mah
Cheng Lu: Maybe it's a recessive allele...

The Return

2009-02-08T20:42:00.002+08:00

WooHoo!!

Sam says he is coming back tomorrow!

The return of a long lost companion.
The return of Yeong Yang's accomplice

2009-02-07T22:40:00.012+08:00

I never knew Seow had a dog until I read the post below o.O

Anyone recognise this pair of shoes...?

Yeah well you should cos they'll be your future pair of racers for this year. =P
The shop attendant said the Size 9.5 shoes weigh about 130g, which is seriously quite light. So imagine the weight of a pair of 6-7 size shoes on Reuben and Shafiq! And of course, we have the double-digit-size people such as WWW. But it doesn't really matter much.

Anyway...

Treadmill frenzy!!

I believe that was the first time *most* of us have been onto the NB Shop treadmill, no?

Yeah, the pictures were taken on Thursday, so the Friday people won't be in them =(

And on a completely different note...

omg omg Sean looks so so so so different in an RJC PE T-Shirt!!!! *Yes, I know this is very random*

But before we end this post, I'd like to direct you to Yi Yan's blog (look towards the links on the right) and read the Feb 7 post. It gives another insight to the concept of "Seow-ness". =D

Sine finibus

Landmark and Trivia

2009-02-07T22:04:00.002+08:00

Hi guys,
Today was another historic moment for the Raffles X-C team as we had our first LONG RUN at Bedok Reservoir.

on a completely unrelated note...
Did you know that Yeong Yang's dog is called yoyo? He says that from today we can call him seow yoyo.

Sine Finibus

o.O XCountry library mugging!

2009-01-29T22:20:00.008+08:00

Let's start off with a quote from SEAN. =)
"Walao, in my four years of being in Raffles Cross Country, I have NEVER seen a time when so many crossers gather together to study" -Sean Lim

... Okay, so maybe not everyone was studying. We had some people like Ben flipping through some magazines (Reader's Digest?) to look for *certain types of* pictures and forgetting to put the magazines back at the end of the day. And then Leeni and Derek were arguing about sleeping in class for some time. And we also found a really really really thick Biology book which was so thick that it's probably taller than most of your rulers.

Pics were taken before today's (28/1/09) training. Enjoy!

And we end off with an amazing picture... The ultimate >.< face

EVER seen EVERest with specs? (excuse the pun)

=P

Sine finibus

2009-01-26T21:45:00.012+08:00

Heya, in case you haven't noticed yet, there's a new gadget towards the right side of the blog!

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No, not the clock!

Scroll down a little...

Not there yet...

Almost there....

If this post is still at the top, you should be able to see it from here =)

I've decided (some time ago) to compile past photos into a FaceBook album instead of smacking them all onto this blog, cos there's a limit to the number of photos you can upload onto Blogger. So for those of you who haven't seen the pictures from last year's Learning Journey to KL, the link is just there. Actually, Ben has another album, but I can't put his link there unless he adjusts his FB settings. (*poke*, *poke*, Ben)

So I guess that's it for this post.

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!
新年快乐！
あけまして　おめでとうございます！
(Don't bother putting the Japanese one into a translator cos it probably doesn't work)

Sine finibus

Candid Shots from yesterday's race

2009-01-18T14:28:00.003+08:00

Prize presentation this Tuesday, still awaiting more details...

Race tomorrow

2009-01-16T16:40:00.002+08:00

There's a race tomorrow, and we are all prepared to have fun, a good head-start, and experience! Haha!

Raffles Trail De-Briefing

2009-01-10T23:40:00.013+08:00

The Raffles Trail on Friday seriously went quite well (Of course that's a good thing!) Other than the occasional not-very-noticable screw ups from time to time, the whole thing felt quite good... Especially for the parts during which our model Sam Soh presented about our jerseys and official race attire =) Yes, I'm very sure you can still remember what he presented about... =P

Okay, on to the main points.

Sec 3s... first of all - Welcome back from OBS! You all were really lucky cos it didn't rain during OBS this year. (Yes, the temperature in Pulau Ubin drops by ALOT when it rains) Hopefully some of you have been paying attention to what we did during the Raffles Trail two days ago cos your batch is going to be spearheading next year's Raffles Trail for the batch of 2013! =P (Yea, we've been using the same format for our Raffles Traill booth the past two or three years)

Sec 1s and 2s, it was seriously nice to hear some of your XCountry experiences after having spent one or more years in RIXC. And in one year's time, you all will be helping out next year's Sec 4 batch with the Raffles Trail, so hopefully some of you guys picked up some pointers to take note of as well. ;)

On a less serious note, it was nice to relieve some Sec 1 memories (when our current Sec 4 batch was Sec 1) by looking through some old photos taken in 2006. Come to think of it, it feels kinda weird to know a batch 3 years older than us and a batch 3 years younger than us o.O

And, of course, some pictures to accompany this post! (The ones that some of you were so despo to see during the Raffles Trail) These are the pictures in one of Mr. Lim's CDs, the ones that were taken in Year 2006, when some of us were really, really sma... ... ... ... never mind.

"The Shi Kai picture"

Can you tell who's who?

And as usual, this post ends off with...

SINE FINIBUS.

3-Picture Story!

2008-12-31T22:13:00.003+08:00

I can't think of anything else to post for now, so I'll post a story consisting of only three pictures with completely no narration and let the pictures speak for themselves!

See you for Fast Run @ Bedok Reservoir, 8 am tomorrow!

Stan Chart

2008-12-09T23:24:00.008+08:00

Team consisting of Derek, Mchia, Kokpeng, Chenglu, Natty and me ran Stan Chart.

When race results come out I will update!

And stay tuned for Derek's article in stan chart!

standard chart

2008-12-06T10:44:00.000+08:00

our blog is like almost dead.. no one tag or post

Anyway, gd luck to those going for stand chart tmr! hope you all get top 5 then can win some attractive prizes. Sry i can't run, got a cast on. M chia running in my place.

suite life of zack and cody is super funny...laughing like hell. everyone shld watch it

ben

Have fun

2008-11-26T22:25:00.001+08:00

Test test (Yes, its my first post)

Have fun guys. Sorry I can't go with you.

Haha Alas

2008-11-24T21:47:00.000+08:00

Haha haven't posted like since forever.

Yes we are finally going for a trip together!

Like so friggin cool its like a historic moment.

Lets have fun there! (please interpret this cleanly)

Cheerios!

Sine Finibus

GL

2008-11-12T22:33:00.000+08:00

Er, what's going on at the chatbox? o.O

@ Ben: While you were at this blog, you coulda at least taken the liberty to re-link your own blog lol. But nvm, it's already been done.

If you haven't already done so, check the-group for the deatils of tomorrow's Sprints Training session. TRAINING TOMORROW IS IN THE MORNING, NOT AFTERNOON.
Long run this Saturday goes on as usual, 0745h at MacR.

Revival

2008-11-12T21:21:00.000+08:00

This is my VERY FIRST POST!!

Cool rite?
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Anw, for those who was wondering why i didn't turn up on wednesday easy run, it was because i had to attend my old school closing ceremony. My school: Our rival School.. Sort of.

But I did my own Easy run. =)

BLOG DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-11-10T21:52:00.001+08:00

BLOG DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graveyard Ramble

2008-10-27T20:54:00.001+08:00

For those who have taken the trouble to go down for today's training, you should know that today's training session was... special! Not because of the rain (which wasted 45 mins of time that we coulda spent at home vegetating in front of the computer), but because of the training venue. I mean, how many of us have trained at a cemetary before? o.O

Before we continue with this post, let us take a short moment to mourn the deaths of at least two snails which have been knocked over by our runners during today's training session. *squish* *squish*

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Bah, I bet you just scrolled down all the way to this line. =(

Anyway, for those people who didn't turn up today, pre-workout static stretches have been changed to dynamic stretches. Instead of 15 counts, each stretch is now assigned 3 sets of 5 counts. Example: Instead of... let's say, doing the twisty lunge for 15 counts straight, you do 5 counts' worth of stretching first, take a short breath to rest, then go for another 5 counts, rest, and then go for the last 5 counts.

For Sec 3s, there's a gym session tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2pm after school. BRING.A.TOWEL. Or risk getting kicked out of the gym.

Wednesday's training is at RI, 3.30 pm (for all). Easy run.

Thursday's training is at -> RI <- too (don't get the venue wrong!!), 3.30 pm. Speedwork.

And so, that's it for this post. Remember to wish all the injured people a "Get well soon" before you close this window!

ssiinnee ffiinniibbuuss
(Sounds like a snake?)

2008-10-24T00:00:00.000+08:00

"The jogging part during drills is not to get you tired, it's to... ... um... ... keep the blood circulating." - Mr Lim.

Anyway, remember to come for the long run this Saturday (at MacR), cos we're giving out FREE COOKIES!

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Okay, maybe not. But the team photo for next year's ~~face~~ year book is going to be taken this Saturday. Thus, remember to come down this Saturday whether you like it or not =P

(Stares at Derek)

P.S. REMEMBER to bring / wear the old green jersey to training. If you don't have / can't find the old green one, then bring / wear the new green one. If you don't know which is which, then just bring the green jersey that doesn't feel floppy when you run with it cos that's probably the old green jersey.

On a completely different note, with regards to the overseas learning journey, it's being held over 4 days: 25th Nov to 28th Nov if I recall correctly. More details will be provided by a more omniscient being.

And as such, yet another post is concluded.
Sine Finibus.

11 Oct - 20 Oct

2008-10-10T21:54:00.000+08:00

Just a reminder (in case you haven't been checking ur email), tomorrow (Sat, 11 Oct) will be the last time we will meet together as a team for an optional training session before the EOYs are over - which happens to be exactly 10 days from the date of this post. TRY to maintain your fitness during these 10 days when we don't meet together as a team to train. Quoting straight from the email: "Three times a week 40min easy/moderate run is good enough. I suggest you go for your run in the evening the day after your paper, before studying at night for the next paper. It will help to de-stress.".

By the way, if you open your MSN, I believe that you'll see lots of "countdown" messages being pinned onto various peoples' personal messages. Open up your own MSN window if you don't believe this statement =) Either than, or you see weird stuff like "Gah!" or "Noo! Ima gonna die!" hanging onto peoples' personal messages.

Anyway, on Wednesday (15/10/2008):
Sec 1s: History + CSP/MSP.
Sch ends at 1145h
Sec 2s: Geography + CSP/MSP.
Sch ends at 1145h
Sec 3s: Mother Tongue Language [ =( ] + Chemistry.
Sch ends at 1300h
Sec 4s: Chemistry + History.
Sch ends at 1245h

For people who take 3rd language, paper-checking still takes place next Monday (13/10) and next Tuesday (14/10). After that, marks are finalised and will be sent to RI as your final mark for "French/German/Japanese".

By the way, did you know that MOELC rounds OFF your 3rd language marks, instead of UP? Whereas for other school-based subjects, your marks are rounded UP (Or at least, that's what has been done the previous year). Stingy MOELC teachers ftl.

So, yeah, that's it for this post.
SINE FINIBUS.

60 hours left.

2008-10-07T19:49:00.000+08:00

That's right. From the time of this post, there are approximately 60 hours (2 sf) left until the start of the EOYs on Friday. That's still a considerable amount of mugging time left!

What's happening on Friday (10/10/2008):
Sec 1s: English Language + Mother Tongue Language.
Sch ends at 1230h
Sec 2s: English Language + Mother Tongue Language.
Sch ends at 1230h
Sec 3s: English Language + Social Studies.
Sch ends at 1215h
Sec 4s: English Language + Social Studies.
Sch ends at 1200h
MOELC 3rdLang ppl: 1st day of 3rdLang paper checking

On the good side, two weeks from now, we'll be released from the grasps of the EOY papers! EOYs are like long runs. They last for a reeeeaaaallllllllyyyy loooooooooooong period of time, and you can't escape from the torture.

[ But I think I'd rather choose to do a long run, compared to sitting for an EOY paper and being forced to mug for it. =( ]

And in case anyone didn't know what the "Gold Shoe" was during Prometheum Day today, here's a quote from 2008-2009 Captain Lee (taken from his blog):

"Anyway since its Promethium tomorrow I shall talk about the CROSS SYMBOL OMG ITS LIKE FRIGGIN NICE. Its like a golden shoe in a super super ex but nice frame its like probably the nicest every symbol. Mind you there was ALOT of effort put into this symbol so I really love it. But its like glass I'm friggin scared we drop it on stage. That would be an ULTIMATE DISASTER.Like nothing more ultimate than that." -Guan Lin

Apparently, it's a running shoe encased in a glass box with lots of glitter stuck onto it. Btw, the glitter made the shoe look REALLY shiny. Shiny thingys look nice =)

SINE FINIBUS
Wib.

Girls Are Like M&M's

2008-09-26T22:10:00.000+08:00

Check This Vid out! I watched this late at night and i laughed so loud and it woke my parent's.
This has no relevance to Cross btw.

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Sine Finibus
YY =)

おめでとう！

2008-09-22T20:27:00.000+08:00

(If your computer doesn't allow Japanese script, you probably can't see the title =P)
(And I know I screwed up the first version of this post, so this is a post patch. Paiseh, was mugging for Jap oral while making this post)

Anyway, the title reads "Congratulations!" in Japanese. If you can't see the title, you can substitute those funny square thingys which appear in the title with the words "Congratulations!" =D

K, so let's get down to introducing our three significant figures (3 sf!) of Year 2009...

First, we have 2009 B-DIV CAPTAIN LEENI LEE GUAN LIN!

By the way, this is a *random* reminder not to twist your neck like that when you're talking on the handphone, cuz it strains the side of your neck which is supporting the phone on your shoulder. In other words, if you do this too much, it's bad for your neck!

Next, we have B-DIV VICE-CAPTAIN SEOW!

Watch him embrace the camera with his _ _ _ _ _ _ finger!
(No prize for guessing the missing word)

And last but not least, there's C-DIV CAPTAIN YEOW!

A certain person in this picture should note that it's not nice to chew a piece of aloe vera when posing for a photo. =X Can you spot the piece of aloe vera...?
P.S. Notice the height differences!
P.P.S. Omg, that was mean.
P.P.P.S. Okay, nevermind.
P.P.P.P.S. Yeow rhymes with Seow!
P.P.P.P.P.S. This is random...

On a completely different note, the MOELC 3rd Lang EOYs are here!!!
This is a significant moment of the year, due to the fact that when the MOELC EOYs are over, one should prepare for the onslaught of the RI EOY papers within 2 weeks' time. Time is short, so get busy with your mugging today! Otherwise you'll end up like Seow who labels himself as an "at risk student" =P

SINE FINIBUS

(Someone else post something!)

Derek Milkcurd Syndrome

2008-09-19T20:46:00.001+08:00

If you were there for training this Monday, you should know what the "Derek Milkcurd Syndrome" is about. =)

In case you don't, the DMS first started when Derek ordered a cup of mango milkcurd from the PopCafe immediately after training ended at RI Field. Then, he brought it to the RI stadium steps and started eating it on the spot. Some of us who were staring at him got free samplez! Mmm, mango milkcurd... ... ... ...

If you haven't tried it before (and you're not allergic to mango pudding/ milkcurd), I recommend you to try it! But wait, READ THIS -> I dismiss myself of all responsibilities if you catch DMS!!

And the DMS has recently affected another individual:

Hah. So much for the DMS.

Since there's still quite a bit of space left on this post, I'll fill it in with an advertisement!

Compare both pictures below:

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE.

Actually, there's not much of a difference. It's just that the picture on top was the original one, and the picture below is the edited version. Notice the blurred out background. Aha! I know what you're thinking! No... it's not photoshop! Photoshop is for rich ppl. It's a programme called GIMP (stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program), which is awesome if you don't have photoshop. Nevertheless, it's still slightly inferior to Photoshop though =( But it's still good for a free product!

Bii Nine Fuss! (No prize for guessing what this means)

Bedok Reservoir TimeTrial 17-9-2008

2008-09-17T20:30:00.001+08:00

Here's a quote from Wikipedia regarding the definition of a TimeTrial:
"In many racing sports an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_trial

In case you haven't already noticed, the run at Bedok Reservoir today was a TimeTrial! =)

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What a cliche way to start off a blog post. Bleahx.

Anyway, here are some peektures! Prepare for a relatively not-so-interesting blog post as I was stuck at the back of the bus for the whole trip to Bedok and couldn't get many pictures. Anyway, in addition to that, I believe that all of us were sooooooo busy warming up for the timetrial, that none of us would have the time to take photos... right? (Prods you to make you agree)

1. Hmm, what's MChia doing? o.O
[ Note that adopting this position will instantly render one vulnerable to a poke to the side! Now why didn't anyone think of that...? (K nvm, that was mean. =X) ]

2. Ooh. A very lively bus. Or at least, "lively" only when compared to Pictures 4 and 6...

3. Sunglasses as a fashion accessory, as shown by Sam Soh "Cool"
[ One of the OLDEST XCountry puns ever =.= ]

4. A picture speaks a thousand words =)

5. o.O That position is plain weird o.O o.O o.O o.O (No offence)

6. The bus has turned so... surreal...! I can't believe almost everyone at the back of the bus was sleeping.

If anyone else has other pictures to upload, they are welcome to do so =P

By the way, special pictures of the new C-Div and B-Div Captains will be retained for a super-special blog post this weekend! Stay tuned!

On a completely different note, I believe that our current "blogskin" is under some controversy. Looks like we can expect the XCountry blog to change abit in the following months...

RANDOM FACT BEFORE ENDING THIS POST OFF: The XCountry e-group was founded in 2004, which was quite some time before our current batch of Sec 4s had joined RI!! Actually, I only realised this a few moments ago (before publishing this post, of course!), when randomly surfing through the e-group.

(Co)Sine FiniBus. <- Cosine part first invented by Kok Peng.

Wib.

T4 W2 TimeTrial

2008-09-15T21:32:00.000+08:00

Just a reminder, there will be a TIMETRIAL held this Wednesday, 17th September, at Bedok Reservoir. Remember to bring your racing gear (eg. Racers, Jersey etc) to the TimeTrial! Eat and sleep well on the day before the TimeTrial, as you're going to need the energy =).

There will be a chartered bus from RI Parade Square to Bedok Reservoir on 17th September at 1530h. Please come down on time so you don't hold up the whole team!

And while I'm still writing this post, I'd like to blame Derek for causing some members of our team to blow multiples of $1.30 on mango "milkcurd" today. =P Which includes me. =.=
But dang, that mango milkcurd was nice!!

T4 W1: Wed and Thu Training

2008-09-08T22:30:00.000+08:00

Training on 10th September (Wednesday) will be held at RI Field, after school. It will be an easy run.

Training on 11th September (Thursday) will also be held at RI Field, at 5 pm. Please be punctual =P

8th September Prize Presentation

2008-09-07T15:26:00.000+08:00

Prize Presentation for NIE Road Relay is on 8th September (Monday). NIE Relay Runners, please remember to meet up at 7 am behind flag poles. Who's announcing btw? o.O

No refunds for latecomers or for people who don't show up. =)

Training after school is at 3.45pm, RI Field. Don't forget to bring your skipping ropes.

(No need to sign off with Sine Finibus, right?)

NIE Road Relay 22-08-2008

2008-08-23T00:32:00.000+08:00

Yep, it's another road relay race, similar to that of Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Only that this time, there's cash involved. Ooo.

Anyway, the NIE Relay, for those who didn't participate or still don't know what it is, was held at NIE Jurong West. The initial team listings were as follows:

TEAM 1: Zhiming, Varun, Ben, Guan Lin, Yeong Yang, Shi Kai
TEAM 2: Yi Yan, Matthias, Kok Peng, Samuel, Nathaneal, Cho Han

However, Samuel + Matthias were unable to make it for the race (o.O), so Chew and Wilbert fill in for them.

On the actual day, the bus left RI for NIE at 3.10 pm. Reached NIE about a half hour later.

But for now...

PEEKTURES! On the way there:

1. Seow khops WWW's X-Men comic which he has borrowed from a library.

2. Conversation going on at the back of the bus o.O

3. Guan Lin joins in the conversation. Talked til he started flapping. (I think the convo was about CCTS. Can't really remember what it was about exactly. But I do recall that part of the conversation involved pointing at Mr. Lim's car which was behind the bus, and acknowledging the vast similarity between his blue car and an adjacent blue car.)

4. Captain's "mona lisa" look.

5. Enjoying solitary time on the bus!

And as such, time flies and we soon arrive at NIE! There, we met the first obstacle of the day...

6. The stairway to the sky! A looooooooooooooooooooooooooong way up indeed.

7. Pre-race briefing by Mr. Lim.
"Aiyah, I thought I told you your team is supposed to wear the white jersery?"

8. More pre-race preparations.

9. We lug our bags to under the "shelter". Shortly after that, we drag them back to the corridor. Therefore, work done is equivalent to 0.

And so we get on with the race! Zhiming of Team 1 darts off with a good start, finishing with an incredible timing for 7 mins 53 secs for the 2.4 km. Yi Yan, first runner of Team 2, arrives exactly one minute after that. After the third runner finished his leg of the race, RI Team 1 and Team 2 were 1st and 3rd respectively. Not content with being 3rd ($100 prize difference between 2nd and 3rd places!!), RI Team 2 contends for the 2nd placing. WWW and Seow swap teams halfway through in order to close up the huge timing gap in between both teams. In the end, RI Team 2 eventually manages to finish overall 1st runner's up, losing only to RI Team 1. Whoa. (By the way, most of the 2.4km times were sub 9 mins)

In other words:
1st - RI Team 1 ($500)
2nd - RI Team 2 ($400)

More PEEKTURES! After the race:

10. Talking about the race. (Almost) everyone compares timings with each other.

11. Slacking after the race.

12. Ben is mesmerised by the band.

13. Ooh. Night falls. The mugger-ish nature of Rafflesians starts to pop out as worksheets are taken out of their respective bags, and are finished on the spot.

14. Waiting for the lucky draw to pass so that the prize presentation would come sooner.

OMGOMG. I believe this is the first ever "lucky" draw in which Raffles has won ZERO lucky draw prizes. We actually lost to the luckiest school by SIX prizes. And I actually think that the super-lucky school had won a greater monetary value of prizes compared to our $500 (1st place) + $400 (2nd place) = $900 from the race. Wow, talk about being extremely TYCO.

15. Notice Seow's drooping head in the background. Ben gets impatient waiting for the prize presentation and succumbs to the temptations of his antisocial machine.
"Wahlao, why the prize winners' number tags all start with either 'D' or 'F' one!?" (Waves number tag which begins with 'C') "Unfair!!!"

The prize presentation really didn't seem like a prize presentation. No medals were involved. "Currency presentation", anyone?

And as such, we walk off to eat dinner, where we were able to capture the picture of the day...

===> EPIC PICTURE OF THE DAY <===

Towards the end of the meal, Captain Yong rushes the team off to catch the Mens' 4x100m relay race. Jamaica owns the race, and breaks the previous world record by 0.3 secs.

And with that, I sign off with...
SINE FINIBUS.

Wilbert.

2008-08-17T13:42:00.001+08:00

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!

USAIN BOLT BROKE THE WORLD RECORD WITH AN AMAZING LAST 20M!
9.69 sec, way ahead of Richard Thompson and rival ASAFA Powell

MICHEAL PHELPS JUST WON HIS 8TH GOLD MEDAL, beating Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals at a single olympic games.

I guess we've truly seen the triumph of the human spirit at this olympic games

oh btw, there's a controversy over the age of 2 Chinese gymnasts, so might wanna check that out too.

Singapore's women paddlers will be against China tonight in the table tennis team finals, so stay tuned at 7.30pm (even PM lee postponed the screening of his speech to tmr), just shows u how impt this is.

On the subject on Singapore, check this link out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wk51lfLfIQ

Sine Finibus
Matthias

Olympics!

2008-08-16T20:42:00.000+08:00

Everyone MUST WATCH OLYMPICS!

Anyway Tyson Gay did not qualify for 100m Final.

And DIBABA Tirunesh won the 10,000m women in a time of 29:54.66, which is an Olympic record.

Usain Bolt is looking damn pro. He is like jogging everything and still top qualifier.

Phelps is owning in the Pool with his 7th Gold medal and out of the 7, 6 are WRs.

Go check the videos of Phelps. It super pro.

The official website is pretty good for info. Go check it out.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/

Sine Finibus

GL

LOL

2008-08-15T17:06:00.000+08:00

Study hard for ur CCTs next week! Rest well, study well, train well.

FYI only

2008-08-09T21:52:00.000+08:00

http://www.olympicchampion.blogspot.com/

Sine Finibus

Rgds,
happie.

I be nice.

2008-08-05T20:30:00.000+08:00

Ok lah.

Yeongyang damn disturbed by the post. Go and fake Mr Lim's name in tagboard.

But ok lah, shall remove the link so that he can have some peace.

Anyway with all the CCTs coming up please mug hard. Don't be like me first time in history I get below 3.0 GPA.

Sine Finibus.

GL

Project Nutz Runner's Relay 2008 aka excursion

2008-07-28T23:11:00.000+08:00

really, nothing much to say save that it feels good to be running on a blue track for a change.

PHOTOS!!!

on the way

preparation

after the race

why so serious?

taiwanese or chinese? you decide.

hansum boiis

3 kawaii boys + 1 wannabe
(no prizes for guessing which is which)

PRIZE PRESENTATION

5th team

team champions, at which point i must extent my apologies to darth syy
for not feeling his presence and thus cutting him off

his reaction to the above when told

team 3rd

the champions yet again

benleong obviously haven't seen and held so much medals in his life

similarly, these 3 boys seemed to be amazed and overawed by

the sheer aura and presence of this trophy

RIXC'08

absentees: vice-capt mchia (LATE), hong en, WWW.

2008-07-27T15:55:00.000+08:00

2008-07-22T21:31:00.001+08:00

Hey everyone

Got a team picture of us to put on the blog, finally
now we've more of an identity xD
anw more photos coming your way
including the amazing 1500m PHOTO FINISH
which I'm very sure everyone would want to see

To make it more exciting,
one photo will be published a day (also cuz it takes very long to upload, 1 file = 10mb)

Sine Finibus

Post Season Outing to Sentosa

2008-07-20T23:00:00.001+08:00

The cross team went to Sentosa for a day of Fun and Games! On Friday the 18th of July. It was a well deserved break for the runners who had worked so friggin hard for Nationals.

Originally supposed to meet at 2.30pm at Harbourfront, only Benjamin, Nathaniel and PaoJung made it on time! The others such as the group led by team captain Yong Shi Kai and Vice Captain Mchia arrived fashionably late, while Seow made a grand entrance at the last moment, receiving a round of applause and a VIP welcome to HarbourFront interchange.

The team took the Monorail to Sentosa, which was a new experience for many of us, including me. Ticket cost 3 bucks.

Arrivnig at Sentosa FINALLY, the team arrived at a problem, whether to walk to Tanjong beach or take a tram there. In the end, neither sides won, as we took the bus (lolz damn lame).

Arriving at the beach, most of us immediately stripped off our tops, while those who refused had to be *ahem* persuaded to do so. One such person came in the form of Wizard Wong, who strangely refused to take off his shirt. Alas, even his magic and spells could not stop the spirit of Raffles Cross Country, as the whole team went to take his shirt off. A sight to behold.

The team played soccer after that, where playmaker Varun was super imbah and scored many goals single leggedly. But alas, neither team prevailed, with the final score being x to x. Let x = number of goals scored, because I dunno.

Eventually we decided to go and swim to the island at the other side. And started to scream Wizardry stuff at Wizardboy on the other side, which was quite funny.

In the end we played some stupid relay thing where we were suppose to pair up and swim and run. Quite lame, for some strange reason I got injured. ZzZ. Forgot who won.

Oh yea Sam Soh came, and of course we started talking about Track dinner where Sam Soh dissapeared with girls and Seow zao home with girl. Captain Yong was giving advice on what kind of girls to court, and of course through much reasoning he declared that only rich girls can be courted.

Enough about girls. We bathed and Kok Peng arrived just in time to see us bathing. But he came and that's what matters.

Went to Vivo at Carl's Junior to eat. It was quite nice, with the free flow of soft drinks. I remember last year we were trying to prank call Mchia at Carl's Jr as well. It was damn fun.

This year though, after dinner (Where Sam Soh needed to go home and Seow had to go home and study), we went upstairs to the damn romantic place (I dunno what issit called), and started to play the game we playeed at Clementi woods.

The super scandalous one.

I NEVER!

Of course, I bet alot of people lie, but those who die never lie, and I never lie also. Ben asked a question "I never lust for anyone before", I bet Ben is lying. He watched Coach Carter until damn horny.

After all the scandals, we had to do forfeits! So we played the Penis Game. Damn fun. You have to scream penis in public.

And we ended the day on a high note. =)

-------------------------------

Ngee Ann Poly Run on Friday.

After checking the lists of Schools, it is essential that RI must own the field.

So please do at least a run on yourself so that your fitness don't drop so much.

Cheers.

Sine Finibus.

GL

2008-07-20T00:50:00.000+08:00

since everyone has been asking for the pictures from me on MSN, I'll just upload here so it makes things easier for everyone xD

then GL can post about the outing (;

edit my post or sth...

I'm hopeless with blogger and pictures ><

Dunno why there's Sam with his Sensual tongue ><

The bunch of us who went to Sentosa for some EENSANEE fun xD

Anw, thanks to everyone for coming down! Chiang, the last person you'd expect to come down xD Zhu Jie, the person who got "conned" down with promises of 20+ ppl. Sam! (not so much a man) for ponning school to come down. Kok Peng, who got lost all the way from 4pm, but still turned up anyway and of course everyone else who turned up even though there was only less than a day's notice.

everyone's listening attentively to the CAPTAIN'S talk

except his vice who decides to look at the camera xD
act Smart Sam decides to argue with the CAPTAIN

ah seow still doesnt wanna talk a pic with his vice captain, even though derek(&sean's hand) love camwhoring xD

WANKY WIZARD WONG!!!!

one word : magic

Woah Captain Yong with the "you think you damn big is it" look

2008-07-20T00:34:00.000+08:00

firstly i would like to thank those who came on friday.

namely:

1.shi kai
2.mchia
3.varun
4.zhujie
5.cho-han
6.leeni
7.seow
8.derek
9.wizard wong
10.ben
11.pao jung

secondly i would also like to thank SAMSOH for coming down after all even in the full knowledge that he would be missing some of the fun and freeballing.

lastly i would like to thank kok peng for coming down later and in the end missing MOST of the fun.

i really had great fun on friday, be it playing soccer or accusing cheese of lying yet again. it is experiences like these that really make your four years in ri worthwhile. the organisation process of the whole thing was really done in an hour, from 10.30pm to 11.30pm in which yours truly and his fellow seniors did their best to literally save the day.

i really have no other intention for this post other than to say i had fun. therefore..

sine finibus

happy, leeni?

2008-07-19T22:37:00.000+08:00

Changed the picture to Jeremy Wariner, idol of Yong Shi Kai, team captain.

Anyway cannot post bout outing cos I don't have pictures, but when Mchia send me I will post.

Sine Finibus.

GL

2008-07-18T23:08:00.000+08:00

Wa lao Sean I'm sure u didn't sign off with Sine Finibus ><

ANW, today is the great CROSS COUNTRY OUTING for a great season for Raffles Cross Country. Shan't say much cuz I don really wanna post & I'd like dedicate the task to fellow sec 3s who are more eager (hints SEOWLEEYEOSOH)

Just wanna say that the Sec 4s learn this skill from our seniors (yes ANNGEE and TEO and Guaillaime) so please pass this down as a cross country tradition, where we either have a chalet or an outing to create some team bonding.

It's all abt being part of a team
Sine Finibus

2008-07-17T22:05:00.001+08:00

testing testing crossers are sexy testing testing

Opening.

2008-07-14T19:43:00.000+08:00

Yes oh my son we have a cross country blog.

Currently still under renovation. The blog will probably improve when I know how to use blogskins, but until then, templates ftw.

All thoses who want to be part of the posting team please create a blog account and I will invite you so that you can be part of this amazing cross revolution, where cross becomes high-tech!

Anyway, its COMPULSARY to sign off with Sine Finibus.

Yea like this. Learn.

Sine Finibus.

GL