DOROTHY!

The movers are here

2010-06-12T14:12:00.003+08:00

HI GUYZZZ.

After 476 posts and 5 years, I've moved to Wordpress (:

Not for any reason in particular...I just thought it'd be nice to have a change now and then!

Dewdrops on green blades

2010-06-10T10:58:00.002+08:00

Hello...

These few days have been rather uneventful. I'm still trying to work out my Wordpress blog so that it'll look like a more personalised site rather than "Just another Wordpress.com site". Haha.

Anyway, dinner yesterday with Abi, Sonia and Andrea was great 'cause we got to visit Sonia and Andrea's dad's shop and we were putting on clothes and taking pictures. Just for the fun of it.

I think this holidays I've been deliberately trying to keep myself non-busy. Every time an activity crops up i either decline or think very hard about it. Of course it depends on the nature of the activity, but considering I'm helping out at ESC soon and going for Ignite during the last week of the hols. I figured it'd be better to stay mellow during this period. It's just been pretty peaceful so far. And I hope I'll make good pace with the books. And, of course, Wordpress.

Lol. Ta!

Progress?

2010-06-05T16:39:00.003+08:00

PHEW. Haven't been able to access Blogger for 2 days now! Annoying much!

Anyway, these few days have been quite unproductive, in my opinion. I want to get down to studying, but there's just so much to study I spend more time thinking about how to organise my notes and studying rather than actually spending the time studying. The first week of holiday's gone already. Not a good thing. But otherwise, studying in solitude and peace is quite a nice feeling. Especially if you've got a yummy snack or two to cheer you up midway.

On another note, I WENT SHOPPING YESTERDAY :D We ended up spending the entire time at 313@Somerset, and I bought quite a number of items from F21 and a pair of shoes from Zara. Lunch and dinner were nice too! had a lot of fun yesterday; back to the humdrum pattern of studying...

In the midst of IHist term paper...

2010-06-01T21:56:00.008+08:00

Blogging is starting to give me diminishing returns. Haha. As you can kinda tell by the length of time between my last post and this one. I wonder if the interest will die out altogether in the near future...? But it was partly because of Hectic School and Happenings, and today I have photos from various events to post haha :D

It has been crazy, and GP was okayish I guess. THI has ended, just as I was beginning to warm up to talking to ahgong and ahma. What I once regarded as a chore I now treasure as an opportunity to inject that spark of brilliance they need. Especially after ahma told us about her past. We told them we'd go down when we were free.

I'm really worried I won't be able to finish all that mugging by the end of the June hols. JC work is so much different from secondary school; I now need to think harder than ever before. Sec school was just memorising and regurgitating. I guess this is the right way huh. Non-rote learning. At least I'm done with IHist term paper :DDDD Small conciliation, but yeah. Haha. I'd better get down to planning my studying timetable PROPERRRR tomorrow.

Anyway, (:D)
Dance Night! With Claire.
1Aers and Chiap who was dancing!
Anna's jazz concert which was pretty awesome! :D
Ahgong and a picture of his younger self! Haha!
This was taken during Math lecture, our last block of the term.
Which was followed by a birthday treat for Bhargav and Gerry, with Ben and Jerry's. Get it get it? Haha!

Le Stade: Rproject 2010 was fun. And interesting. The designs were interesting; some were really nice, but others weren't. And the venue is in the midst of PSA hahaha. But yeah. It was fun :D

Anna!
Gwyneth (:
Clement the master of Runway who was looking super stressed out haha! OG matez ftw!
We were all seated close together.
Joni, designer and model (:

While waiting for my dad...
Preparing for Captain's Ball with St. Paul's on Sunday, which was quite an eye-opener.
After Pre-U seminar today (which was an utter waste of time besides PM Lee's Q&A). We had gone through so much trouble to get the blazer suit that we had to take a photo. Haha (:
Well that's it for now. Study tomorrow.

Thanks for the memories

2010-05-17T19:28:00.005+08:00

I finally found time to blog after a CRAZY CRAZY week. Last week was just so horrible because I arrived home so late almost every night for various reasons and I still had to work on PW even after arriving home. Not to mention how I had to clean up all the saigang of GPP. I was so annoyed with the rest for the week.

I can't do 1.30am for 3 consecutive nights. Unfortunately I'm not someone who can do that. I found that out during Saturday's training; it was in the middle of the afternoon and it was crazy hot. And I realised that even after running a short distance I was seriously panting and out of breath. There was even a point when everything seemed over-saturated and the grass seemed especially green and that was when I knew I should tell Meph that I should sit out for the rest of training. Otherwise I might have just fallen down and died or something. Scary. Lesson learnt. I won't allow sleeping late to affect training ever again. And not least my groupmates' non-activity in PW.

On a happier note, CLASS CAMP at Ophir! :D

Before setting off (and the photo in which John resembles Elmo)
In the middle of the night when some of the girls found (more) ants and eggs in their cabins and we were eating the frustration away...
Outside our cabin...
This is now Anna's profile pic!
Agnes demonstrating our abseil. I think our abseil path is pretty spectacular! And it was more challenging and fun than 1A's >)
Me hahaha.

This is ARA I think.
John.
Claire and Pris.
Lol this photo is candid! Ryan getting owned by Bird (:

Claire abseiling.

Anna's turn. And the waterfall scramblers at the back!

Girls!
Mr Rolly and his I'm-too-cool-for-you sunnies!
Kathy
415-ers ftw! :D

Class camp was really such an enjoyable time and I wish we could have that kind of fun throughout the entire school year, without a care in the world (accommodation aside, of course haha). It was so hard to return to school mode...

Mount Ophir (Mount of Fear)

2010-05-08T16:25:00.004+08:00

CLASS CAMP WAS AWESOMEZ!!! I shall upload photos soon (:

It has been a crazy week, what with trainings and Animal Farm, and I srsly hope I'll be able to get back into school mode...

On a happier note, we had Dtw Touch Rugby today so Photog people were taking us now haha! I haven't posted my waterpolo DtW photos yet :/

And there's Dance Night later. Whoosh.

Late nights are bright

2010-04-24T20:29:00.002+08:00

PHEW. It has really been a very very busy week. I slept late, as in later than my usual 12.30, on a few nights and you can tell it's taking a toll on you. Like during today's power steps. And the ulcer on my lower palette.

Exco stuff is really quite overwhelming. Actually more for photog. We have to answer this whole long questionnaire and the questions are not the easy-to-answer type. They require you to think really long about things, and I'm not sure I wanna give up the time to do that ):

HAHAHA and we were supposed to get our Team Raffles shirts for Trug on Thursday. We had already gotten them in the morning, and suddenly in the middle of the day, I happened to glance at the collar where the CCA name is printed. I thought I saw TOUCH RUBGY. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, because it's really subtle. Then I looked again and I saw it was true. LOLLLERZZ. What an idiotic mistake to make! some kind of supplier that is! So I texted Sophia about it(she hadn't noticed it either) and she had to collect it back from everyone.

And so my classmates coined a new name for me. A rubber. Whoa man. Joke of the day.

Evermore

2010-04-14T23:52:00.002+08:00

You are my God, my life, my all

And I live for You alone

I am Yours

Evermore

I think I need to spend more time with God. Work has been way over my neck since last week, and I've been skipping quite a lot of QT.

After all, what is trying to finish my work without His help?

Anyway, Play! today was real funny and real cute (: Go RGSSB Batch'09!

Lit and History. Monday.

My God is the God who saves

2010-04-11T22:07:00.002+08:00

It has been a colossally tiring and busy week fraught with a million and one pieces of homework. But going to school has been fun nevertheless because of all the company, and I'm really thankful that to negates the dreariness of school to some extent. Haha.

I'm trying desperately to cut words form my PI now. 84 more words to cut!! I donch see how my PI can get any briefer! D:

But anyway. Photog this week was really fulfilling. I managed to get some pretty nice pictures from Macritchie and on the way there too!

The sky that day was awesome shizz.

That's me. Sydney took this haha.
Golden retriever!!! I couldn't get a nice clear picture though ):
The magnificent sunset.

This is the sound of settling

2010-04-03T23:22:00.003+08:00

Phew. It has been awesome fun two days! Let's disregard the fact that I didn't do much (if any) work within these 2 days. HAHA.

On Thursday I went shopping with Anna at Orchard. Gosh how I miss Orchard! And that's a common sentiment among almost all RG girls I think lol (: Managed to find some nice stuff that day! :DDD

Good Friday started with a swim, then a 3-hour service in church. It was pretty long drawn out and the speaker had this really weird and mechanical way of speaking, but the subject matter was good.

After that was OG outing! Well actually there were only 7 of us but it was awesome fun nonetheless! :DD Our plans to watch Clash of the Titans were dashed 'cause we couldn't book beforehand and so, obviously, tickets in every cinema were selling (or, rather, sold) out. Ohwell! Wanted to play pool, but again, it was SO crowded. After much walking around aimlessly, we finally settled down at Settler's Cafe. HAHAHA. The variety of games there is amazing and we had so much fun (and loud bursts of laughter) there!

Silver lining outside Plaza Sing. Not the best of pictures though :/

Imagine ifff was the funnest game man :D

I think we had a good session at training today and I went for Jap buffet after that WHOOHOO before heading to the airport to fetch Abi who just came back from Italy rawrr. Haha.

Oh yeah, going back to RG on Wednesday was quite a nice experience. They now have a cafe next to Popular!! :OOOO Mr Jalleh kindly treated us to drinks there. Managed to see my band juniors and a few teachers, and it was nice to catch up with them a little.

Alright. It's time to get down to business. No more playing for the next few days/weeks?

Cya.

The greatest love of all is mine

2010-03-28T19:47:00.004+08:00

Maybe I should not be doubting, but put my trust in Him because after all, He is the one who sees the big picture and I am but a small part of His big plans~

Ok, looks like I can't make it for paintball next Saturday D: But I'll probably meet them for lunch!

Anyway, Abi's in Italy now! And I am stuck here doing GP stuff. THIS IS UNFAIR!

But, THURSDAY'S A HOLIDAY DUUUDES! *whoops and cheers* :D :D :D

Singing here we go again

2010-03-24T22:01:00.002+08:00

School has started again...

Oh well.

Luckily the feeling of doom I was having on Sunday night has more or less evaporated.

Dinner last Wednesday :D

All the praise goes to You

2010-03-21T23:43:00.002+08:00

Whew training in the rain yesterday was quite an experience! At first I was kinda apprehensive (well, for the usual reasons) but I guess it really was something we'd seldom get to do. Haha! Since rugby is supposed to be played in all weather. Thank God I didn't fall sick or something. i wouldn't wanna go through that again though! It's messy ttm! And my new boots were completely soaked! They're still drying btw.

Cell today was quite fun; they were starting to warm up, so that's great. Lunch with Andrea and gang was fun too! KOI ftw! HAHAHA.

Goodnight!

2010-03-19T23:30:00.002+08:00

The nagging is never-never-ending. It gets on your nerves, because of its intensity and tone. Once in a while, you can let it go. But when it keeps on happening, over and over and over again, without respite, you begin to feel that you cannot take it anymore.

And today's training which wasn't. AGH!

Inactivity

2010-03-18T18:14:00.003+08:00

Hellooooz!

This week has been quite busy. Haven't had much time do much work because I've been going out quite a lot. Actually not really. I think it's just that I spend too much time thinking of what to write for my essays. Because I'm slow and I haven't really gotten back into the mood in which I can spin out essays without spending ages thinking about how I'm gonna present my arguments in a coherent manner. Oh well. At least I'm done with History!

I shall post photos from yesterday's dinner to celebrate Evan's and Deb's birthdays sometime soon (:

Like a bullet train it goes by

2010-03-15T14:00:00.005+08:00

It has been an extremely eventful week. Manzxz.

On Wednesday we went to see the Egyptian thing at the National Museum. It was okay...quite interesting, though it was kinda short. And the museum staff didn't like us. I wrote my name in hieroglyphics though haha (: And we saw our RGS juniors on their Learning Journey! Coolio.

We went to Pizza Hut on Thursday for lunch. People, I don't know about the pizza, but the other food is horrible. So please make sure you don't waste your time and money eating Pizza Hut's pasta and baked rice. They're horrible! From what I know and have heard, the pizza is not great either. Lol! Another stupid mishap happened during the video-making workshop that I learned was quite a waste of time after staying back four hours for it :/

Went for DtW Judo on Friday, and I'm still trying to get used to using a DSLR. I still feel pretty noob sometimes, since I only started using one like, a few weeks ago. After that was Giselle! It was kid of a rush going there, and we sat outside City Hall for dinner we had da bao-ed from Raffles City because it was too crowded for us to sit down anywhere -.- The view from there is pretty though! I enjoyed the first half of Giselle; the female lead was soooo good. There was a part where she practically was on one leg across half the stage! And one of the male 'peasants' was really good too. Unfortunately, I sorta fell asleep in the second half. the only part I remember clearly was Giselle's spirit floating out of the woods. Seriously, before her feet come into view, you could swear she was floating!

Training on Saturday wasn't so satisfactory. I think we were all tired and we couldn't really execute the drills properly...oh well.

But on a happier note, Crossover sleepover was fun TTM! Praise Night was great, and games after that were awesome shizz! Especially Human Gunbound :D hahaha! My group won, btw :D we were happily engaged in free play hurling water bombs at each other without the device thingum when suddenly everything went silent. Because the police had come. We had been making too much noise. HAHAHA. But we got off lightly; they just told us to pack up and stop playing this game. Which was after we had had our fun so thank God (: We wanted to order Mac's in at 3am, but...THEY WERE BUSY. Wtheck. So we settled for cereal with milk. Haha.

After service on Sunday we went rockclimbing :DD It was really fun and I tried 5 different routes :D They were pretty varied and you could challenge yourself by only using rocks of one colour to make it harder. And I managed to reach the top all 5 times though it was difficult for some. Haha. My nails were all scratched up after that.

At night we went over to Bertrand's place for a while for his birthday party. House of Wax was freaking scary. Gorily scary. Or scarily gory. When I left I could hear them screaming from outside the house whahaha.

And so today I slept in. (:

That's the way it is

2010-03-05T22:53:00.007+08:00

Today was pretty fun. School ended at 12.30 and our class went to watch Alice in Wonderland :D I quite liked it 'cause of the set and costumes and, of course, because there was Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter (: He always gets all these whimsical roles; so coolz.

Photog today was fun because we got to do hands-on :D I think I'll borrow the school's DSLRs for future shooting sessions 'cause I really need to get used to the functions. And all the other stuff about aperture, ISO etc. Haha.

The parade square is always very nice in the solitude of the early morning.

I love 11A01B (:

The Alice in Wonderland-ers!

Band-ers! These were taken during photog.

IHC Runway.

The house standings...
Nat at training!
Phail shot.
HAHAHA Wanting (:

Another phail sports shot :/
Soccer girls!
Becky looks like an old pro here man!
Hehheh.

Wish upon a star

2010-03-03T22:57:00.003+08:00

A few things I thought I should mention:

1. My gum hurts like shit because of some stupid ulcer.

2. The JAE dudes have joined HP! (: Now my class has 2 new girls, Geraldine and Su Ching.

3. I think (D:) my rugby boots are half a size too tight. Shucks.

4. Today during lunch was FREAKING funny HAHAHAHAHA!

5. Class camp clashes with both Chicago, which I was really really really looking forward to, and RGSSB's biennale concert Cadenza, which I also really want to make it for! D: OH NO OH NOOOOO.

Beneath half-closed lids

2010-03-01T21:39:00.003+08:00

Whoosh. Haven't updated for more than a week I realise!

The last week has been so eventful that I had not time to update. HAHA. Last tuesday was my first touch rugby night training; although it's really an unearthly hour to train and you see all the other CCAs washing up and slowly leaving while you start your training, it's kinda nice to have the field to ourselves with the floodlights shining bright! Heh. And promptly at 9.30 the security guard will come over on his bicycle and chase us off because he wants to switch off the lights (:

I went on Saturday with my batchmates on our first batch outing to buy rugby boots! HAHA :D Queensway is a really good place to buy sportswear. Ended up buying boots of my favourite colour (: But I am hoping against hope that they'll eventually expand 'cause they're kinda fitting right now... But anyway, I really like my batchmates!

And as for photog, I think i'll really have to get down to taking more photos so that I can get to know my camera more and of course improve my present (rather lousy) photog skillz haha.

Speeches during GP on Friday were DA BOMB I tell you. I love my class man. Srsly. And my GP teacher doesn't know who Sherlock Holmes is... And tomorrow the JAE students will be joining HP! Yay so exciting hahaha :D

It's all because of Jesus I'm alive

2010-02-21T22:12:00.003+08:00

School has been pretty tiring lately. And despite the work not being in full swing yet, I'm kinda busy. And lacking sleep. The usual school feeling.

Had our touch rugby training early on Saturday morning. It was fun; it was warm-ups, then basic ball-handling techniques. Many of us aren't used to the oval-shaped ball so we really needed that haha! The batchmates are fun and I really hope we'll have a great 1 and a half years together (:

I just got an email from Grace. The child we sponsored as a class last year fell sick and passed away. I was so shocked when I read the email and it just reminds me of how ephemeral life can be. And her just being married and all, though we are the same age. I just hope that she is in a better place somewhere now.

The importance of being earnest

2010-02-17T18:20:00.004+08:00

Today during History tutorial I realised the importance of always reading your notes COMPLETELY before going for the lesson.

On a lighter note, our class is having Soft Toy week. LOL.

The Take 5 SANDsation

2010-02-16T21:20:00.005+08:00

Life has been...not too busy, I guess, but eventful. Take 5 on Friday was great fun! I mean who gets to celebrate CNY etc at a beach in Sentosa as a school right. Haha. It's largely up to us to make it fun though! Going with the OG was the bomb!

There were people who just sat around, but we signed up for handball and captain's ball (which we didn't get to play in the end -.-). Handball was really really fun; I've never really played a proper game of handball before. In between games we played frisbee :D And Gwyneth and I actually played a game of soccer because one of Jamal's good friends' team needed a girl. Lol.

On the monorail. At 7am :OOOO This is the earliest I've ever been to Sentosa!

And Gwyneth brought Vday gifts for everyone! So did Ryan. As for me, I'm still labouring over the Vday + thanks-for-being-my-OG-mate notes haha!
The stalls/booths before the event! Everything was free :O
Waiting for handball to begin...
The 100 Plus man! I had to take a picture :D
Gulshan took this from his great height. Haha (:
With Jerald and Andrea!
Pris and Sam (:
The stage.
Haha I knocked out one of the '5's on the floats unintentionally when I threw a ball.
Florence!
My cool hair. :D
OG notez! I wanted to finish them by Take 5, but as you can see, that was unrealistic. HAHAAA.
Ah man! No more holidays till the March hols. In a way, I can't wait for CCA to start!

And it spreads like a cool relief

2010-02-11T22:01:00.003+08:00

After 5 days of pondering and weighing of possibilities, interests and priorities, I joined touch rugby. I am really really sad that I didn't pick canoe because I personally think that it'd affect my studies because they train almost everyday. I was thinking about how good the team experience would be because I can really see it in the current J2 team and we'll get to train together and go for the big competitions together.

It's not that I don't like touch; I just would have preferred the canoeing experience, if not for the heavy trainings. I didn't wanna neglect serving God in church either... Of course, I'm sure touch rugby will be a really fulfilling experience too and I'm sure God will make RJC life very meaningful for me, short as it may be.

I just wanna say thanks to all those who gave me advice on my choices and to whom I could talk to and receive really mature opinions from (:

On a lighter note, RProject auds that day were pretty unnerving! I didn't realise my eyes were looking downward till the teacher said, "Look straight!" I think I must have been worried about losing my balance in those heels -.-

OH YEAHHH tomorrow's Take 5! Whoo!!

Oh gosh,

2010-02-08T16:36:00.000+08:00

Canoe or touch rugby??

Undignified for Him

2010-02-07T20:39:00.002+08:00

These few days in school have been pretty slack. We go to school at 7 but hang around for hours on end just to attend 1 or 2 lectures a day. The worst part is waking up early! Heh.

Canoeing land trial (the real one) on Thursday was tiring. A lot of PT stuff. But I managed to finish my 2.4 in a faster time than my previous years' NAPFA timings. :D Haha. Went for touch rugby second round on Saturday morning too.

And now I am in this dilemma of whether to join canoe or touch rugby. I get almost equal responses from the people I ask, but I think I am kinda deviating towards canoe. Becky called me just now because she was also in a similar dilemma. AH. HOWWW! I really need God's guidance in this.

Captain's Ball today after church was fun! Although I wasn't there for the announcement of which team won the Starbucks voucher! Rawr. And today the ball kept slipping out of my hands I don't know why. Haha.

Breakfast with MT 02 tomorrow. I'd actually very much like to sleep 'cause of protected time, but I think it's not so often we'll get to spend much time with our OG when the work starts pouring in!

'Cause you're here to dream along with me

2010-02-03T21:18:00.004+08:00

G'alvea 2010 was really, really a BLAST, in Gwyneth's words. It was really an amazing experience, and I will hold to the memories for a very long time to come. To think that 21 very different people could come together and have so much to take away from our entire experience together is really quite awesome, don't you think?

I have made many friends in Ge'tMeAFilet-O-FishStudentMealUpsizeChangeCokeToSprite (haha!) and here's to getting to know each other even better and not just be hi-bye friends but friends who can confide in each other and see each other through our entire RJ life.

We the coolz.

Jerald is a really accurate camwhore, srsly!
MT 02! WHOOHOO! I must say, our dress-up was really awesome shizz. It kicked ass!
公公婆婆！Haha :D
G'alvea 2010 (:
Our OG got the Best Chemistry award! :D :D
Check this outtt.
Jerald, Lisa and Andrea, who put in so much effort into making MT 02 such an awesome OG to be in! They really put in a lot of time and hard work into making stuff for us and really, all the OGLs did a great great job (:
And so concludes Orientation '10. I hope my class and HP will not disappoint! (:

Upsize!

2010-01-31T18:02:00.003+08:00

The past few days have been really, like really, busy!

G'ET ME A FILET-O-FISH STUDENT MEAL UPSIZE CHANGE COKE TO SPRITE!

Sounds like a Macdonald's order? Think again man. It's my OG group name. HAHAHA. There's one group which is called G'reat people who are to great for a short OG name. Or something.

Orientation has been fun (but super tiring) so far! ;) My OG's cool and it's great fun hanging out with them. We literally spend the whole day together! That's why they say we'll be very close; they're the first batch of real strangers you meet in JC and you spend so much of your initial JC life with them.

Joel and I are the 公公婆婆. Haha. It'll be great if we can continue to meet throughout JC life to catch up, because frankly, after orientation, we won't be seeing each other around much anymore...

Saturday was one crazy day for me. Touch rugby trials, canoeing water clinic (and somewhere in between here I realised I left my shoe bag in school), paintball, lunch, YA and my family birthday celebration. I was completely shagged after. But we had a helluva time during paintball whoohoo!

Should I sign up for Rproject as a model :D

Alright. This week's gonna be another long week.

Well well that wasn't quite so bad

2010-01-26T23:17:00.002+08:00

I had a dim sum treat today at Din Tai Fung with Anna, Evan, Sam, Joni, Deb and Nancy, the other birthday girl haha! I think this is like the first time (that I remember) eating there. The food was quite good! Especially the requisite xiao long bao :D I can't really decide whether theirs or Crystal Jade's is better though. I liked the yam bao and the fried rice!

SNaPP was pretty lame though...although what the trainer said at the last part was meaningful. The activities were...so-so haha.

I went for canoeing land trials today. Luckily Anna signed up too! Till last night, I thought I was the lone ranger (among my friends at least) going for today's trials. And good thing too, 'cause we were the only 2 girls who went today! (Sounds like a deja vu of yesterday's kayaking elective hahaha!) We were wandering around feeling like extreme noobs because as far as we could make out, the field/stadium area only contained boys training for soccer. Until one of the guys asked Anna whether we were there for the canoeing trials.

So we sat there thinking about what they would make us do. Haha! Trials turned out to be quite fun, though, eventually, seeing as there were only 2 of us. (The boys were a different story heh.) We kinda trained with the J2 girls, and they are very nice! Hope I get in... ~

17

2010-01-25T21:27:00.003+08:00

I had a great birthday yesterday (:

Went to church in the morning and had quite a serious Crossover session haha. It's great that quite a lot of people came :D At the end they all sang a song for me and brought out a nice cake with blueberry jam on top (my favourite!!!!) with fruits inside. I was like licking the jam from the plate HAHA.

After church we went for lunch at ichibanboshi at parkway. It was my first time eating there but the food was pretty good, although slightly on the expensive side. Hehh. After that I went to one of the nearby shops to buy a funkayyyye hat as a backup in case my balloon one didn't work out. The funky hats are so cheap! Haha!

I went over to my grandma's place to make mine and Abi's balloon hats. And I finally succeeded after bursting a few or pumping them to the wrong length. ): And while I was there, I received a prank call from some naughty friends of mine! Their sense of humour is amazing HAHA! Especially the clinic part :O

Mel and Adele's party was funny hahaha! Everyone wore really interesting hats and outfits and we really had a lot of fun! They 'nominated' a few people to do catwalks. I originally wasn't one of them but yesterday being my birthday, I had to :O

Well anyway, I'm just really thankful that God has given me 17 brilliant years of life and that He has given me family and friends whom I cherish (: Thank you to everyone for the wishes, the notes, the presents an the joy you have given me in whatever way that you chose to make my 17th special!

(Unfortunately i didn't bring my camera yest so I had to kope from fb haha!)

Balloonz ftw!
Cowboy haha.
Kevin's gun was quite a hit! it had real rubber sucker bullets so cool right! Haha!

Today's kayaking elective at Macritchie was really fun too :D Ok, I'm kinda shagged. I have canoeing trials tomorrow

It's complicated

2010-01-23T12:57:00.002+08:00

Hi.

It has been an eventful week in more ways than one. The first major thingy was my Humanz Scholarship interview :O It was, thankfully, a nerve-wracking but, nevertheless, fulfulling encounter. But I've talked about that.

Wednesday was spent chilling...I went to church on Thursday for leaders' training and planning for Sunday's programme. There's this thing about changing Crossover to the afternoon and I'm really quite torn about having to serve and to have enough time for schoolwork (when it starts proper) and the like. QT this morning was apt - don't quit; when you feel like it, listen to God speak and He will reveal what I can do in His strength. I shall wait on Him then (:

The other big thing is (oh horror I feel like an inadequate Sec 1 all over again) CCA trials. So far I've signed up for about 5 that need trial-ing; I just put my name down for Band, Photog and Hissoc. And I wish I had examined all the trial dates for everything I want to try out for before actually signing up for anything 'cause I so enthusiastically confirmed my Canoeing one, after which I realised that the only Touch Rugby trial clashed with it. Haha.

Ok, but I've solved my problem. They say there's gonna be another (unofficial) one next Saturday morning (oh man) so I guess I'll just have to go for that one. Before paintball! Whoohoo HAHA. One of the last flings before school starts proper, huh.

And I signed up for Jazz Club and Street Dance trials without knowing what I was in for! I'll have to perform 2 jazz songs, one of which I completely don't know haha, and for dance I'll have to freestyle for like 4 bars or something. Luckily I still have 2 Mondays of jazz class before the trial (:

All of this because I don't feel like joining band again. Lol. Well, here's to working towards trying something new. Wow. That sounded complicated!

It's not easy

2010-01-20T17:23:00.002+08:00

Should I do something (like Math -.-) or continue slacking for a little longer? Haha.

The fountain at a park in Spain.

Pure gold. I've never seen something like it!

Phew! (:

2010-01-19T22:34:00.003+08:00

MY INTERVIEW IS OVER!

The interviewers made me feel quite confortable, so I'm really thankful about that. And there were the others who were also waiting to go in (and all freaking out in their own ways) who made it all kind of like a shared experience. (Ok that sounded cheem.) No, but really, it wasn't as unnerving with others there feeling unnerved too. Haha.

Well, I am crossing my fingers now (:

I am so much more relaxed now :D :D Before this I was feeling so ultra stressed, but now, I can finally chill a little and enjoy the time before school starts, like for REAL. Plus i don't have school tomorrow, AND Thursday. Whoohoo! Long story as to why, but it's a much-needed break indeed.

Thank you Lord for giving me peace.

My heart is in my mouth

2010-01-18T20:35:00.003+08:00

My interview is tomorrow.

I AM REAAAAALLY NERVOUS ABOUT IT!!!!! Sometimes I feel pretty confident, and then the next moment I'm thinking, Oh no shucks what if I screw it.

These few days have been pretty tiring and I think I've been stressed up about this interview, trying to think about certain things I'm gonna say and reading up about current affairs as well as my essay topic. I tell you, I'll be so much more relaxed after tomorrow man.

On a happier note, I got the kayaking elective I signed up for! :D And I didn't get the one-hour Econs one on Thursday whoohoo! (I'd have to go back to school just for it, you see.) I didn't get FOSL either, but I don't think I'm gonna sign up for another date. Not now, at least.

Eclectic

2010-01-13T18:28:00.003+08:00

Today was CCA Open House in RJ.

There wasn't really anything interesting to see except the CCA booths. Zhenyi told me that band needs horns, but I really am not that keen on joining band again. I feel like trying something new! But I think I'll just go for band prac on Saturday to see how it is though. Haha.

There are soooo many CCAs but only a few interest me. But I was at the sports area and came across pretty interesting stuff. Canoeing seems really fun (although xiong) and flying's just something really intriguing though the place where they train (ie Seletar) is extremely out of the way and they have lessons on Saturday and Sunday. But the best thing is that such an expensive vocation is free! Entirely government-sponsored, so they say. And sailing doesn't require prior experience :O

So now I have a few CCAs in mind and I'm quite certain about what I don't want. What I'm dreading is going for all those trials and selections. Totally makes me feel like I'm going through Sec 1 all over again haha! But my main aim for CCA in JC is really to have fun and a challenge and just to do something that I really really enjoy doing and will not regret later on :D

Dang I wish I hadn't signed up for that stupid Econs elective! That's the only thing I'd have to go back for that day. I'm hoping and praying that I don't get it.

Wow switching back to having lots of stuff to do and school mode is really, really a HUUUUGE challenge. And there's HP interview next week :O

~

2010-01-12T15:38:00.002+08:00

AH Chinese. I suck.

You are good, all the time :D

2010-01-10T21:30:00.002+08:00

We had our first Crossover session of the year and third service today.

Crossover was actually quite a success because a substantial number turned up and they had fun :D Which is great because our main fear was that all of them would find it boring, plus we had to connect (haha Connect!) with them which isn't easy. But faith and prayer definitely pay off man! And we actually did get to know the rest slightly better, not forgetting the yummy, old-school round sugar-coated donuts (which were the prizes) that I like which cost 10 cents per donut :D I hope everything will go well for the rest of the year, for us and for them too (:

Haha. E3 (lol) went well too! I'm just so not used to the new Joshua hall and the synthetic drumset. I like the REAAAL stuff :D But oh well, the music doesn't really matter as much as who we're doing it for right (: And I still prefer the old Josh hall 'cause it's more cosy. But other than those things it was nice to see faces other than Crossover at the service!

Sometimes we are apprehensive about all these things because they are out of our comfort zones. But I suppose they might all have turnouts that we never imagined! (:

Oh yeah, on Friday I woke up early just to swim. Like 6-something early. I can't believe I did that and I was seriously thinking of changing my mind when I first opened my eyes but I did it! Lol. 'Cause my parents swim before my dad has to go off to work so I just decided I w0uld follow. HAHAHA.

Silence is golden but music is platinum

2010-01-06T16:42:00.005+08:00

Batch chalet was fun! :D

Although we didn't really have any hard and fast plans it was fun just chilling out together after not having seen each other for a while. Pearlyn and Julia organised something of a scavenger hunt yesterday in White Sands. I normally avoid White Sands 'cause I find it awfully boring, but yesterday we had quite a lot of fun there. HAHA.

Oh yes. There are a few so-called important things that I did hahaha! I finally went cycling for the first time this holidays at Pasir Ris Park. I tried KFC's black pepper chicken. Good, and friggin' spicy! I (with my scavenger hunt groupmates) made salad in the chalet. We couldn't finish the salad and someone shoved it into the freezer as there wasn't space in the fridge below. So in the morning it was frozen solid! :O HAHAHA.

I hope all of us will still remain really close as a batch next, I mean, this year, what with JC and not being in the same CCA all together anymore and all that.

Jolyn and Julia playing Tap Tap Revenge.

Biking in the park.
Sam! The shots we took here were really nice (:

Some of the scenery in Pasir Ris Park is really nice too!
I like this!

Ha ha.
One of the few shots that Jolyn was actually capture-able. Haha! Maybe it's the way we aimed the camera. Or maybe it's just her >)

Ooh. Just got an email from RJ regarding school starting ):

The clock ticks so quickly

2010-01-03T18:46:00.002+08:00

HIYA!

AH the day when school starts is drawing near. I still don't know anything about going back to school. Like buying school uniform and the like, because no one told us. :O I still don't understand why RJ is making us go back so much earlier than the others who took O levels ): ): I must make the most of my one week plus left! But anyway, I shan't dwell on this. Haha.

Met up with my primary school friends on Friday night. It was more fun than I thought it would be, although we didn't do much. It was (I think) the first gathering we've had in a few years. Lol!

We met up with Wendy yesterday to talk about cell stuff, and apprehensive as I am about whether I can manage it all and reach out to the younger kids and stuff, what with the new year and JC and HP and maybe keyboard, I'm pretty excited about it too (: But I believe He will bring me through it; it's all a matter of whether I let Him or not. Later we went over to Jeremy's place till the night to hang out haha.

Tomorrow's batch chalet! :D I really can't wait to catch up with my batchmates; haven't seen them for almost the entire holidays since school closed :O And lately there's been a lot of things happening and so much to tell each other.

:D :D :D

New Year's Eve

2009-12-31T21:25:00.002+08:00

I got the news yesterday that...

I'M GOING FOR THE HP INTERVIEW! :D :D :D

I was so happy that I jumped around and cheered. Ha ha. So I think I'm in, and now it's a matter of whether or not I'll get the scholarship. YAY!!!!!! PTL :D :D

Today we had a sort of New Year's party with my relatives at my place. And my uncle brought his helium tank and a huge bag of the many different cool balloons he has. Like a huge smiling face, smaller smileys, eyeballs, aliens and those long, long twisty balloons.

So my uncle gave us a "lesson" on making animals with the long balloons :D Soon we had this entire colourful pile of balloon dogs, rabbits, elephants, giraffes, parrots, a flower etc. There was this yellow balloon specially designed for making a bee with a little black sting at the end! I am now more or less schooled in simple ballooncraft. HAHA. I also have a huge yellow smiley floating in my house now.

Flying high among all the stars above

2009-12-29T15:52:00.005+08:00

These have been an eventful few days.

But anyway, after all the testimonies given during Saturday's service and after Wendy spoke to me I am reminded of God's greatness and His BIG plans for us little people.

Through You

I can do anything

I can do all things

For it's You who gives me strength

Nothing is impossible

On a sidenote, it was hilarious when Calvin got fooled about his gift LOLLLLLL!

Went out with my family yesterday and we had lunch at Out of the Pan in Raffles City. It's the place where they serve crepes filled with...oh, lots of things. You can choose. And the crepes we ordered were really nice (except for the seafood one because I do NOT like seafood)! We walked around Raffles City a bit before going to catch Sherlock Holmes and I managed to get a skirt from fcuk. Although the buttons were missing from all 3 skirts on display! When we asked the salesgirl about it she made no effort to remedy the situation...simply because there were extra buttons on the skirts. And so they started sewing on the extra buttons on the other 2 skirts. But not mine. -.-

Sherlock Holmes was GREAT :D I loved the drama and the wit :D There was, of course, the all-too-familiar line often uttered my Holmes: "The game is afoot!" HAHA. So far, my favourite crime characters have always been Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot 'cause they're so darn clever! (:

After Christmas Eve service.

Daniel, Belle and Bertrand.
Nat and Belle.
Andrea, Sonia and Russell. We spent quite a lot of our childhood together haha :D
Debbie and Jo on Christmas Day.

This was on Saturday during the last Crossover service.

There were around 9 photos of this variety lol.
Look at this Youth Pastor! Hahaha.
Josh. Lol.
The stuff I got on the 26th (:

Anyway, Facebook is extremely annoying. Ha ha.

Silver bells, silver bells

2009-12-25T21:44:00.002+08:00

Hello.

Tomorrow is the last Crossover service (before we become a third service next year). I am filled with this feeling of not knowing what's going to happen. Something like a cross between excitement and apprehension. Maybe it's partly 'cause I'm supposed to share a testimony tomorrow too. I am nervous!

I really don't know what to expect. But I'm sure God will show the way.

Let's see how it goes tomorrow.

Anyhow, Christmas Eve and today were fun! Can't wait for tomorrow (:

Because of His great love for us

2009-12-24T13:15:00.003+08:00

It's Christmas Eve! (:

The holidays have passed SO quickly. At least for once I get to escape the 'School reopens on 4th (or 5th) January' thing. The 5th thing is always a source of gloating for those who are in the indep schools. Haha! Still, school for me starts in mid-Jan unlike all the lucky O-level dudes who start at the end of January. I don't really wanna be reminded of school, schoolwork, projects, orientation, HP application and the like. I just wanna continue in this holiday mood of being carefree, with little to do, nothing to worry about but what I'm going to do right now, just for a while longer.

Oh dear. Time to get fat on Christmas food. And open Christmas presents. And enjoy what's left of 2009. Well, it's Christmas Eve service tonight. I hope that in the heat and festivity of Christmas, people (including myself) will not forget its true meaning and really, really thank God for sending Jesus to us :D

My cycling plans today were dashed once again because of the rain -.-

I typed this entire post quite gingerly because I just painted my nails blue last night. Because I couldn't find Christmas green ):

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Business

2009-12-21T12:13:00.003+08:00

I have been kind of busy lately. I haven't used the computer in like 3 days!

I went for the Jitterbugs classes on Friday with Sam and Deb. It was fun considering I hadn't gone for dance in lightyears and of course I got to meet up with those 2 nice (but weird!) friends of mine 'cause I haven't seen them since school closed I think.

I went to town on Saturday with my aunt again to get some stuff for Christmas, and then later I went for Nancy's friend's church Christmas concert at AC Barker.

And I spent the entire duration of yesterday at Aloha Loyang with Crossover dudes. It was pretty fun I guess!

Mu parents mentioned that whatever agreements made during the Copenhagen climate conference were not binding. I was shell-shocked.

Sometimes you get bored of not having anything to do. Then when you have lots of stuff happening and all, you just long for some peace and quiet.

Now I don't know what colour to paint my fingernails. I wanted Christmas green but I couldn't find it. ):

Unease

2009-12-17T21:27:00.002+08:00

Today I ate a lot.

I went out with my aunt (: First it was Korean BBQ, then after about 2 hours, it was dessert at Big O. After that we walked over to Far East to grab my favourite Shih Lin chicken. Haha. Next year I won't have many opportunities to eat that anymore ):

Everyone

2009-12-16T17:39:00.004+08:00

went to Sentosa yesterday with my camp groupmates for some sort of a picnic. We all brought something and found a spot on Siloso Beach where we sat down and ate. Some of us were expecting it to be an awkward session ('cause it was initially like that during camp when we first had breakfast together) but it wasn't :D The banter was quite easygoing and funny actually. HAHA!

We played a bit of Captain's Ball and frisbee before the rain started to fall, totally dampening the beach spirit (both literally and figuratively) for everyone there. Fortunately there was a shelter nearby and we moved all our stuff in there and started entertaining ourselves with lame jokes and the like. It was really amazing how we thought up (weird) stuff to do! Like building a "sandcastle", which we said was our version of Heaven. Lol.

Slowly the beach grew more and more empty. There was still a wedding couple taking photos though. It was only at 7 that we made a move to Vivo. I didn't join Wezen for dinner though. But they sent me to the mrt and said "Bye Dorothy!" in unison. HA HA!

I caught The Princess and the Frog this morning with Abi. It was really nice, charming and made me REAL happy, as all Disney movies always do. When there is a glimmer of hope, the character's face will break out suddenly into this wide smile that is so filled with pure joy and delight that your heart is instantly touched and tears spring into your eyes. Disney always manages that (:

After that we had this ultra-WEIRD experience eating lunch in TM. The waiters were SO weird. I mean yeah, they were prompt and all but they just couldn't mind their own business for nuts! Let me tell you the weirdest thing that they did: There was a huge fan nearby for ventilation and it wasn't oscillating. In the middle of our meal, they suddenly decided to blast this giant fan at us for no apparent reason. I was extremely irritated by that whole experience, and I will never ever go back there to eat again! -.-

Anyway, as a sidenote, here's pictures from Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. This is the Banco Espanol De Credito.
Beautiful stained glass in one of the cathedrals.
I think, if my translation does not fail me, this is a post office. (:
Check out the amazing selection of mushrooms...
...and sweets at the La Boqueria market :O

I FINALLY FINISHED UPLOADING MY BARCELONA PICS ON FB. PHEW!

PHEW

2009-12-13T23:19:00.003+08:00

This is the beach near where we stayed in Barcelona. And those are my sister's and my shadows HAHA :D This is also the beach where we spotted 2 (not-so-hot) men baring their all. And I mean all. ;) How disturbing.

Anyway, yesterday's floorball game was really fun and tiring and I hope we can go play again sometime!

Today I almost got knocked down by a car. I was crossing this tiny road at Katong Shopping Centre (there's no major traffic there at all) and a car was parallel-parking there. So I thought he had come to a stop, or maybe I assumed that he had seen me, so I went behind the car towards the curb. Then I realised he had started reversing again!! So I quickly skipped onto the curb, having gotten a VERY VERY rude shock. There were 2 guys sitting nearby who had seen it and they were like, "EHHHH. Aiyo!" Stupid, careless driver. I suppose I should have been more vigilant as well. I really thank God for protecting me :O What if I had been tapped my his boot or something. I'll choose not to imagine the outcome.

*yawns* See ya!

God of wonders beyond our galaxy

2009-12-11T17:43:00.005+08:00

HELLEWWW. I am still sieving out pictures from my Barcelona trip to post. It's taking a teeeeerribly long time manzxz.

I feel like a good-for-nothing lately. HAHA. I mean ever since coming back from camp I have been lazing around at home without going out much. Wanted to go for a swim this morning (it's been ages!!!!) 'cause the weather was SO good but my mum didn't want me to. -.- So today I pretty much just went for a haircut, or should I say a trim, nearby. Later I shall watch the SEA games swimming finals on TV. On that note, Joshua swam yesterday in the 4x200 relay and they got a gold medal! WHOOHOOOO! Hahaha. And Calvin was like sending a running commentary via text message to the entire Crossover Ministry. But anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing Joshua and Russell swim later.

Alright, at least my feelings of good-for-nothingness are going to be somewhat abated tomorrow. I shall be having lunch with my grandpa in the afternoon and then it's floorball with cellies in the evening (:

Oh yes. I think I should get started with my Christmas notes soon too.

Anyway, a snapshot of the area near where we lived (called Barceloneta) in Barcelona :D

Yo DYC!

2009-12-09T22:58:00.004+08:00

Came back from camp yesterday!

It was fun and I really enjoyed it for the encounters with God and of course, the company and getting to know new people from the other Anglican churches (: Now everyone is adding everyone on Facebook. Inevitable right HAHAHA.

My group was called Wezen (ya I know right, it sounds weird. It's supposed to be the name of a star or something. And we didn't get a chance to do our super-cool cheer man! ): ). But anyway, Wezen was a really fun bunch and we got along really well together :D I thought the group sharing and the sessions were really, really good. You could really see God working in all our lives and the amazing ways in which He worked - so subtle, yet so influential. Mike Pilavachi is a REALLY REALLY GOOD SPEAKER. He's so funny, and he uses analogies (complete with a million and one jokes) to illustrate his points. And then at the end he will wait for the Holy Spirit come upon us (:

The games were pretty fun too and I bet the ONE game we will remember for a long time (for those who played it) is the Frozen Chicken aka Jackson Captain's Ball! OMGOSH. It was hilarious! In an extremely gross way. The players' hands stank for a full 24 hours I think! Of course, there were the requisite water bombs too. (Oh horror! HAHA) And I totally shouted too much during the games and now I have lost my voice. How awesome. ): I hope it returns really soon!

I'd like a Crossover-only camp next year though. 'Cause I haven't really ben for one yet. Heh. And I got a Crossover lanyard in the end. HAH.

Here's Wezen with our flag :D

Fire

2009-12-05T13:50:00.003+08:00

I'm off to Combined Youth Camp later! We'll be heading to JB and I really hope it'll be a great, super-fun experience with God and everyone, from church and outside church.

Haha I finally finished The Camel Club after reading intensely for 3 days (it was gonna be returned this morning so I had to hurry haha). Oh yeah, and I really like Agatha Christie's Mary Westmacott collection. She seems to delve right into the heart of human feelings. I mean yeah, some feelings are more special when left undescribed, but her points really trike you an make an impression.

I am still in the process of picking out photos among the 19++ that I took in Spain to post up. Shall continue when I get back. HAHA!

And I really hope that I'll find something meaningful to do for the rest of this holidays (:

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plains

2009-12-03T12:20:00.003+08:00

So I am back from Barcelona!

It's such a great place. Except for a little unsavoury encounter, the trip was cool. The weather was really nice and fine and sunny with blue and cloudless skies, although it rained on one day and got extremely cold towards the end, and the architecture and scenery there are amazing! There is this intriguing guy called Antoni Gaudi whose architecture was so modern that it's considered one of the most modern now though it was created a century ago. Wait till you see the pictures of his AWESOME architecture. Yes I mean really awesome; this word is used too loosely nowadays, even by myself!

The food was SO GOOD I tell you. No, that's an understatement. I looked forward to every meal and the food never failed to amaze me. I especially loved the tapas (that's something unique to the Spaniards). It's food that comes in small portions, supposedly to accompany the drinking of alcohol. And the prices were worth it too. Without all this good food the holiday would totally have shagged me out! I was already drained as it was after every day!

Haha another thing was the language. It was so hard to communicate with them. And then you go to those restaurants, look at the menu and go, "Um. I don't understand anything here! How'm I gonna order?!" HAHAHA. Luckily the waiters/waitresses could somehow explain, although sometimes not so clearly. It had its advantages - I got to/had to try new stuff! (: I tried seafood (which is normally a big NO-NO for me ew) and pig's trotter :O And anyway, I think cured meat is horrible!

Ok. I shall let the picture speak for themselves when I post them soon! I took close to 2000 with my camera! And my dad, mum and sis each have a camera too so I shall post nice ones from theirs as well :D

Spain's a beautiful place!

Jesus, the most beautiful name that I know

2009-11-23T09:51:00.003+08:00

Hello.

I had a rather weird dream last night. Haha. I dreamt that I was shot in the head. Right in the centre! I shall not say by who otherwise it'd be even more scarrayye. I shall not mention the other details but I remember I was so scared that I would die (in normal circumstances I'd already have been dead) that I made sure that I was still thinking clearly till some medics with a stupid blue mattress came to take me away. Ha. Ha.

The scene moves to some market in Russia and I don't know why there were lots of fires that needed putting out with a fireman hose. And then I was in this salon with all those super skinny models and Heidi Klum was there too. While one model was being made up, there was another talking to Heidi Klum about having sex. Yes, I mean female model with female model. And Heidi was saying firmly that no, she would never dream of doing that and she would stick to doing it with her husband. I'm so proud of her (:

When I speak your Name, mountains move, chain are loosed

When I speak your Name, darkness flees, it has to hold on me

...

Jesus the most beautiful name that I know

You're the exalted One

The last two lines (ie the first part of the chorus) really touched me yesterday during p&w (: It was a reminder that aside from Jesus, there is no other who can be with me throughout whatever I go through and even now when I'm enjoying life I shouldn't forget to call upon His Name.

Well, I'm leaving tonight at 2345 :D. (Eh so cool I didn't realise the numbers were consecutive! LOL)

Of balloons, clowns and candy floss

2009-11-21T17:14:00.003+08:00

Today was the food fest in church :D It was pretty fun just hanging out, though there wasn't much to do.

I was tending the hoop-the-ring stall with Jiawei and business wasn't that great, but there was enough entertainment, what with the dunking machine just nearby (Even a pastor got dunked!) and Bertrand and Mingkang sitting there being useless and retarded. HAHA. The little kids who did play were quite adorable :D And there was also this old lady who refused to pay after playing -.-

Don't know why I wasn't that hungry when there was so much fabulous food around! And when I got back I started to feel hungry. Things always turn out this way! :P I didn't get to dunk anyone although Wendy said she would pay for me to dunk Kenneth muahaha!

I am going off to Spain on Monday night I can't wait manzxzxz! *jumps for joy*

Farewell Alma Mater <3

2009-11-20T16:07:00.009+08:00

Well! So I'm back from FAM :D

I went to the Hilton at about 3.30 yesterday instead of 2.30 because I was held up by the stupid rain that flooded many parts of Singapore :O Scary! Our room was on the 15th floor and we had plenty of fun pre- and post-FAM chilling out in the room hehheh :D

The hairdresser came at about 4 plus and Deb's aunt came to do make-up soon after. And in the meantime the TV was showing Cartoon Network because Deb's nine-year-old cousin was there too. They had this strange anime version of the Powerpuff Girls and stuff like that. Grace was like, " Kids' shows nowadays are so bizarre." I ttly agree with her! :P

Anyway, moving on to the real thing, everyone, really everyone, was decked out SO nicely it was just awesome to see. I would wanna bet that we were the best-dressed batch ever :D Haha. Everyone looked so grown-up in their pretty dresses and super-high heels; it was quite amazing to see all the transformations hehheh (: A few of us were in theme too with the masks in our hair! ;) The whole thing actually was quite Viva Las Vegas, if you were there to see it!

The food was not bad but we were kind of like too busy doing other stuff *knowing smile* to enjoy the food proper. Our poor corner right-next-to-the-door table number 36 was kinda left out - we got out food late, we got different food, we didn't have enough chairs. But whatever! Becky Chew won an iTouch from the lucky draw! (AHHH LUCKY BECKY!) I want! Haha.

OH YES. My camera conked out on me halfway was really erratic. Sometimes I could take photos, sometimes I couldn't -.- I think it has something to do with the other type of batteries I used after my first set was low. Ah well. I'd originally thought of bringing my bigger camera but decided that it'd be weird to be carrying a big camera around with my dress. So I brought my mum's small one. Many people brought their DSLR's anyway. Hah. But oh well, no matter!

We were toying around with the idea of going to Mac's at Forum for dessert but we were too lazy and ended up taking silly pictures of ourselves back in the hotel room, dressing down (opposite of dressing up gerrit?), counting the number of pins in our hair and all. Then we watched Step Up and Koizora whilst munching away at Salt and Vinegar Lay's HAHA. Sam and I were kinda...unaffected by Koizora although it is supposed to be very sad :\ I thought it was pretty unrealistic! But maybe that's because I was, well, sleepy.

Well we slept at like 5 (this morning). And woke up at 10.30 (this morning). We went for brunch at Mac's after managing to clean up our thoroughly-messed-up room.

The whole event was filled with fun and laughter and photos and girls dressed up to the nines and well, it ended off our whole RGS journey/life with a big bang! :D And I'm so thankful for the great friends and great times I had the privilege to have.

Settling in...

The array of shoes!
And the lovely nails!
Doing my hair (:
Deb's mum bought us very chocolate-y donuts!
Finally ready. We were kinda running late. Hehheh.
My eye :D
Anna and Joni :D
My batchmates!
Talia :D
Jolyn!
Our HSSRP group (with Sherm the birthday girl on the left!)
Xinyi and Wanting (:
415 <3 This was our momento from the event. Maybe RGS is going green; Anna noticed they used Ecofont! :D

What an eventful yesterday (:

(: (:

2009-11-19T12:11:00.005+08:00

Whoopee!

Haha hello!

Like my new blogskin? (:

I am typing this with my newly French-manicured nails. HAHA. Went to do them yesterday somewhere in Tampines. Joni recommended a shop there but when I got there it was closed (not corresponding with its opening hours -.-) so fortunately, after walking around a bit, I found another one which did it quite well, but for 10 dollars more. This is the first time I've painted my toe nails a very dark, almost-black colour. It's always been reds for me so far (: Red clashes with pink, see. ;)

Yesterday I had to wake up early merely to go to school for 45 minutes (!?!!). Yeah, to collect our testimonials and all that jazz. We'd originally planned to re-record class song 'cause of the not-so-perfect vocals, but we couldn't find the song on the desktop. Rawr.

Then I went to watch Amelia last night with Joshua. I don't get why it's showing only in the oh-so-far-off places (how annoying!) so I was quite surprised that it was actually showing at Century. I found the show a bit boring at first, but today when my mum was asking me about it and I thought about it it didn't seem so bad. Haha.

The past few days were, quite unexpectedly, devoid of idleness, considering we dashed our plan to go cycling in Ubin on Monday. I went back to SHPS on Tuesday with Anna to see ex-teachers and it so happened that it was their funfair day :D It was nice seeing the familiar faces again, but as every year passes the number of familiar faces decreases, quite considerably. Helped my aunt with money-counting later too.

Oh yeah. When you notice something, when you look at things or when something happens to cross your mind, it sets off a train of thoughts. Sometimes after that train of thoughts I find myself wondering what others would be thinking about this same thing. Would they be thinking what I was thinking? Sometimes I think that I think in too complex a way about something, but then after that I'm quite proud of myself for coming up with a complex thought. HAHA. Yes, I know I know, I'm quirky like that. (:

Well. FAM tonight! It will be fun, I hope. After that we'll have to find some way to entertain ourselves, 'cause there's no dvd player in the room.

Satisfying aches

2009-11-15T23:08:00.002+08:00

I spent the earlier part of yesterday at East Coast with my cell.

Getting there was kinda...strange though. I had to cross the flyover and since I was on the wrong side of the flyover I had to walk under it through unkempt grass after I came down. So my feet were kinda wet with dew and stuff. And when I got there at 1030 I had to wait 20 minutes for the rest to come. (Meeting time was at 1030. LOL.) But Lagoon was quiet and peaceful at that time and I was kind of enjoying the momentary solitude ;)

We walked/cycled over to the volleyball net and played frisbee for about an hour. Apparently the vball net is new and no one uses it so that area is nice and empty and free for our use (if we decide to go back there soon :D).

The hokkien mee at Lagoon is awesome! Although Mel and I ate ours without prawn or squid and I think the stall holders must be thinking what brats we all are since Kevin, too, asked for no dou ya for his. Haha!

[this was carried out in Chinese]

And then we asked the auntie, "What's squid in Chinese?"

And the uncle was like, "Sotong. Oh that's Malay!"

Then they said something like "Pu yu" or something.

And the best thing was, the auntie said, "你们在学校里没有学到的meh?"

Then we were like, "No."

She must have been thinking the kids of today are just. SAD.

After lunch we returned to that cosy spot to play volleyball after the-one-who-owns-the-volleyball aka Evan came at only 1 plus (!?!). After a particularly uneventful attempt at volleyball we decided to play soccer on the court which had no net. Mine and Kevin's slippers were the goal posts. And we actually had quite a lot of fun, what with flying sand, ankle-smacking and what-have-you!

I now have a weird sunburnt spot on the top of my shoulder where I forgot to apply sunblock! OHWELLZ.

But it felt great to be back together having fun after the O's snatched away everyone's freedom for a few weeks. :D :D

Btw I managed to get this awesome Steve Madden bag from the Robinsons Expo sale today! Don't ask me why I went there because I normally hate expo sales due to the absolutely sky-high numbers of people there, but Joni said there was something there I might like for my prom shoes. Well in the end, I decided that I'm sticking to my original pink pair of Steve Madden's. LOL.

Happiness

2009-11-14T18:26:00.004+08:00

Friday was quite a lot of fun after The Release!

The highlights of Arts Fest (the day programme): The teachers (and school technicians) performed and there was a rock and acoustic band. What sports they are! Haha. Mr Ow's and Mr Toh's voices are good! Mr Ow suddenly appeared halfway from nowhere and I don't know if that was meant to be a surprise 'cause he had been on reservist and people were missing him at Farewell. Anyway, to digress a little, Philo lessons have been fun and absorbing because of him and we seem to have this rapport with him that other classes don't. And so a very dry subject has been not-so-dry these 2 years (:

Then there was the violin-guitar duo from the Australian school and Ms Rani Singam's jazz performance. All them of them played/sang so well together; they only needed to look at one another to communicate. Guess that's how much they understand their music, and I'd really like to be like that someday (:

They were SO GOOD! I loved the music they made. It was so awesome!

Anna was going ga-ga about how cool the bassist was. Lol!

And class busking. It was quite a success because all of us were there and the feeling was really...I dunno, nice, because we hadn't really practised much, but we just sang our Christmas carols and our class song (plus other songs we did not prep for) and it all came out nicely. Those who could harmonise did so, everyone was singing, should I say somewhat with gusto, and the pianists improvised, and I just love how our class is so talented. It really is hard to describe, but I really how much I love 415 for being a place where you fit in because you are different. What I'm saying is that that's the unique characteristic of our class - everyone is unique, and no one has to worry about trying to fit an image of any sort, because we are each unique and quirky like that :D

Us 4 gypsies on Thursday!

Statue Becky! :D

The day we were Christmassy for busking!
Practising in class (:
RGS Nite (sorry but I still can't stand the way they spell it) was nice. Despite my SUPER lousy seat, I enjoyed the thing (:

Before they told me phototaking was forbidden, I managed to get some shots of my beloved RGSSB doing their thing! They were really, really awesome and I'm so proud of them! :D Eben though they were doing formations and all, they were still mostly together and the volume was good. I really love George Gershwin's music; it all started with me playing his preludes for my diploma haha :D

Anyway, during the finale when all the performers were back on stage and as I watched my juniors singing and playing along I just had this wave of fondness for them, for all the time we had spent together, for RGSSB and how I would really, really, really miss playing in RGSSB ~ Don't really know how to say it, but during that finale item I think I felt the most love for RGSSB in my whole band life...

Classmates! Everyone was looking glam! HAHA.

And so. RGS life has ended. The feelings are mixed, of course. I'm so sad that RGS life is over because they were some of the best years of my life. But there's this feeling of expectation too, of moving on, trying new things and testing boundaries. Right now the former still makes itself found, though.

*wistful sigh*

Winning the race

2009-11-12T19:25:00.004+08:00

I HAVE FINISHED MY HP ESSAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

This has been such a huge (and I mean HUGE!) source of stress in the last three days. I wanted to start on it only after HCL O's were over and done with so I only had three days left to do because the grand deadline for it is...tomorrow. I really don't know how my essay will stand when *whoever-is-involved* reads it, but I'm crossing my fingers and waiting to be called for an interview in January 2010. (:

I wouldn't normally react this way when I finish an essay but this marks the beginning of my Freedom For The Rest Of The Year, if you get what I mean! Haha. It was originally so infuriating that after HCL I still had this THING.

So now is the time to start enjoying, hardcore!

Oh yeah anyway I have 2 new pairs of Levi's because they were having a promotion (: (:

OH NOZ

2009-11-09T14:45:00.000+08:00

It is tomorrow. Wish me all the best!

Hmm.

2009-11-06T21:55:00.004+08:00

Today was Farewell.

Life in RGS is ending. Or should I say, has ended. I think the worst of the "I won't have this experience ever again" hasn't really hit me yet, 'cause I don't feel extremely sad right now. I think it will only come when I actually think about whatever I've been through and how there'll never be a period like this again. I don't mean in a bad way, but whatever is going to come will be different. It won't be like this again.

All the times with friends, teachers, seniors, juniors, alone amidst the rambling school grounds, with nerdy stuff (8\), my French Horn, my camera, conducting (HMM)... There's so much more that I've really loved about my whole RGS experience. Don't really know how to put everything into words and well, I'm not going to try!

Here's to RGS (:

This is nice! (With Karmin in the background hahaha)

We gave them wings. Which they even wore throughout class party. How sporting haha!

Haha. Mr Jalleh.

CLASS PARTAYYE :D

I wish I could post more! (Argh my Preview is a bit screwed today) Alright. *switches to pensive mode*

I AM FULL OF COFFEE!

2009-11-03T21:37:00.003+08:00

Haha today I drank the most coffee in my entire life. Because, you see, I don't drink coffee. I don't even like it, but I think after today this sentiment is kinda changing. HAHAHA. It still applies for strong coffee, but I think the lesser brews are actually...quite nice :D

Today I went to the Starbucks Training Facility (:

When we reached there we were shown into this cosy room with cool wallpaper. Then one of the women came in with a tray of vanilla iced latte (:D!) and things started getting exciting. First the latte, then mini versions of what they usually sell in Starbucks stores, like blueberry muffins, brownies, some tarts and this layered mango cheesecake thing. They were so good I tell you. We were just joking that today we consumed about 50 bucks' worth of Starbucks stuff without having to pay a cent HAHA.

Anyway, besides the presentations of coffee beans and stuff related to them, we got to do cupping! :D Which is tasting a little bit of different types of coffee with that requisite loud slurping noise! Then spitting it out after that so you won't get a coffee overdose. It was cool. My pathetic amateur tongue couldn't really differentiate the different types distinctly though (x

After that I tried my hand at making my own cuppaccino :O I actually downed (almost) the entire cup after that. Quite an amazing feat for me haha! We got to meet quite a few important people in the business too (:

It was fun! Anyway, my legs are aching :\ Ok, back to Chinese.

These are a few of my favourite things

2009-10-30T23:18:00.005+08:00

Today we had lunch with Alicia! She's back from Melbourne till the 7th (only ): ) and it was really great catching up :D she's still her same slightly crazy self haha!

Anyway, nice things on Thursday!

The view from outside our class. Love it! That tree is like a mini forest HAHAHA.

Going to eat. (Look at Evan)
The golden orb spider :O

One of the jellyfish we spotted. I didn't realise it had spots!

Fiddlers (:
A mudskipper.
Some crab.

A juvenile monitor lizard! Haha we almost walked by it if not for Natalie (:

The boardwalk.
Outside the Swiss cottage.
Pristine beaches!

Wide-eyed

2009-10-29T22:59:00.002+08:00

Today we went to Chek Jawa. The place is just beautiful I tell you! And it's teeming with life. Can't wait to go Ubin to cycle man.

Pictures soon! (: (:

Ooh btw I had Haagen Dazs just now haha. SO GOOD.

What He wants for me I will be

2009-10-27T21:01:00.002+08:00

I went for the Humanities Programme Open House/tea last Friday and I've decided that I definitely am going to apply for this. Not that I hadn't already decided beforehand, but going there further convinced me to. Yeah, there are shortcomings and kind of like being afraid that you'll become elitist or something 'cause we'l be largely isolated from the rest of the school. But I think it's pointless to worry about it; after all, we're all different individuals and we can choose to take things however we want to (:

So I'm waiting for the news that we can start applying. I really, like really hope I can get in.

Divided

2009-10-25T22:28:00.003+08:00

Hello. Time seems to fly by really fast!

Went to Pasir Ris Park to see mangroves on Thursday. I like this picture very much haha.
There's a stable there, but all the horses are kept in such tiny spaces! ):
Haha.
Saturday was the BBQ for my mum's birthday which we had by the poolside (:

Wow this week's gonna be pretty busy, as it was last week. All the best all you O Level people!

Naturale

2009-10-22T22:57:00.004+08:00

Here's the juvenile (dying) Wrangler's pit viper we saw the other day at Dairy Farm ): (I had to resort to this because my phone is not compatible with my computer. Heh. -.-)

Once Talia, YJ, Becky and I went out off school before morning assembly and a storm started brewing. It was really dark and ominous :O Then I saw that that tree was the only one illuminated by sunlight and the rest of the scenery was shrouded in grey. So cool!
I really like this picture! It looks like some Japanese scene. A lot of people say it looks like snow haha! And my mum was like, "Maybe you should send this to National Geographic." Lol.

Anyway today we visited Pasir Ris mangroves! :D Haha photos some other time la.

2009-10-21T22:26:00.003+08:00

Haha doesn't this look like some coniferous tree in some overseas country (:

Oh btw, yesterday was coffee field studies again and this time we went to the Starbucks at Tampines. This time I sat with Nicole and we ordered Java Chip again. But this (look down) is SO different from the one at Raffles City. What double standards haha. The one at Raffles City is so much sweeter, thicker and filled with more, uh, chips. If I had tasted this one before that one, then maybe I wouldn't have such a good impression of Starbucks anymore... The importance of Quality Control :P

Today after 1 hour of school (waste-time TTM!), I went searching for my prom dress with my mum. And I finally found one at Daniel Yam. I'm quite worried that someone will turn up in exactly the same dress that I'm gonna wear since Daniel Yam is an almost-strictly night dress shop. I am crossing my fingers!

Since it's pink I can't wear my pink heels anymore ): (I feel so bad for buying it and not wearing it for prom eventually. Nvm, I can always wear them for other events! (: ) I'll have to find another black/dark-coloured pair. Visited Zara again and found another pair of heels that I liked because of their shape. So elegant! But once again, price comes in the way.

Oh well it's late see ya!

Cloudless

2009-10-19T18:00:00.002+08:00

I bought The White Album on Friday based on Jolyn's recommendation haha.

Should I wear red for prom? Which means I can't wear the Steve Madden heels. Man, I wish I had all the money in the world! Then I could buy the Zara ones without any qualms :\

Anyway, today's weather was awesome for swimming. I love this kind of weather for it's look :D And yeah, I just did a bao zhang bao dao :O

I believe, I believe

2009-10-18T23:01:00.004+08:00

Went out for lunch today with Andrea, Sonia, Sly and Abi. A first in many weeks because of exams for everyone and even now all my other, uh, same-age-mates are really nervous about O's. Heh. Saturday was the last cell before "study break". OH anyway, I did well for Math and Chem and that has at least salvaged me from my entire week of mediocrity. (Haha ok I sound so depressed. I'm not!) Going swimming tomorrow. Finally!

We sang this last week and this week and it really means a lot!

Through You

I can do anything

I can do all things

I am living by faith

Nothing is impossible

And my QT today was regarding this passage in Joshua which talks about the same thing, and that God will never forsake us (:

Packed!

2009-10-17T21:03:00.003+08:00

Went out on Wednesday to celebrate my mum's birthday (which was last Friday haha). We had Sakae Buffet. I love the mango avocado temaki man! Anyway we went to Zara and there was this angmoh woman trying on this pair of super high very strappy heels and I immediately fell in love with them. I tried them and they looked so awesome and I thought ok I shall wear these for prom! But they're over 200 bucks. So I just KIV-ed them and left.

But now I keep thinking about them even though I've already bought another Steve Madden pair I think I might be wearing for prom. Yknow what? I think I might just go back and buy them somehow even though they cost quite a bomb. That's how much I like them! Heh.

I paid a visit to Starbucks yesterday and that was my first time in a veeeeeery long long time because I don't drink coffee and I think a lot of people just go there to, I dunno, be cool? We had to go there for our Geog field investigation and it was absolutely necessary to sit down and have a drink. So I shared a Java Chip with Sam (of course there was only a very small percentage of coffee in it) and it was so nice that I now understand why people are willing to pay 6 bucks and above for a small cup of brown liquid with whipped cream. There's something(s) inside this brown liquid that makes it DELICIOUS. You just might catch me returning to Starbucks again to spend $6.30 on another cup :O I'm kinda happy that future visits are necessary for our field studies >)

We rushed for hip-hop at Jitterbugs and after that was this private movie showcase by a Singapore director. 老师's contact is the director's co-producer (who taught in RG for a short while haha) so he got us tickets :D The director and movie cast was there and we got a picture with Nick Shen (: Haha. The event was at this place called Old School on Mount Sophia and we had to climb about a hundred or so steps to get there. It's quite an artsy *in Calvin's gay accent* and cool place with pretty nice scenery and the whole experience was quite an eye-opener. So next time if we want to produce a movie we can just send an email to 老师's contact (: COOL.

That was my (Wednesday and) packed Friday :D

Why?

2009-10-15T22:32:00.002+08:00

Hello. This week has been results, results and results. I have yet to see a 4.o for my EYAs, and I hope that will come tomorrow for Math, Chem or both. Even though results haven't been too bad, I was particularly disappointed for Lit 'cause I had this really good feeling about it but the results were like, average and didn't even make it to a 3.6.

Well, at least I did okay for History. There's some sort of a furor over them coming out with something they didn't teach and everything. I guess they did cover it, but only very very minimally and during the hols I was frantically searching all my notes for points to write about. And everyone had different ideas of how important that topic was. I guess it's by God's grace that I did quite fine (:

Today we went to WELL at Dairy Farm. The forest there's pretty nice because it's a brand new reserve and human effects haven't been too pervasive yet. And just on the day I didn't bring my camera, we saw a Wrangler's pit viper! It was a tiny juvenile one, with bright green skin with red and yellow spots. Poisonous man! But the tragic thing was that its head and one part of its body has been crushed by something and although it could move it was obviously dying ): ): ): It's just so sad. I hope I can get hold of a picture soon. There're a few in my phone but.

Now either a hacker or a virus has infiltrated my hotmail account. ANNOYING. Why is life so completely exhausting and annoying. Options schedule is so tiring that I don't even have much energy to study for Chinese O's. why is the school doing this to us. Post-exam relaxation my foot! MY FOOT!

And we sing of all You've done

2009-10-11T23:28:00.003+08:00

I did a gong han today. Haha wow even though it's only a gong han, I'm so proud of myself! Oh yeah, and besides that, of course, I did Math.

Hm why I am I feeling so happy about being nerdy?

发愤图强. Haha.

2009-10-10T23:28:00.002+08:00

Got back Chinese yesterday morning. It wasn't very good ): I have exactly one more month to work at it. Since everyone else is working at O's, I shouldn't feel so sian studying for Chinese. Haha.

I spent today not doing any work, mainly because there was Chinese mock exam in the morning. 4 hours (with a 1 hour break in between). It's ttly depriving me of my Saturday sleep! 2 Saturdays mornings in a row have been taken up by school activities ): And I don't know if there will be Geog fieldtrip this Saturday.

Integration on Tuesday. I think I'm quite prepared. Hope that feeling is accurate!

Close encounters

2009-10-08T23:01:00.004+08:00

Today was quite an exciting day.

In the morning I went jogging with Anna. We saw a pair of flying white birds; don't know what they are though heh.

I wonder where the fruit from all these trees goes to.

After jogging. Haha.

RGS scenery is nice actually. There's some sort of nature-y feeling, especially around the track.
This is pretty cool because the class was so cold that when I took the camera out it immediately started to condense haha!
We went to Lower Peirce for our Bio fieldtrip today (it was BTNR on Monday) (: It was quite refreshing after the light drizzle and we saw quite a number of cool organisms! Had an awesome dinner at Casuarina Prata haha. It wasn't so much that the food was awesome (although it was nice!) but the thrill of trying new food with friends. Lol! Mr Lim treated us to coconuts (:

A mangosteen leaf!
Sunset (:
(I am getting increasingly irritated with Facebook; I've tried uploading my Lower Peirce pictures 2 times and they failed. Now is the third time. And it takes forever! ><)

It's back!

2009-10-04T19:58:00.010+08:00

I went to Sentosa to cycle on Thursday with Anna and Joni :D It was an overcast day with no rain. That's good weather I guess, although I'd prefer a nice cloudless day; that's so much nicer to look at! Haha. It wasn't really serious exercise though. It was more of a chill-out thing. Tanjong Beach is really quite nice when there's not really anyone around except you, some other free people and maybe a lifeguard haha. It was nice and peaceful and cooling under the trees.

The little girl is the daughter of the guy who took this picture haha. After we took the picture her mum was like, "Would yall like another one without her in it?" HAHA!

I somehow like this 'cause it has a tranquil look and feel about it (:

Joni and I looked like twins, according to Anna.

After Sentosa was a movie after Sam joined us! :D We watched Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and it was quite cute and funny. Anna and I were especially tickled by the part where Flint said he was useless and thus "threw himself away" in a bin HAHA!

This is my Bio Options notebook. Today in the forest at BTNR it was so humid that the edges all started curling outwards! :\

And so that was my Thursday, a chillax day amidst a time when I should have be worrying about Math and Chinese (:

These things make a difference

2009-10-01T22:52:00.003+08:00

Sometimes you're just going about your daily life and suddenly you see a nice scene before you that you really want to capture. But I don't always have a camera with me ):

Last week Talia, Becky, Yingjun and I went to the J block area (but on the other side of the fence so that we could skip morning assembly) and when we were standing on the "hill" a strn began to pick up and the wind was blowing in strong gusts and the sky was becoming more and more ominous with each second. Luckily I had my phone then (: But I doubt you'll ever get to see the shots 'cause I don't think my phone software is compatible with my computer :\ When we were almost back at school the sky behind us was really dark and this tree beside the bus stop was the only thing illuminated by sunlight; it was quite a cool sight!

And yesterday I was walking along the track and the cirrus cloud pattern in the blue sky was just awesome! Man...

Peering into intriguing little niches

2009-09-29T19:21:00.003+08:00

Ah. The past week has been filled with quite a lot of stuff despite it being after the exams :o

I went quite a few times to Ion for food till I kinda know the basement relatively well already hah. And Anna and I discovered that this CD shop at B4 sells pretty cheap Disney dvds. Come to think of it I haven't watched quite a few of those traditional Disney cartoons and I don't think I'll ever outgrow them 'cause I really enjoy those cartoons (ie not the Pixar type of 3D ones but those 2D ones where the artists sketch many many drawings and put them together)!

On Friday we tried out yet another coffee shop at Far East haha. Before EYAs Lisa, Joni and I vowed to try every single coffee shop at Far East after the exams were over haha :D The claypot noodles I had were so good! And there's this shop selling Japanese snacks cheap! I told my aunt she can go there to buy next time (:

Options have been pretty fun! I'm in Environmental Bio, Coffee Consumption and discovering the roles of mothers in Chinese films. Bio is, of course, VERY interesting and we get to go on fieldtrips every week. Beat that! Haha :D We're even making a night trek at Lower Peirce and possibly going to Chek Jawa WHOOHOO. The camera is indispensable there! We got to get up close and personal with coffee beans for the coffee option haha (: Pity I don't like coffee; all the sampling in class loses some of its glamour. But anyway. From Crop To Cup: sounds interesting, doesn't it? And we watched a very sad movie for Chinese today called 樱桃 about a mother who was mentally handicapped. ): ): ):

Looking forward to Thursday hehheh :D

OH NO

2009-09-23T20:29:00.002+08:00

I hope Options will be fun and enjoyable :P I really don't know what I'm gonna do during my in-between-times! Going out to eat has become a little boring. I must find places to go and things to do. And money to spend.

In accordance with the water

2009-09-21T11:32:00.003+08:00

Been slacking all the way from Thursday till now. Tomorrow's back to school again. And till I read Jolyn's blog recently I wouldn't have known that Integration SA is in about 2 weeks. Of course, Chinese O's are on 10 Nov too. BUT anyway now (besides going for Options in school) I am gonna go for dance, swim, cycle, learn tennis (if I can find a coach), go kayaking/canoeing with someone (who??), catch many many movies (Inglourious Basterds! :\), take many photos of people and things I treasure, go out with friends, start playing the piano again, look for ways to make myself useful and do LOTS of interesting stuff you can't do while studying hardcore for examinations.

Went to Talia's house yesterday for hers and Sam's joint birthday party/batch gathering :D Although it's all the way at Dairy Farm and I spent about 1 hour and 40 minutes getting back home again from there haha.

This is epic!

Rebecca's brownie cake!

Jolyn and Xinyi's present to Sam.
Birthday girls haha :D
Batch picture! (although some had already left before we took this ):)

It's been a while

2009-09-17T19:16:00.003+08:00

YES EXAMS ARE OFFICIALLY OVERRRR! *jumps for joy like Abby in The Ugly Truth)

(yeah yeah except for Integration and HCL O's haha)

Now is officially the time to enjoy myself thoroughly, at least for a while WHOOHOO! I think I did ok for everything so hopefully the results will be good :\

Watched The Ugly Truth today with Sam, Deb and Anna. It was really enjoyable (I was afraid it was gonna be yet another of those rom-coms, but it turned out to be cool) albeit with all the sexual innuendo hahaha. Which was funny :D Then we lunched at Soup Spoon at Ion and walked around Ion after that. The higher floors of Ion are actually pretty boring :P

I was just trying to fill up my personal timetable for the next few weeks. Wow it's really confusing D: But Wednesday is a free day for me; I finish at 10 plus! (:

Anyway I think I'm going for dance tomorrow at Jitterbugs :D :D :D YEAH finally after more than 2 months of not going for jazz!

Where there is not as much sun and glittery sea and coconut trees

2009-09-07T21:34:00.005+08:00

Hello. I spent today studying. I have succeeded in imbibing knowledge about Mendelian Genetics into my head. And that's only about one-fifth or one-sixth of Bio that I have to study by Monday coupled with all the other subjects. And I've been quite behind schedule for my other topics. History now.

Anyway! Saturday's bbq was fun! The dressing up was cooler that expected 'cause ideas thrown out on the day itself happen to be better than a whole week of Facebook messaging. Haha. It was a brief respite from the one week of nerdiness ahead of me. Whoohoo go go, me!

Through the wind and the waves

2009-09-05T00:14:00.002+08:00

Hello. I have emerged relatively unscathed by the exams. Everything was pretty satisfactory except Philo and maybe Chinese paper 2 which were a bit dubious :O

But whatever la. I just finished making notes for The Lady With The Pet Dog! And I haven't printed Bio notes though I was supposed to do it today -.- And there's the (Carribbean) bbq tomorrow! (:

Oh yeah today Lisa, Joni and I had zhi cha at one of the shops in Far East. Awesome manz! Alright, it's really late I should stop spending unnecessary time on the computer now bye bye!

AHHH (:

2009-09-02T23:08:00.003+08:00

It is difficult to find proper proper evidence for SS Article Review. Hope the stuff I found will suffice.

Anyway, I just printed out 36 (yes, 36!) bao zhang bao dao's that lao shi sent us :O My printer's not dead yet, though. AND! My dad just told me that his colleague told him that the Mac can type Chinese and I switched the language to some Chinese mode and presto! I CAN TYPE CHINESE ON THE MAC WITHOUT USING WINDOWS PC! Yes. I realise that all the trouble I've gone through (since primary school) to install hanshen and wtv was totally uncalled for. Never mind. At least now I know :D :D Mac rocks.

Oh yes. I got into all the options I wanted :D I had originally bet $110 for Pharm Chem and only $90 for Mr Lim's Bio option and after that I was seriously regretting my decision. But on Monday I found out that by some miracle I had gotten into Mr Lim's option :D And so had Anna. So yay. Ok it's SS tomorrow byez!

Interesting ambitions

2009-09-01T00:05:00.003+08:00

Be Yourself Day was fun! HAHA :D
The super-cool deejay!
And her shades HAHA.
Everyone thought I was an angel...
Lol.
The four fairies (:

Ok my eyes dare tired. Bye!

Tell me something

2009-08-27T22:17:00.004+08:00

Hello (:

Today I officially didn't do any work D: Oh dear. We recorded Look Out World (ie our class song) in the recording studio today and I must say it was a pretty awesome experience! Firstly I didn't know there existed a studio in RGS and so I was kinda surprised 'cause there were mikes and a mixer connected to a Mac for that perfect studio-type recording haha! :D Everything else was ours luh. Anyway, we did the music first before the vocals and everything put together sounded beyond niceee! And we were all jamming each others' instrus. Or at least I was with the drums and the bass lol. Didn't get to hear the final final recording, though, 'cause I had to leave. But our class is really talented and I'm so glad we got to realise it today in just the right way: a class song! I'm looking forward to hearing it (: (:

It was an awesome time even though it's like, just before EYAs. Yeah, we had to get the class song done 'cause the deadline was extended around 4906720487 times. Mebbe we can form a class band and perform for the teachers on Monday since the school wants entertainment from us -.-/:D

Epic moments during Philo and SS WHAHAHAHA:

Mr Ow: The end goal of inductivists is confirmation.

Someone (not sure who): Ooh they should just become Catholics, then!

Mr Ow says, "Ah, I need a drink." and sips from his metal cup. We had teased him about his newly-dyed brown hair a few moments ago and so...

Someone: Coffee makes you die young.

Talia: But his hair dyed already!

Mr Ow: Gosh! If I had enough hair I'd pull it out!!!

During SS, Talia is laughing so hard she has to bury her head in a cushion to keep from infecting everyone else. (She still does anyway.)

Mr Jalleh: Talia! You're so infectious! You're a virus!

Talia: Ya, I'm influential!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

IT'S BE-YOURSELF-DAY TOMORROW! Theme's Ambition. And I'm coming as a fairy (: Alright I'm off to make my magic wand ta!

Intrusive!

2009-08-25T23:00:00.002+08:00

Yayz class song is progressing quite nicely (: Thanks everyone for the effort put in!

Ok I'm kinda sleepy and there's still Chem Equilibrium quiz tomorrow which is supposed to be hard. HAHA. Ta!

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2009-08-22T22:32:00.005+08:00

AHH I've just spent so much time on writing (or trying to write) class song. And I actually came up with a tune too and tried to record it using Garageband but due to some problems I faced with it, I gave up and wrote the note names down in Word instead. Haha.

(I wish everyone from the song comm would take some responsibility and not just a few people -.- Wah lau.) I meant to get started on studying Philo today but I didn't really succeed. Agh.

Alright. After relaxation (on Thursday, that is): STUDY STUDY ><

Anyway, cell today was indeed quite special (ya the surprise was that Calvin would be attending lol!) 'cause he told us about the changes in the services next year (D:!) and about how at our age we should be thinking about giving back to the Ministry through various ways. So now we are "in charge" of the bbq on 5 Sept (x But the point is, I am thinking about how I can contribute to Crossover.

Polaroid picture; love the effect! (:

BALLOONS!! :D

2009-08-20T20:09:00.004+08:00

Hello (: Today after Chem SA Deb, Nancy and I went for lunch at the Far East ramen shop. (Anna couldn't join us 'cause of her forum thingy that kept changing arrangements rawr!!! When everything was all planned out so nicely luh -.-) After that Nancy and I went for:D :D :D I really really enjoyed the movie, most importantly 'cause it made me happy (: Hahaha. And there were so many endearing moments, hilarious moments, heartbreaking moments and witty moments. I loved the whole colourful balloons idea :D AH what a great Walt Disney/Pixar movie.

Carl and Ellie! Aww...
Exotic bird, Russell, talking dog, Carl. Haha.

Anyway, last Wednesday was Farewell (D:) and our directs made this video for us that was so sweet! Haha. It's been great that I've been able to share my RGSSB time with all these wonderful people and what Jolyn said was so true: that some things just have to "have happened" and we move on from there. *reminiscent sigh*

Our SB and Minyi!
The section <3

Ok and this is cheesy LOL. Xinyi's directs gave her that pair of funky shades btw (x

The wind rippled the surface of the pond and I couldn't see myself anymore

2009-08-17T21:33:00.003+08:00

Ok what happened today was a pretty big issue for my class and it really kind of tested our morality (yeah I know it sounds big but there's no other word to use). And forced me to examine my own, in a way. But regardless of what exactly happens they're still our friends and our classmates so NO GRUDGES whatsoever. It isn't for us to deal with after all, and we'll let the appropriate people handle it. I hope things went the way we thought it best they go (:

Oh yeah, I must blog about Farewell! Which happened last Wednesday haha -.- Soon soon.

Dual sunsets

2009-08-15T14:02:00.002+08:00

I discovered that Preview can change photograph effects quite nicely :D (Thanks to Wanting who told me HAHA). I hadn't noticed previously about the "Adjust Colour" and "Adjust Size" etc etc functions -.-

A picture of the sunset during my Tioman trip (so beautiful ain't it?)

The edited version after I played around with the controls (:

Oh there's some camera sale going on at Liang Court. Considering my old camera is more or less spoilt... :) Haha.

KEWLL.

2009-08-14T20:13:00.005+08:00

Back after a long period of not blogging! (SS PT lahh.)

The National Day weekend was pretty good fun! :D School celebrations were quite cool with the fashion show and all. And Mr Ow and Mr Toh sang the National Day song and everyone was encoring them haha!

This is the best shot I could get (401's model) before my camera decided to conk out on me ):
With Karen, our model :D
Our beautiful class picture on the stage we koped (: With Karen the modelll and Mr Tan too lol!
And we paid a visit to Ion after that... :D It was my first time at this chi-chi place, where even the toilets are beautifully and artfully made up. The design of the interior is quirky and cool too (I just really don't like the outside :P).
Yes, even the food court (or food hall on posh language) has art installations distributed all around the place. The food is pretty pricey though, but nice! (: I tried Korean rice cakes and Royce chocolate too; the chocolate was heavenly manzxcxz!

Anna and I went to HMV at Citylink after that to buy albums since they're having this awesome sale now! I really like Keane's Perfect Symmetry artwork. Just looking at the album cover makes me wanna buy it, and I did haha!

On Sunday we went over to my aunt's place after church. We spent the afternoon playing pool and for dinner we had laksa and all the other Singapore food. HAHA.

Emmanuel! Haha SO CUTE!
Us plus the food. Hehheh.

It was awesome that Monday was a holiday. I could mug for Chinese and Lit on Tuesday. Ha ha!

Red

2009-08-11T22:18:00.002+08:00

Shall blog about National Day weekend soon (: When I have the time and photos haha!

What do you see

2009-08-06T22:04:00.004+08:00

Sometimes I wish I could travel extensively just to capture such beautiful images. But then again, beauty can be found here if I look hard enough. (:

Today was quite eventful. We had our first class prayer meeting after school and it was really great just worshipping, sharing and praying with my classmates; it was nice 'cause we haven't met up as a class to pray before. I have to learn how to listen more and rely more on Him.

Went with Anna and Evan to watch Public Enemies after that. It really was a great movie! And my first NC16 whoohoo! HAHA. Despite it being a little violent and gory, the whole story, the style with which it was told and the emotions evoked were fantastic (: Not to mention Johnny Depp's and Christian Bale's acting chops and suave, brooding good looks lollerz.

Anyway. It's NDay celebrations tomorrow and I'll have to go to school in band u and later change to the red outfit. Ma fan, but nevertheless, it's gonna be fun! Karen's wearing my red-and-white heels down the catwalk haha :D After taking them out of storage and seeing them on Karen's feet I have rediscovered why I bought them in the first place; they look so nice! Hehheh!

This is EPIC!

2009-08-04T22:43:00.001+08:00

""I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?" - George Carlin

We're people too.

2009-08-03T21:40:00.001+08:00

I don't get how some people just don't mind taking others for granted. Just like that. It's quite infuriating. We're people too.

After emerging from the blue

2009-08-01T13:10:00.003+08:00

It was evening when I went swimming yesterday. I had stopped at the deep end and the view was really quite spectacular when I turned around to face the pool.

The setting sun had thrown a gradually narrowing path of light on the pool, and the contrast of wavering swimming-pool-blue with the sun and the golden column of light, plus the deckchairs and umbrellas flanking the pool, a colourful kids playground in the background and the soothing sound of lapping water really made a brilliant picture. A really rewarding image when you have finished swimming laps (:

But nothing will describe this better than a photograph! Dang.

Reminiscence

2009-07-31T00:10:00.003+08:00

Today was kind of our last band practice with RGSSB. Well it wasn't really a band practice to start with, 'cause first we talked about Arts Fest with the teachers (I'm still quite dubious about the whole Arts Fest thing ): ), then was the announcement of Exco and then the informal handover of duties to our successors ie section talk haha. Jolyn and Yunshu weren't there! D: Anyway Yujia's the new SC and here's to celebrating 3 years of SC succession in the French Horn section! LOLL. Ok that was lame.

But our direct batch gave us hairbands ("Thank you for being a great, (head band) batch!") :D and yeah, it's a little saddening that my time in RGS band has come to an end so fast. At the end everything seems to have happened in the blink of an eye and I don't quite know what to make of it just yet and right now, just that even though it was pretty tiring and sometimes you just felt so shagged by the whole staying-back-till-past-6.30-and-reaching-home-at-8 and everything else, the whole 4 years were still worthwhile. Really, really, really worthwhile.

And to know that the part of you that once looked up to seniors with so much admiration and a kind of awe has been replaced by some sort of satisfaction that your juniors look at you in the same way is reallyquite a nice thing to know (:

It's really late now. I'm probably not in full blogging or emotional capacity, so I guess there's much more to be said which I can't say now. It might take time anyway. On another note, Mr Tan (our serious TTM math teacher) is now our form teacher! And Mr Hee is our CLET. But I am more than willing to give Mr Tan a chance. He's a nice person, and talking to him today was actually pretty interesting ;)

Please go away for a bit and leave me alone

2009-07-26T22:52:00.003+08:00

Haha. Best thing: today during dinner I was talking about Rebecca being at the Liverpool vs. Singapore match. And my dad suddenly said that when he was in the US last week, someone had actually called him and said he'd won tickets to the match! (Reason being 'cause I'd bought a new pair of adidas track shoes a few weeks ago and so had participated in a lucky draw.) Being overseas, my dad wasn't really interested in that and he thought we wouldn't be too! *!!!!* HAHAHA. I mean, I'm not an ardent Liverpool fan or something (although I do like Fernando Torres :D), but how often would you expect to actually win those lucky draws?! It'd be quite exciting to have been there watching the match. Ha ha -.- Well it's ok la; Rebecca gave me some updates including Torres scoring a goal (: Lollll!

Anyway today I went for the US university fair at Suntec. I took this whole load of brochures and flyers so all I did was arrange them in alphabetical order of uni. I talked to this girl from Brown Uni who said that the US is a better choice than the UK 'cause the courses are much more flexible. What i understand is you get to choose what different modules you want as you go along unlike in the UK where everything is fixed. And she was from RGS too! :D I saw a few people I know too haha. Most of the booth people were pretty nice and helpful but there were a few who were a bit bo-chap or cocky. Irritating! But srsly, I have to start thinking about my future for real.

After that my mum and I were walking past HMV and they were having a pretty huge sale - a lot of things were going for really low prices man! So we bought a few dvds and cds. I took a gamble and bought Lady Gaga's new album (selling at only $11.90!) 'cause I haven't really heard all her songs properly yet and decided I like them. But yeah, cool (:

I'm feeling quite overwhelmed by the sudden influx of stuff that I have to do right now. In a way, I can't wait till we stand down from band, Lit poetry presentation is over and I can have a bit more time to concentrate on EYAs. And I'm still really disappointed about something I'd rather not talk about :/

To cool for school

2009-07-21T22:39:00.002+08:00

Today was Racial Harmony Day. RHD. And it's always quite a big thing in RGS haha (: Almost everyone dresses up in some ethnic (or ethnic-inspired) costume and the resulting variety is really quite cool! It was quite a wacky day 'cause there were very few lessons and our class is so fun-loving (muahaha) that no one'll really take lessons seriously on this kinda day anyway. Hehheh >)

Chinese, Peranakan, Punjabi, Malay, Indonesian. 5 different costumes among 6 people WHOO! Lol.
On the track.
This is too cool not to post!

Lisa really came as Euro trash! Complete with wig and all HAHAHA! Euro trash aside, everyone looked really cool! Of course, the full range of pictures is on Facebook (duh right; fb is everyone's photo portal!). And I am proud to/regret to say that what was meant to be a half-hour sleep turned into a 2-hour-long one even though I had my alarm right beside me. Literally. Oh yes and I finally started on SS PT. Awesome man! :P

Just for laughs, dudes

2009-07-19T20:02:00.005+08:00

Haha Dr Ng showed this article to us during Chem the other day. The topic's Organic Chem btw. It's pretty lame but, I must say, quite clever. And cute LOLL :D

This is funny! ("him" referring to kinky old Prof Old Macdonald)
Himself! (As an organic compound)
His turkey,
his duck,
and his cow.

They've even been given common and full names. The article ends with this all-too-familiar line: If Old Macdonald had a lab: en-yn-en-yn-ol. LOLLL!

Fun

2009-07-17T23:01:00.004+08:00

School was actually pretty fun today, with the exception of that horrible Lit FA of course. I shall not talk about it.

Yesterday was Anna's birthday and being sick (oh the irony of it!), she didn't come yesterday. So the surprise cake we'd bought on Wed stayed in the drinks uncle's fridge till recess today. When we surprised Anna with the awesome chocolate fudge cake whoo hoo! :D But she couldn't eat it! 'Cause she had stomach flu hahaha. :/ (She brought about a quarter of the cake back home btw (: )

SURPRISE(D)! Hahaha

The 5 of us who bought her the cake and one missing Deb!
Wholesomeness...
only to be devoured.
We were kinda late back to class. But Mr Hee helped us take this so ;)

I'm pretty shagged. And SS PT awaits! :P