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updating..

2009-02-01T20:40:00.000-08:00

*sigh*

have been super busy. just an update.

1. the house is finally ready, with everything we need delivered. (the sofa came like 2 days before cny?).
2. i'm busy busy busy with school, as usual.
3. i'm busy busy busy with band (and yes, FINALLY finalizing the library catalogue)
4. i have a sucky timetable:
- thurs ends at like 430 with only 2 half hr breaks for even weeks
- thurs ends at 330 with only 1 half hr break for odd weeks
- pe on 2 consecutive days for odd week (mon and tues)
5. and i'm sick. down with fever and cold and stuff.

hahah. school is great, so far. have some new tutors. most of the tutors that i want to be changed is changed, for the better. thank god. the one that wasn't.... maybe i'll get tuition or sth. hahah.

oh wells. ^^

the duchess

2008-12-04T08:37:00.000-08:00

i watched the duchess (played by keira knightley)! *sigh* i love it. the story is damn sad. :s but i really love this kind of period movies. the buildings, dresses and manners are all oh-so "sophisticated" and way cool. its quite sad that not many people can appreciate this kinda stuff. i don't know whether i can watch it again in singapore. it has "sexual scenes and references". can be m18 eh.

if you can watch it, i recommend that you so. especially girls. hahah. i think only we can really understand the duchess' feelings in the movie. like how sad we'll feel when you know that your husband dont love you or cheat with your best friend. sigh. i wanna watch it again!

oh well. i do hope keira knightley gets an oscar for her role here (though i think she already deserves one for pride and prejudice).

am home, at last! ^^

2008-12-01T01:17:00.000-08:00

yay. home. sigh. missed the food. and sandy of course. and the imac. and plasma tv. haha.

managed to survive band camp, though things did happen. i didn't really quite enjoyed the last 2 days of the camp, but whatever. overall it was okay i suppose. hahaha. much thanks to chen, jas, master bay, zexun and jia hao for being such good friends. haha. and quek (i suppose russell too) for helping me (and mark) to try and "solve" the problem. and not forgetting aloy and joel for being good bitching friends and helping me with THE bar 49 of el cam. *ugh* getting it though, but not quite yet. hahah.

am looking forward to attending the 22nd dec concert, especially hearing the el cam. hahaha. must practice hard guys! ^^

sigh......

i suppose another highlight of the year is moving at the end of dec. i can't wait to finally live in our own house in spore. dad and mom decided to wait for us kids to buy stuff like the sofa and dining table. so am really looking forward to choosing the furniture for the house! it feels really good to be involved in the whole moving house process. after all, i was there when they chose the house, the paint, curtain, bed, purchase the utensils and even dustbins! hahah. so am really looking forward to see it all together.

right. thats it for now. nadia and jojo just came back from school. gg to play with them now. ^^

till next time. : )

pw pw pw

2008-10-26T05:36:00.000-07:00

gosh. pw is horrible! my class is the first to be assessed for OP, which is like this friday. and am the LAST speaker from the LAST group. which basically mean i will be the LAST person in the class to be assessed. ;s;s

moving on. am like boreedd to death, yet have lots to do!

1. pack

2. practice speech

3. do touch-ups on my props for OP

4. make sure tania gets her school

5. watch james bond movie

6. play chocolatier

7. play harvest moon

8. have tuitions to study for next year's MSA

9. clean up my books, worksheets and put them in order

10. do holiday homework

sigh. SIGH. anyway, am excited for Asia Conference! and this week's sermon in chc was good. ^^ actually, the past few were also good too. : )

hrmm. am gg to 'Snow White' play and most probably Rihanna's concert.

school..

2008-10-12T23:58:00.000-07:00

sigh. school is back to norm time table again. nothing new. and thurs am getting back all my promos results. uh-oh. ;x

band prac has started. tune-in looks promising enough. the pieces are not bad and the games.. well. hope its nothing too much. cos am playing with the people. ;x hahaha. i scared i will get forfeit. anyways...

i need to plan when am gg back indon. having tune-in, band camp, class chalet, yadda yadda... i think i can only go back for a month. ;s sigh.

oh wells. am totally bored now. in school with my mac and internet and there is nothing to do. not here anyways. all the materials i need for pw is back home. sigh.

oh. btw. james bond is gg very well. am enjoying it. i love the later ones the one with the invisible car (with halle berry and rosamund pike). the older ones like "Her Majesty's Secret Service" is freakin funny. the effects looks damn fake, the guns are still so tiny and the supposedly high tech gadgets have only 3 buttons;namely red, orange and yellow. looking forward to watching some more.

oh. btw. my favourite james bond so far is pierce brosnan. lets see if it will change. ^^

alrighty. back to my games. ciao! ^^

project work

2008-10-07T03:41:00.000-07:00

this whole week is project work (pw) week. the timetable is like 2 hrs pw tutorial, break, another 2 hours of pw tutorial, another break and 2 hours of pw tutorial. 725am to 4pm. everyday. sigh.

and there is so much to do! the speech, oral presentation slides, finalizing the written report, insights and reflections draft.. then props, finalizing statistics, annex... OMG. i can go on and on. sigh. SIGH.

but not bad la. i mean, take a break from studying and doing homework (tutorials).

well. band had started. the flute feels foreign to me. so long havent play it! hahahaha.

got my hands on old james bond dvds. watched 2 ytd: tomorrow never dies and octopussy. damn nice! i love the car in tomorrow never dies. ^^ looking forward to watch everything.

and am sick. as in very sick. flu, cough, fever. its killing me. and am losing my voice, again. sigh. losing my voice has become a norm to me. this is bad. :s

promos and 4dee! outing :)

2008-10-02T06:22:00.000-07:00

well. promos are over. thats that. *sigh* well.

the 4dee outing to east coast and celebrating some birthdays were awesome! ^^ it kicked off by playing captain's ball, but with frisbee. haha. a tribute to 4dee girls' love (and niche, i would say) for captain's ball. yes ah hua, my shooting skills are no longer that great. :s not much chance to practice now in jc. hahaha.

went cycling with big nic, samuel, xiao hui, si hoon, si hua, and ben while the rest went blading. thank god i didnt blade. am no good, i can only blade in a straight line and cant stop. after seeing the guys (especially edmund) falling like a gazillion times, the tandem bike si hua and i rented doesnt seem so bad. at first i had the HARDEST time steering the stoopid thing so i end up at the back. then xiao hui and samuel fell. so in the end, i rode in samuel's bike and si hua in xiao hui's cos xiao hui was too pained to ride on her own bike. quite fun. si hua and i talked and gossiped a LOT! sigh. its okay ah hua. i love you!! haha. just msg and call me if you need to bitch about anything. ^^

anyways we end up eating at banquet in parkway. so much for the promise of eating at a (very) crowded swensens (yes marcus, some bigshot that guy is. haha :x). joyin prophesied am gg to eat chicken rice for dinner, and i did! but that wasnt my fault. the lemon chicken rice was finished. :s hrmm. then we took pictures and ate marcus' baked "20x20cm cake" which looked more like 15x15cm brownie. i didnt dare to eat it, and so does a few people. davin was forced to eat it and commented that the cake was super sweet and it messed up his whole body system. hahaha!

anyways. 4dee peeps, you are missed! we should do it again sometime. ^^

saturday band prac starts. its gg to kick-off our syf preparations. oh. and on that day i also have an outing with MI peeps and dinner with my aunt and uncle. hope i can make all of those appointments! :s

sth funny/weird/sorta cool?

2008-09-08T10:48:00.001-07:00

i cant copy paste the link they gave so the picture is kinda funny looking. but anyways, if any of you are interested: http://www.lets101.com/blog/quizzes/stars_say

the post with lots of pictures

2008-08-10T11:24:00.000-07:00

okayy.. this post has a LOT of photos. am too lazy to type out stories so i guess pictures will have to do.

FESTIVAL WINDS

as usual. the spastic flute section. to date, this is my favourite section (spastic) picture. hahaha.

flutes! (from L to R) sas, sps, bsss and sajc. we rock.

SPEECH DAY

sajc people. theresa, joyin and i.

joyin, yi tong and i. : )

half of the 4dee ppl. hahaha. the guys (L to R): k3, kiat, ed, kwa, sam, big nic and ben. the girls (L to R): me, si hoon, joyin, nic and tong.

4dee with ms yeo! haha. ^^

nicole!! she simply loves my uniform. ^^ hahaha.

BAND DINNER

this was on the TV messaging system. quite cool. though the ballroom wasnt like that at all. hahaha.

flutes! too bad sambay wasnt there. :s

me with the "OKGO" guys. i wish i have the video of them dancing so that i can post it here for the world to see! mwahahaha. :x

jia hao and i. hahaha.

j1 flautists. i think chen had a deprived childhood.

some random group photo. initially it was only me and crosby. then other people *ehem* started to join us and pose! wth. hahaha.

BALI TRIP

the girls. picture courtesy of jojo-san. haha.

dad in action. he is taking some shots of flowers on top of the cliff. look at the lenses! tsk.

'accidental' family pic (minus jojo). we were laughing cos jojo-san cant count and take pics properly! pics were taken like 10 secs after he say '3' so we literally have to freeze.

super kids! i love love this picture. i think its damn cool. hahaha.

the girls (minus mom).

us again. pic taken by mom. we rock socks! : )

ria trying out dad's camera under the "direction" of tania and nadia.

nad-ster. "ha!"

jojo got nothing else to punch. i suppose the lamp post will have to do.

super kids! idea originally 'hatched' by yours truly. hahaha.

a tribute to kungfu panda.

ria and i. she was forced to take the picture. hehehe. :x

the hotel lobby. its damn pretty.

oh. another one with dad in action. ^^

our room was 2 stories high cos its a family suite. how else can we fit 7 people into a room?!

tania and i. she wasnt forced to take this picture. : )

jojo-san. "whats up?"

this is how they do their laundry in kampungs. just an interesting picture. : )

we went for a ride in a 'submarine'. this is a HUGE school of fish. dont know if its that visible in the picture.. :s

weird faces.......... -_-

HAHA. i find this quite funny. dont kill me guys. :x

we took a boat to an island. the water was blue blue blue.

this is what we ride in for a tour of the island. cute! ^^

the gang. the background is damn cool. this is actually a seaweed farm.

us (oh wait. am not inside) on the mini car/van going for the tour.

food station in our very own room. thanks to mom who always remember to pack lotsa food for us kids. and dad. haha.

mom ^^ hahaha.

jojo-san playing the quite new ds that is always being fought for. jojo-san loves playing the pokemon whereas the girls loved playing cooking mama. fun! ^^

ria studying organic chem for her prelims.

dock. this looks like its taken in like australia or sth. : )

playing by the beach at night. i like how our shirts' colours contrasts with the background. :x

our room. hahaha.

the gang by the pool. this was at night. look at my new havaianas! :x bought in perth.

nadia and i. exhausted after a whole day of playing.

the same shot. only this time tania is there! hahaha.

the sunset. beautiful. oh. dad's there, gearing up to take pictures.

the waves, the beach. : )

hi dad! hahaha. i took this while he was getting ready to take a family picture by the beach.

restaurants by the sea. we had our dinner here.

while we were in bali, there was some festival and the president was in attendance. he was in the car! if you squint hard enough, the face in the open window is the president's wife. ^^

sunset again. *sigh*

jojo and i. hrmm. he has this cheeky, naughty face... wonder why. hahaha.

the ceiling of the hotel lobby. it was so cool.

while waiting for the food, people were...... well. entertaining themselves.

dad became a satay man for a while. yes, that is satay!

look, so cool right! hahaha.

jojo-san. with his naught naughty face. tsk. ^^

mom and dad's bed (this is the bed on the 2nd floor of the room).

jojo and i. look at his PJs! hahaha. :x

omg. tania! what are you doing?! (or going to do?!)

our cups. each one labelled by mom. hahaha. if you cant read, its (L to R) yenn, ria, tania, nadia, jojo, mom/dad. another family quirk.

the view of the hotel grounds. so pretty!

well well. that is all folks. uploading these photos took eons! and tested my patience. urgh. :x

till my next post, which most probably will be in a month or so. or weeks.. have to mug for promos. like mad. :x

oh. and if the font appears like extremely HUGE on your comp, am sorry. in my mac it was small so i enlarged it. : )

perth trip plus other stuffs

2008-07-07T20:29:00.000-07:00

PERTH TRIP

perth trip with sajc band was amazingly awesome and memorable. i had so much fun, i wish i can turn back time to the 29th of May. all of us were excitingly chattering in the band room while waiting to be chartered to changi airport.. ><

it was a 10 day trip. we ate, performed, practiced, stargazed and shopped. *sigh* i miss the stars in albany. it was so beautiful! anyways. am too lazy to type out 10 days' worth of itinerary but i think these pictures will be enough. and they are not in order. here goes..

plane after it landed in perth at like 6 or 7 in the morning? look at our sleepy faces!

random shot of flute section's shoes

more picture taking in the waiting lounge (with postcards from j2s ^^)

the j2s sending us off :)

this is in kings park. the place was so beautiful!

a successful jump shot with eric!

flute section at the park entrance. i love this shot!

first shopping stop: morish nuts. yumm..

with the owner of morish nuts. his name is archie. omg. i remembered!

a random shot of us. i think this is still in kings park. cool eh. we were actually looking at another camera. hahaha.

chinese B bandits! we rock socks! hahaha. and same chinese class too! ^^

08s15 bandits!! (chen, hanis, mark and i)

flute section... damn nice shot! the grass was clean and pretty. hahahaha. seriously.

clarinets and flute. and saxes? sorry. cant really see e picture, its so small! haha.

ate fish and chips at sweetlips. yumm.... ><

our dinner at metro hotel. thats pumpkin soup, surprisingly its quite nice. maybe its because am hungry. haha.

jas and i. i think this is in kings park too.

chen, jas and i

the chocolates at margaret river chocolate factory. the strawberry one is very nice! ^^

what we bought. haha. shopping again.

i go all the way to perth... only to eat indon food. -_- but sad to say, the food kinda sucked. and it doesnt taste like indon food at all. hahaha. really.

at london's court. the first time we went, the shops were closed. hahaha.

london court from front view. its pretty.

jas and i in front of nougat factory. look at the beautiful sky!!

flute section posing...

front view. hahaha. oh. and plus jia hao.

nougat factory...

inside the nougat factory. the car is cute. haha.

flute section plus kangaroo. we fed them food!

over-sized band jackets. hahahaha.

this is in front of nougat factory. once again, the sky!!

still same place. and same objective, to capture the sky. haha.

i think this is at the torndirrup national park. me thinks.

eating at a mexico restaurant. great experience. and food. hahahaha. we ordered food and dont know what it will look/taste/smell like. quite interesting.

at raeburn orchard.

same place. great background for pictures.

spasticity. hahaha.

this is at the torndirrup one also. at least i think so.

nice view right? haha.

emo. growing stones and mushroooms.

flute section. and jia hao.

tsk. what a very emo section i have. *sigh* hahaha.

i think this is at the valley of the giants, particularly the tree top walk.

a very successful jump shot at the wind farm. no one zhao gen and everyone managed to lift themselves off the ground at the same time. great job people! ^^

still at the wind farm.

this is the view. its cool. the turbines are huge!

i think this is the last breakfast at metro hotel.

flute section before performing at john septimus roe.

flutes plus tbones girls! and grace! hahaha.

morning view in albany. doesnt look too good in the picture, but it was.. breathtaking. the grounds were covered in mist, it was so peaceful and the sky was hrmm.. multi-colored?

dinner at a chinese restaurant.

COMMON TEST

nothing much to say, except that i did badly. i believe the whole cohort did quite bad. :s i was so stressed during the june holidays, i cant enjoy the month long break at all! i dont get why CTs are after hols. how can people "have a break"?! furthermore, take 10 days off for perth trip and 5 days to bali and 3 days for holiday lessons. that left me with what, less than 2 weeks to really sit down and study? omg. i was so so stressed, its even more so as compared to my Os. like 10x more. i did celebrate the end of CTs though. thank god its over. but now promos are coming up. uh-oh. :s

FESTIVAL WINDS

fw are over, with a concert on friday 1st august. after much practicing (including sunday section practice), we finally did it. *sigh* i will miss the people i play with. kyaw min, jerome (jenny), siddiq.. the lame-ness, the jokes, the section outing to the toilet in st pats.. *sigh* oh wells. i think we are gg to meet again, but not so soon la. maybe during end of year band camp?

OPEN HOUSE
today was sajc open house. based on what i heard everyone say, its not very successful. i think its because the lack of publicity to sec schools and the bad timing. ria, for one, is starting her prelims on monday! people will be too busy mugging to go down for open house. anyways, even though the band were so tired from fw concert last night, i think everyone did try to put in their best for today's rehearsals and performances. good job everyone. ^^

SPEECH DAY

speech day (in dunman) was quite fun. got to see old friends again, all dressed up in jc formal wear. cool. hahaha. well, we each received a small trophy, certificate and popular voucher. and the newly renovated dunman campus is cool. dont look like the old one at all! hahaha.

well. i dont think i will have the chance to blog again until like.. hrmm. dunno. hahaha. will be very very very busy. assignments, tutorials, tests, tuitions, band pracs, mugging.... argggh. ><

a very industrious sunday

2008-05-11T07:40:00.001-07:00

today i feel very accomplished. i sat on that chair of mine doing the maths tutorial for 3 and half hours straight without once getting up or being distracted. *applause* yes, i know. its so unlike me. a first actually. i dont even remember working this hard for Os.

tomorrow my class is going to watch rugby finals SA vs ACSI in the padang. so interesting. never watched a rugby match before. heard it can be quite.. bloody.

the dances for the musical are starting to form, quite well actually. all of us are no longer worried about getting the steps right (at least not all of the time). its more of coordination problem now. to make everything look nice and organized.

anyways. today is spore's mother's day. mom, wait for indon mother's day ya. hahahaha. i think i will be back home by then.

getting a grip

2008-05-07T19:59:00.000-07:00

flute and double reed section! L-R: samuel, grace (basoon), me, jas, chen lin and jia hao (oboe)

sajc band 2008-2009!

jas and i. and look who is behind!!!

jas, hanis and i : )

current sajc band! (j2s and j1s)

finally i am beginning to get a grip on jc life! for the first time i felt i managed to be in control of school work, band and my social life. finally! its long due.

chen lin commented that i improved (my flute playing). its far from perfect and i have a long way to go before i can even acknowledge myself as a good player, but whatever. i was happy. hahaha.

and i am beginning to love festive overture. omg. hahaha. yes, its true. i enjoy playing festive now. *horror of horrors*

i have been failing my tests but now i am beginning to see how i should adjust my studying methods to fit in jc "lecture and tutorials" system. i just hope i wont get discouraged when i see all the 'fails' in my term progress report. yucks.

chicken or the egg?

2008-04-28T09:34:00.001-07:00

well. for the band musical i have to dance! i dont know who came up with such a brilliant idea but placing me as one of the dancers is like guaranteeing that the whole dance will be messed up. i cant dance for goodness' sake. a single twirl is enough to make me dizzy. hahahaha. stupid right.

anyways today i laughed. a lot. with chen lin and fiona. over a stupid argument whether the chicken or the egg comes first. chen lin insisted that the chicken came about because of a freak accident between the pig and the bird, not because god created it. i insisted that god did create a chicken first and if whatever chen lin said is true, the freak accident would be between the duck and a bird. fiona checked the bible in chen lin's itouch and showed us that the chicken exist even in noah's time. so. that was kinda the end of the whole discussion. but it was damn funny. yay.

holland v

2008-04-19T19:47:00.000-07:00

went to eat with yi tong and joyin in holland v on friday. nydc followed by cold rock ice cream. cold rock was amazing! too bad didnt get a chance to try the ice cream with maltesers but whatever. the cheesecake one was not bad. we talked a lot. and we realized that 3 of us couldnt really fit in with our current class and we missed 4d a lot! suddenly 4d seemed much2 better than what it was when we were in sec 4 cos back then our mindset was "cant wait to get out of sec 4!". *sigh* jia you yi tong and joyin! and to me too! : )

btw, yesterday had "my first concert" for the bands under Mr Glosz at sajc cc. the sas skit was cute. : )

concert pictures and a video!

2008-04-13T05:16:00.000-07:00

SAJC J1 badge's first concert at esplanade, 31st march

chen lin and i. he look damn weird. cos i was complaining he was too tall and he "shortened" himself. hahahahaha!

mark and i. this is the umpteenth picture i took. accounts for the funny expression i have. jaw very tired. hahahaha.

jas and i. was trying to make faces but i cant! this is the best i could do. hahahahahaha.

some j1s. i am the 4th person from the left. cant see me la . :S oh. and ms ho is there too! : )

some j1s again. i am beside teng2. err. 5th person from the left.

teng teng and i

tau pok session. wait. how do you spell it?

jasmine and i

this is what dunman's eupho section was doing backstage. Victoria Concert Hall, 21st march. actually they did this on stage too. hahahahah. damn cute.

birthday party!

2008-04-01T07:07:00.001-07:00

MI people

peixiu, hui ting, vinnie, teng2, me, xun qi, valencia, cinch

hui ting, peixiu, teng2

due to popular demand, i am going to have to write what happened during my birthday party. actually, everything happened so fast that i cant really remember what happened. so am just going to write what i remembered.

from friday morning, people have messaged me saying that they couldnt come for the party. i was damn disappointed cos i stayed up until 4 the night before (yes, 2 and half hours of sleep!!) to do the games and program. but it was cool, i know they wanted to attend but couldnt, so its fine.

after school, i went to my mom's hotel to bathe then went to do my hair and make up. i couldnt sit still when they are doing my make up. yes yes, i am very impatient. i know. :s

i came late to the party. went to greet people and such. then it was dinner. then it was some games. it was damn funny. james (the MC, ex-dunmanite, my friend) tried to translate everything hadi (the MC, chc friend, cell leader) said in indon. it was damn funny. i cant describe how funny it was. then it was cake cutting, candle blowing and nadia and jojo played happy birthday on the violin for me!! so sweet.

next was a surprise segment from my parents. they made a video for me. i told my mom that am going to lose my social life as soon as the video ended. hahahahaha. then it was my spontaneous speech, followed by cinch's solo and my MI friends (peixiu, valencia, vinnie, xun qi and of course, cinch) singing. so sweet!! then it was pictures time.

my favourite part has to be when people shouted 'yenna i love you' and 'yenna i love you more' and 'yenna i love you the more' throughout the room (between tables) spontaneously. damn cute! i felt so loved!! hahahahahahahahaha! *grin*

i cant show a lot of pictures cos most of it is with my dad. these pictures are from friends who brought their camera.

and cinch, happy birthday to you too! keep in contact, twin! : )

oh btw. am quite pissed off with people who said they could attend and in the end didnt inform me that they are not coming. i stayed up until 4 to do things for them, to make sure they enjoyed themselves, and they dont even have the basic courtesy to tell me that they are not coming. i would've appreciated it, even though it was hours to the party, or even during the party. :s

dunman band concert, maroon 5 concert, SA band concert

2008-03-22T21:02:00.000-07:00

the dunman band concert was great!! hahahaha. the people were saying that the alumni was the best part of the concert. yay! ms chong conducted us. and i didnt get any flowers, thanks to iffah who didnt buy cos the shops are all closed! hahahahaha.

maroon 5 concert is on tuesday, wedged in between my super hectic schedule. lets see:

mon: band

tues: band and maroon 5 concert

wed: band

thurs: rest! (maths tuition i think)

fri: party

sat: band

sun: not sure whats happening (chem tuition)

mon: SA band concert!

not forgetting loads of work and tests....

next week i'll die. hopefully of bliss instead of stress.

I GOT MY CONTACTS

2008-03-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

omg. am damn happy. i finally finally got my contact lenses! they are definitely not as comfortable as i thought it would be.

the person put the contact for my right eye first to show me how it is done. then am left on my own to put on the left one. i did it in like 20 minutes, thanks to much guidance from the optics person. she is very nice btw. and then i totally impressed her off her chair by taking off BOTH of my contacts in 1 minute. she didnt even have to show me how its done. she just told me what to do. when i took it out she was giving me the 'what-the-hell-you-took-it-out-already?' look. it was damn funny. cos she was expecting me to take like 3 hours to learn how to use contacts. apparently an average beginner takes around 2 and half hours to do it. i took like 1 hour? and that includes me learning what i must do to keep my contacts properly for the night. i call it the 'contacts ritual'.

the 'contacts ritual' is like science practical in the lab. really! i must follow like dozens of steps: wash the contacts with this solution, rinse it off with another solution, then put in this solution in the bottle for minimum 6 hours and stuff like that. quite fun. science practical at home. hahahahah.

oh. and i impressed the person off her chair again when i successfully put on BOTH of my contacts under 2 and half minutes after she taught me the 'contacts ritual'. am feeling smug. :)

busy bee

2008-03-02T04:24:00.000-08:00

eating japanese food at ichiban sushi when dad was here

maroon 5 concert tix

my uniform. hui ling say its like i got attitude problem. sorry lah. it was so so so hot and my sister havent take a proper picture. i think it was 5x before she actually manage to take this.

my OG. the very rojak and international one.

omg. am so so so so busy now that we are already allocated to classes and are beginning to have "proper" lessons and lectures. common tests are in like 3 weeks' time *gasps*! and that week i am going to have my birthday and MAROON 5 CONCERT!! hahaha. yeah.
i have to catch up with school work so i have been mugging like mad. apart from that everything is fine i guess. my class, 08s15 is okay. theresa (a dunman girl!! so lucky considering there is only 4 dunmanites in SA inluding me) and an indon girl who is from my OG is in my class. oh. and am joining band as cca again. why? because the band is GOING TO PERTH for 10 days!!! and is going to have a concert at esplanade. omg. so cool right?
ya. hrmm. and yes, am going to maroon 5 concert with my sisters. yah. am so looking forward to it.
oya. for the last few days i feel like watching beauty and the beast cartoon!!! *sigh* so random.
thats all for now. am not gonna blog for sometime cos i will be very very busy. so my faithful readers (thats you mom and nad), please wait eagerly and patiently for my next post! :)

its SA

2008-02-22T05:53:00.000-08:00

*sigh* am so tired of wearing my sec school uniform that is getting smaller by the minute and waiting for appeal results that i am quite sure would be unsuccessful. thus, i decided to stay put in SA and bought the uniform today! cant wait to wear it to school. hahahaha.

hrmm. i chose a BioChemMathsEcons (called BCME, mom; and the econs is h1) subject combination. some of my friends say i should take 4 h2 instead. scared i stress; so am taking a common subject combination instead (3 h2, 1 h1).

got nothing else to talk about.

new environment, new friends, new school sigh

2008-02-20T06:47:00.000-08:00

yeps. am tired of adapting and making new friends. I MISS O8S7!! anyways.

1) heard that 5000 people put AC as their first choice

2) by yesterday 3pm, the number of people appealing to AC is 500. omg.

anyways. today's orientation not bad. just some facts:

1) a live band (most probably its hired-not a student band) played at the finale of the orientation so its like a rock concert with students swarming the stage and jumping around to music like "it's not over". its definitely unique.

2) i only have a day of orientation. i dunno whether i should be happy or sad.

3) my orientation group was the last one (OG 34). i think its because we are all foreigners though most are already PR. 4 indons (incl me), 1 indian, 3 myanmar, 2 philippines, 4 china, 1 korean, 1 japanese, a handful of malaysian and 1 singaporean (because she is a year younger than all of us-1992). we only realized that our group consists of all foreigners when we asked each other why their names are a bit funny. hahahahaha.

4) i realized (after my friend said it) that all 8 and 9 pointers (for raw score) are "stuck". we cant get into better jcs like AC or TJ, but only can get in jcs like SA and AJ; which according to my friend is 'not good enough'. there is a gap in between these jcs. according to last year's qualifications' score: AC is 7 and AJ+SA is 9 (for science). so how?? =_=

more goodbyes

2008-02-18T08:19:00.000-08:00

*sigh* yesterday was the last day of pae in MI. i will miss o8s7 people badly! :( anyways. we watched juno as a farewell thing. 20 people (incl me) went and we made up like almost half of the people watching (2 whole rows!). and in the middle of the movie cinch kept saying "oh no" when something "foreboding" is going on. others were laughing cos she was saying it. so funny. :)

i wont talk about jae. there is a wealth of information in that sentence.

here are pictures taken during the last few days in MI:

me, xun qi, cinch, vinnie

those who "ponned" mother tongue. somehow we formed the 'lesbian club' and ivan and jonathan are members too! practically everyone is a member (as long as you are in 08s7).

playing 'mafia' during maths with mr thiang! fun.

celebrating syafiqah's and shameena's birthday

during V-day. balloon from iffah, flower from cinch. picture taken with val. look who are behind us and what they are doing!

people who "ponned" bio (i think-pon so many class till i forgot)

candid picture taken by val. this is during chem. o-my. looked so studious and nerdy! eeks.

someone got a HUGE sunflower for V-day from *ehem*

valentines and its aftermath

2008-02-15T07:14:00.000-08:00

valentines this year is the greatest! firstly its because i did something different this year for my friends. secondly, though i dont get lotsa chocolates, i got a vary of gifts from fresh flowers (thanks cinch!! ><, its my favourite v-day gift!) to home-made cookies (thanks nithiya!).

anyways. today was quite fun. i ponned chem with valencia, nithiya, darshini and shameena. we had a good laugh. then during recess val and i shared a chee chong fun. we add like lots and lots of sauce and chili (still went for a second serving!). when i mean lots is like 6+ ladles of sauce and 4+ ladles of chili. its crazy i know. but i love it, and so did val. we can go a looong way val! hahahahaha.

then quite a few more joined us to pon mt. ivan, jonathan and xun qi came along. we sat at the stadium. lots of other class and people were there too! apparently cos its the second last day of school, everyone is in the holiday mood. hahahaha. then out of nowhere, we formed the "lesbian club" with xun qi as president and val as the vice. the weird thing is that jonathan and ivan are members! hahahaha.

anyways. birthday wishes to:

tania (14 feb)

shameena (15 feb)

ria (16 feb)

syafiqah (16 feb)

happy birthday guys!! :)

valentines

2008-02-13T06:48:00.000-08:00

back from chinese new year holiday. its a long story but the point is, i really enjoyed myself back there.

yes, so back to upcoming events. v-day tomorrow. this year is my most creative v-day so far. am actually making things instead of buying chocolates! hahahah. maybe because nowadays am so free.

iffah went to my house today to bake cookies. it was really really nice, no kidding! hahhaha. a few times they were compared to famous amos cookies. *grins* maybe i will get the people who ate the cookies to write their comments here in my blog so am proven correct. hahahahaah. actually, all of this is also thanks to iffah's mom cos its her recipe.

anyways, "crashed" nyjc today. campus not bad. the band actually play the national anthem every morning for flag raising! so cool!! ><

i learnt how to fold straw hearts. was actually helping this guy (iffah's classmate) to make some for v-day. picked it up quite fast. hehehe.

do hope everything goes well tomorrow. planning to surprise my sisters and friends with my v-day gifts! its actually not v-day. more of friendship day for me (and most of my friends).

going back indon

2008-02-04T04:56:00.001-08:00

today was quite a hrmm, shall we put it, an amusing day for me in school. we were supposed to have (gp gp mt mt break bio) lessons in that order. half of the class wanted to skip gp class, half wanted to skip bio class. but for the chinese students, it was quite universal that we all wanted to skip chinese.

thus it was kinda decided that we want to skip bio in the end. so the class went to gp, much to the protests of those whom wanted to skip it. we were made to do a mini debate by the topic of 'families no longer serve a purpose in society'. it was so dry and boring that it made us wished we had skipped gp. then we really skipped mt and "hide" in the library. 30 minutes or so, the chinese teacher found us "hiding". since the tamil students didnt go for their tamil class either, they were quite confused when a chinese woman entered the library and started talking to us in chinese. one tamil classmate asked "who is this?" and one chinese guy animatedly answered "dunno, some cleaner." hahahahaha. the chinese teacher was fuming at that point and made us go back to class. but in class she was back in a happy mood and still managed to say "dont skip class again!" after lessons ended. hahahaha. hrmm. we didnt skip bio as the old hag is teaching today. enough said.

anyways. my classmates, knowing that am doing back indon for chinese new year tomorrow, had asked me to buy them dvds. so, i got a whole list of dvds i need to buy. hehehe. quite cute la my class. :) cant wait to go back tomorrow!! and that means that most probably i wont be blogging till i get back to spore. well see you people then. happy chinese new year! :)

shopping (again)

2008-02-03T06:41:00.000-08:00

went to eat to celebrate my Os result with my cousins and sisters today at spageddies, paragon. food was great! this time i managed to order the 5 cheese pizza. it was as cheesy as promised. hahahahah. my cousins gave me a 'good Os results' present; the bestseller book called "marley and me". looks nice, cant wait to start reading it! :)

then went to heeren to buy the tee i saw when i was with au and joyin last monday. after that, neoprint time with my sisters! first time we took neoprint together, so it was quite fun! hahahaha.

next stop was centrepoint. tania and i bought ria her (early) birthday present in edc. on the way, i bought some archies comics and 2 bottles of body shop shower gel. it was hard not to buy anything from body shop when most of the shower gels smells so nice! hahaha.

anyways. the events of the past few days had made me realize i have quite a temper and is not worried about letting others know it! hahahaha. snapped at some people yesterday, and the day before. *sigh* i get pissed off so fast these days. i wonder whats wrong? raging hormones or high blood pressure from eating too many salty things? god knows.

waiting

2008-02-01T07:56:00.000-08:00

today is quite an uneventful day. but i watched sense and sensibility dvd last night (the one that i bought on my 'shopping spree'). it was really good. haahahaha. didnt regret buying it.

however, today is quite an eventful day for my siblings in jakarta. due to rain and thus severe road conditions and traffic jams, my siblings were stuck in the roads for 7 hours in the school bus! o-my. was beside myself with worry. thank god they are alright when they reached home but my sister said she was 'super duper hungry'. right, nadster? hahahaha. set me thinking why jakarta road conditions are so bad. for one thing, there are too many cars all at once in the roads and not so much lanes (due to the busway system).

i have been wondering why for the past few days i feel that i am waiting for something. i dont know what, but i am just waiting. there are a few things i may be waiting for.

1) go back to jakarta for chinese new year

2) for school posting

3) to go to JC

4) for my birthday (but thats not for months to come!)

but somehow, i dont think that i am waiting for any of these 4 things! *sigh* i just have to wait then. wait for something i dont even know. i do hope its something good, though.

sweeney todd and bowling

2008-01-30T18:54:00.000-08:00

today i went bowling and watched sweeney todd (m18 movie cos its terribly gory and quite violent). i cant bowl! o-my. quite frustrating, really. but i managed to improve from game to game. played 4 games in total, the highest score i managed was a mere 70. hahahahahah. but this experience further roused my interest at bowling. am now planning to join AC bowling. i heard that they are quite good!

sweeney todd is a very very very nice movie! managed to sneak in a m18 movie. yay. hahahaha. quite an achievement for me. anyways. johnny depp is brilliant! he is really a very good actor. he totally immersed himself in his roles! he definitely deserve the Golden Globe best actor award (he won for his role in this movie btw). i do hope he won the Oscars for best actor award. i recommend sweeney todd for those who loves gory and violent movies. but for those weak hearted and especially my dear siblings (except ria), dont watch it! its m18 for a reason, the way johny depp killed his victims is like super gross. slitting of throats, blood spurting out... but overall, am giving the movie a 5 out of 5! i love the songs! :) [for your info, sweeney todd is based from a musical, so yes, johnny depp would be singing. he is damn good. :) ]

actually, today started to be a depressing day for me. went to NUS' medicine faculty website. i saw the requirements to enroll in. o-my. i was so depressed. the requirements is (unsurprisingly) very2 high. furthermore only 250 people are accepted in each year! *sigh* i have to work damn hard for A level. wish me luck people. am going to be a mugger very soon. here is the webbie, check it out and see why am going to kill myself because of too much stress: http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/corporate/app-mbbsadmissionfaq.html

pictures!

2008-01-30T06:03:00.000-08:00

prata lunch

l1r5 of 10 and under. xin yi: 10, me: 8

val, cinch, me

during lunch @ MI canteen

playing "what? huh?" game when the maths relief teacher didnt come

playing "wild wild west". i won third place! yay.

valencia and i exchanged uniforms!

me in TKGS uniform

my table in sakae @ wheelock

xin yi and i. look at the plates! and thats NOT all! hahaha.

thanks to us, the sushi conveyor belt was totally empty for a few minutes! hahaha

just got these pictures from valencia! thanks! : ) and cinch wants me to mention her name here. hahaha. you re mentioned, cinch, thrice! : P

shop till i drop!

2008-01-30T05:14:00.000-08:00

omg. today i shopped, a lot! like i dont know what came over me but i suddenly wanted lotsa things! for starters, i bought 2 pairs of charles and keith sandals. then i saw this dvd i had wanted so badly ever since like, err, 3 weeks ago. since there are only 2 copies left, i bought it. then then i passed by a bookshop, went in to 'see see' and end up buying 2 books. am like so broke please! furthermore, recently people has been inviting me (i must pay lah, duh!) for lunch here and there around singapore (really!). hahaha. am getting fatter, and am getting more broke everyday! someone help me please! i've never been so socially busy in my life. am going out literally everyday with different groups of people (chc, dunman, mi, band...) sometimes i come back home so exhausted that i cant do anything much.

prata!

2008-01-29T00:52:00.000-08:00

went out for a prata lunch with like 11 08s7 people today. xun qi, xin yi and teng teng (basically the st. margaret's gang) insisted that the prata was very nice. someone (i think it was xin yi) said that it was "in par" (quoted) with the prata house in upper thompson road. but after one mouthful, to my amusement, teng teng exclaimed "that they (referring to the prata 'shop') had drop their standard" (quoted too!). the verdict: i dont agree with xin yi! the prata house is much3 nicer. i guess the curry is as nice, and the ice milo was yumm! hahahaha. but the prata was.. well.. not as nice as the prata house. so.. i still have to go to upper thompson road to satisfy my recent craving for prata! hahahaha. anyone wants to go with me?
quite a few number of people are going to withdraw / had withdrawn from MI. it was to the extent until (this morning) i overheard a teacher in the general office asking for 20 withdrawal forms "just in case!" hahahaha. and one class was rumored to have withdrawn together. cool! hahahaha. i also want to withdraw!! i am too lazy to go to bukit batok every morning only to play / get bored / not pay attention in class. maybe just go to see friends? but, being the laziest person on earth, sometimes i feel its not even worth it! hahahahaha. sorry 08s7! ><
mr thiang (maths) was being super cool today. valencia bravely asked for a free period and he granted it. so, we spent the time designing our very own class tee! (copyright of 08s7 k) hahahaha. cool lah.
08s7 rawks man! hahahaahah.
i am a self-confessed blog noob. i dont know how to do anything properly, except posting posts. well, that is not even counted. if anyone had noticed, every post seems different in terms of font style and size. i get so jealous when i see other people's blog! S-O-S!!!!!! those who are very2 kind and would like to render your assistance to a noob like me, please tell me via my tagboard! THANKS! :) hahahaha. (omg. am such a noob!)

furious

2008-01-28T03:59:00.000-08:00

o-my! am so furious today! today is a bad day, with the exception of my lunch with au and joyin.

firstly, the whole day today my atm card was not with me! the insecure feelings aside, i have to borrow money. and i cant get a tee i liked and i have to say bye2 (for now) to a very nice charles and keith sandals! and it is NOT my fault the atm card was not with me! someone borrowed it and didnt return it.

secondly, a stoopid mgazine wrote that keira knightley is super thin and blamed her. *snorts* i agree that she is thin but please, she is thin because she is naturally thin. the funny thing is that mags commented on her flat chest but if she go for enhancements, these mags would also start criticizing her. so what can she do? everything is wrong!

thirdly. *sighs* i cant write about this because i vowed to myself that i wont use the blog as a mode to talk bad things about people. but one thing for sure, i like people with good manners. when you 'lend' people things, even though that thing is not yours, and you dont have the owner's permission, that is NOT good manners! for the first time in my life i told someone off so severely. i was so bloody angry. maybe in the future i would regret doing it. maybe.

anyways. today's lunch was great! ate at spageddies (spelling?) pasta and tiramisu was so nice! maybe i should eat there for my Os result celebration with my sisters and cousins. hrmm. i learnt quite a few things today. there is a difference between far east plaza and far east shopping centre. and a fortune centre! didnt know it existed! hahahaha. and au introduced me to a shop in heeren. the printed tees are so nice and affordable! i want to go back there! i fell in love with some tees already! i HAVE to go back there! thanks au for the good 'jie sao-ing'! heheheh.

tommorow. o-my. school=2 periods of bio with the old hag. i'd rather kill myself anytime! but comparing that to seeing 08s7 people, hrmm. maybe its worth trudging trough bio. maybe. hopefully.

oya. i said i wanted to explain why tomorrow i wouldnt want to miss school for the world. its because tomorrow is the day i will meet MI people after results. so tomorrow the whole day people will be asking how much i got for my Os. and having quite a good R5 gives you a chance to brag once in a while. dont get me wrong, i am NOT a snob. but sometimes, being proud of oneself is not wrong. and this is one of the only times i would allow myself to be proud of what i am and what i have. this is because i have worked hard for it! and i want to prove that with Him, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! :)

going out

2008-01-27T18:34:00.000-08:00

my social agenda has been quite full lately. people have to "book" me first way beforehand. its quite amusing really when i hear someone say "thank god i booked you first" when he heard me turned down another person's lunch invitation. hahahaha. maybe its because now people are going their separate ways. the way some of my secondary school friends speak its as if we are never to meet each other again. is it possible to never cross paths again in the future?

a lot of people had tried to persuade me to go tjc instead of acjc to maximize my R5. it is true that it is way closer to my house and that it is one of the top 5 jcs in singapore. but... i've set my heart after acjc for quite sometime now. and a plus point is that its a christian school (hahaha). ya lorr. its ac for me. and people (you know who you are!) dont try to persuade me otherwise!

i saw in the newspapers yesterday that atonement (its a movie-for those who are super-blur!) received 7 oscar nominations. went to the website to see if i can vote, but it doesnt look like i can. do any of you know how to?? btw, the website is www.oscar.com. go and see what atonement achieved! :)

nadia sent me an email with 2 pictures of keira knightley's coco chanel advertisement. thanks nadster! but the one i really want is her with the classical bowler hat. o-my. i would love to get my hands on one of those!

anyways. going out with au and joyin later. its supposedly a farewell thing for au from joyin and i. he is going off to states tomorrow morning but i dont want to miss school ; especially tomorrow! (there is a reason behind it okays-i'll explain in the next post)

ecstatic

2008-01-26T17:42:00.000-08:00

oh my. the last few days had been hectic ones. results out on thursday, the 24th of jan. i cant believe my eyes when i saw the result slip! i was like "did the teacher gave me the correct result slip?!" the first thing i did was to call my mom! she was damn happy (she expects me to get an R5 of 18!)... hahahhaha. my result allows me to go to acjc. hhehehehe. i believe am the luckiest girl alive! anyways, i dont think its luck or my brain that give me these results. its because of His grace and His grace alone. as Pst Kong always say "shine for the Lord!" :)
my greatest fear is to have MOE call me and say "sorry. we gave you the wrong results." omg. i wouldnt be able to face people again after that.
ria always say that she cant seem to remember me studying for my Os. the weird thing is that me too! hahaha. i can only recall myself doing amaths, emaths and bio TYS and for these three subjects i get the worst results. i mean i do expect my combined humanities and combined science to get quite good results. but the "shocking" results is for english and especially lit!! *sigh* i am so happy now.
last, i wanna say thanks to ben! he helped me "make perfect" my blog so that its up to my so-perfectionist standard. hahahha.

pigging out

2008-01-22T18:49:00.000-08:00

went to sakae yesterday with 13 other people of 08s7. we had a hard time trying to settle ourselves down in 2 tables. its like 'no, you should be there' and 'no, come here and sit'. it comes to a point where the waitress laughed at us. hahaha.

i think my stomach grows bigger (if thats even possible) every time i eat sakae buffet. the last time i went i could only eat 8 plates. yesterday, i ate 11 and a half plates + ice cream. the people in my table, though only 6 girls and 1 guy, eats a LOT! hahaha. too bad valencia's internet is down and she cant send me the picture. i would post it here as soon as she sends me the picture cos she was the one who brought camera. smart girl. hahahaha.

well. tomorrow is results day...

everything and anything

2008-01-21T00:18:00.000-08:00

went cycling and jogging on sat evening. jogged for like a few minutes, gave up, and walk the rest of the way to east coast. hahahaha. cycled all the way to changi that side, well, basically till i find the seat growing uncomfortable by the mili-seconds. hahaha.
i paid the price on sunday and today. my leg hurts. and i feel so damn tired. *sigh*
heard from friends supposedly official O level results coming out on this thurs. have no idea there is an unofficial results day. hahaha! anyways. it seems that am not the only one who is having nightmares about results. i dont even want to think about the kind of dream i will get on wed night! *shudder*
oya. this morning the mrt breakdown! can you believe it? hahaha. was supposed to have breakfast with joyin at macs, but she called telling me she cant board the train. if am not wrong, she is stuck in the shuttle bus pasir ris-tanah merah for like 45 mins? though wasnt directly affected, by the time the train reach my station, its like fully packed to the max! but made it in time to school. not a good start of the day.
well. have to look for pictures to make my biology project look better. hahaha.

*grins*