It was just like yesterday when i sat in the auditorium beside jeryln for nyp year 1 orientation and now i have already graduated. Time flies......

So what have i learn in poly? hmm... the most important thing i learn is how to get exam tips and how to study last min. And i mean last min is like 1 day before the exam, haha. About my diploma, sad to say i dunno what i have been studying. Just want to grab a diploma for an entry to myongji university.

Know alot of friends especially the 6 of us, you know who u r, lazy to type out. ok, i better include renick too in case he reads my blog plus michelle who was in the same specialization in my third year and my china friend yusi. Dunno when can we ever meet up again.

Apart from them i am really fortunate to know a huge gang of good ppl from nyp weiqi. Cant imagine if not for hikaru no go, i would never know them.

All thanks to yao tang who pulled me into nyp weiqi and he is someone i am very very grateful to because without him i might not land up in any poly due to my superb o level result.

Before i enter nyp there are quite a few strong players but once i enter things start to change.

For my batch we got in only 3 people, me (of course) junzhe and zhen shen. Dunno y but yao tang seems to paint a bad impression of junzhe (maybe he got that "u better return me the money" face) so junzhe only appear in lanke and polite and doest attend training. After yao tang graduated junzhe seems to be a different person cause he help out alot in nyp weiqi. Good things dont happen long, he got expelled soon. As for zhen shen he is 1 guy i think has talent in weiqi but he is like yong an in terms of making female friends. I remember he was into tennies too and somehow he gave up on weiqi thinking he make no progression(stupid boy)... And so i am the only left!

The deepest impression of competition i had was the selection to go thai-u go when i was year 1. It was between me, zhen shen, alvin and yong shen. First match i played against zhen shen and i lost like lao sai. Second match i played against alvin and because it was a sure win game i played the end game recklessly and i lost. That moment was really a big blow to me. Third match played against yong shen and i won. Ironically that is the only win i had with yong shen so far in competitions. Never won him yet till now. I still remember very clearly 2 years ago, the singapore malaysia thailand competition held in bugis, i met yong shen in my last game. If i win him i would get first in that cat and if i lose i get fifth. In the end i lost by 3point (ing's rule). Anyway yong shen and zhen shen played in the finals for thai u go and yong shen by 2 out of 3 games. I will never forget zhen shen crying out like a big baby in swa bugis and claim if he dont win he cant play weiqi anymore, come to think of it he is 1 big loser.

When i was second year, our club only left rong yao, chen shen, alvin and yong shen. We got in jeremy, kaiwen, shi hao, wei sheng and many many months later, yong an and xing wei came along. Seriously i am very proud of this batch because their weiqi is like shit during orientation but they improve alot alot throughout the years. Nothing to do with swa lessons or yls lessons, is the hard work they put in. The number of games they play in net is scary, much more than me.

When i was third year, again no good players join. Now only left me and rong yao plus jeremy's batch. We got in cheris, wenjun, jun wei, zhi ren, penghong(MIA now). Cheris was the strongest at that time but wen jun really improve alot through his own hard work and became 1d this year. Cheris work hard too but i dunno, maybe gals r just not as good as guys when it comes to determination to improve or she give up too easily.

And when i left, we got in strong players like zhi xiong n xie tang. Nyp weiqi hates me....

Many people out there think that nyp is strong because we depend on 1 or 2 strong players but that is damm wrong. No one saw the hard work we put in. In polite games, other school think that we win for sure but that is not true. Fair thing about polite is that it is 5 vs 5 so it doesnt depend 1 or 2 strong plyers but the whole school strength. The polite games last year really stress me out because of the players position, i cant eat or sleep properly the whole week. I remember 2 years ago in SP when polite was held there, i was the one deciding the placing and we almost lost to sp due to suxky seating position and i learn my lesson well.

Other sch ask y they have so many training as well but still not as good as nyp. There is only 2 reasons. First is that nyp ppl somehow have the power to motivate each other to work hard. Second which i think is the most important and that is friendship.

Come to think of it when i was captain i din make nyp win anything except polite. Hope that nyp weiqi, now in hands of xing wei and wen jun will produce better results than i do.