- anything but ordinary -

bangkok

2005-11-21T22:06:00.000+08:00

back from bangkok!
overall it was pretty ok.. went with the main purpose of shopping but didn't manage to get much. guess bangkok has changed a lot for the worse, in terms of goods AND service.
let's see. managed to get a notebook (which can't open, incidentally), a pair of slippers (:, dress sandals (:, converse sneakers (i found the exact same pair at tampines mall and they were almost the same price!! darn. should have boosted my own economy), a pair of earrings (which were quite ex, come to think of it!!), a plate with a photo of my daddy and me (:, a belt, a bracelet (:, a letterholder, a lipstick holder for mummy (: and a pack of biscuits S: (hahaha. couldn't resist. they were chocolate and strawberry so the colour combi was pretty).
yeah bangkok the shopping paradise is written in the pages of history.
the clothes were... well. not very nice. quite colourful and loud, heh. the salespeople have changed a lot. the stallholders at the roadside stalls were very rude. my daddy had to yell at a woman because she hit my hands away off her goods when i wanted to look at a wallet. S: the salespeople at the mall were really arrogant too. and the things from the mall were ex, even some stuff from roadside stalls too! wanted to get a small silver ring from a roadside stall in pratunam, and the opening price was 500 baht. that's more than 20 dollars! i doubt that i can bring it down to 150 baht. that's about 7 dollars. and 7 isn't that cheap either. so you get what i mean.
i was kind of disappointed because this doesn't seem like the same bangkok that i've known and loved.
but the thai oil message at the hotel rocks my socks!! haha i went for the first time. it was really relaxing. but at some parts i felt much too violated for comfort. hm. well all i can say is thank goodness the masseur was a female.
piano lesson yesterday was great. my piano teacher, andy chia, is the same guy who *tried* (but failed miserably) to teach me melodic dictation for mep last year. he's really young and nice, so that makes lessons more comfortable i guess. well he seems to have let bygones be bygones, considering the way i was treating him last year ie. a real pain in the neck. well it's not my fault, i hated what he was teaching me!! when melodic dictation sucks, you kind of assume very conveniently the teacher does too. i think that's kind of scientifically proven, because i always treat my english teachers better than my math teachers. (: yes the first thing he said was "so we meet again" and managed to look pleased. give the guy an oscar! but he plays the piano beautifully, teaches just as well, so i hope i actually pick something up. (:
spent the rest of the afternoons tagging along to look at cars. and i skipped physics tuition for that. what a bore. S:
yeps harry potter and the goblet of fire!! the string ensemble will be watching that on wednesday with mr sze.. lyndsey said that the outing was his idea!! woah. conductor and fellow harry potter fan all rolled into one. as harry potter would say: excellent.
ogl meeting tomorrow. :S my whole week is filled with strings + ogl + ride for hope stuff. sigh shopping at taka will have to wait. i wanna see my ah ma!! soon i hope.
watch the mtv for let me go by 3 doors down!! it rocks.
"there's not a day that passes by [when] i don't wonder why we haven't tried, it's not too late to change your mind. baby take my hand, don't say goodbye. i will love you more than that, i won't say the words then take them back. don't give loneliness a chance. baby listen to me when i say, i will love you more than that." -more than that by the backstreet boys. found the score when i was digging through my collection of pop piano books. (:

sch's out

2005-11-14T16:50:00.000+08:00

now that school's out, i can safely say that i have survived jc1. alright!
i spent an indecent amount of time uploading my photos! the result: four new photo albums. go check them out!
we have a new strings conductor! mr trevor sze. he worked wonders for raffless institution and nanyang girls' high.. so our future looks bright. yep. we had a saturday practice with him. it seems like we're going to have a whole new repetoire, which is crucial because we are dying of boredom. that's what happens when you're at the mercy of the very limited school music collection, with holes in them courtesy of the silverfish residents of the music room. :S mr sze seems nice enough if disciplinary problems are absent, so strings next year will probably be much better. i felt all those long-forgotten skills i'd picked from raffles strings coming back. like sitting straight at the edge of your chair, breathing as an ensemble.. all those good habits that were conveniently lost to an extremely slack ensemble. i'm not trying to push the blame here, because it's entirely my fault for not practising those crucial habits, but mr sze did bring me a very nostalgic feeling. (:
oh yeah, i better start practising violin a little more. the tough skin on my left fingers are non-existent, now that violin exams are behind me. and at first, even tuning the instrument felt slightly foreign to me. heh. i need to get back into the strings mood! desperately. :S piano lesson this sunday! i'm feeling quite excited because i haven't had a decent piano lesson in ages!! i need to get rid of those annoying habits that are accumulated from being self-taught for too long.
yes now that pw is over, i have nothing to live for. holidays are boring with so few holiday assignments. i guess even orchard road might start to lose its charm if it's frequented too often, so i better find something meaningful to do! probably a few visits to the library will do the trick. which reminds me, the library fine that junkiat accumulated so kindly for me has not been paid. >.< i feel like getting some stars to fold. and cross-stiching designs too. (: whee.
it's lyndsey's and aaron's birthday today, and waiyen's and claire's birthdays are coming up! HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU GUYS!
so many movies to watch, and so little time. the following movies have been shortlisted for my potential viewing pleasure. in order of merit: harry potter and the goblet of fire, memoirs of a geisha, the choronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, the da vinci code, casanova, sky high. woo. memoirs of a geisha is so so good, it's probably my favourite book of all time. thanks clara for lending it to me!! now that the movie's going to be out, i wouldn't miss it for the world! i'm just worried that the rating might be m18. if the director stays true to the book, i wouldn't be surprised if it is. but still, i hope it scraps through with an nc16 or something. :S haiz.
i want to borrow the exorcist on dvd. one of the scariest movies of all time! i get really freaked out and get loads of nightmares after watching horror movies, but what can i say. i'm a masochist. :D
i'll be going on a short shopping + eating trip to bangkok from tomorrow till friday. whee!! shopping paradise. so i'm going to miss math lecture tomorrow (: and strings prac on friday ):
something i got off lyndsey's blog:

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.8
Mind:	7.1
Body:	8.4
Spirit:	7.1
Friends/Family:	6
Love:	2.9
Finance:	6.8
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

Your Life Analysis:

Life: Your life rating is a score of the sum total of your life, and accounts for how satisfied, successful, balanced, capable, valuable, and happy you are. The quiz attempts to put a number on the summation of all of these things, based on your answers. Your life score is reasonably high. This means that you are on a good path. Continue doing what is working and set about to improve in areas which continue to lag. Do this starting today and you will begin to reap the benefits immediately.

Mind: Your mind rating is a score of your mind's clarity, ability, and health. Higher scores indicate an advancement in knowledge, clear and capable thinking, high mental health, and pure thought free of interference. Your mind score is within a healthy zone. This means you have achieved a level of mental balance and harmony consistent with living a healthy, happy life. Continue doing what works, and keep your focus. In our fast-paced world, mental clutter is all too common. Be vigilant in maintaining healthy mental function.

Body: Your body rating measures your body's health, fitness, and general wellness. A healthy body contributes to a happy life, however many of us are lacking in this area. You have an excellent body score, which means you are incredibly focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Continue in that focus, and your body will remain healthy and strong.

Spirit: Your spirit rating seeks to capture in a number that elusive quality which is found in your faith, your attitude, and your philosophy on life. A higher score indicates a greater sense of inner peace and balance. Your spirit score is relatively high, which means you are rewarded by your beliefs. Spirituality is clearly important to do. Never let it slip, and continue to learn and grow.

Friends/Family: Your friends and family rating measures your relationships with those around you, and is based on how large, healthy, and dependable your social network is. Your friends and family score is not bad but can be improved. Maintain your current social net, while you try to expand it. Try new things and form new friendships. You will be rewarded greatly.

Love: Your love rating is a measure of your current romantic situation. Sharing your heart with another person is one of life's most glorious, terrifying, rewarding experiences. Your love score is very low, indicating trouble. There is love out there for you. Seek the advice of wise people on how to go about finding it. Do not lose hope.

Finance: Your finance rating is a score that rates your current financial health and stability. You have a rather good financial score, which is not all that common these days. Keep doing what works. Avoid common pitfalls and save for the future. You will be glad you did.

the analysis seems rather.. well, comical. >.<

"think of me. think of me waking, silent and resigned. imagine me trying too hard to put you from my mind. recall those days, look back on all those times, think of the things we'll never do. there will never be a day when I won't think of you." -think of me. my favourite phantom of the opera song. (:

chinese ao

2005-11-01T01:07:00.000+08:00

and if i did not muck up on both saturday and today, chinese and theory are history. woo-wee.
yes saturday was my grade 8 theory exam. today was my chinese ao level exam. two very important mile-stones in my life in such close proximity! One marks the end of my music theory (which admittedly was taking over my life at some point) and the other marks the end of my official chinese education. yes i am going to drop chinese regardless of my pass grade. being very optimistic here but i AM gonna pass and you better believe it. if i say it enough, i might actually start believing it myself.
i am gonna pass chinese. i am gonna pass chinese. i AM gonna pass chinese. yes.
but i am more worried about music. ): 7 months isn't really enough preparation time for one grade, considering i went for my grade 7 theory in march. oh man i really hope i pass. the paper wasn't horrendously difficult, but it wasn't what any would call easy either. i'm estimating a borderline.. if so, please let my grades be on the correct side of the borderline. i'm treading on very dangerous ground here.
argh whatever. if i do fail i'll just take the exam again in march. no biggie.
)':
no i don't actually believe that.
well needless to say, i didn't study much for chinese. i spent almost the entire week mugging for theory. especially the foreign words section. and none of the foreign words came out. besides corno inglese, but i didn't need to study that to know it was cor anglais. i bet nobody does. i feel cheated, really. but thank goodness there wasn't much to study anyway. out of the lists and lists of millions of chinese phrases, a grand total of two came out. seriously. :S
and the chinese invigilators took an awfully time to count the scripts after the exam! close to half an hour. argh.
i felt really liberated today. the only thing stopping me from incinerating all my chinese books was project work. we tried working out the kinks but mathew and junkiat had to leave early for cross country and basketball training respectively, so woonie and sherli and i wound up watching view from the top with ashwin and zhixue and weisheng. well maybe zhixue and weisheng and i ARE in a party mood after chinese ao. heh. the movie was nice, heart-warming, unrealistic, idealistic and characteristically bimbotic. filled with eye-candy too. think air stewardesses and gwyneth paltrow. (: but it was really fun.
tomorrow is project work again. at woonie's house. i can hardly wait. no that wasn't sarcastic i seriously love project work. helps that my group rocks, of course. yeah.
yuewoon, sherli, mathew, junkiat, you guys ROCK!
haha. you really do. <3
alright, gotta go sleep now or i'll be falling asleep over woonie tomorrow. she introduced me this really nice song!! got none by robert post. the video was really.. interesting. slightly corny the first time round, but the more you watch it, the more hidden meanings there are. maybe we are reading too much into the video but it really does have some subtle references to the song. (: which incidentally is realistic and actually quite sad. robert post's voice is good too, very mournful. perfect. (:

"when i was a little boy i used to wonder, just how old you'd have to be to feel good. now i've seen a thousand girls but i still wonder, cuz they just don't make sense to me. god knows i've tried.
i've tried to be the unpredictable one. i've tried to be the friend that they could rely on. i've still got none, got nothing at all.
and so i fall into the open, just singing out your name. and when I'm done, crashed and maimed. i hope that's where you'll find me.
you know that if it's up to me i'll still be holding, my own hand the day I die. so please release me now.
i've tried to be the mean mysterious one. i've tried to be the sweetest candy you'd suck on. i've still got none, got nothing at all.
and it's a good day for being found. just crawling in the dirt with my head underground. and it's a good day for you to come, collecting all the pieces of the damage done.
and after all the bandages are gone, i hope you'll find a favorite part you can work on. cuz I've got none, got nothing at all."
robert post - got none.
yuewoon's and my favourite song! sad realistic lyrics. (:

farewell assembly

2005-10-14T22:38:00.000+08:00

and so my post-exam adventures continue.
yes the class outing on wednesday did happen! woo. mark weiting shiling jiayi clara joseph zhixue ashwin junkiat. did i miss anyone out? >.< we went to ajisen ramen for lunch (yummy! the portions are really huge though), then we went to some games arcade in the dhoby ghaut mrt station. it was cheaper than your average arcade.. yep the guys got thoroughly hooked on this pseudo basketball game. well practically every single guy in the arcade was playing that! you just try to get as many balls through the hoop as you can with the hoop moving. -_-" haha. junkiat was good(duh! basketballer). ashwin and zhixue weren't bad either. guess we still have hope for the 3-on-3 interclass basketball competition. :D
i got hooked on the dance dance revolution machine. oh man clara is PRO at it! i think i did about 5 games with her. she's really really good. (: she rekindled my passion for it real fast. haha. woo. wanna go to the arcade again!
oh yeah and thanks zx + junkiat for using your credits in the arcade! >.<
then we went to have a drink at starbucks. caramel fraps are delicious! yummy. (jasper + samuel!! caramel fraps!! haha haven't forgotten :D) then i went home. my dad and brother picked me up at the mrt station.. and my brother drove home!! woah first time i was sitting in a car with him at the wheel. he's really not bad.. quite a fast learner. he still needs practice on his parallel parking but i thought he was not bad at it already. woo. (:
jc2 farewell assembly today. ): it was quite sad. imagine. this time, 365 days away, i'll be graduating. NOOOO! ): oh man think i'm really going to miss the jc2s man. it won't be the same not having them around. sigh. ): the icomp videos are so sad too.. i can't believe they're really gone. i'll probably never get to see my seniors so often anymore. sigh. but the house comm skits were really funny! we saw woonie shaking her thang onstage. WOO. hot stuff. the j2 house comm skit was so cool! haha. highly entertaining. (:
i was away for some time during farewell assembly to get the balloons + presents for the jc2s. oh man i felt like an idiot. the bright yellow helium-filled balloons looked like low density lemons or something. hahaha pegasus' balloons looked like grapes! :P felt quite retarded hahaha. but it was quite a good idea. low budget + the seniors loved it! the house comm really spent the whole of last night pumping balloons though.. woonie and jiaying were like falling asleep over one another. thanks guys! (: missed some singer genie's performance while collecting the stuff but from what i heard.. yeah good thing i missed it. >.<
OPEN HOUSE! i can't wait! the windmill looks FANTASTIC. geraldine + andy!! so proud of u guys! can see the hard work odac put in. yeah and it paid off in the end! woo! the oversized kites look GREAT! and the sailboat thing is fantastic. free ice-cream, here we come! oh man all the decorations are superb and the entire student population really came together to create a really friendly atmosphere for potential victorians. woo. yeah open house will be great. i just know it.
yes. thy sons are we.
ps farewell assembly photos have been uploaded and linked!
"and I never thought i'd feel this way. and as far as i'm concerned, i'm glad i got the chance to say, that i do believe i love you. and if i should ever go away, well then close your eyes and try to feel the way we do today. and then if you can remember.. keep smiling, keep shining, knowing you can always count on me, for sure. that's what friends are for. for good times and bad times i'll be on your side forever more. that's what friends are for." -that's what friends are for, dionne warwick. we'll miss u jc2s!!

promos

2005-10-11T17:12:00.000+08:00

well. i haven't updated in ages huh! heh.
i survived promos. yes. i did not pitch myself off the building after any paper. exercised great self control there. (: and it was worth it! woo freedom now. well until the results come out, anyway.
after physics on friday, we went to catch corpse bride at plaza singapura. i loved the show so so much! it was really sweet and quite moving. i love happy endings. <3 haha. and they lived happily ever after. i know because the movie is set in the 17 or 18th century, so we wouldn't have to worry about separation and divorce would we.
oh dear.
then after corpse bride we went to yuewoon's house. man i love her room. (: it's so cosy and comfortable. had dinner at her house too.. her mum's quite a good cook! yummy. her mummy and daddy are really nice people.. her younger brother's quite adorable too! i wanna go over again! (:
then on saturday i went shopping with my mummy cuz i couldn't go on friday. (: got quite a good haul. woo.
pw group meeting at my house on monday. my dog's bark sure is loud. echoed all around the dining room. ooh scaaary. he might be a cutie-pie but he sure gets rowdy. oh man i love my pw group!! after pw meeting there was a class outing at ecp.. but i didn't go because it was quite late. ):
ah ma's house today!! woooo. my ah ma was impressed with my hokkien. thanks to zhixue and jiaying. (: she gave me a pinkish-purple guess handbag too. wheee! (: i love talking to my ah ma. she's really quite cute.
wow life is only worth living after promos.
we're trying to plan a class outing tmr. hopefully it'll happen.
and. guess what.
I PASSED MY GRADE 8 VIOLIN EXAM!! woooo. pop the champagne! hahahaha. yep really happy about it. my mother told me the good news after math promo exam and i think i scared woonie and claire and matt with my.. eer. frenzied ecstasy? haha. yay guess the practice paid off man.
now i can concentrate on my piano. (:
yes life is beautiful.
"every time i think of you i get a shock right through into a bolt of blue. it's not problem of mine but it's a problem i find, living a life that i can't leave behind." -bizarre love triangle, new order.

quidam

2005-09-10T22:55:00.000+08:00

violin exam was a flop. what can i say man. i messed up everything.. did worse than my usual. actually i think i did worse than my worst practice. i don't even wanna think about it. now i'm just waiting to hear what the associated board of the royal schools of music though about me.
not much, i daresay.
well anyway, i went to watch quidam!! by cirque du soleil. and woah, great soundtrack, cool effects, impressive stunts.. what's there not to like? (: contortionists, gymnastics, balancing acts, mime.. it was really entertaining. well half the time i was worrying about the performers' safety, but still really entertaining. the four little chinese girls were super adorable! they were performing some kind of traditional chinese routine, where they do stunts while keeping this dumpbell-shaped piece of wood on a string. but they added in western elements and their stunts were really breathtaking.. woah. i think they got one of the loudest applause. their professionalism really shone through, even though they couldn't have been more than 11 years old. guess that makes it even more impressive.
well actually all the acts were superb. there wasn't a dull moment in the whole programme.
go watch quidam by cirque du soleil. two-and-a-half hours of pure adrenaline-pumping entertainment. you won't regret it.
moved chairs yesterday for the j2 prelims. well they can either thank us or kill us, whatever their preference. some of the chairs/tables aren't very stable so yep, choose your seat wisely. i think the arrangement is a little too cramped in some areas. you need to be anorexic to be able to squeeze in comfortably. heh. but oh well. we did the whole thing in under 45 minutes. yes go students' council + ct council + outdoor activities club! (: efficiency is the way to go. it was quite a good experience, really. before this year, i never really wondered how the tables and chairs got into the hall in time for our exams. well now i know. admittedly by the hard way, but at least i'm no longer swimming in the abyss of ignorance. heh.
i watched a tale of two sisters last night on channel u. it wasn't exactly very scary, but the whole show was so humane and chockful of emotion.. it really sets you thinking. the director was quite abstract too. he gives the viewers a lot of space for interpretation... but i prefer to know the exact storyline the director had in mind. heh.
well currently my favourite advertisement is by visa credit card.. the one with richard gere in it. basically he's in this market alley in india and bumps into this little girl, little girl only has money for one bird and is disappointed because she wants the luck for her brother who is going away (the indians believe that freeing caged birds is lucky), richard gere steps in, buys entire alley way of birds and sets them free in front of her brother. ta-dah. super nice!! (: it's so different from all the other superficial ads. like the contact lenses ad. girl can't see whether a guy is checking her out, so she gets new acuvue lenses, because knowing whether a guy is checking you out is the most important thing. eer right. sheesh.
school reopening next week! i'm dead for promos. (: haha. oh well. -shrugs-

update!

2005-09-03T21:59:00.000+08:00

heh finally updating after abandoning my blog for ages.
it's school holidays now. violin exam coming up! next thursday. sigh i think i'm gonna flunk my scales really badly. i've always hated scales. especially now it's 3 octaves in one bow stroke?! man. i knew i shouldn't have put off learning scales till the very last minute.
now everything's just violin practice. when my exam is over i think i'm gonna find myself wading knee-high in my overdue homework and lecture notes that are begging to be read. grrr. i really hate math. especially integration and complex numbers!
i'm ok with both my biology and chemistry biology tests. well seeing i started studying at 10pm the night before for bio there isn't anything i can complain about. (:
i went out with yanqi and ruowei on wednesday, when it was half-day for teachers' day. man it was sooo good to see them! i got ruowei a handphone cover because i forgot to get her a birthday present. (: i finally bought the handbag which i had my eye on for ages! i've been lusting over it for about a month now! i was totally high after my purchase. heh. felt really sad when it was time to go for studio practice.. i really missed yq and rw. let's go out again after promos! (: and make sure hsiutzu comes along!!
my cousin justin just got a two-month-old dog. it's a chow chow. his name is caesar and he's sooo adorable! well i wouldn't know for sure seeing i haven't seen him yet but i trust my cousin's judgement.

heh isn't he cuute? aaaw. <3 chow chows rock! but i seriously think they should be banned in singapore because of their incredibly thick fur. huskies too. i mean, they are gorgeous but we wouldn't know their suffering. good thing my justin's in canada or caesar'll get heat stroke.
woonie sherli junkiat matt and i have project work meeting with mr beetsma on monday. perfect way to spend the first day of our holidays. -__-
AND ct council has to move tables and chairs on friday for the jc2 prelims! ARGH perfect way to spend the last weekday of the holidays.
haha think i'll go do my theory homework/practise violin/catch up on math now. woe is me. ):
"i put my makeup on a saturday night, i try and make it happen try to make it all right. i know i make mistakes i'm living life day to day. it's never really easy but it's ok. wake up wake up, on a saturday night. could be new york, maybe hollywood and vine. london, paris maybe tokyo. there's something going on anywhere i go tonight. yeah, tonight." -hilary duff, tonight.
the most disgustingly bimbotic song of the century.

stressed.

2005-08-15T23:03:00.000+08:00

"i've got work piled up to my head. all i wanna do is jump into bed, and wash away my troubles with lemonade." -corrine may
project work. violin exam. lecture tests. homework.
stressed.

nat'l day

2005-08-10T00:21:00.000+08:00

happy birthday singapore!
ok fine. so i'm a few minutes late. so what? it's the thought man.
national day celebrations was alright. i mean it wasn't perfect but it could have been much worse. felt quite out of place wearing shorts and a red t-shirt that wasn't solid red, but celebrations only lasted a few hours so i could take it.
then we went for a mini class outing. woo! yuewoon waiyen clara sheeyin zhongyi ashwin zhixue jeremyk mark junkiat mathew aaron and me. we watched charlie and the chocolate factory. man i grew up reading roald dahl! and charlie and the chocolate factory is one of my all-time fav dahl books. so yep i was really happy. it was really hard getting 13 places for charlie and the choc factory at the cinema though. i think half the world wanted to watch it after school celebrations, because by noon, plaza singapura only like three rows of seats left. cineleisure didn't have any either. so we got zhixue to book us seats at toa payoh, since he was on the way to meet us. so we ended up with really good seats. the movie was pretty good. i don't really have much to complain about, except the choreographer and composer for the oompa loompa's routines desperately need to find new jobs. and the chocolate river and great glass elevator were moving so fast i was getting motion sickness. guess the camera angles the director chose were too good. some people thought willy wonka was portrayed to be too sadistic though. and violet and veruka seemed way too bitchy to each other. i mean, hello i think they're like 10?! 10-year-olds are supposed to be sweet and innocent and filled with idealistic thoughts about world peace. sheesh.
i really love 05s16. (: <3
i helped my mother prepare ayam buah keluak today. that's a dish that peranakans are famous for. yeah man. anyway it was really hard work. and the tips of my fingers are some gross colour. it'd go off soon i guess.
better go off to practise violin now. exam is coming in sep. argh.
"cuz it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do, nothing to prove. and it's you and me and all of the people. and i don't know why, i can't keep my eyes off of you." -you and me, lifehouse

college day

2005-07-31T19:07:00.000+08:00

ok i haven't updated in ages.
college day and science carnival were back-to-back. ggrr.
college day was really cute. mr seet wanted all the year ones to line the driveway and clap for the guest of honour mr tharman shanmugaratnam when he arrived. haha sheesh. if i were him i'd be cowering in fear at the back of my car. a whole driveway full of sulky half-hearted secenteen-year-olds is not a pretty sight. but oh well the j1s were quite sporting when the time came. (: at least there weren't any false alarms. we heard that the j2s clapped and cheered for everything that entered the school. even some lorry. -__-
not like i got the better deal. the ct councillors were supposed to open car doors and usher people into the pt, but when the time came none of us opened any doors. i mean, what if you got some really sulky person who was determined to stay in a bad mood no matter what? opening their car doors and leaving your fingerprints all over the handle or closing the door too hard and leaving a dent is a ticket for suicide. so we hung around awkwardly outside their doors and waited for them to open the car doors themselves. ah well. i partnered jingyuan for that. he's really good at trafficking. (:
everyone who had blazers and court shoes had to stay back for the reception as well.. i partnered jingyuan again. heh we were pros at arranging cutlery by the end of the night. but my ankle was KILLING me. ouch. guess my heels were too high.
when we got home it was close to 11. yeah well we were supposed to report at 9 the next morning for morning meeting but i heard the attendance was quite pathetic because everyone was really tired and overslept. guess i'll never know cuz i was one of the oversleepers. >.<
science carnival went quite alright. it was really slack. i got to know jacqueline much better. we were getting all giggley and high at the reception table. oh dear. i saw a few rgs juniors so i talked to them.. they were really nice. but i heard the principal mrs tan is contemplating closing robotics and merging it with micromouse so they aren't too happy about it. ): gives me a sense of deja-vu when i remember all that trouble we had with her and strings. hm.
physics tuition today was quite funny. yunhua loves to draw these really cute round blobs that rachel insists will wobble when they're poked. so rachel and i named him bob the blob and we're all thinking up of adventures for him. like the adventures of bob the blob part 1: bob meets patty. (patty's his girlfriend. we call her patty the fatty.) so yep. haha. the adventures of bob the blob will resume next sunday. heh.
so well. i think next week wouldn't be so busy.. but the jc2 parent-teacher meeting is coming up. i hope it wouldn't be as difficult as the ct seniors make it out to be.
i'm going back to hospital on wednesday morning to see the orthopaedic. hopefully i'll be able to get covered for pft totally. i don't think i'll be able to do shuttle run and the 2.4km run in my current state. my ankle's not recovering. but i think that means i have to take third block pe next year. i'm not too sure cuz they only mentioned failures but nobody said anything about people who didn't take the test at all.

"whatcha doing tonight? i wish i could be a fly on your wall. are you really alone? who's stealin' your dreams? why can't i bring you into my life. so tell me what would it take to make you see that I'm alive?
if I was invisible, then i could just watch you in your room. if i was invincible, i'll make you mine tonight. if hearts were unbreakable, then i can just tell you where i stand. i would be the smartest man. if i was invisible.. wait, i already am.
saw your face in the crowd, i call out your name, you don't hear a sound. i keep tracing your steps, each move that you make. wish i could read what goes through your mind. wish you could touch me with the colors of your life.
i reach out, but you don't even see me. even when I'm scream out, baby you don't hear me. i am nothing without you, just a shadow passing through.."
-clay aiken, invisible.

bad day

2005-07-12T22:14:00.000+08:00

it was quite a bad day today i guess.
yeah. well it wasn't bad until after first break.
claire cried during bio. and it wasn't even her fault. the bio teacher really provoked her. she was so tactless.. i was quite shocked at what she said, really. and poor claire was crying so hard and i really don't blame her. she was so miserable and i almost cried too.
then during physics my experiment was a flop.. my graph (which was supposed to be a straight-line graph) ended up looking like a series of mountains and valleys. and i have no idea why. got my values from sheeyin but i was still quite sad.
and the fruit juice from the vjc was so SO ex it was practically daylight robbery.
then i went for third-block pe and had an accident with the stationary bike. mr tan asked me to use it since it's impossible for me to do circuits. i met lemuel on the way there so he helped me get started. half-way through i decided i didn't like the bike and wanted to switch (even though i switched bikes like 6 times. vj needs new bikes. desperately.), so i stopped peddling. but i underestimated the power of momentum. -.-" so physics. well the peddles had some kind of catch on them where your foot is supposed to go, and i guess i stopped peddling too abruptly, so the peddles pulled my foot downwards far too much. OW the pain really shocked me. i got off the bike and sat down on the floor for a while. and i started crying too. so embarrassing. mr tan was super shocked when i told him afterwards. i guess nobody got injured while using the stationary bike before. heh. so he asked me to use the rowing machine instead, since you can strap your feet down. and he said he'd get someone to call me when pe ends but he forgot. ggrrr. so i ended up having 5 more minutes of physical exertion and being 5 more minutes late for strings too. hm lemuel helped me a lot during pe. guess it was fortunate i met him. >.<
then strings. lyndsey told me that vj didn't perform well at the track and field meet. and that one of the relay guys had an injury. and it sounded bad too. oh no.. ): i felt awful for him, because he's a sportsman. i guess i'd be devastated if i broke my left fingers because i'm in strings, so i guess he feels the same way.. argh hope he gets well soon. ):
it was a really bad day. and now my ankle's hurting while i'm sitting here.. it used to hurt only occasionally when i'm sitting. guess my ankle backtracked quite a few steps on the road of recovery. and the shock must have took a few years off my life expectancy. argh why didn't i listen to ashwin and jk and zhixue and not go for third block pe?!
"bruised and battered by your words. dazed and shattered how it hurts. but haven't i always loved you? boy when i need you. you're almost here. and i know that's not enough. and when i'm near you i'm close to tears. cuz you're only almost here."
-almost here, delta goodrem + bryan mcfadden

wotw

2005-07-01T20:49:00.000+08:00

oh man i am exhausted.
exams are officially over today! alright! haha. chinese was alright. actually it's the first time i looked through an entire ao level chinese paper. hm. the comprehension is only 10 marks. woah. the compo's only 30. it's pretty cool. the comprehension was about yaoming. hm. they included some basketball lingo which i don't really understand, due to my lack of basketball, not chinese, knowledge. it was ok overall i guess.
after chinese i went to watch war of the worlds with sheeyin shiling clara joseph zhixue angela. it was so cool and thought-provoking! heh think hg wells was really creative. but it was kinda scary though. especially that scene where people were trying to hi-jack their car. ): spent the scary moments in clara's shoulder.. hm.
well it was pretty cool but i'm so exhausted.. think i'll go sleep. but it's only 8.45. ah who cares.
liberation is sweet. (:

Fun loving, childish, innocent and pure
You are a sprite of the Air: Fun loving and
childish your naive nature only enhances how
truly cute you are! You may come off as too
childish but only because your not burdened
with all the rules and regulations of
adulthood. You are carefree most of the time
spending your days playing tag or naming all
the clouds you see in the sky. You are
generally kind to everyone because you have
lots of love and happiness to share! Making
friends comes easy because they strive for the
innocence you possess but be careful, being as
nice and kind hearted as you are people will
try to manipulate your nature if they have not
already. Don't ever let anyone mold you to
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random update.

2005-06-21T00:02:00.000+08:00

this is the crappiest holiday i ever had.
seems like holiday is a facade for study leave. i've so many things that i want to buy and so many places that i'm longing to go to. but holiday schedule isn't giving me much room for frivolous stuff. no more luxury of wandering down orchard road aimlessly every week like during the secondary school holidays, not when revision's constantly on your mind. not like i'm doing frightfully well in that anyway. revision is only going ok for me. and in the last week of the holiday, i can safely vouch for my doom in the biology midyears. seriously. oh well.
promos will be better. (: i promised myself.
chemistry tuition tomorrow with yuewoon. (: heh and maybe more matching earrings? ...
went out with yanqi, ruowei and momo last wednesday. my only visit to my old school territory this holidays. heh still remember those days when rgs owned orchard road! and that feeling that we have the whole far east plaza to ourselves during half-day at like 10, when nobody but us is able to go shopping. eer nobody employed/studying, anyway. we went back to get our certs, and man that bittersweet feeling of nostalgia hit me right in my face. hard. it's not like i'm dying to turn back time and relive my secondary school days again, with no freedom + strict booking/detention rules, but it's just those memories of pinafores and recesses and pe and running down the corridors if you're late for class. ha the school clerk still remembers me! yay. (: she always had a good memory.
going out with yanqi + ruowei + momo makes me miss them more.. so many promises of meeting up again during dec hols. but we always manage to find time to fulfill those promises. oh man can't wait. (:
yeah and yuewoon + sherli + junkiat + mathew + i did a street survey for our project work too. some people thought we were trying to sell stuff/conduct commercial surveys. like sheesh hello we're in our school uniforms?! heh like this one time, yuewoon + i tried to approach two ladies, who visibly tried to avoid us. then we asked them if they could please help us in our project, and they were like, "project? yeah sure of course." heh. and i saw samantha zhuang too! looking super pretty as usual. (: rgs 410/'04 rocks!
and we encountered this extremely unpleasant cjc girl, who kept telling us that our project idea is crap and it should hit the garbage dumps right away. and of course she didn't even substantiate her point. -.-" her boyfriend was really helpful and patient though. he looked kinda embarrassed at his girlfriend's behaviour. i mean who wouldn't be. hm she spoiled my mood for a while. but of course i have confidence in this project! heh.
went to my ah ma's house today. yay missed her! my mum + my ah ma + i went for lunch + a bit of shopping (in the dumbest place ever. well apparently clementi doesn't leave you spoiled for choice). then we went back to the house and i played my violin for her. i had it with me because i went to her house straight after violin lesson. heh played songs at her request so she was kinda happy. (: yep anything for my ah ma man. (:
kinda tired so i'll go now.. :D
"oh and i don’t know, i don’t know what he's after. but he's so beautiful, such a beautiful disaster. and if I could hold on through the tears and the laughter. lord, would it be beautiful? or just a beautiful disaster.." -beautiful disaster, kelly clarkson. a song that i think nearly everyone can relate to. (:

quiz

2005-06-17T10:51:00.000+08:00

i love doing quizzes. (:

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stoopid

2005-06-12T17:17:00.000+08:00

sheesh blogspot erased half of my previous entry!! sigh but i fixed it. (:
the baby birds in my garden are getting bigger!! too big for the nest, almost. they're growing a little bit of feathers. aaw so cuute.
woonie came to my chem tuition yesterday! kenneth and cindy didn't go so it was just pamela and us. lesson started 15 min late so woonie and i went to parkway first.. we bought matching earrings from 1975. that's the pushcart outside g2000 with rather interesting stuff. so yep anyway we had a great time bargaining with the lady and got a pretty good deal. nothing's more satisfying than that huh. we're targeting the funnily-shaped silver diamond earrings next. haha bet the lady will squeak in horror to see us again.
went to collect my stuff from jasper today. haha it was so nice to see him. thanks so so much. you're the best. (:
oh yeah think this song rocks. (: so super sweet.

'collide-howie day
the dawn is breaking. a light shining through. you're barely waking and i'm tangled up in you. i'm open, you're closed. where I follow, you'll go. i worry i won't see your face light up again.
even the best fall down sometimes. even the wrong words seem to rhyme. out of the doubt that fills my mind, i somehow find you and i collide.
i'm quiet you know. you make a first impression. i've found i'm scared to know i'm always on your mind.
even the best fall down sometimes. even the stars refuse to shine. out of the back you fall in time. i somehow find you and i collide.
don't stop here. i've lost my place. i'm close behind.
even the best fall down sometimes. even the wrong words seem to rhyme. out of the doubt that fills your mind, you finally find you and i collide.
you and i collide.'

sammy's birthday

2005-06-10T20:43:00.000+08:00

today. sammy's birthday. (:
went to school to meet yuewoon and mr beetsma first about project work. we had to get the permission form signed first before we can go do that street survey on tuesday. haha mr beetsma was so awfully nice! he taught us a math problem that i was having trouble with, even though he's our physics tutor. but he couldn't answer woonie's chemistry question though. aaw. >.<
met sammy and yvonne after that! went to east coast park to blade/bike. haha still remember that time during orientation when the ogls tried to trick us into joining the bikers/bladers society.. which didn't exist. hrmphx. so anyway i had to rent guards cuz i'm still super unstable on my blades. actually sammy had to persuad the lady into renting them out to me because she was worried that she wouldn't have enough guards to rent out to people who rented blades as well.
after blading we sat on the breakwaters for a while.. it was so peaceful watching the water wash over the rocks.. and it was high tide too. and there was this gorgeous rainbow in the sky! haha.
then we went to sit in the sea. what's a trip to east coast park without getting wet right? heh. it was so so fun to get all wet and feel the waves tossing you around. sammy and yvonne swam a little out to sea but my ankle kind of ached a little so i passed. wouldn't want vonnie and sammy to be fishing for my dead body on his birthday haha.
after we were done fooling around, we went back to vjc where i saw lyndsey.. i saw her in the morning too! haha she must have spent loads of time on nicolas' scrapbook.. lucky guy. >.< then i went home after changing..
haha had loads of fun with both of them today! (: i really missed yvonne and sammy. sigh now we're all in different colleges. i really miss the first three months when we were all together in vjc.. yep hope to see them soon..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMMY!
oh yeah and it was hsiutzu's birthday yesterday.. sent her an sms but she's overseas.. so HAPPY BIRTHDAY HSIUTZU!
we discovered a nest in our garden about a week ago.. there're two baby birds in it and they're growing up nicely! so cuuute. haha they don't have feathers yet so they look kinda strange. and they can't open their eyes yet. but still adorable. (: and their mother is gorgeous.. so yep guess they'll be too. (:
woonie is coming with me for chemistry tuition tomorrow! yay!! :D i2i rocks!
"sunrise, sunrise. looks like mornin' in your eyes. but the clocks held 9:15 for hours. sunrise, sunrise. couldn't tempt us if it tried. cuz the afternoon's already come and gone.." -sunrise, norah jones. super nice song! (:

backwoodsman

2005-06-04T17:53:00.000+08:00

ok back from operation: backwoodsman.
think the stuff that i learnt is very theoretical. it's all fine in theory, but when its time to act fast, i don't really think anyone is going to think about that thick stack of notes.
haha didn't really do THAT much networking.. i was with yuewoon most of the time. i think the camp was more of bonding with your own friends + cca mates. but i got to know a few more people. (: so i guess that's good.
overall it was ok though. but incredibly slack!! guess the sc + ct councillors would feel weird attending something so slack. i know i did! haha. after a while i kinda wished we were all back at ct camp getting screamed at by ashish and jung seong.. eer ok well maybe not. >.<
the food at camp was kinda yucky sucky too. but the nasi lemak on the last day was niiice. yummy. think everyone piled on weight during the camp cuz we didn't do any physical stuff! it was just eat, sit, sleep. and they feed you like five times a day. aaww man! haha.
think the highlight of the camp was our midnight ct meeting on the second night. from like 11pm to 1am. we sat down together in the ct room and actually applied what we learnt during the workshops.. think quite a few problems that we faced are on the way to getting solved for good. and we bonded lots more too. haha woonie crashed our entire meeting and gave us some unbiased advice.. think she's waiting for her ct council nametag now. :P
maybe when she gets her house comm nametag we can swop! haha.
gonna have the speak with panache workshop on monday and then pw group meeting on tuesday.. hrmphx. busy busy. hope my group can get plenty accomplished by this holiday, so we don't have to worry so much later on.
but the great singapore sale rocks. (: wanna buy loads of stuff! especially pretty slippers. that are comfortable. (:
"cuz i can't breathe. no i can't sleep. i'm barely hanging on. here i am once again. i'm torn into pieces. can't deny it can't pretend. just thought you were the one. broken up deep inside. but you won't get to see these tears i cried. behind these hazel eyes." - behind these hazel eyes, kelly clarkson

soccer

2005-05-25T23:04:00.000+08:00

vjc had half-day today to go down to the national stadium to watch the soccer finals. so school ended at 10.30.
so i had time to go home for lunch + nap. (:
met yueting + erjian at the tjc bustop at 2pm for sammy's sc investiture. he made us go in street clothes but we felt so incredibly out of place! haha way too young to be sammy's parents. :D the investiture was alright i guess. i thought the entrance of the councillors-to-be was super cool, with light sticks and everything. and the bond girls song they chose was incredibly nice! sammy kept laughing on stage.. no thanks to yueting and me i guess. we couldn't stop laughing at everything he did.
i met elke + kangya there too! elke used to be my classmate from primary one to four.. she looks so pretty now. i didn't recognise her until i heard her name being called when they were giving out the council badges.. haha thought i'd die of a heart attack. kangya was rjc's representative. (:
went down to the national stadium after that.. saw yanqi + atiqah + kenneth + chel + shuzhen + justin from mjc!! and fiona came back! yay. heh was really happy to see them again! especially yanqi.. i spent all my time at the national stadium with her. this is the third time i met her in two weeks! yep so we were really happy. i sat with her at the mj section for a while, then she came to the vj section. think the view from the vjc section is better. ok fine so i'm biased. :D i helped her leave early since it's compulsory for the mj j1s to attend match support and it'd be too obvious if she walked out of the front gate with her schoolbag. haha i was slightly worried that i'd get a scolding from an mj teacher for kidnapping her though. my dad brought us to macs for a drink. (: then her friend called her later when we were in the car to scream that mj won. oh man i was like so devastated.. i was really shocked, then i felt really bad. for the principals, pe teachers, soccer boys, spectators.. yeah we see them train so hard every day after school, and all those sports injuries.. and it seems like everything wasn't worth it. i got the details from jeremy chia later on about the overtime and penalty shoot-out and sudden death and all that. oh man. it was really such a waste.
i guess what makes it even worse was that vjc could have scored on a few occasions, but they couldn't penetrate mjc's defence. but we were so so close to scoring quite a number of times. oh man we were so close.
i wonder if we'll still get half-day tmr? ok but that's not all that i'm worried about. :S
strings exco results out! but calvin said he can't tell me. ok fine another day of suspense for the six of us. ):

boo.

2005-05-23T21:44:00.000+08:00

how did i let myself get so out of shape?
i can't climb up four storeys to my violin teacher's apartment without feeling physical exertion.
my standing broad jump's only 180 cm now.
my sit and reach is quite a joke. and i used to get an a for it. with ease.
i didn't dare try out shuttle run.. it looked painful.
i'm losing muscle.
well that's kinda understandable i guess. i haven't taken pe in close to three months.
walked from my estate to the hdb blocks in bedok south then back again today. my ankle was squealing in discomfort. hm think i'll do that more often since i don't have physiotherapy anymore. (: had paddle pop solero shots too. well it was on the way. :D
i wonder when i can start jogging my 2km route again? hope i'd be able to by the middle of june. i hope i can get a silver for my physical fitness test in july! i don't wanna fail it and go for third block pe.
but looking at my fitness level now, maybe that'd be good for me.

bday

2005-05-22T00:34:00.000+08:00

woo. i'm officially 17.
not like that's a big deal. i guess 16 is. sweet 16, right? and 18's the legal age for most stuff. but 17's just caught in the middle.
but it was still a blast.
had loads of fun during break fooling around taking the weirdest pictures with yuewoon and waiyen and claire and jiaying. heh. we finally have photos with the second intakers! yay!
i got let off at 12.10.. went for lunch at 7-11 with lyndsey and kelvin and liling. i tried out some microwaved noodle thing that everyone said looked gross. but it was pretty good actually. hm. it was quite fun sitting outside 7-11. beats the vjc canteen anytime. heh the neptune court security guard came over and asked us why victorians were always hanging out at 7-11. apparently he thinks the vjc canteen food is unedible. haha. oh yeah thanks for the soya milk laura!
rehearsal for infusia was incredibly boring. really. we were all sitting around staring at each other. i missed out on miss chen and mr goh's farewell party! darn! but i couldn't leave because we had to practise moving the chairs around. ugh. and all the teachers-in-charge and chairmen were kinda stressed so i didn't wanna ask for trouble. ): clara managed to sneak out though. boo.
dinner was plain gross. lyndsey and i masked the taste of the food with lots of chilli sauce from the western stall. heh cool birthday dinner.
the concert was quite a success really. the response was really overwelming. it was a full house too! woo. they had to turn away a few people because there weren't any tickets left. haha.
and the coolest thing happened. my e string snapped in the middle of the concerto grosso.
i had checked that it was in tune before we went onstage. then somewhere in between lt5 and the stage, the string went flat. by a lot. even though the string was quite tight. guess it was a little damaged already. anwyay during the section leaders' solo, i turned the peg the way i've turned it a million times before. but this time the string snapped. ARGH! major panic man. may day may day. everyone told me i had the coolest facial expressions. and the 'piang' sound of my e string snapping was audible even from the upper gallery. and it drew a collective gasp of horror from most in the audience. woah. i had to spend the rest of the concerto grosso in like 3rd and 4th position in order to play the notes that i usually play on the e string. sheesh.
but i was incredibly miserable after that. i swapped violins with kelvin (thank you!!) so i could play the combined orchestra pieces. but the finale rocked. heh the audience really liked it. woo.
well overall it wasn't a bad way to spend a birthday (minus the string-snapping part).
thank you 05s16 for the huge pink piglet cushion! it's so bimbo but i love it so much! heh. thanks to everyone for the flowers and presents and for being there at my concert. i love you guys.! and it was good to see yanqi and ruowei and dawn and iris and hoying and dennis and sammy again! yay.
then i had lunch today with my mum and auntie yvonne and her niece. but auntie yvonne's son jared wasn't there because he was having school stuff. ): man i kinda miss him and our crazy physics tuition sessions. and the balmoral plaza chicken rice and how we always went mad at 7-11 buying millions of bottles of picked waterapple. heh. but lunch was really good. (:
and my new anna sui fragrance rocks my socks! i love it so so so much. thank you!!
yep well i'll always remember my 17th birthday. woo.
"how could this happen to me? i made my mistakes i've got nowhere to run. the night goes on as I’m fading away. i’m sick of this life. i just wanna scream. how could this happen to me?" -untitled, simple plan. super nice song!

bday eve

2005-05-19T23:38:00.000+08:00

busy. ):
but i'd be free after tomorrow's strings concert! maybe too free. :S
i'd be 17 tomorrow! but it doesn't feel like a big thing anymore. probably i was doing gp the whole night. heh.
i really hope infusia goes well tomorrow. i wouldn't wanna disappoint the crowd yeah. guess the least that we can do is to ensure that we don't mess up the strings pieces. and i hope there wouldn't be a mistake with the seating arrangements! we always seem to have a shortage of stands and chairs. heh.
i wonder if we're still having strings supper after infusia? the teacher said something about that quite a long time ago. but she's so busy and stressed. i wonder if she'll forget?
whee i get to miss two blocks of chemistry tutorial! :D cheap thrill.
pw's going ok. not marvellously exceptionally phwoar! fantastic, but still reasonably ok. just realised how tight the schedules are. no wonder all the year 2s were complaining about it.
think i'd go to bed.. so super exhausted. i'll do longer posts after tomorrow! (:
"and it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time. i want what's yours and i want what's mine. i want you.. but i'm not giving in this time." michelle branch- goodbye to you. super nice sad song!! (:

ct invest

2005-05-18T22:51:00.000+08:00

ct invest today. really cool. i have my gold nametag now. woo. kiss my patched-up-with-scotchtape plastic tag goodbye. (:
but all the councillors went out after that cuz we were given a full day off. and i couldn't go because i had chemistry spa. and strings too! darn. so uunfaaair. ): but oh well life's like this.
strings rehearsal wasn't half bad. the 3 combined orchestra pieces sound really good. especially sabre dance! it just occured to me that infusia is mainly chinese orchestra's concert. why?.. most of the stage time is given to chinese orchestra. shucks. and i thought it was supposed to be a combined concert. like 50-50. hm. ):
but it's ok. chinese orch sounds pretty good. the suonas are kinda loud. not getting used to it though heh.
think i'll go to bed now. strings is sapping up all my energy. haven't got started on my gp essay. uh-oh. guess i'll submit it on friday? get to leave early then for strings practice! woo.
-"now can i get an encore. do you want more? cookin raw with the brooklyn boy. so for one last time i need y'all to roar. now what the hell are you waiting for? after me, there shall be no more. so for one last time, make some noise!" -jay-z and linkin park, numb encore. lyndsey and i were all for playing it for the encore of infusia. heh. but i bet the teacher-in-charge'd never approve! :P

nonsense

2005-05-11T15:22:00.000+08:00

updating my blog in the computer lab.. supposed to be doing banner painting but there aren't any paints. hm. so i'm waiting for the guitar concert ushering briefing. (: yipee.
locker adhoc busted our first lockers today. whee. it was really hard work though. bet aaron would disagree. :D
today's the last day of physiotherapy. (: alright! heh. it's quite a relief not to go anymore i guess.. the therapist keeps bring up the issue of operation but i'm kind of scared so i don't think i'll go. and the only time i do physical stuff is during pe lessons. sheesh. so there isn't really much point.
project work's going alright.. junkiat's our group leader. heh. we keep changing ideas so i don't know what's gonna happen. ouch.
think i'll go now.. so sleepy. maybe i'll go to the library to sleep.. i hope i'd wake up in time for the briefing. >.<

hyperventilation

2005-05-05T22:41:00.000+08:00

still traumatised.
i hyperventilated in math tutorial class. it was just kinda sudden. i was copying down the stuff the tutor wrote down on the whiteboard when i had this strange sensation in my chest and my heart was racing like mad. so i told jiayi that it feels like i'm having a panic attack. and i said it really happily too. then i realised i wasn't writing properly anymore. my heart was pounding, my chest hurt like mad and i couldn't control my breathing consciously. jiaying tried to help me to slow down my breathing but it was just so hard. i was really really terrified too so i guess that didn't help much. i can't really remember what happened but after a while my breathing went back to normal. but my hands and legs were numb and i couldn't move and everyone said my hands were cold. ouchies.
went to the canteen for a while.. wanted to get something to eat but mathew had my wallet. haha. went for physics lecture like 10 minutes late. brilliant walking pace.
then i got it again in physics lecture. my chest hurt and i was breathing too fast again. i got out of the lecture theatre with yuewoon and jiaying and vithiya and sherli fast.. i wasn't sure when steph joined us. i wasn't really very conscious i think. i was breathing too much in math tutorial but i didn't feel like breathing the second time around.. i felt comfortable not breathing so i kept it that way. my limbs were really numb again. i think i kind of zoned out a little because i didn't know what everyone was saying to me.. just stuff like if i wanted hot milo and whether i wanted to lie down. i think. my vision was really weird. the colours seemed kind of strange. like a television set gone wrong. i remember a tsd girl giving me water. she got a pe teacher to come. then he got me a wheelchair and i got to the sick bay.
felt kinda better there. i got the feeling back in my arms and legs. they called an ambulance which brought me to changi general hospital. sheesh that's practically like my second home now. the paramedic was really nice though. so was my doctor. ivan. he told me he was from vjc too. woo.
the hospital kept me there for observation so i got home quite late. i slept in hospital, and again when i got home. but i still feel kind of tired. and weak. and still really scared. oh man. the doctor said the attack might be due to stress and anxiety, physical exertion, psychological problems or something in my subconscious that has been bugging me for weeks, that my body has to vent out. cool way of venting your problems if you ask me. sheesh it's obviously none of the above so i'm dying to find out what really caused it. guess i'd never find out cuz the doc said that nobody really knows about these kinda things. boo.
at least i get to miss bio lec test tomorrow.
i got yuewoon and sherli and mathew and junkiat in my pw group. joy and jubilations. i'm really happy about it. (: that's like the best group anyone can give to me.
thank you so much 05s16! you guys are the best man.. i dunno what i'd have done without you guys. (:
still feeling quite scared so i guess i'll go to bed now.. gotta miss strings tmr. ):

wedding

2005-05-01T21:37:00.000+08:00

first day of may. calls for an update.
sports day on friday. oh man it rocks so much. ursa's the champion house! not like i ever doubted our abilities. (: i was timekeeper for all the runners who came in 2nd.. timekeeping's stressful. it'd look really weird if my stopwatch showed a faster time than shuqi and weiyi, who were the 1st timers, or slower than joel tang, who was the 3rd timer. i think joel adjusted his time for quite a few events cuz he had a slower time than edwin. heh. at least timekeeping let me practise for physics prac. haha. did mass dance after the sports day. i love vjc mass dances so much! woo. but i'm still quite blur about la bamba and tribal dance. boo. claire was my dance partner for friendship dance! haha it was quite fun. (:
but i got sunburnt. ouch.
oh yeah and how can i forget about syf? hm. got a silver. i was so so disappointed.. it wasn't like i was totally expecting a gold.. i knew that a silver was possible seeing that we were a really small ensemble. but it was just that feeling about how your hard work went all to waste. and how you can't collect your harvest due to bad weather conditions that you can't control. cuz we did well on stage and we peaked at exactly the right moment. and of course there was that feeling about letting vjc down. and how we really wanted to do well to give her a name but we failed to. but i'm so proud seeing how far we've come and bonded together during the practices. and i know our concert will be better. (: go vjse.
sc investiture on tuesday. ctc must not muck up. or sc will muck up our investiture. haha. can't wait for ct investiture on the 18th of may. woo. then we can finally enter the ctc room without permission! heh. there's this really cool mini hi-fi in there. haha i'll go in and blast linkin park every morning.
went for a wedding yesterday.. my neighbour's wedding. sat at a table with all the other neighbours. i sat next to melissa, the sec 3 ngee ann girl living down the road.. i think she's really pretty. i see her a lot but yesterday was the first time i talked to her. she's really cute and funny. heh. she knows who mark and mathew are. wow they are famous. (: the food wasn't bad. and they gave out mini teddybears that were so cute! heh. the groom jonathon always writes songs for his wife brenda, and he sang one of his compositions at the wedding. man it was so gorgeous and the piano accompaniment was so well-played. i know it sounds really cheesy but you can practically hear how much he cares for her. it was just really sweet. (:
looked for new shoes today but none caught my eye.. i need new sandals too. never mind i'll go to a bigger sports shop another day.
yep holiday tomorrow! alright. sleep sleep sleep. (:

parents principal

2005-04-18T20:21:00.001+08:00

had physiotherapy today. my physiotherapist sonia was on mc so i was kinda disappointed. she's really nice and patient. i think my ankle's getting worse because i can't tiptoe very well. i got quite worried but couldn't ask sonia because she wasn't there. the therapist who attended to me today didn't seem to know anything about my ankle so she said to wait for sonia to come back and help. it was such a wasted trip, really.
i went out for dinner on saturday without the brace and it hurt like hell. and my dad's car was parked quite some distance away so it was quite bad i guess. i really wanna get off my ankle brace soon. ):
parents-principal meeting on saturday morning. our first big ct job. it went quite well i think. really smooth. i felt dumb ushering though, because i don't really know how to do it. it doesn't feel quite right standing there like a wax figure. boo. i wanna be in traffic control next time. it's really easy. just follow the first guy on the driveway (who gets all the crap from the traffic control teacher-in-charge too). but the first guy on saturday happened to be joel boon. poor joel! he looked so flustered. >.< heh. he didn't seem to mind doing all the work though. (: haha so selfless. yep talked to julian after the function. one of our first real talks in 12 years! he said hi to my mum when she came to pick me up. he was so shy with her. :D
had chemistry tuition after the meeting. i really love the tuition so much. probably because there's only kenneth and pamela and i, so it's quite close and personal. (: i really hate those huge tuition classes where nobody knows anybody else. ugh. ew i can't believe i actually look forward to tuition .that sounds so muggerish.
and then i went for my first physics tuition lesson on sunday. saw yunhua there but she was a make-up student so she wouldn't be there next week.): there's this really pretty girl named rachel who's in vj too! (: in krit's class. alright! at least i wouldn't be too lonely in tuition. i talked to her after the class and she seems really nice. so yay. the girl sitting in front of me looks really really familiar. i think she's an ex-taonanite too. hm. the class seemed so dead! not like my chemistry class. it was so silent and freezing cold. like a graveyard. hm.
strings tomorrow. i can deal with that. (: syf is coming soon so yep pretty worried about our playing. which is not too bad i guess but i don't think it's good enough to compete with rjc and hcjc and acjc. oh man. i hope we can get a silver at least. hm. i know zhongyu's really freaking out. he's practically starting a countdown. there're only 2 strings people running for exco. sherilyn and i. haha that's quite a joke. calvin's asking us to get other people to run. as if! haha.
yep ok gotta run. did some quiz thing that i got off the friendster bulletin board.(:
"i've got to let you know i feel so weak without your touch. i never thought that i could ever love a man so much. i've gotta let you know i think that we are destiny. for you i'd cross the world, for you i'd do anything. that's right baby. i'm goin crazy. i need to be your lady. i been thinkin lately, that you and me, yes we can make it. just ride with me roll with me. i'm in love with you." -crazy by natalie. i love it it's such a sweet song. (:

1. last person u wrote a testimonial? *yvonne! (:

2. sport you would least play *i don't do any sport.

3. last movie you watched? *shutter. during ct camp. :S

4. what do people first notice when they see you?* probably my ankle brace. haha.

5. do you like peanut-butter? *nope.

6. do you read comics? *i like to. but i don't.

7. how pretty/handsome is your crush? *in my eyes? very.

8. do you like earthquakes? *not in singapore.

9. worst nightmare? *that i couldn't stay in vjc.

10. favorite coffee place? *starbucks.

11. wanna be a celebrity? *nope.

12. do you like surveys? *depends on the questions.

13. your secondary school close friends? *angels and devils.

14. your best physical asset? *my hands.

15. your worst physical asset? *my right ankle.

16. most people would describe me as: *no idea.

17. one thing you hate about yourself? *i talk too much.

18. vegetable you hate? *lady's fingers.

19. do you like to go out on a grocery? *very much.

20. favorite persons in the world? *my family.

21. can you dance? *not now.

22. favorite past time? *talking on the phone.

23. are you happy? *pretty much.

24. do you believe in God? *yep.

25. what is the worst rumour you've heard *i've heard loads in my coming-to-17 years of life.

26. what is the most stupid thing you did *stepped into a drain.

27.are you in love? *love's kinda strong.

28. do you miss him/ her? *heh heh.

29. what is the name of your first girlfriend/boyfriend/crush? *shan't say.

30. what time is it? *7.37pm

31. aside from answering this survey, what else are you doing? *nothing. haha i am focused.

32. first thing to do when you wake up tomorrow? *moan.

33. where are you right now? *in front of my computer.

34. what's one thing you like to do alone? *bathe. duuuh.

35. what kind of books do you like to read *fantasy/romance.

36. what is the geekiest part of your music collection ? *all those classical music from mep.

37. how many drinks before you got really drunk? *i can't hold my liquor well.

38. what can you say about the person who sent this to you? *it was through friendster.

39. what is love for you? *selfless.

locker adhoc

2005-04-11T18:41:00.000+08:00

the funfair on saturday went really well!
surprisingly our stall was rather popular so we were really busy. cool.
i won a lightstick from floorbowl frenzy. well actually i kinda sucked at it but they gave me second prize anyway cuz they said i'm their fellow victorian. heh. yo vjc wassup! and i won first prize from that smash-the-mothball-as-it-comes-down-a-tube game. the first prize was a bottle of bubble solution, which rocks in theory, but in actual fact the bubble solution doesn't really produce bubbles. so i won a useless bottle of alkaline, actually. i left it on the floorball frenzy stall counter. what're stall neighbours for, huh? :)
got home at around 10 plus and talked to kenneth on the msn. he made me realise how much i miss those days. i got offline at 2 am and lay in bed just thinking of those crazy times at the playground more than ten years ago with julian and kenneth. it gave me such a sweet and nostalgic feeling. man i'd give anything to relive those days again. things are so different now even with julian being in vjc ct council with me. i guess we've all grown up and our priorities in life have changed from cartoons and tricycles to cca and lectures. now i know why peter pan wants to stay in neverneverland forever.
physiotherapy today was so tiring! now my ankle really aches like mad. ouchies. bet i'd have some difficulty walking tomorrow. but oh well it's good for me. or so i think. :) i got to school really really late today. like at 12pm. i actually bothered returning for physics tutorial and math lecture and chemistry lecture and chemistry tutorial and ct locker adhoc meeting. yes i am the model student of vjc. give me a medal please.
being in the locker adhoc sounds quite tiring + fulfilling. yay gerald and i are the official locker busters of ct council. so we just basically go round busting the lockers of illegal occupants. :)beats doing the locker paperwork anyway. haha busting lockers is actually quite mean. i hope my conscience hibernates every time i break some innocent person's lock. but maybe the illegal locker occupant isn't so innocent after all. yep. we should have a ct council locker adhoc cheer! yay! haha.
tomorrow is mathew's birthday. happy birthday!
"why can't you hold me and never let go. when you touch me, it is me that you own. pretty baby, oh the place that you hold in my heart. would you break it apart. again." -pretty baby, vanessa carlton. argh it's such an old song but i still love it. :)

musicfest

2005-04-08T23:24:00.000+08:00

hrmphx i've got so much to say.
i saw sammy and yvonne and fiona today. they came back for music fest. it was really good to see them! i really miss the original batch of ct initiates. ct council just feels different now that a few of them have gone, and some classes had re-elections and changed their ct rep. it's just weird because ct training camp was supposed to have bonded us but now quite a few have left the council so it's all back to square one. hm.
i'm going for physiotherapy now. it kinda hurts doing all those weird exercises. ouchies. going for physiotherapy made me realise just how useless my ankle is. and it's so frustrating to know that i can't do the simplest stuff like balancing on one leg and tiptoeing and squatting without using my hands. it kinda makes me wanna scream and throw a temper tantrum. but my therapist is quite patient and nice so i don't really mind it. i'm going back to the hospital for physio on monday morning. whee i get to skip a bit of school. heh cheap thrill.
school's been pretty good lately. vjc really rocks big time. i'm getting quite used to the lecture system so i pay more attention now. :) the vjc uniform is such a light colour though. i get stressed eating anything that isn't white. or sitting opposite someone eating something that isn't white. heh. makes me remember that time during recess when clara managed to get prawn noodle soup on sheeyin's shirt even though sheeyin was sitting across the table from her.
zhongyi and i can finish one big cup of milo together in 16 seconds. that's pretty good eh? we're aiming for 15s next monday. :)
we have four new intakers into s16. shiling from mjc. she's an ex-rafflesian too and i kinda remember her from rgs, so it was pretty good to see a familiar face. junkiat from ajc. he's so crappy and funny he gives ashwin a run for his money. aaron from hcjc, who swapped places with dennis. :D he's so quiet and thoughtful and it makes you think he's all wise and deep. and there's mathew who joined the very very small group of 05s16 athletes. he's quite friendly and nice and he knows mark from ngee ann sec, so it's a good thing that he's got someone to help him. junkiat and mathew take chinese, so our chinese class group is expanding. heh.
i miss the first intakers who left. samantha and hoying and yvonne and dennis and zhiyong and peiyi. i know jiaying kinda misses sam because she commented on how someone in the lecture theatre has the same bag as sam. sheesh the pae sucks. the sooner the government does away with it the better.
we have some aljunied grc funfair tomorrow. all the ct initiates and councillors have to go. hm. i don't really mind but we have to report so early tomorrow! at 12.30. when the funfair starts at 6.00! hm seems like something's not right huh. guess it's something to do with all those security checks just because the prime minister's coming. there's even a bomb sweep. like hello we're an innocent bunch of jc kids. no one's gonna assassinate the prime minister. well if we were really determined to kill him we'd make do with the 12 darts from my stall yeah? sheesh i think the darts are kind of top-heavy. they're meant for popping balloons but they deny all laws of projectile motion and head straight for the ground. i think we're cheating people's money. it's fraud really. i'd be really amazed if anyone did manage to pop anything and win stuff.
so yep think i'll better get started on decorating my metal tin for tomorrow. i hope i don't lose it. the ct councillors gave it out on thursday morning and 05s16 had to spend the rest of the day picking up the tin after me. hm. :) whee. i hope the fair goes alright tomorrow! :)

ursasasa

2005-03-31T21:56:00.000+08:00

haven't updated for quite some time.
4 new intakers for s16. shiling aaron junkiat mathew. i kinda remember shiling from rgs so that's good. she's kenneth's classmate. kenneth's in my chemistry tuition class. freaky coincidence.
i really miss everyone who left vjc.
got my uniform altered. i'll miss my pinafore. today loads of people from other schools were wearing the rgs uniform. it got me all annoyed and irritated. i wonder why. i never used to be such a passionate rafflesian. all that four years of rafflesian brainwashing is getting to me. too late. haha.
not that i ever regret being a victorian. :)
ursa has a new adorable cheer. "ursa ursa we're so cool. lagi best house in the school. make the others all malu. this is what we all can do. ur... sa sa sa." so cute. :) it has another adorable new cheer. haha but they're still finetuning it i think.
ursa really rocks.
now i'm officially off my crutches! yep. but that's not much cause for celebration because my orthopaedic made me wear an aircast. and that kind of sucks even more. it's just uncomfortable. and the hospital said i have to wear sports shoes with the cast to limit movement and the aircast can't fit into my nikes so i'm wearing a nike shoe on my left and my dad's fila basketball shoe on my right. i look like a freak. sigh. i have to endure for another two weeks! argh. but an aircast is not so bad i guess. i was supposed to get my foot casted with fibreglass! sheesh good thing i put my foot down. pun not intended. haha.
strings practices are getting more intensive. we had auditions for syf/desk on tuesday. mine went alright. i really hope we can get at least a silver for syf. argh practise practise practise. we're even having practice on saturday. whatever happened to the five-day work week? hm...
i think i'll go to bed now. i'm not feeling too good. guess i'll go to the library to sleep while waiting for strings practice to start.

vjc

2005-03-23T22:50:00.000+08:00

1. The results of your application are as follows:
Posted Institution : VICTORIA JC
Course Name : VICTORIA JC (SCIENCE)
Course Code : 33S
alright. once a rafflesian, now a victorian. it's what i've wanted all my life. since i was in taonan. every time we drove past victoria junior college i'd be gazing in longingly. it was totally vjc all the way. and now i'm living my dream.
buying uniform. sheesh i haven't bought mine yet because i didn't bring cash today. grr. guess i'll get mine on monday. and i'm completely clueless about what size to get. hm. but it's a really nice sort of problem to have. :)
orientation 2 today. some second intakers were kinda quiet. i guess they're sad about not being able to stay in their original jcs. so we didn't push them too much. but some really came into vjc with the i'm-too-good-for-this-junky-place attitude. like hello. sheesh.
on the whole o2 didn't go too badly i guess. 05s16 i know what majority of you did today. or rather what you guys did not do. which is not attending orientation 2! haha oh well. the whole thing was mainly ogl self-entertainment. a few second-intakers were surprisingly enthusiastic though. it was kinda unexpected. in a nice way.
disco rocks!
d-i-s-c-o. we are so damn pro. why are we so pro? we also dunno! d-i-s-c-o. d-i-s-c-o. we are freakin pro!
woo. ok zero for originality. but fun nonetheless. :)
can't go for world tour tomorrow with the rest of orientation 2. cuz of my ankle. it's miles better though. i can walk around without my crutch for short distances. after a while it gets uncomfortable and hurts a bit. so i can't really imagine myself walking all the way from 10 to 4. hm. so i'll go back for the evening programme. :) i hope ck remembers to sms me when world tour has ended. -_-"
oh yeah and i can't go with them to suntec city. we intended to mass dance at the fountain from 8 to 9. sheesh it's what i was dying for during orientation 1. and now that the suntec city thing is really happening, my ankle got in the way. argh! it's so frustrating and really disappointing. :(
ct council will never be the same without sammy and yvonne! i miss you guys so much. 8 people in ct council had to leave. 3 people in my ct got moved out and another 3 left for greener pastures. so that's 20 people left. 05s16 is quite fortunate in that sense i guess.
i'll miss you guys. :(
"hey guys move it on. vj's gonna take you on. we will do our best to fight for our success. move it. vj. solid. yeah.
c'mon everybody start moving to the beat. get off your seat and turn up the heat. cuz vj's gonna fight. yeah. vj's gonna cheer. yeah. vj's gonna come and rock this world. vjc. come on come on come on. vj... yeah."

anne.

2005-03-18T20:37:00.000+08:00

anne. my new best friend.
ok anne's my crutches. wait that's grammatically wrong. but i can't say anne are my crutches. that's logically wrong.
eer so anyway i christened my crutches anne. ANkle. anne. -_-"
anne means everything to me. i can't live without her. well it's quite disturbing to note that i can't live without her, but i can't kill myself without her either. i need her to help me perch myself over the balcony. doinks.
anne's always with me. she sleeps next to me. she eats with me. she showers with me. such great company huh?
and she helps me in so many ways too. i ---
-punt my rollable chair around with her. so my chair's kinda like a boat and anne's my oar.
-poke the fan switch with her
-wave her around and prod the ceiling when i'm bored
-prod my dog with her when he gets noisy
-open my cupboards with her
-hook on to stuff with her so i don't have to get up
-use her to whack people when they tease me. joshua knows.
well anyway, even with anne i get depressed. so the telephone's my second best friend.
i get scared looking at my ankle. the pain won't go away. the swelling won't go down. and i'm almost done with my inflammation prescription. it's hard not to think about it too.
josh came to visit for half the afternoon today. he cheered me up. but now i'm back in the dumps with a useless swollen thing for an ankle.
at least i can always depend on anne. :)

ct camp

2005-03-16T23:12:00.000+08:00

ct camp. what can i say?
well it really was like boot camp. all that standing at attention, not letting your group flag touch the ground, giving timings and making sure you keep to them, collective responses, standardisations, pumping... sigh. well it's over! whee.
the first day wasn't so strenous. but i slept at 2am and woke up 4.30am. so we were all falling asleep over each other on the second day. the second day was really bad. morning hike, rock wall, spider web, station games and eutopia. but i got to miss station games because of strings.
eutopia. what can i say. just that i wasn't of any use to my group cuz i was too busy slacking. and then i fell into the drain. it was dark and i couldn't see where i was going so i fell in and sprained my ankle pretty badly. at first it hurt a lot but it wasn't that bad. i could still put my weight down a little bit and could still walk around with lots of help. then the second day i couldn't go anywhere without han tao or sammy, because i couldn't put my weight down on my right ankle at all. then it got so bad then they got me a wheelchair and i left before camp broke so i could get to hospital. the doctor said it was a severe sprain and the swelling's very bad so they took an x-ray. no fracture but the doc thinks it might be a hairline fracture because that doesn't show up too well in x-rays. they said they'd call if they know anything but no news is good news yeah. have to go to the orthopaedic after the swelling goes down to get everything checked. oh man i wish... forget it weiting it's over.
i'm hobbling around on crutches. i'm not that steady yet. kinda live in my room now. plus my chair's rollable, so i don't have to crutch around unless i leave the room. however am i going to survive monday? my ankle would be better but i'd have to do vigorous crutching from 7 to 3 and that's tiring. bet my inclined pull-ups will have a drastic increase in number. :D
going to miss orientation 2 banner painting and science sectionals tomorrow. feel kinda bad about it but yuewoon doesn't seem to mind. well i fell into the drain for spastic reasons so i guess she feels so proud of me. long live the spastic club.
sheesh i really have to thank sammy and hantao and hsien yao for the piggyback rides. and sammy carried me up four floors too. ruth thinks i'm lucky to be in oreo because we have the two tallest and strongest guys. haha. and jingyi and lingjie for helping me with everything. :) and the girls for helping me around the bunk. and the ct seniors for being so encouraging and nice. and ruowei and yiling and huiling for bandaging my leg + helping me with medical stuff. now i know how much st john's rocks. and carol for getting the wheelchair. and jeffrey and joshua and zilong and yvonne and fiona and the ct initiates for cheering me up. well basically tht covers everyone who knows about my ankle. sheesh thanks a whole lot. :)
"sine sine cosine pi, 3.1-4-1-5-9. avogradro, LCP 6-point-oh-2-10-2-3. v square u square 2 as , science fac science fac kick ur ass."

theory

2005-03-12T22:09:00.000+08:00

sigh. theory exam. i don't wanna think about it. it just stinks.
plus esprit didn't have the pants that i want so so so badly. and my dad drove me to the raffles city branch in the worst traffic ever possible for nothing. it was just so disappointing.
everything was just bad.
walked out to bedok corner for dinner with my parents. hm i think the renovations are really pretty and all, but now it's even more stuffy and poorly ventilated, and the seats are positioned such that you don't get any privacy at all, so everyone can see if you chew with your mouth open or if satay sauce got onto your shirt. and it's really such a waste because the design was really good.
but that scoop of green tea ice-cream cheered me up a little. and batman of the future cheered me up loads.
gonna watch the sixth sense with my mum later in the room. ggr think i'm gonna get freaked out. i always get scared so badly by horror movies. but i never learn i guess.
ct camp next week. part of me's excited while the other part's just freaked. think i'd have to go back every single day next week because of the planning of orientation 2. at least i'm in the same group as yuewoon. we're grouped according to houses. so ursa has both the co-presidents of the spasticlub. oh dear. -evil laughter- i'm so glad she made it into house comm though. and lyndsey too! :)
my brother gave me a new mouse. so nice. :) the mouse's so much better than my old one too. the former really stinked. the mouse ball had serious problems. this one's an optical wheel mouse. yay.
well better go and get ready for the sixth sense. sheesh. if i don't get any sleep tonight you know why. :S

theory

2005-03-11T17:11:00.000+08:00

question: weiting, what in the world were you thinking, going to tampines mall the day before theory exams?!
answer: i really don't know.
sigh yep went shopping with my mummy after school even though i had the full intention of cramming theory. so much for a distinction! haha which is impossible to get in the first place. so nothing lost. :D
decided to do a quick update before mugging italian musical terms. yikes.
so anyway about the doing away of pearls points for cca and leadership. that's cool i guess. which means more ponning of strings and no more community service! haha. eer not that i don't care about the community! i really do. which is why i wouldn't wanna go and spoil the hard work of fellow "volunteers". eer u know why that word is in inverted commas haha. i mean, take beach cleanup as an example. mr beetsma actually managed to take a photo of me throwing a plastic bottle onto the sand. yipes! it was a wonder i didn't get lynched by the other two classes. hm.
yep last day of term. doesn't feel like it. especially since next week is so busy! ct + string camp from mon to wed, banner painting and planning for orientation 2, sectionals. and i have academic stuff to catch up on. ugh.
our ct stall proposal got through the selections. i'm still in shock. so now we have to do some detailed proposal. cool. sounds quite exciting i guess. but being a stringer for 4 years... yep everything would sound exciting. -_-
saw yanqi and constance yesterday at the tampines mrt station! jingyi and i went to buy the cloth for the oreo flag. and when we were passing through the station i saw them! argh! i miss 410'04 so so much! i was sooo happy when i saw yanqi! :)
new addition to the spasticlub: zhixue! yay! now we have 10 members. spastopia is expanding! woo.
think i better go cram for theory now. neopolitan 6s, here i come. ouch.

day off

2005-03-07T10:13:00.000+08:00

boo. haha haven't blogged in a while.
theory exam coming up on sat. yipes! quite frightened. passing's not a problem i think, but i just hate examinations! they irk me. ugh. well hope i can get a merit! have to mug all those annoying french/italian/german terms again. :( plus it's all the way at collyer quay. on the other side of the world! sheesh.
ct camp on the first three days of march holidays. wonder how it's gonna be like sleeping over at school? hm. i didn't catch who's overall in charge for camp but hsien yao's the assistant. eer think he's samuel's ct rep. and ashish warned us that both the overall-in-charge and assistant are gonna ensure that ct camp'll be tough! ggrrr! maybe we can drown them during ct outing at east coast park later today. :D taking three hours off for strings practise on the tuesday of ct camp. sheesh i am such a strings mugger. what can i say? :)
had to skip class outing though. :( it's on now at ecp cuz we have full-day off, thanks to our 03 batch! they did really well for a levels so we get to party! sigh but i didn't think it'd be good to go for both class and ct outing when theory exam's just around the corner. plus there's ct and house comm and sc combined outing on friday afternoon, so i have to make sure i know all my theory stuff inside out by thursday! chiong theory! -_-
i went for chemistry tuition on saturday. my first lesson. haha jasper will be relieved. my retired chem tutor! :P well anyway there're two other girls. jolencia and pamela. i kinda remember jolencia from mgs mep. remember seeing her when we went to mgs to try out acoustics. they're both really nice. i didn't really mind the tuition. it's a pretty nice and productive way to spend saturdays. :)
yep and of course how can i forget my o level results. haha. i got what i wanted, and i can stay at my dream college by the sea. :) i'm ok with it, really. plus i got an a2 for music! shocking huh! haha woo. considering our mep teacher not teaching the brandenburg movement 2 and telling us not to study for it and it coming out as set piece so that's like 20 marks gone. ha yep was really happy with music. guess i was kinda disappointed with my results at first, but well isn't it human nature to want more? -_- but right now i'm at peace with everything. :)
well gotta go study theory now. sheesh. hope leslie'll mange to borrow a cd player so we can do mass dance later on! haha.

results day

2005-02-28T10:59:00.000+08:00

sigh. my entire future in 3 hours. i'm frightened. ok fine i'm terrified. make that panic-striken, and if i wasn't so young i'd get a heart-attack right now in front of my computer.
i want to stay in vjc so much that it almost hurts. please please let me stay.
please.
jasper: worry is like a rocking-chair. it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.
it's hard not to worry when so much is at stake.
victoria thy son am i and i will not forget.
please let me stay.
i shall do some quiz i stole from dawn's blog. so it'd take my mind off results. haha thanks dawn!

what would you prefer to be called? weiting
are you bored?not really.
how's your life nowadays? pretty good.
out of all your best friends, who do you turn to the most? different friends for different problems.
how long is the longest conversation you had on the phone? 3 hours
what's in your mind right now? please let me stay in vjc.
what music are you listening to right now? everwhere. michelle branch. :)
do you think life's unfair? yes but i'd be really worried if life WAS fair.
what annoys you the most? backstabbing.
what do you think about your love life right now? what love life? hahaha.
who's your favourite person to crap with? the members of the spasticlub! and the angels and devils. :)
who's your favourite person to tell your dreams with? eer. probably jasper?
have you been told not to go for your crush because of his/her attitude? nope.
will you survive without love? nope. who can?
dogs or cats are better? dogs.
what makes you happy? hanging out with friends.
will it be a problem to you for having a very big crush on someone? nope.
do you fall in love with someone easily? not really.
have you tried smoking/drinking? only drinking. thanks to my parents!
do you day-dream alot? huh? what was the question again?! hahahahaha.
do you love yourself? yes i guess in my own funny way, i do.

// Series One
First job: sg idol violinist?
First screen name: ting. how predicatable.
First funeral: can't remember.
First pet: rebel.
First piercing: ears
First tattoo: don't have any.
First credit: ?
First kiss: nope.
First enemy: probably someone from a long time ago.
First favorite musician: backstreet boys!
Lasts:
Last car ride: last night.
Last kiss: not applicable haha.
Last movie watched: hide and seek!
Last beverage drank: green tea honey
Last food consumed: steamboat last night.
Last phone call: joshua
Last time showered: last night
Last CD played: john mayer
Last website visited: blogger -_- duh.
Now:
Single or Taken: single. :)
Sex: female.
Sign: taurus.
Siblings: brother.
Hair color: very dark brown.
Eye color: very dark brown.
Shoe size: seven i think.
Height: 166cm.
*Eighth Grade*
What were you like: quite miserable
What was your favorite class: english
Who was your best friend: can't remember.
Who did you have a crush on: let me think...
// series two - Irish, Scottish, England, and German-- The shoes you wore yesterday: grey nikes.
-- Your fears: not staying in my dream college!
-- Your perfect pizza: i hate pizza. but i thought the christmas pizza from pizza hut wasn't too bad.
-- One thing you'd like to achieve: loads. can't choose.
// series three - what is
-- Your most overused phrase on aim: it'd probably be my most overused phrase on msn messenger.
-- The first feature you notice in the opposite sex: height.
-- Your best physical feature: probably my feet
-- Your bedtime: i try to make it at 11pm but it always goes on later.
-- You greatest accomplishment: ?
// series four - you prefer
--Pepsi or Coke: pepsi anyday.
-- McDonald's or Burger King: macs!
-- Single or group dates: group
-- Adidas or Nike: adidas
-- Chocolate or vanilla: vanillaaa
-- Cappuccino or coffee: nestle iced coffee. hahah.
-- Boxers or briefs: eer not applicable.
// series five - do you
-- Smoke: no i take biology. :)
-- Cuss: very occasionally.
-- Sing well: nope.
-- Take a shower everyday: who doesn't?
-- Do you think you've been in love: nope, love's kinda strong.
-- Want to go to college: yep.
-- High school: i'm done with it!
-- Want to get married: duh!
-- Type w/ your fingers on the right keys: eer no. who does? (besides dawn)
-- Believe in yourself: nope, very seldom. :(
-- Think you're a health freak: never.
-- Get along with your parent(s): pretty well.
-- Like thunderstorms: only when i'm indoors.
series six - in the past month, did/have you
-- Done a drug: nope i take biology. :)
-- Made Out: nope.
-- Gone to the mall: duh.
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos: i don't like oreos.
-- Eaten sushi: yep!
-- Been on stage: nope. man i miss rgs strings.
-- Been dumped: nope.
-- Gone skating: nope.
-- Made homemade cookies: nope.
-- Been in love: nope.
-- Gone skinny dipping: nope.
-- Dyed your hair: can't.
-- Stolen anything: nope.
man i am boring.
// series seven - have you ever
-- Played a game that required removal of clothing?: nope.
-- Been caught "doing something": doing what? i've been caught doing loads of things. sheesh.
-- Been called a tease: ...
-- Changed who you were to fit in: nope.
// series eight - the future
-- Age you hoping to be married: 27?
-- Numbers and Names of Children: 3 or 4! simple names that everyone knows how to pronounce!
-- Describe your Dream: ... that'd take all night.
-- How do you want to die: painlessly.
-- What do you want to be when you grow up: dentist.
-- What country would you most like to visit: canada.
series nine – opposite sex
-- Best eye color?: dark brown.
-- Best hair color?: dark brown
-- Short or long hair?: something clean-cut.
--best height: taller than me.
-- Best weight?: haha a bmi of 22 is nice.
-- Best articles of clothing: shirts.
-- Best first date location: somewhere in the mall.
-- Best first kiss location: on the beach? :)
// series ten - number of
-- Number of boys/girls: erm, right.
-- Number of boy/girlfriends: not applicable. :)
-- Number of drugs taken illegally: nope.
-- Number of people I could trust with my life: my parents.
-- Number of CDs that I own: quite a number.
-- Number of foreign countries I have visited: not too many.
--Number of states: haha not applicable!
-- Number of piercings: 2 only.
-- Number of tattoos: ugh
-- Number of things in my past that I regret: i try not to look back too much.

hide and seek

2005-02-25T20:36:00.000+08:00

hide and seek. perfect if you --
-have a sweater like stephanie to put over your face during the scary parts. but stephie put it over her face the whole time. well that's another story.
-have nice patient friends on either side of you, eg waiyen and dennis, to grab and scream at and to borrow cover-my-face shirts from and enquire what the mad man's doing now.
i was so scared the entire time! i thought it was a supernatural show, not a thriller. knives scare me. those advertisements on radio give me the impression that charlie's not human. sheesh.
at least i know the storyline! *coughstephaniecough* haha.
surprisingly there were quite a few vjc people at plaza singapura. well.
i wanna watch hitch and miss congeniality 2! and a series of unfortunate events. maybe i should watch constantine next tuesday.
won't be back at vjc until wednesday! think i'll miss it a bit. on second thoughts i might go back for strings. to make up for my expedition on tuesday, haha. guess i'll see if i'm in the mood after monday. >.<
yep.

class outing

2005-02-25T14:06:00.000+08:00

ok this feels weird, to be sitting here in the computer lab in school and updating my blog.
basically not much happened in school today. we have a new addition to the spasticlub! jiaying. haha she joined us in chemistry lecture. yahoo. our spastic empire is expanding.
stephanie just came into the computer lab. so now there's waiyen and me and jeremy and stephanie. 2/3 of the spasticlub. woo. ok i'm obsessed.
we're going for a movie later. constantine has strange movie times. and i don't think it's a good idea to have a class outing at 1am. yep waiting for zhixue to finish donating blood. i'm such a chicken i'd only donate blood if i was unconscious or something.
now we're all singing natural by sclub7. that's really unnatural. eer ok whatever.
this keyboard is really crap.
j2s having biology skill a spa examination soon. yep well can see loads of stressed faces, haha. sheesh quite worried for next year. :S think i'll be highly suicidal. so many assessments!
yep think i better go now. zhixue'll be done donating blood just about anytime and this computer will probably take ten years to update this entry. so yep. :)

os

2005-02-24T22:32:00.000+08:00

sigh. haven't updated in some time.
i've got plenty to say but i don't know where to start.
ok firstly jts was much better than expected! need i say more? :) at least i got to know chern yih.
hm nothing much happening this week. just that i'm going mass dance crazy! especially i want you and neutron! up down kick down up down kick...
oh and i completely mucked up strings practice. why do i have a knack of doing that huh!? and the problem is that i didn't muck up by playing badly. we have this new guy named zikai or something. eer he isn't exactly very new. he was a guest player last year but he quit. and he joined back on tuesday. well liling and joshua and zikai and i decided half-way through strings practice that we had to go to the toilet. so we went. together. and that's like 4/7 of our section gone. then after going to the toilet, the guys decided to take a walk to the canteen so liling and i went with them. so we were gone for a grand total of approximately 8 minutes. doesn't sound too bad huh? but then the conductor demanded to know who was in charge of the 'expedition', as he called it. and he made it sound like the toilet was the moon or mount everest or something. and that we were gone for like 8 years instead of 8 minutes. sheesh. and he kidded us that we had to stay back until 7.30. and i believed him at first. and guess what, he was the first out of lt4 when strings practice ended. haha sheesh. that's it, no more toilet breaks for me. it took 10 years out of my life expectancy.
and yesterday was the birth of spasticlub. with yuewoon and i as co-presidents, steph as treasurer, waiyen as secretary and jeremy as welfare co-ordinator. and nicolas and josh too. cool huh? spastamania! haha maybe if we get 15 members we can form a cca! eeer ok. we're getting obsessed with it, what with the spasticlub crest and slogan and spasticdollar funds. ha. whoever wants to join, grab an application form and get on the waiting list! eer yeah right.
haha oh and jerry ong came to vjc today to promote the i-shall-save-myself-for-marriage bands. cool and he still remembers me. yay! i called him for fun when he was onstage to see if his phone would ring loudly into the silence. but it didn't. aw. then he called me back when i was in physics tutorial. and he was like oh i remember you! i saw you in the audience you were that rgs girl. haha cool. but by the time we got down to the canteen the bands were sold out. :( so yep. wanted to buy the red one. symbolises that true love is worth waiting for or something. yep i agree it is worth waiting for, but what if you wait and wait and it doesn't come huh?! but never mind i shall still be idealistic. :)
oh got an a for math test. my expectations aren't high so i'm happy.
o level results coming out on monday. please let me stay in vjc. gimme a single digit. please.

'bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air. and feather canyons everywhere. i've looked at cloud that way. but now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone. so many things i would have done. but clouds got in my way.
i've looked at clouds from both sides now. from up and down, and still somehow. it's cloud illusions i recall. i really don't know clouds at all.
moons and junes and ferris wheels. the dizzy dancing way you feel. as every fairy tale comes real; i've looked at love that way. but now it's just another show. you leave them laughing when you go. and if you care, don't let them know. don't give yourself away.
i've looked at love from both sides now, from give and take, and still somehow. it's love's illusions i recall. i really don't know love at all.
tears and fears and feeling proud to say "i love you" right out loud. dreams and schemes and circus crowds, i've looked at life that way. but now old friends are acting strange. they shake their heads, they say i've changed. something's lost, but something's gained in living every day.
i've looked at life from both sides now. from win and lose, and still somehow. it's life's illusions i recall. i really don't know life at all.'
-both sides now, joni mitchell. jasper's fav song. :) the words are particularly nice.

valentines

2005-02-14T21:56:00.000+08:00

valentine's day.
well it wasn't a big deal really. not like i was expecting it to be. think it's more international friendship day than valentine's day. valentine's day is such a crap idea, just something florists look forward to. so yep.
mass dance was a dismal failure. for a start, they should never have played the friendship dance, because 5/6 of the school population sauntered out of the hall. they should have played whiney whiney, then neutron, then i want you, then friendship dance. so we can do all the nice songs first, then walk out of the hall at the end. :) but because of their boo-boo, i didn't get to do neutron! sigh! it's my favourite. oh well i danced the last half of the friendship dance with jeffrey. he's a very enthusiastic dancer. eer that's the understatement of the year, hahaha. oh well. at least he's an okay dance teacher. :)
yep and he only wrote me a postcard today, because he said he's preparing a super huge, mammoth, gigantic, stupendously long letter for jts. well i hope he can complete it by then because his postcard is so short! oh well. his famous amos cookies will appease me though. :) at least he's such a nice angel. he makes up for alvin! alvin is one of the worst mortals in the world! he doesn't write to me and when i gave him his bookmark today, he didn't even say thank you! eer thanks for making me feel appreciated, alvin! oh well. -_-
then 05s16 played this dirty trick on me! during recess, when eminem's mockingbird was playing, they told me that class dedication was coming right up and go to the class table. so i was like okay. and the dedication wasn't a class dedication after all, it was a class conspiracy! apparently they thought it'd be really cute to fix zhixue and me up, so they wrote in this dedication to tingting from xuexue. eer right. and the content was so hideously mushy and crappy. the makings of a horror movie. and what's more, the canteen was genuinely interested in listening to it. so embarrassing and humiliating. ARGH oh well sam soo you die! hahaha. i'm gonna get you back!
well the rest of the day was fine i guess.
ooh i passed my napfa mock test. so i can skip third block pe from now on! alright! no more skipping strings sectionals. only 4 people in my class passed. wow. for the first time in my life i'm feeling fit. cool. but well to do the guys justice, the napfa standards for guys are ridiculous! jumping 2m for standing broad jump and doing chin-ups and running 2.4km in 12 minutes?! thanks goodness i'm female yeah. so it's no wonder the 4 who passed are all girls. oh well.
yep friendship day is drawing to an end. thanks to everyone for all the presents and stuff! and sorry i didn't give out many, because i didn't expect people to give stuff in vjc! i thought it was like some rgs tradition. oh well. feeling quite guilty now! :S and of course, no thanks for the crap dedication! haha. :)

cny

2005-02-13T16:17:00.000+08:00

so marks the end of the chiense new year holiday. sigh! i'm so not looking forward to going back to school. but luckily it's valentine's/friendship day on monday. at least that's something.
well chinese new year was quite a blast. and my hongbao collection is growing quite nicely! yay! but i'm so stuffed up with new year goodies. sheesh. i bet my bmi is like 25 now.
but it was good to see my relatives. especially amanda! she's my baby cousin and she's so sweet! then again my dad's friend's baby son jayden is even sweeter. oh man i'd do anything to have a baby sibling. :( i took so many pictures of them! :)
cross country was such a joke. 524. yep that's me. well at least i'm not last. and no the last girl isn't 525! yay! claire was 523 because she waited for me. oops. thanks claire. :) i'm such a terrible cross-country runner! well at least that's one career option down. but despite claire's and my being in ursa, ursa was still first! woo! which is such an achievement considering that fact that we don't have any cross-country runners! nicolas waas delirious with happiness i think. sheeyin is the fastest girl in 05s16 and she got 38. dennis is fastest boy and he got 48. eer ok. 38 is much smaller than 524. oh dear.
after cross-country we went to parkway parade. waiyen and i got jeffrey's jts present. :) saw nicolas at pastamania. there was this bald guy standing behind him and it was super funny because they looked like father and son. :) stephanie's choir seniors were at mos burger and she was pretty embarrassed because she didn't go for choir outing. after stephie left something superbly embarrassing happened! and of course claire was behind it. who else? >:( i'm not too sure what exactly happened though, i only get the gist of it, because i spent most of that time hiding behind the gnc counter. ha i shall ask claire about it tomorrow then blog about it then. :S
oh it was my dad's birthday too, so we went to fook yuen with uncle patrick and auntie lily for dinner. i saw josh and evelynn before that. :) well dinner was pretty good i guess. i think my dad had a good birthday. we're having dinner with uncle patrick and auntie lily again, next saturday or sunday i think. :) yay something to look forward to!
went shopping with my mum on saturday for vday stuff. got all my angel/mortals something and spent like $26.40. so i'm broke again. i saw this gorgeous pink fox sports wristband that cost like $15 in surf and ski. argh i'm dying to get it! but it's so expensive for a wristband. oh well. i wonder how i'm gonna pass chuhao his stuff, though? i don't think i'd be able to recognise him. hm.
well gotta return to biology. enzymes are stupid. yay we get to do neutron mass dance tomorrow! :)

cny

2005-02-08T22:59:00.000+08:00

victoria chinese new year celebrations are really good! the kind that keeps you glued to your seat and makes you scream for more. haha nothing like the cringe-worthy, tomato-throwing celebrations of rgs. :P
yanqi didn't crash vjc after all! quite the opposite. i had to go to tjc to get her! sheesh! well the tjc campus is really pretty. :) but the signs that said "trespassers will be prosecuted" and "property protected by surveillance camera" are really intimidating. apparently tjc didn't really mean it because i sauntered right in, with my vjc collarpin fastened securely. haha. oh well the taxi fare cost me 4 bucks! $3.90 to be exact. never mind, since chinese new year is fast approaching, a nice hongbao will cover the cost. :)
so we went to orchard with the full intention of going to rgs, but found out from juniors that the school's practically deserted. hrmph. so we went shopping at far east plaza instead! woo! we met ruowei at 12.30. hsiutzu couldn't make it after all! *cries and dies* but well the three of us had a pretty good time, nonetheless. i bought an anklet and a ring, which left me flat broke! but i shall forgive myself, because chinese new year is fast approaching yeah. :) wanted to buy nail polish too but popular was closed and i was too lazy to walk back to far east, so i couldn't start off the new year with a new shade. :( oh well. we took a neoprint too! but it'd have been better if hsiutzu was in it. :(
orchard road brings back so many memories. like that time i got lost in far east plaza when i was in sec one. shopping spree after exams! class lunch at scotts picnic in sec three. and leaving my wallet there in sec four. all those crazy neoprint sessions! endless walks down orchard road with the angels and devils. climbing up that flight of stairs at the mrt and realising to my horror that i did both either AND or questions of the sec three math exam paper. being dumb and taking a neoprint with yanqi which set us back by four bucks each. playing french fry run with cat at lido. buying prom stuff at watsons. that midnight show. the 5am walk to cheers. i guess i left that part of my life behind at orchard road, and it's never coming back. it gives me a kinda bittersweet nostalgic feeling that i'm not sure i like. it's hard to leave it all behind i guess. ruowei hsiutzu yanqi, i really miss you guys! haha i'll remember those crazy few weeks after prelims when we were all sitting together at the back of the classroom. :)
well reunion dinner was really yummy! we had it in the backyard, and it was so breezy and comfortable. i love sparkling grape juice! oh yeah we closed the sidegate to keep the dog out of the backyard, because we were afraid that he'd knock the table over and burn himself. but half-way through the dinner he crept into the yard. argh turned out that he came in through the front door, through the living and dining rooms, through the kitchen, out of the backdoor and into the yard! he is such a sneak! argh he'd have made a great politician. adolf hitler would have taken his hat off. oh well my dog left a trail of pawprints. but he's so cuuute. guess he wanted to be a part of the reunion dinner huh. :)
i made the tangyuan. :) but it turned out to be kinda solid for tangyuan. the instructions said boil for 5-6 minutes. i boiled for 8. and it was still hard! imagine what we'd be eating if i had followed the instructions. something resembling rock candy i guess. but the taste was still pretty good! no thanks to me of course. -_- oh well.
yeps happy chinese new year! so not looking forward to cross country on friday! >.<

class outing2

2005-02-07T20:59:00.000+08:00

i woke up this morning with this terrible ache in my left jaw. ouch! my parents think it might be my wisdom tooth. hm. i couldn't clench my teeth/open my mouth wide, so eating was such a pain. in more ways than one! oops pun not intended. i think i drank a record volume of milo today. but the pain's diminishing, so that's good. i wouldn't want to suffer through reunion dinner! :)
had a mini class outing. actually quite a lot of people turned up. :) we went to mcdonalds for lunch. stole a few of jeremy chia's curly fries. so yummy! sigh if only my jaw didn't hurt. i'd have stolen more! :D joshua came along too! haha.
then the rest of the class went to play pool and joshua and i went back to school. no before that actually we went with yuewen and hoying and zhongyi for a while to watsons. and yuewen and i have mastered the art of pretending to les-kiss! which is basically putting your thumb in front of your mouth and kissing it instead. >.<>.< oops.
yanqi might be crashing vjc tomorrow! but i, being the loseristic person i am, have no idea how to go about doing it! eer just play by ear i guess. :) think i'll just bring an extra collarpin for her tomorrow.
well actually i have no idea about tomorrow's plans! nobody seems to be planning anything! well i think i'll just follow the angels and devils around then leave at 2 or something.
hm actually i'm in a bit of a dilemma. maybe you guys can help me! i really wanna quit theory after my grade 7 exam, and just concentrate on piano practical. but on sunday, my teacher was telling me how grade 8 is hardly any different from grade 7. and she showed me the grade 8 test paper. and sheesh was she right! and suddenly i wasn't so sure whether to quit anymore. i mean, ok sure after this i probably would never need my grade 8 theory, but it might come in handy for practical. and besides, it's such a waste to quit after 7! what if i decided to take theory up once more after jc? then i'd have to start all over again! but well time is quite an important factor. so my teacher told me if i was serious about practical, she can take 5 minutes out of our theory lesson to listen to me play. a pretty good deal, hey? :) and seeing how grade 8 isn't very much more difficult than grade 7, if i work hard now, i might be able to take exam again next year and then finish the whole theory syllabus! woo. so should i quit theory and just take an hour of practical or should i quit practical and in a way have both theory and a little bit of practical? help me! :(
yep sheesh. tomorrow's the celebrations! have a happy chinese new year! sam soo is inviting the whole class to her house on friday night but it's my dad's birthday so i can't go. why does fate always put two good things together huh?! :(

sel

2005-01-30T01:07:00.000+08:00

i haven't updated in a long time.
well school's really fun with sheeyin and joseph! they're our very first class scandal. i guess waiyen and mark don't count haha. waiyen and i had an agreement not to tease each other about scandals so i guess i HAVE to say that right? ;)
so anyway we bought a flower for sheeyin - no actually stephie did - and i wrote her a really mushy love letter. supposedly from joseph. even though they didn't sit together during physics - yep mr beetsma was part of the plan and he loved helping! - we still put the flower in sheeyin's bag! she said she had a good time laughing. sheesh that's like a 0 on the romance scale. but well. she said she used my mushy letter as rough paper for mathematics. i bet shakespeare didn't have to put up with that! >:( haha oh never mind. practise makes perfect.
zhixue loves this whole scandal thing. he's really pro at making you feel embarrassed. like in kfc! argh he made jeremy c and i feel so so bad! well zhixue you die on monday! i know u're dying for your very own scandal partner so you'll get your wish soon! hrmph.
genevieve gave zx a watermelon but he didn't want it so i took it home. it's still in my kitchen. tsk tsk. he was so eager to unload it onto me too. i hope it's nice. :)
stephie brought her camera on friday so we had fun taking a few silly photographs around school and in lt5! haha so fun. :) can't wait to see the photos yeah. we had some really silly poses too. especially the one where all of us were pretending to be mesmerised by claire's handphone.
but basically i'm really getting into this whole jc system of lectures and tutorials and 35-min breaks. getting quite used to it. yay! it's likeable, really. except our new math tutor treats us like infants. she actually checks our tutorials every single lesson. so primary school! but other than that school's great.
oh yeah and i discovered my angel's identity! jeffrey from band. :) turns out that i'm supposed to have another angel, patrick, but he's too busy with his 3 s papers and retaining his 4 As and science research project and whatnot so jeffrey adopted me. :) phew. ha people like patrick intimidate me. imagine what he would write in his letter. -_- it'd would probably be beyond comprehension anyway. i'd have to refer to the dictionary for every other word. ouch.
strings is great. we're sounding better. lyndsey was the only conscientious one who cut out the scores. -_- oops. oh well. i wonder if vjse has a shot at the gold for syf? the technical difficulty of our pieces isn't too impressive though. :S well i hope we make history anyway.
ursa banner painting next thursday! sheesh so many banners to paint in victoria. it's practically their school culture or something. i'd die if string ensemble has a banner to paint as well.
this entry's getting kinda long. and i still have stuff to write. that'll teach me not to update for a week!
hm something happened today. i'm not sure if i'm happy about it but i know it's for the best. argh but i guess i finally understand what george orwell meant when he wrote "everything changes yet everything stays the same" in animal farm. yeah i guess i'm sad but i know i'll get over it. and i really hope for the best for everyone.
well better sign off here. music theory class tomorrow! eeks.
"no matter how hard i try, you're gonna make me cry. c'mon baby it's over let's face it. all that's happening here is the long goodbye. are you ever coming back again? guess i'm never coming back again." -the long goodbye, ronan keating

class outing

2005-01-20T21:53:00.000+08:00

yay class dinner today. actually we wanted it to be a class lunch but we ended up painting the chinese new year banner the whole afternoon. haha it was pretty. mark had this great idea. so we painted one rooster and loads of chicks. and the message was, have a productive new year. ha sheesh! but it was adorable. thanks mark! and good job 05s16!
then we went to mcdonalds for dinner. well clara and sheeyin and dennis and waiyen were making such a lot of noise! thought that lady would come over and tell us off. but apparently she didn't. hope she wouldn't complain to the school though! she looked so annoyed. well if she does we'll just fake ignorance and innocence. :) but dinner was fun. zhixue and steph and claire and i came up with so many class scandals. woo! so fun. haha.
but the bus ride home on bus 31 was so super long! hm. and to think edwin keeps recommending that route to me. -_- ha but i had ashwin for company. :) and he helped me with my ct council particulars form. yay! i have quite a few politically correct answers stuck in my head now. which reminds me. i have ct council interview on monday. why do we even need an interview? so scary! i signed up for monday 4.30 pm. it's the only time i'm available. i hope i don't just walk off happily after pe. must remember. must. remember. hope they wouldn't ask anything too challenging. :S
i met ashwin's friend sammy, who's also a ct rep. yay. at least i know someone from ct council now! besides yvonne and julian, of course. :) i was getting quite nervous about it too.
tomorrow's hari raya! which reminds me of something jasper told me. he said when he was in acjc he had a triple block of chinese on friday, which explains why he's always conveniently absent. then one day his chinese teacher asked him why he was never in school on fridays and he said he had to go to the mosque to pray. and his teacher was like oh ok. -_- like hello?! how dumb can a teacher get huh. sheesh.
i'm sooo tired. gotta play the piano then go to bed. good night! happy hari raya. happy birthday sel + weisheng. :)

strings

2005-01-18T21:29:00.000+08:00

pe wasn't that bad. it was mainly a whole load of rubbish. but not that much running so yay!
our gp project is a whole load of giggles and not much content i think! argh better get our act together. :) mr lee tried his best to help us but kept contradicting himself! so we were terribly and hopelessly confused. first he said something about a law to prevent parents with young children from divorcing, so the child wouldn't be psychologically damaged. then he said something about it not being beneficial to prolong unhappy marriages. eer rrright. so we're still unsure about our stand. -_-
class outing on thursday! wanna go to east coast park. :) then we can sit by the beach and talk and play cards or something. woo. plus it's inexpensive so we don't have to worry about costs. i hope the rest of the class agrees. :)
lyndsey's uniform was so tight-fitting! haha she's so skinny. oh well. :) never mind it was fun swapping! lyndsey was my desk partner for half of strings. she's really good! we hardly got lost. :) then later this j2 guy named joshua came in so we all had to move. lyndsey shared the stand with the nanyang girl next to her and i shared with him. he's quite nice and very talkative. and i'm not exactly very quiet myself. so now i think i know more about acsi and vjc than the concerto grosso we were playing. and he was eating prawn crackers all through rehearsal too. yummy. :) at one point we switched violins then the conductor was talking about how we should switch phone numbers too or something. hrmphx. so embarrassing! i almost died. we weren't even talking THAT much.
the string ensemble pieces sounded really good though! woah. and one piece sounded like it was straight out of a lord of the rings movie or something. woo. totally cool. i wasn't too hot for the concerto grosso though. it was quite nice but boring. the pieces weren't difficult either, which is super ideal. :) esp since this year is violin exam year. argh i hate scales.
it's getting late. i better go offline now. :)

today

2005-01-17T17:47:00.000+08:00

argh clara's uniform doesn't fit me nicely! and yuewen is so skinny. oh well so much for being a dunmanian. hoying doesn't wanna switch and samantha's uniform doesn't fit me either. so much for being a paya lebar methodist girl too. maybe i'll switch uniforms with yvonne! woo. haha.
i'm switching uniforms with lyndsey tomorrow for strings! so exciting! ok so here's the plan: i'll change after pe into my rg uniform, go to the strings room, then we both go to the toilet and swap! so i'll leave an rg girl and return as an anglican girl! haha. lyndsey sounds quite excited about it too! yay!
argh every time i say a girl is chio everyone thinks i'm lesbian. every time i say a guy's cute everyone thinks i like him! hrmph. stop making something out of nothing! *as quoted by yuewen. :)*
pe was terrible today. i wasn't even tired but i had a stitch on my first round! *must be dennis's chocs hee hee* so i couldn't run properly. so frustrating!
alvin didn't write back. argh. and watching dennis get angel-mortal letters 24/7 is really hard for us girls. :( and each time he gets a letter he smiles radiantly. -_- haha all the girls love to write and all the guys hate letters. well they like getting letters but hate writing. so unfair.
yay jasper's helping me later with frustrating chemistry redox equations. and my gp project. argh he's precisely what a jc student needs! thanks da ge. :)
better go now. gotta do tutorials. hm. i hope pe tomorrow won't be too terrible! or we'll all die. at least zhongyi's my running partner. i can always count on her to encourage me! :)

yay

2005-01-14T22:01:00.000+08:00

my angel's letter consists of half a page. hrmphx it took him four days to write half a page. that's like two lines a day haha. and he signed off as fiR3f1ght3r. well. but he sounds pretty nice so i'm ok with it. :)
haha zhiyong and i are like the only victorians online now. all the rest are at the bbq. argh suddenly i wished i've gone! and i was still so sure i wouldn't go when daryl asked. :( but i was so tired after painting the silly china dolls for chinese new year. and i didn't want my dad to make noise. so i went home and slept for quite long. and woke up with this urge to go to the bbq.
argh so sad now! :(
oh about the silly china dolls. all the ct and assistant ct reps had to stay back after school and paint chinese new year decorations. and it was so amusing! i was painting with jinglin and siling (from tao nan yeah :D). the china dolls looked quite adorable, really. but all the male dolls were wearing pink and yellow clothes!? they looked androgynous. and this group added two red circles to a doll's cheeks so it looked like some chinese vampire from hell. :) but overall i didn't really mind painting. it was just the silly chinese teacher who walked around screaming at us. and saying how we should have used newspaper to prevent us from getting paint on the floor. and if there's colour on the floor we'll have to mop it up. and how we weren't allowed to use our creativity when painting the dolls. and how the colours were wrong. and how we couldn't give the dolls belts. hello there's actually quality control?! in the first place the dolls weren't exactly what anyone would call stunning. and she didn't even thank us for helping her. never mind the ct council was pretty nice about it. and jinglin added ruffles to the ribbons on the doll's hair so if we walked past our masterpiece on chinese new year we'd know it. sheesh. :)
my dog looks better today. he's actually smiling a little. yay. and when he looked at me after dinner he laughed so i'm alright with it i guess. his limp is still pretty bad but i think he'll be alright. :)
lyndsey and i started writing letters because our strings angels appear to have gone into hiding. i don't understand why people don't like writing letters! i love writing letters. and receiving letters. so anyway now that we started writing letters so we actually have a reason to check the strings board. :) whee ben just said he'll adopt me.
yay well after school today sheeyin screamed yay friday is over it's the weekend! in front of the teacher. argh she's so cute. :)
thanks to the wonderful class of 05s16 i'm actually looking forward to school on monday?! but so not looking forward to pe. :( i'll be swapping uniforms with clara so i'll be a dunmanian for lectures. i was a tkgs girl for biology lecture today. thanks to stephanie. everyone said i didn't look like one. :( hope i'll be a convincing dunmanian yeah. ;)

rovey

2005-01-13T21:16:00.000+08:00

argh it's such a sad day for me.
my darling dog got knocked down by a car so he's limping around. and he looks drugged and sad. :( aaw. and he's still barking at strangers at the gate. he's so endearing hm. hope he'll heal fast.
argh school was pretty monotonous i guess. getting into the routine. 05s16, remember to give ur angels their letters in morning assembly! if u guys keep giving me letters in class i have to waste smses arranging to meet 04s16! then u guys have to pay my sms bill! so yes. :)
yay shawn said that my angel gave him my letter! finally i have an angel letter! whee! so excited. and alvin wrote back to me! whee. this is such pure bliss.
sheeyin had this brilliant idea actually. she thought we should guilt our angels into writing to us! like this:
dear weiting's and waiyen's and stephanie's and claire's and whoever-didn't-get-letters' angels,
hi. i'm really glad you're my angel. i think you'd be really lovely to write to! anyway just to thank you i'm giving u these chocolates. *attaches ferrero rocher* i really hope u like them. do u? if u don't i can always buy u another!
love, 05s16
our angels will feel so guilty about neglecting us that they're bound to write. or so sheeyin claims. then we decided it was so desperate and sad. so we didn't. hm. but sheeyin still maintains that it's an ingenius idea. really. she even announced her brilliant plan to her angel really proudly. hm.but since my angel has written to me i am satisfied. even though he is soo late.
and something really annoying happened! i went for lunch with edwin today since he lives so near me and nobody else in my class lives at tanah merah. and then we bumped into two of his silly ingole friends and they thought i was his girlfriend! then they said he's so pro can get a girlfriend so fast yada yada yada. like hello please grow up. not every boy you talk to is your boyfriend. grr that was so primary school. i just hope they keep their mouths shut during the og bbq tomorrow! samuel sounds like he's all for fanning the flames! haha hope he's joking. he probably is haha. :) thank you for helping me clarify matters, sam. <-- reverse psychology.
anyway i'm going to sleep soon hm. hope everyone has a good friday tomorrow. hang in there guys, only one more day to the weekend!

third day

2005-01-12T21:17:00.000+08:00

haha so much for being the model student. i fell asleep while ms ng was going throught the lab safety rules. and ate a sweet after signing some agreement that i wouldn't consume anything in the science lab.
and i put the letter meant for my strings mortal into the pile of letters addressed to the senior class. so everyone will be wondering about the new addition to 04s16. argh so blur.
my angel hasn't written to me yet. please write to me.
other than that school was fine. but it's so difficult to stay awake during mr beetsma's lessons! his voice is so calm and soothing. zzzz. oh yesterday i fell asleep in his lesson at 1200. he was going through random errors. i woke at 1215 and guess what? he was still on random errors. and the section on random errors is like pfft. u get what i mean.
and ben was surprisingly right. the strings auditions weren't that bad. and the conductor is so cute and friendly too. :) i only played a major and d major. instead of the diminished sevenths i was expecting. i messed up a bit of sight reading because i was nervous, but other than that it was fine i guess. so now i'm officially in string ensemble. wow. they're playing angel-mortal too. so now i have to write to 4 people. guess i'll put ct sessions to good use. :D
and i'm officially in ct council too.
i've finished all my tutorials. :) oh alright then, all the tutorials that i know how to do. jasper's been helping me with my work so much. thanks da ge!
my legs and shoulders are aching so much. thanks to pe. circuit training or something. ouch. i hope they'll be better tomorrow. climbing up and down stairs has been excrutiating.
i'll go to sleep soon. so i can stay awake during mr beetsma's lesson tomorrow and be a good girl. :) good night!

first day

2005-01-10T21:00:00.000+08:00

so far it's been a pretty good first day.
tutorials = zzzz
lectures = ZZZZ
but still i shall try to stay awake and be a good girl. :) i am 05s16's model student. yeah right.
jc kinda reminds of rgs because we don't have fixed classrooms. like in sec one and two. and we have to wander all over the school lugging our bags with us. well. i'm getting quite nostalgic.
i miss the rgs koi pond and those colourful lockers and the trips to the toilet with stef. and the pavilion and staffroom phones and bugging miss christina. i miss climbing up five flights of stairs every morning and taking bus 190 to orchard road and sleeping in the school bus. i guess i just miss rgs.
filiae melioris aevi.
ooh pe was so horrible! no exercise for like the whole dec hol, and suddenly we have to run ten thousand rounds around the hall?! and cross country begins soon. argh. i'm so dead. if physical education was the education we received i'd be less educated than my dog.
and tomorrow is the wretched strings auditions. so frustrating! i've been practising my ridiculous scales for ages already. but it's quite impossible to pack two years worth of scales in one night. i've never bothered about scales, not even during abrsm examinations, and suddenly the strings audition is based on scales. well. i'm presently begging ben to go easy on me for the scales bit haha. oh he just told me it's only one scale. -_- wasted my whole night! argh. but well yay i'm happy now. i'm not going to bother about that one scale because i'll probably mess it up anyway. so my violin goes back into the case.
well gotta go pack my bag. i hope i don't forget to bring anything. i forgot to bring the purple notebook jasper gave me for christmas today, and i was feeling so lost without it. well good night everyone.

orientation

2005-01-08T21:49:00.000+08:00

so ends a great week at victoria.
the campus rocks the people rule. yay. i'm quite glad i decided to come here.but i didn't on the first day because i didn't know anyone from my flick. neither did i know any rgs girl who came to vj well, with the exception of sam soh and ka hei and yawen. and i was close to tears like half the time. it was so bad gr. then later i realised the people in my flick are pretty nice and so are my classmates and civics tutors so it got much better.
i have an rgs girl in my class. sheeyin. she used to be in 409 so at least she is a familiar face. the campus is cool all the time because of the sea breeze. i do so hope that i'll remain in vjc.
but i don't really like the culture. maybe it's not just vjc culture, just a s16 and corsair thing. it seems like everything's boy-girl. i'm fresh outta a girl's school and already i had to lick someone's earlobe/kiss a guy/let a guy hug me. and all supposedly in the name of fun. i thought it was pretty mean to force these kinda things. ggrr. and daryl said that 75% of the vjc population are attached. well after looking at what kinda forfeits they give you it's not really a surprise is it. but something tells me daryl's exaggerating. a lot. :)
but other than that everything's cool. even the seawater. whee we went to the beach on friday. argh all that sea breeze and salt water must be bad for you. but it was so fun.orientation really rocked. all i need is for the rest of my jc life to be a quarter as good and i'll be alright.
victoria, thy sons are we and we will not forget. corsair -- aye aye captain!

newyear

2005-01-01T16:42:00.000+08:00

yahoo today is new years day.
it doesn't feel any different, really. maybe it's because i was stuck at home doing stupid theory homework yesterday while everyone else was somewhere happening counting down. -_- but well. i've never been to a countdown before! ouch.
i'll be going to the country club later for dinner. :) yay that'll be the only nice thing happening today. it's been so cold and dreary and miserable. and raining on and off. and violin lesson did nothing to cheer me up! if anything it's made my day worse. i hate svensen too. i might like him better if the exam piece was in nothing but first position. :) i wish.
my nail polish is not setting either. we ran out of canned fruits so we had to put yucky sea coconut into the konnyaku jelly. today's just all wrong. hm. it's days like this that make me wish school'll reopen. anything's better than this! hrmphx.
i'm in such a lousy mood.
i wonder what monday will bring? hopefully nothing too exciting. maybe we'll just sign up for our desired subject combinations and go home. :) but well. then where does the pe kit that we were instructed to bring come in? at least corsair is a nice group to be in. it's such a pretty name. haha.
happy 2005.

"what's goes around comes around what goes up must come down. now who's crying, desiring to come back?" -alicia keys, karma - my new fav song. :) maia sang it so well too. -

wildwildwet

2004-12-30T23:59:00.000+08:00

cold + drizzle + wildwildwet = okay.
it was a pretty okay day i guess. but the drizzle kinda spoilt it all. i'd prefer a sunny day anytime. but still some of the rides are cool. now i have a neck + backache from the slideup ride. yq and i didn't get the tan we had hoped for. and our teeth were chattering. half the time there was spent queueing up for the rides. but overall it was alright i guess. quite fun, actually. :)
sel won a hundred dollar cd voucher today. wonder if i get a share? hm hint hint. :)
my ogl leader called today. she sounds quite friendly, and orientation sounds like quite a lot of fun. sheesh and i have to fork out like forty-five bucks for what sounds like nothing. -_- i sure hope it's worth it yeah. and i have to report at 7.30 on monday! noooooo. don't wanna. :( isn't it kinda early for a first day?
i'm so tired today. guess i'll go to bed. :) good night.

shopping

2004-12-29T17:44:00.000+08:00

yay went for my piercing appointment at parkway today. the lady said the ear piercings are healing pretty well. :) phew. and i'm feeling quite good since i've crossed the three week mark. but i'm really nervous that something will go wrong next week during orientation and i have to close the piercings. because i had to close my piercings when i was very young due to infection, so that would be an extremely bad sense of deja vu.
then i went shopping. again. got some pretty nice stuff. :)
i'll be going wild wild wet tomorrow with yanqi and ruowei. totally looking forward to it! :D hope it'd be nicer than fantasy island, which wasn't fantastic at all. -_-
it's been such a cold few days. especially with the rain. i hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. but at least this weather beats the heat.
argh the tsunami death toll is rising rapidly. it's quite saddening to hear about it, especially when it's happening so close to us. and beach resorts transforming into mass graves isn't a very pretty thought. :( if singapore get hit by a tsunami it'll become the next atlantis. aw man.
only a few days of holidays left. half of me is excited while the other half is dreading the thought of hectic schedules and mugging. i am determined to be a mugger next year. but that's what i always say and never do. hrmphx. i'm quite frightened of being retained, actually, but that's thinking too far ahead. haha orientation hasn't even begun.
enjoy what's left of the holidays yeah. if jc is even half as bad as what everyone says then god bless us all.

phantom

2004-12-27T23:00:00.000+08:00

today i went to catch the phantom of the opera. it was stupendously good! the costumes were elaborate, the props and settings were so beautiful and the cast was incredibly talented. it totally fires your imagination. and this version of the phantom of the opera is better in the sense that they didn't kill the phantom off. yay. christine sings like an angel too! and the most incredible thing is that the voice wasn't dubbed. so she's gorgeous and she sings well. ggrrrr.
well in short it was a masterpiece and everyone must go catch it!
andrew lloyd webber better pay me commission.
other than that it's been a pretty uneventful day i guess. just more shopping.
and the tsunamis. :( it's quite saddening to hear about the death toll. but well i hope the government manages to raise the one million targeted to help the victims.
christmas and boxing day is over. now all we have left is one more week of holidays and then school reopens. sheesh. happy hols.

after the bbq

2004-12-24T17:32:00.000+08:00

well the bbq went alright i guess. we'll have to spend the next 5 days eating leftovers. esp when so many people didn't even eat anything. like alvan i've-eaten-dinner-already wang. argh and it only occurred to me that i ought to take pictures after the bulk of the people left. so wasted! still feeling quite upset about it. oh well. selwyn and jasper stayed over until 2 am to play bluff with yanqi and ruowei and i. i'm quite terrible at bluff. too honest, maybe. :) but i'm better at bluff than at taitee. oh well. maybe i'm just plain bad at cards.
the sleepover with yanqi and ruowei was such a blast! what with rw trying to scare yq about sally or whatever. sally from the stairs. i think. ruowei refused to sleep on the separate mattress and insisted on squeezing in with yanqi and i. good thing she's so skinny haha. and we kept talking and talking until we fell asleep. i don't even remember falling asleep. it was so cosy too. man i am gonna miss you guys.
then we woke up late in the morning and had lunch and i sent them to the mrt station. and now they're online with me. it's like so surreal. the sleepover seemed so far away. :( and i still can't believe that next year i wouldn't be sitting in between rachel and debbie and turning back to talk to umay and yanqi and having chinese class with beatrice and anita. and i'm not going down to recess every day with ruowei. nor am i going to be rolling my eyes at the thought of mrs choo. i'm still in complete denial i guess. but good things never really last for very long. i really hope victoria jc will be just as memorable.
it's christmas eve. the sms servers were down in the morning. haha sheesh that's quite strange, seeing that the servers weren't down during singapore idol grand finals. although it was incredibly hard to call anyone from the singapore indoor stadium during the intermission.
merry christmas. one more day to go. :)

today

2004-12-21T01:48:00.000+08:00

nothing interesting's happening. i went to raffles city today. didn't really find anything good so i just bought a pencil case and a pair of sandals. hm. the disney fair was quite ridiculous and kiddy. and this is coming from a big disney fan. so yep don't bother going.
i saw aneeta r at flash and splash! that was quite a surprise. haha.
my mum and i saw winnie at charles and keith, so we went for tea with her. she's really so sweet and pretty. and she told us something shocking and sad that happened to her! argh felt quite bad for her. but she seemed to have got over it so that's good for her. it'll be much more worrying if she's wallowing in misery i guess.
it's the class bbq tomorrow. to all who're going, have fun. but don't tell me what i'm missing so i wouldn't feel miserable about not attending. hrmphx.
lately words always seem to get in the way. it's getting quite hard to say what i feel. i've never experienced anything like this and it's getting me frustrated. i hope it's a simple passing phase.
i'm getting so sleepy. with good reason too i guess. good night.

sian

2004-12-19T14:04:00.000+08:00

yesterday was an ok day i guess. in the morning i had yucky violin lesson. we've chosen the mozart for list a. i was all for vivaldi's spring. mozart has two cadenzas in the same movement! but i'm officially doing mozart. :( i hate him! someone kill him. or maybe that's how he died.
ouch and i had the worst case of stomach cramps yesterday! which is quite weird because i don't really have a history of getting them. and they were superbly bad too. luckily they went off in the afternoon. hrmph.
and i had a marathon theory class from 10.30 to 1 today. but that's over. yay! shrek's on tonight. i can't wait! i think fiona's quite pretty. :) and it's really quite sweet. like the remake of beauty and the beast.
by reading others' blogs i realise how boring my life is. but it can't be helped then. maybe i'm stuck in this world to neutralise the excitement brought in by others. haha. so far the most exciting thing i've done this hols was to play the violin for the singapore idol grand finals. which is like not that exciting, actually. maybe i'll do something really wild before the hols are out. like that's ever gonna happen hm.
don't think i'm going for the class bbq after all. oops. i know debbie's just sharpening her parang now. :( eer, sorry?
holidays are almost out. i wanna play with amanda before going back to school. she's my mum's cousin's baby daughter. which makes her my... ? but she's so chubby and cute! ggrrr i love cuddley babies.
christmas draws even closer. deck the halls with boughs of holly.

posting day

2004-12-17T17:00:00.000+08:00

today is the posting day. i got posted to victoria junior college, yay. my first choice. another two years of raffles is unthinkable. i just wanna get out and experience something totally different.
after the results came out i went to vj with yan qi. it was pretty cool, besides the fact that the photocopy shop auntie is the pits. maybe i just won't use the photocopy shop for 2 years. i'll jog to the nearest shop with a photocopying service. i also saw a few people there trying to appeal. ouch. i hate not knowing what's going to happen to me. argh i hope my o level results will be ok.
i went to my grandmother's place in the afternoon and talked to my cousin, who is an ex-victorian, about vjc. it sounds pretty decent i guess. so congratulations to myself. she made me feel less nervous about starting out all over again. and she also has an australian accent from studying in perth. hm.
today's also the first day my blog's up. phew. it bears a striking resemblence to edwin's. hm i wonder why? haha but he's not really mad that i used his blog as a reference so thanks man.
christmas is coming. :) merry christmas.