2010

It was a tough year.

The struggles were numerous, but mostly internal.

But I'm proud to say that even though I was functioning at less than full capacity, I still managed to do a lot during the year.

Here are some of the major achievements of my year 2010:

- Released my big octopus kite at Marina Barrage.

- Did a complete split during a fencing competition.

- Kneeled down to stroke a cat with eye and skin infection.

- Preached my first sermon in an Indian church.

- Scored a record 36 demerit points for my driving test. That's double the allowance for mistakes.

- Performed a song with my band. Everyone laughed at me.

- Made my first pencil sculpture. V.

- Free dived with and photographed sea turtles.

- Highlighted my hair ash blonde.

- Crashed a kite into the construction site at Marina Bay.

- Wrote 4 plays- 3 made it to the stage.

- Went up to receive the award for the women's sabre fencing team.

- Talked to all the cats I saw in NUS.

- Made at least one girl cry.

- Helped to build a road in India.

- Scuba dived.

- Won the tentangram competition in NUS. Prize- ipod nano.

- Developed my first roll of solaris film.

- Crashed a kite onto the Punggol LRT line. The train that ran over it caught and pulled the colourful streamer along.

- Organized a surprise birthday party involving over 40 people.

- Pasted my handphone number on public walls asking people to contact me.

- I dated a girl that I did not think I would end up attached to.

- Made my second pencil sculpture. X.

- Caught and raised my first fighting spider.

- Submitted a film I made for a film festival.

- Highlighted my hair red.

- Visited Timbre for the first time. Ordered a pint.

- Wrote an essay on Inter-racial Marriages. Did not do well due to a lack of objectivity.

- Gave an original hand written romantic poem to a girl I did not know.

- Directed a video that was screened to 4000 people in one sitting.

- Smuggled a samurai sword looking thingy home.

- Changed my FB relationship status. Twice.

- Finished reading the bible.

- Submitted a video to a school competition. Prize- ipod nano.

- Visited the 4th highest waterfall in the world.

- Smuggled a golden tortoise beetle home.

- Made my third pencil sculpture.

- Emceed a graduation ceremony.

- Submitted a poem for publishing in a newsletter.

- Played the ukulele.

- Made a really big pop-up card.


Ask me about any of these if you want. Each is a story worth listening to.