Friday 22 June 2007 ;
23:34:00
hahaha so fun today! omg haha I feel tired so I shall not post a long post. just all my group pics hahaha. [okay just the interesting ones] yay I love my group!monsters inc, we're gonna win this thing,
we are terrifying,
the scary monsters!
RAWR!
jolyn's funny face!
jolyn the flower!
MONSTERS! kung-fu!
err I bet you don't gerrit hahaha. I'm the tree and valerie's trying to cut me down and peiqi's trying to stop her. SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT! (:
my chiochio heart which I made from peixin's sagaaas! (everytime I come across sagas I rmb massdance haha)
omg I'm being crazy and downloading like A LOT of band songs from soundclick. you should go too! it's free! just have to sign up. and pioneers and el camino super fast can. while the jurassic park part that we always play for sli is super slowww. and I didn't know beauty and the beast had a sax soloish thing! >.<
okayyy byebye. wah typed the least this post.
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Thursday 21 June 2007 ;
21:23:00
boo it struck again today. and we were tearing in the middle of fareast hahaha. I shall record the strikes from now on in this post.strike 1- 210607 (1m1w3d)strike 2- 240607 writing letters and poem!haha I bet noone will get what I'm talkng about anyway. but just for the sake of recording frequency hahaha. I bet it's gonna get more frequent. wait does this sound wrong? o.Ookayy anyway. hahaha band day is tml! eh looks quite fun what why so many ppl don't wanna come. ohno musical chairs. >.< I rmb the inunion one haha. (eh or was it band camp??) yujia kept butting me cos amanda loke was on the other side haha no need to explain further. I wonder what we'll be having for lunch... and tea... and who in my section is going [omggg when I first typed this it said "who in my section is GONG" LOL! luckily I reread and edited. X)] hmm... I wonder whether all the sec1s are going. ok nvm.ahh ohno why am I in icebreakers I wanna play captain's ball! wait but I suck so much so I'll just make the batch lose anyway so nvm haha. but I still want to play! haha I'm a selfish person. (",)
andd we're ahem attempting to make batch cheers now but talia said we should just do impromptu tml haha. hmm. ah we should use the la bohame one AHAHAHA and kill the opponent with our singing! baaaaaaatch... ohhhnineeeeeeee... ohhhnineeeeeeee...... baaaaaaatchohninee{I love you oh so much}... baaaaaaatchohninee{I love you oh so much}... OKAYYY nvm. X)
hmm have to pack. err... ohno I only have one pe shorts left. ok nvm. shall not change it the whole day. X) wow the convo just changed to the subject of number of fingers used for typing lol. cos talia was saying something about the letters for inunion all being on one side of the keyboard. haha I didn't notice that. so random.okay shall stop here. as usual I think that there's something I want to blog about but I forgot. >.<
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Wednesday 20 June 2007 ;
10:34:00
konichiwa! ok from now on I shall stop the diff languages thing haha it's kinda lame. ok this is so weird I'm writing on a piece of rgp gao2 zhi3 now and I think I'm gonna post it on my blog tml. though when you see this it'll alrd be on my blog. well haha I've to find a way to combat short-term memory loss of what I want to blog. X)[removed]okay now I'm writing in the position of the present, which is sitting here at the dining table writing, not blogging. anyway, I can't believe it's only 11.40 and my whole family's like asleep! it's a bit scary to be alone. '___' [hey first time I'm trying out this smiley haha] lol my ahma just made me drink a cup of fresh milk (+choc fresh milk).okay back to blogging. I really don't know what to do about them. as in yeah, they're not ours, but we're affected too right? we are all one, so we should care. but I just don't know how to tell her. I bet she thinks that she's doing some noble deed, asking us to direct all comments to her. like okay whatever it's very fake can.
okay my bro just told my dad I'm still awake. -.- and he wants me to sleep mow. aiyo kaypoh. like HER. dong4 bu4 dong4 jiu4 read other ppl's things. do you mind. what happened to we want privacy. [edit] the irony. [/edit] and not showing us _ because we don't show yall _? -.-[removed]p.s. gloria, are you Ladida? haha.
[edit] p.p.s. I miss jess. ): [/edit]
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Tuesday 19 June 2007 ;
18:56:00
yo. just decided to list this. it seems really significant can.1) a- scared scared scared. see one, RUN AWAY! freak out! ahhh!
b- erm. not scared not scared not scared. get pissed at em. everything's their fault. we're so great.
2) a- trying THE WORLD to bridge ww brass gap. tis bad you know!
b- doing everything possible to PROMOTE ww brass gap. "I'm so glad we have something the wws don't have" ^.- hurh?
3) a (with exp)- sigh we still suck so much. not even half their standard. NEED TO IMPROVE!
b (with exp)- we so rock. we're as good or even better than them. and even them. so don't think yall so great. we're BETTER.
honestly. (you need a counselor.) do you even know that you're breaking all our hearts when you say all that? erm and brainwashing all of them if I'm not wrong. anyway, you think it's very fun for us is it? oh lets go see and scold, what a great pastime! -.- oh aren't you having fun putting words into our mouths. in a battle, fight fairly. [ok that was random] and stop being so childish. do you think if yall go on strike -.-, it will make us feel bad or something? do you really think we want to fight you? -.-'''''' erm yah and ok even if "[you're] tough", do we want to "try [you]"? [eh omg like quoting for lit liddat haha.]
if you hate this so much, and if you like that so much, go do your beloved bball. ok no I didn't really mean that. as in like, you keep threatening to quit. ok fine. as in like c'mon, it's affecting the band, we'll be short again. I'll be really sad for that. but do you think that threat is gonna personally affect us or something and from now on we're gonna be sugar-sweet and super nice, and forget you ever did anything, and let you insult us and take it with a smile?
you still don't gerrit do you. so you think if we do that, it'll be better for everyone? we once felt the same way, for a different matter. but now we see. everything, it was all for our own good. unconciously we pushed ourselves harder, we learnt _. why, why can't you see too? that everything we're doing, it's to help yall. where did you even get the idea that it's for enjoyment. go, think abourrit. do you think we are happily subjecting ourselves to your hideous insults? for the second time, we are human. we are not enjoying the way you're treating us, and you know that. so can't you make the connection? if we're not enjoying it, we're doing it for a reason. like, hello? THINK abourrit.if _, I'm gonna cry and cry and cry. and cry and cry and cry. even though it's not gonna help. but it's gonna be the end of the world, if it isn't alrd on _. ))): NO I really hope not. anyway, we are all softly, silently, pushing yall towards awareness, and we all hope you reach it soon. we are subjecting ourselves to your torture for you. (ok that was exaggerated sorry. but yeah.) byebye.
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Friday 15 June 2007 ;
19:43:00
whywhywhy? why must you think this way? so we are just _ is it? well you are just _. I wanted to well be nice and maybe we could all talk it out one day frankly, and then maybe you would gerrit. why we've been _ all this time. but apparently, you don't even want to. must we continue this hate? no one wants it. we know even you have a heart. and sometimes I feel maybe we shouldn't blame you individually. anyway, why can't we get over this? you say we keep harping on the past. like okay man how bout you. if you had never done that, we would never have needed to say anything against it. no I'm not pissed. seriously. I'm just really sad about _ and all. and why the rest support it. they should know they aren't doing you any good by that. so why can't you understand? all of yall. ok we didn't gerrit that early either, but we didn't _. isn't it kinda common-sensical? ok maybe just for us. but not even the slightest drop? what _ man. ok yes we are in a way but what's with the crap abt don't act as though _. when did we? we're just trying to help. honestly. it's like, I know that's the kind of boring thing ppl say, but face the truth. we care, so we're doing that. but it's reaching, or maybe has alrd reached, the point where we don't even want to care anymore. please, stop _. no one can live like that for 3 years. can you? so why don't you just try. try to understand why we did that. why we're doing this. we have tried to understand you, but sometimes your _ is just really beyond reason. wake up. donggg. don't you see? the bird is just waiting for you to get on and fly but you refuse to look up at it. don't. just accept. you'll find your life so much better, and we ours. don't you see you _ everyone's _ while you're at it? it's not all abt you and yall. we are HUMAN BEINGS. accept. we'll give you wings. all of you. you can soar through the clarity of understanding, and know why what happened happened. I really don't know how to help you, if you won't help yourself. can't you just try to understand? it's not easy for us to do the face-to-face thing, nor for you, so we don't want to. but do all of you really think we're _ because we simply hate yall and we are just mean beings? you'll prob get pissed at me if you read this (erm and gerrit...), but I hope at least you'll try to see everything in a diff light. and we'll give you a whole new world. try, just try.
and I wish all of you the best of luck through this journey, for it is not an easy one, esp when you _.[edit]ok I realised I sound really mean, but there's no other way to put it I suppose. and how bout yours lor.[/edit]
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Tuesday 12 June 2007 ;
15:00:00
[edit] NO NO NO DON"T COME! STAY AWAY FROM US, YOU EVIL FIEND! )): [/edit]
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Monday 11 June 2007 ;
18:52:00
hey I just found this. enjoy! (btw it's silly rules for playing the sax)Rule #1: Don't be a weenie!
For most students, especially beginners, the tendancy is to try and play as quietly as possible....after all, you don't want anybody else to hear your mistakes, right? Wrong! Always play out! Most people learn to play quietly by not having very much air support. Always fill up your lungs as much as possible. (You already read the lesson on breathing, right?)
Poor air support gives you poor tuning, poor tone, and even makes your technique sound bad. Besides, who wants to look at a person on stage who looks really scared to be heard? Trust me. Don't be a weenie. PLAY OUT!
Rule #2: Be Lazy!
That's right...be lazy! Most music teachers shudder whenever I mention this in a workshop. (On the other hand, most students start to look really, really happy!) Now, before you leap to any drastic conclusions, here is what I mean: Don't waste any more energy than necessary to play the saxophone. Let me repeat this more emphatically:
Don't waste any more energy than necessary to play the saxophone!
Why, you ask? Well, for starters, if you want to do nothing but spend your entire day playing the saxophone, raise your hand. Uh-huh. I thought so. Those of you who were silly enough to raise your hands...you will destroy your muscles and your mind if all you do is play saxophone non-stop. More on that in another lesson. LEARN TO BE EFFICIENT You need to have a highly effective & productive practise session EVERY TIME. Don't make your life more difficult than it needs to be.
On another level, being lazy also applies to you physically - let's take your posture, for example. Slouch, and tilt your head to the side, and take a big, big breath through your mouth. Now, sit up straight with your best possible posture, just like your Mom always bugged you to. (If your mom didn't, I'm sure mine would be happy to help!) Notice something? It should be much easier to breathe with good posture. Now, try holding your slouching position for any long length of time. Notice something else? It takes a heck of a lot more work to sit or stand with bad posture than it does with good posture. So if you can breathe better, and spend less effort doing it, why waste the energy to slouch and have bad posture? This rule applies to a whole bundle of situations, more than I have space to talk about here. Look for them to creep into other lessons!
Rule #3: You have to really, really, really suck at something before you can become very, very, very good.
Guess what? Most of us like to be perfect. Well, get over it. . . you ain't perfect. Yet.
Developing skill at anything, including your saxophone takes time, sweat, and practise. I want you to take a second, and think of one thing that you are really, really good at. Now, think about how good you were at it the very first time you tried it. Can't remember? Most of us block out that first day from our minds as soon as we can. Odds are, it wasn't a very pretty scene. Think back to the time that you first learned to ride a bicycle. Most of us still have a scar somewhere on our body to remind us of that first attempt.
Playing saxophone is going to be maddening, frustrating, annoying, and down right revolting (but mainly to your neighbours!) for the first little while. But then its going to get rapidly better and better, until, believe it or not (!!) it might even be really fun and rewarding and enjoyable. But it takes time. You just need the patience to stick through all of the other stuff. Don't worry, it will get better if you spend the time on it. But don't go around kicking yourself for being a failure until you've been at it a while. Think in terms of months and years, not days and weeks. Better than that, record yourself once a month, and go back a year later and listen to yourself. You'll hear the improvement - and you'll be amazed!
Rule #0: I can't teach you anything! Neither can anybody else!
Oh no! Why is there a rule number zero? Call it my tribute to Issac Asimov. (If you haven't a clue as to why, go read Asimov. Lots and lots of Asimov.) More importantly, rule number zero is the most important rule of all. And, probably the wierdest.
You see, my theory is that all that your teacher can do is give you all of the right tools to learn. It's up to you to try and make use of them. You must become your own teacher. We can give you the resources, but it is totally up to you to make the most of them. Besides, if all your teacher does is spoon-feed you information, you won't ever become better than they are. And then the quality of saxophone playing in the world will never, ever improve. Good teachers will start off by giving you lots of information, and expect and demand you to put it to use.
Eventually, every teacher's responsibility should be to become completely irrelevant to your life. Your teacher should become just one more resource for you to use to become a better person, or a better player. Even a better teacher. If you can't teach yourself, you can't help anybody else, can you?!
and this. http://talesfrombandcamp.com/ all the comics are really cute!
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13:23:00
annyeong haseyo! ok my titles are getting more and more random. haha cannot think of any alrd. just came back from bintan yesterday. tanjung pinang. it was only one night though haha so sad. even though a lot of ppl said lucky it wasn't 3D2N cos nothing to do. but isn't that good! maybe cos they don't know rg lifestyle. there isn't even time to not do anything!ok anyway. the food was not bad though I kept on being ano-ish prob cos like in sch I also hardly eat one. ohOH and there was this free kayaking thingy at the resort! so funn hahaha. first day I went with my dad and he paddled most of the time haha, then second day I went with my mum and I paddled most of the time. and I was slightly lobsterish again but a lot less than the sports fest time. oh and there was this pool table and daniel and darius (err how to spell?) kept wanting to play yet not knowing how to play properly and irritating kenneth and yinjie (how to spell also heh) haha. ok nvm.OH and you know the water right, it's damn clear and damn shallow! when we came we thought the tide was super low, but it was actually mid-tide. and you can see the line where the water changes colour cos it suddenly gets deeper. which means you can literally WALK out to sea like farfar away, 50metres liddat. which we saw some crazy ppl doing. no not guests lah, locals. oh and there was this firework show. small-scale one lah, but quite nice. they offed the lights in he whole resort so can see better!oh btw the resort isn't like those kind of coconut trees-lagoon pool-nice hotel place hor. it's like kelong liddat where everything is on stilty things and everything you do goes into the water. >.< and we tried walking around the place at night and it was super freaky lah then claire suddenly squealed and started running then me, cruz (erm how to spell?) and darius were all following behind. she said she thought she saw something white in the water, like a body... =|
ohya and we went to this island where the sand was damn nice and smooth and the water was even clearer. and it was really shallow too. AND it was super warm lah! like spa liddat. and since it's so shallow you can just sit in the warm water, except must look out for dead corals lah, then very shuang leh! and the water got very sudden change. as in like at this spot, the water is quite cold, then you take like 2 steps and the water is warm. oh and we saw this skull high up on the beach. my dad said it was a turtle skull or something. COOL.
oh in the toilet right, my room's one lah, first there was this lizard, according to my mum, then I saw this cockroach, then the next morning there was a cockroach again. not sure whether it was the same one. eeyer. and there's no flush. you just pour lotsa water in. and the whole room only has 2 little lightbulbs, one in the main room, one in the toilet. and the sink is tiny.oh but if you sit outside the room at night very shuang also. which is what some ppl did, like kenneth and his dad, and the guy beside daniel and my dad's room.
and on the ferry there right (sorry I'm skipping timeline), we went outside to the back of the ferry there, and the strong wind was really nice, can stand there and sleep one. hmm this post has been lacking smileys. ohya and one of he 4 taxis in our group got a flat tyre on the way to the resort haha and 2 of the others stopped and helped. good teamwork! X)
I'm sorry for whatever you're pissed at me for.
ohya and the day night before we left right, I had this random dream. must be cos of sam telling me the price of metronomes in japan. X) I dreamt something abt in japan, the marimbas were $445 or something like that. don't ask me how I got the figures, I just DREAMT them. and I asked sam (in the dream), and she said sgd is 4 times yen (as in 1yen=S$4) and somehow I dreamt that that was very ex or something but when I woke up I realised it was super cheap!then I also dreamt that the saxes were abt the same price as here (in sgd) but that flutes were SUPER ex. like the cheapest was 1000something yen. then I was asking sam something abt why ppl in japan still bought flutes if they were super ex, and she said something abt jap flute quality being better or something. hmm what a random dream. -.-
ohya and yesterday right when we just came back, my mum brought me t ocut my hair for my uncle's wedding or something. bleagh I need my fringe to grow! now I can't tie lah. and it's really bookable I think if I look down and it goes everywhere. bah now I really need to clip. or else it needs to grow like >5inches by this thurs! >.<
and ohno I haven't indived at all. and I haven't touched my instru for like so long I'm gonna sound terrible all over again. not that I usually don't anyway. and my case sponge is still being eaten if I'm not wrong. oh and sb, we need to buybuybuy! and I hope this one works. no time to start from scratch again! ohno it's like 1month! ))))):
okayy now I shall go and attempt to do all that hw. tackletackletackle. die lah I think I can't finish by end of hols. and I don't even know what book to use for el book report thingum! >.< helppp! oh and keyun, sam and I haven't gone for a long time. must plan another one kayy. bye!
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(:( <- half-full or half-empty? (smile or frown?)
Thursday 7 June 2007 ;
19:07:00
hola! I shall post again today. (((: eeyer sam and I were just discussing about you-know-what. [no, it's not something gross -.-] over the continent! hahaha she's in tokyo and the metronomes there are like S$45!!! zomg. I want!! but she's going home tml. )): hohoho (merry xmas! haha ok nvm sorry digressing) I realised my smiles and frowns and ha's have been reproducing! haha sorry I meant increasing. i.e =) [yes that was my old smiley] became (((: and =( became )): and haha became hahaha. LOL! random...ohhh sam just founded a new cute, innocent smiley! like mine ws (") and hers is (".) hahaha. variation from the (",) one which is cute but not exactly innocentish.ok back to you-know-what. sigh we should ALL meet up someday and discuss and come up with a plan of action. we cannot continue like that!and to discriminate only generates hateand if you hatin you're bound to get irateyeah madness is what you demonstrateand that's exactly how anger works and operatesyou gotta have love just to set it straighttake control of your mind and meditatelet your soul gravitate to the love y'allare we gonna live like this for the rest of our life here? aren't we gonna treasure the few short years? I don't wanna leave regretting that I've never forgiven and forgotten. well actually I have. stuff just don't stick to me long. I'm too thick. )): anyway, it's abt the rest of us. I cannot expect everyone to forgive so easily. and deep inside I know that I shouldn't. yeah I shouldn't be too nice harhar. but I just can't make myself be mean either. though I know I should and it's for the better and they will understand someday (I really hope). andd I'm really happy we did. can you imagine if we were still sitting on our butts and hating and freaking out now? ok fine the freaking out part still applies. but hating? ok fine it was never that bad. but misunderstanding. I can't imagine why I could ever have felt that way. why can't everyone just start out alrd knowing? but I <3 them so much now. don't go! I'll just die. ))))): and I hope one day they will all feel this way to. and ours.we must nu3 li4 and work out a great plan okok! a cannot-fail plan! I don't want them (and us) to suffer these next few years. hey, it's about THE LOVE! ((: the joy! yesh and the tears, but they are always wiped away, they are always shared with all the rest of yall. <33! and we'll always be there for each other, when the rain starts to pour, like we've been there before, and cos the rest are there for us too! (((:wow what another long post. sowwy. I realise that ppl don't like reading long posts. haha yes I knew that long ago. but cannot control one! maybe it's better anyway. and YAHOO I did a 2x2 also! hahaha yalahyalah use internet also. I'm still a bit confused abt all that FBLRUD and F'B'L'R'U'D' and 2F2B2L2R2U2D stuff. lucky the 3x3 site I found uses arrows! OH and I found a site with all the ans for the impossible quiz hahaha! but they said for the horseshoe qn the ans is U and I don't gerrit cos there's no U. and there's n time to figure out cos there's timebomb. so I just skip haha. and what's the point of giving 7 skips if you need to use 6 of them to ans a qn hmmm...okayy shall go eat dinner. loveya sam! ohya btw sorry my post colours are getting more and more uneven. I used to try very hard to make it look nice haha but now can't be bothered heh. soon I'm gonna do just white everything. byebye!
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14:50:00
bonjour salut! (it's afternoon haha) anywayy, OHMYWORD *fake accent* I SOLVED A 3x3!! (((: haha yeah fine I used a internet helpy thingy but for a poothead like me even that's a success! hahaha I got almost to the last step the first time, then did some little bit wrong, and I had to start all over again. )): hahaha. but yay it looks so pweety now! and I still don't like jess hmpf. I shall work towards memorising the steps! X) sigh I still prefer the rubik's clock. so much easier! 14 steps, though I can never do it in 14 steps cos I always do something wrong then "eh?!" then start over hahaha.hmm... 'Yamaha Custom Ex Series Alto Saxophone YAS-875EX
Improved versions of that proven classic the Custom 875, this sax is the result of decades of painstaking research and trials involving some of the world's greatest saxophonists. It features a smooth response and a deep, refined sound full of rich colors. It also features a solid feel with quick and nimble action, a wide dynamic range, stunning projection, and an authoritative tone with a beautifully defined tonal core. You will find that the depth and smoothness of the sound is simply incredible, and this horn is very flexible, at home in any kind of music. The size and shape of the key buttons have been changed for a better 'feel', while the new Custom G1 neck enhances tonal resonance and gives a quicker, more comfortable response. The two-point bell brace and no center-bow reinforcement plate gives better efficiency, so you don't have to work as hard to sound great.’ <- I NEED THIS. and haha their xing2 rong2 ci2's (adjectives) are quite amusing. ohh and there's this one that says silver plated and gold lacquer finish. why would you want to make something silver then gold? okayy prob cos silver's cheaper and gold-colour's nicer. (:
AHH is peixin cute or CUTE! ((X no I'm serious. and the angpow dress is cool! yay congrats! 12th place! hope yall had lotsa fun in michigan and in all those pracs. freakyy schedule yall had, yaknow! like band, then rush for om, until like tian1 hei1 xing1 xing1 chu1 lai2 le4 tai4 yang2 zao3 jiu4 xia4 le4 (sky dark stars come out alrd sun set long ago- hahaha) kind of time! yepp it paid off yah! grats! <33 and I miss you both!! can't wait for the 14th! oh wait, it's 14th right? I kept getting the feeling it was tues, not thurs. okay shall stop. wah blogged so much these few days. ohya, everyone go try IMPOSSIBLE QUIZ! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/365143 retardedly cool! au revoir!
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Tuesday 5 June 2007 ;
09:37:00
omg this is soooo cute!
okayy aloha! I shall try to use a new language everytime I say hi. THE NINJA DUDE IS SO COOL! hahaha. ok anyway, I'm back from KL! ok it's like what 3 days alrd lah fine but I haven't got down to blogging. shall attempt to attach some pics. [omg I just found this cool site of generators!!!]
okay this was after lunch the first day. group pic of those on our table! anddd the tomyam soup was like HOTTT. [like orlando bloom yah rebecca X)]
YATAAAAA!!
4-way seesawww! funkeh. they have a cool playground there with this pirate ship thingum.
me and yingjun on the coach.
suspension bridge! it was super fun can! not freaky at all. but WOAHMAN the climb through the forest was like 8times worse than 2.4 and 2-3times worse than bukit timah hill.
bubblegummer kid! hahaha spastic pic which yj took. >.<
daooo... though sam looks like she's gonna laugh heh.
super cool tree canopy! something about this species of tree, the leaves produce some chemical such that they don't grow into each other.
COOL PIC RIGHT! was really hard to take in the mirror yet not see the cam. and we had to cheong ah cos the steam was evaporating lol. btw all that steam was when the water (in the hotel room kettle) boiled. [and though I have a spastic expression again >.<]hahaha yeah. had lotsa funnn! and 212ers kept mrs ho in their room till 2am and made her order room service for them tsk! X) and the food was not bad, the last lunch was yummm! but the 2nd day dinner was like ahem. buffet with 4 dishes. -.- bah I didn't want to come back cos now hafta think about hw again. >.<ee I miss peixin and julia and I will miss jess cos she ain't coming for hol pracs cos she's in china. ): okayy I rmb wanting to blog a lot a coupla days ago but now I forgot everything. bahhh always liddat one. ): okay hafta go chow. byebye!
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