Pearlyn Chua shall blog in status message form cos that seems to be how her brain works lately.

Pearlyn Chua suddenly remembered that she hasn't blogged for october. I think.

Pearlyn Chua predicts that seeing her name so much is gonna freak herself out.

Pearlyn Chua needs to mug. chinese. majorly. and evidently does not know how to.

Pearlyn Chua still wonders if she should bot. ok I'll hold off first, good influence people do exist haha.

Pearlyn Chua respects ch'ng for being the only totally scrupulous guy mousehunter. 'sides buying sb+? (andrew still doesn't count!)

Pearlyn Chua really shall go read LOTR. seriously.

Pearlyn Chua is lucky to have generally nice, un-screwed up guy friends.

Pearlyn Chua snorts at the rockstar catch rate difference between ship and gnawnia.

Pearlyn Chua hath done nothing with her EXPIRING $10 haagen daaz voucher. leave your textbooks for a moment and mug me, people!

Pearlyn Chua's hunting party shall finally do a tourney after how long ahaha!

Pearlyn Chua writhes in misery. I can't do ANY of the camps ):

Pearlyn Chua's verb vocab is running out.

Pearlyn Chua uses rb to get rb!

Pearlyn Chua starts becoming more random.

Pearlyn Chua loves the whole world... boom de yada boom de yada :D

Pearlyn Chua kinda misses band. and the whole rgssb thing.

Pearlyn Chua will be able to do a split soon yes yes!

Pearlyn Chua flings poo. ignore this, non-mousehunters.

Pearlyn Chua wants to go to sentosaaa!

Pearlyn Chua has so far successfully started each with a different word.

Pearlyn Chua sees some interesting stuff on status shuffle, seriously!

Pearlyn Chua misses you (:

Pearlyn Chua addresses the nagging feeling that she has a ss option essay due. okay, on second thoughts, nevermind.

Pearlyn Chua now doesn't really enjoy her options. I mean, aceptable lah. but I seem to have more affinity for quantum physics :p

Pearlyn Chua finds this quite fun and may do it again.

Pearlyn Chua should shut up and drive go now.

Pearlyn Chua was right about the third statement.



ahaha heng I remembered my post at least once a month thingy in time.
unfortunately, I'm way behind in exercising, I've to do like 55 more push ups and 50 more sit ups by the end of this month, which is reallyyy soon, but that's okay lah.
err as for the accumulated 7.2km left to run, eh heh heh I think I shall just carry it forward to next month.

ok at the risk of this post becoming a things to do... ohwtheck. I shall just dump some anyway. WE NEED TO PROM SHOP YES. and shop, like for normal stuff. um um I've about a billion and one presents and letters to do as well. and all those get songs, organise iTunes. ahh fuggeddit, I shall stop here.

I realised it's kind of bad when I start talking to myself in status message format O.o and oh, I should start using O__o right. but I swear it still just looks like, an extended bra, or smth. OKAYIGNORE.

this post is crappy. haha wells. post-EYAs feels so helpless, honestly.

yay I wants to facil sec 2 camp this year :D and should I go for 50th anniversary dinner!

which reminds me, WE NEED TO GO OUT! like, everyone. group date, cat class reunion, owl outing (I VOTE BEACH :D). and and julias, we need to start getting nyaa stuff in order, and rg youthgroup needs to meet, like, for the first time!

ok I shall comprain about random stuff. I can't get my black widow zomggg, and pooflinger's is down or smth, I can't tell whether I should stay at caped. life of hardcore mousehunters, it's funny. meh and revision exercises.

ohyes options whee! film thingy, is totally like reliving film man. for 250 bucks. but well, I likes it lah, quite fun. haha we totally scrapped our original idea man, why does that sound familiar xD shiing is awesome! yay :D and omg am I acting O.o O___o :/ anywayy. symmetry in nature! is awe-inspiring, seriously. *cues choirs of angels* and the fieldtrip sounds cool whee! and I shall gain more than a picture of a cow's butt yes yes :p AND CELESTIA IS COOL OMG GO DOWNLOAD IT PEOPLE. randomly, our galaxy has about 250 billion stars, and there're about 100 billion other galaxies. chew on that. doesn't it make you feel absolutely small and insignificant! okay I don't know about ss, first one tmr!

oh yay I gots a frisbee! albeit an ri one, but whatever. I needs to learnnn.

I've this feeling I had other important stuff to do on the comp, but hmm. ohwhellies. shall go read ju's blog. and help him promote. read people! scroll a little to links, justin, and try to tune out the swearing.

[add] wow, colouring that was painful. I thought the touchpad was bad, until I tried the mouse. [/add]

[add] omg how could I forget to mention how much fun we've been having with bridge these days! but I shall not elaborate, that's risky. [/add]



ok I debated whether to emo or amuse first.

being a best for last, I decided on emo.

at best, rg girls are absolute overachievers (holy cow till now I still spell achieve wrongly), excelling in acads, sports, arts and all its various forms, everything. freaky when I first met such people, still freaky to discover such people, will always be freaky to find such people. yes even when they're all around.

at worst, there are those who are pro in at least something, however seemingly insignificant, still something. at the very very least, they have a strong interest in something or other.

I wish I was even the latter.

now, for teh awesome confucius (kon-foo-shus!) jokes! which I shall put here in case I forget. but still find people to randomly tell anyway heh. and do tell me if you have any!

okay in increasing humour order!

confucius say, man who cut himself while shaving is going to lose face.

*cues weak laughs*

confucius say, girl and boy who go camping must beware of evil intent.

*cues confused looks* HAH, I actually got it fast.

confucius say, man who stand on toilet bowl is high on pot.

haha!

and the one which is a variation of an overused pun, and wunderfully started the conversation from the mention of shiing's surname (xD),

confucius say, man who walk into airport door is going to bangkok.

laugh, I tell you. *ignores innuendo-induced "err"s*

and, of course, the very best,

confucius say, woman who get laid in tomb is going to become mummy.

OKAY NOW YOU REALLY CANNOT NOT LAUGH AT THAT. unless you don't get it. in which case, hah.

fare thee well, back to history essay and TESTIMONIAL WTHWTHWTH *HANDS UP BLANK SHEET OF PAPER*.

[add]
haha, from don chapman:
"Then there was the deacon who was fixated on obscure, antiquated hymns written by Isaac Watts. This hymn crank wasn't satisfied that we did a healthy dose of popular hymns - he constantly pestered me to use his favorite, "How Sweet and Awesome is this Place" in our praise sets. I have sung hymns my entire life, consider myself to be somewhat of a hymn expert and had never heard of this one. Here's the second verse of this lovely ditty:

Here every bowel of our God
With soft compassion rolls;
Here peace and pardon bought with blood
Is food for dying souls.

I'm sorry, but we're simply not going to sing a hymn about God's bowels in a contemporary worshiping church. I mean, fire me if you want, we just ain't gonna do it.

This deacon finally worked himself up into such a hissy fit that he threatened to leave the church.

Over a hymn about God's bowels."
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[add 2]
and how could I forget!

epic chinese moment of the day: (besides my all-too-awesome FAIL :/)

"来，我们看俊男的。。。哦，她名字叫俊男，可能哥哥叫美女。。。"

LOL.
[/add 2]



it's all about the wordplay (: yes I got a couple more mraz songs yay. literally a couple though ): I shall get his albums from jess someday!

yesyes anyway! DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EQUILIBRIUM ARROW LENGTHS ARE BASED ON EQUILIBRIUM POSITION! omgomg. and hey it's not just me okay! joo didn't either, and mak was totally intrigued! honestly, we thought it was just her handwriting mannn. I feel so cheated of this fact for half a year!

hooray for freaking out over/discussing chem over msn. mudlet pluffer! :D AND I IS HORRIBLY (dr horrible haha!) SCREWED. why did I fill half my cheatsheet with QA argh argh argh. AND GO AWAYY EQUILIBRIUM.

incidentally, we were just done with the last peetee OF OUR LIVES. hurh. nice ending. I mean, it just had to be one with completely confusing expectations, annoying character limits, and pure wootness right? ohwell, apparently we'll miss PTs haha. I doubt it though, unless you're talking about in comparison to PW or smth lol. I could never do PTs.

mhmm. back to chem. I vote we change it's name to cheem! cheemistry. AWESOMEZ :D yeah and feesics.

ha la la la la.

and, my other recent love. even heroes have the right to dream, and it's not easy to be me ♥

and, since dyd is coming! how wonderful, how beautiful, Jesus Your name, name above every name (:



okay, kidding. not like I would know. but seriously, considering that it's a neutralisation reaction. (if you REALLY want to know, the girl's is acidic and the guy's is alkaline) and so, acid + base salt and water! plus it's an exothermic reaction right? there you have it.

AND OMG OMG HOLY MOOING COW WHAT. my mbti just SOMEHOW morphed into intp from some other site, then esfj on the one I originally used I think. (ok but J's 1%. my E's now quite high though.). AHHH. I wants my esfp back. meh. I think it's cos I put some stuff about planning ahead, but hey, it's the way they phrased the questions! like, yeah I plan on going out ahead cos I've to uh tell my parents? okay so I don't care I'm still esfp then :D oh and according to the traits listed on http://www.personalitypathways.com/, I almost always have at least one from the other letter.

okay so off now to, guess what.
ASSASSPEETEE. no prizes.
why is this familiar, I think I moaned about the previous one too haha.
IZ SCREWED.
30%, what on earth?
and huzzah, EOYs are all like HI, WE'RE 40%/50% kinda thing. :/
HALP.



one of the few words that have more vowels than consonants! especially if you dis-count all the three-letter ones.

anywayy.

Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
• Noah's wife was called Joan of Arc.
• Henry VIII thought so much of Wolsley that he made him a cardigan.
• The fifth commandment is "humour thy father and mother".
• Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night.
• Salome was a woman who danced naked in front of Harrod's.
• Holy acrimony is another name for matrimony.
• The pope lives in a vacuum.
• The patron saint of travelers is St. Francis of the sea sick.
• Iran is the Bible of the Moslems.
• A Republican is a sinner mentioned in the Bible.
• Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat twelve partridges.
• The native of Macedonia did not believe, so Paul got stoned.
• The first commandment was when Eve told Adam to eat the apple.
• It is sometimes difficult to hear what is being said in church because the agnostics are so terrible.

"Conservatives say teaching sex education in the public schools will promote promiscuity. With our education system? If we promote promiscuity the same way we promote math or science, they've got nothing to worry about." - Beverly Mickens

"First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards." - Mark Twain

"Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalised by music." - George Bernard Shaw

haha I've loads more, but one can never quote enough. I likes the church ones though! xDD



ahahaha I got my wysiwyg back! :D :D but I've to use on internet explorer, darn. still, praise the person who thought up of ctrl f5!

anywayy. the main point. LAST PRACCC! okay, so I have decided to have a proper post after all, and woohoo I made it before the end of the month. yupp, okay, I know it's not REALLY our last prac, and it's not REALLY farewell, but still. and even though we've been practically dead/non-existent/decomposing for the past months since the syf high (indeed, the gradual drop in, well, everything actually, goes pheeeeeeeeewBOOP. I miss the high. I miss the connection. I miss the passion. I miss the love.), today sort of was, like, the END. dunno, it's just this FINALITY thing. okay I shall stop with the emphasising caps. yes anywayy, with everything, this just comes to mind:

these are the times that we'll remember
breaking the city's heart together
finally it's our time now
it's our time now

okay with the exception of the second line I guess. but truly. I think there's something I mentioned before, on how things are so difficult to capture and keep and treasure forever. if only my rgssb experience can be kept in a bottle, forever preserved, forever cherished, forever accessible! time and again I guess I've toyed with the idea of scrapbooking, all that. but, cost aside, I think it really cannot capture the true essence of everything, pretty though it be. okay this isn't the best time to try and reminisce about my bandlife, seeing homework calls (what's new). but I believe it's really this beautiful, magical journey, a myriad of events, emotions intricately woven in, shared with wonderful people.

maybe someday I'll try to compile my thoughts on rgssb. which of course will be limited to my goldfish memory. hopefully batch videos, batch items, piece recordings, notes, presents, all that can still remind me of how much I loved, of what I miss, one day. but feelings, they're not something you can store. seeing as how we have already whammed from syf, how I think I've kind of forgotten how it is to love band, no really really LOVE band, how I've forgotten how it's like to not be top batch, how I've forgotten how it's like to have seniors though I remember enough to know that I miss it. I fear I will forget. yes, we tell ourselves, we tell others, we will always cherish these memories! we will never forget! pardon the cynicism (I really usually am not!), but I really don't think that is possible. I don't know, I've seen myself say year after year that I don't want to grow up, I don't want to leave that year behind. but I move on. I usually somehow somewhat enjoy the next year. it's definitely not like I'm saying the non-band future will be so much better, if not why would I even be talking about missing it! but the reality's still cold and hard sometimes. life goes on. it doesn't leave you behind, misty-eyed about your wonderful past experiences. new ones come, old ones shun over to make space. and so, yes, I fear I may forget.

and thus even more so that I don't want to leave it all behind. 'sides the fact that I will miss like crazy all the little things we take for granted, going to the batchcorr every morning, grinning at batchmates around the school, random batch meals and outings, random section meals and outings, section interaction (the non-awkward silence ones), camwhoringgg, the very feel of holding your instru, polishing, swabbing, carrying stands, dragging chairs, moving timpani, the bandroom, its smell, lying around in it, MR OURA!, these familiar faces, these familiar actions. many we will never get to do again. like today, just before attendance(/dismissal), we realised it's the last one we'll ever take. ever. I know it's not like completely gone erased wiped off the face of the earth nada zilch, but from what I hear/think/expect, it will never ever be the same. so maybe we join rj band to prolong the experience of some stuff that we'll miss. but nope, it can't replace that rgssb-ness. that whole, *gestures wildly with open palms*, that, argh, EVERYTHING. okay sorry I'm not very coherent as of now (and as of always).

but I guess, like everything, it has to end sometime. like all good things. great things. I think it hasn't really sunk it yet, we need to get together and emo sometime. but anyway, I shall do the formalities, though know that I truly mean it with all my heart. thanks to rgssb for existing to even allow me this amazing experience. thanks to the school I guess, for providing us with so much, and for bearing with our sound haha. (noise or music, you decide.) and, most of all, thanks to every single person in my rgssb journey. thanks to the teachers, though sometimes we disagree with them and all, but really we know they have our best interests at heart, and many a time they have shown concern beyond what you see from just any educator. thanks, of course, to mr oura, for his invaluable guidance, for tolerating with us through our lows both emotionally and musically, for leading us in reaching up high. thanks to the seniors, for teaching us so much, and not just in the musical aspect, for pointing the way, for offering that help and support and uh cover heh, for essentially bringing us up. thanks to the juniors, for all the little things that you do, for your random amusingness, for your trust and respect. and, to the two special bunches that mean so much to me. thanks to the section, the wonderful slww, forever awesome, thanks for the many wonderful memories of fun times, in band and out, thanks for the warmth I've been privileged to feel, for having a nice composition of great, non-ap people, for the passion I can sense. and thanks to the batch, bandoliers '09, is was and always will be, for the laughter and the tears, the joy and the fears, the happiness and the pain, in sunshine or in rain, for truly living out "I'll be there for you" in all its beauty, for sharing in the highs and the lows, for all the random times, every single moment we've spent together, indescribable love, the sense of belonging you've given me. I'll miss everyone, really really much. I can't even begin to describe how much I'll miss just simply BEING an rgssbandgirl. but that's it I guess. I could wear the collarpin proudly forever, but that won't bring back all this again. so it seems we all have a quota. you only get four years of this amazing journey, fullstop. and well, finally, it's our time now.



RGSSB ♥



omggg it's nearing the end of july and I nearly missed my one-post-a-month dateline! okay I'm not really up to blogging now so I shall just leave this as a crappy post to fulfill that and um post something better when I'm more inspired yupp.

ohyes, and I miss everyoneee.

and ARGH where has all the blogger colours gone! the entire toolbar actually. rawr.

kayy. *clicks*



has anyone ever noticed that the chicken dance song is on an offbeat but that gets ignored when people are doing the actions and all? okay totally random. haha anywayyyyyy. no change, still wasting my hols away. a normal day: wake up uber late, have breakfast, facebook, have lunch, facebook, church, bathe, dinner, facebook, sleep. mrawr. but whee, daily mass. :D :D :D and more people are addicted to ado now whoo! DO has been getting sad though. sigh when sch restarts I can only go on mondays. I'm seriously gonna miss seeing everyone everyday haha. but that currently isn't the thing I'm most worried about. :/ HW, GO AWAYYYYYEEEE.



orsour



These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.


ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes . ;
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
___________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?
WITNESS: We both do..
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's twenty, much like your IQ.
____________________________ ______ _________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
___________________________________ ______ ___

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the circus was in town, I'm going with male.
_____ ________________________________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
________________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
_________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WIT NESS : The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNE SS: If not, he was by the time I finished.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?
______________________________________

And the best for last:

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.







one happy, exhausted person (:



HAHA I haven't felt my teeth since more than a year ago. they feel funny now. and I'm already missing being able to whistle my F's! pft, and apparently metal's not much diff/actually worse. prays they won't disappear into the bin like many before them! ok haven't even gotten anw so haha. ahh, sat have to wake up early for open house (what's new), but then after our performance slot gotta chiong to dentist then chiong back (ohyes not forgetting changing out of band u of course :/) and man film booth. oh whee we're getting our film posters! (: A1. $8 though, ouch. and booooo screwed solo.

yay owl photo! (: minus some people haha. SFX roof rocks!

on the bus! I think we totally annoyed the bus driver and passengers (as usual).

brought to you by owl! ♥

okay I just need to get a lot of stuff off my chest. (no, I repeat, NO weird imagery plskthx) besides the hw staring me in the face. damn, don't you just hate "life goes on" sometimes? I want to stay here and now (or want to have stayed at various stages in life) forever. but noooooo, here comes mugging. which I refuse to acknowledge. screwit, my rgssb life, it's goinggoinggone. and I totally agree with stuff julia said, rgssb has really been there all the while, smth to look forward to on a blah day (HAHA except some fridays in sec1 :p), comprised of people you see and smile at and love, the bandroom with all it's smellity (uh despite looking like it this is NOT smellyness), the batchcorrs last time when we spent more time in them, the ever-rmbed corr steps (on the other side) where we spent our happy times and our emo times. darn this is really like a farewell post alrd. but truly, okay maybe not to that kind of suicidal extent, but life HAS lost its meaning. and I see what jess means by loving rgssb till you feel like bursting at the seams (doesn't warrant swearing though my dear!) but haha I guess my extent is relatively not as much as hers now because my farewell emo-ing began and has being going on since quite a while ago alrd haha.

anw, syf '09 was really the climax of my, if not our, band lives. (okay sorry I finally got down to reading syf posts just now so if I end up koping a lot of statements, oops sorry! :/) the difference was humongous, and I think it's not just being a jnr then and top batch now, but everything combined I guess. though I really think that played a part, hiding behind versus playing out.

it's no one's fault but mine, of course, but I don't really rmb much from syf '07:
1) cringing at my C# at S, was it?
2) being blocked by gloria's sax I think, in the band photo
3) everyone crying, like crazy, at the gold
4) trying to cheer our directs up
5) some very fail batch dinner with like, four ppl
6) MO saying we played 80% of our usual standard

whereas stuff that stuck after this one:
1) the band pracs leading up to syf, particularly right from after exchange, they were wunderfulllll :D MO said a lot of quotable quotes too
2) unlike many others, my most woah wasn't on stage on the day itself (sadly D:) but like the bandprac on the day before and several other times, but I still did love it
3) THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME I COULD PLAY OUT WITHOUT BEING SIGNIFICANTLY NERVOUS. like of actual onstage stuff lah. in face even inunion I was shaking cos I saw them haha :p
4) MO smiled. he has this oh-so-wonderful smile y'know (like talia's! :D), that just totally makes you smile right along!
5) MO sayed he enjoyed it on stage. THIS MADE MY DAY. SERIOUSLY. though he said after listening to the recordings eh-heh-heh la, but still!
6) uhh the controversy stuff? I know it's a bad thing, but it played a big part in the experience, unfortunately.
7) crying, for a whole range of reasons man. I swear, it was damn confusing even on the crying end!
8) <- cute smiley :D anw. I nearly teared on the bandprac the day before, and I couldn't really say why either, but I guess it was subconcious, cos the next day it finally occurred that that was the last actual proper bandprac with rgssb with everyone working together towards a common goal as a band. I WILL MISS THAT FEELING. AND ALL ELSE COMING WITH RGSSB HAVING EVER ENTERED MY LIFE. or more like me entering its. and have I ever mentioned before how painful it is just to imagine never having done so?
9) okay completely random but this period I prob spent the most of my hp freetime everr, though it's not even a lot pls. haha on syf-related conversations! gosh I need to know more bandGIRLS. pam! :D
10) hoyes, and sg has an actually quite active bandlife! bandfusion and lifeless ppl who sit there clicking refresh every so often ftw :D peixin I still can't find your user!

anw. yes. I guess some of these will fade away as the years go by too, like that of the former did, but I am hopeful that when I reminisce about syf '09, I will rmb the warm lovey fuzzy feeling in part, if not in full. argh heartacheheartache, not pinpointable either. everything la, ILOVERGSSBSOFREAKINGMUCH, IAMGOINGTOMISSRGSSBALOTAWHOLEDAMNLOT. (haha it's alot more than results heartache okay :p though I don't think you can understand it till you actually exp it)

and (I hope it's not taken as um finding excuse or smth but) I really think this year seems to be very focused on technicalities. and I can see the basis in that, such as that to bring the music across it has to be perfect. but I really believe that if it reaches the audience, touches them, makes them feel what it tries to encapture and say, it has succeeded. as music, and not notes. ny band, though I didn't actually hear them, I can alrd feel it in my heart that they sounded wonderful (from what ppl say). and touching their snrs to the point of tears, and themselves crying on stage for a reason which somehow I can understand and fully feel even though it's not even applicable to me and I don't think has been before, that is truly the music and the passion in it.

sigh I wish I had a better flair for words, but I think even if I did, this entire feeling, it's not possible to weave into this plain written form. nor spoken, simply felt. don't you just wish every sweet feeling you've ever had, you can encapsulate it in a little sphere, everlasting and always there for you to open and let the whole wonderful tingly fuzzy feeling wash over you again and again, without ever running out? if everything I've ever felt for, about and related to rgssb was concentrated in a little ball, I bet it's so potent it could kill. there's just so much (and why is this sounding like a farewell post again), the highests and the lowests, the love and the hate of which the hate is for the very love (if you get me, in that sense, thinks rihanna), the pride but yet the disappointment of which was levelled by the pure strength of this satisfaction, the funnies mixed in with the seriouses, the togetherness (and in this case it is not countered with the individuality besides in the fact the rgssb/batch 09/slww is made up of a combination of very different ppl coming together with all their traits and making each exactly as it is and just how I want it to be. because, above all, we are A BAND. as one. "wan3" hahahaha.).

and I think I'm beginning to see the thing about not feeling disappointment actually. wait or is it regret? I'm confusing the two argh. yes but anw, in everything, whether it was good or bad, happy or sad (whee it rhymes), it all comes together, and the net feeling (HAHA gross/net) is still way positive, and I think nothing is the same without just the right balance of it all, so we should never wish that something had been different. that's why in all those random quizzes that ask, if you could change any part of/incident in your life, what would it be?, I would say nothing, absolutely nothing, because (butterfly effecttt) you never know how every little thing played a part in some other, and everything's great now (of course, nothing's perfect, but who cares, I'm happy), so I'm keeping every single thing, the ups and the downs, all with me because they all come together to just FORM me, ok I really don't know how to express it. and the feeling that each brings, be it bitter sweet or sour, they're still wonderful. OHRIGHT it's a national day song heh. whichwhichwhich reminds me of the two we edited to fit band/batch and it totally freaking fits I love it.

[ok totally not related but I don't really like how _ are sorta turned into _ sometimes. yeah. sorry.]

and thinking about rj band. hmm, I really don't know, I seriously think it's one of those (ok not that I can think of anything else that has applied in this way to me before) things that I go, dunno should I should I? and then end up joining anw, cos I sorta predict that. ok, first, like most ppl say, where else would you go? recreational smth lol. nope, it really doesn't give me the feeling of a fulfilling life, and I'll prob only join one if I'm really jaded and/or like I'm seriously too embarrassed by my standard to go into rjcsb (omg they changed it to rsb rightright argh D:) which I kind of alrd am but I think I'll grit my teeth and sacrifice that for the love I want to extend. yingjun's reason would be being unsatisfied with a silver, and wanting another go at it. jess', MO :D I guess the biggest of all for me is trying to find smth with the slightest resemblance to rgssb life, to prolong this beautiful feeing for a paltry two more years, before I have to face reality and finally move on. it's very different, and even more so for like an alumni band which I can predict ppl are going why don't you join one since you like it so much, but you've got to cling on to what you can get.

forever is relative, but I really want to stay in rgssb forever. and ever. doyouhaveanyideahowemptymylifeisgoingtobeeeeee. without rgssbeeeeee. (okay sorry couldn't resist haha) and mugging totally does not come under completing your life okay okay wtf.

and since this is alrd totally heading off into farewell direction, might as well.

morning comes around and I
can't wait to see my sunny batchcorr
in it's glorious pinkery
whether rain or shine it's still beautiful

bright lights shine in the school at night
guiding me closer to home
to a place where I'll be safe and warm
where I belong

section- and batchmates by my side (interestingly, friends and family works too :D)
seeing me through as I grow and learn
everyday's experience
bitter, sweet or sour, they're still wonderful

as they become precious memories
they'll be kept close to my heart
and wherever I may be, I will always know
where I belong

where I belong
where I keep my heart and soul
where dreams come true for us
where we walk together hand in hand
towards a future so bright

where I belong
where I keep my heart and soul
where we are one big family
I want the whole world to know
I wanna shout it out loud
that I really love rgssb! (who could've predicted, it rhymes with family somemore!)

I want the whole world to know
I wanna shout it out loud
that this is where I know I belong

and this is where I want to be. and stay. love forever!



due to a lack of post-locking functions on blogger, I will spend my time trying to ensure no ouchness. okay sorry I had no idea how to phrase that.

okay so heregoes. syf '09. it was indeed quite unexpected, I guess, but I believe part of the toilet paper spammed was not just spent on that of sadness at the results. yes, they do matter, and yes, I am not overjoyed with a silver (though jess has a point), but I do honestly still feel that enjoying the journey played a huge part. it is sad that enjoyment seems to be interpreted as slacking, but I am inclined to believe that in enjoyment, we speak of pushing ourselves to work harder, seeing ourselves improve, bringing the ks chee down, killing our fingers/arms/lips, seeing MO smile. because that, in the journey, shone.

okay I was/am seriously in emotional turmoil. there're so many reasons attached to each tear. first, of, course, the straightforward devastation. the streak we broke, the reputation, the consequences. it kills us, to have let down so many people, especially them. then was the passion (which I hope we're allowed to say we have), at everything. whatever it cost, if it did, the journey was incredible. how heartbreaking if it has to be one or the other. then they came, and it hurts, it really does, cos you kinda can see what is felt. and then (and now), confusion, which WOULD have been better? plus we were super touched by various stuff I guess. and it also hit me again, like what jess was saying on the bus back, it was our last major event with rgssb, will we ever get to feel all those again? okay rather extreme, but life really does seem pointless now. to hell with mugging. (at this point in time.)

ahh there was seriously a lot of stuff I wanted to say record down somewhere, but I just can't collect my thoughts now. and balance is like the concept our entire lives/world is based on, don't you think? I've also been trying to picture various what if's, but I can't safely make any conclusions for any. okay I am being exceptionally incoherent. it's been a long time (if it isn't the first) since I've been so low yet so high (not as in :D :D :D but as in ♥). I'm scared that it will drop even more, but at the same time I don't want to and I don't think we can completely go back. as in to before, friend, not up, because that I believe we can. (:

I guess this has also been a scary experience in many ways. you see people saying things, and then you wonder how much of it they actually mean, and when it's put to the test, well. and hypocrisy is a dangerous thing. though I'm guilty of the very same sometimes. and seriously, don't take things for granted.

but really, beyond all, it was truly a learning experience. analytically, musically, emotionally, (painfully). and I love rgssb. please don't be pissed at me or anything, but I really do. it's painful to think that it could be thought that we don't care, even imagining not caring about rgssb hurts like crap. (it's literally making me grimace and sending chills down my spine now.) okay maybe it's the wrong way, maybe everything's all wrong. but it doesn't stop me from loving rgssb.

and MO was happy, and that is huge in the little that really, truly matters.

I honestly wish to trust that we shook SCH and walked off the stage with pride.

[and now jess I need you to read that and tear it apart because you are able to slam down my arguements as soon as I make them and show me the flaws in my thinking, and you are awesome that way. but I think you would mostly agree, because honestly, much of that was influenced by you anyway.]



we can count the number of days to syf on one hand. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

haha anw, today some guy came to help us with sax, he's coming again on sat I think. I LIKE THE LIGATURE (: haha and laughs at jolyn :p wayyyy better though xD okay I am not making sense whee. oh and kejia came back, crystalbel too (:

haha oh I learnt a new awesome pickup line!
"if I could rearrange the letters of the keyboard, I would put U and I together."
credits mark tang!

woahmygosh I should seriously be doing history and math now. I can't believe I just did that damn long note on fb haha. actually I can, crap.

yeesh, I don't like this post.

neckache! (from comp) arm muscleaches! (from chairs, stands, sop etc) and lately I've been getting headaches quite often/easily. late nights+motion sickness lah.

ok I have no inspiration. or anything corny or wheaty (witty, as like everyone didn't gerrit that time during SS haha -.-).

haha ok wtv. JIAYOU FOR SYF EVERYONE! everyone. (: haha I like our date man.



I did it again! same, but percentages different I think. I rmb my E was 1 last time.


Your Type is ESFP
Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
33 50 38 56

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Artisan™ Portrait of the Performer (ESFP)

Performers have the special ability, even among the Artisans, to delight those around them with their warmth, their good humor, and with their often extraordinary skills in music, comedy, and drama. Whether on the job, with friends, or with their families, Performers are exciting and full of fun, and their great social interest lies in stimulating those around them to take a break from work and worry, to lighten up and enjoy life.

Performers are plentiful, something over ten percent of the population, and this is fortunate, because they bring pleasure to so many of us. Performers are the people for whom it can truly be said "all the world's a stage." Born entertainers, they love the excitement of playing to an audience, and will quickly become the center of attention wherever they are. Performers aren't comfortable being alone, and seek the company of others whenever possible-which they usually find, for they make wonderful playmates. Performers are smooth, talkative, and witty; they always seem to know the latest jokes and stories, and are quick with wisecracks and wordplay-nothing is so serious or sacred that it can't be made fun of. Performers also like to live in the fast lane, and seem up on the latest fashions of dress, food, drink, and music. Lively and uninhibited, Performers are the life of the party, always trying to create in those around them a mood of eat, drink, and be merry.

The Performers' talent for enjoying life is healthy for the most part, though it also makes them more subject to temptations than the other types. Pleasure seems to be an end in itself for them, and variety is the spice of life. And so Performers are open to trying almost anything that promises them a good time, not always giving enough thought to the consequences.
Like the other Artisans, Performers are incurably optimistic - "Always look on the bright side," is their motto - and they will avoid worries and troubles by ignoring them as long as possible. They are also the most generous of all the types, and second only to the Composer Artisans [ISFPs] in kindness. Performers haven't a mean or stingy bone in their body-what's theirs is yours-and they seem to have little idea of saving or conserving. They give what they have to one and all without expectation of reward, just as they love freely, and without expecting anything in return. In so many ways, Performers view life as an eternal cornucopia from which flows an endless supply of pleasures.

Elizabeth Taylor, John Goodman, Marylin Monroe, Judy Garland, Magic Johnson, Pablo Picasso, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Elvis, and Leonard Bernstein are examples of Performer Artisans.

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"Where's the party?" ESFPs love people, excitement, telling stories and having fun. The spontaneous, impulsive nature of this type is almost always entertaining. And ESFPs love to entertain -- on stage, at work, and/or at home. Social gatherings are an energy boost to these "people" people.
SPs sometimes think and talk in more of a spider-web approach. Several of my ESFP friends jump from thought to thought in mid-sentence, touching here or there in a manner that's almost incoherent to the listener, but will eventually cover the waterfront by skipping on impulse from one piece of information to another. It's really quite fascinating.
ESFPs are attracted to new ideas, new fashions, new gadgets, new ______. Perhaps it's the newness of life that attracts ESFPs to elementary education, especially to preschool and kindergarten.
ESFPs love to talk to people about people. Some of the most colorful storytellers are ESFPs. Their down-to-earth, often homespun wit reflects a mischievous benevolence. Almost every ESFP loves to talk. Some can be identified by the twenty minute conversation required to ask or answer a simple factual question.

Extraverted Sensing
The dominant function of ESFPs is concerned with the reality that is perceived through the senses. This type's prime directive is to examine the tangible through taste, touch, sight, feeling and hearing. ESFPs' need for new experiences surely results from this function. Feeling gives focus to the collected information, producing the amiable nature of this type. As perceivers, ESFPs do not linger on moral concerns unless it is in service of a Greater Good and/or a unifying cause.

Famous ESFPs:
Saint Mark (Christ's disciple)
Dale Evans
Gracie Allen
Bob Hope
Eva Gabor
Willard Scott
Goldie Hawn
Kyle Petty
Arsenio Hall
Mary Lou Retton
Kathy Lee Gifford
Steve Irwin
Woody Harrelson (Cheers)

Fictional ESFPs:
Tim "The Toolman" Taylor(Home Improvement)
Cody (Step By Step)
Mrs. Pumphrey (James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small)

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CAREERS

While Artisans might not consciously substitute the words "Finding Freedom and Action" for the Baby Boomer phrase, "Finding Your Passion," these are driving forces behind an Artisan's need to find life satisfaction.

Artisans are usually pretty independent. However, some do seek leadership positions. The two most likely Artisans to seek leadership are the Promoter (ESTP) and the Performer (ESFP). In fact, the book Presidential Temperament by Ray Choinierre and David Keirsey (1992) names Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton as Artisans. The Promoter is a tougher negotiator than the Performer who manages with a great deal of charm.

The Performer, like the Promoter, can also be good in sales, sports, or entertainment. They usually spend a little more time with the customer than the Performer and enjoy the conversation so much that they sometimes have to be reminded to close the sale. They may find careers in the entertainment industry as a performer, promoter, or musician. In business they can be a PR specialist, a fund-raiser, or a labor relations mediator. Says Brigitta, an emergency room nurse, "Some people might find my job too stressful, but I like having to act fast. I'm good at calming people down while I'm dealing with their medical problems. Every day is different."

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RELATIONSHIPS

"Girls just wanna have fun" is a great motto for Artisan women. They treat romance as they do the rest of their lives - an exciting titillating game. Flirting is a high art form for them as they encourage and discourage the opposite sex. When being wooed, they enjoy novelty, grand gestures, and spontaneity. They dislike the boring and predictable and fear getting in a rut. Artisan women tend to be sensual and enjoy giving and receiving physical affection.

Lillian, an Artisan Performer (ESFP), was popular in high school. She dated a lot of guys but eventually became tired of fending off unwanted sexual advances. She had a steady boyfriend for two years. When he admitted he wasn't sure if he loved her, she immediately ended the relationship. Now married with children, Lillian enjoys a rich and varied sex life which she initiates almost as often as he. She's very concerned about keeping up her looks and is disgusted because she's gained 30 pounds. Her husband, though, actually enjoys her curves.

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SCHOOL

Unlike Guardians who protect their study area, Artisans often don't have a particular area at all. They are likely to use their study area as a place to store everything needed, but they are unlikely to spend much time there. Their study area is likely to look very disorganized, but often the Artisan student can find anything within a few seconds.

Artisans are also likely to want to study while texting friends, listening to their ipods, and watching TV. Current research says that this kind of multi-tasking is very unproductive. However, there is a difference between trying to do many different things at one time and using music and physical activity as an aide to help learn. Many Artisans find they can't concentrate in complete silence.

Performers (ESFP) are social learners. Studying with others helps them concentrate. When they work by themselves, they are the most likely of the Artisans to need to be listening to music. Jill is really good at creating funny poetry using the facts. The more she has fun with the material, the more she remembers.



back from campppp! haha it was not drop-dead amazing, or mind-blowingly great, but it was awesome all the same haha. :D zomg when I arrived sam was the only girl there amongst like nearly 10 guys lol. but more girls came in slowly over the camp la haha. it was totally an in-out camp, like very few ppl actually stayed all the way throughout the entire duration haha. I had to leave for dental. and I missed sister act! D: I wanna watch. whoo but I got the gist after appearing in time for the concert part haha. we should totally do that man. set, after syf!

eh haha omg timsoo is my neighbourrr! wah took damn long to find out haha. [lol zomg we're like reliving playground days memories now xD kensington is awesome man! :D] anw, food was great, we seriously have to thank uncle joshua and uncle jeff haha. :D lol kenneth and his "I came cos I thought got free food." hm what else. oh icebreakers were okayy haha. games was quite not bad though it was kinda male-dominated haha. captains ball! rule-less! standing behind captain rocks man. but being short sucks haha.

sessions were not bad. (: I didn't know they are given a topic to share on one! P&W wheeee. besides the fact that I cannot sing to save my life. D: okay if someone says sing or I'll kill you I would but if it's sing nicely or I'll kill you then goodbye world. yay we now know more action songs! xD but who can forget vivienne and her dip dip. :p haha group sharing was quite amusing, relatively participative la haha. argh and I need to stop spacing out during mass and stuff. D: and I think this was the first (?) time I fell asleep for a bit in the ado room! *insert scrunched face here which if I do would screw up the html* and I need to learn a lot of lyrics man. esp the novena stuff.

then whee we went for dinnerrrrr! :D not bad attendance, we choked up a whole row of macs tables. and started singing give thanks as grace omg! ppl were staring at us like crazy haha. OHYES HAVE I MENTIONED THAT GERARD IS SERIOUSLY FULL OF SHIT HAHA. damn funny man. xD thinks ba ba, er zi, he hao gui. and your chen zhi shui. anw, treat your wife better can! if not I'll elope with her again! haha you're a damn bad senior and QM can lol. and woah quite bad huh, church camp then talk about all those sick stuff. :/ we-ll. then we went park! and david's phone was on high demand haha. we didn't exactly do much ahya. er cept singing a lot on the way! the fake vibrato thing lol, it totally freaked random innocent ppl out I think. haha and I was the only girl among like five drunk guys zomg wth hahaha. (ok fine some were sane ahem.) which also meant my octave in P&W was super extra! then plus the fact that I can't sing. and I can't break out of falsetto ARGH. haha anw, david gerard jonpong ch'ng walked me home lol! I am quite amused. and super gratefulllll! :D haha. samuel went the other direction. ahh I feel damn bad cos they all went kinda out of their way heh. and they went all the way up lol, wanted to see my parents' reactions hahaha, like suddenly go home flanked by four random guys. gerard wanted to uh, sing, ba ba ma ma, wo men ba ni de nu er dai hui lai. like lol wth! PHAIL CHINESE FTW!

yay anw camp was damn fun la haha. fuzziessssss! :D I feel so awesome now. I'm like a super efficient fuzzy-writer! ok next to samuel haha. DAMN PRO, GUY LEH! haha. ok that was damn sexist. but really! ahh and sorry vick and claire haha, they super concernedly waited with me until I finished fuzzies at like 1+am. uncle joshua too! and I woke up around 7 to do hw haha. win! ok though I didn't manage to do much. :/ more like, nothing. lol damn funny la, practically noone woke up, the schedule was pushed back like, what, an hour plus haha.

okay. now back to life. how annoying. I REALLY LOVE CAMPS YOU KNOW. even phail ones like our sec 2 camp, in the sense that it lets me escape all the usual crappy stuff like hw and mugging etc heh. obs esp lah, that was like, amazing, waking up to sand and sea and all. church camps are awesome, cos you get to spend the time with God too! haha and okay I want to learn soccer ahh. and I need to start keeping up with! andandand I WISH HIGHS COULD LAST FOREVER. ):



haha whee back from band camp.

omg when i came back I was like I NEED A COLD DRINK NOWWWW so I looked for jolly shandy which I knew we had somewhere in the storeroom but there was no peach, only lychee. D: then I saw pepsi so I was like AWESOME haha then I took my cup which smelled funny after one day of unuse and cos I wanted to uh enjoy my pepsi to the fullest I washed it with soap which happened to be lemon then I sniffed it and I was like omg it would actually go nice with the pepsi haha. ok crap that was damn random. ignoreignore.

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anw, band camp was good luh, chill gloria! :D

whee batch lunch at fareast was funny.

batch auds were okayy la haha. we din't make any MAJOR mistakes. I was asking gloria what she thought we'd get if everyone played the way they did then she was like gold with honours cos there was the mood though the technical stuff weren't really good, which is like ehh?

bathing was acceptable. I survived without much suffering! not bad for a person who bathes in hot water and sauna-fies the bathroom every time. I think there actually was some sort of a heater la, albeit a hardly noticeable one. haha about sitting on the toilet bowl to bathe xD anw, I brought the oxy sample they threw at us! cos too much for one person to use at one time. I used a bit, yujia used a bit, gloria didn't cos she alrd washed her face inside. then I threw the rest away D: haha it was quite amusing to hear eeiyn's tortured screams of agony at the water temperature :p

and yujia was like displaying her unmentionables to us lol! like she was like "what's this doing here?" *takes out underwear* *looks at our O.o expressions* "why are you looking at my underwear!" hahaha cos you happily exhibited it to us dear!

and hahahaha the "when you bathe, which side do you face?" (front or back facing toiletbowl/waterstream) "um, depends on what I'm washing." xD

food was good (: quite balanced meal la haha. I liked the chicken! and gloria you need to eat more veggies rawr. we didn't really section bond though heh cos by the time our sb came the rest were leaving haha. LOL the "when we are dismissed tmr we'll be disBANDed" thing.

then night surprise! argh we were super unprepared D: sorryyyyy. they ended up having to do like 30min of ftds, while we tried to light candles like crazy with the wind blowing them out for abt 15min then sprinted like crazy to bring the candles to a more sheltered area and start lighting them again in the sweltering enclosed area for another 15min. emo talk was so not emo talk argh. our batch can like emo but not emo-fy. (if that makes sense) but pretty (:





















haha then we watched turandot! I think it's not bad yay. it's super morbid though :/ we must now infuse more emotion into our playing! I like liu! I think her story is super sad D: haha the ending is quite lame, like suddenly she likes him. I doubt that was what puccini was planning. omg ping pang pong! xD heh at least we managed to watch more than la boheme, and it was prob more effective. seeing that the super majestic chromatic runup at W was to a lady screeching about her ankle -.- anw I got mosquito bites! I think they were frm night surprise.

okay then sleeping! mushys wheeee. btwbtw, this is the FIRST TIME I slept in the ks chee for band camp and didn't fall sick! :D like sec1 was appendicitis, I was like writhing with pain. then sec2 it was either cos it was so damn cold that triggered a fever (plus not drinking enough water) or cos I was already getting a fever that made it even more damn cold. sec3 we slept at gym, freaking hot haha. this time, as usual, super hot at the start then in the middle of the night it'd become super cold. lol it was quite amusing, those of us smsing in our sleeping bags emitted glows. apparently there was talia and gloria, then me and sam beside each other haha. [and sam! tell me! ahhhh! rawr!] haha I think I was one of the last to stop. it was quite annoying haha, everytime I replied I had to duck under my sleeping bag where it was super hot. but well (: slept on my hoodie as a pillow and hugged my mushy (which once telepoted to sam without either of us noticing somehow haha). jess totally flattened her mushy by sleeping on it the entire night! haha ok anw I think the floor gives good sleeping posture zomg, unlike my sofa. I was surprisingly well rested! :D






















kay then section breakfast! yay for section bonding. haha we (quite successfully la) played ding dong, da xi (shi!) gua xiao xi gua, and hi harry (with one dot, two dots etc). whoo I think our estimation not bad, two plain milks, one choc milk, one big pack of blueberry morning. :D finished all I think! clars suck hahahaha. BLUEBERRY MORNING IS THE LOVE. omg one day they should combine two big sections and get the humongous alphabits thing! I think it's damn cute la. and they can totally start spelling stuff like I LOVE RGSSB!

then gamessssss! :D omg why was I group leader! haha anw, this year they were at least not so cliched la yay (: like the one about standing in a row on the row of newspapers, then arrange ourselves in certain orders. siti's station the duck walking part was killer! OUCH LEG MUSCLES haha. and the one at the field, I PHAIL at pouting zomg haha. I kinda ended up cheating lol. and the human knot one we somehow got out damn easily! I think we didn't mess up properly haha. and yunshu cheat! dump more hulahoops on us hahaha. whee I think we definitely got to know our group members a bit better. indiana jones ftw!

(to the tune of raider's march)
we are jones, indiana jones
we like to eat ice cream cones
look at us, so very toned
and we own, we own, we OWN

INDIANa jones!

whoooooooo!

:D

haha we kept seeing the dora the explorer cheer.

after that was mutual sharing. omg why was I leader for this too! anw I combined with yujia haha. hmm quite effective la, last time it was always at night and ended up being ghost story telling sessions. but our group was quite quiet! (omg I just realised that quite and quiet have the same letters ahahaha)

kay then was syf initiatives! thanks sam for everything (: band, thank sam for her envelopes+bluetac+paper! haha whee I did relatively nicely-designed notes :D but I didn't really write much plus the handwriting was horrible :/ omg I love the dark red paper don't you love the dark red paper you must love the dark red paper :D this year we kinda made everyone write to like 1) person in section but not in batch 2) person you don't know well (not in your section not in you batch) 3) person according to a buddy list. and we strongly encouraged replying so hope it's more successful than previous ones! whee I shall reply the notes soon. ahh and I still have to do syf notes (the actual day ones) and presents! ladida. this year's songs so hard to use la sigh. unlike CHRISTMAS scene and SUNRISE. and I can't believe our syf is on 1st april ie april fool's and also ie yingjun's bday hahaha. and according to mr oura it's same day and time as ri's but theirs is one week later.

haha anw whee band camp was really fun la (: though very short ): not even 24 hrs! but not much to do anw haha. or maybe should have made it longer then have like batch bonding, section interaction etc haha. :D

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sigh after band camp I had to rush for tuition. was 1/2 hr late O.o oops. anw after that my parents brought me to eat northern indian food at little india haha. it took like 1hr to find some place my mum was looking for or smth, sian, but it was nice haha! (: we got tandoori chicken, veggie curry, mutton curry (I think it was manchurian style or smth) and fish curry (which was quite salty). the curries were thick and good! :D but I downed a total of two glasses of cold water at regular intervals haha.

then after that walked to mustafa. on the way we went into some department store (?) thing and I was like OMG. there were more shoes than I've ever seen in one place in my life. :O rack upon rack upon rack. haha and I saw quite cool looking sneakers, but upon closer inspection, I realised they were like hello kitty. OMG traumatised! haha by the time we got to mustafa was like quite late alrd lor. then my mum got stuck in mustafa too (btw jess I looked for _ but they're all damn ex!) and I got home at like 12, just in time to wish...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAR EVAN! I've known you for like seven years now, and thanks for always being such an awesome friend whoooo! lovuu (and mauu :D)!

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haha whee it's exchange tmr! looking forward to seeing ppl :D pam transferred to tuba omgomg I've never known anyone who's been in four diff sections in band haha.

and then there's op smile bonding session whee haha. get to see kat and kelly and roxanne again! :D omg I am damn sad can, we've to change seats the coming term. D: I LOVE TAR!

kay now off to do um philo FA and tuition hw. sighhhhhhhhhhh.

bye! (:

[add] ohyes, some quotes. from an inspirational photoframe I saw at mustafa: "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's yours. If it doesn't, it was never meant to be." hm quite interesting to think about (: and from tim soo today: "Maybe God is calling us to love the bitches." haha wth! today's yc talkcocksession was amusingggg. [/add]

and good luck all for SYF! (:



hohoho it's march. already.

LEARNING JOURNEYS HAHAHAHAHA CAMWHORING MUCH.

you guys are awesome! :D

andandand I'm totally in love with the phrase:
"he was a dark and stormy knight".

HAHA IT'S SO EPIC RIGHT.

anw yeah we must have our veryawesomewaycooltotallyepic GROUP DATE soon! :D
start shortlisting places and activities okay!

and woahmygosh hols are TAKEN UP much. (crap roxanne and her caps are influencing me haha) okay let's start from lj.

mon was science, which was ok because marina barrage is awesomely photogenic (HAHA pretty nut = pistaCHIO zomgzomg).
tues batch prac.
wed's english feminism talk thingy was like wth, but I spent the time bluetoothing roxanne so HAHA. free smsing! :D and after that was the awesomeeeee trip to holland v and cold rock (RIPOFF DAMMIT) and all the camwhoring during. then went back to indiv haha, then um searcheddd unproductively, and chionged to bishan. whee bubbletea haha. peanut waffle! (: WAFFLES WU HAHA eh seriously ah, where did that come from?
tmr's op smile meeting, I'm leaving halfway for geog lj (which I bloody hope is not like last year's la). then get back for manning bandroom plus indiv, obviously. ARGH I CANNOT MAKE MY TWO DIGIT NUMBER. D: jess reached 10 hours ahhh.
okay anw, then fri morn (if I wake up ahem) and aftnoon will be like chionging hw/ catching up with stuff like trigo (@*&!$#). oh and stations, if I can make it. then late aftnoon band camp wheeeee.
till sat, then chiong for tuition argh.
sun church + yg as usual.
next mon will be exchange haha. whee.
then tues wed thurs (nearly) full day pracs.
fri cohort camp (of which I doubt many ppl will go D:),
sat aftnoon we're leaving to like ehm pon some sessions, but for tuition okay! oh oh and joanne's not going. D:
sun once again.

THERE GOES MY LJ AND HOLS.

and anw I seriously have never sweared sworn(?) before okay! the ONLY time was like when I was singing fort minor then it slipped out. shockhorror. *cues wings and halo*

omg we should start thinking of more camwhore shots (OMG BUT NO MORE LJs TOGETHER! D: D: FOREVER! D:) and planning group date! and the date for group date!

damn, this post has terrible organisation/formatting haha. argh whatever.

[20; 8]



hey. kay posting's going from like a once a week thing, to a once a month thing, to a once a brainwave thing. and since there're two wonderful essay SAs (omg same! essaySAessaySA. okay it's stress, obviously. same goes for the little dent in the noticeboard beside me in class, sorry. :p) next week, I shall have a wonderful essay post.


I agree to a large extent that life is just so screwed up.

life's stressful. the education system forces information into our brains, most of which is not useful in any way. with our 文凭挂帅 society, all that matters is grades, qualifications, achievements. academically, it's do well or die. cocurricular-ily, you've to be good at something to even be allowed to pursue it. learning is for the sake of it, for the "better future" everyone aims for. tests, exams, projects; they all cause so much (unnecessary?) stress. they cost us our sleep, our fun, our time. look, we're kids, we should be spending the time with the wind in our hair and the sun on our cheeks and the sand 'neath our feet.

life's transient. before you know it, you're all grown up and thrown into the cruel world. goodbye childish innocence. you spend all your childhood studying things you'll never think about again, you spend half your school life on something you'll never do again. there's no time, no, everyone'd be too busy working. friendships forged, are erased over time. bonds built, break. life goes on.

life's hypocritical. okay, not the right word. oxymoronic. argh, it just doesn't make sense. you either forsake your present in hope of a better future, or damn your future by enjoying the present. you wish to know things, out of curiosity, but sometimes after that, you wish you didn't know after all. you spend little kid days looking in awe at being grown up, you spend adulthood reminiscing the carefree life of a child. you learn, only to lose (it); yet you lose, to learn. noses run, feet smell. don't we all want the goods of everything, and the bads of nothing? 这是指日可待的。 你等久久吧。

life's full of loss. you lose money, you lose time. you lose a belonging. you lose a friendship, you lose a friend. you lose purpose, you lose direction. you lose your way. you lose a loved one, you lose love. you lose life. you lose.
you.

yet, life is beautiful. a little laugh, a little hug, a little smile. the simple things. a sunrise, a sunset. the smell of rain, the smell of grass. the warmth of a comfy blanket. the sound of silence, the sound of music. the beauty of art, of music, of dance, of a poem. friendship, however transient. love, peace, joy. faith. hope. fun, happiness. so laugh a little louder, hug a little tighter, smile a little wider. reach far, jump high. love deeply, sing freely. think. feel. appreciate.

there you have it. life- don't take it too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.


on another aspect, related though to many aforementioned, I resist change. D: I don't wanna grow up, I don't wanna go work. shorter term, I don't wanna leave rg, I don't wanna go rj. even shorter, I don't wanna change seats! TAR is the LOVE :D and thus ): but indeed, life is transient, stressful, full of loss, and doesn't make sense. so live it.



backbackbackback! ignore the title. :p wah been damnnn long man. pats blogger on the head.

anw. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

and again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

:D

highhh.

on the other hand, D: D: D: D: D: about F. which reminds me (THOUGH THERE IS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER NOPE NOPE.) sam swore today lol. naughty girl. gorvilla eats you. rawr.

ok now off to do SL. ROXANNETEO WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING!

haha ohyes, and this is the first post this year, so introducing THE awesome row! roxanne.kelly.pearlyn, the people who charge their phones in class, and can be often heard going "chem? what chem?" or "did you do maths?" "eh heh heh heh. whaddya think?". yupp, that's us for you. :D

ok now to charge into SL again. VRAWWWWWWR.

uh and to those it may concern pics will be up on fb asap haha. um TAR pics, cny eve camwhoring etc yupp. (:



hello! woah-oh-oh it's been a month. exactly a month, which is why I decided to post now instead of tmr when I would have smth to post about haha.

screwed up hols! someone save me from hw. let's see, sch: math assignments, chem assignments, commonwealth essay (which I'm attempting to do now), math sa on week 2 (efffff, I haven't started mugging) etcetc. tuition: 1 o's paper 2, 1 o's zuowen, 3 whole shou ce's to go through and memorise all the meanings :/, a stack of model zuowens to learn and be tingxie-ed on etcetc. mhmm, not exaggerating, see.

argh nvm, LOOKING FWD TO BATCH XMAS PARTY-SLEEPOVER LATER! :D :D :D AND BAKING ON MONDAY! belated xmas muffin prezzies argh. AND CCAO ON TUESDAY! ok maybe not really. but we're finally officially busking! after how many times of saying we want to. haha just hope we don't burst out laughing heh. again. but the actions are really spastic hahaha. and omg the bee feelers are super cute!

haha quote: "there will be live people playing..." -talia
yes, I'm sure the people playing won't be dead ones, dear. xD

whoo to self-made MVs! and awesome camwhoring. pokes julia to send me the pics. haha hanging on staircase railings seriously got lotsa weird stares heh. :p



okay technically I wasted today away, but it was not to no avail! I found a number of sax quartet and other similar ensembles scores. erm shall email the section about it, maybe print a few to bring tmr. ohyes, gloria! could I pass you the solo/duet scores to transpose? or just go back to rgp and get it again. pweesh? ccao busking needs them. :D

anw, COOL THING NO. 2.
drumlines! :D :D
they are damn awesome, they are more on coordination, drum battles are more of showing off. clean snare lines are AWESOME omg. go watch some youtube vids! ditty is quite cool. check out the NSC one. it's damn cool la. :D and the way they totally look straight forward. when some of us can't even do that standing still in squad. and they never miss! and when the angles are all clean it's damn cool. AHH new craze. oh this one's quite cool. trash can drumline it reminds me of like stomp. ohwait, I didn't watch stomp. cos angie stole it that time! D: haha anw. EVAN! dyou have drumline? that time you said we should all watch together right! :D oh oh just saw this. drum bone whoo blue man group! :D love! watch their marshmallows and gumballs one too. haha and they have kinda haunting stares.

okay anw, shall go.



I iz back! :D from phuket. that's an island off thailand, if you didn't know. (omg it rhymes!) [add] I missed my bed and my bear! :D andandand everyone! (: [/add] anw, screwed sleep cycles ftw! s'not (I know technically it's 'snot but that just looks plain weird) jet lag, I mean it's only 1 hr. just that my mum loves going on late night shopping sprees. got back at 12+ like every single night. and bargaining much! ok I know, the:
"[price x]!"
"!!" *starts walking away*
"okay okay [price x/2]!"
*shakes head and continues walking*
"okay last price! good price! [less than x/2]"
etc.
thing, but seriously, sometimes you gotta feel bad for them la. crap does that whole string of stuff make sense? anw, I got sneakers! at last! muahaha! but they kinda suck heh. looks not bad la, but not very comfy, slightly too big, and started out quite dirty (I wonder how it's gonna look when I'm through with it). ok I will live with it for now, till I feel like treating myself then I shall go get a better pair (maybe the ones julia got?), preferably plain, and unleash my *ahem* artistic-ness upon it. ok I predict that's gonna look like crap too but ohwhells. haha anw, I also bought a brown shirt (:D finally!), a green shirt, and 4 pairs of socks. 2 of which are meant for school, and I was worrying about them being too low, but grrrreat, they're freaking high. -.- shall fold. ok that's mainly all I got I think. my mum got shorts, shorts and more shorts. amongst other things.

haha anw, I saw a small shop/inn/one of those ahem places that was called sleep with me. O.o okayyyy. haha aiyo I sian to blog details la, and can't rmb much anw. 'twas mainly shopping haha. ohohoh 2nd day did atv (erm all-terrain vehicle) and after successfully going up I crashed my mum and myself into a gutter-like-thing when going down. heh. then um elephant ride. wah damn sad lives la, lumbering around carrying people on their backs. well, humankind is cruel. kay anw, full-day speedboat tour the next day. phi phi leh, phi phi don (sorry not sure of sp hor), maya bay, monkey beach. not in order. anw, snorkelling! :D and again! :D one more time! :D ok ignore that. omg I can just imagine some stupid cheer: "___!" *big grin* "again!" *big grin* "one more time!" *big grin*. -.- okay I'm high. but anw, I really get the whole new world thing la. 'sin it's like, 2-3inches from the surface? but you look down and it really seems like a different place. cute fishies ftw! :D I got bitten, once only though. my dad was constantly attacked haha. ok anw. blubblub, I glubbed quite a lot of salt water that day. butbutbut anw, when i got back, shockshockhorrorhorror! my phone couldn't on. argh I think it was the damn water. and possible salt. and argh stupid me went to try pry the front off to fiddle with it, and ended up cracking it instead. ok it's slightly salvaged, kinda can work now, but my call and hang up buttons don't work. won't die, but it's just kinda inconvenient. cannot one shot quit. OHMYCRAP it just occured I can't quit smses into a draft to refer to what I'm replying to due to my horrible memory ohnoohno. dieeeeeeeeee. ok I will try to adapt. anw, the left music slide doesn't work too, but I can just slide right twice so it's ok. ok whee that's mainly the stuff we did. OH YES shooting! quite pointlessly ex actually, but good experience la haha. to use a real gun. it's damn deafening compared to air (duh!), and I don't really rmb but I'd guess the jerk is more too. anw yay I got 98/100! 97.5 actually, one was on the line. -.- but
a) I used a rifle
b) it was only a .22
c) it was only 10 yards
therefore it's nothing great.

ooh I have long paras. ok anw that's all about trip, sian alrd. hm yay band tmr! :D I missed ytd though. D: and ARGH I missed church and youth group (combined!) the previous sunday, and I'm gonna miss youth group this saturday and church this sunday again! ARGH WHY WHY WHY. *bishes self* *headdesks* *facepalms* *everything* wtf, who happily gets a LOCAL hotel room for a local stay with sightseeing. -.- but whee I'll be seeing claire and kenneth whom I haven't seen for a long time so yay. (ok feels so weird to call them that, grew up hearing them referred to by their chinese names, still haven't figured out what to call them yet) but still, church! D: argh I'm trying to figure out what other stuff I have to finish during the hols. screw mugging O's argh. ohyes got chem moodle. erm math geometrical properties of circles assignments. um 2 more studio wu credits (calling for volunteers to go with me! (: ). OH grade exams which I forgot completely about. which means lessons. argh. maybe I should just forget it. ohyes, look for breakdancing lessons. and learn to moonwalk now that I got (albeit not so good) sneakers. JOO! I NEED YOOU! ohyes, I am reminded: I didn't manage to get hsm 3! D: the quality sucked. D: but ok la I got step up 2, school of rock, dark knight, hsm (1), amongst many others. ohya grease and grease 2! :D we shall have a batch marathon someday or smth yay. and we can burst out into the batch dance at the appropriate songs. :D speaking of which, who has videeeeoooos?

ohyes, on a completely random note, I was remembering the undetailed discussion of how people confess hahaha. so I decided to detailise. xD like the:
"erm, I like you."
"oh, er I like you too."
"oh, okay."
"okay."
"um..."
*awkward silence*

haha or joanne's romantic beach thing one. walao she's gonna be damn easy if we're going to set her up with anyone next time haha, we probably know what she wants. but anw:
*dramatic stage voices*
"oh, my darling, I love you!"
"oh, honey, I love you too!"
"oh!" *swoony eyes*
"oh!" *soppy look*
*muack!*
is a bit exaggerated (ohmyfreakingcrap till now I'm not sure of the correct spelling of this. is it double r?) too huh.

haha smth more likely/practical:
"hey, you free _?"
"haha ooh, are you asking me out?"
"well- *shuffles feet* yeah. so how about it?"
"*blinks twice* haha, okay. *smiles*"

but! that would bore joanne haha. tsk. ohwell, hopeless romantic haha.

ok I shall stop crapping and go do smth more productive now. like slacking on facebook. wheeeee.



whee. for the past few days since wednesday, I've been sleeping at around 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1 respectively. today looks like it's gonna be a 2. omg stats just came into my head. mean: 2.25 (3sf), median: 2, mode: 2. if 4 is taken as an outlier, 2 would be the average. don't even ask about standard deviation/variance though, I have no idea.

omg what's happening to me. O.o anw, whoo I have finished joanne's present! so I shall go sleep now. ohwait have to pack for band tomorrow today first.

argh and I haven't packed for trip to phuket on fri. not even started. and I'll be out whole day tmr. going for dance with julia! :D finally can go use up some of my credits heh. ohyes, to people who are applicable, don't sms/call me from about late afternoon on fri to at night next tues!



[day 1]

ok I feel kinda bad cos the whole of band I was just looking forward to chalet. D: but that day was quite unproductive. anw skipskipskip. everyone started going off first, like going to the place themselves later, or only coming at night and stuff. oh managed to teach a bit of batch item haha. in band room with us NEARLY tripping over metronomes. :/ (omg I almost spelt it metrognomes. gosh.) ok anw. we got free food! :O friday also haha. it's the icyl (?) leftovers. and it's so singaporean! like west winds concert. I don't care if it's nice, I don't even know what it is, but it's FREE, so take it! -.-"

haha ok anw left for the place, which is super ulu. 403 takes damn long okay! and oops, called my dad when we were walking towards the place and realised he would take another half an hour. so I tried to check in and yay I could! thanks julia for the $50 deposit loan heh. ok went into the place, it was our biggest chalet yet yay! hm two floors, 4 bedrooms, 2 beds each, 3 (and a half?) toilets. but it's a beeet rundown la haha.

anw, started a round of taitee, then we changed to a whole batch game instead so we tried pig. but not fun, so we did heart attack. oh yes and indian poker was damn funny hahahaha. rebecca lucky toot! who happily trusted her laopo and children though. xD and ew the card could stick on me. O.o bad sign bad sign. haha anw all the cards were oily/sweaty after that, had to remind everyone to wipe their cards before putting back. :p

ok then ordered pizza! I think we terrorised the guy. like asking what packages, whether got one-for-one, asking what flavours, what flavour recommendations... haha I bet the guy would have song yi kou qi after we hung up la haha. ok in the end it was two hawaiians, two mushrooms, one singapura, one meat lover's I think. the latter is awesome! haha and since noone owned up to be salivaphobic (except yujia who I think doesn't drink coke anw), we all just drank from the 1.5l bottle heh. and the other one was in the fridge for the duration of the chalet, thirsty just kope haha.

ok I have very bad memory, but I'm pretty sure we did some teaching of batch dance as well. mostly we go together since that is the everyone must do one, and some of summer, first time actually splitting into guys and girls and mass teaching haha. and then OMG we did the really embarrassing mtv thing to boulevard of broken dreams haha. started out with a few people, but ended up with only julia and I trying to act emo haha. OMG DAMN MALUATING. I FORBID YOU TO CIRCULATE. but it was awesomely fun anw haha, we should get together and adlib dances more. xD or or or choreo! which is way more fun. :D [and eh julia we have yet to go studiowu!]

haha anw, went to bathe, had a temperature war with the heater (on both days heh). someone needs to teach me how to use a manual heater. I had to keep switching from low to medium every ten seconds! ok and then roomed with samseah jess julia. haha triplets and auntie! since mummy was conveniently not around. but mummy and auntie 2 (?) and grandpa roomed with us the next night. xD ok this sounds really stupid. ignoreignore. ok basically we were sleeping n really weird positions, all the other rooms people were sleeping in an orderly fashion heh. anw we shifted when sam got up at 6+. and why am I always one of the first to wake up and one of the last to get up heh. (got diff ok! I wake up at sane times, but at home when I've got nothing on that day, I stay in bed and daydream, sometimes until I fall asleep again, and get up like in the afternoon.)


[day 2]

woke up, slacked in front of tv. oh our wonderful talia got us breakfast for two days. (: the walnut muffin was :D and the cinnamon roll was not bad too haha. oh did commander presents (the other two were at pool haha but I was bored so). hm, then I changed and went to play pool also la hhaa. I SUCK! eh gloria is a closet everything I tell you. have you seen her without glasses and with hair down? damn chio! :D haha. and she closet dances damn well, and closet plays pool damn well. I really suck, I can't control the friction heh. oh samlee is like pro of the pros la. sank A LOT. and she did the super act-cool behind back thing, and sank it! :D

haha ok then went back to change again before cycling, cos I wanted to wear a non-sweaty shirt later. omg the kittens at the bike rental place were damn cute can! and they play-fought, super cute la. and one of then high-fived me twice haha. though I suspect it was simply trying to claw me heh. anw, we rented overnight so we could come back and cycle later at night since we had to leave soon, but we came back quite late and noone was really in the mood and half of us had to chiong notes so it was wasted. D: haha btw, the bike seats sucked. (so far the only rented bikes I've liked were the section chalet '06 ones) they should seriously make bike seats that fit the contours of butts! and the handlebars were really far away, yet the shape is not leanable in a mountainbike sort of way. -.- ohwell.

ok then chionged back to find that the rest weren't back yet heh. washed up a little, changed, then we hurried off to airport to send alicia off. we were damn scared we wouldn't catch her can! plus she didn't have a phone anymore, couldn't contact. so rushed to airport, went to T3, camwhored abit on the trains (both the mrt and the skytrain heh). yay we found alicia! omg then I was suddenly hit with the impact, and a few of us just started emoing then and there. oh then her classmates came and stole her away for awhile heh. anw, it was really emo, esp at the part when we sang you'll be in my heart. I couldn't even choke out the extremely appropriate first line la. I barely managed to sing a quarter of the song. and samlee and xinyi emoed alot too. anw, we miss you alicia, and whereever you are, we still love you! (:

anw, we were quite hungry after that, so we ate at the foodcourt there. gloria and I ate hokkien mee haha, which was 4.50. :/ ahya everything was quite ex la (except the doggies! :D). the mee was sopping wet, but not bad la haha. oh I somewhat managed to persuade gloria to not ask them to leave out the stuff. seriously ah, people these days: laksa without hum and prawns, hokkien mee without sotong and prawns. haha yupp then camwhored abit with xinyi. and off we went! um stopping at watsons on the way to get a couple more doggies. :D and also the toilet to nab toilet paper cos the chalet was running out and we didn't know if the office provided/was open. haha ended up only julia took, but not a lot cos according to her the dispenser was going "buggugbuggugbuggug" very loudly hahaha.

mhmm we waited damn long for the 403 as usual. but emily bought chestnuts! :D and we were happily trying to peel/pop them nicely. yupp so we got back quite late, didn't cycle. oh and sadly the shops that keyun, julia and I wanted to go see were closed by the time we came back. D: oh and and the office told us no more toilet paper so the few of us who needed to shit were planning to try to get by with the last half-a-roll and the wad which julia stole, but the guy came by not long later with toilet rolls hahaha. yepp anw, we did more batch dance! like rehearse over and over. until like midnight woah. noone slept before midnight that day I think.

yeah anw so my sb lured me up by saying some note about checking out at 9am thing, and did a birthday surprise for me! :D it was a version two of the rap thing we did for yujia that time haha. omg so sweet! love! and it's not cheapo at all la please. (: haha my mum was wondering why I had a photoframe that said "baby" with a picture of us in it. xD yupp and I went downstairs and the batch started singing happy birthday. 12am whoo! haha ok not really, about 12.05. but still cool! yupp then went to bathe, had the usual temperature war, was so sluggishly tired that they thought I died in there or smth haha.

then we went to the room, jess had already been sleeping for quite a while, samseah also slept before us. then julia, rebecca, talia, gloria all slept on the floor and I felt bad so I joined them haha. it's quite comfy actually, cept there was one blanket between the five of us. and the fan was quite freezing. I bet my toes would have beem frozen off if I hadn't worn socks la haha. oh anw I was quite proud of our aircon usage! we only used when we prac-ed dance and were gonna be hot and sweaty. so our total usage was 27 units, and we didn't have to pay! :D and as mentioned the fans were quite cold anw haha.


[day 3; inunion!]

woke up at like 8 oops. hurriedly changed and packed and all. yupp so checked out and stuff, started on our way to school. then rebecca's ever-present conscience hit her and she and julia went to be hao xin and buy bread for the whole band in case they got hungry. :O rebecca the rich. haha the dogs were quite amusing on the mrt, I was being totally smothered by one of them and people kept giving weird glances. mhmm anw, reached school, ended up eating some leftover food again haha. oh, jolyn was sick and had to go home. D: anw, we realised games were a bit screwed then, and in the end they got totally cancelled and time got donated to batch item prep and section interaction.

yupp batch item prep whee. wanted to do full dress but obviously we didn't haha. we kinda koped the hall for a while, then the sec2s came and used and we were supposed to do formations but we ended up lazing around at the back of the hall. oh and I got hit by nausea argh, so I just lay on the floor. I am happy to say though, that it sorta became better after section interaction. what does that say? (: anw, section interaction was quite amusing heh. AND I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR SECTION HAS FINALLY MANAGED TO TAKE OUR FIRST FULL SUCCESSFUL DAO PHOTO! photos on facebook whee. haha then jess and I ran around giving batch presents and notes. and our section ended up playing random games like charades and dare-or-dare, with quite amusing dares (especially the rebecca one xD) but it got dry after a while. we combined with trombones euphos horns and tried black magic but still nothing much came of it heh.

ok skip, to bandprac. wait can skip that too. to actual concert! the recruits were not bad. solos! (: haha. dawn of a new day I had like a few wrong notes argh and I was kinda getting stage syndrome, like playing softer and wavering long notes. :/ I must learn to fight that. and overture was beyond bad. it's probably the worst thing that's ever happened in performance history, mo having to stop us right in the middle of playing and start from a place. D': samseah was crying hysterically in bandroom, and a few of us were crying too. ok we shall not dwell upon it and instead work harder to ensure that doesn't happen again. that's what's always said right.

anw, so we dried our tears and washed our faces and put on a smile for batch item. (: sec2s were quite punny haha, and joanne is absolutely adorable! xD angel! sec1s had a skit cum song. the song was a bit draggy heh. I'm quite confident that 2 years later their batch item will have as much of a drastic improvement as ours had from our sec1 one haha. anw, our batch item was crazily fun! I don't know, despite it being uber embarrassing, and it didn't help that seniors were straight ahead and directs (up) were right in front haha. but it was just undescribingly priceless. it was so awesome we wanted to do a self-initiated encore afterwards but didn't for fear of pissing the teachers off heh. batch! we must get together and redance (and perhaps film!) the item again someday okay! I think (hope!) that it was our best item ever haha. we spent so much time prac-ing!

ok then met up with our um apples and oranges haha. our directs (up) baked brownies for us! :D they were really awesome omg thankyouuuu! we will um change our cookie tradition soon haha. oh and whoo we took a five-batch section photo! it was so cool, they even had to stand on chairs hahaha. ok then debrief, band cheers :D and commander presents which we forgot to give during section interaction oops. [oh we have yet to take the traditional outside hall photo ah!] and then nearly the whole band sang me happy birthday omg that was so maluating heh but sweet. (: yupp then as usual we were chased away. off to section dinner! oh yay zhenyi and lynn joined us. (:

went lido as usual, chased off by grumpy security guard as usual. omg he was damn pms-y can, we were like waiting for the rest to come back, so we told him that, then he was like no cannot, get out now. so we were like we can't carry so many things so we've to wait for them to come back can and he was like I don't care, take it all somehow and go away. like wtf? ahya anw, managed to find and fit at two tables downstairs. we sat by direct sb's haha, interesting.

gloria managed to persuade our ano directs (down) to eat. haha I've a feeling the situation seems familiar somehow. :p gloria and I shared a milkshake, yujia got a plum drink, gloria and yujia ate macs, and I had popcorn chicken. we (our table) played the usual games haha, the even batches were talking I think, about I've no idea what. I hereby proclaim that we have a new genius of the section! vivian got fuzzywuzzy like quite fast, and she got bang bang damn fast (yes, the one the brasses took eons and eons to get xD), and their sb got around the world within the first game, and black magic in the paltry few times we played it during interaction. :O peifupeifu. I didn't even get black magic until amanda told me heh. and it's quite funny, when they're thinking, vivian looks bored and celine looks confused, as gloria rightly pointed out.

ok then went to the opp fareast busstop with sheryl (YN) to wait for our parents. mine took super long! ok I should have appreciated the moment more, how often dyou think I get to be at orchard at 11pm. :p but as it happened, I was sleepy from the 2am first night and 4am second night, not to mention tired from all the batch dance prep hahaha, and aching from the stupid fat backpack and slingbag and shoebag and paperbag. so well. ok went home, had a 30min powernap, then got up and packed and opened and xin shang-ed presents hahaha. (: credits to come later! and I slept like around 2 haha, which I have been doing every day since wed, including today I predict (even though there's band tmr :/), except thurs when I slept at 4 of course.

so ends!

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thankyous!

smses:
13 nov
11.51pm- johnson
14 nov
12.15am- angie
12.18am- terence
12.27am- zhenyi
1.02am- evan
1.30am- jerome
1.37am- deb
7.00am- celine
7.24am- dad
7.30am- joanneLAI
8.01am- darrellLEE
8.09am- justin
9.54am- mum
12.28pm- samBAYTAN
12.47pm- peiling
1.48pm- guoling
11.53pm- rebecca
11.59pm- vivian
15 nov
5.29pm- claireTAN

prezzies:
samSEAH, for the supercool candle (it smells nice! and the liquid properties are cool!)
bro, for the um mirror
mum, for the jewellery box-thingy lol
evan, for the collage and card
angie, for the mural and the THISISYOURLIFE(as angie has seen it) photo collection
celine and vivian, for the miniature display saxophone (wait it was not for inunion right?)
yixian, for the 14-page letter :O (I will reply! soon! (: )
joanneLAI and terence, for the milkbottle filled with sweets and the cute little card
joanneLAI, for your self-declared creative letter haha
and of course, my sb! for the rap, and the accompanying props: sweets, paper lightbulb, biscuit (pia! xD), paper smileyface, marsbar, M&Ms, (pokes), paper crown, keychain, bluetac pig, erm sanitary pad (xD), and pretty photo frame with sb photo!

okie did I miss anything? sorry if I did!
yupp anyway, thank you all so much. :D
even though I did tell yall not to get me presents you know. and I meant it! don't waste money next year!

yupp the happy days. (: 141108 probably made it into one of the top days of my life, which is quite interesting because it means everything else actually managed to compensate for the major screwup.

hm there're alot of other stuff I wanted to blog about, but heck la. just so long as I got the main stuffs. I always blog for camps and events! which is why I tried so hard to get the comp today. omg this post is longggg. I shall go wordcount it. woah ho, 3063 words, 5.5 microsoft word pages. I think it's ,y longest yet. okay can't be bothered to colour each para, shall do by days then only split the rest haha.

g'night/g'morning! (it's 2.13am as of now, but the post time says otherwise cos it autosaved and my bro force-offed the comp while he was being ap just now)

come stop your crying and we'll be alright
just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from all around you
I will be here, don't you cry

for one so small, you seem so strong
my arms will hold you keep you safe and warm
this bond between us can't be broken
I will be here' don't you cry

cos you'll be in my heart
yes you'll be in my heart
from this day on, now and forevermore
you'll be in my heart
no matter what they say
you'll be here in my heart
always ♥



you know people keep asking me what I want for my birthday?

I just realised I KNOW WHAT I WANT. but not for my birthday or anything, it's not like they're givable.

I want to have gone facil for sec2 camp, I want to have gone for NCO camp (no hope, this one), I want to have gone for NCO Pop, I want to have gone for West Winds concert.

and since I'm on the topic, I want to have enough time to balance school cca church and all. I want to be better academically physically athletically artistically (which includes musically) socially. well, everyone does, but nope, happy dreaming pearlyn.

ohwell I just wish I was a less all-rounded sucky person la. >.<



haha I'm in major need of smartass quotes. like those kinda: [at fareast under escalator] "say something smart." *dramatic pause* "the earth is round.". haha which led (ohmycrap english phail, it's led or lead ah? :/) to the other time: "xinyi." "yes?" *dramatic pause* "the earth is flat."

anywayyyy, it just occurred that my birthday is in one week! haha cool. ohyes, must remind everyone, don't get me anything! seriously seriously okay. and if you for some strange reason insist on getting me something, don't get me stuffed toys! haha I'm already trying to find enough space on my bed to sleep on.

oh and yesterday was quite amusing haha. so cheat feelings la, said there was spiritual prep but ended up it was exploitation of our free labour to sweep, mop and move chairs for camp. haha and I hope tomorrow goes well yay.

see rebecca, I blogged! ohOH which reminds me of the very amusing thing. haha at farewell assembly when we were sitting down and discussing erm legs;

me: "yujia has hot legs!"
becky: "really meh?"
gloria: O.o
me: "haha ya what, she's a runner mah."
becky: *looks* "oh shit, it's damn nice."
gloria: O.o HAHAHA.

after which there proceeded to be a lot of poking the legs of the row of people in front of us, and yujia's the only one with hard calf muscles hahaha. ok nvm, I'm just damn amused at the ohshititsdamnnice expression haha.

okayy, off to do attendance and sift through email now. bah, I majorly need more computer access. one of these days I'll go get a laptop or something.



yes I'm backkkk. after whutt, more than a week of being mia frm the comp. :/

haha ok last sunday/monday was, um, interesting. :D

anw, skipskipskip. today! was a very long day.

6am: wake up, plonk back down
6.20am: get up

7am: (all soul's) mass

8.20am: pangsehed, holed up in the adoration room. wah 1/2hr in adoration rm, must be a record.

9am: youth group 2nd gathering; mainly p&w, oh and abt 3/4 of the group just threw ourselves in outreach.

10.30am: catclass; more p&w, er some debate thingy which was doubtlessly amusing (thanks to the proposition), signing up for intercessory prayer session (only joanne and I! D: pokepoke everyone! go! oi jerome, don't pangseh pft. not absolutely compulsory to go for daily mass.)

12noon: lunch at gardens. lemon chicken rice! with the extra jo eating katong laksa WITHOUT prawns WITHOUT hum (cockles) WITHOUT this WITHOUT that. and, drumroll, WITH chopsticks. -.-

[time not accurate] 1+pm: island creamery! :D we all got not bad flavours, but I think I got the awesomest combi haha, banana and chocolate. um and we played taitee AS USUAL haha. oh and there were some ppl on the table next to us playing cards too, but with cash.

3pm: jo's house! haha peeeenk room. and omg you have a tv in your room! I don't even have my own room. high-five ter. haha watched brainless hsm2, pft I really think only rebecca and I think the lifeguard is hot. D: haha well. I love I don't dance! and whattt I'm not weird, I just watch for some of the songs, some of the dancing, and the stupid parts are for the stupidity! haha then more taitee, then we UPGRADED! to gofish. haha someday we will upgrade to bridge haha. eh we must play fishing, pig and other stuffs someday too! though pig is a very antisocial game. ): and I am such a sociable person :p (not to mention extremely sloww, which I blame on my section :p) so I always end up advancing extremely quickly to charsiew. -.-

5pm: left. oops ter was 10min late and his mum was pissed at him. ): um then ju called his dad, I wanted to tompang but ahya nvm la so I called my dad haha. and we wanted to bet whose dad would come first cos ju said his is always late. well guess what, his came first anw lol. um while we were jaywalking across the street to the mamashop to buy drinks cos we were like damn thirsty and the rain was not helping.

and then after that went for buffet dinner for my mum's bday. (: some jap place, not bad. largest selection of drinks I've ever seen any buffet to have haha, usually it's only water. there was um like soft drinks, iced fruit teas, coffee machine.

ok being bloody annoyed off/chased off the comp now so I shall end off with...
sick quote of the day/week/month/year! "my phone only has three modes, it either does nothing, beeps, or vibrates." haha from yours truly. omg I can prob match linjin alrd la lol. and I swear it was a meant as completely innocent statement and I only noticed after I said it and justin fell into silence with a contemplative look hahaha.



sorry couldn't resist, I'm still in love with that word. :D like bish and piack, but this is the first non-violent one.

er, inter-class games today lol. did softball. I don't care, I'm doing softball again tmr, I refuse to be exported to rugby or volleyball pft. (if I don't pon that is)

haha was out with evan and angie today. :D fried mars bars upsized, then lido macs. sinful! haha and played taitee and russian poker and fishing with my ever-so-awesome ano daiso cards. cool, they didn't chase us out. haha and evan and I went all around looking for a toilet bathroom! (xD) cos the one right beside macs was 20c lol. wtf, even toilet charges went up. dying worldddd!

then went for mass with candice! haha my first weekday mass of my own accord. I shall try to go every monday. (: music ministry quite sad though, they seriously need manpower. sadly I don't have the musicality to help out.

haha to pon or not to pon. anw, shall start attempting to wear activation chip to sch with julia g! julia sng alrd wears cross haha.

oh didn't notice I missed out CPR/first-aid refresher. -.- don't ask. and the bandages stank. :/but hoho, discussion of means of death is interesting haha. most painless least mutilative etc. jess the morbid one. and and and imagine tryin gto burst little annie(?)'s lungs! d:



WHOOOOOOOOOOO HIGHHHHHHHHHHH! :D

haha meh belated post. but this time ytd I was busy being high, until come back so tired I went to sleep haha.

anw, woke up at 8am, was like x_x and went back to sleep. then woke up again at 10.30, crap haha. so rushed to change pack eat. (had a HUGE muffin for breakfast zomg. so I didn't eat lunch haha.) but pft still late, so I tompanged my mum. thought I was gonna be late but went there and there were only like less than 10ppl lol. then nat came and we went adoration room.

so ppl slowly arrived, blahblah. [oh wtf jo, viv, ter, ju all ponned! D: ohwell, your loss. (:] then we went up to one of the classrooms to get the ayd shirt haha. we were super freaked out cos we saw the facils wearing bright blue shirts and it looked kinda um weird. but haha it was navy blue and pretty. :D really la, the shirt is not bad. :D except for the fact that mine was freaking big. D: and that was S! shoulda gotten XS ahhhh.

ok so we had like spiritual prep sorta thing, some P&W. then the cohort was split into 4 big groups and we went to different classrooms and had like some uh activities. like the first one they told the guys and girls to form a circle each with one inside the other and we were like DOUBLE WHACKOOOO? DDDD: but it wasn't la hahaha. then was the draw a story about the closed door - halfopen door - open door thing. um then the checklist. basically the stuff was all to teach us more about the holy spirit. oh haha during the 10min (but in reality it was longer) toilet break I just sat and smsed and smsed and smsed lol. [need I mention that this month my free smses are going kaput again]

ok dinner was at 4+ -.- haha but lucky I didn't eat lunch la. it was the same catered thing as retreat haha. so anw, got on the buses, then julia g called me so I was like trying to say I was on the way but she couldn't hear me I think. oh and her phone was screwed or smth so that whole night whenever I wanted to call her I called her friend haha. ok so camwhored a litlle with nat, then reached wuite soon cos after all it was toa payoh only.

went in, called julia sng, but she was not there yet, called julia g but decided not to be extra and walk to find her (her parish was like opposite mine haha). then called pam, found her! :D got an sms from celeste so called her too haha. anw, dragged pam along with me to find julia g, and we were standing like right in front of her (facing the other way haha) and both parties were going "where! I don't see you! wave your arms wildly!" haha but found her la. then ran downstairs cos we saw julia sng, and got celeste to join us. gathering of the rgp peeps!





me . celeste . julia sng . julia g . pam, wearing our too big (cept celeste, she got XXS!) ayd shirts and the activation chip thingums :D (the thing around our necks. I want to wear to sch ahh!)






oh there was a tiffany also, from rg. (: we may be forming a rg sec3 (er or '09 since we won't be sec3 forever) catholic group! :D wheeeeeeeee.

yeah anw, the lights started going off so we ran back to our parish clumps haha. oh just for the sake of it, it's st francis xavier . holy spirit . st michael's . st mary of the angel's . holy spirit according to the photo haha. [oh and super sad we couldn;t go for supper together or sleepover or smth haha] but anw, it was still a long wait to the start haha. pam's church (the ENTHU one! who all sprayed their hair red lol.) continued screaming and waving etc haha.

anw, when it started it was like OMGGG! haha really, the power of 2000 people, 25 parishes of sec3s, screaming for God. (: so the MCs were friar derek and sherene (ohno, sp? D:) (grp 8's retreat facil! :D) haha and they were on about how frairs are not uncool and unhappening and all haha. beatboxing! xD haha ok so there was like some intro p&w, testimony and stuff. sharing by bishop was quite funny haha, he's super amusing, but after a while everyone got abit restless ohman. apparently all the guys at the back were like lying on each other lol.

anw, the band is awesomezzzz! THERE WAS A SOP SAX OMG and I was like *melts* haha. :D and walk on water productions was great too. (: the drummer is crazy awesome! (drumbiz is showbiz haha, everyone knows it.) haha the yo yo man. xD ok crap I think I'm getting my programme order abit screwed but ohwells.

the blessed sacrament part was kinda freaky, when that girl started gasping and screaming. :/ and I need to learn the stuff to sing now now now argh. during camp everyone was singing fluently and I was like ohman, I don't know the words. oh and the tune of oh sacrament most holy oh sacrament divine was different. oh and this part was really like the power of 2000 ppl in absolute silence. even a tempo wasn't 2000 I think!

and of course, all the p&w! it was like this build up of highness zomg. :D high high high! like really, the power of 2000 people singing their hearts and souls out for God! I love as it is in heaven! :D and the theme song (which was also the theme song for world youth day '08). ohcrap, I forgot its name! D: there were some songs that most of us didn't really get and thus didn't really like though. but TEH HIGHEST was prince of peace! :D like zomg, we all scrambled down, and yelled ourselves hoarse, and at the chorus we were jumping so much we got stitches. awesomeness, I tell you! [I noticed that when you're being very enthu and singing extremely loudly, you'll go one octave down xD]

anw, after everything, like the whole hall was chanting for one way, but they didn't play. D: haha some enthu ppl started it themselves though, and the whole hall joined in when they heard the chorus haha but like only sfx continued to the You are the way the truth and the light part. anw, ayd '08 was really an amazing, awesome event la. ((: I wanna go next year!

noone wanted to leave haha. and when we finally did, the girls in my bus we were like bellowing gay songs like barney, and other random songs. haha before that we were actually still singing p&w songs la hahaha. ohman, we didn't sing shout to the Lord! D: it's still like my fave.

so anw, yesterday really made it to one of the best days of my life. :D and ACT1V8 is really a damn cool phrase. acts 1, verse 8! really, may we all be sent forth with the holy spirit activated. (: "I've got soul and I am a soldier of Christ!"

oh haha and random phrase, from jerome as usual: HPs make your brains become mashed cauliflowers with melted cheese. uh, okay? hahaha. it sounds very angie.



haha I'm doing random blogthings. -.- like whatever is beside the result box. haha and minesweeper flagging with rebecca. haha as you can tell, we're both damn bored. no idea why I don't feel like sleeping haha.

You Are a Cat

You are very independent and reclusive. No one really understands you, and you like it that way! You are quite clever and ingenious. You can get yourself out of any sticky situation. You are confident and cool tempered. You know you have many advantages and resources to draw from. No matter what life throws at you, things always seem to work out your way.

ok I always thought I was more of a dog person.

Men See You As Playful

Men want a challenge and you are the perfect playmate You know how to push men's buttons and attract a wide range of guys You enjoy living and loving - it's one of your most attractive qualities Men are often consumed with desire for you, and you love that!

zomg? remind me to check what quiz I'm doing before doing it. -.- er and incidentally, I swear I answered relatively dorky answers for this whatt.

haha ok shall go sleep now la. rebecca left. for all I know, jerome wakes up before I sleep. -.- haha.

ew ew yuck yuck. sorry, it just doesn't sound right haha. sorry bout the random title but. anw we're all still gonna call it rj la. anw, the breaking news thing is damn funny. yeah ohemgee, it can't get out before 5pm! but ohemgee, we all totally knew the month before? hm.

anw, yo. haven't been online for damn long. D: sifting emails...

EXCUSE LETTERS BATCH! haha sorry. but really. :/ I'm damn screwed now. anw.

"Congrats! Your name has been selected for consolation prize of NTUC's weekend lucky draw! Reply for more details."

"Hi?"

"Hi"

"Um that's very detailed."

haha whatever jerome! haha and jess and her "reply! nevermind who it is, you can make a new sms friend!" -.-

ok, as usual I must mention that I have forgotten most of whatsoever I wanted to blog over the past week. ohwhells.

AYD this sat! :D looking forward to it wheeeeeeeee. ohman, the ri ppl have bio and lit on monday though I think. rawr don't pon! and joanne! why you pon also! D:

haha ohcrap aspen tmr. chem :/ ms tay's gonna be GRAWH heh ohno. aha, I shall er bury myself in school and use the comp or smth.

ok and um. I hate _. the subject, purpose, tone and everything. argh. I don't know. yeah anw so I realised that what makes me damn stressed out isn't anything to do with schoolwork. crap, I think I seriously need _. though the possibility of such an existence is very slim. please, stop using me.

uh, ignore the last para. nvm.

let's be happy and prance around like magical pixie horses. whee. enjoy what you can of life.



haha I just realised smth random, both ju's I know are clarinet SLs. haha interesting, I shall intro them at ayd or smth. :D

ok this probably gets top place for randomest post.



eeks I originally had so much stuff to blog about, but as usual I forgot everything argh.

oh I reinterate the jealousy point.

OHNO results coming back on thurs/fri is it? :/ must enjoy my precious time before. and uh *predicts owing ter icecream but getting loads of bishan bubbletea and half upsized fried mars bars from samseah and julia :D* as it happens, both such occurences would mean that I did horribly. yay me.

haha wanted to post quite a few random photos, but blogger refused to upload anymore after the second one. maybe it went into shock haha. see for yourself.



















yupp! haha I was so looking fwd to it I typed this the night before it ended. -.- but omg now so weird, I feel so stagnant and I may actually miss mugging. O.o oh and I did a maha bodhi p3 math paper just now cos I was supposed to mark for my bro but I was lying on the sofa and too sian to get up and find the answer sheet haha. I actually prefer sec 3 math. O.o ahh so weird, I think it's the gep and challenge thing. O.o whatever, my extent is still not as much as samseah the weird-o!








and this is how much math I practised for the eoys. oh did I say just this? I meant the other twelve sheets as well. *grins* some double sided, and not counting those I threw away. there's maths for you.












ok shall go vegetate on facebook now. haha that word stuck with me since sec 1. be honoured, muni.

ohoh and I WANT MIDNIGHT SUN TO CONTINUE! DDD: haha shaddup justin, on the unlikely chance that you read this.



WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG THEY ARE OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! haha sorry super high as you can tell. and zomg, I came home today, and automatically went: ok, what am I gonna be mugging now? O.o muggermode!

sigh, remind me to start mugging one month before exams next time. :/ started two weeks before, about one week net was spent on math. ended up staying till 1 or 2 am every night. and math wasn't awesome, aw, but at least not that bad la. not sure whether it was worth that effort. I should totally have spent more time on the later topics and hecked quads please!

but anyway, it's over! :D I must enjoy the time between them ending and results as much as possible. :/ but they happily stole marking day for like principal's address and HOY talk, congress and, uh, aspire to inspire programme? O.o ri-ght. I think rg just can't come to terms with marking days supposing to be holidays. ohwhells.

tennis today! so weird and random actually, haha. and we um realised a leetle too late that we were supposed to inform the security guard I think, but heh. pft, tennis rackets are relatively heavy. haha and I suck. but considering I've never played before okay! I've never even held a racket before. ok, at least I can somewhat whack the green thing now. d: grawh, I suck, arm(s) a bit suan now. not evolved to muscle ache yet la haha. OH RANDOM THING I NOTICED. the muscle that hurts when you write too much+fast for exam essays? it's the same as the footdrill jalan one. d: it's diff from my original footdrill locking one (upper arm), that stopped hurting for some reason.

and unfair! rich people! got iPod touch. pft. haha nvm, I'm happy with my phone. rawr, though I wish I had more freedom to internet access. D: I want my own laptop! D:

oho, it suddenly occurred to read midnight sun btw. the night before the night before math. -.- and I succumbed! oops. :x well. haha shall go continue now. bye!

oh and g'luck to the ri ppl haha.



lalalalalala wheeeeeeeeee.

random exam highs much?

haha anw, here's the estimated order of screwedness so far, from most screwed to least screwed.
chinese paper 1 ; geog ; chinese paper 2 ; history ; english paper 2 ; physics. *claps*

but but but... IT'S GONNA BE OVER SOON! :D after maths (_____"_____) and chem (____"____) that is. but still! then we can go out and fulfil all those unfulfilled planned outings! :D haha okayokay document: around bugis street and similar areas for sneaker/cargoes/jeans/etcetc shopping! and then photo journey! um we must seriously try not to camwhore if possible ok. argh got mental images of damn cool shots, but I bet that as usual they can't be transferred to real life, not even to paper la.

ok gonna hang around brainlessly a bit more. don't wanna go back to my oh-so-wonderful logs. -.- and note to people: talk to ju if you feel brainless. (erm justin, not julia. why do I have a bad feeling about a guy and a girl having the same nickname?) zomg anw the convo has like exponentially increasing brainlessness. hamster energy sources much.

[add-on]oh and my estimated overall gpa's gonna be around 3.06. hey, for me, 3's a mountain.[/add-on]



dropping by whee. being random again.




ok as you can see, I've loads of stuff to blog about. and like I said before, I always forget the stuff way before I have access to the comp, but yay this time I wrote point form. xD couldn't help forgetting some stuff when I had no access to pen and paper though. and omg that's like so anal right.

long post coming along! ok first, photossss! argh blogger sucks at uploading, so go facebook yay. http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=42511&id=670003192

ok next thing, I cannot cannot cannot talk about mugging and generally academic stuff with sam and jess okay. :/ just like, not same wavelength la haha. they're like wayyy up there. mhmm. and then I'm prob so low down you lost sight of me. ok not that I can reach their standards in other stuff like music either. :/

ok I have a new life philosophy besides the vacuum cleaner one. you don't have to be good, just be your best. (: just made it yesterday, so hope I can live by it haha. *predicts moaning about my uselessness again sometime soon*

HAHAHA the six pack dilemma! xD ask me if you really want to know that much. :p and I have an ant dilemma. if you accidentally instinctively half-squished an ant such that you know that it's injured but still alive, would you continue to squish it until it dies or just let it go? and if it's the latter, to what extent of injury would you rather just kill it instead? and angie you sadist omg. haha this is so moral dilemma-ish. film cluster! sigh, we die.

ok you know I realised how similar it is. yet I'm kinda reacting so different. ok that doesn't make sense I know. ignore me.

argh I need to mugmugmug. I haven't STARTED physics, geog, history. now dyou have an idea of how screwed I am? I'm not even gonna bother mugging english and chinese please. and I've been spending all my time on maths argh. barely started chem. yet I'm not even done with maths. ohwell. I WILL MUG LATER. shall destress now first. (:

you know, it wasn't until lately that I realised how awesome our adoration room is? confi retreat reflection walk, to be exact. it's just so, peaceful la. I think if I have the time to, I might just go there every week from now on. and I shall drag yall with me muahaha! if not it's always only me and ter pft. jo! why dyou not want to go there that bad! ohyes next week black yah! can mourn the start of my EOYs. D: favourite emo colour haha.

and omg we so totally must have a catclass chalet! argh but I bet a lot of our parents won't allow. D: like, hello, we're not gonna be doing anything weird pelase. O.o but I wanttt. and deprived ppl who have never gone for chalet with friends, I'm sure you want to! haha ohman. try la k! go beg after EOYs.

which reminds me, batch chalet! ((: lovelovelove. just try not to uh watch as much tv as usual haha. ohno, am I supposed to book the hometeamNS ome? O.o I think I only can on nov 1st leh. and on the topic, section chalet! ((: we didn't have last year. ): and hooray for potential chaodar stuffs with us being top batch this year! :p I can just imagine jess. :/ "oh look, it's turning black, so cute! omg it just caught fire! :D poke it poke it, so cute!" O.o haha which somehow links to, conbined section outing! as in like, raffles combined slww, not rgssb combined sections. haha though there's kinda a high chance it's not even gonna happen.

if I haven't already mentioned it somewhere, PEARLYN IS BUSTING HER FREE SMSES LIKE CRAZY. seriously, I think this is my record month. in my whole life. I prob busted like several hundred? and it's inching ever so slowly towards the end of the month and if I don't sms I'll prob suffer withdrawal haha. what with the stress and all.

haha this is random, but I haven't found anyone who writes algebra x's like me! like most ppl do the closebracket, openbracket sorta thing right. I go like, squiggly diagonal line from top left to bottom right, then straight line from top right to bottom left. whoever does so too, highfive! :D (I kinda doubt there's anyone)

and I haven't been to fareast for eons and eons and eons omg. seriously. we-ll. haha and I'm still on my sweettalk boycott! loves bishan $1 bubble tea. :D and cheesecake and other relevant persons! we must go sneaker and cargoes and jeans and and whatnot shopping after EOYs! and uh begin prom-stuff searching! haha a bit the early. but sec4 is so crazy and hectic la. except this period of time for them haha.

OH and I realised what xinle's wrong-sounding word is! like you know samseah drags her short syllables like oh sheet right, and xinle's is the opposite? and we vaguely remembered that there was smth she said that sounded bad/wrong and we thought it was workshit (read: worksheet)? yeah I think I finally rmb what it was, cos she said it today! it was BEACH! go figure. mr ng thought she was swearing hahahaha.

and omg, you know I left my hoodie in 314 over the weekend, then when I went there to take it back on monday, it smelt like mutton! like seriously. not the fresh-from-the-farm, right-at-the-farm kind though. haha anw, realised today it was JULIA's hoodie! oops. haha it felt bigger, and the sleeves felt tighter (which kinda don't go together right -.-) and I realised it was M haha. so, julia! why does your hoodie smell like lamb. O.o

and OI! what potential partners hurhhurhhurh. -.-" and tell me! pft. don't fwen you. D:

HAHA omg english today was amusing. apparently sec1 essays are super funny.
"the doctor came out of the room. he shook his head and said, 'I'm sorry, your father has become a vegetarian.' 'ohno,' I cried. 'my father has become a vegetarian, all because of me!'" OMG HAHA DAMN FUNNY LA! xD and she has started describing us with different levels of death: living dead, undead, and dead lol.

and minyee's damn funny thing haha.
*spooky voice*
[insert town name] was a peaceful, quiet town, until one day...
'hello?'
'I'm watching youuu...'
'ohmygad!'
HAHA it's damn funny when she does it la, can't capture it here.

omg longgggg post! haha sorry. doubt many ppl will read my boringness anw. yeah and another random point, er I think the raging hormones thingy is kinda getting applicable to a lot of ppl LOL. xD



But I won't hesitate no more,
No more, it cannot wait
I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love

Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
Were just one big family
And it's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love love

whoo! I think I'm Yours is a song you take a couple of times to like but when you do you love it. anw, argh SSPT. sighhhhh. attempting to do by today. ATTEMPTING. sure cannot one. ok mugging progress: math up to functions, still need some clarifications. chem just started, KPT, stuck at ideal gas law. phys nonexistent. everything else too.

anw, random. I think I am an easily jealous person hm. I can't really classify of what, but I'm pretty sure it's not materialistic. like uh company experiences attention proximity? go figure. :/ I have no idea myself. there's just that frequent splitsecond subconscious pang that assures me it exists.

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed



ok I hope scrunch faces can AT LEAST work in the title.

mugging=screwed. 2days and I'm still stuck on indices&surds, which is *claps* the first topic. -.- die la die. and ss pt is still floating in its non-existent state.

HALP ME. ok I shall go ask a kind soul to help with surds questions later. er something tells me I'm gonna have to end up using msn handwriting feature to draw surds. :/

and today was our last pe lesson with mr tan! D: haha the video is damn funny. (: and the photos are lol.

OI! *whacks entire cat class in turn* ok sorry couldn't be bothered to type individual names. stop calling me weird things! and anw, green next week yeah! :D yeah everyone must go ok! can mug together again! (we-ll. I did mug. a bit.) and go for exam prayer session on sat!



like there's even a choice. but I need the freaking motivation ahhhhhh!

anw tmr! :D red+massmug! makes no sense to most right.

and argh I've been cut off from the comp for sooooo long. pft password. pft screwed-at-the-worst-times internet. and because of my short term memory *applauds* I've forgotten whatsoever I wanted to blog over the past week. RAWR.

oh there's one. I love jess!
"LIFE.
a sexually transmitted disease.
100% fatal."
haha! and sex ed is useless. like there isn't much they can teach us that we don't already know?

oh yes and my vacuum cleaner philosophy has been adopted by clarissa and is actually known by some ppl. :D *egos* haha but I really think it's a good philosophy to live by. [which reminds me, film cluster is screwed argh]

what else what else argh. oh well. PEARLYN GO MUG. *slaps*
omg whut. I'm stalked?



ok sorry no idea what to name the post heh.

omggg whoops my previous post was my 100th post! *belated celebration*

haha anw, dropped by to say I am such a lucky person. in another person's shoes, I could be struggling with peer pressure and bad influence friends who bug me to go out instead of study. but hoho, I have the privelege of having good influence friends and facing the pressure to mug! lol.

and walao they can mug and have lives. I don't mug still no life. D: hahaha.

oh and facebook photo comments are suddenly very lively! some interesting ones:
(though you probably have to know some inside stuff to get most of it haha)

the joanne scandal: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=824149&id=706912293

omggg I KEEEL YOU GUYS: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=835132&id=756419747

HAHA: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1278924&id=707762539

OMG what is this again: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=942737&id=670003192

haha ok I actually had a lot more than that but I figured these were the more interesting ones la hahaha.

AND ALL YOU PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. GO DOWNLOAD WINDOWS LIVE PLUS NOW. then my nick won't look weird to you and you can have cool nicks too! [and they have orange font! :DDDDDDD]

haha now to be goodly-influenced. I actually wrote a mugging schedule! but judging by the time I just spent on the comp, it's gonna fail.



a very belated picture post dedicated to my awesomezzz rugbymates!








like, the only bunch of all-blacks!

ALL STARS, people! :D

and our very famous (history-based :O) slogan of...

PEACE!













BREAD! ignore the mr tan hahaha.














LAND! (with the random angie)














LAND! (without the random angie)
once again ignore the mr tan lol.













I can't believe it's over!

yesterday was quite fun haha. met at market, thought I was late, but ended up the earliest. SO EXPECTED MAN. we have a very ahempunctualahem cat class haha. then ju came (eh I didn't know he was coming!), then nat, then jo looking wildly (and blindly) around for us even though we were waving our arms like mad chickens, then ter was last haha. well technically chng was last la, but he had smp!

ok somehow decided not to eat at market -.- so walked to frolick and bought yoghurt! haha nat got the parental advisory badge and I got the -kiwi- the fruit, stupid one. haha realised it's quite a waste of money, but ohwell. (: then went rk and ju and ter ate rotiprata haha. and chng appeared in sch formal u I think? and nat was like omg are you wearing that for confirmation! haha. yeah so hung around, threatened joanne about ahem, then nat had to leave. D: so we started walking to chng's house, taking the er longer way? for some reason. wah damn hot. haha and joanne and I were like taking turns to say that and reply with like "must be me right" and "not interested" haha.

arrived, and joanne stared screaming about the 3 dogs hahahahaha. I think they're damn cute! but the small one's really noisy haha, and the lighter one seems to be its disciplinarian lol. like everytime the small one yaps it'll like GLARE hahahaha then it will shut up for a while. omg so cute! :D yupp so slacked about his room for quite a long while haha. when we went in joanne was like "ooh, a guy's room!" hahaha. oh and we did the whole smsing thing (ohmycrap I hope he isn't really pissed) and argh I think the number is still stuck in my head, all your fault ju. haha and I think chng's sis LOVES joanne.

ok then jo and I disappeared to the toilet to change first, and we spent like, 20 mins haha cos we were like "ahh don't wanna go out don't wanna go out" "I want nat here too!" "ohmytian we should have just all the girls met first". but we finally went out la haha. and did makeup, which was super unobvious but who cares, I'm not gonna go around looking like some wayang thing. then the guys finally went to change haha (ju left to go home and change, he was gonna go impersonate haha!) and tadahh we were late! as usual. oh chng's mum fetched us there. (: thanks!

um didn't manage to camwhore haha. went to dump bag in church, then a couple of dry runs. then it was spiritual prep at parish hall. ju borrowed a tie and snuck in haha. did some reflection, P&W, and then when they were like "as we sing this last song..." and we were like omg so fast? omgomgomg emo! D: then went down and blablabla, camwhored a bit, etc. then it was like IT omg. so walked in, totally unsynchro with bev oops heh. ohwhells. then was confi mass, rite of confi and everything, and very sadly there wasn't much feeling. [ok I shall elaborate on this later I think]

yeah then cohort photo, which us vertically challenged ppl were so smartly at the back -.- and I couldn't find a hole haha so I bet I can't be seen in this one either. D: then camwhoring, not a lot ): and then our families stole us, and I had family photos at parish hall haha. (oh I forgot, we saw ____!) yeah then went to have dinner at some zhicha place. ohyeah and I practically ripped off my skirt blouse heels even earrings to wear the ohsocomfortable jeans and tee. :D haha.

ok anw, I think that I'm a very interesting psychological case study. argh I don't feel like elaborating now, here. ok basically I feel good at the slightest weirdest things and bad at the slightest weirdest things, and I tend to judge on tiniest oddest things and sometimes unfairly. hm go figure.

I HAVE A MUGGERFREAK CATCLASS OMG THIS IS SO FREAKY. like mass convo then everyone suddenly planned to mug together and actually did! and ter the freakyshit person who has resolved to mug 4 hours a day everyday and is actually following that resolution. like O.o. like firstly, him mugging. (haha no offence d:) then, like everyday. then like, 4 hours?! like. what is the world coming to. '-O-O-' mugggg. I shall try later. and they all got style one la! must have pillow, food, drink... [hahaha misha omg haha. why that name?]

yeah anw (sorry not very coherent and organised post), I'm super sad confi is over. you know all those events, it's the same. cadenza, confi etc. like the months of prep it's like excited yet freaked out, then as it draws nearer comes sadness cos I love the whole feeling of the leading up to it part, then the event itself is like detachment and stoneness, then after comes the floaty syndrome, until it sinks in, the the next few days/weeks is this sense of emptiness. it's really quite sad. and I love my cat class omg. the few of us at least haha. we are SO having reunions. group 8 too ya!

PEARLYN CHUA YOU NEED TO MUG. LIKE SERIOUS. not for the ice cream. not for anything material. like, for self-satisfaction? guilt-clearing? oh that sucks. for results. for, I dunno la.

argh I'm not making sense again. this means it's time to stop.



haha my uber long posts are returningggg! although it was only like one and a half days haha. and I shall leave the homework rants to the end heh. *squinch*

ok so. woke up at 7.30 despite yelling at myself (internally of course) to wake up at 7 the previous night. [um technically that morning, I slept at 2.30 after happily starting packing at 12.30 :D] anw my body alarm clock is interesting, this isn't the first time that I ended up waking up later than I wanted to but in the end making it in perfect time. some subconcious thingy la haha. anw, met joanne at macs (she was late!) and turns out neither of us really felt like eating haha but so as to not waste the trip there I made her share with me a... drumroll... happy meal! haha we didn't take the toy btw. anw, shouldn't have wasted money la hahaha. I ate like 1 hotcake and joanne ate like 0.00004395071586 of the other one. -.-

haha anw I was still looking forward to the walk to church heh. so weird right. but morning walks are good. (: haha it was quite cold btw, we were wearing hoodies (with shorts so it's a little weird). met candice at the busstop waiting for valerie and she was begging us to wait with her so we did haha. in the end so late not early that we didn't get bag-checked lol. um um what happened next. ohya same groups as june camp. :D my group added jordan though, cos he wasn't there for june camp. then went parish hall, dumped our stuffs, sat in groups. no icebreakers or anything haha duh. we had FOUR facils! :O and aloy didn't come for this camp aw. but gracemary did cos she felt bad about pangsehing us haha. :D

um ok I shall just talk about sharings in general now haha cos there weren't that many anw and they were mostly around the same: facils asking questions, us giving model answers (most of the time), and end up it's a facil sharing a personal story haha. ok this is bad I don't rmb a lot of stuff. :/ I just know the whole camp was quite intensive haha. ohya and I shared every single meal with someone or other (except breakfast) and even so we never managed to finish a single one haha. ano whee!

ok sessions. ohno I seriously can't really rmb ohman. but I think they were all quite fine la haha. except the very last one. (the one where we did the 68 question thingy -.-) um what else. oh praise and worship! :D haha I think every camp it's the same, they intro new songs to us, we usually don't get them at first, but a few after a couple of times we start liking them, a few we just totally don't get it. then people always go high on the songs we know well haha. oh likelike zomg you know I was like "ohmannn I want shout to the Lord." then we started doing shout to the Lord zomg haha. and THEN I was like "whoo! if only they did prince of peace also. " and we started doing prince of peace ZOMGZOMG. I rock. (:

oh and pearlynLAU and I have some freakycrap mo qi omg. last camp we both wore obs shirt on the same day and similar white shorts. this camp we both wore obs shirt on the same day and similar dark grey shorts. omg scary la. and not to mention the cafe cartel thingy haha. I was like sitting with my family (after being dismissed from camp) and then I suddenly got an sms from her saying "look right." so I did and it was a wall haha. so I replied that and she was like "left." and it turned out she was on a table to my left haha.

what else. oh bathing. haha me the genius didn't bring a towel! zomgoo. nor a comb haha but I'm used to overlooking that so I survived. haha I borrowed joanne's towel which she so nicely dried for me while I was bathing haha. (: sorry and thanks! and there was hot water omg whoooo! I wonder if the guys had haha. oh and I still don't get how people bathe together omg. O.o like candice and valerie, and vivienne and samantha. don't you feel like insecure haha.

oh and prayover/praying with! I fell asleep during reflection again ohman. *whacks self* seems like I do that whenever we do reflection in the parish hall on chairs with the lights off. ohyes and michelle (is it?) has a BEAUTIFUL voice. (: and ohmygoodness tongues is this huge mix of freaky and cool ok. like the facils were surrounding us with michelle leading and suddenly like a lot of them broke out into tongues and they were all speaking different things at the same time. it's like :O really. then it was praying with which sadly I didn't feel anything again. I mean, not didn't feel anything la, just like nothing really happened. some people got slain I think. but I guess I felt more touched than the previous ones. and we sang Holy Spirit fall on me. (:

ok I think that's all. NO WAIT HOW COULD I FORGET SLEEPING! haha. once more we wanted to go grotto (but it was raining D:) and I think they really sent people there leh. haha but after a while I didn't really feel like anymore. and omg so many ppl were talking on their phones in their sleeping bags la omg haha. and vivienne was talking damn loud! haha at least I'm not so obvious la. I just smsed lol. it helps to have a thick sleeping bag and a hoodie to bury your head and your phone in haha. anw not bad, I slept around... 1 plus? and I woke up at 3+ and saw a sms from darrell saying that he woke up at 2+ haha but I think he went back to sleep. yeah anw I managed to sleep again until 6, you know when the stirring and exaggerated whispers begin. (it's always half an hour before the time we're supposed to wake up argh) and as usual joanne and her five more minutes haha. but vivienne woke up fine lol.

haha ok I should think that's technically all about camp. then it was confirmation mass rehearsal! (it was quite a waste of time heh) and OMG WHY ON EARTH AM I WALKING IN FIRST AHHHH. O.o at least it's with beverly haha. (: [random interjection] haha which reminds me of the disproportionate thing hahahahahaha omg hahaha see la all your fault hahahaha. [/random interjection] yeah anw. the order is like random apparently. cos if it was by height joanne should be in front! :p haha. and shayne shouldn't be in the front row lol. haha anw he's the first getting confirmed whoo. so at least I'm not. :D our row is quite squishy haha but it's fine. joanne said hers very spaced out then feel so antisocial haha. yeah anw rehearsal was basically along the lines of walk in walk out walk in walk out. somemore first row had to keep doing a lot of stuff while the rest could sit. but shayne had to do the most haha cos he's first. I laugh. :D and the anthony thing hahahaha.

ok anw I shall just say that got a lot of hw la argh. like one more du shu bao gao. rawr.







haha and I forgot to add! there are the people who are nicer in person, those who are nicer over sms and those who are nicer on msn haha.

ok I really am very random. and awake. at this time. argh.

haha and I'm seriously very amused at the immense tinyness of this world. damn cool haha.



haha ok I'm ok now. :D

I made some interesting observations. girls can be split into two categories: those who you talk to (both phone and msn) just to ask abt hw or stuffs and then both parties just clam, and those who you just go on and on and on and then when you run out of stuff to say abt smth one of you just randomly changes topics and then you go on and on again. and guys can be split into: those who are nice/interesting to talk to, those who are ok/interesting in an infomative manner(?) to talk to, and those who you quite avoid talking to.

ok that was random. nvm. *grins* yupp I'm really ok now. (:



And I can’t stand the pain
And I can’t make it go away
No I can’t stand the pain

How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
I’ve got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away

ok I guess this isn't the only or most appropriate time I would quote these lyrics, but.

today probably falls under the category of the screwed up days of my life. you know those that bring you on an emotional roller coaster then dump you away when you're at the lowest point. and such that it's worse cos the drop is even greater if you started at a high point.

and that's besides the fact that today was almost a total waste of time, hanging out online and doing nothing useful. well depending on how you define useful.

I guess I was flung around, from happy to sleepy to hopeful to hungry to sian to amused to achieved to useless to disappointed to amused to useless to generally high to way low. btw there are actual events that mark each of that (though maybe the order is screwed) but I'm not gonna name them.

you know the time when I mentioned I hate being locked out? (if I did mention it) I realised that sometimes I wish I was. ignorance is bliss, how many times have I said that, but only when the situation is one way? if I turn it the other, I should have realised that I wouldn't see it the same way. I should edit that saying then: ignorance is bliss, once you know what you want to be ignorant of. which totally doesn't make sense. so happy living in this screwed up world where you either feel pissed and wish you weren't in the dark or bish yourself repeatedly and wish you were in the dark when you come across something you don't want to see/hear/know.

but I maintain my stand on this other thing I mentioned (actually I think I never really mentioned it). I wish everyone were two-dimensional. you know how much easier the world would be to live in if everyone was happily simple? no double meanings, no unexpected depth of emotion. no offence meant to anyone at all, but you know when you always thought someone was just so cute and innocent and suddenly they wham you with something you totally never expected to come from them. and I'm not just talking sickness or whatever here. ok I think I am quite flat (no wrong meaning intended) and naive. and ap and stupid and useless and a generally sucky person. anyway not the point.

but that leads back to the ignorance is bliss thing again. so what's easier, to believe that someone is as easy (I'm sorry, loss of words) as you think when they actually aren't, or to know and have the full force of them not being so? ok this post is actually totally missing the point I was gonna blog about.

no I seriously don't think I'm pissed with you. I'm just, confused I guess. and like a little kid, wishing for it all to just end happily ever after. there are times that I don't even think that it is possible for things not to end that way, so much so that if they don't I am totally caught off-guard.

ohyes another thing. I seriously don't understand the fuss people make of things sometimes. sorry that wasn't supposed to sound mean. I mean like, okay, it's not the end of the world, so get over it already. pick yourself up and continue with life as best as you can, whatever happened. and it's not even that big a thing. I mean yes, it's definitely a significant thing, but why not try to not see it in that way. things can go on as they did in all other aspects.

and also, yes I have been feeling your stress over the past weeks. it's following you around like this aura, showing in whatever else you do. and honestly, I'm really sorry for you and I wish I could help, but I don't think I'm like in any position to offer. not when I'm managing my own life so terribly anyway.

and I get why you feel that way cos you told me, but on the other hand I don't really get it. so just because _, you _? wait, no right. it's the whole thing right.

incidentally, I think I suffer from some social rejection/neglection problems. which contributes to the e in esfp I guess, and the fact that I probably wouldn't survive without friends, and that I am getting seriously dependent on a lot of people even if you don't know it. and the puppy dog syndrome, like I kind of feel a need to please everyone, so much so that it hurts when I know someone is pissed/disappointed with me. to a certain extent.

and I hate myself for being insensitive and selfish. there are many things which I do and realise too late that I shouldn't have done, and there are also the things which I know beforehand that I shouldn't do but do anyway for my own... pleasure? crap sorry I can't find the word for it. oh, sake. like this, for example. I sincerely hope that I'm not hurting anyone, but it always feels good to let things out.

and shit the irony. (it doesn't help that everytime I see this word now I'm gonna think of that, which will in turn probably bring along a string of painful reminders) I'm blogging something which might hurt people against people who blog things that hurt people. shut up, pearlyn.

conclusion: I hate myself. and various aspects of this world we live in.

but never forget the half-powered vacuum cleaner. I should be a famous quoterer. quotist. whatever.

and I still love you dears. I'm hoping the mutualism exists. (that word does not exist by the way)

as it happens, I'm not gonna bother colouring this post. it's like trying to give out pretty balloons as a last ditch attempt to salvage a ruined birthday party. not the best of analogies, I know, but it's better than my original "conceal a corpse with candy". you know what, I may just decide to stop colouring my posts altogether. save the eyes of people. nah, I will colour when I'm back and happy again. repeat: NAIVE.



haha waitt first: baking! ok forget it I shall just say
1) all things that spit seriously hate me. even eggs. O.o
2) it smudged. D:
3) it burnt. D:
4) boiled dates stink.
5) blueberry morning! :D
6) 1st-3rd eggs: half-cooked, liquid but white eggwhite. 4th egg: UNCOOKED. liquid, mostly transparent eggwhite. (no prizes to guessing who's the freakazoid who ate/drank it) 5th egg: mostly cooked. solid eggwhite, liquid yolk. 6th egg: FULLY COOKED. :D sucess. and obviously the last 2 eggs are thanks to me. :D sam I tell you your egg steamer weird gadget thing doesn't work la.
7) QUOTES! :D "excuse me, sorry, where can I get dates?" "personal egg time" heh.

ok now react! haha fun la, seriously. definitely better than last year. ok seeing that I can't even really rmb what happened last year. haha all three of them were in games comm, so they left lunch early. and [correction] three [/correction] of the ri guys pangsehed pft. ohkayy crap I have a problem with names haha oops. I can't rmb a few of our section's and I realised too late that I nvr knew some of our grp's at all. haha at least it improved from last year when all guys look the same HAHA. ohoh anw I think the lowersec uppersec diff thing is damn amusing la. ohyes I rmb smth omg damn cool la gloria and I both burst out in the wham saxsolo at the exact same time for no particular reason with no external stimuli (but in diff pitches haha). MO QI!

ok I need to organise this post better. ok like there were basically two main parts. sectionals/combined: feel inferior! (not to mention small but nvm) and anw I hope they realise he's right. but at that time I would probably have felt similarly la. ahh everyone! work on tone! and volume! ah! ohno. ok let's go ask for advice whee haha so weird. but still. and I bet _ ___ __ ____ _______ ________ dot! ok nvm random. haha I think the appalachian (ohmycrap how to spell) overture melody line is quite cute. ok wrong word choice. uh nice? haha anw ohcrap contacts. :p gloriaaaa. um argh I can't really rmb anything else significant.

um the other part is like games. haha broom! and our wonderful cheer which happily consisted of three words! :D liesrjwaopravwtu (sorry I can't rmb the lead lines) YEAH YEAH! srgoivutoptqajpg GREAT GREAT! eijhpvtawmtop WIN WIN! broooom vrooom! ok with the last two it's five words la haha. ok pingpongball game was like okay, except for the realisation I made too late but I doubt it la so nvm. TOOTHPASTE GAME zomgooo. and they used sticky kids toothpaste which doesn't rub off like normal toothpaste so it like didn't even get halfway down the line. haha and it was quite weird. at least no tennisball game! um next was what ah. oh flourkeypad game. haha kangjie and I selflessly volunteered to roll in the flour. not that bad la haha batch chalet one was worse right muahaha. I laugh. um then chair game I think. like variation of the scissorspaperstone running one. sweaty hanky! *scrunch eyes* my luck damn bad la, everytime first time lose alrd. I shall go research on scissorspaperstone human tendencies when I'm bored! um then oh the balloonbodyparts game. hahaha omg had some very wrong positions. and the bonus thing was damn funny la haha. and I got head back with xing ern. (ahya no matter what can't be worse than the churchcamp green stuff one where we had to rub it off aloy with various body parts) uh that's all I think. OH WAR GAMES! haha omg quite fun la, and damn tiring. and kangjie and I no mo qi, keep pulling each other in opposite directions. (ok actually I was the one pulling her most of the time heh) haha omg I must conclude that humans have very violent natures that are just waiting to burst free. haha I think their games skit was not bad, a lot more creative than our usual ones.

whee. I miss react. weirdly. HAHA omg they should make it overnight camp.

ohya onto the rjcsb thingy. ahh joanneLAI stop propagandaing me to join floorball! sekali you succeed argh. and street dance is quite cool haha. not like I can make it to either? but not like I'd make it in band anw. ahya see how things go la.



haha for jess' sake. (zomg it took damn long. killed my saturday.

bassoon	bassoon	bassoon
cello	cello	cello
chimes	chimes	chimes
clarinet	clarinet	clarinet
No Color	No Color	No Color	*
flute	flute	flute
glockenspiel	glockenspiel	glockenspiel
No Color	No Color	No Color	*
horn	horn	horn
oboe	oboe	oboe
No Color	No Color	No Color	*
No Color	No Color	No Color	*
timpani	timpani	timpani
trumpet	trumpet	trumpet
triangle	triangle	No Color	*
trombone	trombone	trombone
tuba	tuba	tuba
violin	violin	violin

Score: 0.655

In this battery, a score below 1.0 is ranked as synesthetic. Non-synethetes asked to use memory or free association typically score in the range of a 2.0. A perfect score of 0.0 would mean that there was no difference in the colors selected on each successive presentation of the same letter. For more information on the Synesthesia Battery and the details of how it is scored, please refer to David M. Eagleman, Arielle D. Kagan, Deepak Sagaram, Anand K. Sarma. A standardized test battery for the study of Synesthesia. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2007 Jan 15;159(1):139-145. [Click here for pdf] and or email us.

eeks I can't get the colours of the rest out and this one is screwed too. argh curse youu html.

and the flute is a floaty green blue! I picked pink for one cos I was thinking about what sam and becky said haha. and strings tend to be a kind of plum. I don't know why clars are that colour. and I have no idea why tuba is green. \:

okayy going to dentist now. soon I mean. haven't STARTED any hw or mugging! claps. and my tmr's busy.

I realised that we should try to see that

life is like a vacuum cleaner never turned on at full power.

it could always suck more.

so we should treasure what we do have and can enjoy.

like band. :D

and God. :D

and every single awesome friend. :D

and the very fact that we are alive. :D

even after all those SAs and PTs and horrifying/embarrassing/close call incidents thrown at us.

and we should think of the people who have it so much worse off than us.

so much worse than SAs and PTs and horrifying/embarrassing/close call incidents.

haha what a post-ful of morality. but really.

nope I haven't been whacked on the head with a sock full of morality. just felt random.



yesyes don't rub it in that I'm like 40 million years behind everyone.

anyway yesterday was so amusing hahaha I was totally dead to the world from like 9 to 7. and I subconsciously walked to fareast somehow, and I happily managed to crash smack into a lamppost (eh it was below eye level la pft). yeah anw this kinda sucks cos I have to go find out what was done during physics english careered and history. ok I'm narrowing that down to history. -.- and maybe physics in case it was one of those rare times she said smth important.

anywayy, EDWARD CULLEN! :D fangirls. haha and I'm still pissed at the casting rawr. (the cedric diggory guy? wtf?) I may decide to boycott the movie. as in ok maybe I'm weird, but I think that no matter what human they get for the roles, they could never do justice to the perfectness of vampires. haha nevermind.

anw it's actually a very brainless read la haha (jessica stop being so analytical). it's just totally for edward cullen fullstop. haha omg I love the "I dazzle people?" quote! yeah you do.

oh but haha it's one of those comparable to a journey in rgssb things. like so awesome you just don't want it to end, but it has to, and you wish you'd be stuck in the middle forever. (chapter 10 and 13, I think, are like :DD)

and one of the quotes in the preface is quite cool and applicable too. "When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve it when it comes to an end." ponderponder.

anyway, planning my next dead-to-the-world day. tmr's lessons are quite dumb, I think I shall read new moon tmr then, if I can find roxanne's. haha sam was like it sucks cos edward is missing in like 3/4 of the book! then I was like D: beginning 3/4 or end 3/4 and she was like um middle 3/4 so I was like (: ok then still got motivation to read beginning to end. haha and I realised joong and darrell also were like frantically flipping going where's edward where's edward! and then they flipped to the end and saw that he does reappear and that was their only motivation for reading on haha.

anw, argh, I kept wanting to blog stuffs then kept not having access (I'm not supposed to be here now too shh) then forgetting. *scrunch face* smth tells me I have photos to post but well can't be bothered to go find heh.

ohyes the super cute giammy quote! "I like that bird! it's so fat!" "haha I think it's poofing its feathers out." "HI POOFY BIRD!! :D" haha omg giamgiam is so cute. molly! and the jess one about pumps. "I've always wondered how those things stay on when you see more foot than shoe." lol. and there was a quote of the last week that I wanted to put but I forgot. D:

ah I just realised I have a lot of stuff to email the batch about. pft you band break. lucky I rescued goldilocks before it got locked and bolted for *gasp* two weeks!

yupp that's abourrit. I may drop random posts if I suddenly rmb smth. uh and if I have access to the comp.

OHYES. screw redox half equations. some kind soul please help me with them! (and I find logs fine muahaha, first and only sign that my maths is not totally hopelessly unsalvageable.)



pearlyn has four, repeat: FOUR, PTs due the coming week. chem is wonderfully stuck in the raw research stage and I seem nowhere near being able to come up with insightful questions. history has been at the idea stage like forever though I have... vanguard sheet yay. geog is ahahaha I haven't started. like at all. except decide on the place? sigh. yeah thanks so much joo. (: and chinese! standing ovation. it's like less than haven't started. all we've done is (barely) read the topic. and attempt to discuss. whee. OH JOY.


but anyway, rugby is fun. ((: and violent. :D have I mentioned that jamie is lead defence and beck is frontline attack? haha she tackles like everyone and both people always end up sliding to the ground. and I still think the lie down thing is a self-sacrificial act sorta thing HA. anw I can't wait to tackle someone! :D though becky's jaw-braces injuries last time sounded freaky. and it's quite inconvenient argh and I keep wanting to bathe but knowing how long I take to. heh. AND wtf why can't we wear sch-app tees to assembly? )): it's not like, disrespect to the country/school or whatever what. so inconvenient. so what now, we have mass stripping sessions in the middle of the field? OH JOY.


and bringing you (not-so-)live news updates! *dum dum dum* BUBBLETEA HAS INFLATED! ok that sounds plain weird. BUBBLETEA HAS QI3 JIA4-ED! now milk tea, red tea, green tea, ice blended are 1.60. milkshake and yoghurt are 2. O.o minipearls, jelly are 40c, AND THEY ARE CHARGING THAT FOR NORMAL PEARLS TOO WTF. D: oreo topping is 50c. oreo series are up to 2.10 and 2.40. dessert series are up also to 1.90++. so this basically means that a usual bubbletea would now cost 2 bucks. wth! I bet we can still find 1 buck ones la pfft pfft pfft. OH JOY.

anw, the main point is, boycott orchard sweetalk! in an effort to do so, jess sam and I shared a full-sized carton of peel fresh tropical mango X), simultaneously drinking healthier and getting regular ahems back haha to quote jess. I didn't just say that. ok here are some pics showing us ATTEMPTING to do so. ahya it was quite successful la haha.

I shall not post the unglam one. :p cos I look the unglammest in it.










the one where sam looks emo, I look dao, and jess just looks weird. haha.













the more normal one where we're looking AWAY from the camera.

our very genius idea to reach the drink cos the carton was deeper than the straws! haha sam poring over the dead thing lying there.





yay. so everyone, go buy peel fresh tropical mango (or any other more cost-effective drink, as long as you boycott sweetalk!) because it is less than half the price of bubbletea! one carton's 2.40, shared among 3 of us. go calculate.

anw, on the topic of inflation (no I am not about to shout fanny freddy and you to the world anymore), everything is seriously going up. rawr. petrol recently went down though right? argh but it sucks. everything's going up except salary. which reminds me I have major debts AND major anti-debts (i.e. people owe me) which I haven't tried calculating but I hope cancel out. ahh the world is dying. OH JOY.

and spending time at fareast doing stuff like that instead of productively (ahem) discussing chinese pt, and blogging instead of concentrating on refining chem pt research, and blatantly ignoring the roll of vanguard waiting patiently for my history pt, and absolute haven'tstarted-ness of geog and chinese, and the whole FOUR PTS DUE WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE DAYS thing is seriously stressing me out. argh. have I mentioned that I'm the only one in the whole school who has four pts due in the same week? yeah now I have. OH JOY.

OH JOY indeed.
[edit] whywhywhy argh. ohman apap. whyyy. um and *echoes*. argh weird. rawr nevermind, I'm not making sense at all. [/edit]

HAVE I MENTIONED THAT THE REPUBLIC POLY HALL PLACE'S ACOUSTICS ROCK? like totally. like the way my chinese absolutely rocks. -.-

anw. sigh it was quite bad, but we shouldn't moan about it and I guess put our efforts into doing wonderfully for SYF? (:

batch mass convo was. amusing. like 9+ pm: 10-15 batch-oh-niners going nuts on one convo trying to keep track of everything. 10pm: going even more nuts cos RESULTS! 10+ pm: results super lag. -.- after more trying to keep track of convo, RESULTS! silver. 82%. 3rd. complete tie with rimb. and the convo suddenly spouted a lot of "don't cry!"s.

11+ pm: about 5-10 ppl left, started discussing smth about how to improve some systems? yeah I didn't really keep track heh. about wasting less time and stuff la. eh convo's still on now. left... talia, (non-existent) julia, rebecca and I. being VERY productive. by moaning to each other about how we're being so VERY productive. -.- ok nehmind.

anw, SIBC = camwhoring! wow I don't think I've ever camwhored so much in my life, seriously. hahaha. AND CELEBRATE, EVERYONE! our very first FULL BATCH photo! :D and ppl were going around saying "eh, I never had a photo with you!" *snap* haha quite interesting. yay xinyi we finally got our belated (from band camp) photo together! X)

and at fareast we CONTINUED. haha the sec4s were there and doing extremely interesting poses haha. :D and ahemahem. ok nvm. and samseah, julia and I did some cadenza repertoire poses series thing haha. (talia! where's centurion! D:) can't be bothered to post photos heh. but this is a must! like save both, open with windows photo and fax viewer and click nextphoto previousphoto nextphoto previousphoto nextphoto etc and TADAHH your very own metronome animation! can adjust speed to your preference somemore! xD





















it's metro gnome btw, if you haven't realised. :p ohyes and go batchblog for an UNBEATABLE unglam pic of talia! ;D (first time using this smiley lol. memories of alicia's 'wink' HAHA.) ok shall like sleep/do hw (O.o) now. whee bye.

[add] this is terrible. my post sounds uncaring/unfeeling/passive argh. [/add]

oh and I almost forgot! the bus ride there was DAMN SICK. like omg. jessicaxiejiaxin! exploit my sickness. *frowns* haha. and zomg gloria gets everything ahh! she is becoming sooo sick! D: she even got the yujia "hurh hurh hurh I got a fish" one. eew argh zomg.



ok this is a rather late post of my 19 july.

12am: cheonging some presents, memorising yujia's item script :p, slacking around (heh), packing. first time (I think) I bathed after midnight!

1.50am: happily slept for 4 hours *scrunch face*

5.30: woke up, attempted to get up

5.50: got up

6.15: got ready, blabla, left for school

6.35: reached school. like 15min later than what I planned to. cheonged into bandshoes which I absolutely refused to wear there (not like I walked much anw), started cheonging presents, still struggling with yujia's item script haha

6.50: gloria arrives, cheongs presents together (we shared!), attempted (FAILED!) to practise yujia's item, freaked out at the erasers hanging precariously from the pencils and decided to stop attacking them with pliers, watched the poor golden trees shed away somemore D:, got notes, gave notes, lost kangjie's note, ran around the corr like a mad woman. ok ignore that last part. but kangjie found her note for me hahaha. (:

7: walked into bandroom like some paperbag hanger, bandroom was literally overflowing haha, gave out more notes, attempted to give triplets to batch presents (SAM JESS WHERE WERE YOU AH), got a potato from zhenyi, set up instru somehow, grabbed stuff to dump into the eco-friendly yue hwa bags our section was using. LOL my phone pouch was pink and fluffy *squinch eyes like crazy* cos it was the only one I could find. -.-

7.20: rushed off for section present exchange. the sec4s weren't there yet so we hurriedly did yujia's item and just managed to finish it before they left haha! but yujia blogged the video we did much later (after cadenza -.-) at far east soo.

exchanged presents whee. :D haha ohmann I think our sec4s think the bananas were only from gloria. ): haha ohwhells. haha valerie dug up the cheeeeeeeeem poem she wrote for our inunion and used it again. :p and this is the first time lynn gave a present and a letter haha! btw there are marshmallows in the cup! don't let them rot in there like I nearly did! *squinch with "* haha richh. anywayy. yay we actually read our letters before cadenza! :D lol. I mean like last year we read our letters AFTER syf, how sad is that! D:

7.50: got all the stuff, went to foyer, waited, breathed, tried playing the make a story game which ended up being about some pink elephant who wore tutus and extraextra x893275191 large underwear. and drank bubbletea. -.- whee. felt really weird, like wow, cadenza is in 7hrs kinda thing.

8.45: memories of syf omg. and julia's wonderfully sick phrase which I shall quote later. climbed up/down steps diagonally and glamly HAHA. yay my ankle didn't hurt too much. (:

-some thoughts missing-

rehearsal: went through nearly everything vaguely. HAHA this is cool, rebecca and I were getting similar symptoms at the same time. freakyy! like both mouth dry, lip pain, therefore drink water. drink water so need to pee. need to pee thus stomachache. AND hungry thus more stomachache. haha but I'm not as weird as rebecca, pee more than she drink! and the mr oura: "where are you going?" us: "um, toilet." thing was quite freaky/amusing haha. ohyeah and our lips hurt and stopped hurting at similar times too. I think it's something to do with the song la. but doesn't make sense cos we have diff parts!

ok so we suddenly had to stand up during tico tico. like the soli at E part. might as well say this now I guess: we were all so unprepared for it and didn't really memorise and everything, so we kinda screwed it during cadenza itself. *HUGE SQUINCH* ok tried to conserve so I would survive cadenza itself, so yeah it didn't hurt till like dying or anything.

changing: WHOOPS! we thought the section left to change without us so valerie, kejia and I went to some random toilet (which was obviously not the right one) to change. so they used one cubicle each and after waiting quite long I finally threw all caution into the air and (after telling them not to come out and throwing my considerable weight onto the door!) changed OUTside the cubicles. :p then we went back and realised the section hadn't pangsehed us after all, we pangsehed them. heh. *squinch*

lunch: argh I think people should just not have chickenwings in catered food fullstop. so mafan. I happily broke my spoon into half! give boneless chicken steak la haha. and somehow during lunch we got on the topic of drinking water before brushing teeth being a natural laxative. hm after lunch was my fifth? sixth? attempt at french braids. in the end I decided to just tie a ponytail haha though my hair was kinda screwed with all those attempts.

camwhoring session: I shall post photos some other day. maybe. haha blogger photo posting has something against me la. I shall not risk letting it happily delete my whole post. :/ but it was fun haha! mirror. and jess that pic is not unglam la. :p

inspection: COOL how do they tell whether your socks are folded exactlyy the right way i.e. 1. put on your garters to a reasonable height 2. fold the top down to the line of the garters 3. fold half the top back up 4. fold half the whole flap thing back up. hmm.

batch cheering?: haha we were like the first to get together and after eons and eons of discussion all we did was OH NINE HOO YA! hahahahaha.

backstage: FREAKING OUT AHHH. omgomgomg. and people were emoing already, before cadenza, and then I saw sam and she was teary-eyed and omg AHH I started emoing too. samseah all your fault! D: haha. and then she saw me emoing and then she started emoing again and then I started emoing more and then she started... yeah haha. ok not that bad la haha.

entering: the concert hall was sadly empty! apparently most ppl only came in after centurion haha. and I was like seriously ZOMG and I was super scared of tripping and falling onstage (kindergarten concert memories AHAHA ok shoosh noone needs to know) and everyone was looking and all. AHH.

CADENZA XI!: it was like WHOOSH. huh it's over? like seriously. ok first half mr oura smiled at us a lot. ((: I squeaked twice during centurion cos my mouthpiece+neck was at the wrong angle and I couldn't suddenly adjust halfway, and once during carmen. global was seriously our best la! and aquarium was quite zzz heh. but second half mr oura looked pissed omg. D: super sadd! ))): I think songs like beauty and the beast (alumni! :D) and prince of egypt appealed to the audience haha. but tico was so freaking screwed omg I can't even begin to say how screwed it was. we praced tico and pioneers like, twice? but yay yixian made it for pioneers I think. (: proudofyou. cat ears were fun haha and brazil shaking was funny. I got the coordination right yayy! and I think rebecca did too lol. I pity the fluboes and clars la, have to run forward during do re mi!

yeah anw, I felt really empty and weird and floaty after it was over. I surprisingly didn't feel emo or high at all, despite screwing up and the fact that the big day we've spent months and months pracing for was over. it was weird I tell you. *squinch* sighh well. that's not a good sign.

la mer: pardon the weird header. there was seriously this sea of people waiting for us when we came out omg! :D so happy. we thought it would be like *crickets chirping*.

haha ok so si rui and sze min appeared and gave me an orange rose! :D lovee!

then esther popped out and gave me a BIG white rose. thanks! (:

then we maneuvered our way into the sea (not before rescuing our reeds and putting them safely into reed cases first!) and spotted our directs (up) and we were doing the usual "I see them!" "where!" "there!" "omg yeah I see them!" "ahh I lost them!" "there!" "where!" "look for the tall one!" thing hahaha. and they gave us a big red rose and a small red rose each. :D and they baked brownies! [a heart would be very appropriate to insert here but unfortunately html hates me and doesn't allow the signs on shift above the , and .]

and our directs (down) appeared behind them haha but couldn't seem to catch our attention or something so they passed gloria the stuff. they got flowers! ((: I wish I wasn't that uncaring/ignorant/stupid in sec1 and knew something about giving flowers at cadenza, which I don't even rmb anything of now. *squinch*

then angie, evan, joni, joong theyall whooshed over and gave me an enormous (ok compared to the roses la haha) sunflower! :D love you guys!

back to school: ohyeah have I mentioned the absolutely funkayy cargo lifts! :D we were happily standing beside this "wall" talking when suddenly it *DINGed* *BOOSHed* and did some totally cool high tech top security thing and opened HAHAHA. it was a cargo lift and we didn't even know haha! anw. got back to school, packed up stuff, changed to NORMAL UNHEELED COMFORTABLE shoes. whee I love my funky fluorescent orange and pink laces! :D which I forgot to change back during the weekend and almost wore to school today and freaked out at the last min and grabbed my reebok shoes.

dinner: haha batch dinner. wanted section dinner! D: but they were having batch dinner which we MUST NOT interfere with so it's okay haha. (: I took ages to eat my jap rice thingy which I didn't even finish in the end anw. *small squinch* and we camwhored with cat ears haha! and yeah gloria and I did the yujia item thing again. in public! :O then went home looking rather weird in a scottish skirt and holding a bunch of flowers and 2 heavy paperbags.

10.30+: got home, immediately flopped on the sofa and died fell asleep. woke up like a little before 12. then I vaguely rmb stumbling to the toilet and bathing and then falling asleep. NOT IN THE TOILET, AFTER BATHING I MEAN. I have no idea why I was so exhausted. actually, come to think of it, I do, but ohwell haha.

so ends!

quotes of the week!

sze min's blog; this one is so totally awesome and it's about cadenza so I guess it's the most significant:

"Someone once told me that music is the language of love.

I do not doubt it.

You know how one song can worm its way to your soul, wrap around it and tug on your memories so gently you feel as though you might cry? Picture this: all around you, beautiful, magnificent music, the rhythm so strong that your heart, completely absorbed into the tempo, moves with it; it beats with the drum, strums with the plucked strings, hums with the high flutes, soars deep into the trombones, sings with the clarinets. It's not gentle, it slams into the soul with such power and force before cradling it sweetly, lightly, with careful hands. It whirls around, taking you by the hands and literally flinging you up into the air, such that for one wild moment, you think that wings would burst from your shoulders and you'd soar-

Sometimes it takes you dancing, with high heels and flouncy gowns, and you just feel like you can dance and dance all night, with incredibly light feet. Hats tipped jauntily to an angle and satin gloves. Champagne bubbles and clouds! The feeling of having fun for the sake of it.
And then the only piece that was so familiar, like a well-thumbed book, well-worn shoes, well-known lover. Only it returns so much more breath-taking, and we reach out for it. It called, and something deep inside us answered, an ancient call. It was almost like watching life blossoming in front of us, emotions overlapping out of the metal instruments, synchronising to form the very essence that makes up our souls. We love it for what it is, awe-inspiring and stunning and at the same time so terrible, pulsing through our minds and vibrating in our cells. For two-half hours we sat there-

Breathing music. Living music. Swallowing music, knowing it from the inside out, allowing it to run through your veins like molten honey, warm and sweet and golden. No words. This is but the conversation of souls."

litlitlit omg! :D anw it makes me feel really wonderful reading it that we did manage to capture some hearts, but it also made me feel terrible that our rather screwed up playing is so muchly admired by some.

ok now for the sick quotes!

yours truly: "I can't be bothered to resist." I don't find it remarkably wrong (I get it la duh!) but jess insists it is so haha. what la! I was sick of jess kicking my chair legs for the thousandth time at long john's. :p

sam: "I want to screw xinyi!" like could it be any more direct! xD she was talking about cadenza presents btw haha. hmm.

julia: "we didn't do it here, we did it there." zomg this is like wrongwrongwrong, not so obvious but still obviously wrong. haha yeah this is the thing she said abt the syf/cadenza different qing/zhong foyer thing.

and THE ONE. the one we saw on the newspaper headline about inflation which I can totally bet most people don't get but somehow or other sam, jess and I get it and jess was like "what kind of books do you read!" and I rebounded the question and there was the innocent look. xD
"fanny, freddie and you" zomg. *enormous squinch* I guess you need a good sick vocab as well as imagination for this one. :p

so finally really ends!

phew right.



PEARLYN CHUA YIJUN STOP BUYING EARRINGS NOW! D< within 1/2 a year or piercing my ears, I have accumulated:
13 pairs of studs, of which 5 are school approved and 2 (which belong to the 5) I don't use
3 pairs of earsticks (the thick kind! not the cheapo ones!), once 5 but lost 1 and gave away 1
7 pairs of star earsticks, actually 8 but gave 1 to keyun today
1 pair of loops
4 pairs of pseudo-dangling studs (these like dangle but from stud backings)
2 pairs of dangling ones
which makes a grand total of >20! O.o eeks. but I guess it's quite amazing that altogether I spent about 38bucks on them. as in, it's a huge figure alone, but considering how many there are. haha and my most ex is $5. cheapo! somemore my ears are sensitive but ohwell heck. [add] oh and keyun stop buying me earrings too! haha thank you so much for all those but really must abstain! :p at least till next term or next year. [/add]

and today I saw not bad sneakers, army green (haha well it's close enough to camo print!). they only had huge sizes and one that just barely fit me though. so not sure whether to get. 9.90! which is ok la, hope quality's acceptable. :/ haha will it look weird if I wear lime green and black laces on army green? how bout pink and orange. xD no but serious.

haha and one more thing. I want cargoes. like a normal plain pair I guess, though camo print is cool! haha we want to wear for whatever wear your own clothes to school event comes next. with hoodie! :D and tie? haha but I bet I won't wear them very often. argh I have non-full length girl cargoes but I have smth against non-full length things. esp if they're neither all the way long nor 3/4. looks like you're wearing smth you grew out of or smth. :/

acks what is happening to me. STOP BUYING THINGS! >.<



pearlyn explodes. you know though, if you actually think about it, I guess it's manageable. like PTs and band pracs, cos we CAN cheong after band peak I guess. BUT THEN you add in 11 dance lessons I have to finish somehow, and my absolute laziness... you know that day I was sitting around moping about our screwed lives and PTs and something *whapped* me and it was like STOP MOPING ABOUT THEM YOU BOBO, DO THEM.

[random] OMG discussing SS PT draft with sam on msn now and she just typed JAJAJAJAJA at smth I said which I presume to mean HAHAHAHAHA but it's just funny anw. :D [/random]

anywayy, yeah. but I nver get the willpower to just plonk down, don't move for a couple of hours, and just MUG. I WILL TRY. sighh. ok if I survive this I will reward myself somehow and prob be prepared for whatever the rest of my life throws me.

ok about today. missed cat class. D: which I heard was quite ok. [random] whee I have a gor! :D who I haven't seen for quite long. ): [/random] yeah anw it was cos of my mum's company family day thing. parent company I mean. hong leong. it was at sentosa whee. wasn't really looking fwd to it haha cos like missing cat class and could have spent the time on PTs (yeah like I would have X( couch potato!). ahya but it was ok la I guess.

so tried to scavenge a tan! didn't manage ohman, but read on. did some caricaturist keychain which 1) was very pro and all looked quite like, 2) mine was quite :/, and you put them together, and it tells you that I look very :/! ok nvm. yeah and did some body painting thing. butterfly! it's quite chio, I'll post a pic some other time or smth. yeah anw, it totally slid off like butter the MOMENT it came into contact with soap. D: I was hoping to keep it, it was under my sleeve anw. andandand anw, I have a butterfly tan, like how cool is that! :D which means I did get tan after all! albeit nearly negligibly. X( haha but dot's stripey tan is still unbeatable man.

anw, got a new phone! (that should be the highlight ie beginning of my post, but I guess my priorities are warped and I don't always blog by priority anw haha) nokia 5610 music Xpress. quite chio, they only had red left though, and I'm not exactly a red fan. but okay la. (: it has a slide key specially for music/radio. but have to get used to the keypad spacing la. X/ oh and transferred my stuff over to the new 1gb microSD, kept forgetting that the old one was only like what 128mb! and I had to keep deleting stuff. D: oh and I upgraded to 3G sim. which means had to do triangle sms transfer la. but I only had SUPER little msgs for keeping haha.

oh and I accidentally left the whole box of stuff (except the phone itself PHEW) on a seat at the bugis junction macs zomg. freaked out when I got home, dad called macs, they said didn't have, mum brought me to bugis again after evening mass, and like ohmygoodness PRAISE THE LORD they had it! (: alleluia. (or hallelujah) I was like praying super hard that it wasn't completely stolen though I was alrd very grateful that that the phone itself wasn't in it la. yeah anw my mum was like see, so now you must thank me by going shopping with me. tagged around, blabla, looked at a A LOT of earrings! haha and my alrd overflowing earring collection just increased by 4! 4 for $10. and they're all not bad yay. (:

ok SS PT draft argh. I don't see the point of forcing us to do this. though tom mr lee has been quite nice about it. *scrunch eyes* extention and all. [random] omg I was just going to type dear mr lee in the email and I accidentally typoed dear me OMG HAHA DAMN FUNNY. and, well, appropriate? [/random] yay finally gonna submit. right on dateline! (monday) by 1hr 20min. ZOMG FIVE DAYS TO CADENZA FIVE FIVE ARGH. jiayous all! :/ + (:



sorry about that random title. I mainly on-ed the comp at this weird hour to search for the lewis structure of it online cos my brain is SERIOUSLY in hibernation and I have no thinking ability right now. but when I found it it was so damn easy omg. DX but yay I got to blog.

okay the topic statement of this post is:
PEARLYN IS FREAKING STRESSED. haha like there even is a need to mention right. butbutbut this time is like reallyseriouslytotally the stressest I've been in my life. I think. ok let's spend a happy 30min listing down stuff.

SS PT - only have a rough idea, need to refine A LOT, don't even know what the scheme is exactly, haven't found a way to source the people out, rather weak idea, draft due tml today or smth. but ohwhells.

chinese PT - hahahaha. :/ haven't started AT ALL, haven't even read our topic, but from what I heard from sam it's on plastic surgery. haven't had the time/will to go confirm that, but sam I trust you! (: [though you're like the one who somehow freaked evan and I out at the end of p6 by saying that in rg we start with 7 ccas and drop 1 by 1? xD] anw, shall research sometime soon. *scrunch eyes* [sorry, can't do the smiley if not my html will screw up rmb] research in english and translate right?

maths PT - if you can call it a pt? like some exam, one period thing: quadratic functions, quadratic graphs. have I mentioned that my maths is beyond screwed? (and can you believe it I prefer cubic to quadratic la) and ARGH I totally forgot everything abt completing the square. needtomugneedtomug. and it's on WEDNESDAY! which is techinically tml! great. :/

history PT - what? haha we were very barely briefed on it. ahya basically some make a product (I'll do board game I guess) to teach kids what a revolution is or smth. rawr I hate doing physical making stuff. ok not that reports are nicer to do either.

the coming chem PT - I hope it's not too demanding sigh.

the coming geog PT - same.

and if you realise that that's PTs for ALL the subjects except...

physics - which we've done. yeah the night I didn't sleep one. oh which reminds me to mention that I CANNOT DRAW GRAPHS. I cannot translate displacement into velocity and vice versa. rawr.

english - well, we have a wunnerful SA for this! claps. D: some 3min persuasive speech on a world issue concerning youth. hello, do I look like I can do anything close to what you can call public speaking? andand speech outline due tml. standing ovation. D:

PE? - haha this is prob the best thing. just that I suck at digging and setting and whatnot, and the ball just goes totally funky angles, and I can't ever seem to hit it with the flat of my arm. tenderly pats wrist. ):

and now...

cadenza - my standard cannot make it. cannotcannot. AURGH. and my stamina SERIOUSLY cannot make it. I should go increase my pain tolerance by being a unique emo kid and cutting my lip instead. *scrunch eyes* and I NEED TO INDIV NOWNOWNOW.

cadenza pracs - ahh I can't make it for this friday's one! D: stupid grooming la. and nothing against the pracs, but I bet the teachers will be like "oh look LONG holiday!" *sadistic grin* at the APCG week, and bombard us with loads of hw. wow what a long hol. mon tues wed thurs: cadenza prac. fri: cadenza presents+notes+mental preperation. sat: cadenza. sun: church. WOW WHAT A FREE HOLIDAY! I could totally do so much hw! X(

cadenza tickets - I really hope the sales are better! and peixin don't stress over $ and tickets kay! andand debbyoyah and pam! how am I supposed to pass tickets to yall! *scrunch eyes* like pass to some rgp person? wait debby you still live there right?

grade exams - I wantt. argh should I be totally psycho and try grade 5 theory? from like grade 0. world record man. *scrunch eyes* anw it won't make a difference, does it look like I can make it anywhere past grade 5? I'd probably be lucky to make grade 2. :/ aurals ahhh. can some kind soul tell me what it's all about and train me?

not to mention...

dance lessons - I have to finish 11 lessons in less than 2 months. by 2 sept specifically. ok now eliminate: normal tues weds because the only intro lessons are during band (and fris if I don't transfer aspen class). 4 mons cos of cooking. most of whatever I can squeeze during APCG cos of cadenza pracs. sats cos there're no intro lessons. suns cos there's cat class. norm thurs (I want street jazz! D:) cos my mum says it's too late to be out. great. what does that leave? I doubt there's even 11.

I guess there's much more but these are just those that popped into my mind first la. can't be bothered to try thinking of everything else killing me. sighhh. someone cheer me up!

...

it's be yourself day tml! :D + -.- I bet a lot of ppl are gonna be themselves in sch u. I shall wear jeans with sch shorts underneath and pe shirt with hoodie over cos we have pe rarh. and I don't think we're allowed to wear pe shirt with jeans nor wear pe attire to sch. walao so mafan. so before pe I'll just strip off hoodie and jeans lor. then after pe I'll wear evan and I's jape shirt! (: hmm. black star earrings. black necklace with cross. HAHA I koped the cross from my handphone accessory thing cos it goes! nvm noone has to know that. :D but like none of my mum's nice (or not nice for that matter) cross pendants can fit into the black necklaces I bought. D:

okay. *deep breathing* I shall just go to sleep now (erm or at least go to lie in bed and sms) and go to sch tml and worry then. cool? *scrunch eyes* *rubs eyes after too much scrunching*





I love titling my posts with random words.

aw crap the guy came and recovered what he could for the comp alrd. NOTHING essential. damn lucky that most of my band/batch/section/sb/triplet pics are on facebook la phew. but all my projects (I hope I don't need them again) and other documents and most of all, all my random stuff that I designed (for like dps and stuff)! D: cries is utter sorrow.

yeah anw just managed to access my comp after like a week of being totally cut off whee. crap I hope my countdown's right, I can't be bothered to check heh.

what I wanted to say long ago but had no access to comp: SCANDALS OMG. like all around me hahaha. why is our church cohort so _! haha I find them (the fake ones) quite amusing whee.

ohyes and WHOO I LOVE MY CAT CLASS. at least those same few la. :D they are going for cadenza as a class outing so whoo I can sell more ticketttttts! ((: sad I can't come for lunch+movie+dinner with yall, but prac+rehearsal+moving starts at like 6+ I think? and there's section (if not then batch) dinner afterwards.

oh PAMELA AURELIA TAY AND DEBORAH LIN! yall are buying $16 tickets from me rightrightright? :D I've no idea how to pass them to yall actually haha.

my chem is screwing up sigh. what 1s(2) 2s(2) 3p(2) whatever? and I still don't get why the graph of ionization energy is funky either. why doesn't it increase constantly? and math is arghh. for quadratic equations la. of which I still owe an assignment. :/ but remainder factor theorem is actually understandable whee! :D partial fractions are still the best and most brainless though haha. even tesselation needs spatial visualisation skills. :p

ohya and whoo I've found smth to wear for confirmation! like a blouse from my mum (with tank inside) and some random skirt that has been, is and will be (except on 13 sept) rotting away in my closet. and I'll prob be borrowing heels from joni haha thanks dear! don't really want to buy anything cos I will end up never ever wearing again so quite wasted la.

whoo my mum has finally allowed contacts! going with her next time she goes. might wear on confirmation haha. eeks I'm still freaked out by horror stories of poking arnd in your eye though. but terence says I look ok with specs hm.

wow what a long post alrd.

I seriously can't believe it's like, what, 3 weeks to cadenza? we're like how unprepared can. my stamina CANNOT make it. just today felt like dying alrd ouch. [haha today was quite amusing, everyone had like excessive saliva in their instrus. gloria and I had pools and lynn emptied a whole bunch onto her saliva-cloth-that-looks-like-a-polish-cloth.] and farewell is in like 4 weeks? D: I'll really really miss them la. and we're honestly not ready to be top batch. I mean like. ya.

hm i think I had a lot more things to say. but I'm being chased off for dinner now so. bye! missing everyone in some way or another. ok that's really weird but yeah. argh I've no idea what I'm talking about rarh.



haha learnt a new random word! :D okay anw. yesterday was my most productive msn day everrr man! (which means least productive in all other aspects such as hw) yeah I talked to sam (um quite unsuccessfully) about SS PT for like 2.5 hours; talked to gmary for about an hour plus though it was quite stagnant haha; talked to aloy twice, about an hour the first time and 3 hours the second time; talked to terence twice, about 1 hour each; talked to darrell for like 5 hours with some bathing and dinner breaks (and did we talk in the morning too?); talked to shayne for like 4.5 hours with about two short periods of daoing (thinks his RE and my SS PT haha). [edit] oh and omg so much mo qi la! must be some rgri thing. it's 6-1 ah! I'll aim to beat you someday. (haha I bet noone else gets anything nvm) [/edit] whoo not bad right! and I beat my record with 5 simultaneous convos. I know it's not a lot la, but deprived that I am.

haha and I just rmbed smth really random that bev said on the last day of camp. "guys are so lucky, they can rip off their shirt whenever they want. we can't rip off anything. I want to be a guy!" haha. but true la. the camp involved a lot of ripping off shirts! ok fine that sounds exaggerated and wrong. ok like the frozen tee and the green flourwater mixture games. ah and bev! what's your contact! ok nvm we shall ask gmary. (: yeah anw GROUP 8 IS THE BEST GROUP EVER! aloysius beverly darrell gracemary jerrard kelly pearlyn samantha shayne. [haha omg so obsessive it's alphabetical :p] yeah and we shall be the coolest group too: let's have a reunion! like all go for lunch someday or smth haha. after my cat class (well the few enthu ppl in it) went on an outing we became sooo much more bonded la. and shoo other group ppl, don't copy our idea! haha.

sigh I MISS CAMP SO MUCH. darrell has been ranting to me about that for like... I lost count alrd la haha. and everyone's msn nick and/or pm have stuff about I miss camp, I love camp, and the lyrics of hillsongs etc. so sweet. (: sighh and today is my last day of hols bah. the lucky rest of the WORLD has like 4 more days. D: and ri has 5 more days! rarh why yall always get more hols than us one. :p ok which means I must not make this a msn-y, blog-y, game-y, facebook-y or anything day and go do hw and PTs and whatnot. sigh the sad life of an rgs girl. ):





WOAHMYGOSH IT WAS SO GOOD. I miss it like there's no tomorrow. and it doesn't help that school's starting on thurs and I haven't exactly done, like, what, anything?

day 1. went there early cos we wanted to play cards but we ended up not doing so anw. yeah anw, got cards and phone past bag check, no body check, no sleeping bag check haha. but ended up not using the cards at all anw. ok so briefing and all, the usual game where they give out random nametags and you've to give the person whose nametag you have and then get into grps, cos they're too lazy to give out nametags themselves haha. like 80smth ppl anw. and I couldn't find my nametag! when everyone else was in their grps alrd I was wandering arnd asking facils and games comm ppl. ok then I finally got to my grp and the facils were damn sad that we were so quiet haha.

yeah anw this year the games were SO MUCH better. icebreakers were cool. like the all on a sheet (which got cut down to all girls on a sheet) and flip the sheet. and the caterpillar one where we all have to hold hands and jump to numbered squares. and foot srabble (like chicktionary) where we have letters on our feet, and we cheated cos darrell asked someone for the bonus word haha. and the grab a lemon from a pole with your mouth thing. um then I can't really rmb what was next. some session I think. I'll prob skip blogging abt all the sessions.

um I think there were games. like the blindfolded watermelon feeding one where darrell ate most of the watermelon and most of the rest was on the floor haha. and the use a knife in your mouth to scrape toothpaste from a balloon one. we were first! those were at grotto. then some lao ying zhuo xiao ji thing which was super screwed where we had to grap paper crosses tied behind ppl and everyone was just anyhow grabbing. and frozen tee! which was like a facil donated a shirt to be frozen in a ziplock bag, then we had to find it and chip off the ice and the facil had to wear it. brr. and they had to strip to wear it lol. we were first for that too! those were at the (super dark) carpark.

um don't rmb much of the rest haha. oh the bathing facilities were the most awesome of any camp. cos they were brand new and installed just for us haha. and we didn't queue as long cos we went the downstairs toilet which quite few ppl went to for some reason. yeah and sleeping was quite comfortable quite warm cos my sleeping bag's thick ha. managed to successfully on phone whee. and this year they were damn strict abt sleeping, lights out at 11+ and facils walking arnd shooing ppl to sleep. ok but that means we all slept better la hah except those random guys laughing through the night and the girls who were kept awake by that.

day 2. lotsa shuffling and whispering at like 6 (we were supposed to wake up abt 6.30) woke us all up rawr. btw that happened every morning. yeah so morning prayers, sessions, P&Ws (:D). haha I realised that P&W is more fun when we sing nice songs la haha or songs we know at least. shout to the Lord! above all! prince of peace! how great is our God!

yeah anw day 2 was the gross games day I think. yeah it was. 1st: water bombs. fill plastic bags, throw to each other and catch with our shirts, then the actual bombing. didn't really get wet la haha. 2nd: what I made our batch do during batch chalet that time! but this was worse. stick our faces in flour, get food out with our mouths, and EAT IT! eww. didn't get any unglam shots though! I hope. 3rd: doing 7 elephant spins, sticking our arms in a bucket of like curry powder+leftover rice+sand+sesame oil+soya sauce+I've no idea what else, and fishing out lego pieces to build smth they show us a pic of. 4th: the best one! carry paper cups with holes of water on our heads and dump in a bucket at the other end, and try to get the ping pong balls out with our mouths. haha I finally contributed to one of the grosser parts of a game! if not it's always the guys doing more haha paiseh. 5th: the worst man. ruined my shirt! )): aloysius (facil) was "volunteered" to have some flour+water+green food colouring mixture applied on his back and we had to wipe it off with body parts they called. and I had hair and back! rawr. it didn't come off even after I bathed, and my shirt was like :/. ok the last game, which we missed, was some twister thing where the coloured dots were like paper plates with ketchup and chocolate sauce and whatever haha.

ok what a long paragraph haha. hm and 2nd night was prayover. didn't feel anything. ): but I did feel unexplainably awake and gracemary (facil) said they prayed for us to be awake haha. mhmm and we watched passion of Christ before prayover! was tearing slightly. vivienne was laughing, sadistic freak! X/ yupp so sharing, everything. oh dinner was at like 4. -.-

day 3. amazing gRace! around serangoon gardens. haha darrell practically knew the whole place, we just followed him around. damn hot! got a bit tanner. haha and walked a damn long. cos we went to the wrong park, so we walked all the way back, then all the way there again cos that was the next station. and stupidly went some long way, though that meant we got free coke haha! yupp only got to 4 out of 8 stations haha.

then was the emo part of camp, the session, then the letters from our parents thing, and a lot of ppl were sobbing, and I was tearing. and vivienne was wailing and shayne got so freaked out he comforted her. and quite a few guys cried too so sweet. :') yupp then we went to the parish hall to meet our parents and some of us just burst out crying again. I was really quite touched la cos during prayover I prayed for like my family, like our relationship, and then when I met my family, I really burst out crying quite unexplainably. and when we sang everyday God I started crying again. it really shows that the Holy Spirit doesn't come immediately and when you expect it to.

yupp so supper with parents, didn't eat, but there was fruit punch! :O when we had been drinking plain water for the past few days lol. and passed my mum the green spotted black shirt. and was super sad that it was the last night of camp! D: so we wanted to stay up, and we were on a spiritual high (in the middle of the night lol) so when father brian made a threat abt sending ppl who made noise to the grotto to sleep, we asked a facil whether we could voluntarily go there (cos we wanted to sing P&W songs at the top of our lungs haha), and she said of course not, so it was prob an empty threat haha.

day 4. we amazingly fell asleep, and woke up at 7 cos the assembling time had been pushed back to 7.30, when the facils came and said everyone's so tired, so they pushed it back even more to 8.30 wow. poor facils ok! gmary said they stayed up to 6am writing fuzzies! :O and it shows la, like hers were superrr long and superrr neat. joanne wonderfully wrote just a hello. -.-

sessions, P&W (the last one! D:), watched midnight productions (a video photo collage) and whoo I wasn't caught haha (besides my foot in the foot scrabble one -.-). then confession and almost all of us really felt lighter. (: and by then I was really AURGH alrd cos it was almost the end of camp! D: then we did cleanup, and we had to do parish hall and parish hall toilets. facils ftw! they're like so awesome. and we loser sweepers haha though we did get some dust and stuff la haha. but at first the parish hall really looked so clean and shiny alrd so we just stood on a spot and randomly flicked around.

then we had to wear mass attire and since no dorm alrd and there were guys I just wore over and felt so fat and tight lol. btw, the whole camp, I never changed in the toilet! :O bathing doesn't count. I mean all the mass attire and games attire and whatever. yeah then we had spiritual prep, and shayne ah walao, (though I'm guilty too), he kept laughing at the guy who was talking cos he had a strong cheena accent. and beverly's freaky split! haha. yupp then went for mass. half an hour only. and sang shine Jesus shine! :D then went back to parish hall, and got our fuzzies! (: I like this year's fuzzies whee. so much more heartfelt. and saw some cool handwritings haha. like aloy's! and gmary's is just like omg SO NEAT.

so marks the end of camp. D: I miss it sooo much okay. it was so freaking awesome. ok so takeaways hmm. a better relationship with God, family (hopefully), new friends :D, strengthened friendships, a spoilt tee rarh, beautiful fuzzies, a love of some hillsongs, general highness.

but for some reason the past 17 hrs or so has made me super sad. argh I really wish I'm not affected so much when friends are upset. D: and gosh, the world around me is so scandalous. like seriously. well, we shall just stay as innocent no life rgbandgirls. help I wish church camp just never ended. like obs. but at least I wasn't feeling super upset for various reasons/people after obs.



whoo cat class outing was fun. :D

was freaking out at about 12 not knowing how to get to ecp so I frantically called joanne and met her at newton mrt. haha I freaked her out when I said I was probably gonna take abt 45min but I got there within 1/2hr. 197 took so freaking long to come! like every other bus came at least once alrd then it came. so bussed to 2 stops after parkway parade, then walked.

haha on the way we found out that matthew was stuck at parkway parade so we called him and told him to take to 2 stops down and walk. so we were waiting at this fitness corner for senior citizens X) thing and we were trying this super fun (relative I suppose haha) thing called the space walk where you like step on these 2 things, hold a bar and walk. haha it's very like floaty la. and it's super low impact so you can like fall asleep/do hw while doing it or smth haha. and I can't believe it, why can't joanne lift herself on the thing where you sit on the chair and lift a bar which lifts yourself? quite light what.

yeah then we decided to call matthew again cos we were waiting for very long alrd, and it turned out he was still kinda lost at parkway lol. so ya, clarified some stuffs, then went on to macs first. we were super freaked out of being unable to cross the road haha but turned out there was some underpass thingy.

yeah so anw went macs, terence wasn't there, joanne smsed him, awhile later he appeared. haha omg I feel so bad today D: made matthew have to find his own way and made terence wait in macs for like what 2 hours. ok next time if we want to meet at 1, say 11.30 or smth haha. ok ate lunch, well joanne did anw, the rest of us didn't. haha the feast of fury nuggets thing is DAMN spicy la. we tricked vivienne into trying it and she had no reaction haha. ohya anw vivienne was late too duh. :p

ok went to rent bikes. DEFINITELY NOT BLADES AGAIN. joanne and I took double! haha yay not bad I somewhat managed to control the front. :D took a few tries though haha. and we were thinking like we double, then terence wanted single, then ahemahem the other two... xD so we just cycled, stopping sometimes ya, switched with joanne sometime along the way. OHYEAH HAVE I MENTIONED THAT WE WERE TREATED TO A LOT OF SCREAMS TODAY. ya she screamed every time the bike wobbled and all hahaha. she was like "I can be your bell! when there're people in front just tell me."

then vivienne wanted to go to her beloved nsrrc (is it?) club thing and kept saying "it's very near! it's just 10min away!" and repeated that like 4353895601 times. walao what 10min lor haha. yeah so after alot of detours we found the club, and parked our bicycles with some bicycles which were locked up (for rent) 'at [our] own risk'.

so we went in, and joanne was finally somewhat persuaded to go bowling, though still reluctant even after paying for the shoes haha. oh I just rmbed, matthew owes me 1.20! ok nvm. yeah so we bowled la. JOANNE IS A CLOSET PRO. she like walked there and anyhow fling the ball also can get one la! pfft. haha we all sucked quite bad, vivienne got quite a few spares though. (: ya we bet total scores vivienne+me vs matthew+terence (joanne was a fence-sitter), stake being help to bring bikes back (omg if we had IMAGINED the distance we wouldn't have set that) at first but got changed to dunking in the sea. [note to self+joanne+vivienne: still haven't dunked them yet right! let's do smth to them during camp haha.]

so quite uneventful except that the lane beside us accidentally saboed our screen I think, and terence got a free 9 and matthew bowled like what 5 times over and over without it changing bowler. and I upgraded to 9 whee. tried 10 but abit heavy and holes didn't fit well la. then we went to the arcade! I TELL YOU, DON'T EVER PLAY THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU PUT IN COINS AND HOPE IT CAN KNOCK OUT MORE COINS. it totally swallowed like 5 bucks from me DDD: I'm damn sad! yeah so overspent (as usual at arcades), but not on playing. -.- played daytona, got totally owned by the guys, played time crisis and sucked at it haha. then realised it was 6 alrd (bike rental was 1hr give 2hrs free, return time was 6.20) and rushed out.

went out and got the SHOCK OF OUR LIVES. the 3 single bikes we left there were GONE! gasp. so paced around indecisively until a miracle (like seriously a miracle man) happened. we saw 3 people on familiar looking bikes and it really was ours! :O like how qiao please. they were going to return I think, we said it was ours. so we had to get back in like 15 mins (the grace time), so terence gave joanne the single bike and the two of us doubled cos it was more efficient that way lol. then somehow me+terence+matthew got far in front of joanne+vivienne, and we were cycling quite fast la. and it was SO FREAKING FAR. like at that speed, 30min la. legs aching (ok not so much) and butt SERIOUSLY sore. we were saying that people should invent better bike seats la.

so amazingly reached there, and they didn't charge us though we were definitely late. (: (the 3 of us I mean, the other 2 bikes were charged boo) then went macs cos we decided the two of them prob wouldn't be there for a long time. AMAZINGLY, they reached about 15min later. and, shock to beat all shocks, joanne was the one cycling fast and having to wait for vivienne! haha. vivienne was cycling so fast and enthu-ly to her club place then coming back must have lost all will alrd haha. yeah and saw the guys ez-links haha cos joanne and vivenne koped them. photographers are damn mean la, everyone looks quite shitty in their ez-links haha.

so went to the beach after that, though it was like getting dark alrd. left our bags in a pile and swished around, then we all climbed up to the wavebreaker (geog haha!) thing and sat there. then it started getting really dark so we got our stuff (well actually the guys got them for us :D haha) in case people stole them and we couldn't see. played taitee abit, just hung around, talked.

IT WAS AWESOME.

like it was super shuang up there la. the sky was like velvety blue, there were some stars, a cool breeze was blowing, and save for the occasional blast of seawater, it was really damn nice la. could lie there and sleep overnight. :D yeah but sadly a cockroach came and spoiled it D: and man you should have heard joanne shrieking and shrieking and jumping up and down hahahaha. I think I'm quite used to cockroaches haha. ok at least I don't scream and jump around. vivienne screamed a bit also, but joanne's was like scream of the century man. anw so we finally got off the breakwater thing and started walking off.

rarh sand, kept poking my feet on my slippers. anw so we walked back to the a busstop, stopped by the spacewalk thing on the way lol, unintentionally messed up vivienne's mind (I think she wasn't exactly up to thinking anymore). OH AND HAVE I MENTIONED THAT GUYS ARE SUPER SCARY DOING PULL UPS. :O haha but terence couldn't do 10 so he couldn't scrap the dunk. then they were talking abt friends who could do 35 pull ups, and like 1-handed pull ups and all. freaky people I tell you.

so joanne+matthew+terence+me took 76, and vivienne had to take another bus on her own aw. ): haha quite qiao la, but makes sense since same church=around the same area=same/similar buses? yeah anw. THE BUS WAS EFFING FREEZING. brr. played taitee (again haha) and discussed um smsing and tried to pry a scandal out of joanne. haha I rmb owning all of them at taitee the first class outing :D but unfortunately luck doesn't hold.

so matthew got off first then 1 stop later terence got off. then I started freaking out really bad cos I had no idea where I was and when to get off and it was so dark haha. I just rmbed that my busstop was 3 stops away (before or after) from terence's on 55. haha then saw The Serangoon and yay. so I got home safe and sound. :D just that all my life I always take buses in the other direction so I was not used to the scenery there lol. joanne had quite a long journey after that I think, though she's only at amk.

so ends our happy little class outing 3. eh not bad leh, I planned 3 class outings alrd of which all were quite successful. *big grin* haha ok I shall stop egoing. on another note, WHY AM I ALWAYS THE ONE THAT HAS TO PLAN. D: haha ok la not that bad. but it's always the same people la, quite amusing. me, joanne, vivenne, nat (whose parents didn't allow), sandra (who's been mia for ages), matthew, terence, justin (who's at acsi band trip to osaka!). ya like can't imagine... isaac, ryan they all going on a class outing right. -.- what "we should tell uncle ignatius and get his consent" and all. joanne was saying he'll (referring to both actually :p) prob be like "this is too dangerous, cannot do", "we cannot stay out so late, look the sky is TURNING dark!", "this is bad on your image as a good catholic" and whatever la haha.

looking forward to the next one! ahya say until like I'm not the one who decides that.
-.- + :p my birthday ok! :D go chalet! :DD though most of our parents prob won't allow D: cos got guys/girls respectively. (I vaguely rmb someone whose mum didn't let her sleepover cos it was all girls? like huh?) no wait that's so far away. ): let's have one sometime around pre-confirmation chalet (if there's even gonna be one) la. (: and if we're free sometime sooner. yeah right.

ok gotta scoot off to bathe and pack (AHH confirmation camp's tml morning and I haven't even STARTED packing) now. whoosh-



all the stuff in my comp is still gone. D: I really hope it's retrievable. :/

haha this really random thought popped up in my head. miss ong would look good in skinnies. like dark blue ones.

damn screwed. most of what's left of my hols I've stuff on. rarh freaking PTs and math assignments howw. D:

and ahh why is the schedule I have wrong! I swear it said intro! how come end up beginner. ):

I miss band already haha. why is band camp so short! D: it mainly consists of 1) changing 2) setting up 3) photo-taking 4) batch auds 5) bathing 6) eating 7) interaction 8) sleeping 9) games. ends at like 11 AM. )): ohwhells make the best out of it and PEARLYN I FORBID YOU TO FALL SICK. AGAIN. let's go on batch lunch/outing/whatever after that! :D

haha read The Stupidest Angel. by christopher moore. I find it quite amusing. shallow, I suppose, but that's what makes it such a carefree read. unlike jodi picoult who can draw you in and trap you and leave you emotionally exhausted haha. I like the angel! (:

ah I haven't really found a way to ecp for tml yet. ohwhells. 73 or 76 or smth is it? oh we're not dinnering together also right? cos I bet a lot of us wouldn't have packed yet. xD procrastinators of the world unite! tomorrow. gerrit! ok nvm I'm like high for no apparent reason.

what a disjointed post. I hope confirmation camp is fun. well there is a major drawback ahemahem but that one can't be helped. omg I just realised what that sounds like. ok well let's just say there is a weekly one and a monthly one. and I originally meant the person! :p

fa la la la la, la la la la. sorry. the stupidest angel put me in some weird christmas-y mood.

argh I'm so pissed. been missing from msn so long my cadenza countdown's like at least 20 days off already. but all my programs disappeared along with everything else, and I'm scared to install msn again in case I accidentally make everything else permanently unretrievable or something. well my bro doesn't give a damn, he downloaded like a gazillion WildGames.

hahaha my yue4 du2 bao4 gao4 is a disaster. we're allowed to like draw stuff instead of writing a report/new ending right? haha ji mi is just too good an artist la. I can't even get close. ah the song leader of the band just popped into my head. the I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band part.

sam! can we discuss chinese and ss PTs! I'll call you later/tml morning or something whee. I bet our conversation will veer towards band like everything eventually does. :D ok wait that's bad. FOCUS! any suggestions for 'an underpriveleged group of people in singapore' and 'an organisation which you think is able to aid you in helping them'? how bout the more medical benefits for the elderly thing and write to, um, moh (I mean MOH)? X/ sorry I can't use the proper scrunch face one. yes yes I know blogger sucks but I can't bear to leave it behind la.

haha yesterday was mildly amusing. um good luck for all your CTs and like PW and interview questions and all! (:

I, unmotivated blob, will just die in rj. haha yifei's 'blobby fat pig' just popped up in my head! omg I can't believe I rmb so much random stuff but not the stuff that matter argh.

[edit] haha today my tuition teacher was like "reacting an acid with a metal can be dangerous! because it produces a lot a lot of heat and what if the acid vapourises and there's this cloud of vapourised acid chasing you. and then you breathe acid- you think that's very fun ah- and then you go like gasp gurgle gurgle, and you'll be choking on your own blood, then like bloop bloop got red froth coming out from your mouth..." how picturesque. :\ [/edit]



this shall be my shortest post ever.

whee! :)

whoo! :D

my blog is not interesting one. go read yujia's awesomely literary posts! ((:



1) first and worst, MY COMP. MY POOR COMP. (fine not mine personally) why can one accidental press of system recovery screw EVERYTHING! D: now EVERYTHING is gone, files, apps, programs. even like microsoft word. only empty folders are left. -.- my 3 years span of documents, built up over 4 years collection of songs, 3 years worth of designs, and 3 years of photos ranging from random camwhores D: to overseas pics DD: to band/batch/section/sb etc photos DDD:! and tons more. *headdesks*. calling ITish people like sallychan! do you know whether anything can be done? X( we stupidly don't have a backup harddrive. ARMAGEDDON. (or however it's spelt) the end of the world is here. ))))):

2) academically, MY MATH IS SCREWED. yeah like I even had to say la. next round I (really really this time) bet I'll fail. after like a year, I still can't do indices. like I don't even know what's my problem with it, and nothing seems to be able to help. and with the recenter addition of surds. :\ yeah I know, practise, but how does that help when I do all practices wrongly anw? and like when stuff are explained to me, I get it, but like 5min later you give me the same question and I won't be able to do it. D:

3) ahem must I say it? PEETEES. chinese is like huh what's going on. (ok at least it's better than last year's freaking screwed individual oral-like thing, it's screwed oral-like thing WITH a group this year) and jess is floating around europe drinking wine now so we don't get down to discussion. and SS. hum. the poor -- single-parent families? but what organisation to contact? grah. or the really dumb the poor -- homeless families and contact HDB. -.- but homeless families are not really prevalent in s'pore. single-parent families are not too common too actually. physicaldisability-based? rarh I don't know. and then there's the soon to come math and chem PTs. lucky I don't take bio man. but I paid with that 7+hrs straight of working on physics PT and not sleeping the whole night and going as a zombie to school the next day.

4) my sad hols-which-are-not-hols. ok that applies for almost all of us. actually no, I'm pissed with myself for being such a slacker. slacking is physically restful but mentally stressful cos of guilt while being productive is more physically demanding (well mental too in the case of hw) but feels good. I suppose it's which one you succumb to. the whole hols, I've managed to... drumroll... file. wow. and minorly pack my table. and ATTEMPT math assignments and not even get past the 2nd question. refer to point 2). *pokes self* go be productive!

5) on the subject of my table, argh why can't I throw things away. I just like keeping stuff. they come in useful sometimes la. ok in the first place, why can't my table be the way it is? I like it this way. ok no messy tabletop makes sense but the cupboards and stuff? sigh.

6) WE FEEL NOOB. haha but it was fun though. locking (intro) lesson on tues! [evan, jiayou with your ongoing persuasion!] gosh if intro's like that, definitely can't go for beginner. :\ I suck at isolation! I can't do head. but it's like not really isolation-ish. it's like.. pendulum-ish? I dunno. like the whole torso rocks side to side. ah nvm not making sense again. haha I like the skitter rabbit thingum! I don't get the arms though. yeah anw, everyone around us all make us feel so noob. D: I'm more comfortable with hiphop I think haha. let's go with joni one day! though she'll make us feel noob too. joni is a closet-everything la! last time closet-bimbo now unleashed, closet dancer in terms of isolation but now we all know she's pro, sekali she's a closet-bboyer also haha. oh and they only have advanced begginer b-boy classes. D:

7) I SPENT 6 BUCKS ON JELLYBEANS. I can't believe it la. so pissed at myself. like when I got ripped off on a tiny packet of japanese snacks which cost $1something. D: (sorry using this emoticon a lot, I can't use the angry one cos it messes with my html code. which also explains why I haven't used the scrunch eyes one for a long time) anw, I realised I don't really like the fruit flavours. ): but I like the random flavoured ones like buttered popcorn and strawberry cheesecake! :D but I'm really weird, whenever I pop a jellybean into my mouth my mind immediately registers that the flavour is all chemicals, so I can never enjoy jellybeans to their fullest. D: and rarh I'm broke now. I've to last the next 2 weeks. I gotta not eat the next few band prac lunches or something. nah not going to happen. glutton! and I've got so many debts. ): sorry people I owe!

8) WHY MUST THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN. first, was-to-be japan trip and confirmation camp clashed perfectly. now is-to-be japan trip clashes with pre-confirmation chalet. D: ok I just realised it doesn't. proposed japan trip is from 30 august, not 5 september right? right right? *hopes fervently*

9) yet again, who has axon recording! I can't sight read/sing/guess (whatever you call it) so I have no idea how it sounds. D: ok maybe vaguely. but inferno has recording! no fair. pouts. haha. sigh I'm gonna screw up. not like I'm going to be anw. which applies for everything we have to aud for actually. individual auds don't count, I can't not be me? argh nvm make no sense AGAIN.

[on a random note, my sb is going to fall seriously ill on the 10th of june. :p yujia shall have chicken pox, I shall have measles, and gloria shall have mumps. alternatively we could get SARS, bird flu and dengue haha.]

10) absolutely random, but my phone stinks. no, literally. it smells funny. which leads to my fingers smelling funny after I use it rarh. and I keep spraying it with random perfumes but it keeps coming back. ok this is so totally random. nevermind.



haha can you believe it we are MUGGING for it. and I can't find axon recording! anyone has? ahh! ): no fair, inferno has recording. what's the last one?

anw, I spent a long long time reading this concert band site. I blatantly ignored the music and physics section, though I suppose it was moderately interesting la haha. and I mugged and mugged the section on conducting! like stuff to note and functions of the diff hands and assymetrical beats (though my whole song is 4/4) and stuff about engaging a rapport with the players lol.

ahh someone tell me how to memorise tempos! X( I'm currently memorising doing certain warmups in them, but that's not accurate cos warmup tempos are flexible. axon has like 6 tempo changes! rawr and I don't get the coda. is it beginning to bar 71, then repeat so 61 to 110 (before coda), then beginning to 61( the S thing), then skip to coda to end? argh confusing. I shall just take chopped parts then. like all those with tempo 84 or smth cos yay I vaguely memorised it now.

QUOTE OF THE DAY! "Facial expressions can be an important means of communicating with the ensemble. However, it is probably better to avoid making wild grimaces during intense musical moments." haha omg!



haha I was walking home today when suddenly a snatch of all-too-familiar music caught my ears. drumroll... A SONG FOR YOU! hahahaha. I think sgss or plmgs band was playing or smth.

and whoo sweeney todd! a bit late haha but I just watched. a very ahem blurred one. haha johnny depp doesn't look hot there (duh he's not supposed to) but he has a hot voice! xD

sigh I just can't seem to get down to packing my table which is starting to get beyond recognition as a table, filing the piles and piles of stuff I have which are enough to wallpaper singapore, finishing those hw which were due eons ago, doing those worksheets which had been randomly dumped at us and stuffed away and almost forgotten about, and starting on those [beep] pts.

this is like the saddest june hols of my life. although there's band. :D and footdrills. :D and a tempooooo! :D and band camp to look forward to after school reopens. -.- I hope I can break away from my tradition and stop falling sick every band camp. D: I swear it's the ks chee. at least now I have a new thicker sleeping bag, hope it helps the cold some.

oh yeah and there's confirmation camp. hope it'll be fun la. spiritual highs! and rarh why do I always end up planning class outings. ok 12 june eastcoastpark lunch till late afternoon cycling+beach. how's that? NO I AM NOT GOING TO PLAN A BBQ forget abourrit. and our class tee is never gonna happen right. ): ok let's just stick with confirmation cohort tee then.

and why are people so pro. PRO. ahhh. rashelle and jeremy got that good on hard work completely. no grades no lessons or anything. ahh let's go indiv every mon fri sat and sun. I think my indivs are very non-productive. ): I can't seem to improve my tone or technicalities or anything, cos I can't even get to the point of being able to play some of the songs yet. like the random runup-like things in ticotico, and the last page of carmen.

I. SUCK. slurp.

ahh someone motivate and inspire me to do something about my screwed life!



woahmygosh. let's just say a tempo really awakened me haha.





rebecca's AWESOME outfit!













ahh they're over! OVER! but they had to wonderfully end off with maths. ): why couldn't it have been smth like physics which would have made us freak out before it but even happier after it cos it was much easier than expected! rawr. and it was so depressing that we didn't go to the netball courts to do cartwheels and freestyle jumps and spins after all. haha.

and the wonderful school decided to make us have to go on friday. like what? hope it's miscommunication. sigh most of us will prob pon anw. ahh so sad I can't go for the (possible and currently unconfirmed) batch outing tml cos I'm going ice skating with evan joni angie lisa miin! and ohmann so sad I wasn't allowed to sleepover today. D: I MISS MAUU! haha I've a pic of him on my phone which evan sent to me. the coming out of the cage and staring straight at the cam one! haha and I miss making you climb the amplified ladder thingy! :p let's all go to your place after ice skating or smth!

haha I've been eating weird things. the old chang kee currypuff which had some really rubbery ELASTIC EGG in it. O.o and the concentrated clam chowder jelly! oh and the sarsi flavoured malt candy. haha but that wasn't too bad.

gosh I've been getting hooked on facebook! never thought I'd say that. haha evan I beat your brain size! xD and the "don't make a band geek mad, they have a band mafia" flair! :D it's under popular haha so cool. oh one of the guys who helped film from the 50 yardline passed away from cancer. )': and deborah de souza also is it? ohmann.

haha I realised that I love my jeans! it's like the only quit proper length and waist one, a lot of jeans are like made for freaky ano models or smth. -.- and it's colour's ok, neutral colour scheme, and really really comfy! I was very tempted to fall asleep in it that day but I succumbed to obedience and changed to shorts haha.

ohyes ohyes anw, PEOPLE!

A Tempo XIX
Raffles Junior College Symphonic Band
26 May, 7.30pm
Esplanade
$13/17/21 (including sistic fee)

pleasepleaseplease go okay! :D



haha why am I doing this. evan all your fault! xD

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z860Ngn_MnA

it's damn pro! like really really!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heROYu2YBDc

and this is super sweet haha.

ok shall run off now.



omg I just stared at the blank blogger post page for 3min wondering how to start my post woooot. anw the main point is. THEY HAVE STARTED. THE EVIL MYAS WHO HAVE COME TO TAKE OVER THE LIVES OF RGS GIRLS. rarh. [random] miss ong wrote a rarh on my essay hahaha ohmygoodness. she was like "write examples! rarh!" I think. [/random] anw, ss was, well... ok la, could have been worse. I'm super lucky I finished like gang gang hao la. like 3mins to go. and CHEM. yes CHEM. D: I totally screwed up all the ideal gas law qns and the last two big qns. and my lewis structure is wrong bah. amongst other screwups. like the haemoglobin one!

anw, can tell that we are all looking a lot forward to the end of the MYAs. looking forward a lot. ahya whatever. HAHA CLUB OF THE SLEEPIES! :DD angie fell asleep and dreamt abt not sleeping for 5 days. evan fell asleep and had to reschedule tuition. I fell asleep attempting to mug physics and zzz-ed for 2hrs and woke up and was stuck. like physically unable to get up. [PHYSICally haha! -.-] shows what a terror physics is. yeah anw, my wonderful post-MYA schedule!

wed (after math!) - originally wanted to go orchard road and throw notes like graduation throw caps like that but decided against it haha. so we may be popping balloons that say MYA. anw THAT IS NOT THE POINT. haha evan and I shall have a longg audsea session! xD

thurs (math ra paper, hol for us) - ice skatingggggg! hopefully. haha I was considering volleyball at sentosa or smth but some of yall haven't taken volleyball yet right? (rgp one doesn't count! it's fake! made in china!) whee we can speed again! and I shall continue to work on spinning at will. and 720degree! rawr.

fri (the TRUE end) - ______! haha sam and jess will know what I'm talking abt. oh btw whowho? just _______ or _______ also? though the latter a bit weird. and early. haha. how bout ______? [cloze passage hint: thinks fruit basket] whee and what? later get freaky candlewax-like things again! :\ yupp then aspen rawr do I have to be reminded of chem.

sat (finally a free weekend!) - rgp band! ok I'm not honestly excited abt that part of it, I'm very scared they'll be super ap and stuff (which according to sheryl, prob yeah), but DUET SCORES MUAHAHAHA! :D I really hope they're still around! and that I can find a way to get copies. like bring a cam and take pics or smth. I'm very tempted to go there and yell my head of at them if they're ap, but you know ap ppl. be reasonable, they roll eyes. be unreasonable, they get pissed. grah. then after that, braces! hope it doesn't hurt anymore this time. okay I have resolved to get one colour and be safe. or are there any upcoming colour-based events? and the day has to end with jiang. -.- sigh.

but still! after 2 weeks of being wrapped in the chains of (unsuccessful) mugging! woohoo!

ok there's still a long way to go. D: we must all jiayou and mug hard! haha for EYAs let's get each other ceramic cups then say "MUG HARD!" haha gerrit! ok exams really get to people's brains lol. thinks peixin's "slapping my kneecaps" variations to the tunes of diff songs, with a finale of "ouch! now my kneecaps are so hot! ah they're reddd!". xDD okie. to physics I go. pfft.



whee I shall post some interesting quotes (koped from my facebook profile, which is running outta space) here.

"make love, not war" -sticker on a postcard

"please circle gender: male/SMART" -angie

"all stars are in orbit in outer space. jay chou is a star. therefore, jay chou is in orbit in outer space." -philo notes

"it's happening, you know! singapore got nightlife, not bad man! I wish I were young again." - mr ganesh

"rinsing your mouth when you have braces is fun. you can go like 'oh look there's that carrot I had for lunch!' " - rebecca

"jack russel? which actor is that?" - mum's colleague

"blue coral bubble tea? my mum would take one look at it and send me to drug rehabilitation or something." - jess

" laiboratary
shafety sower
shelling (ceiling)
glinner (cleaner)
cowersoos (covered shoes)
ninjadada (ninja turtles. while talking about the sign on the sharp object bin. go figure.)

“hazard warning signs allow the gahmen to warn terrorists who might make suicide bombs.”

“before you begin any experiments, rape the navel.” (serious, this is not any product of my warped imagination, both Stacey and Sam heard this too okay! and if you’re wondering, it’s read the label.)

No Personal Belongings On To Be Placed The Bench. (which we interpreted to mean, no personal belongings on which to be placed the bench. ie, don’t put the bench on your stuff. yeah, yknow, I so needed a talk to tell me that.)
Broken Glasses In Protective Bin.
Sharps Must Be Kept In The Sharp Bins.

And the best for last:
title of slide: What Are Wrong Here?
“No lab coat.”
“GRAMMAR!!”
title of next slide: What Else Are Still Wrong Here? "- jess' blog

"girls, you must be PUNCTUATION (punctual)." - mr ng

"pikachu, I choose you!" - NSman, on throwing a grenade (yes i'm serious)

"but you look like her! like totally!" [pause] "ohmygoodness you girls are a bad influence!" - mr ow

"He took the bread, gave You fangs (thanks) and said-" - priest

"braabraabraa (blablabla)" - lao shi

"boomboomboom (blablabla [? I know.])" - madame villian

"is it the balls thing?" - renee, on Galileo's discoveries

"last night I had a blocked nose, and in the middle of the night, I woke up because I heard someone snort. Then I was like "Huh who's that" and it turned out to be me." - miss ong (ONGland!)

"and now buttercup will serve instead of mojo jojo..." - miss teo on analogy of volleyball rotation

"meet is just meet. interact means they DO SOMETHING TOGETHER." - gloria (EXACTLY. I don't believe it either.) clarifying definition of coasts, 'zone of land that meets and interacts with the sea'

"what can you see on a weather vane?" "a chicken?" - geog lesson

"Eat a pancake.
Or a moose?
Perhaps some cheese instead.
Nah, I'll have a banana, thank you.
Or maaaaaybe....... a goose pie!
Actually I'll have fries with that.
Scrap that, wtheck, I'll have the pancake after all." - angie, on a random streak

"you're so dead." "are you depressed? you ought to be." "you already learnt this is sec 2." - ms goh's quotes found on yearbook

"we're all gonna die anyway, so just turn on the aircon lah!" "don't turn off the lights, I can't see myself!" - mr ganesh's quotes found on yearbook

"you know I have hairy legs, then when I was in NS my room mates wanted to shave them but I didn't let them. then one time I woke up in the middle of the night and felt PEOPLE around me, then I opened my eyes and saw everyone standing around. they even had a razor and shaving cream! so I ran away. can you believe it, they wanted to shave one stripe down each leg okay! so when i go for morning run..." - mr ganesh, reminiscing

okay now to continue mugmugmugging...



I want to migrate to australia forever and never come back. and rear sheep. moo. WAIT sheeps sheep don't moo. RARH. (me, not the sheep) be afraid. be very afraid. MYAS ARE COMING. "are you depressed? you ought to be." "you're so dead." haha famous quotes. and "you already learnt this in sec 2." though it's not directly relevant haha.

yes anywayy I AM SO DEAD. hey I am trying ok, I will write a study plan and I will try not to waste time and I will come home early to mug and I will mug my head off and I WILL pass MYAs. [what self-deception.] and I have already gone on an official letter-writing hiatus for the whole period of time. unless I really need something to take my mind off mugging for a while and my instru's not with me.

which reminds me. HOW TO SURVIVE WITHOUT BAND FOR HALF A MONTH. I may just kill myself grah. and if I don't get to indiv I'll sound like weorhqwieujmwopurpov (<- meaning the sound itself, not [crap] heh) when I get back. but yay! I've found (or so I hope) the secret to a better tone. ok no rephrase rephrase, I've found the reason why sometimes I sound relatively acceptable and sometimes I just sound like weorhqwieujmwopurpov and saliva-ry and [more] metallic [than usual]. IT'S THE LEVEL OF THE REED. when it's like hairline level (isn't that where it is supposed to be though) I sound bleh and when I push it up a bit more it sounds better! (: whee. I will continue to experiment and try to prove the theory right. I think it's just me actually. like the kejia thing, where she suddenly couldn't really play 3 then she tried 3.5 then woah. like grow out of it haha. but I cna't find any 4.5s haha if not I would have tried long ago. well for now I'll just push it up then.

anyway again. I AM GOING TO DIE. ok let's go in order.

fri (tomorrow):

english paper 2. compre is mood-swingish. can get really low or quite high. vocab is just D: all the time. (giam says "read the thesaurus!") summary is not bad. (: (at least there's ONE things I don't suck AS MUCH in.)

wed 30 april:

SS. diediedie. I don't really know what's going on during lessons. hey I mean it's all propaganda and stuffs! though I think it has worked on me. and like in history (since after sec 1) I can't seem to crap well anymore.

chem. amazinglyyyy I kinda get it. as in I'm not so bad with chem than like physics. just need to do more practise, rmb when to write and when not to write units (the school is being so hypocritical), GO FOR ASPEN, and go back and mug everything before mole concept because very honestly all I can rmb studying is mole concept.

fri 2 may:

geog. [I tell you there's something wrong with her. seriously. but it's a positive change I suppose haha. maybe it's just the lame bug. it's easy to catch! (punpun! XD)] anw. okayy la I suppose. just go memorise (whee memorising is probably the easiest kind of mugging. for dumb ppl like me.) all the concepts of weathering. and wth la they started on coasts like 2 wks before MYAs and it's TESTED. like, what?! I don't even know what about coasts are we supposed to know. ohwhells.

mon 5 may:

HCL paper 2. can you believe it my chinese is improving! :D I passed ting xieeeee! haha anw. duan wen tian kong is hopeless fullstop. avg of 6/20. bestbest was like last yr EYAs. 12/20! omg I think that was like the ONLY time I passed can. compre is like english lor, depends on whether I gerrit, or don't gerrit. the latter I just take the words that appear in the qn, find them in the passage, then copy down the whole para where they appear. -.- summary I'm AMAZINGLY quite ok at it. :O if my english and chinese summary both not bad how come my blog posts so long. -.-

physics. the one. the only. the killer. (ok no there's still math.) DIEDIEDIEDIEDIE. *dies* see I actually suited my actions to my words. waves and sound are still a bit fuzzy, but a lot better than light and its reflection and refraction, and ray diagrams and refractive indexes and critical angles and whatnot. sigh. and she doesn't even chase us for ws, and I don't know how to do many anw (and no time), so I have 99.9%(3sf) of ws undone. I think I only fully completed 1 ws so far this yr. wow genius. so basically, do as many of those backdated ws as possible, and do 10-year series, and mugmugmug like siao.

tues 6 may:

history. ok just memorise all the points for impacts of scientific revolution and cause of industrial revolution and write sample essays and stuff. like SS la, cannot crap well. but SA was super happy-ating cos there was math '_' then chinese '___' then geog '_____' so history was at least comparatively ok. oh and I gotta ask jess/mr ganesh how to write nicely. like I really can't tell the diff between a quite good essay and a not so good one you know. it sucks.

wed 7 may:

math. math. math. math. the one two. the [not] only. but the killer too. ohcrap I just realised I don't know what topics are tested. but definitely stats, which are so screwed, I didn't do like ANY ws at all please. with its screwy graphical representations and all. and functions, of which I am vaguely starting to somewhat get. but quadratic ones are argh. and I just can't do graphs. grah and the differentiation thing is cheem[er than most other parts]. okay this day I will die if I don't already die on physics.

thurs 8 may:

good luck math ra ppl! smarties anyway. while we shall go out and celebrate the end of the MYAs wheeeeeeeeee! and this means band's gonna start again soon! :D


I've been listening japanese graffiti from I to X. but i'm missing XIII does anyone have? anw I realise like ALL of them have sax solo/soli parts la. *big grin* and a lot of brass. and there're some parts with like this thing which I cannot make out whether it's a guitar or a saxophone with a very bad (in my opinion, in comparison to the symphonic sound) tone. O.o II is cute! V is happy. I don't really like american graffiti. ): they have songs like entertainer in them though which is quite cute haha. EH WE SHOULD BUSK ENTERTAINER OMG! :D and kejia wants to do ensemble quartet (woodwind ensemble, insted of sax, has... horn. pft.). omg scary. gotta get auded by mr oura and stuff. I definitely cannot make it. sigh.

ok I should go start my mugging regime. grah I don't feel like writing mugging schedule now. I'll hang out at the comp a bit more first. prob won't be able to do so for the next coupla weeks sigh. OHYES and we're playing poe (prince of egypt, for the benefit of some) during hall assembly tomorrow to promote cadenza! go go go okay! joongyan cannot cheat my feelings ah! joni must go because of your connections!

Cadenza XI
19 July, Saturday
3.30pm
SCH (Singapore Concert Hall)
$12, $16
Free seating

[edited]
Current repertoire (not in chronological order):
Aquarium
Brazil
Carmen Fantasy
Christmas Scene from the opera La Boheme
Global Variations
In A Monastery Garden
Metro Gnome
Russian Sailors' Dance
Selections from "Cats"
The Centurion
The Pioneers
Tico-Tico
[ensembles]
[/edited]



hello. first of all, sam, cheer up kay? (: we'll be there for you, when the rain starts to pour. (: I'm sure we'll be able to find smth that will work out, like I dunno, compromising with them or smth. I know it seems really hopeless, but like jess said, maybe it's just one of their 'phases'. were they like especially pissed for some reason or smth at that time? anw, we will find a way!

haha ok and. ouch. I don't really like my new choice haha. it was like completely impromptu k! for some reason. oh cos they didn't have lime green I think. ya but anywayy, the most rawr thing is ouch. he said he was going to tighten especially much so. grah I'm gonna die on tues. prods mouthpiece- can you try to be softer? (ie tofu, not ie piano) ok then I won't be able to make a sound argh. I bet I'll be doing the leaky hose thing again. aurgh which reminds me of my ohsoterrible stamina. in 2.4 as well! sigh.

okayy photos! falala. cos facebook is dying on me. though I hate posting pics on blogger rahh. (haha I still haven't found out how to spell the jess-chasing-mynahs sound. like somewhere between rar and rah and rarh -.-)







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a regular session. :P (ohmygosh I just realised that the horns ex looks wrong) haha I see my lemons!












sam's chick cheek! (don't ask, that's how she pronounces it.)













the greatest takeaway of our first ever sb lunch! can't believe I forgot abt it till now haha.










haha I think passion is when you start doing stuff like that. when I first started feeling like I really lovelovelovelove rgssb coincides with when I started writing/drawing/arranging it everywhere. :p




OHYEAH AND FIRST LOVE IS A REALLY PRETTY SONG! REALLY REALLY REALLY PRETTY! and sup-er (like in sup-er bat) pro. like the flute and oboe is really niceee and the sax is just like woah. :O vibratoOoOoOoOoO. (get the point?) pretty pretty tone. and the trumpet (or trumpetee as gloria calls it to suit its sound) part near the end is O.o. ULTRASONIC. like what frequency 5629052316517. [hey attacking keyboards is fun. wdsfwaeuihgkpguihakagiu.] yeah anw. it's practically like a clar's struggling notes alrd please. O.o in shock. ah and thesaxthesaxthesax! I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE TK SAX THERE AND THEN.

haha ora was quite amusing. four times! I mean like four times! how much more _______ can you get. ok jess is worse, 5 times. ok I don't think this sounds like what it's supposed to sound like. it sounds like I'm talking abt ___ ____. haha anw it's a lot worse than ____. :p [haha following jess' advice I shall blank to the appropriate no of letters. yeah but still. it was wonderful! like jaw-dropping. and yujia ah ahyo. heard how you _____ ____ ____ __ and julia had to ____ ___ ___ __ ____ ______. ok this blank thing is pointless. but well. and ohman when I mentioned, ___ _____ __. ___. ohmanohman. does a high pitched xinyi "ohman". haha anw, the rgssb thingy is sadly not very pretty. it's like outta proportion. (to my phone) so I took off the black part and just attached it to my existing cross' hook. whee.

[add-on] haha when I see ora, I'm reminded of the "hola!" "huh what?" thing haha. [/add-on]



haha friday was amusing. ok sports fest was fine, like note to self: wear lime green and black shoelaces, get green hair accessories, and bring throat lozenges next year. and buckle should have won cheerleading. again. ))): and THEY did instead. again. pft. the wave thing was super cool and coordinated la! well at least we aren't overall last. (:

anw, it was more amusing AFTER that. we were eyeing all the ppl going to bugis around us haha and like saying "eh maybe she's one of the people who's gonna be in the same class as us!" "ah she looks smart!" "can look smart one meh?" "can! ahhh! ohno!" lol. and we passed two richard ppl at bugis village, and they WERE the ones! haha I think they may have been a bit lost. I was lost the first time I tried to find my way there too! haha anw it's quite cool, like keyun and I are both from buckle and both from band, and they're both from richard and both from guitar haha.

yeah anw, mole concept ahh! it's still ok at this stage la, but starting to get confusing alrd. haha I think she's quite a good teacher (:, but we're quite freaked out of her! and she keeps doing the -.- look hahaha. and she was like "how's band?" O.o. oh and she emphasised that band trips are more impt than family holidays etc, unless you don't care abt band. :\ I do ok! I just don't want to have to go for confirmation camp and be confirmed with a buch of people I don't know in some other church. oh and no lesson next week, so I can go for gym concert yay! hope they haven't passed up the form without me. but so much hw.

ya anw after that, we went to eat at bk cos it was the first eatable place in sight. -.- and the guy serving our queue was like damn SLOW la! we didn't move for like 15min. haha and keyun has the theory that "we queue so long, should buy more!" haha. but we both weren't exactly hungry. then we went bugis street after that, and explored one section. haha if we do that every friday, we'll know the whole of bugis street like the back of our hand by the end of the year! anw, we share the weirdest stuff. like a BK mushroom singles burger! haha the receipt was damn funny-
"1 Bk Mushroom Singles
1 Cut Half
1 Small Fries
1 Medium Coke
1 Hershey's Sundae Pie"

haha cos we asked them to cut it in half. yeah and even stuff like a PAIR or earrings, which we're gonna wear one each and prob a earstick on the other like batch chalet or some other time when we can haha! yupp then went NLB after that cos keyun needed to borrow programming books. wah I thought NLB was like in some faraway land. it's actually like practically just at the back door of where we were! hope you did well for the competition. (:

anddd the GENIUS me didn't realise that my bracket came out for like 7 hrs. as in I was vaguely aware that something was gnawing the left side of my mouth more than usual, but it didn't once occur that THAT could have happened, until I went home and looked into a mirror to brush my teeth! and my dentist is away, so I'll just live with it till saturday. is black and light pink a good combination? I'm saving black and orange for halloween, blue and orange doesn't suit me, black and lime green I'll get before some house event like sports fest haha then it'll match my shoelaces, dark blue and light blue matches my specs but evan says I shouldn't get that. haha well.



(which includes friday don't ask)

Friday, 28 March 2008

Skincare & Makeup

hahaha yupp first lifeskill lesson of the year! um nothing esp eventful I guess. I was like the only one in the class getiing a cool colour eyeshadow I think. silver blue! haha I don't think I looked very different hmm.





















I wanna wear contacts! but parents don't let and I'm a bit freaked out also. JOANNE (LAI) WHY YOU GO FREAK ME OUT EVEN MORE. hmpf. what drop into eye socket and have to dig out la, have to push it around your eye until it's at the right place la... __"__ OMG I'm very sure I returned the blusher brush and eyeshadow applicator but I came home and found them stuck in my doorgift bag! NOOOO! I'm so sorry shiseido! anw they gave lipstick samples lol. haha I'll save them for prom or smth. :P

Play!

WHEEE! pft cooking ppl, almost make us late. haha anw, joyce is so natural! and the narrator guy has like natural stage ability. and, for the climax of the concert day weekend YEAR, drumroll... THE SOLO! ahhhhh. it made me tear with makeup on. seriously. and it doesn't help that My Heart Will Go On sorta has F relevance ahh EMOEMOEMO. anw, cheer up sb! I really don't think _. *pats heads including mine* and OMG jess serious mo qi man. quotes angie "it's like catching a little kid with his hand in the cookie jar" hahaha. sigh anw play was funny and nicenicenice. I really wanted to cry! oh anw jess I get what you mean when you say that I want to cry and I'm going to cry is different. I MISS THEM.






ahh it's blur why is it blur! ))): bonks self and camera. at least I can vaguely see some ppl haha.









ah I wish my phone recording was not so static-y. ): haha perc ensemble was cool. (: sam looked zai on the bongos. ohman I didn't get a pic of brass quintet and _. X( haha anw the trumpet guys play so cutely. ah like every concert we go to we encounter pro trombones. ah and once again, ♥♥♥♥♥ the solo! alotalotalot. (':

Saturday, 29 March 2008

Shiing

haha this is extremely random but worth mentioning anw- shiing wore a tanktop and miniskirt to tuition! :D zipp I didn't say anything.

Sunday, 30 March 2008

Philharmonic Winds Concert

ahh it was great too! was expecting a short concert with only a few songs cos it was foc too haha. butbut they played like pop songs, cats (just memory though. EMOOO.), fantillusion, grease, chorale C (jay chou), beauty and the beast, and pirates (it's a diff version though I think). haha the conductor is super cute! he conducts with his little pinky out and he like dances around and there was this part he was gripping the back of his podium thingum and I had a strong mental image of DDR. don't ask either. haha and there was a CONTRAbassoon and a brown clar and a black flute. cooool. I totally want to see a contrabass sax live man.

haha anw, there were quite a few alto sax solos. I LOVE HER TONE. but their saxes have a more like jazzy tone than emo tone. as in like solo player (eg kenny G) vs band player (eg the common people like us). ahya nvm I don't think I make sense right. anw it stands out quite a lot. I keep hearing sax parts (excluding long notes). ok maybe it's just me. and guess what, there were BARI SAX SOLOS. I mean like O.o. so cool! I'm so going to tell valerie and joanne. haha and I realise that sax ppl wobble shake sideways when they play lol. like those jazzy/bouncy parts.

and so ends pearlyn's great weekend. shall not write about the HOMEWORK aspects of it hmpf.



lalala read like ALOT of jess' blog today. so...

random quizzes which I koped from there!

Your Harry Potter Alter Ego Is...? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Ron Weasley You often feel like second best and as a result don't have an awful lot of self confidence, but a truer more capable friend would be hard to find. Ron Weasley 75% Ginny Weasley 70% Remus Lupin 70% Sirius Black 65% Hermione Granger 55% Lord Voldemort 55% Severus Snape 55% Harry Potter 45% Draco Malfoy 40% Albus Dumbledore 40% omg I've been trying so damn long to get sax haha and I finally did for one quiz! but tenor haha. and only few options for this one. What concert band instrument should you play? Huh? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Tenor Saxophone You are a ~Tenor Saxophone~! People absolutely ADORE you even though you're really quiet and/or shy. Your classmates think you can do no wrong :] Tenor Saxophone 55% Trumpet 50% Alto Saxophone 40% Clarinet 30% Flute 20% ok this one doesn't count cos the qns asked and my answers SO OBVIOUSLY point to sax. :D whee 100%! I can totally TELL what to answer to the question to point to sax la. What instrument fits You? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Saxophone Congratulations!You match the Saxophone.Adolphe Sax invented the Saxophones. Saxophone 100% Clarinet 83% Tuba 17% Trumpet 17%

zomgosh WHATTT. so weird! haha. I dance for the fun of it only. haha but I'm interested in psychology la. just don't want to be doing it for the rest of my life. I don't know what I wanna be when I grow up. ):

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3) created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Dance You should be a Dance major! Like a lithe ballerina, you dance because you believe there is beauty in expressing the physical form. Psychology 75% Dance 75% Anthropology 58% Engineering 58% Art 58% Theater 58% Mathematics 58% Journalism 58% Philosophy 58% Sociology 58% Linguistics 50% English 50% Chemistry 50% Biology 50% haha I don't wish the world was a big jazz band! but omg I rmb feeling exactly that abt the horn part sometimes! whee sax through and through! **What concert band instrument are you?*** created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Saxophone ya might just be a saxophone. You wish your whole world was a big jazz band and you hate always playing the french horn parts in band. Saxophone 58% Clarinet/Trombone 50% Oboe 42% Trumpet 33% drummer 25% French Horn 17% Flute 17% Tuba/Baritone Saxophone 17% totally. haha omg I'm doing like how many concert band ones just to feel good being a sax and lovin it. ((: What Concert band Instrument R U? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Saxophone You are saxophone! Saxophone 85% Percussion 50% Bassoon/ Oboe 40% Flute/ Piccolo/ Clarinet 25% French Horn 20% Tuba/ Baritone 20% Trombone 20% okay what a waste of time. The Ultimate (and real) Patronus Quiz created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Rhinocerous you got rhino, you kick ass Rhinocerous 100% Koala 83% Lion 83% Ostrich 67% Goat 67% Eagle 67% Raven 67% Zebra 67% Giraffe 67% Panther 67% Badger 67% Lynx 50% Phoenix 50% Kangaroo 50% Owl 50% Snake 50% Tiger 50% Parrot 50% Peacock 50% Cat 50% Cougar 50% Monkey 50% Otter 50% Bear 50% Fox 50% Gorrilla 33% Rat 33% Rabbit 33% Robin 33% Hawk 33% Squirrel 33% Chicken 33% Stag 33% Toad 33% Ferret 33% Horse 33% Dove 33% Boar 33% Llama 33% Swan 33% Elephant 33% Doe 33% Lizard 17% Narwhal 17% Lemur 17% Sloth 17% Cow 17% Pig 0% Turtle 0% Dog 0% ok this one is quite dumb. What song is your life theme song? created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Beatiful Soul-Jesse McCartney Your looking for more then looks..I LOVE THIS SONG...JESSE IS SOOO EFFIN HOT! Beatiful Soul-Jesse McCartney 75% Hollaback girl-Gwen Stephanie 75% ooops I did it again 67% Switch-Will Smith 67% Soak up the sun 67% Lose Yourself 67% Addicted-Simple Plan 58% Ocean Avenue 50% Behinde these Hazel Eyes 42% LaLa-Ashlee Simpson 42% Loose Control 42% 1985 33% Ass like that 25% Girls And Boys 25% ok I shall stop wasting so much time. MUGMATHSMUGMATHSMUGMATHS. bahh. screw algebraic manipulation and modulus. inequalities and partial fractions not as bad but still. grahh. byee!

is it just me or does everyone feel like that at first?



"WHAT have I gotten myself into"



"get this bloody thing off me"



"I can't believe I'm gonna have to go through a coupla YEARS with this"



"spititoutspititoutspititout. you evil shiny pokey monsters!"



"bah quit slicing me"



okayy anw. I'M SICK. no not as in er3 xin1, as in shen1 bing4. down with food poisoning/stomach flu (I think it's the latter) for like 5 days and counting. ): sucks man. left for m'sia right when the hols started, then fell sick right when I came back. so I didn't manage to get any hw done AT ALL. feeling too sick to do pft. argh this is just WONDERFUL. double triple the suffering. and I missed band day ): and thurs band )): and most likely gonna have to miss tml band too ))): and there's no band this thurs cos of lj )))): so I'd be unpractised for *gasp* 2 weeks. GRAHHH. rantrantrant. life sucks like a vacuum cleaner a black hole thirsty hippo. like the ones in our section cupboards. ohwhells. long sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.



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hello! hey not my fault lor! didn't the english fa today tell yall smth? WE ARE ALL BUSY PPL! ahhh geog tml!! and AHHH hist the next day! siao ppl. bah. haven't mugged. haha anw. I can't believe it! I think I totally screwed up the first. it makes a diff in all the rest can! and I can't can't can't. nor can my sbms haha. WE WILL JIAYOU! *cheerleads*


grah and _ is so weird pft. get lost. hahaha only keyun will know what I'm talking abt. :P shoosh! haha anw I suddenly rmbed, we haven't _ed for a long time! the you, sam and I thing. XP I bet they miss us! haha omg so random. sigh noone gets anything we say anw, our plan didn't work haha. OH and rs. delia and I want to do math/science la. the el/lit topics are super ._.! yay I found a way of making the straight mouth face without blogger stealing away the line in my html code so it doesn't appear when I post.

anw rs today was so eventful! gasp! not the talk abt chinese rs la duhh. we were talking abt prom! hahaha so amusing. and like trying to picture ppl in stuff. and talking abt prom dress, hair, shoes, etc. haha and abt single-gender schs vs mixed schs! we're all gonna send our kids to mixed pri schs la. after last fri haha. we feel so totally deprived can! :P but rgs is a really good sch. minus the screwed up education system (haha you see my warped criteria in judging schs), all the bonding and closeness and everything is amazing. I really can't imagine living life without the 4 years in rg la. BIG BIG HOLE. I'd rather be a fool with a broken heart than someone who never had a part of you. ahh F! emoemoemo. haha but still long way la. actually its not that long lor! )): I want to stay in rg forever. with my wonderfulwonderful batchmates and all. (:



sigh it really isn't that easy you know. I mean, I've spent my life being told to give in, being scolded for stuff I didn't even do wrong. so when someone does something wrong, to me, it's my fault. and I tell myself, what would it be like if I were in that person's shoes? everyone makes mistakes. when someone does something I don't agree with, I try to put myself into that person's shoes and find a way of agreeing. if someone daos me, I think about what I may have done to piss that person off. (haha I know that's quite over, but ya) if I accidentally dao someone, I feel like whacking my head repeatedly after that. if someone pisses me off, I usually don't openly show it, and if I do I regret it like hell afterwards. I mean, how many ppl have really seen me pissed before? (daniel doesn't count haha he's 8 almost 9 and freaking annoying)

haha maybe at _ though. but that's a special case. and it's not really pissiating so much as... amusing. O.o like it's so utterly nonsensical that the whole hypocrisy or fake drama and exaggeration is like hilarious. sometimes the stuff mentioned are so dumb that you completely burst out laughing at the comp/ place where you hear it haha. sigh but it's also at _ for _ la. ruining an innocent life. pft you.

oh well. I suppose we all have to try. jiayou to all of us! omg I can't believe it's so soon. AHHHHHHH. jumps up and down yelling. okay. WE WILL SURVIVE! (: (I hope)



OBS was awesome.

DAY 1
introductory briefing, introduction to watches and instructors. stocktaking of store and preperation of kayaking equipment. simple lunch, then started on kayaking. first was the lifejacket ploat test. whee! (: then capsize drill. WHEE! ((: sam and I had to try twice to flip tje kayak over haha. and getting back on was tiring. we only did actual kayaking triyaking for abt 10 mins then beached cos of approaching rain.

the walk between the main building (where the hall and everything is) and the store is really long. pft. we learnt how to pitch tents (I wasn't really listening at that time heh) then pitched for that night after dinner. oh we cooked dinner (rice, canned food- baked beans, braised peanuts cocktail sausages) at the under the pool place, forgot what it's called. anw, 4-5 people per tent, and I tented with sam, jess, szemin and xinle.

we had to pack stuffs for the next two days, but we couldn't finish packing food (sam and I stupidly blundered into the world of food I/Cs thinking it'd be an easy job. my foot ah.) so we woke up at 4.30am the next morning to pack.

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DAY 2
sian, wake up so early still cannot finish packing on time. by this time our instructors (jill-Barker!; andy-Sui Sen) have prob realised that we can't seem to ever be on time. sigh.

yay then we went out for trust fall! super cool. like whoosh- the free fall feeling. freaky but fun! (omg so much alliteration! XD) dunno, it's quite unexplainable to all those who haven't experienced it before.

started off late, but finally got around to rowing. it's a lot more tiring than kayaking. boated with el, renee, sam, jess, (see) xiaowei (and her boyfriend haha: the medical pouch), and megan. dragging the boats into the sea was so fun! we're the cool ones who took the front end of the boat :P so we practically ended up swimming while the others were pulling the trolley thingy from the shore. and there was this sudden drop of seabed thing and I tripped down it and freaked out! joo and I nearly floated away.

anw, we had to get to the next campsite in 3hrs to get a surprise (which was supposedly to get to bathe in the freshwater quarry. but we didn't make it.). started storming after abt 1 or 2 hrs, and rowing in the storm was undeniable fun and bonding, esp with el and her lame jokes haha. "why is love blind? because it has no 'i's!" and sam peed in the bail bucket under the poncho lol. and we heard a splash in the boat all of a sudden (like arnd the time she was peeing) and all froze but no it wasn't what you're thinking hahaha.

kekek campsite was like OMFREAK. eew. one patch of muddy ground with surrounding forest. toilets- completely natural. haha no one in the watch actually used the entrenchment tool lol. had to pitch and cook in the dark, and wash utensils in the sea (while the tide was RISING rapidly), and bloody sandflies kept biting all over my feet ankles and calves. as if blisters weren't enough alrd. I'm allergic, damn you all! glares at sandflies.

[just added: but this time (my second round of bites) isn't as bad as the first. so far only abt 3 bites got bloody (i.e. I scratched badly, subconciously), and the rest are somewhat ok. maybe cos my plaster allergies are itchin gso much the bites forgot to itch/ there isn't enough itch to go arnd.]

that night was the lowest point of obs for most ppl. we had to powder bathe, and many of us did so in the tents. then our tent couldn't find our groundsheet, so we slept on a wet poncho. no, wait, I meant a swimming pool of a poncho. then everything was dark, and I couldn't find my headlamp, which made everything so incovenient. never appreciated light more. AND the worst thing was that everyone was in a pissy mood, and many people were snapping when you talked to them. and poor el, it was her bday. ):

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DAY 3
everyone still a bit pissified by the previous night, but at least we were leaving. and wth la _. whywhywhy! ): I think quite a few others too. anw, we started our land expedition. it was far beyond what we could have imagined anyone doing, let alone believed that we would have survived that gruelling 7-8 hrs, 10km and 20kg backpacks. (yes shurrup terence I know yall did in 4 hrs.) lost our way once, but not too bad.

got all the checkpoints. after the long climb one, the quote was "The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no top."- Nancy Barcus. after backtracking to the next one, and like feeling half-dead alrd, it was "We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water."- Sister Busche. trudged around more, and the third was "Let us realise that what happens around us is largely outside our control. But the way we choose to react is inside our control."- Anonymous. when a lot of us were close to giving up and just flopping down, it was "Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."- Nicolo Machiavelli. and finally, the last one, was "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."- Anonymous. which happens to be the quote on our handbook the week after obs.

anw, the quarry was awesome. we shouted "threethirteenrocks!", then it shouted "rocks!" back at us haha. cool right! ok so we all made it to camp 2 dying but alive. it was seriously an acheivement la. (: but I think the backpacks stunted my growth and made me shorter than I alrd am. ): [just added: yeah I checked. I'm 1cm shorter. lucky height&weight was taken before obs haha.]

then we had quite a good dinner. with lots and lots of maggi mee cos we had LOADS left. [just added: haha we brought back a lot of leftover food and more than helf of it was maggi mee! haha we just eat it raw. it's like mamee.] anw, the instructors made us APPLE CRUMBLE! :D it was damn nice la! thank you jill! [just added: haha we got the "recipe" on the talking cock session on the last day! guess what we're gonna try to do someday. thinks apples. :P]

then we walked into the forest as a group in pairs (as in rows of 2) to some firefly place. we only saw one firefly though lol. but the stars were really chio pretty! orion's belt! then, with a bottle, and a whistle and lightstick to be used in the case of an emergency, we solo nightwalked back. I was a bit more freaked out than I thought I would be la. esp at the pure darkness parts. I tripped once! and I kept thinking patches of light were puddles of water, and avoiding them haha. -.- haha el's the best la. saw a wild boar and thought it was a moving bush. XD

anw, when we were all congregated back there, we did a mini item thing where the instructors walked towards us and we all stood up and parted a path (like the red sea thingy) and yelled "instrustorcs jia4 dao4!". haha I don't think they got it. anw, after we bathed, we did another more well planned item. the items were actually to suck up to them so they would convince them to let us wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts for the next day's water activities. we sang dedication, then did a raffles cheer (the new one, the one that involves some rhythm and goes "ra-raffles, say raffles yeah"), then yelled "5 dollars!!" which was from the "ghost story" andy told suisen. haha anw whee, our request was approved. :D

I think this was the best day so far. ok well makes sense, 1st day for everything usually isn't very likely to be fun cos you don't exactly do much, and 2nd day had kekek campsite in it, no further explanations needed. but still, I liked day 3! ((: um besides the sore feet, aching shoulders, and bruised hips. ohh and thigh abrasion! pft. ouch. haha during the trek we were singing "I feel it in my shoulders, I feel it in my... soles! pain is all around me, and then the feeling... grows!".

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DAY 4
JETTY JUMP! :D I was a bit freaked out at the edge, but when it was over I totally wanted to do it again! it's like trust fall, the split second free fall, the stomach flying, and the unexplainable euphoria thing. some ppl cut themselves on barnacles, ouch. and _. damn annoying.

after that was rafting. renee, el and I were really PULLING ropes at the corners we did. rope burn! (haha when we had to dismantle later el said her hands were pink with lovesickness for the raft -.-) suisen's barrels (omg I'm so used to spelling darrell that I almost spelt it as barrell!) popped up, so they kinda nearly fell apart, but they really did well, it was just cos the space between the two pipes was that fraction too big. we made it around the jetty. (: the tide was against my side so we were rowing like siao. and i was sitting like on one-tenth of the barrel (like less than one-third chair ok! :P practically less than one-fifth.) and right over the space between the two barrels, and my legs were over the pipes, so when we disembarked I was like OUCH. like doing a split for 20 mins kind of feeling.

after all that, we started trekking back to camp 1. (ohya by then I was starting to run out of underwear -.-) the 20min trek was like nothing compared to the prev day's land ex la. like a stroll across the batch corr compared to like 2.4; to the power of 2. (heh sry la I bet it's all the exponentials pft.) ohya anw I got more bloody sandfly bites. [just added: I realised that works on a literal basis too...]

ok then it was rock climbing, the last obs activity. AHH SO SAD! )): anw, like a lot of ppl reached the top (12th panel) la. I only reached 10. ): pft i know I suck. anw, it was quite a bonding time, cos like andy said he told us not to cheer each other on, but everyone had been helping and encouraging and congratulating anw, so it was quite sweet, the class spirit and all.

eeks last night in obs! )': anw, dinner was catered! it was the first time in a long long time we sat on chairs and used tables and plates and cups can! el sat then she was like "look! look at this plastic thing specially crafted for us to sit on!" cues heavenly light and choir haha. (sorry I just added that part, it seemed relevant haha) sat beside el and was laughing/choking throughout dinner cos el is, well, el after all. we found out that her record for not talking is like 1min max hahaha. (okay the next day it increased to 3mins 23secs, we were super amazed la! XD)

then we did the picture story activity, and I think the full story is like quite cool. in some abstract way. haha and we were like "okay how to tell whose is more macro?" "oh my guy/bus/rooster is this tall... *sticks out finger and thumb to approx height*" "oh mine is this tall... *repeats action appropriate to own picture* ...so yours come first." lol. so our conclusion was... SIZE MATTERS! haha.

quite a few of us decided not to bathe that night heh. and some ppl like didn't bathe for 3 days. O.o and I heard that someone's hair would stay in that position if you pulled it outwards cos it was so sticky. gross haha. and el didn't bathe since her birthday! O.o haha anw, rebekah, roxanne, el, renee, xinle, giam, clarissa and I took the store that night and splept on the new blue tarp. oh after clearing up and packing a lot of stuff like lifejackets and waterbottles etc. anw, we stayed up abt an hour eating and talking. (abt sick stuff. and controversial issues. and mainly smth that kinda falls into both categories. thinks 377A.) we finally stopped talking when el decided to stop/sleep haha, no surprises there. amazed that we actually slept like 5 hrs, which is A LOT considering the circumstances haha.

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DAY 5
OMG WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO HOME. cries. we were asked to draw smth we missed and I didn't miss anything. I dunno, it was quite cool, kinda hard to explain. I felt sorta just out of the real world, like obs offered this tranquil world for us to step into for 5 days so I just left everything in the other real life behind willingly. or smth along that lines. anw, I was very sure that I wouldn't be the only one missing obs today. jess was whining to me (as usual), and I'm sure many other ppl were touched by these 5 days too.

ok we brought the triyaks back, sang my bonnie lies over the ocean and squatted/stood up at every 'b' we said (jill's instructions!), did some have to throw rocks to each other and simultaneously catch activity, and one where we had to throw a rock representing our weakness(es) into the sea, and the barker web. I shall treasure my string forever! (:

then we did some item for jill that was supposed to be super sweet, like sing pass it on, then give jill a matchbox with a match that says "you were the spark". (you must know the lyrics to get this!) tell me I'm good at making super sweet items with cool links. :D oh anw we added "you made the difference" to the original line also. haha dunno, I thought short and sweet was better. oh but we kinda screwed up a bit cos half of us didn't know the lyrics for the 2nd and 3rd verse of pass it on. we should have just sang the 1st verse haha. but jill appreciateds it anw, so yay! (: oh we did one special-coloured match (which was the same colour as jill's shirt! :D), with 14 plain brown ones, which represented our watch.

then we did obs evaluation (sad they didn't have a qn "how much did you like obs?" cos I would have put smth like "off the scale".), got back valuables, got little souvenirs, got our certs (I realised obs has a lot of traditions too! cool!), etc. then was the shortshort talking cock session. we asked her for the apple crumble method, her past CCAs, her age, abt the 21 day course (sounds damn freaky I tell you), etc. we only got to chat for like 15 mins, after that we had to gather at MPH. we realised that that was prob the last time we were ever gonna see jill! )): we got her email though, so we can all keep in contact. (:

so it was debrief, and there was this cool personal recount of obs by someone. it's titled I Want To Go Home, and it starts with the title phrase. then is this tirade of complaints about the conditions and manual labour and everything. after that, it's abt how things seemed to change, and how he viewed things diffly, starting to enjoy the activities. then the cool part is how it ends. "I want to go home. I want to go home and show everyone what obs has done for me.". it's super sweet can! (': and I like the way it links, the way the same phrase can be completely diff.

then jill led our class to the boat back to mainland, and we were like :D, but only 12 ppl (which excluded me, jess, sam, el, those ppl who'll miss jill) could get on, so we were like ):. we got andy haha. when we were walking to the jetty, sam, jess and I alrd started emoing, and on the boat there were like tears silently flowing. it's really sad la, leaving this beautiful place where the 5 days packed with memories to be cherished had been spent.

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I miss obs, ubin, the campus, the sand, the sea, the trees, the store, the tents, the groundsheets, the ponchos, the waterbottles, the messtins, everything! I miss jill. ):

obs really changed all of us, I can bet everyone felt very diff on the last day as compared to on the first day. when I went for obs, I left s'pore and sch and all that hw behind. I really didn't want to leave the serenity of ubin for that hectic lifestyle again. when we were back in s'pore, everything felt surreal. it was as though everything we had done during obs was left at ubin, I felt as though we had never rowed in the storm, never trekked for 7hrs, never learnt more abt our classmates, never met jill. it felt like my usual life was pouring back into me, no matter how much I tried to hold it out. HWHWHW! sigh.

I'm really glad obs helped our class bond so much. it's no wonder they planned it this way. cos we'll be like together for 2 yrs. it's great to start seeing everyone more as 313 than as individuals now. (: haha also bonded a lot with el, which may or may not be a good thing. :P

so when we came back, we were supposed to emo in the corr haha but jess had to go, and sam started to go indiv or smth. so I went to band room too (after dumping this plastic bag of leftover food in my locker), and zhenyi was ranting abt how we were all so un-tanned. and she and delise were discouraging me from indiving right after coming back from obs, so I didn't haha. sigh, thigh muscle aches and sandfly bitessss! PUCK. (heh puck arose as a less vulgar sounding version cos when el was trying not to talk and was handsigning, she accidentally did p instead of f. go figure.)

obs was awesome indeed. it was an experience of a lifetime, a huge distance we covered on our journey of class bonding, a great stepping stone in the path of all our individual lives. in perseverance, confidence, conquering fear, everything. it was awesome, and I'm gonna miss it.

"well done la!" (':