____light my way________

SIBC

Friday 25 July 2008 ;

00:15:00

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.

-light my way

Cadenza XI

Monday 21 July 2008 ;

21:42:00

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.

-light my way

ROAR!

Monday 14 July 2008 ;

22:47:00

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! >.<

-light my way

BABOOM

;

00:37:00

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! :/ + (:

-light my way

Xenon Tetrafluoride

Monday 7 July 2008 ;

23:45:00

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*

Jesus, lover of my soul

Jesus, I will never let You go

You've taken me from the miry clay

You set my feet upon the rock

Now I know

I love You

I need You

though my world may fall

I'll never let You go

my Saviour

my closest friend

I will worship You

until the very end

-light my way