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SHIFTED

2009-11-28T20:51:00.001+08:00

shifted to xanga! hehehs :)

some posts r protected, so ask if you're a fren!

literature fear of dropping

2009-08-08T23:03:00.004+08:00

As a lit student, I am going to stop using these words in my writing: (He is) sad, happy, angry. Instead, words like elated, jubilant, exultant, exhilarated, bereaved, sorrow, grief, melancholy, irascible, indignant, incensed, outraged, livid and more are going to flood my wordbank. It is high time to improve my vocabulary. I fear that I may have to drop from H2 lit to H1 if I can't do well by promos. My analysis is just so shallow everytime i write in essays under exam conditions. :X Going to consult Ms Chen next week! I've re-written a paragraph for her to mark already! I am determined to improve.

As a good projectwork member, thou shall continue doing my written report, chapter 4: evaluation of entire project, instead of blogging. no one probably reads it anyway but i blog as and when i feel like it.

(I am going to watch NDP live tmr! going with my cousin and phoebe and priscilla :) haha and i went last year too lol im so blessed heheh!)

funny sch moments!

2009-07-16T19:20:00.002+08:00

During CSE lesson today, Mr Ng told us to all get an account on twitter and start twitting about China! He then spent some time twitting for us to see how it works, posting twits like " We are in History Room having CSE lessons". LOL it is quite interesting

Mr Seng (our other CSE teacher says disapprovingly): I thought Twitter is for Twits?

... Then as the lesson progresses, we have to do group work to answer "Reasons for China's economic development".

Mr Seng poses on Twitter: "04/09 and 33/09 REMEMBER TO BRING LECTURE NOTES AND TUTOIRAL FILES ON FRIDAY. STAY BACK AFTER CSE SEMINAR FOR CHECKING!"
And another one: "What are the reasons for China's economic development?"

Then he says: I like Twitter

Me: I thought u said Twitter is for twits??
ROFL! ;P Everyone just burst out laughing la hahah

Mr Seng: (says something like this in defence of himself) Well, I have to use twitter to connect with twits like u all (whateva, u're suan-ing us BUT u got urself stuck!!) lol

1 way

2009-07-10T17:35:00.009+08:00

so many things happened since the last time i blogged. the most important event that happened is that I got water baptised in church on Sunday, 5th July 2009! I Must remember this day because it did not come easy. Cos I was expecting opposition from my 2 aunties, who are against me getting baptised cos they aren't Christians and they are afraid that my uncle will get really angry and make life difficult for me if he finds out. My aunty threatened to tell him, and in fact she did say it once but he didn't hear it. So. And on that sunday, my uncle had to go out all the way to woodlands to do his dentures which cracked ?! So it was very peaceful, not like the warzone my cousin and I were expecting. She came with me, and Amanda & Kai Ying (Thanks for coming, I hope it gave u encouragement in your christian walk), Jane (we finally met up!), Jane's fren Jojo, and more significantly, my brother, his wife Joicelyn and child Jessica came to witness this joyous occasion! Significant because this was the first time my bro stepped into a church! Ok, so when people say they get water baptised, they confess that they believe Jesus is their Saviour and that he died for to pay for our sins and more importantly, ROSE up to heaven. The rise is important because that's how we know that our God is real, he isn't make-believe?!! So during water baptism, when we go down in water, it symbolises like dying to our old sinful self and when we rise up, it means like we are living an a new life in Christ in righteousness. "For God so loved the world that He gave up his one and only son that whoever believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" John 3:16! This is the 1st bible verse I memorised which encapsulates what Christians believe in and the unconditional love that God has! Yay praise the Lord!! I just feel so happy and peaceful after getting water baptised. And now, 5 days on, school has resumed and life is getting busy. But, I still feel the peace of God and make an effort to do quiet time every day.

See that? It says Jesus loves you!

Heh results. Maths 29/78 corresponds to a U grade. BAD. I confess to have no interest in math, the only relevance i can see in my life is +-x/%, that's all. But, it is the easiest subject to ace and I must ace it for promos so I have to work hard, like Chew is, and get that A for PROMO! 2nd paper I got back was Chinese, A, and I hope to maintain it for the A levels at the end of this year! the A Level LC and Oral is coming up this month, on the 20th n 23rd July. 跟我讲华语！I hardly have chances to speak it. I just got back CSE, and suffice to say, I passed, 30/50. Definitely room for improvement but I'm no doubt encouraged by the comment that Mr Ng wrote, "Not bad. got potential" Yea man! For the rest of us, does it serve as a wake up call? I always believed in what my secondary school chinese teacher said, 一份耕耘一份收获; it requires continuous effort to get good grades, I think last minute revision is less than ideal (look at my math :( , so c'mon everyone work hard! :D I'm very optimistic, I believe if we work hard, the results will show. We still have 3 months before promos.
Last but not least, GUITAR! We can't perform for Leo Club's investiture cos practice is suspended! Hais this one we can't do much, except volunteer to be their ushers instead!?! lol. h1n1 getting in the way. So far we haven't had any meeting yet, but soon I hope. I'm very excited! hahaha

recap june hol '09

2009-06-20T21:30:00.005+08:00

UGH. worst news of the holiday. guides camp is cancelled cos someone fr chung cheng has h1n1. BAH i feel so sad for the sec.3s!!
urgh. *sigh*this feeling of exasperation. yet we cannot do anything. Safety is the most important, no matter what.

STUDY HARD GIRL. 8 days left.

self-discipline. u have it. GO!

strum pluck rock

together,

tj guitar own

is my writing very fragmented? but these are the things running through my mind as i type. OFFTOSTUDY.bye

tag replies:
hello kai ying, c u soooon! if we dont haf 1 week extended hol, that is !
hello y&J :) im still abit sad. o well. nvm

second last day of school

2009-05-28T21:35:00.004+08:00

Guitar practice was really enjoyable today!

Concert is coming up this saturday! I'm so excited :DD

I'll make sure that zx and jasmie and the whole gang must come next year!haha

tomorrow's the last day of school, then its the holidays! Got many things going on wor

Maths & Econs make up lessons

Stayover at Phoebe and Priscilla's house (both their parents are not around! I'm supposed to go and help look after them. Aunty Ruffina will be so TIRED if she have to handle them and theodore alone!)

Guitar camp

Guides one day activity

Guides Camp

STUDY FOR JCTs!

at the end of the day, remember to give thanks to God

phoebe, theodore and priscilla

2009-05-18T21:02:00.003+08:00

phoebe, theodore and priscilla

Love them so much

haha i was on the phone with priscilla just now, and she said "just now i went to the ..(mumbling).. garden. ..(more undecipherable mumbling which i can't elicit even though i listen very hard).. ate ice cream. chocolate flavour!" See the way kids think!Hah. They went to the botanic garden on sunday. and then i talked to her somemore and she said "just now theodore sleep in my room. and mummy say keep quiet." I asked why? "mummy is angry" Why? "cos i spoil the car.. toy car broken" AIYO they are so innocent la!

Phoebe, who's close to five, even went to watch a play! I watched my first play when I was in sec. 2! See how blessed they are!

KK better go back and do my work. PW gpp, maths (seriously need to buck up! i'ml gonna fail JCT at this rate im going. ) CSE (learnt my mistake and READ UP on tmr's presentation while i was preparing my essay).

my church is doing street witnessing this saturday! Looking forward to it! It's always a joy to share the wonderful gift of salvation. ;D

god is great

2009-05-12T20:54:00.003+08:00

Finally back after a hiatus! ;D

whhhhoooosssssshhhhhh. CSE IS VERY DIFFICULT LEH. Today Mr Seng walked out during tutorial. Cos we didn't have any comments/queations to ask about e presentation. Which is because we didn't do any reading up before coming to class.

Hmm sufficed to say I haven't fully adapted to this system. I'm still stuck in secondary school learning mindsets, i.e. expecting teachers to spoonfeed answers. Which doesn't apply here! WAKE UP!

Boring school days are instantly perked up when amanda and baba quarrel (it's great entertainment value!), or when zhi qi gets agitated and talks really quickly and "debate" baba and also when ...... *smiles*

I can't help but be the most serious among all u guys. I don't know why I becom

e so serious also. Always fretting. Laugh more please. Laugh and be merry. Don't have any worry! But I can't. The serious, mature, responsible (woahh) side of me has overtaken the carefree, lalala kind of me. JANE! I know you can make me lighten up!

PLEASE I want to go China! Please God don't let the CSE trip be cancelled! Even though practically all my cse mates are deciding not to go. Still. I've never been there before!

i like to end with photos of my beloved nieces priscilla (left) and phoebe. They represent joy, innocence (sounds so lit) and the precious things in life I am fortunate enough to have.

good friday

2009-04-10T20:54:00.003+08:00

notes made while listening to stuart, jill & pete briscoe's short sermon today, thought i'll post them here. :) enjoy.

"When you're dead, you're finished. That's it." Do you believe this? This is an assumption.
There is no conclusive evidence to say that when you're finished when you're dead.

Death is not final, there is life after death. This is not an assumption. This is a truth, it has been proven. HOW? Through the death, and then the resurrection (rise) of Jesus Christ. He has more authority than death.

Jesus makes a majestic claim, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

Jesus makes a majestic challenge:
"Do you believe this?
(John 11:25-26)

There is a life to be lived for us and we can live it either in Christ or outside of Christ.

slaaaaa

2009-04-09T19:27:00.004+08:00

~~5day study week~~ 4day study week Hurray!! But as a Christian, tomorrow should be more than just a public holiday. It's ~~Easter~~(I was so blur!)Good Friday. Hmm being a very new Christian, I actually don't know much about this but I do know there's a last supper Jesus had before he was crucified with his 12 disciples and Sunday celebrates his rise to Heaven and this proves that our God is a real and powerful God!

School work
CSE: struggling
Maths: understand but never practise
Lit: slowly, slowly getting it.
Econs: Heheh this's my best subject so far! I think I've "inherited" the strong interest and aptitude for econs from my cousin, who studied Econs in uni. and told me what is diminishing marginal utility even before I came to JC. lol
Got back our practice essay today and I did well! So, i kinda rewarded myself and bought 8 days (got joshua ang on e cover!) and munchy donuts for everyone! I deserve some treats man! the long hours at jc really drain me out sometimes

:D

back to chung cheng

2009-03-25T20:59:00.003+08:00

the previous post is soo negative i can't stand seeing it anymore!

Anyway, today I'm very happy cos a bunch of us went back to chung cheng and heheh luckily we were not blocked by the security guard anymore. Saw mrs tan, our chem teacher and talked to her. She said i looked thinner ??? Is my cheeks not so "meaty" anymore? LOL ! then we went to find mdm tan, our math teacher and she chased us away so fast! And she forget our names liao. ouch. we're the only class u taught last year u knw (except for another class but another teacher took ovr)

then collected my graduation cert. looks pretty good. and some people have the unfair advantage of getting our previous form teacher mr lee to edit for them!!! And every line in his testimonial is so powerful, not to mention long.

then me, kathy, ernest, zi hou & zhi xiong [ so long haven't see u !!!] talked at the bench nxt to the volleyball court. and we took picturesss!! ~~Kathy please faster upload k !~~ yay thanks kathy !! got pics already

hahahs chung cheng is a very beautiful place u know? (nod ur head!)

LOL my suggestion to hug the tree!! and the i hugged a lamp post. ahh ernest was so reluctant to pose HAHAhahas!

So today i'm very happy. :D
ya that's it.

and pandora and amanda introduced me to xiaxue's guide to life videos. some parts are really hilarous! But..i dont like vulgarities.k nvm. and wow her guide to putting on eye make up is soo complicated, compared to someone who on at most put lip gloss when she goes out. n then after many steps of applying this and that u will get black, smoky eyes which will perk up ur face and make u look more mysterious, n not so bland. wow. no wonder women take 1 hour to get ready to go out.

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2009-03-16T13:48:00.000+08:00

i hate the violence. stop it. stop fighting.

tag replies

2009-03-16T12:49:00.003+08:00

ONE WEEK BREAK! YAY :D

tag replies:
zhixiong: so cool rite my sku got rock band! eh i want to meet up tis week!
waikhee: HII! tj is nice haha :D i can't go back on fridays anymore cos got guitar practice.. :(
renee: HII!! yea i was just trying the rock band for fun, i am the worst among all who auditioned la LOL xD the rest all got exp loh! how's life at ny? =D

2009-03-11T20:36:00.003+08:00

Aiyoyo I signed up for rock band without knowing what i got myself into!! Rock band is part of the guitar club, and they asked who is interested to play in it - there's drums, keyboard, guitar and vocals. and i signed up for drums cos i thought it'll be fun!!!! BUT, today was the audition, and i didn't even know. Was i too naive to think that they would actually teach us how to play? Why was i so innocent to think that anybody who doesn't know how to play the drums and yet would still want to try for it?? The closest experience i had to playing drums was for a short period of 2 years in concert band during ......(I'm very reluctant to say this)................primary school. LOL And i didn't even play the drums, i played the tom-toms haha bet u dunno what is it. AIYOAIYO i made such a fool out of myself!!!! hahaha

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Yay there's a new baby in the house! My auntie is helping to take care of Ethan, her 6 mth old grandson. K I took alot of pics of him cos he's so cute! He's very bah-bah and he really likes to stand, and is very strong and muscular hahs

Ethan's sister, Chloe. but they're migrating to macau in april ...

school.

2009-03-08T10:45:00.002+08:00

1.CSE is so difficult!!!!!!
2. Yay I'm in guitar club, haha the song we're learning now is very cute haha dont say first cos we're playing for concert, if not there'll be no surprise lol sheesh i'm so lame.
3. Phoebe and Priscilla are not coming over today :X sundays r so ...
4. I miss my chung cheng frens !! hmmmmmm *missing them now*
5. I haven't done my homework .

2009-02-25T17:58:00.001+08:00

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.

Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.

haha my uncle saw a rainbow and he pointed it out to me ! it rained just now. I haven't seen one for ages! and lol my uncle took out his video cam and recorded it haha! and the rainbow was very wide so I could only capture it in 2 pics. :D

2009-02-22T19:44:00.002+08:00

It's sadSADSAD! :(

I don't feel so good now.

the optimism is still in me.
use it to get through another day.

1st week of proper school

2009-02-20T19:22:00.006+08:00

1st week of proper school!
So.. timetables end at 4 or later everyday. But everything else is still quite okay. Of course need to prepare for lessons and all.

But I'm so glad I can get along well with my cg mates haha and everything's really good so far. oo and we took a class photo today, dunno when Grace will post it on the class blog.

Aiyo I hope I get in guitar club~ Just now I went for practice and I got (part of) the SYF score! We're supposed to audition before we can join the SYF team. And the score is .... overwhelming? Yup.. and I will try to learn as much as I can before the audition on Wed. At least I know one of the guitar seniors so can ask her !

Listen to the SYF score la must play very fast leh :O

Dunno what are my chances of getting in but I'll just try my best :D Learning to play this song is like my most important thing to do now lol.

tjc

2009-02-13T20:57:00.004+08:00

Wahh everyday come back home so tired laa. Main event today was the Road Run and I helped out as student official which is (yay) my first record in the student portfolio which we're eagerly attempting to fill up by the end of 2 years in temasek. Hah my job was easy, just help out during the prize presentation after the run. We also helped to carry the 2 tables of trophies and medals frm the pe teachers' (not sure) room onto the track before the run. Even the principal and vp run u know! very on rite!! Anyway yah then i made this fren called Charmaine who's also from Guides and ahh she's also from Ixora patrol! She's the second person I know who's from Guides, and not just that but also in the same patrol as me!!!! The other one's Zhi Qi, in my civics grp (cg). Anyway Charmaine is from tkss so I asked her alot of questions abt guides in her school and I must say, it's quite different. Especially in areas like the kind of relationship the leaders have with the juniors, in tk it's very sisterly-friendly-bonding kind, whereas cch guides used to, i stress used to have a greater -but certainly not less fun - divide between leaders and juniors. Now I think we're moving towards the tk kind of relationships. yah . I want to go back next friday! Y&J, r u reading this??? lol

I'm in cg 33/09, which is the last cg but everyone is a pure arts student!!! Yeah! I finally found some 志同道合的朋友 who like humanities!! And haha I made more frens and today we went to the library to enjoy the aircon and chit chat for like close to 2 hours. The library in tj is super big compared to chung cheng's! There's 2 levels and the windows stretch from floor to ceiling and if I'm not wrong, theres a semi-circle shape in the middle and i think the library is simply very nice loh! O and our CSE teacher made everyone pair up to find books related to Confucianism and the cultural landscape of China and I think we're all really scared of the undesirably Horrible consequences if we don't find some books hah !!

I'm inside Alpha woohoo. At first I wasn't really enthu about it cos I wanted to stay in Gamma and I think Alpha's house tee shirt is not nice! The colour combination looks .... dark green with dark blue on one side. But yah we have to pledge our allegience to Alpha for the next 2 years!

And o yes I had lunch with my og today and me and xiaohui wrote sth that is so outrageously atrocious and funny and gross to someone !!! Heheh I laughed so much until I was full and couldn't even finish my fish and chips, even though usually I don't waste food.

I still don't feel very much like a tjcian, it's like things seem to happen and time seems to past. I need to find my footing. I'm joining guitar club!!! please let me be inside SYF!! But I know the pieces are extremely difficult!!! Grr practise every night and day.

sbjt combinations.

2009-02-10T19:27:00.008+08:00

yeah! Group photo of og3

this is my subject combination
4H2s: English Literature + Economics + China Studies in English (CSE) + Maths
+ Chinese + PW + GP
= 7 subjects.
Pure Arts student. yeah :)

For CSE, we have an opportunity to go to China! This is I guess one of the perks of taking this relatively unknown and difficult subject. D: We have an independent study to do in JC2! Need to write a 2500 word essay !?

OOOO ya last fri the last day of orientation was super high la!!! There was performances from each clan and talentime. Towards the end it became like a concert cos there was a band (all 3 ppl playing guitar) playing on stage and the ppl were all up on their feet, forming a long long train and running arnd the hall.. the mood was super high! But now sadly, lectures has begun and it is nowhere as exciting as orientation. D:

~HAPPY! :D

tjc orientation

2009-02-07T11:34:00.004+08:00

YAY TJC Orientation was a blast!!!
I had so much fun ! :DD

the ppl r all so high n enthu woohoo
love all the cheering. i'm inside verelda

I will rmb OG3, all the OGLs and the new frens I made :)
ogls: zheng xian, kelmen, stef, si hui, tan yin, kenneth, mu ye, kevin, heeqmah.
all the CCH ppl in my OG: xiao hui, hui rong, wen hui, xiao lin, qiao hao, plus the new frens i made: li bing, kor woong, diane, geraldine, brianca, shaza, amelia, angeline, alvina, lavina, rui shan, shenise, krystal, kimberly, jin ying, andrew, eng jun +++.

tjc hot anot?
HOT SIA

JC + handphone

2009-01-31T21:50:00.006+08:00

ah so many things happened !

posted to tjc.
initially disappointed. now I know my standings.
i think most ppl (who want to) have appealed already but I've not! SLOW .

I will definitely try to appeal to vjc. njc? i couldn't see any appeal form on their website but Jane told me I should go to their school directly.

so monday is gonna be a busy day! I'm quite excited actually. :D TJC's orientation activities sounds fun! I wanna try out for the humanities prog!! But there's no mention of it anywhere in the itinery (cos they have slots for students to look for subject coordinators for prog such as CSC/CSE [chinese studies in eng?], etc.) . And the JAE book says we should have applied in October!? I didn't know..

Not to mention, I finally got a hp!!! I'm using prepaid card so gotta control my smses. hm I don't foresee many ppl smsing me though.

A new beginning is dawning!

If all that appealing is unsuccessful and I'm still in TJC, I'll know that temasak will be the best place for me to go; it is the Jc that God wants me to go. Yeah!

The first month of January is coming to an end. So fast. O level results, reunion dinner, CNY house visiting, taking care of Chloe and Ethan, eating a Double western beef burger at carls junior (can u believe I took half an hour to finish that burger? It's huge by my standards!), posting results & getting a hp. All gone in a flash. I wonder what else will come my way this year. Get baptised in church? hmm..

no title

2009-01-29T21:56:00.004+08:00

Uhh.. I am getting tired of taking care of babies... :X drain all my energy

Spend the 1st 2 days of CNY visiting relatives' houses, then stay at my cousin's house to help her take care of her 2 children, one 4 mth old Ethan and a 2 year old Chloe.

brrr .. gna watch some tv now! u know, the HK drama series showing on channel u @ 10pm ? uh huh .

SCHOOL IS STARTING SOON!

mini episodes

2009-01-18T11:24:00.005+08:00

wow My cousin and I completed a mission impossible yesterday! I want to thank God for giving the sheer strength and will to do it. We were doing CNY grocery shopping at NTUC in marine parade. We bought so many things, from 6 boxes of pineapple tarts (my favourite CNY delicacy!), to 15 bottles of 1.5l drinks - Coke, Pokka green tea, root beer, orange, etc., in addition to all the food for steamboat - 3 packs of beef sukiyaki (replacement for shabu shabu, which has more fat), and 5 cans of those pacific clams and mushrooms (haha we're not very crazy over abalone), etc. All in all, we bought so many things that it filled up 2 trolleys!
Then, we waited for a taxi outside NTUC. A taxi that never came. We prayed and waited. how what to do ??? (my cousin would neva want to on-call) Then she said it's impossible for us to carry everything. But, miraculously, after we stuffed some food into our bags, and condensed the no. of plastic bags, we managed to heave all the plastic bags onto our 2 pairs of hands. AND, walk the entire way, no not home, even though we stay relatively near, to the main road where the bus stop was. From thr, we caught a taxi and went back. Pro or not!?
Actually, my main point is, when u ask God to help u solve some issue, He may not show u the answer directly, but you can be assured that he will give u the strength to do what He wants u to do. Sounds very no link? hahas when we prayed to God for help we expected it to be answered in the way we want it to, but that may not necessarily be God's way of answering us. So, even though we didn't catch a taxi outside NTUC, we still got a taxi after accomplishing what we thought we could never do! Challenge urself!

Then before this I went to church and the praise and worship song is especially .. nice.. and it keeps replaying in my head .. "strength will rise as we wait upon the lord we will upon the lord we will wait upon the lord". And now I've become very thankful to God for my O level results, haha abit lag. Cos sometimes I can get conceited and think that all this is from our own hard work, like I did it myself. But I realise that it is by God's grace to me that I can get 7 pts, when so many things could go wrong.

hm gtg now. i seem to have many things to say today~

collage

2009-01-14T23:11:00.006+08:00

I'm very excited right now cos I just created something new!!
ta-dah!

It's a collage of all my little nieces and nephews!! :D
K let me introduce. From the bottom left, it's Chloe and I think she's singing to her little brother Ethan, who's only 3 months old. Moving on to the right is Phoebe enjoying herself thoroughly at Big Splash, and on her right is a cheerful looking Chloe! hehe Above her is 6 month old Theodore, Phoebe's little brother. On the top right is Stanley posing with a Burger King crown. Next to his photo is the 2 sisters, Phoebe and Priscilla, who're the eldest among this whole gang. And that's Ethan smiling for the camera at the top left corner. Directly below him is Jessica, my brother's first daughter. Right smack in the middle is 5 of them posing for a photo together, save for Stanley, who refused to join them for I-dunno-what reason.

Haha making a collage is so much fun! Although I think I'm starting to feel the back of my neck hurting from staring at the computer for so long. From selecting the photos to arranging and editing them, it takes up a surprisingly long time! After I saved this collage, then I realised Picasa (the programme which I use) has the mosaic option (and a few others) to arrange the photos nicely into place automatically. :X But of course my arrangement is much better! hehes!

Besides this, I'm contented with my results which we all received on monday. I already put VJC as my first choice, hopefully by God's grace I can get there. Yup, for now there's not much for u to do except wait and spend more time with ur frens (lucky u) before u part. Best of course is we don't part, but just take it that we're starting on a new slate in a new chapter of our lives. Gosh my neck really hurts.

first post of 2009

2009-01-11T16:45:00.004+08:00

Spent the better part of my afternoon cooking away in the kitchen, helping my cousin fix lunch. This is one of the fruits of my labour: 3 tier agar agar with vanilla flavouring. And this time, it's successful! Hence I'm posting this photo up. This makes me feel like I'm accomplished something during this long break! The first time I tried it, I poured the second layer before the first layer set, and my uncle said it tasted as hard as a rock and was not sweet at all. Even I didn't like it. Heheh I'm very happy with what I've done this time round though! But when I do it the next time, I'll add more sugar and remember to add coconut on top, which is a tradition whenever my uncle's family held celebrations in the past.

Results will be released tomorrow. I'm very excited!! Initially I was quite apprehensive but my 二姑 said "there's no need to worry, 要顺其自然, 又不是怕我会不及格"。 Yah sometimes we all need to have some confidence in ourselves. I will accept with thanks whatever results God wants to give me. Afterall, the bible says that He knows what we need even before we ask, so if it is in His plan for me to go VJC (which I hope to go), then I believe I will score the necessary points to get in. If not, I'm sure the alternative plan He has is just as perfect.

Just feel like putting a photo up. I think this one's nice. Taken in vietnam while we were on the bus travelling from one place to another, this is like one of the many uninhabited and nameless hills that you will see as you travel from the outskirts of one city to the villages to the next city.

Lookback

2008-12-31T20:55:00.021+08:00

Phoebe and Priscilla came over for a surprise 1 day stay and I spent my day with them. Here are some photos to round off a pleasant 2008.

On the left is Phoebe, and on the right is her own drawing of herself.
(Yes there's an upside down A Xiang for those of u who know, proudly drawn by Jane, my partner in class!)

This is Stanley, taken on his last day in Singapore, wearing the Burger King crown.

Picture of sec.4 guides during the June camp '08, where we had our passing out parade (POP).

Amelia took over me and Jacquelyn took over Hui Yan to become the current Drilling Mistress. I think Amelia looks very cute lol!

Picture of school with a view of the lake. I think our school is actually very beautiful, but I realised it abit too late.

Both pictures are the view taken from my house! I think the photos are not bad, considering that I am using a 2 megapixel lao pok kok camera hehes.

Some important dates in 2008 for me!
5th Jan I accepted Christ!!
29th Mar I got my first Bible lol! My cousin gave it to me
28th May I joined to church of singapore, attending the youth ministry ~
25th Aug turned 16.
Oct-Now battled o levels
8th Dec Went to Vietnam for holiday

One thing that made me sad though is that I don't have green fingers at all !!! Yi Jie gave me a cactus and after a few months, the cactus actually died !!!!! It just bended over .. and lost turgidity????? Grace said it was because i over-watered the plant. hmm once or twice a week also cannot arh .. hais . Here's another photo in fond memory of my catcus plant (lol!)

Guides EOY camp 2008

2008-12-30T18:55:00.006+08:00

Blogskin I just changed my blogskin and I like it alot !!! It's very colourful, which is what I like.

Guides camp Even though I couldn't stay for the whole camp, I went to school today for a 1 day visit. Wai Khee, Yi Jie, Aloy & Swan Ser were already there. Even though I didn't see the Guides alot of times, but it was enough to make me feel sad.
(Let me reminisce about camps we attended as juniors in sec. 1 & 2)
In short, this is what we do:
we shout Guides are noisy! REALLY! During PT, the ma'ams asked us to shout real loud to wake up ppl from other CCAs. haha we mean no harm though! Another time we jogged out of school into the canal, then stopped to do sit-ups along the side. They told us to shout till we can hear echo, and the amazing thing is, we really heard echos. The nearest flats are opposite the canal u know!
we run During all the station games and in whatever tasks we do, we run practically throughout the camp
we endure Nobody said camp was easy and we went home really physically tired but we never dare to complain.
& we have fun. After all that we went through, we forged closer bonds! :D
Last but not least, we were very enthusiastic during camp!!!! hahaha

Now, I feel like the camp needs energy, and lots of it too. It's not as if this camp is tough, yet they look defeated by it already.. I hope they can adopt a stronger mindset, stretch themselves to do their best and just look happier lol. Grrr too bad I can't stay over tonight.

Wai Khee and I left at around 3 (since the Guides went for hike) to go to ECP. Then I rollerbladed for the 2nd time. This time round, I learned how to blade properly although I'm not very steady yet. Most of the time, when we are learning a new sport, what inhibits us from doing well is our fear of falling down and hurting ourselves and a lack of confidence. When I was at the rink practising, there was this little girl, about 7 or 8 years old, helping her friend to learn to blade. Her friend was holding on to the railing for her dear life. Then the girl said:"You (her friend) need to have confidence". I think that's a sentence of wisdom coming from a young giel. Anyway, I'm very happy to learn the basics of rollerblading !!!!! Thank God my feet doesn't hurt.

ponder

2008-12-24T17:06:00.004+08:00

I did something new today! Bet u can't think what it is. I taught my aunty to use the computer lol! Mind you, my aunty is a 63 year old grandmother who shuns using the SCV control cos she doesn't know how to use it! Actually, I didn't teach her much la, I just told her to use the mousepad to scroll up and down to see photos of our family taken by my cousin. And tell her to click on the link to go to the next page. Then she started saying like how her getai friends even know how to do internet banking on the computer.
hmm.. that's all. Besides that, I'm literally wasting my time on Facebook, sending people Flowers, joining pet society and wondering if there is a faster way of getting coins besides visiting friends' pets (so I can buy furniture for my bare house!). I have been doing something useful though, and that is considering my options for my future education path ! Initially, I thought I would just go to JC and slog for 2 more years since I don't really know what I want to be. I still remember what one of our seniors told us that in JC, u have double the things to study, yet u have half the time to do it. Then 2 days ago, I read through some poly materials and thought that I can try joining the business school in SP! 3 years, get a good foundation on what I'm going to do for the rest of my life and by the time I graduate, I can go get a job. Then after working for 2 years of so, I could apply for scholarships to overseas universities. Hahaha sounds perfect but it's all tentative.

ok that's all. :)

Vietnam holiday (part 2) - Hue, Hanoi & Ha Long bay

2008-12-21T23:29:00.018+08:00

I'm kicking myself in the head now cos I deleted so many of the photos taken in Vietnam after developing them!!! GRrrrr. I hardly have any photos of Ho Chi Minh now and I don't have any photo of Hanoi at all- not that I took many photos in Hanoi, but we went to this UNESCO World Heritage site called Ha Long bay (roughly means descending dragon) when we were in Hanoi, which is amazing!

We went out to the sea and while I was on the upper deck, I nearly froze from the strong and icy seabreeze that never stops! Hmm.. Ha Long Bay consists of many little islands, about 960+ to be exact. Some of them are small, and many of them are names after what they resemble. For example, there was this one island shaped like a man and was isolated from the rest of the cluster of islands, so the tour guide told us that piece of rock is called Lonely Man fishing! lol and there are others called 2 chickens kissing (funny name) and incense burner, even though it looked like a tooth to me. It feels very good to go out to sea and admire the vast blue expanse of water. For a moment I thought there were some marine animals surfacing from the sea (like dolphins) cos we could see white colours appearing here and there. But upon closer observations, it was just the waves breaking and white bubbles..

Then we entered this cave inside one of the big islands, called the Heavenly Celestial Cave which was discovered in 1992 by a fisherman. The cave is illuminated by colourful artificial lights which, in my opinion, spoil the own nature of the cave. But it sort of fuels the image that it is "celestial", u know. Anyway, the features inside the cave are very unique, some are smooth like a cauliflower or mushroom, others are jagged and lined up in a row like the chicken legs hanging in every chicken rice stall (lol!). There were many tourists (just like me) inside that cave, busy snapping pictures and listening to the tour guide's tales of the (man-made) stories behind the natural features of the caves. They will say that the cave resembles a ___ and then graudually a story will unfold .. blahblah.. i didn't listen to any of those at all. Too bad I don't have any pics to post..

heheh I tried taking a photo of the pictures we developed (left). Can u see a man's face (top right) and a guerrilla (bottom)?

Ha Long Bay was our last stop in Vietnam before we returned to Hanoi via a 3 hour bus ride for 2 more days of walking around the big big city. It 's really troublesome and kinda frustrating that the museums are open from 7 and closes at 11.30 am. Who visits museums at such an early hour anyway? And they don't open again till the next day. It's much more difficult to buy things in Vietnam cos shopkeepers quote such horrendous prices! One shopkeeper even quoted US$100 for a pair of men's shoes sold along the streetside shops. But on the last day, we bought 2 more bags! One is a red roxy bag and another is a orange the north face sling bag which has many compartments and is useful for travelling as u can put many things inside. O ya, these 2 bags cost 190 000 dong (Sing$19), after haggling from 220 000 with a soft spoken lady. If u want to buy things in Hanoi, I read somewhere that it's best to go shopping earlier cos the shopkeepers will be more willing to give u discount to buy their stuff as they believe it brings them good luck.

Before we arrived at Hanoi, we spent one night at Hue, another city in Central Vietnam. We visited the Hue citadel, which is like a miniature version of the Forbidden Palace in China (I didn't say this! The receptionist, An, in the hotel we stayed at painted this analogy to us). But even though it sounds puny, we didn't even manage to finish walking around the whole place! Some parts are quite remote, and others are under restoration after being damaged during the Vietnam war in er.. 1975? We couldn't even see the Emperor's palace at all, it was probably fully blown up by the bombs.. sheesh. The entrance palace has dragon carvings along its top (left pic).

This is a picture of the food we ate in a restaurant in Hue. We always have fruit shakes in nearly every meal that we eat in Vietnam, cos the fruits are good! Especially my favourite mango fruit juice! The one take in this picture is carrot fruit juice, however. And on the top u can see 2 sticks of satay-like food, that is the special kind of food unique to Hue. It is eated by wrapping one of those and the veggie in rice paper.
The food here is nice, but I like even better the food in a restaurant in Hanoi, and I can even remember the address: 7 Dinh Liet Rd in Hoan Kiem district!! The food there is fantastic! Zucchini (which is mini version of cucumber)... beef curry... and haha I really like the mushroom in both restaurants!! aiya I can't rmb what else I had but there're all very delicious! Heheh I was too busy eating to take any photo of the food.

vietnam HCMC and hoi an

2008-12-12T15:18:00.009+08:00

Lots of new experiences I encountered in this trip in Vietnam, including sleeping on a sleeper bus for the first time, and crossing the really crowded and frenetic roads crammed with way too many morotcycles in Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC). That was an eye opening experience for me!

Also, I realised I can baragin quite well! LOL when we shopped in the Ben Thanh market in HCMC, the shopkeepers recognise that we are tourists and will tai (extort) us. The shopkeeper offered 200 000 dong (S$20) for a bag which I liked, and I insisted on 80 000 dong ~ And guess what? The lady accepted it ! Hehe Also, another time when my aunty was buying 3 sets of pyjamas for her grandchildren, the lady quoted 370 000 dong ($37) but in the end, she sold it to us at 180 000 dong (although I wasn't there to do the haggling cos my cousin was infuriated with my aunty for troubling the lady to take out so many clothes without asking for the price first, so I just gave the wallet to my cousin and kept a far distance away, hoping to bi4 nan4, u know) . In Singapore I don't baragin, but please if any of u ever go to Vietnam, just quote less than half or even one third of the price the shopkeepers offer. And check out a few stalls before u make ur purchase. :) PS I'm not being aunty, this is the way to buy things over here lol.

Anyway, I'm now in Hoi An, a much more peaceful and serene town (and not to mention smaller) than HCMC. We have already finished touring the main places within less than 1 and a half days & my uncle, aunty and cousin are resting in their hotel rooms. O the food here is unique to this place, and yesterday we ate lunch at this stall by the roadside facing the river new dishes called cao lau (pronunce gao3 lao3) and ban vac, which english name is called white rose. aiya I don't have the photos now.. cannot show u but the food is really nice, esp the ban vac, which is like another version of dumplings, but wrapped in a different skin, smth like the sun kueh which we find in singapore. We even went back to the same stall for dinner.

Besides the food, the scenery and the overall atmosphere here at Hoi An is more relaxed than at HCMC, which even my globetrotter cousin cannot stand. When you are out at the roads in HCMC, it's just facing incessant honking by motorcyclists and I'm so glad that the hostel we stayed in was away from the main road and offered us much needed tranquility. But I really marvel at the skilfulness of the motorcyclists, who just weave in and out of the traffic, jostling with the bigger buses and cars for space on the roads. And do u know they hardly have traffic lights ? Pedestrians just zig zag across the road to get to the opposite side. haha rather dangerous but it's an exciting break from the orderly roads of Singapore.

Did u know that this whole town of Hoi An is a UNESCO World Heritage site? The architecture is carefully preserved and restored. Surprisingly, we managed to buy several things here, from bags to souvenir shirts (and not at HCMC or Hanoi). There is an 73 year old man selling bags in one of the shops we went into. He was very friendly and even knew how to speak Chinese (which is rare) and gave us good prices for the bags we bought.

holiday

2008-12-07T15:40:00.001+08:00

YAY I'll be going to Vietnam tomorrow!

:D

it's fun time

2008-11-18T21:52:00.003+08:00

Ah 5 days have past just like that!
For the record, I have ..(counting)...7 nieces and nephews, 3 boys: Stanley, Ethan and Theodore and 4 girls: Phoebe, Priscilla, Chloe and Jessica! The oldest is 4.5 years old [Phoebe] and youngest, barely2 months old [Ethan]. Hehe maybe one day I will post all their pictures at one go !
(tah,Hui Xian, I answered ur question! And I didn't read anything about a baby factory. :O)

YAYAYAY ! I'm very happy cos I bought my guitar tuner and I'm so gonna play the guitar every day!!!!! I want to learn to play canon in D and many other praise and worship songs, which are all chords ya ...so I hope I can do it ! :D I'm watching lots of youtube videos on guitarists who play canon in D and I even have 2 diff. ppl playing the same song in my mp3 player! Do u think I'm going gaga? No, I'm just enthu lah hurhs

K I'm going to play neopets now.. think my pet's starving already ! Is playing neopets very juvenile? But then at least I won't get hooked playing it cos sometimes the games get boring sia

O levels are over

2008-11-13T19:51:00.003+08:00

YAY!!! :D

O levels are over!!!

And my nephew Stanley is here to stay with us!

I'm looking forward to many fun-filled days ahead ! OO hahaha I'm ecstatic!!!!! :D

I think I might get a holiday job, even though I'm at home! My job is to take care of Stanley!! aka I'm a nanny! But I don't mind. :) He's really fun , only 2 and a half years old! And he's shooting at me with his new playgun nonstop! Even when I lie on the floor pretending to be dead, he still continues to shoot relentlessly. Arr here he comes again...Then he imitates me and falls to the mattress on the floor theatrically (just like how I did just now lol)
kids are so fun! hehe

but there are other things which I want to do too ... never mind, i'll take it one step at a time.

Another thing I'm excited about is that I'm going for a holiday! YES! I love traveling and visiting new places and doing new things

Lastly,
reply to tags
brandon: Oh i neva expected to u tag! haha anyway it would be great to play vb again. i think eunice and the others are intending to go to sentosa next week

K I'm off !
Add me on neopets ! mazzy_92!

=)

2008-11-07T15:23:00.004+08:00

the O Levels
are almost over. almost

next thursday, it will be over.

yes ai ling, letter soon (:
&
thanks angeline, collect those silverdust and bring it on monday! & the Lord knows what we need, and I have full faith in Him that He will provide.

---

i thought i was using the internet,
I don't know how my hands got caught
in so much dust and entangled hair.
cleaning the giant haversack and the portable audio system of my cousin's
a spider with long, thin legs materialised out of nowhere
and hid itself before i had a chance to snuff it out
with my handy disposable wet tissue.
the spider reminds me of the show i watched on okto
on how this female spider was looking for a meal, and not a male.
pity the poor male spider, who get sent to his death
when he thought he was going to mate.
some spiders are really huge,
and i wouldn't fathom being even remotely near any one of those
unless they're enclosed in glass panels
like in the zoo (the snakes are, not sure about the spider though)

oh look here i go again, this time to drag out a box of christmas tree
stuck underneath the bed
oops.. i tore the cardbox case..nah everything's still okay
then hoist it upstairs, mentally prepared to take it out again
after my uncle repaints upstairs.

Can I call this my first poem???LOL. and the title would be One Day after school. yawn that's so boring!
Had my literature exam today.. so i guess im partly influenced by that to wax lyrical
oo since it's so convenient, i searched, and wax lyrical means to talk about something with much excitement or interest Or to become lyrical (which again means to become expressive of emotion).
hmm ok

nieces!

2008-09-18T19:18:00.009+08:00

Haha Priscilla (left) and Phoebe just called me (i mean their father phoned) and they were on their way home in the car.
Then they started to sing a Chinese song which they had learnt in school. Even though I can't decipher what they are singing half the time, it's still a wonderful thing for them to sing in chinese! And cos I was playing a song on my computer when I was talking to them, Phoebe remarked (bluntly), " your tv's too loud, xiao gu". Kids are just so frank, aren't they?

This is Priscilla - laidback, with a "i really don't care" attitude.

Whereas this is Phoebe - sweet little girl who clearly knows how to strike a pose or two. Just now during the phone call, when I said that a-gong (her fav. FAV. person!) and a-ma had gone out, she said:"But it's late already." Gosh, is she actually feeling worried for them? Or I guess this is a result of how she has been brought up..

They help to take away the stresses of getting back my prelim results, I guess. I still want to score 6pts!!! But my english is already B4?!!

panicking disappointment fear hope determination working hard disciplined focused group study consultation PIA

God is love!

2008-09-15T23:02:00.006+08:00

Wuu... my cousin just bought a 32oGB external hard disk cos our com is running out of space..so i'm transferring the photos we've accumulated over the years and dumping it into that hard drive.. 24 mins to go.....

葡萄地里的男人 last saturday was the last episode ! Luckily I managed to catch it. There is a happy ending ! I like the show so much (not to mention the song in the video)! :D

dun feel like writing anymore . bye .

Pray. live

2008-09-12T19:19:00.004+08:00

Prelims are over ... BUT

O Levels are 38 days away!

I'm starting to have the sense of urgency and determination to study and revise. (this does not mean i did not study last few years but this one is to prepare for O s , last time was to prepare for the tests, school exams etc ya get the drift?)

I really want to score A1s!
4 years of secondary school and this is it . i do want to screw up
and i will put in effort to ensure that this does not happen.
O Level is tough, but hey, I'm tougher than that .
YEAH ! let's go :)
and if u, like me, and thousands of other students, are taking o level this year, I wish you best of luck ! and don't crack under stress ... Relax by watching 一切完美 on friday nights @ 11.30pm! and close to home (a new show!) on sunday 10pm and Ugly Betty and Project Runway on thursdays nights and 娱乐百分百 (which is really funny!!!!) @ 5pm every day on channel u. AND Watch the noose on tuesday night @ 10pm!!! it will have you laughing like mad!! o and if u have monday blues and can't study on mondays, i recommend 非常superband or America's got talent for you ... oh i've covered every day of the week except saturday ..if u have cable, tune in channel 56 and watch 葡萄地里的男人 from 9 to 11pm! Otherwise there are also movies on arts central @ 10pm, but i think that's on sunday.
O, did I just tell you that I like (or more like love) to watch the tv? LOL

tata ~ in everything that I have, give thanks and praise to the Lord.

holidays/

2008-09-03T23:08:00.006+08:00

holshols... Internet and tv have been keeping me pretty occupied haha ! Did any of u'all watch 龙虎门 (starring xietingfeng and shawn yue) on chn u on sunday? The movie was adapted from a comic and the actors all had bright colour hairdos that practically cover the whole of their face .. haha i find it funny! there's alot of shows to watch on tv u know!! america's got talent, ugly betty, project runway, 葡萄地里的男人 (on chn 56) and what i used to watch last time but stopped: America's next top model! Hehe im a self confessed tv junkie! I like Hong Kong and Korean drama series the best, though i dont watch alot of them!
Ahh and this week's 8 Days is a must-get for all chocolate lovers out there cos it's the chocolate issue! Best chocolate cake/eclair/ice cream/milo dinasour in Singapore... plus there's Jesseca Liu on the cover page . feels like im doing free promotion but I really like this week's issue! (:

Last week's church was really great, I made another important decision in my life.. the pastor was from Church of Singapore Bukit Timah branch and everyone was surprised when he said he was 39 yrs old wif 2 kids cos he look as young as poly student . anyway, his sermon was very captivating and he mentioned alot of things, i think the most significant is that what differentiates us from the rest of the world is that we have the presence of God. And at the end of the sermon, he asked those who felt they were ready to lay down their life for God and follow him to step up and stuff and then i cried and cried ... because I felt a little unsure, and I told myself no, i wasn't ready. part of the reason that i cried was bcos i felt disappointed, it's like God asks something from me and as a christian, i said no. But anyway, i cleared it up (clarify with my cousin some doubts) , and made the decision after church.
to those of you who have yet to hear about him, God is the creator of the whole universe and most importantly, the creator of human beings , us. He loved us so much that even though we sinned and had to go to hell . he didnt want that to happen to us so he came down as the form of a man, Jesus and the only way to pay for our sins was if he died for us. and that's what he did. we are saved by faith (believing all the things i just said) through His grace (to forgive us ). just accept this gift! lol i am preaching :)
impossible is nothing -this could very well be God's tagline too, not just nike's.

FunWif Frens

2008-08-28T21:43:00.005+08:00

time flies so fast when u're having fun!
breezy weather, great sky, one volleyball, many friends, and hours fly by !

WHEE !
when we get too tired playing, we'd take a break and play some lame games haha lalalala

exams seem so distant / yet so near.

i'll end my happy day with this quote:

"anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. "
- Albert Einstein

EAT. SLEEP. DRINK.

2008-08-27T18:14:00.005+08:00

Olympics is over. 16 days of action, gone in a flash.
Prelims are ongoing. Having a one week September holidays before they continue.
O Level English Oral came and passed. I was nervous , and that killed me. and its supposed to be something i can do well . We only have one chance, so .. no point brooding over it.

I turned 16 on 25th August!
Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday &
thanks to those who celebrated my birthday with me :
YAJ, Ler Ling, Kathy, Jane!( who was too shy to sing along the B'Dae song! LOL that's what she told me), Renee, Sabrina and Bao Fang! :D

Beijing Olympics - post 2

2008-08-17T11:57:00.006+08:00

Olympics is so exciting!! I watched swimming- the 4x100m Medley Relay Finals (Results Mens - USA won, Womens - Australia), table tennis, volleyball (Mens Italy vs Bulgaria, Italy won 3-0 but both teams will advance to the next round) , beach volleyball, womens all round gymnastics (USA clinched both the 1st and 2nd(Johnson) while China got 3rd) and the 100m sprint (world record by Bolt-9.69s)! There's so many wonderful athletes in the world, and Michael Phelps is right on top of the list!

It's very distracting but very exhilarating to watch! After all, this only happens once every 4 years!!! And finally, Singapore is guaranteed of a silver medal, and (I'm sure u all know) it comes from females table tennis ! YES YES YES ! YAY I'm feeling very happy for Singapore :D

Then on Friday, we played volleyball for like, 3 hours after school. It's been quite some time since I played for so long.. What a great respite it is from the torturous studying. Then we played a match but served from inside the court. And that's very fun too!

tag reply to Baofang: Look I'm blogging about Olympics again!!! :D

Beijing Olympics 2008!

2008-08-11T16:51:00.004+08:00

D'OMG Tao Li got 5th in the Olympic 100m Butterfly FINALS!!!!!!! that's the first time a Singaporean has gotten so far in swimming!!!!! YAy! no1 is from Australia, and no4 is frm China!
But Ronald Susilo lost to Lee Chong Wei in badminton.. so sad laa I wake up so early to watch the match ! then it was over in 35 mins . But that guy is no 2 seed in the world ranking la, so hai ya the chances weren't very high in the first place.. kk gotta go & help my uncle with some stuffs! .....after 3 hours;

wow hehe im back! I went to the olympic volleyball webpage (click here) and there's alot of info. about all the games (that I've missed!) I havent watched a single volleyball match at all! Cuba, Brazil and Russia are strong teams and I'll definitely watch the finals !!! Sadly for Singapore, we don't have a national team at all (here's the webbie whr i got the info from).

some eye candy:::

Cuba against Poland, Cuba won 3-1.
Brazil against Algeria, Brazil won 3-0

everything is so cool ! spiking, blocking, i love everything about vb. but most of all, i love the friends who play with me! (that sounds too mushy....) aft. all ppl make the game. (this sounds more pragmatic)

gosh i've spent too much time online. telling myself: focus focus, o levels is coming! :(

X country & National Day Celebrations @ ECP :D

2008-08-08T18:58:00.017+08:00

K I took alot of precious photos today!! Can't wait to share ! & hahaha I'll be going for the NDP 2008 tmr!! yippie! :D

Sec 4 Guides taking pic

Hehey our Guides salute

our star jump shot!

Among the 3 photos we took, I swear this is the most glam pic already! If u want the others, i can email to u directly. [Terms & conditions: of course this only applies if u are one of the tenacious twelve.]

K moving on ... we have .....

2 JT '06 peeps gathering before taking class photo!

Getting ready .. ah Wei Le is already prepared

Finally, our 2 JT class photo !!!!!!!!!!
those who unfortunately, can't be here: Wei Jun & Amanda
those who are supposed to be here but are not here: Benedict, Grace & Aaron.
Hope I haven't left out anyone.

another 2 Jt class photo. Looking at it brings back alot of FUN memories

Best buds: Jasmie, Me and Zhi Xiong !!

yayyyy haven't taken photo together for v long time le!!!oo im so happy.
but aiyo the pimples on my face v irritating sia.

Then, after the celebrations ended, we had a 2 JT outing and guess who we saw?
Mr Lee, our form teacher !!!!!!! What a coincidence !!! He's still as cute as ever, and when we asked him certain *sensitive* questions, he would pretend and say "Woah the wind very strong arh, I didn't catch that" and evade our questions.
And then he said he's still studying, but he has only 5 more months to go, whereas we have (damatic pause), JC1 JC2 Uni 1 Uni 2 Uni 3 5 more years to go. Then he said he understand how we feel, taking exams and writing essays etc. It's not easy to be students ok!
How I wish he's our English teacher instead of Miss S! I'll confirm work harder than I am now.. then Mr Lee asked about other classmates who didn't come to the outing, ppl like Wei Jun, Theron, Ferlin etc. He said he missed us, and is very glad to see us still together even though we're in different classes! Ahh he's the best form teacher I've ever had !! :D

photo with Mr Lee
Why Jason nv smile?!! lol

Then after we said byebye to Mr Lee, we went to PS to meet Amanda and watch 钱不够用 2. Hmm but Grace and I left first as she had to watch band performance @ Paragon and I had to reach home at around 4plus. It seems like we didn't do anything much but in actual fact, we spent like 45 mins walking from the celebrations venue to the Burger King joint and it was a really. looooong. walk.
And at one point, the boys were lagging behind so we stopped at a bbq pit to wait for them to catch up. Then Kathy said we should have a chalet after O's. Then Grace was like she want bbq only cos she can't stay overnight (doubt I can do so too!) Then when the guys came, wen fong also said the same thing as Kathy! If there really will be, I'll try my best to come!

Woo hoo 2 Justice rocks! I haven't been for a class outing since ages ago ... it's wonderful to have a united class. When I look back, it's like there's alot of fun-cum-wild-cum-happy-cum-carefree days. yay

I haven't forgotten my current class 4 RP ! Melle brought his camera so most of the pics r in his cam. But I have some pics of the whole class (or rather, all who came) with Miss Teo and Miss Lam.

The girls won 2nd (team) for the run, which is an improvement from last year's 3rd. :D
Constance and Bao Fang was the 2nd and 8th runner respectively. That's 欢欢, one of the 5 Olympic mascots from the 北京奥运。它的开幕仪式就是今天！

今天过得很开心，很感谢上帝赐给我的所有的东西。
在此也祝福新加坡越来越繁荣，国人会对祖国感到骄傲。

anything

2008-08-04T19:44:00.002+08:00

whee i feel like blogging ahh changed my blogskin afew days ago and i like it more and more each time i see it ! haha
anyway, last saturday was kinda sad cos i couldn't go for bbq. i stress i couldn't go, not didn't want to go. cos my guardian is strict and doesn't allow me to go for many things, esp sat. stuff ya .. so i've missed out on countless things already since sec.1 ...
This friday is National Day celebrations at ECP! it's our last year! we're making a red cls tee & im feeling kina excited! cos hmm it's our last year together? Even though we've only been together 1 and a half years?

then hmm.. o level is coming SOON! prelim is in 3 weeks time.

aiya shit cousin's complaining. post cut short ... ***

26/7

2008-07-26T23:52:00.007+08:00

whee! all the photos were taken using jane's laptop (an iMac) and besides having a built-in cam, it has really cool effects like popart, x-ray , the heat sensor and comic art effects and many other effects which disfigure our looks in the most ridiculous ways possible .. and hence r not fit to be put up here (:

Renee and me~ this is the 1st photo we took using this pop art effect, n hence i like it alot!
check out Renee's ulta bright red hair, and eyes too! lols

Renee, BaoB and me
haha this is my fav. effect, besides the other ones which distort our faces

Renee, Jane, BaoB and me
my teeth is red !! how odd & funny!

who does this look like??

our respect class noticeboard under the pencil sketch effect .

Cool or not cool? >COOL!
(sec.4s, rmb the career guidance seminar we had by one of the poly? the female lecturer kept repeating this phrase to get us hyped up about their new, COOL course called gerontology _??_ studies _??_)

what i did today _ went to singapore army museum (yes there is such a place) and the coolest thing is that i got to pick up a real rifle!!! the personnel said it weighs about 2+kg and i got to use it to aim and shoot some targets on a screen which is MY FIRST TIME! then, they had a real helicopter and tanker on display ! then i climbed up the tanker (to take a photo) How many people have this experience before?!! there are alot of compartments on the tanker and i tried to open the top cover, where the soldiers would enter the tanker and operate it, but it was firmly glued shut. if not i think i would have went in as well, just to have a look since there is absolutely o% chance i would get to be in it in real battlefield. The whole thing looks twice my height and is very impressive . .. afterthought: modern warefare is very, very destructive and ohh it reminds me how much i don't like violence. hmm..

O and i changed my playlist and the first song is 一切完美主题曲. i read that it is an original composition by shixinhui from Project Superstar and someone also wrote that there r samples from leona lewi's yesterday so i put them back to back. & what that person said is true!!! the melody sounds similar.

ｂｙｅ！

2008-07-24T21:20:00.003+08:00

Whee haha PE today was very fun. Instead of playing volleyball, which i usually do, i tried playing floorball instead. And it turned out more tiring that vb can!!!
Run here run there carrying a stick trying to aim properly and shoot the ball into the goalpost. er ya that's basically how the game is played! but don't think it's easy ok! It takes alot of skill to maneuver the ball using the stick.. is there a better name to call this thing instead of a stick? lol and bcos we were not really used to holding this thing (I definitely wasn't), it felt weird running around and carrying it with u, it's as if that is some kind of weapon .. kk i must control myself. ..(takes deep breath) Anyway, this pe lesson was very enjoyable . And many many ppl played~ even though they were all girls ... but @ least majority of the class was playing some sport (vb, basketball) instead of sitting & slacking. And the best player is Sabrina woo hoo. She's a great defender !! Wuu then er alot of ppl played la : Jane Kai Lin Renee Sab tongyao zhouwei danling yi jie ming ju lerling lin li jocelyn; 13 players ! Hmm dunno why i wanna list them out but it feels great to play with classmates whom i don't usually play with with during PE, namely bcos they don't play vb. Next week, we're gonna play captain ball ! :)

Hmm .. then I was locked out of the house today!!! I must pass thru a side gate to enter the apartment whr i stay and there's a 4 digit code which u press and the gate will open automatically. But it didn't open. But I didn't panick yet cos i have the KEY to open the gate in case pressing the pin doesn't work. So i used the key, but still cannot open. then i looked over then luckily, there were 2 female (i assume) foreign workers inside and i waved to them and one of them came and pressed the button from inside. That didn't work too. the gate looked stuck. can't move. paralysed. then she kindly went to take her own key and tried to open the gate from inside (ya this darn gate works both ways) but to no avail . then i asked if she has the control to open the main gate then she asked her friend to use it. but it was spoilt bcos i saw her fren pressing it but the main gate just won't open. i even tried calling out to my aunty hoping that she'd hear cos i knew she was at home. uh that didn't work as well. she was probably either to busy talking to uncle or napping. then i used the last resort. i climbed over the main gate cos firstly it was just a lil bit taller than me and secondly, there weren't sharp spikes on top of the gate so i didn't have to worry that i'll tear my skirt. Basically, it's very easy for burglars to break in too. (defeat the purpose of having a gate rite zzz) abit malu but there wasnt anybody at all at this time of the day, except those 2 foreign ladies.

hmm these r the 2 slightly more exciting things that happened to me today. I prefer watching tv to blogging now. Everybody must watch 一切完美 on U 频道! 星期五就是大结局了！　

update /photos!

2008-07-07T12:08:00.005+08:00

I was very thankful that it didn't rain during our actual speech day (school anniversary) @ CCH Yishun on saturday .. our rehearsal was cancelled due to the wet weather but luckily it cleared up as it started. Is this what many people failed to realise? but yeah little things like that do matter too .. thank you lord! :D

heheh now it's time for pictures!!!

heheh presenting my adorable niece Priscilla once again! we were, or rather she and her sister were blowing bubbles along the corridor outside my bro's house while the others were celebrating .. (look down)

my 1mth+ old niece Jessica's full month "birthday"~

yay a picture tells a thousand words so i have managed to tell my story of what I did 2 weekends ago. one last photo :

look at my nephew's face! He's like telling you "watcha looking at huh!" or "im really tired can we stop taking photos".

everything is gonna be alright!

it means nothing

2008-06-27T22:51:00.004+08:00

5 days passed so quickly!! Since school reopened, these past 5 days just zoomed past and now Priscilla has already gone back home (her parents bring her home for the weekend)! During holidays, 5 days would drag by interminably and I would be so tired after playing with her! Now, I'm weighed down by homework, or to be more precise, the holiday homework which I didn't do... and aiya.. dun wanna mention such mundane stuff in here. Feel rather tired. And during lesson it's like teachers are talking about scoring A1A1A1.. it's not really pressuring but makes me feel I need to start working hard. 4 months will pass quickly and O levels will be over soon!
O ya today is Jane's Birthday!!!! I declare today, 27th of June, to be Jane's Day!We sang BD song so many times la! lol Jane u r loved by us!! :D

replies to tagsss!
hui xian: yes that's the "magical" quality about my voice on da phone! i tink it's so high pitched until it sounds v kiddy :x
winnie: thanks! :D
yijie: lol have a great weekend!
chor hung: YUP, maybe i'll become a YA (young adult) then can help out !!
angeline: thanks for the well wish :D

guides-cum-life

2008-06-21T23:53:00.004+08:00

It's time to pass it on.
I hope all of you will do your best.

yay the 12 of us :D

The past few days at camp was really enjoyable forme.
Buying presents. Indoor cooking. Going for nitewalk together. Eating out at Vivocity. Playing at the playground intended for kids 12 and below! Attending POP and giving the presents to my dear Ixora patrol. and got all teary eyed. Ooh and drilling too. Then break camp and the talk we had wif the new leaders. more crying.

Dunno why when we took over I didn't cry at all but when we stepped down, tears flow so freely. Guess there's a lotta ... how should I say ? Love? Wonderful memories spent together, be it with the 12 of us or with the juniors. It's kinda nostalgic, thinking back and seeing the 3 and a half years we spent and grew in Guides together. <3

People grow, people age. It's nice to have company and not go through difficulties alone. Or not having anybody to share fun times with. The only thing that remains constant is, I know God is always there for me, even at times when I'm so absorbed in myself and fail to let Him guide me, He's still there. For He has promised that he will neither abandon nor forsake us.

13/6

2008-06-13T20:11:00.002+08:00

Do you know those kind of feeling where you have too much of something until u're saturated and bloated and starting to get sick of it? Suddenly there is nothing fun in doing it anymore. I need time out from taking care of my niece Priscilla. Then on Facebook, I got hooked on this new app called (fluff)friends and got myself a bumble bee as a pet. Then I went around petting other people's (neglected) pets! Some have not been "petted" for up to 70 days ! I suppose they sooner or later get sick of it/forget it, just like what i'm feeling now.
Anyway, she's gonna go back home now, her father's alr. here. Then I'll start missing her. and the cycle continues... Guides camp is coming up next Tuesday and I've got lotsa things to prepare !! (*gives a big smile). Looking forward to it!

little details

2008-06-10T17:44:00.002+08:00

`little details

D'OMG taking care of my niece, or children for that matter, is very exhausting. Eh, or is it because I've been sitting in front of the computer for 2 hours straight? Whatever, it's a combination of both that's making me feel lethargic.
Sheez.. I was awakened today by the SUNLIGHT which shone over me at like 9.30. I think the architect who designed the building is either really dumb or really smart. Dumb to build triangular windows so high on top which cannot be opened so that sunlight will shine down mercilessly early in the morning (sometimes as early as 8am) or smart enough to know that someday, a lazybum like me will stay in this very room and needs a "gentle" nudge by the SUN to wake me up. I admit I'm a late night junkie and if I try to wake up early in the morning, I'd feel tired by mid-afternoon. Unless of course, if I'm at camp! Then tuh-dah, I'd have unlimited energy (note: mentally, not physically)
Whee then I played with my niece Priscilla, showed her Barney videos on the internet,bathed her in the red bathtub, played with her more after we ate lunch. She's very easily entertained. I supposed kids are, in general. Then (phew) she went to sleep at 4 and I have been, in my opinion, giving myself a break, but to my cousin's opinion, probably wasting my time by spending these 2 hours on the net. PHAT . it's the holidays. the only act of self-discipline I showed today was to do some of the Chem TYS just after I woke up, during the time where my uncle tricked Priscilla into thinking that xiao gu (aka me) was at school.
Try saying this "BOOM-BAK-SAY" loudly. What do u think this could mean? Priscilla has been saying this since she came over 1 week ago but none of us knows what she means. She has called her grandma by that before, really softly, like "bye bye boom bak say".

OYA big news (to me) My brother's wife has given birth to a baby girl on 3/6/08 and she's gonna be named Jia Yan. I'm vouching for either Grace or Lydia to be her english name but I think he likes Jessica. She could open her eyes when she was just 1 and a half days old , even though she couldn't see anything. I wanna go visit her but she's still in the hospital while her mum has alr. returned home. You know what they call this "yellow-faced" thinggy, my bro said they were just gonna shine some light (??) on her and she'd be fine.
Ok, time to relieve my duty as Mei Zhen the xiao gu. Uncle has been saying snide remarks that I'm not helping out in anything.

preserve our landmarks

2008-06-07T13:43:00.007+08:00

Go vote for the building u think should be conserved @ h ttp://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/sp/landmarks/.
I was reading the newspapers in today's Straits Times, Saturday's section about conserving our landmarks and I find it very interesting. I'd passed by Golden Mile Complex (left pic), few times before but I didn't know it was built in 1973 (which makes it 35 years old now!). I also agree with what architectural writer Dinesh Naidu said "you don't want to feel like you are living in a city that was built yesterday, even though it's a 200-year-old city". Even Singapore is only 40 odd years old, many buildings built after Singapore's independence have already made way for modern skyscrapers and uniform HDB flats, which is not entirely a bad thing but the precious history & memories would simultaneously disappear as well.
You know, I just realised that the red-bricked National Library (left) building has been demolished in 2004. It's like yeah I do know there's a new National Library at Victoria Street, but it feels like a totally new concept to me, as in I'd entirely forgotten that before this new library there was an old one! I been there once or twice and it feels more comfortable and warm than the current one, which (I think) spans 16 floors? Once I went all the way up to the highest level they could allow, which is 15th floor and saw the view from there and got a little bit scared when I peered down the window. lols

O ya there's this last landmark I would like to mention: the bus stop at Old Chua Chu Kang Road , which was where " young men bade lingering goodbyes to doting sweethearts and caught their last glimpse of civilian life before they booked into camp". Somehow this simple feature just tugs at my heart string even though I've never seen it before but I think it should be conserved. You rarely see these orange and beige painted bus stops nowadays, they're all replaced by steely metal fixtures and grey noticeboards.

Ok enough of blogging, gotta go and revive my "train". My cousin has been drilling in on me to start my revisions for each subject (ie the train) starting now and make sure that I am well prepared by Prelims. hmph, i've gotta do housework and finish reading newspapers before I start on that. :D I so wanna buy Stereophonics's latest album Pull the Pin!!!!!!

doughnuts!

2008-05-31T22:49:00.003+08:00

OMG how can this be! Doughnuts is no. 3 in the top 5 cancer causing food. "Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer. " I dont know who's Adams but I'm shocked anyway. Actually, I should have known. Ok, from now on, no more than one doughnut per week! MUST restrain me!

31/5

2008-05-31T20:12:00.004+08:00

Friday
had normal lessons .. and lost my spectacles My frens suggested I make a new pair whereas my cousin said I have to look for it, maybe in Lost & Found corner. Then it was volleyball time and the ball dropped into the lake twice. Then as promised, I went to tidy up Guides Room with Swan Ser & Yi Jie. Felt tired and drowsy but anyway, i saw a photo album of some of our seniors... then saw the Thinking Day Banner which got CCH GG a Gold! and a East Division Day banner on its left which I think also got first placing (which I wasn't involved in). Before that, I took a pail of water and wiped the boxes containing the mess tins and stoves. Couldn't stand the dust and oiliness of the mess tins!!! Err, did I mention I like cleaning? Future QMs and other guides must take care of the Guides Room ok! Then came home and wasted time (summary for playing with my niece and watching tv and eating).

Saturday i have lesser time to do my things when my niece is at home!! Early morning woke up and pleaded with my uncle to let me go for CIP but failed miserably. Then the only personal time I had was to read a book. Then it was breakfast time and then I bathed Priscilla, played with her, spent ALOT of time doing housework cos there's alot of dusty places which I never cleaned before and its after exams and I have TIME! This is something remarkable to me! I'm always running out of time so it's great to time in your hands and you have the freedom to do whatever u want, whenever! Here's something interesting (to me): when I was eating breakfast my uncle started to "scold" us cos we (me and my cousin) somehow dunno how to scoop soup properly and attract ants to the stove. Then he warned us next time... (blahandblah). Then my niece said " A gong scold u (which is me)". Then I replied yeah then she got out of her chair, walked towards A Gong, who was in his room and stopped several steps before the room. Then she waited for him to call her before she walked to just outside his room and started in a no-nonsense tone, pretending to be fierce (and she really looked like it!) " NAUGHTY, naughty. Don't want you!" She even pointed finger (no, not middle finger) at him, then came back. I was thinking, not bad ar, at least she still stand up for me & my cousin. Then it got funnier cos A gong wanted to get back at her (of course, play play only lar) So he asked her to come and said jokingly stuff like "don't want u" blah and immediately Priscilla started to throw tantrum and fell to the floor dramatically and flail her arms about. You know, it's those kind of very attention-seeking things which children can do. Then immediately, A gong got up to placate her, carry her, say meaningless stuff (like "see there, so nice" and spoil the child rotten).This really got me laughing. Haha that's the joy of having a toddler at home!!! Then afterwards I piggybacked her and for the first time, took a photo in the 7 days that she stayed here.

Haha add in ur own captions for this one: Priscilla looks so ___ while I look so ___
Haha can u tell I had a happy day, hahas.. later on she went back home after her dad came to fetch her. After she had dinner and after a crying match she had with her elder sister who came with her dad. that was torture. I felt lyk pulling my hair out when both of them were crying simultaneously. Furthermore her elder sis was sick and her birthday is coming up this monday, and she'll turn 4!

back to the street
down to our feet
losing the feeling of feeling unique
do you know what I mean?
...
we're feeling so good
just the way that we should
when it's nine in the afternoon.
-panic at the disco

hais .. my heart goes out to all those affected by cyclone nargis and the sichuan earthquake after seeing all these (some negative) reports. rmb, must be grateful for what i have. & be thankful for everything that I have.

:)

2008-05-28T20:37:00.007+08:00

CHINESE O LEVELS (WRITTEN): LAST WORDS
I believe I will be quoting William Hung, cos I wanna say "I did my best and I have no regrets". (rmb his auditions for AI long long time ago?) Ok, this applies for my Paper 2, and I particularly like my answers for the free response questions（评价题） like 你得到什么启示？。。。有什么感想？hahas shall not go into detail here about what I wrote but looking back in hindsight, I believe it is really important to step into the exam hall feeling really calm and relaxed. Then you'd be able to think clearly and you know, give insightful answers. Yap, then for Paper 1, I was a little too anxious and all the 热门话题 which I read up on did not come out!!! Instead, something about 酒店，餐馆的服务水平有待提高。 Which, even though it was a 热门话题, I had scarcely any background info about it. Why? Because I didn't read the notes (related to this topic) which my Chinese teacher gave. 算了，我只能怪自己。我现才开始觉得，其实我们的华文老师（刘老师）是位非常好的老师，尽量地帮我们，给我们补充资料。BRrrr thats all.
(hmm renee does this answer ur question? hha)

TODAY : Came to school for lessons and aiya, got Renee's mag confiscated. Sorry Renee! :/
Then after school, we (me, Swan Ser & Hui Yan) had drilling test for sec.3s .

与其说我是一个感情用事的人，不如说我是一个用心去做事的人。所以有时候，难免会做不理智的决定，需要朋友“敲”醒我。

there's no more mystery in the air.

realised my past few posts have all been rather word-y.here's a pic. to relieve that eyesore.

long post!

2008-05-20T20:30:00.003+08:00

2 Saturdays nights ago, my cousin was checking her luggage, making sure everything was in there before her flight to Japan a few hours later. Then when she was checking the lock, she realised that she couldn't unlock the luggage! She tried all combinations of the password she set but to no avail. Getting rather worried and all, she started to try all all the combinations, starting from 000, 001, 002 and so on cos she had accidentally reset the password. I was suggesting to her, why not just break open the lock, spoil the luggage in the process but at least she'd be able to transfer all her stuff to another one. But she was unwilling to. Its actually a yellow Samsonite which she bought several years ago in Switzerland when her luggage got misplaced. And even though it looks small, she said it can pack alot of things. And can you imagine, a bright yellow suitcase, you would never have to worry that you can't spot it, cos no one else has this colour!! Anyway, so she didn't want to break the lock. Instead she asked my to take over trying out all the combinations while she tried to repack (which is impossible, since she had to set out in like 45mins?). I was thinking RIDICULOUS, how can I ever break open the lock when no one has a clue what it is!??? there are 999 possible combinations, a 0.01% chance. Nonetheless I still tried, rather reluctantly I might add. She'd stopped at 020, and I continued from 030-040 before jumping back to 021, 022... And guess what, at 024, the lock actually popped open!!! How MIRACULOUS is that! And yep, u can guess who was at work up there. (God)Up till today, it still sounds pretty unbelievable to me!

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Been telling myself these past few days, "我一定要努力，我一定要努力" 因为我要考到 A1.我相信如果我真的要考到好成绩，我一定做得到！FYI I'm now in B3 standard. And yep, I believe deep down in our hearts everyone also wants to get A1 too but have not been willing to put in our best effort? I keep telling myself, if not now, then when? That's kinda what keeps me doing all the practice papers and stuff. I definitely do not want to retake CL paper at the end of the year when I can study for other subjects. And hopefully when O Level is over, my cousin can bring us all overseas!! YAY and when I come back , maybe I start looking for a job, as a waitress or something in one of those little restaurants near my house. Oh yes I'm just psycho-ing myself, MYEs just over and most of us are hardly in the mood to study anyway but stay focused and get over with it quickly. Eveyone has to, eventually.

caring for our planet

2008-05-09T22:39:00.003+08:00

I came across this article and it gives very compelling reasons for us to go veg, or at least stop eating pork/meat. Ladies especially would be really tempted, I guess! K I'm quoting directly from this website:http://goveg.com/
Top 10 reasons not to eat pigs
No. 1 Porking you up "It’s a fact—ham, sausage, and bacon strips will go right to your hips. Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your waistline and increase your chances of developing deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, asthma, and impotence. Research has shown that vegetarians are 50 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and they have 40 percent of the cancer rate of meat-eaters."

And to think I just ate satay and turkey bacon pizza for dinner...Actually, there are environmental reasons (obviously) for doing so too! Eating poultry means land has to be cleared for these poor animals to be locked up in "factory farms". And more food has to be fed to them to make them grow, in addition to all sorts of jabs to make them grow faster. Think about it, do u think they're having a good time running around in green pastures and breathing fresh air?Hardly. They're "crowded into warehouses with nothing to do and nowhere to go", "kept on a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive and make them grow faster, but the drugs cause many of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk."

While I know people are resistant to change (as in we can't eradicate this problem immediately), but we can all start small and limit our intake of meat, from beef burgers (I like to eatMcDonald's double (beef) cheese burger ) to char kuey tiao (damn, prices are rising too). Or simply, eat more veggie. Esp. crunchy ones like xiao bai cai or dou miao! It tastes really good just fried on its own ! I'm sure not everybody shares similar tastes but these are just suggestions and I can only think of suggesting things which I like to eat!

Whatever, if at least one person will think twice about eating meat because of this post, then my effort would not have been in vain! YAY. (celebrating in advance)
-thinking globally, acting locally.

the wait is over!

2008-05-09T12:10:00.003+08:00

exams over . half-hearted yays. was already feeling in post exam mood after physics paper.

unexpected things can happen when u're least prepared.. serendipitous discoveries.. whatever im already in lalaland, on my way to woonderland..there's only 2andahalf more days to debrief. and a couple more to chinese o levels. ok suddenly im awake. sheesh im in my lazy mood now, procrastination is putting off everything. k bye.
the wait is over :D

and i go on and on ..

2008-05-02T17:06:00.006+08:00

haha I'm here again, haven't been gone actually. I'm unwinding after _??_ days of exams..

apologies bleahx I suddenly recall some times when I talk too bluntly or say some things which aren't exactly nice to people. Don't take it to heart lah, there's so many things I can say within a day, so some might just be rubbish.

And wow.. I haven't realised the "power" of facebook yet. I admit I signed up for all the hype it was getting just to see what's it like, but the truth is, I don't even explore it and stuff and when I next check it, there's tons of request from well-meaning frens asking me to take quizzes and tests to find out what kind of Teen am I, What rose colour are you and the like. I don't mind doing it but thing is, u have to invite friends over to see your results. WHY? that sounds kinda desperate. I wanna know but I don't know if my frens want to know. So why can't this app. just publish my test results next to my profile page!?! The power of facebook is, how it can attract people to invest so much in their tests and all the other apps. and stuff. Reminds me of what local celebrity blogger Xiaxue once said, 上万网的人都是无聊的。In some sense, it's true.

my day I walked home wif Jasmie (+Jun Yin & KEvin) for once in a long, long while. And we sat at the bus stop and talked about all the things in our lives .. and made me wonder, education in Singapore is getting more stressful by the year. Her bro, who is in primary one, already has guide books & assesment books to help him study. While out of my 4 nieces, 2 are already attending enrichment classes on Saturdays (the other 2 are below one). And they're under 4. Looking at it, they are really still so young! The word class brings to mind interminable lessons of cramming some stuff into ur brains, precisely because they are going to be tested for exams and subsequently the big exams like PSLE, Olvls, Alvls. Who likes it? We learning in such a constipating environment. hey I deviated from my main point. What I wanted to say is, I had a good time sitting with my best friend.

pocketful of sunshine

2008-05-02T16:20:00.004+08:00

Natasha Beddingfield's latest song Pocketful of Sunshine is great! It's all about how nothing can us down, and it's quite encouraging.
This is a live version performed during American Idol and I think she's a fantastic singer!
Take me away. A secret place. A sweet escape.
Take me away,To better days.

Exams are making me feel crushed, crushed, crushed! Brrr.. perhaps it is the culmination of studying the day before for all the exams. Felt so tired yesterday after my nieces and cousin went back. Couldn't take it no more [ A MAth and E. Lit. ]
It ends next Thursday. and then Chinese O Levels.

bizarre-bazaar

2008-04-14T10:19:00.004+08:00

Lots of things happened last week.

On Saturday we had the Bazaar by the Lake
(which is ironic becos there are no stalls around the lake)
and our class stall was a huge success ! Why? Becos we sold all our things by 2.38pm!!
There was a really heavy rain at 12,1pm and I was tiptoeing cos I didn't want my shoe to get wet. Then it didn't stop and I couldn't tiptoe anymore so I stopped.
Water seeped in instantaneously and when I went home @ 3.30 it was still soaked ... enough about my poor shoes.

After the rain, business slowly picked up and ta-dah all our things were gone! Yes we had some seriously serious promoter who was selling all the stuff singlehandedly, and luring customers to our stall. I think she can win a Best service award, if there's one !

One class had this Dunking machine and Mr Ryan Chia and our principal got dunked ! What can I say to them? At least they're sporty enough.

Then after our portugese egg tarts & kueh were sold out, we started to do balloon sculpting and sold those balloons for $1 each! At first we wanted to sell the balloons alongside with the other food, but Miss Teo (our form teacher) said another class was selling it, so we couldn't sell. So I'm really glad we could sell it in the end! Hopefully we made some kids happy! I like to do this becos it is probably the only new skill I've picked up this year! I first learned it when I went to volunteer for Acres @ CWP and to raise funds, they were selling balloons in the shape of dogs, swords, flowers, giraffe etc. @ $2. So I started learning it too .. [let's fast forward the technical part] .. Haha I guess I like to see children smiling and happy so I like to do this. =)

>>Priscilla, my fav. niece among the many that I have

And the other things that happened last week was all the prep. we had to do for this bazaar. And it was Ernest and Constances' BD on 12th April.
Oh .. Chinese O LVL is coming up on 26th May(shudders). o_O

5 5 5

2008-04-06T13:52:00.003+08:00

5.January.08 accepted Christ
5.April.08 I went to church for the first time !! hehe I went to the 5.30 YPM [ young people ministry] service @ church of Singapore and attended cell group . Met this person called Pamela, who introduced and led the way for me. she's alr. 22 but looks like she's only 17, 18 and she works as a prison officer ! Just like what Yusheng is in the drama series *shou zu*, except that this time it's for real.I joined her cell grp and went thru the bible, as in several verses from the book of Philippians and blahblah.. gosh before I went, I was thinking like it was going to be like attending class on the first day of school, afraid and uncertain . but it turned out ok ! Which was (vv importantly) because I met Pamela :) And my cousin, who introduced me to this church, said it was a divine arrangement of God. yay PraiseTheLord :)

and life goes on ...

2008-04-01T18:40:00.002+08:00

today is april fool's day !! School as usual, but there was no SAP today !! Walked out wif Yi Jie and we both ordered 3 donuts each =)

Just my own opinions...
Why must there be this like-dislike feelings among people? Plus all those who say they don't like backstabbers/ proud ppl, etcetc. Are we in a position to judge others? And why are some ppl so narrow-minded? Can only think from your own perspective, can't take a step back and emphatise with others.

Yeah, this world is unfair. This is what I think, if I can't get along with a friend, I would just think of it as 性格不和, and save myself the agony of dwelling on the bad points of a person.

28/3

2008-03-28T21:07:00.003+08:00

WHEE , I'm in a super good mood NOW .

Been playing more and more volleyball this week .

Home gets little violent every time when I come home @ 5++ everyday;
while others prolly get home @ 7?

LIFE: you just gotta prioritise your time ;
while enjoying abit of everything.

http://www.earthhour.org/

waiting with utmost patience ;21/3

2008-03-21T17:38:00.006+08:00

Whee, 4 days flew by so quickly! While I was not buried under a pile of incomprehensible AMATHS homework and staying back for SAP,doreen jie and me went to the beach yesterday at night . the sound of the waves is very relaxing ! ya it's as if it can wash away all my problems, not that I have many.. but haha anyway, I also played volleyball wif wenfong (& ange and kai lin) & really train that was really fun! But, feel a sense of loss that much of my skills have gone but I still like to play it alot. :)

I guess I'll just hide whatever unhappy things and shove it somewhere else.

sheesh, I cant stand my auntie sometimes, she just makes me so pissed off. her leg is still so sore and keeps asking me to do things. But that is fine, it's her snide comments which I can't stand. Ya we all know shouldn't quarrel with old ppl, just let them. But I guess I just get irritated too easily. GOD help me

tues11/3

2008-03-11T18:50:00.004+08:00

the most exciting thing that happened to me today was.. I was hastily left hurrying back home because it started drizzling and I was umbrella-less. I was buying food back from the hawker center and after sitting down and savouring my $1 slice of honeydew while reading 8 days, I decided to go home. And I forgot that SG can become rain city at times. But it's ok, I actually like the rain. I just didn't like the idea of, (of wad ar?), of food getting wet and cold and my 8 days getting wet as well! It's taking an awfully [ reminds me of awfully chocolate which I heard but never tried before! ] long time to upload the pic.this is the picture of the blue-blue sky after a rain
severely lacking in adjectives :/

Whee, I wana continue blogging but but auntie's back from her check-up & I ... have to go :/
oh.. I really wanna say that I could become a 8 days or Lime ed one day!

2008-03-06T21:18:00.005+08:00

Now can slack and play ~~ Walked outta sku wif kai lin today and
we bought 8days n Lays bbq potato chips frm 7-11,
then we went over to the bubble tea shop to eat it.
Feeling bad cos we didnt buy anything n yet were sitting thr,
we both bought waffles :]
and chill b4 going back. She was not feeling well hmm.. dono if she's ok now
"kai lin are u ok?" --shoutout
And I started playing o2 jam hheh, now level 4 only, very noob
I'll start getting sick of it when I hit mid-range lv, but for now,
I'm still satisfied playing it!

CT is over! SPA is over!
Screw up in Chem. calculation and bio graph. physics results very off.
ok that's all I want to complain about

I will REGRET. and LEARN
feeling lyk pulling tis face -
this is Phoebe :]
3andahalf years old

it's okay ... to fail

friday/29

2008-02-29T20:43:00.004+08:00

heheys, had chinese SAP after school today instead of Guides. I wrote 4 pages for my discursive essay (yi lun wen), my loongest to date!! But I'm not sure if my format is entirely correct, NVM it's over. O ya, the highlight of the day shud actually be the SS and Physics CT rite. I made mistakes but I don't wana brood over it. I WILL REGRET. AND LEARN .

Then my auntie is down with ~~rheumatism~~ and she is mostly lying down all the time. I helped to spray some kind of lotion onto her legs and hands and I found out that mashed potato is a really good remedy to treat rheumatism. She has difficulty walking around and I feel scared that she would fall down everytime she doesn't want me to help her; she wants to do it on her own..
Opps.. its not so serious after all! My auntie came back on Tuesday after doctor extracted the toxins from her hand. She was able to walk immediately aft. doctors applied a "heat pack??" on her legs...these are problems of old age :( which we are all far away

Then when I walked home today, I bought 2 donuts from munchy donuts!!! I tried blueberry for the first time and the skin is kind of "crispy" and the jam is actually cold! Then I also had my favourite Choc'o Latte. They shud make me the youth (and free) ambassador to promote munchy man!! I ate it 2/3 times this week !! hehe

Then during Guides today, me and JT Yi Jie took sec. 1s for speaker badge test. YA said we are very nice to them. then the sec.1s keep saying that they didnt see the criteria pasted on the noticeboard. Donno whats the problem. :x

(guides)

2008-02-24T14:03:00.004+08:00

friday thinking day ceremony
was all jitters b4 I read da speech.. cos it's my first time up on stage. But I think it was ok .. no screw up or anything. and im glad my voice didnt sound kiddy, lyk a pri. sku kid. aiya..

saturday thinking day celebrations @ Indoor Stadium
chung cheng second coy: silver!!
chung cheng first coy : gold!!
frm sec. 1 all da way till b4 we took over, I was in o2. then when we take over, they chg me to coy o1. make me feel lyk a "traitor" by crossing over. Then Simin [ ex-o2 DM] gave me da coy o2 de DM heirloom, which is veri contradicting rite..nvm think I will pass it on to a coy o2 future DM.

O even though we didn't win for the banner n poster making competition, it ok, can tell that u all put in effort for it.
There was lesser performances this year. And I realised that Chung Cheng did really well!!! 'cos usually , there'd be this girls sku which has 3 companies and they would either get gold or silver everytime. then this time they were lyk MIA, which is quite surprising. then it ended early by 45mins??
we went to leisure park cc, there's vr few ppl there and some of the shops have not opened yet. But there's a cinema, skating rink and a bowling alley plus a donut shop called donut and donuts. I tried one called golden apple (1.20), which was not bad. Their flavours look suspiciously similar to that of munchy donuts, but m.d now cost 1.30, cos they're now a registered company and have to charge GST i mentioned this b4 rite ...FYI I'm a donut fan! because donuts r sweet and I like sweet things !!!
Then hui yan, JT yi jie and me left early cos we were not eating our dinner there. As we walked out, we saw one guide whose blouse was fully tucked out. I was so disappointed but then, if she can do such things, it really shows how much she respects Guides. :(

CHERISH .

2008-02-16T19:29:00.003+08:00

saturday
woke up at 11, rushed to budget terminal to send of wei li jie jie, then went to Parkway to do sum chores.. came back home and did housework (1st time in 2 weeks) and was really tired by then. bathed and then doing my ying yong wen now. then the lightbulb in da dining area suddenly went off so I replaced it (successfully!). need to focus on common test and o levels. so cutting down on blogging time !! must control myself, cannot spend to much time here . just changed my tagboard colours thou.
friday
Guides was quite okay, only "shouted" once cos some were not paying attention to wanting and gc, who were talking to them. next week is orienteerin and me and yi jie can go and help them. i lyk planning route!! In fact i stayed up till 12am until my uincle and aunty came back then i realised how late it was, and panicking, scarli they angry and scold me.. but hehe my uncle was in a good mood that day, and gave me half an hour more! but it got cut short due to unrelated and inconvenient-to-mention circumstances. But I'm still happy. I was very happy yesterday!!!!! dun ask me why. but maybe it was bcos I played ball wif other sec.4s n some juniors aft. activity? then amanda and adeline came back and me and yi jie talked to them? or maybe it is bcos we are teaching them some new and more exciting thing this coming week, yes that's it!!!
HAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPYHAPPYme. it's easy to make me happy!

young ones!

2008-02-13T18:05:00.003+08:00

This is my first post of my nieces and nephews !!!Haha this is a pic. of my favourite niece, Priscilla, who just turned 2 just yesterday!

this is Chloe, a 13th month old baby girl whose smile is the most cheerful of all!
she is also currently the youngest of the 4.

and this is 3.5yrs old Phoebe, de "lao da". Doesn't she just know how to pose! Btw, she gets jealous easily and is at the age where she would throw tantrums just because her sister has something that she doesn't have.

Hehe this's Stanley, who loves to come up to my room and mess up my table. his favourite word:"Paper?", asking permission to doodle my rough paper~

Check out the suprised look on Priscilla's face. Ain't she cute!!!!!

cny

2008-02-09T14:11:00.002+08:00

CNY
Day 1

stop 1:Visited Uncle's Mother, not my own because they are no longer around. Last year this time, there would be many other relatives already there, eating her home cooked food. But surprise, there was nobody there this year. Who else can u visit on 初一 besides ur parents?

stop 2: Leon's cousin house.

Day 2
stop 1:Betty's jie mum house
stop 2: back home!!
stop 3: Paul cousin's home

Day 3
one n only stop: Paul cousin's home again to celebrate Priscilla's 2nd BD.

Day 4
early morning: Sharon cousin flew back to Kumning at 7am but I slept . . . and didnt wake up to say bye!! And my other cousin said Stanley was calling me "xiao gu". slept at 1am~~~ lost in translation was showing on tv! but it's a little boring .
afternoon: sent Leon cousin off at Budget terminal airport. He's going overseas for 3 years (work). Some tears . but im not that close to him so I don't feel very sad. Alas, I wish him all the best !
now, back to [school mode]

I made a resolution: I'm not going to force my ideas on other ppl, they've had enough of my "preaching" and if they really mean it, then I wouldn't have to remind them so many times. I'm just gonna let go, and not play the bad ma'am/sec.4 who always scolds or is so stern wif them. That is not who I am. Anyway we don't have much time left anyway. This balancing act is off.

Day 5 monday, back to school
event 1: helped out for school CNY performance (backstage crew). Turned out that practically each performing grp either had helpers from their own CCA or that nothing was needed. And all those heavy stuff were carried by boys, who were stronger . hmph, so we slacked most of the way and I helped to shift some chairs and stands after the CO performance. @ least we'll get CIP hours for it. I even read my Chi. storybook <佐贺的超级阿ma>.About half done ~ I've never read a chinese book with such determination before. I rmbered last in pri. sku, I would take one year and never finish reading the book. the enthusiasm of getting a new book would wear off and I'd be back to english books again.

event 2: I turned down a chance to go against my conscience today. zx asked me to go to jasmie's house to 拜年 but I rejected him due to obvious reasons. Don't wanna lie again [consciously].

event 3: had meeting wif YI JIE and scouts to discuss 22nd feb. A combined rehearsal will be needed 1 or 2 days before the event. Guess we'll need some time to run thru this thinggy during friday's activity.

event 4: Guess who was here as I reached home! my 二姑, second aunty came to visit us and she gave me a $50 angbao ! this is the biggest amt I've received this yr[so far]! She was my favourite aunty when I was young bcos she'd bring me to different places everytime I stayed over at her house. Now, I hardly visit her, instead she'd come over and see her sister and me .

~ tuesdayy

2008-02-05T22:27:00.000+08:00

tuesday Stayed back wif swan ser & yi jie to do stock check of Guides rm. Aloy came to join us later. We found thinner and me n yi jie were lyk so excited but in de end, it wasn't very effective in cleaning up the stains left by the Kangatoo paint. =(

Got my hands black n dirty but I dun mind. Only 2,3 months left before we have to stop CCA. POP is pushed forward by lyk, 3 months? NVM. O Level is the bigbig threat here. Oh then we walked out to munchy donuts and they raised prices to 1.30 per donut! now it costs 7 for a pack of 6. When I asked they said it was bcos they started charging GST! Why (I figured out) business is too good!! Due to ardent supporters lyk me!!! hhas it's ok

babadubdub

2008-02-02T15:41:00.000+08:00

Just came back from NTUC after doing food shopping. We bought 30 cans of COKE and it was sooo heavy lemme calculate, it's 9.9kg!!! And the taxi driver couldn't even come out to help us (he just doesn't wanna get wet, period).

friday Guides activity was quite fine, juniors had alot of drilling practice by YAs, really thankful to them bcos they can teach them very well & bring it back to former standards. One minor issue yet to settle but it's just whether are they willing to change or not. It can be so easy. PHAT. whateva.O yah, we also dismissed them 15 mins early. MIRACLE .

During lesson time Jane suddenly turned to me and said "thank you for everything". I was like " ni zhong yu liang xin fa xian" in a nonchalant tone but it's so out of the blue! I better record this down before I forget it! Whenever frens say "rmb that time we....." chances are 5 outta 10 I can't remember what they're talking about. And it just happened 2 to 3 years back ~
[random statement]fav. CNY goodie: pineapple tarts. and My cousin's umbrella stinks!
aiya have to start doing housework and homework. sian

this is the guiding light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine [yea!]

it's another slightly tirin' day.

2008-01-31T17:02:00.000+08:00

tmr is the deadline for the CNY decorations, and for the past few days it has always been the same pathetic no. of ppl staying back to decorate the class. other classes have at least 9,10 ppl. It's a class thing u know, not just a chairperson and i/c and the same old ppl helping again.

I shld stop whining but it is so discouraging to see that other classes can cooperate and stay back to volunteer their help whereas 4rp, the supposedly best class can't. :/

It's just a empty shell. Even if we win, it is not a whole class effort.

U all are willing to bring red packets but unwilling to actually spend time to craft things out of it.

Take a deep breathe, I have learnt to let go.

Ok. stop.

CNY is coming ! My cousin has already bought boxes of pineapple tarts and loveletter. And uncle and aunty are stocking up on cans of Green Tea and 1.5l bottles of Coke.

Let the feast begin! and regret when pimples start popping out. But I can't resist good pineapple tarts !! Yesterday me and my cousing watched a food programme which reccommended good CNY goodies and there was one shop along Joo Chiat Rd, which is quite popular for its delicious goodies. Wahh, if it were me, I wouldn't complain one bit about buying a box or 2 from there, but my cousin thinks that it's vr expensive. we only get to eat it once a year!!

walked to the busstop and met jas, kevin, xian kai, chatted for a lil' bit b4 we took bus home . then chat wif xk somemore. . . . . . .just like the good ol' days?

there's Guides tmr :>

and an e.geog. test before that

always believe that tomorrow will be a brighter day !

>>nobody said it was easy >

2008-01-29T18:48:00.000+08:00

wwooaahhs.. feeling really drowsy and sleepy right now. was checking my mail just now and saw this notice titled Earth Hour 2oo8, clicked on it and it led to a webbie encouraging people to switch off their lights for 1 hours on 29th march. Last year, it was carried out in Sydney, but this year, it will be a worldwide movement. and being the pro-environment person that I am, I signed up to take part and receive updates. U can check it out at http://www.earthhour.org/. And they had this embed video function, so I decided to try it ! lol first timer.

School
;Was having a bad mood in da morning, dunnoo why. I think it was bcos I slept @ 1am yesterday, doing all my chinese homework and preparing for the CNY class deco. special thanks to all classmated who helped out today, namely Kathy, Kai Lin, Bao Fang, Ernest, Shu Mei, Lin Li and others who ~~brought~~ will bring their materials, namely Wilmer for his cans and Jane for the twine. And we were scolded by Mr Soon today during FRC for dirty classroom, again. A little angry bcos we have already spent 1 yr as a class but yet we can't volunteer to do our duties. Initiative is sorely lacking in here. But as always, I'm a optimistic person and I hope that everyone will sacrifice abit of their time and help, in whatever ways they can to contribute to the class.. I mean, I don't just want the last 2 yrs of my sec. sku life to be just about study, guides, home . Where's the love?!

Brrr.. have to go and study for emaths test now.. why can't I shake off the urge of falling asleep.. my eyelids are >feeling so heavy. moral of the story: don't burn midnight oil BCOS I CAN't take it

fri guides activity

2008-01-25T20:26:00.000+08:00

Hahs...today was 1st activity with Sec. 1 Guides.. hais only got 10 of them

but they are all not bad, very willing to learn.

Just now I was teaching them some basic command, then after they learnt already

I let them rest awhile then one of the sec. 1 said I look very mature (akanot like a sec. 4!)

I dunno whether to take it as a compliment or a go sulking bcos of it.

But I guess I'll take the former, 16 yrs old alreadi, time to be mature !!!!

Then b4 that we had station games and I was wif Swan Ser,

then there was one grp. which made us vr happy!! Haha dun wan 2 say here lar,

it (what they said) sounds vr bimbo .

And ohh there were 2 new sec. 1s (Jass and.. I'm so sori I forgot ur name) in my patrol and 1 sec 3 (Geraldine)! Suddenly my

patrol looks very big cos there are 8 ppl, 9 inc. me!! yays

I rmb one of the one-whom-i-4got-e-name sec. 1 opened her eyes real big when we told her she would have to take test to become a Guide. (but NPCC is also e same) btw this is a bunch of ixora flowers. my patrol!!

wednesday

2008-01-23T15:45:00.000+08:00

school
I was chosen to participate in the Commonwealth Essay Writing Comperition during English lesson! I know that it is quite a big competition and I once read the winning essay in th strait times!! Anyway one of the Qn is "the commonwealth Qn" is based on the theme for Commonwealth (what is that anyway?) Day 08 which is "the environment, our future"; discuss the likely impact of climate change on life as you know it. I got the sense of deja vu because my counsin (Doreen) had been encouraging me to join such competitions since sec. 3 so that it would be easier to attain a scholarship (seeing that I'm all rounded and that). And at least there's a topic which I'm interested in !! As you can read, I'm quite excited by this since well, after all, this is an opportunity to do something beyond the normal studying and CCA.
Hope I can produce a credible essay !! I wouldn't dream of winning the first prize, because I know there are better writers out there than me. But whatever, just do my best!

Besides this, during maths lesson ytd Mdm Tan gave each of us a Qn to do in an exercise and mine happened to be a difficult one but I managed to figure out the answer today *(many thanks to Jane who referred me to pg 59!). Then when the teacher said the wanted to go thru the qn, I said there was no need because I already know how to do. Bcos if anybody doesn't know how to do any Qn, she will ask the whole class to do it, so I thot I saved the cls some trouble then. But then she asked me to come up and explain to the class!! So... "sway(unlucky).." Then Renee and Jane wrote on the back of a fulscap pad " MEI ZHEN 加油 add oil" . Which was quite theatrical, it was as if they were my supporters! But I made some mistakes anyway 'cos I didn't do any calculation and so the graphs are not so accurate.. no need to saw awww... It's not embarrassing at all 'cos I didn't do much actually, except to read ask them to read page 59 of the TB. You know how people ( or is it just teens in SG) are always very hesitant to go to the front of cls to present their answers or to ask questions? (except a few) Our Physics teacher told us about students in a school in Mumbai and they were so full of questions and people competed to voice their answers/ opinions during lesson. The teacher just acts as a facilitator while students do majority of the talking. I wonder if the education system in Singapore created a un-conducive environment for students to learn creatively. The system is like, let the teacher feed u the content, go home and do some magical processing or have photographic memory to regurgitate it during tests/exams. Yes I know they came up with the "Teach less, learn more" thing but it doesn't make much difference to learning. Besides compulsory e-learning during holidays. We students have gotta be more proactive about our learning. Have I found the answer to this troubling trend? Ha, I'm no genius . I just like to discuss problems and escape from the really important matter at hand [ eg. bathing!, doing revision for a whole slew of tests next week and the mighty O levels]

haha gotta go! I find kids amazing. They can make friends thru a window

by looking into the next house.

sunday

2008-01-20T13:29:00.000+08:00

u noe wad my aunty (who's also my guardian) just told me ? she asked me if I want to go back to my bro's house (i.e. stop living wif her). I would la since she doesn't want me to stay wif her anymore. I think I create alot of problems for her and my uncle. WTH I dun wna think abt this anymore. I still have to do my housework and study for AMaths test tmr.

happy belated bd to huirong
happy bdae to my pri sku fren shieleen

today loR

2008-01-18T22:34:00.000+08:00

Haha.. I felt very happy during and after Guides today 'cos the juniors (sec.3s) attitude was very good ! :D
Then when I came back home, Priscilla ( my 23mth old niece) went back home already!!! I finally post a pic of how she looks ( i think she was in the midst of yawning!). Haiya I don't think she's coming back next week to stay wif us le, cos her parents employed a new maid to take care of her.

I'm gay! =D

2008-01-17T17:24:00.000+08:00

Whoa... it's been a very tiring but fun day at sku.. Had Bio and Chem. test today.frustrated wif myself bcos I let marks fly away bcos Ididn't read the question properly. ALso got back my Amaths test paper. passed by 0 marks /25.

I'll tell myself toOPEN my eyes BIG when I read questions!!!

Then I wore my new sku uniform and (YiJie) discovered that the buttons on my shoulder

could be opened. So Jane opened the other side and I turned onto the other side & Renee said it looked like the helicopter wings in one of the Doraemon char. ! I looked kinda idiotic but I think I was feeling hyper anyway. ANd during English lesson at 12.15 the whole class had basically konked out and those who were not reading their Bio. TBs under the table were sleeping. Then the relief teacher Miss Vanessa was going thru the comprehension exercise WS and nobody responded to her questions until ... ME > YI JIE > JANE decided to shout out our answere.. and we did it alot of times, it was like there were only the 3 of us in the entire class!!THen we decided to say the answer out together and I think many people turned back to look at us. I was crazy laughing until Yi Jie told me to keepquiet. But I think I replied her, I'm trying to create some noise on behalf of the class.

yes, that's how bad 4RP is.

Sad right, after more than a year spent as a class together, we don't have a shred of unity at all . Except for the three of us. Who, as I like to describe, have lots of initiative. And the monitor Kathy and VC Ernest, who I know have contributed alot to the class.

I'm having so much fun trying out different colours now (found this great webbie called http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html which has the colour chooser function) Sorry I'm quite a novice when it comes to this kind of things. I just want to put my words up on the web. this is my outlet!

home : ate my lunch at 5+ cos my niece and nephew were upstairs in my room and I had to play with them .

Hai, one day has passed and there's

Guides tomorrow!! Whee ~ HAve a nice day (it's a title of a song by stereophonics!:D)

A first in my life

2008-01-13T21:42:00.000+08:00

this afternoon after my cousins and nieces Phoebe and Priscilla arrived, we saw a dead bird, either a sparrow or a pigeon on the outdoor carpark. It was bruised on one side and it was lying in the middle of the road. I thot I saw a crow fly away from it. then afterwards my uncle actually asked me to put it by the side of the road on the grass patch. So using tissue paper, I held it by its claws and managed to get a detailed look on its injury. Blood wasn't leaking out, but the flesh was exposed. The image of unreleased freedom went thru my mind. Cos I usually associate birds with freedom cos they are able to fly. Haha quite an innocent take. I wasn't scared !! hahas

Then after I came up, everybody told me not to touch anything and I went to the toilet straight to wash my hands. And that wasnt enuf at all . I had to change the set of clothes which I just changed a couple of hours ago and bathe again using Dettol !! LOL . Quite troublesome 'cos my cousins were afraid that I would contract some sickness/bacteria from the dead bird. Furthermore there were 2 toddlers in the house.

I checked out VJC's website and the cut off point for it's Arts programme is 6 points!!And maths looks unavoidable, you must take it as a contrasting subject if u take arts. Wonder if there are any other choices. Of course, that is if I can even get into VJC at all, and the chances are not exactly high hurhs..I'm not that confident that I can score so well. And it would be more pressurising than in sec. sku, cos VJC is a better JC !! no. 4 I think .

HAHA I haven't even cleared the O Level hurdle yet but I'm already contemplating such things. Sometimes I have to tell myself: GET REAL gurl!! Back to school and a whole slew of tests next week, take a deep breathe and chiong thru it, whoosh . Be strong

2nd week ~

2008-01-13T15:42:00.000+08:00

It's been okay so far.

A few regrets about last year (Guides Camp)

All is quiet and peaceful now.

Work hard girl! you deserve it .

I'm thinking of going into poly and taking a business course.

But that isn't my passion . I know u're prolly asking wad about JC?>

let's keep my choices open !

gonna rush hw!

have 4 tests next week .

(craving for potato chips :)

2008-01-10T19:31:00.000+08:00

"Always believe that tomorrow will be a brighter day. "-- that is my philosophy for life.

Back to school, there will be an Add. Math test tmr.
there's Guides tomorrow!
I had a bible study session @ Dunman hawker centre yesterday on the pretext that me and my cousin were going out to buy supper for them. Uncle got so pissed when we came back 1hr+ later
Anyway we went through the book of Matthews, the birth of Christ and here's the phrase which striked me most: " With God nothing will be impossible".

At home, I Priscilla and Stanley came upstairs to my bedroom this afternoon to play with the guitar and keyboards and everything they could get their hands on. Stanley doesn't know how to share yet; he kept hitting his older cousin Pris, then sometimes she would erupt in tears dramatically and run to A Gong for cuddling. That's the only bad thing about Priscilla -- she crys to get attention and she does it really loudly! Among the 4 nieces and nephew, I (obviously) like her the most ! She is soo chubby and I think (haha) she likes this xiao gu too! :D

Let's not forget the little things in life which we take for granted but would be incomplete without it

tuesday

2008-01-08T22:18:00.001+08:00

Days have been ok so far. Been playing with Priscilla & Stanley these few days and I haven't finished my hw yet !! There's alot of hw given by the maths tcr (but I know, practice is the key).
School days are ok, but time at home is a blast with Pris. & Stan!!

im bored!

2008-01-05T12:59:00.000+08:00

first week of school passed by, and it wasn't too bad. there was some
scuffle about the seating arrangement but kathy & zi hou got it all sorted out.
And gosh, Miss Teo's (our form teacher) new year resolution is to quit (being a teacher).
Are teachers really under so much stress? It seems like there's no difference between a student & teacher nowadays. We stress about exams before teachers stay up till 1am to finish marking our papers within 3 days.
Blahblahandblahs . . . . . . .this is how it goes

let this year end on a positive note!

2007-12-31T13:24:00.000+08:00

Today is the last day of 2007, and tomorrow will be the first day of a new year.
Does it have any significance? There are so many countdown parties all over the island, all to welcome the coming of a new year. But what is the deal?
Some things repeat, just like a cycle -- School, exams, holidays.
But I (or everybody) hope to gain something new each time we do these things again -- be it memories, new friendships/hobbbies or others

girl guides annual camp '07

2007-12-29T16:31:00.000+08:00

Just returned from camp a couple of hours ago..
From the point of a Guide who demands discipline, perseverance and enthusiasm be observed at all times, this camp certainly was not that tough, comparing it to camps organised by seniors last year/2-3 years ago.
Since I and the others were planning it this time, I can say that nothing went terribly wrong. Which means that it wasn't very exciting either.
Our weakness is that we tend to let one person talk to the squad while we sit at the bench and stare aimlessly, not contributing. This makes the juniors feel like we're not interested in conversing with them.
Even when we talk to them, it's really things which must be said.
We do not know how to bring up the ambience, to make them hyper and eager to carry out what we've organised for them.
And we were worried that activities would overrun, such that we have missed passing down important skills to juniors, and left them unsure of what to do. And some are afraid to ask./
I'm writing all the bad points/points to be improved because I'm doing self-reflection. I don't feel a sense of satisfaction at all .
Maybe it's because I have high standards for them. Perseverance and determination will get them through the camp. It's all in the head, their attitude which reflects their passion for Guides.
My eyes are feeling droopy .
guess I need some shut eye.
Guides, we still have lots more to learn, even if we only have half a year left before we step down.
we will pass down all the skills that we know to you.(because I want Guides in Chungcheng to prosper)

first post

2007-12-29T16:22:00.000+08:00

Ok, I wish to remain anonymous so that I can truly express everything that I'm feeling and not offend people I know.
You might never know how your friends truly feel about you too.
Then again, I'm the kind of person who may not have many friends, but I have true and wonderful friends.
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I especially like to play volleyball. And I like ixora (flower) alot!