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Squirrel In My Pants!

2012-02-23T12:29:00.001+08:00

DRIVING TEST IN TWO HOURS AND I AM SUPER NERVOUS!!!! I really really hope I pass...I'm not asking to get 0 points, just let me pass!!!!! I'm scared that I would end up changing lanes horribly or forgetting to adjust my mirrors sjdfnhwiofhslkfal. May it all go well and I not get my directions wrong....!!!!

A hunting we will go

2012-02-18T15:29:00.002+08:00

Another week at Swiss has passed! Nooooo I don't want my internship to end :( I really like it here! If there is a space for another relief teacher in the school, I will gladly choose to continue my term here! I just wish I have a little more actual work to do... Not that I completely slack at work, but maybe it's because I'm too efficient (HAHAHA) that I finish preparing for my lessons pretty quickly. So I end up doing CCA stuff and misc stuff like calling for sponsors for the carnival, which I don't mind but you know, those are kind of stuff I can do anytime but it isn't 'real' work? Okay I don't really know what I'm saying now but yes! Basically I prefer preping for lessons and stuff haha.

Oh yes, teaching my class of seven is heaven, compared to the noisy class of 44..! I haven't actually seen such big classes since my primary school days! My class wasn't even this huge last time! I am really glad NUSHS has small classes all the way because it really is much easier and probably better for teachers to teach and students to learn. Sometimes I don't even know whether the class is listening to me rambling :( I feel really bad when they don't do well for their quizzes because I'm scared it's me :( But I'm really trying very hard to get stuff across to them! Before every lesson I have to crack my brains to think of a new way to get their attention and for them to focus instead of talking among themselves. Oh boy, but it really is difficult because some of them do stray. Maybe I should try with sweets next time :O Hm, on a side note, I hope I get to try teaching in a primary school and JC someday!

We interns and relief teachers have been coming up with dress codes everyday! Which is really fun! :D Now some other teachers are joining in too! So amazing! We started a trend! Haha.

And Ivan is back from Korea!!! :D He bought so many things for me :O Thank you!!!! Teeheehee I really like the nail polish and sweater :D

Met up with the guys again last night at Timbre. Weiren doesn't look that different without his hair but it's still cool haha. It's nice being able to meet up with friends every week, whether it's the same group or not :) At least it means that I still have a social life with people my age and not just with kids younger than me..

I can't wait to pass my driving test this Thursday!! Praying really really hard that I pass!!! Doesn't matter how many points, as long as I pass!!!!! Please don't let me get nervous and mount the kerb or do anything stupid!!!! I just hope I don't get too sleepy after the warm-up session and end up messing my test up :( Touchwood!!! Touch all the wood!!!

Okay bye bye!!

Acids taste sour

2012-02-12T22:30:00.000+08:00

That is exactly what I'm teaching in school now haha. Ms Sie has kindly requested for me to update my blog, so here I am :P

The TIP has been a pretty good experience! Well, except for the fact that I can't sleep in like everyone else anymore :( But I feel so good everytime I walk into school (Why yes, I walk to school and back home everyday now! Healthy right?) I really enjoy teaching! It's challenging sometimes (teaching kids who have no knowledge of real chemistry how to write equations is difficult...) but it's really fun. I have to learn to be fiercer and stricter though >:( My bio class has only seven students...which is a bit weird because it feels like a tuition class and doesn't exactly give me the full experience. But I still have my science class which has 44 students...which is kind of big too actually haha. I've found out that meetings can get rather dreary and that teachers do talk about students in funny ways behind their backs :P Oh well, four more weeks to go! Feels so short :( Maybe I should extend my term to do relief teaching!

Chinese New Year came and went in a flash this year! But I had lots of fun! Our Xiamen relatives visited and we brought them to Universal Studios, Chinatown, the zoo, and the finale dinner at the Tamano's! Really great experience. Even better than our school's exchange program, because this is with the entire family! Imagine over forty people going out for dinners together, or squeezing (not really) in a house! All of us had to bring our tables and stools from home to the Tamano's because they did not have enough, and the amazingly managed to transform their home in a mini restaurant! Brilliant! I'm really lazy to write everything out, so pictures it is!

At Universal Studios!

So happy to meet Niu Niu again! :)

Isn't Zhi Yan super cute????? :D:D

Twin brothers! We call them the Tin Tin brothers because they look like Tin Tin, don't they??

Dinner at seafood restaurant!

Chinatown!

At the zoo :D

Dinner at the Tamano's!

We had a lion dance troupe come to the house! :D

Everyone contributed to the dinner by either preparing something from home or buying food from outside! :D

Five tables in the living room and the balcony!

We are the 温 clan! :)

Bye bye Niu Niu :(

Celebrated Ivan's birthday too! :) Brought him to Tomi Sushi at Parco! It was surprisingly really good! Went to watch Wicked after that. Great great musical! So glad we watched it :) So watch it if you have time and $$ to spare! Went over to Kaiqi's place to celebrate her birthday after that haha. But it was so quiet without the Oons and Lows around! The atmosphere is totally different with just a single member missing!

Amazing food :)

My favourite boy ;)

So many missing cousins!

Okay I should probably go to bed right now! Early day tomorrow! Goodnight! Hopefully I would update this poor blog soon.. :P

Day two and I can't wait for training to end

2012-01-05T22:56:00.000+08:00

I really want to get down to teaching proper instead of being cooped up in an air-conditioned room the entire day listening to lectures :( I know the theory is important and stuff but I just dislike draining lectures..especially when I'm still not used to sleeping early AND waking up early!! Haha. Well but today's session was much more interesting than yesterday's. Made lots of new friends and found out who are the other two girls teaching in Swiss Cottage too! They seem pretty nice :) Our instructor/lecturer/teacher is a really experienced lady who obviously had many interesting stories to tell us, which was very lovely of her. I still feel very awkward being the one kid from NUSH there. I don't regret signing up alone and attending this whole thing alone - I am going to start all over again in university alone too anyway right? Guess this is just an early start. But sometimes it just...feels weird being the only person who did not go through a normal secondary and JC life so everything regarding those six years of education that everyone seems to be talking about sound alien to me. I can't even add anything on or give my own opinion because well, I just don't understand what they are talking about! And though it is some what 'good training' to venture out on my own like this, to start in an entirely new place alone, it really is very lonely to not have any friends around, and everyone else seems to have someone to hold on to, even if they were to be simply schoolmates who have never talked to each other before. I guess that is sort of the 'disadvantage' of being in a school like this because we really are cooped up in our own world all the time, interacting with the same people for six years and having practically nothing in common with everyone out there. However, I would gladly say that I am very happy to have come to this school because we managed to save ourselves from graying hair, mugging for the 'O' and 'A' levels! It seems normal for everyone else to not know half the people in their level but to us, we are, not necessarily close, but at least we do recognize and are most probably be able to name everyone in our level, perhaps even be close people from other levels! Which is very heart-warming actually :)

Sometimes I don't get the concept behind learning. I totally understood the lessons taught today but was there a need to make us memorize words like those? How many people actually are able to make sense of big words put together to make visions, missions and all simply sound fancy? If I were to get the idea of what those sentences mean and process them in my head, is there a need to still memorize those words for show? Memorizing does help us learn but what is the point if all your bring back at the end of the day are words that mean nothing to you? Well, just some food for thought.

Went back to NUSH today! :) Felt so happy crossing the bridge that I have always found very annoying to reach the school back gate! Amazing! Our school card still works! Wonder when will it expire. Feels really great meeting all our teachers again, a pity Ms Sie isn't in school anymore :( Dr Dewey got a tan! Which speaks a lot because, well, you know, he was always the Snow White in our school :P Poor Mrs Soong is running out of supplies of students she can joke with! Those brief few moments interacting with our teachers made me feel like coming back to school :(.....but na, HEEHEE I like slacking at home, for now! This year's orientation finale was...an anticlimax compared to the previous few with campfires :( A campfire completely changes the entire atmosphere! Good effort for the planning and carrying out of the performances but meh our school never fails to bring lots of goosebumps to my skin! And how ironic that some people who never fail to miss events like orientation turned up for the one that happened right after graduation!

I think I feel the most comfortable being with my group of friends from high school, and I really wonder if I would be able to find friends or people whom I would able to feel this 'me' around next time.. I really hold myself back around people I am not familiar with. I mean, well yeah I still smile and chat with them but...that's just not me you know?

Okay! That is all for now. Really. Need. To . Get. SLEEP. And I've to start working on my essay for PSC this weekend :( May it all turn out well!!!!! Excited!!!!!

Leap of faith

2012-01-04T22:28:00.001+08:00

Training for teaching internship started today! It wasn't very exciting...as expected, since it was only the first day packed with sharings from a principal who was a scholar and two soon-to-be teachers's past experiences in the internship. Well, and some interview prep course. The sharings made me feel really excited for work to start next week! But I guess I have to sit in lots of classes first before I can start taking charge of the classroom like a real teacher. Really hope that the classes I teach won't be too hard on me! But then again, challenges are the fun part of a job, aren't they? Felt totally awkward today because everyone seemed to have at least a friend to hang out with..leaving me the only one from our school there :( Thankfully I ran into Peishan and so I pretty much stayed with her and her friends (yay new friends!) the entire day. Interesting people. Everyone seemed very surprised when I told them that I am from NUS High School. Guess they expected me to go into research or something instead of choosing teaching! And it felt weird that I was the only one who knew how to get around NUS properly on my own considering how I was usually the lost one following my friends around the campus (seriously guys, there are faster ways to get around!), heehee felt like a pro (for once!!!!).Had a really tough time waking up this morning so I shall retreat into bed earlier tonight! May the next two days be more interesting than today's training session!

Counting down

2011-12-30T17:41:00.001+08:00

So once again we come to the end of a year and the beginning of another. Hm, what have I actually dome this year? I've picked up driving, started giving tuition, finally did choir proud at SYF, went on a graduation trip to Hong Kong with my friends, got my family to approve of my social and dating life, graduated and had my first ever prom, and started thinking really hard about my future. guess it was a pretty fulfillingyear, though I would have liked to have done much more in school and out. School life felt a little empty, though much more relaxed, without council and the never-ending deadlines. I am going to miss school so much but we would all have to move on to meet new people nd experience new things in some point in our lives, don't we? I am actually pretty scared about what would have inthe next one year, because a lot of things are going to change once we start going into university. The boys are already beginning to make their way into NS and we girls are going to have to say goodbye to some of our friends as they leave for the US or UK, or well, anywhere else in the world. I am super scared that I wouldn't be able to do a good job at internship, or get a scholarship, or get a course I want. I would be disappointing not only myself but also so many other people who care about me :( so my New Year's resolution is to work really hard to get that scholarship and to do my best in everything that I do! Which includes teaching, studying and cooking....which I have to do right now for my sister and Seina when they return for dinner ._. Have a great New Year!!!! Bye!

Your love's put me at the top of the world

2011-12-28T20:29:00.001+08:00

Party party party. Guess that's what the Christmas/New Year week is for right? The wedding I attended on Sunday was..rather monotonous. Maybe it was because we were exactly very close to the couple so we didn't feel excited at all except well for the dressing up part. But the wedding was so prim and proper that it felt very..staged. I don't want my wedding to be like that next time! Well yes it would obviously be 'staged' in the sense that it would be planned, not that my wedding would be an impromptu one! But I definitely wouldn't want to invite people whom I barely even know just to fill the tables up, or make speeches that were memorized and stuff. I'd want it to feel homely and fun and lively! With party games and a dance floor and a live band. Oh good food is a must! Okay nevermind I shall leave all that up to my future wedding planner Dylan :P

Anyway went to Dylan's place on Monday for a Christmas party! Who knew Street Fighter could be so addictive! Haha. Gift exchange was fun too! I got a new sling bag! Thanks Jieun! :D Oh yes and potato salad was awesomeeeee. Best ever! Saw Ray in his uniform, and bald head too. He looked....pretty much the same. Just without hair :P Can't belive the guys are finally moving off to NS! Really enjoy 403 parties because somehow the combination of us weird (but very nice, very friendly, very lovely :P) people works out perfectly!

Met Jiamin from Xi'an yesterday! Haven't seen her in a really long time but she still pretty much the same I guess. Had lunch at Skinny Pizza. Guess it isn't too bad, but it is definitely not very filling. I got full from drinking water ._. Should go there for tea breaks instead of lunch! Just roamed around Orchard, and stopped by Macs for a snack (told you lunch wasn't filling!) and saw Jiamin off before heading over to Cineleisure to meet what was supposed to be a 403 movie outing. Only Bernard, Stuart and I were available because everyone else was busy or sick haha. And the movie timing which we wanted initially was full! So we had to watch Sherlock Holmes an hour later than intended :( But we did spemd our time, and money, very wisely..in the arcade! I suck at arcade driving :( Hopefully it is not a reflection of my actual driving skills!! Sherlock Holmes was a really good movie! You need not watch the first one to get the second one. It's really witty and action-packed and there were lots of funny scenes too!! I think I liked it better than MI4! For those who get British English, enjoy intellectual movies with some fighting and humour, go watch! I'd say it's worth the $$!

Finally meeting up with 603 gang tomorrow! Excited to catch up with everyone! And to see Heidi's new house..thoyh I've never seen her old one before :P I should probably go and have dinner and pack for tomorrow's sleepover! Bye!

Dressed in holiday style

2011-12-25T13:38:00.001+08:00

Had our annual family Vhristmas party last night! Haha yiu must be wondering why we have Christmas parties on the Eve but it is our tradition to spend the night together and countdown to Christmas! Think we might be the only family that makes a great deal out of random holidays.. Just found out that not a lot of families stay up together to countdown to New Year's either but simply spend the day like a normal day.. How is New Year's Eve a normal day!! It is the last day of the year that is a very nice day to spend with family! Haha I don't know but family time is nice. Feels sad that the number of people around during such gatherings get fewer and fewer becauae everyone is going out and slowly going overseas to study :( But skyping Joshua and Roxanne last night was really fun! Haha sorry they had to stay up till 2+am on the other side just to talk to everyone and watch us do our silly dances. But we did have an additional guest this year (and hopefully every year right? ;P) to add to the numbers. Sadly he came during the decline and so was not able to see how grand our concerts actually get. This year's was really simple, with just two dances and two songs, charades and a montage. But I guess the company is what that's important! Maybe next year we can play Secret Santa! Which would make things a little more exciting! Time to retire from the action though, getting a little old to choreograph, or should I say put random actions together in a sequence, for the little kids. Got two books and a new bag and a pair of bluetooth headphones to be shared with bro and sis this year! Yay Santa!

Going to get ready for the wedding tonight! Need to shower, do my hair, makeup (argh) and get dressed. Phbt. Can't wait to see everyone tonight! I hope I don't look out of place in my prom dress....

Merry Christmas everyone!! Have a great day!

Home alone

2011-12-23T15:39:00.001+08:00

Well when I say alone, I actually mean stuck in a house with crazy little cousins running around, leaving me the only sane one in the house. It's one day to Christmas Eve! Tomorrow is our big day! A family concert with gamee for the family and lots of nice food! Life's great! Or at least it is going to be. The next twenty-four hours are going to be madness. We have dances to teach, routines to learn, games to prepare for. May all go well. Then all of us would be attending a Christmas wedding on Sunday! Which is going to be really exciting because it would be like prom all over again for me! Fsmily prom! So fun! All our moms were fussing over what to wear, what their children are going to wear, what they are going to do to their hair...and the dads are like "What?! It's not even their wedding!". Haha. I think I am pretty lucky, in fact really lucky, to have such a huge family that actually pretty much sticks together all the time. Well there is family drama at times (how not to avoid conflicts with over twenty people to satisfy??) but there would always be something awesome happening at any point of time! Because we are so used to one another, it gets kind of weird when we go on our own family trips without the rest of the cousins, feels like something is missing! It is always amazing that we get to hire our own tour buses and a personal tour guide or drive five cars around Malaysia during our holidays! Well I had better go keep an eye on the kids and get ready for Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!!! :)

Moving on

2011-12-20T22:38:00.001+08:00

Finally completed stage three of driving! Guess just a couple more lessons and I should be able to book my test! Now I'm kind of worried because I am going to be really busy from January to March, not sure if I wold be able to find time for stuff like driving and other things like my social life. Haha I guess I'm worrying too much but I am scared I would turn out like my parents and aunts and all who can't manage a social life with friends who are not collegues and a family and working life at the same time. They said it would be hard to catch up with classmates and all becuase everyone is all over the place and there is barely even time for themselves. I hope I don't turn out like that and would be able to keep in touch with my friends from high school. It would be very sad to lose them just because of work and stuff.

It suddenly dawned upon me last night that if I were to really get a scholarship that would fund me for my studies overseas, it would be really great, especially if it were to be The MOE scholarship I have been dreaming about for ages! Everything would fall perfectly in place! Except for my social life, again. I would have to leave behind my family and friends just to study abroad for four years. I don't know if it is worth it, considering that I might end up drifting apart from my friends here in Singapore.. People say it is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I should just go, but would it be this easy to put all that aside just for my studies? Oh well, haha I shall worry about that when I actually get my scholarship.

Talking about scholarships, I've decided not to just stick to one scholarship (though that would still be my ultimate first choice!) and habe chosen about seven to apply to! I'm hoping really hard to be selected for at least one! Phbt, but this means more essays to write zzz.

Okay I should probably start sleeping earlier... Been sleeping way past midnight these days! Bye!

Oh yeah! And I got into NTU Biological Sciences! They reply really quick because I only sent my stuff in yesterday morning! Replied within a day! Amazing! Why NUS so slow???

The cow jumped over the moon!

2011-12-17T12:16:00.001+08:00

I am an extra happy girl right now!!! Got into Sheffield for Biology but they want me to take IELTS :( I refuse to take another stupid English test!!!! But thennnnn...I GOT INTO IMPERIAL TOO!!!!!!! :D So happy right now!! And i don't have to take a stupid test to get in, just have to mail in a hardcopy of my diploma! Biology with Management! That's the best course I could ever ask for! Only thing right now is that I have to get a scholarship to get there! If not I'll be stuck in NUS or NTU :( Not that I mind staying in Singapore, but since I've gotten a much better option, why not right??? So, PSC, please grant me an MOE scholarship to go to UK for four years!! Why didn't I perial inform me a day earlier?? I would have *attempted* to put in more effort into the pschometric tests! Okay not that my results would have changed I think. Lalalala. But well, going overseas means I've to live abroad alone for four years without my family and friends and risked getting killed and growing fat and weird :( Oh well! Nothing is confirmed yet so..all I want for Christmas is to get a PSC MOE overseas scholarship! Pretty pretty please!!

I spit fire on lovers and liars

2011-12-16T18:45:00.001+08:00

I guess having an iPad just makes it much more convenient and motivates me more to blog.I'm a happy girl! Finally started, in I'm already finishing up, learning parking! Which is actually much simpler than I thought it would be! Somehow. Just need to brush up on my estimation skills and well, confidence :/Everyone's lives are moving at such quick pace, and it feels like everyone is growing up...except for me. They are getting jobs, internships, doing something meaningful with their holidays earning money and experience. And here I am, sitting at my table watching a movie (I'm on my third one in fact) while blogging on my iPad. Yeah I know that I have got my internship starting in January, but I really feel like such a slack this holidays :( Somebody help me!!Oh oh oh I just bought two new books!! I'm so happy! And I'm really proud of myself! Was so tempted to buy like, five books (plus another two that I couldn't find) but I cut down to two! The Way We Were by Elizabeth Noble (actually I've never read her books before but the excerpt sounded nice!) and Heart Of The Matter by Emily Giffin! So pissed that The Best Of Me by Nicholas Sparks wasn't there!! But I shall read True Believer that I borrowed from the library first! Then I'll slowly decide if those two books shall be for Christmas or not haha.Okay I'm just typing random crap right now so I shall spare you the agony and end this post right...here.

It's Christmas time in the city

2011-12-13T23:00:00.000+08:00

I haven't blogged in a really really long time!! Don't really have the motivation to do much blogging these days. No motivation to do anything at all in fact :( All I've been doing is going out and spending money and zzz. Not even driving that much, but that will all change tomorrow! Can't wait to go back to driving after a really long break. Starting to learning parking now! Feel like an extra slow learner.. Everyone is practically booking driving lessons every other day to get their license ASAP but well...I'm a little on the chillax side.. Don't really see a point in rushing when I have all the time in the world! Haha. But yes I am excited at the thought of being able to drive around Singapore on my own! Can't believe Danielle managed to pass manual with such a good score! Even my dad couldn't believe it haha. That's going to be a record hard to beat! You've raised the bar too high!!!

Anyway, all that driving stuff aside, I'm really really extra happy that I've gotten my MOE teaching internship! :D Haven't been wishing and hoping so much for something in a long time! Can't wait for the new year to come! I'll be teaching at Swiss Cottage Secondary, which is really awesome because I practically have free transport there (if I'm jew enough to tske the BBDC bus and walk to school..). But either way, it's only 3 bus stops away which makes it super convenient! So excited! My mom keeps telling me that I'm going to regret going into teaching...but we'll see yeah? I don't think I'm that easily defeated! There's a three-day training programme at NUS Faculty of Science beforehand so I hope everything goes well! Don't underestimate me okay! I know I can do this well! The interview for the internship was superrrr informal! It was in a huge room used for events and stuff I think, with many round tables around. And at each table would be one to two interviewers and up to eight interviewees. Yep, group interview. I got totally taken aback when our interviewer (Mr Sih) asked about the recent initiatives By MOE! I mean, okay that should have been expected...if it were an interview for a scholarship! I didn't prepare at all for the interview, except for choosing the clothes that I would wear and planning my route there, but other than that, I didn't expect any other questions besides "So, why do you want to teach?". Thought I was so screwed but I guess my non-stop smiling paid off and woohoo! You may call me Ms Yap ;D

Christmas is just around the corner and every year the C.C.C. organizes a Christmas party and concert....except this year we just havent't gotten to it...and Christmas eve is just 11 days away... So dead! I hope all goes well! But if nothing happens...I guess we could all just sit around the Christmas tree and sing some Christmas carols right?...or juet eat the whole turkey HAHA. Wonder what we're having for Christmas dinner this year! Sanyi hasn't gone around doing a vot yet!

Talking about Christmas, every year there's always the dilemma of what to get for Christmas, both for myaelf and my friends. Hm, not trying to sound like a spoilt brat, but because we kids get to have a budget for Christmas, it's always hard trying to think of what's the best deal we could get using the budget. This year, I think I'll just go for some storybooks (hohoho I've an entire list of books I can't wait to read!) and maybe a new bag to bring to work next year! Of course a girl always has dreams about an entire pile of gifts we would like to get if there weren't a budget, but let's keep that dream tucked in a corner of my head till I get rich/find someone rich enough to sponsor all that for me!

Okie I should probably end here and go to bed. Driving at 730am tomorrow! Haven't been waking up earlier than 10 these days.. Bye! Hopefully I would update this dump soon!

I HAVE GRADUATED!

2011-11-24T18:57:00.001+08:00

Convocation came and went, so did prom. And I really enjoyed both events very much! Though I thought I would have felt a little more....hyped up and excited when they actually happened. Guess not.

Convocation was actually really boring if you think about it :O Whoever who wrote the speeches, well, let's just say they were better left unread. Pan's speech was the best out of the three speeches made that day! Congrats on being our valedictorian! :D All I remembered doing for convocation was taking lots and lots of pictures! :O I actually took more pictures then than at prom! Unbelievable. All those photos in our weird robe??

Really going to miss hanging out in school with everyone...but somehow I don't feel very sad and emotional about leaving school. I've no idea why because I remember crying like mad when our graduation photo montage started playing in primary school (my oh my do I not want to repeat that - and I didn't!) Maybe it's because I know that I would definitely be able to keep in touch with the people whom I really want to stay in touch with and it doesn't matter whether we're still in the same school or not? I will really really miss hanging out but we will definitely still do that lots right? Afterall, we've already got a whole month's worth of events lined up for us already! :P

Or maybe it's also because it has not struck me yet. Sigh. I don't know, I'm just not feeling anything exceptional, if it's anything it'll probably be me being happy. So long evil people and all the high school drama! I'm done with you! To the mean people in school: I HOPE I NEVER EVER SEE YOU AGAIN GLHF BYE BYE.

Prom was pretty cool. Company was great and photo-taking was crazy too haha. I guess prom actually turned out a little different than what I expected because I thought that we would be able to sit down nicely and enjoy food with performances and stuff BUTTTT I guess not because everyone is rushing to and fro taking photos and me sitting there alone at the table trying to take in the atmosphere slowly looks kind of out of place so I guess I joined the frenzy too :D Everyone looked so pretty and handsome and it was great having such an event to end off our six years in high school!

Ms Sie came to prom!! Which was totally awesome!! :D Ms Sie: You HAVE to attend all of our weddings too okay?? :D

Anyway, I was really happy that Ms Fong, Mr Ang and Mr Wong came back, especially Ms Fong, because she was the one who made Physics seem so simple and really inspired me to um, well, let's just say not hate Physics so much. (Mastering Physics reallyyyyy sucked though). A pity we didn't get to mingle around with them more because um, we kinda intruded into their conversation with Mr Ricardo so...it was awkward to continue keeping them from finishing up :O

Tham was very nice to point out only after the first montage had been played that the dates and quotes were from my blog. Yay me. The photo montages were really nice! Wish they were longer! Haha. I thought that the food served was quite nice too! Looked (and probably tasted) much better than the previous year's food.... :P

OH YES I was sooo embarrassed when Choo Choo Train performed...we totally should have worked harder on our mash-up BUT OH WELL. Our Price Tag made up for our awkward first song right?? :D Haha.

Went to a random pub after prom, which kinda became prom part two, because there were probably 40 of us there or something!!! The poor pub had to stay open for an additional hour to cater to our needs for alcoholic drinks ): But at least they got to earn some $$! :P A few people got a little high, tipsy, even drunk maybe! :O Thank heavens we are a good lot that stick together in times of need (somewhat?) so there were definitely a few people around each of them to make sure they are okay! Went to Macs too to chill out because the pubs closed so early!! Then we went back to our room. Our hotel room was pretty cozy :D I am very thankful to have very wonderful guy friends, because even though they are silly boys who do funny things all the time, they really do take very good care of us girls. I really felt very safe being together with the whole lot of them last night! Thank you boys! Well of course my girl friends are way more awesome ;D I couldn't stay up anymore so I just dozed off on the bed at 5+ and got up at 10+ a few hours later.. Checked out, lunched at Central and came home!

These six years have been really great, and I have never regretted doing any of the things I chose to do. I only regret not being able to send Feyra off due to my family trip ): I'm going to miss this little princess a whole lot ): Last night was the last time I could see her before she flies back to Brunei... Feyra: Take care and keep in touch okay?? Send me the photos we took last night! (: Have a safe trip back! I love you very very much <3 You can contact me whenever you need me! Come back soon ):

Need to go and pack for my trip now... Will be able till 4 December. Bye all, and happy graduation!

One thing two do three words four you

2011-11-21T10:02:00.001+08:00

Wow I haven't touched my blog for three weeks! :O Been a really great 21 days! My HK trip was really really fun!!! :D Mingyan is a really awesome tour guide :D So glad we decided to go ahead and make it a girl-trip instead of waiting for the guys (who really act like ladies sometimes!) to make up their minds. Because well, there was lots and lots of shopping and gossiping and girly things that we did which I don't think the guys would have enjoyed :P And our choice of hotel was definitely good :D Waaaayyy better than what we expected! I'm lazy to blog about HK trip right now, shall post a few pictures next time!

I'm graduating tomorrow! Unbelievable. After six super long years filled with joy, tears, drama, and good old everlasting friendship, we are finally graduating!! I just dug up some really old emails and started reading them...can't believe all that actually happened! I really wonder what would have happened if we just all handled stuff a little differently, or each took out a minute a day to do something special..BUT WHO CARES WE ARE GRADUATING YAY! Not that I don't care about &@$^#@& but we shouldn't cry over split milk yeah? Perhaps there still is a little milk left unsplit in the bottle..but we'll find that out over the next two days! PROM IS COMINGGGGG :D Excited! Can't wait to see everyone dressed up! Watched Prom by Disney last night, well half of it at least, before my mom pulled me away to try putting make up on for me ): I guess American prom is kinda different from ours but there's one thing that would probably be true - prom is the night that we put all our differences aside and spend time together as a group of people, laughing beside people we have never talked to before and just having fun! Looking forward to spend the last few moments we have together as a cohort. Never going to see half the people (or maybe more!) for the rest of my life anymore! Or maybe not...since Singapore is so small..

Okie I have to go now. Going to have lunch at Lot One, settle some last minute stuff before convocation tomorrow and go for driving yay! :D Don't think I will be updating much till...mid-December? Because I'm leaving for Xiamen and Taiwan just two days after prom on Friday morning! Won't be back till 4th December! So well, happy graduation to my fellow levelmates! See you....when I see you! :P

Limits

2011-10-31T11:38:00.002+08:00

Today is an exciting day! Well, okay maybe some parts are more heart-breaking than exciting. Like um, submission of graduation transcript...! My grades aren't THAT good, but I guess what's over is over and there's no point in fretting over results that cannot be changed. I could have done much better though (maybe) but well......I'm not exactly an extremely determined person and I kind of like living my life the way I lived it so even if I were to realize how crappy my CAP is now, I don't think I would have changed anything I did over the past six years. It is really demoralizing, however, to have the elite world crushing your hopes by being disappointed in getting nearly top-notch grades that are higher than yours. I mean, I understand that everyone has different expectations of themselves, and I guess mine isn't that high and others have higher standards that they wish to achieve, and it's not their fault or anybody's fault but I guess it's just not a very nice feeling? Well, it doesn't matter anymore though, those are just temporary feelings of demoralization. What's done is done so yay I can't wait to graduate!

Today is also exciting because I'm doing my last bit of packing before flying off for a week's holiday in Hong Kong! :D Time to go to Disneyland, Ocean Park, and do loads and loads of eating and shopping! I'm bringing this huge luggage there to store all my shopping when I fly back :P First time I'm flying overseas without any adult supervision! Which is quite scary. I'm actually quite scared that something might go wrong during our trip (touchwood) like our hotel rooms being unable to accommodate all six of us, or running out of money (I doubt so!), or getting lost...and there's that acid thingy in HK so it's quite scary! Going to make sure I walk under shelters at all times! Unless I'm playing at Disneyland or Ocean Park of course! I can't wait to go to HK!!

Okie time to cook lunch and finish packing! See y'all when I return! :P

Moments

2011-10-25T01:26:00.001+08:00

Farewell Assembly Musical was a success!!! :D

I am so so sooo proud of our actors, singers, dancers, band, AV, backstage, calefare and fellow teammates! You performers really rocked the stage! (: We've been practising so hard for months and this has finally paid off! Sorry if we scream at you at times to try to get your attention, or chid you for missing rehearsals, but as long as you guys enjoyed yourselves on stage, I guess it's all worth it (: Never would I have imagined that the school would be this receptive to our musical! Well of course nothing would ever have a 100% positive review, and I guess it didn't cater too EVERY single person in the audience, but from the response I heard from backstage, I'm pretty sure most of the school enjoyed it (: Sadly this is the one and only musical we would ever get to put up, because having to work with so many different people in the level whom you would have never imagined working with, or would have even imagined to sign up to perform, is indeed a great experience. Maybe once is enough - don't think our level would enjoy the hours of torturous practices :P After this experience, I guess we (Rachel, Ivan and I) really felt how our teachers always feel when handling our level: stressed and frustrated. Not that our levelmates are annoying or anything, but I guess we are just a really active (rowdy) bunch with carefree souls (no sense of urgency). You can only get their attention by talking to them at their level, giving them good news or by threatening them :P But it's been fun! Sure am going to miss working with my levelmates!

I don't mean to be condescending or anything, but I do feel sorry for those who did not get to experience working on such a big project like this with the entire level, getting to know more people, getting to know people you already know even better..it's just a whole new experience from simply hanging out with the people you are comfortable with and keeping within that small circle of friends. There's nothing wrong with having a small group of friends you are really close too, but it's healthy to get to mingle around with others at times too! I would certainly have regretted if I didn't choose to take this huge project up because then I wouldn't have experienced handling a large group of big kids (which may be what I'm doing for the next 50 years of my life... :O), because then I wouldn't have gotten to know some people better, because then I would have been wasting all the remaining time I have in school rotting away at home, because then I would not have made such wonderful memories! Well if you are starting to regretting to getting to know your levelmates better, there's still time! There's still prom and convocation and the few weeks before that - make full use of your time! It really suddenly hit me today while watching my beloved performers mingling around in the hall during break that in just a few weeks, I wouldn't be seeing more than half the people sitting in front of me till the next reunion, or even well, never ever again. There would be newer people coming into my life, replacing these people in the hall.. I guess I am ready to put these six years of high school behind and move on, but I'm not ready to start a whole new life with a whole bunch of new people. How would I know if I would be able to make friends just like these wonderful people again? Will I ever get to see them again? When will the next time that we meet up? Would I remember them? Would they remember me? One more month to convocation and prom. One more month to say my farewells, express my gratitude, tell my friends how much they mean to me. I am going to miss everyone so much, from the familiar best friends I've known for years, to the usual gangs, and to my teachers. I will make full use of my remaining month in high school, give everyone my full attention, process every moment in my head and keep it stored somewhere in my tiny little brain!

To all our performers and crew: Thank you for one of the greatest experiences I've had in high school and I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves as much as I did working on this musical!

If everyday was as good as today was, then I can't wait till tomorrow comes.

At 2 o'clock in the morning

2011-10-23T01:38:00.000+08:00

Been sleeping really late these days D: Which is really bad! I miss those days when I used to make sure that I was tucked in bed by 10.30pm! And now 10.30pm seems like when my personal 'nightlife' starts...on youtube and watchseries, that is. Hell's Kitchen and The F Word and Gossip Girl and Glee and How I Met Your Mother and America's Next Top Model and of course, The Vampire Diaries!!! Can't wait for White Collar to come back on! I am considering watching The Tyra Bank Show too! I know I should stop all that watching.... I could actually be doing more fruitful stuff like cleaning the house, ironing clothes, cooking and baking!! But well, I need some kind of entertainment right?? At least I did change my bedsheets and ironed all the clothes today! Just like I do every weekend because I'm a really good girl :D Next housework goal is to help vacuum and mop the floor at least twice a week! I shall attempt to cook some salmon-potato cakes! And bake one more pandan cake, maybe tomorrow. And when I return from Hong Kong, I shall bake some pineapple tarts from scratch on my own and make Popo proud! :D Shall bake more cookies and cupcakes too!! I think I'm a very...boring baker. I only enjoy baking things I like/are easy/look nice/are traditional recipes passed down from Popo. I mean I'd love to try new things, but they look really hard because I've never really seen or eaten stuff like souffles before so I wouldn't know if I get it right. And I usually have Popo around to guide me through her recipes but if I try new ones...no one would be here to help me! Which is kind of intimidating. I shall overcome that barrier soon and don't worry 403, your ramekins will not go to waste! I will attempt to make souffles at least once by the end of this year! (I hope!) My dream, well a short-term one that is housewife-y related at least, is to be able to whip up a proper dinner with a few courses for my family and friends. Like from appetizers to main courses to lots and lots of awesome desserts place on classy restaurant standard dishes at a beautifully decorated dining table with nice lighting like candles and nice music playing in the background. Not to mention some wine to drink too. That would be awesome. But till then, I'll have to continue working hard in the kitchen! I wish I could put all things like university applications and going out with friends (not that I don't want to!) to make this work. Phbt. I should lock myself up at home for a week someday with a stash of cash to buy all the ingredients I need, perfect my recipes, and serve! Just wait people!! It WILL happen someday!!!

Oh and since we are on such a topic, I hate it when guys tell girls to 'go make them a sandwich'. I mean, what on earth is that supposed to mean?! It's so degrading! It is AN HONOUR to be able to whip up awesome dishes in the kitchen, even if it were a sandwich. To be able to cook and bake is great because it is a fact that the way to a guy's heart is through his stomach, so guys stop degrading women like that if you want them to continue making nice dinners for you! People who can't even cook the simplest meals are to be ashamed of themselves! It's sad to think that so few kids these days are interested in things going on in the kitchen and simply make their maids, even their moms, get food for them all the time even though they have their own limbs to start learning to put some raw ingredients together to satisfy their hunger! Tsk tsk. I am definitely going to teach my kids to cook the moment they are tall enough to reach the kitchen counter! No excuses for them!

Till then

2011-10-21T22:28:00.000+08:00

One month to convocation and prom! :O Unbelievable! After six years and here comes the last month!

And suddenly, wham, the realization that the guys will be leaving for NS starting this December.. Ray on 13/12, Stuart and TPL on 30/1, Dylan, Bernard, Ernest, Tiongsuan, Andre on 1/2, Jingmin on 7/5 and Ivan on 8/5. The rest still haven't gotten their enlistment dates yet so, we'll see! I guess this means that we have to start moving on from our high school lives and start growing up. Guys will be missing next year, girls will be flying off for university.... Going to miss everyone so much! Make full use of the remaining month in high school!

Farewell assembly rehearsals have been driving my mad. Trying to get our level together is really, really tough. But I'm glad with the progress we have achieved in the past week! From practicing simple dances to ironing out the messy scenes to getting a whole musical together! I'm sure our performance on Monday would be awesome!!! Keep it up guys! Just a few more days to go!

Sometimes I don't get why people choose to go to prestigious schools. Well yeah, there's the prestige obviously if you tell someone that you graduated from Harvard or something. But other than that piece of paper to certify your graduation from that school, what else is there to that name? Better education? I don't think that education in prestigious schools would differ THAT much from others. Maybe better funding and facilities, more well-known professors..but then again having the PhDs don't exactly mean that they are better at passing their knowledge down, right? Then what happens if you graduate from a school that is more prestigious? Everyone is graduating from university now, even having a PhD isn't something that is very special. Does that mean that a company would be better off hiring someone who has graduated from a so-called 'better' university? Then what happens to those who come out from the other universities? Does their university education become invalid? Well I don't know if it's just me, but sometimes I see no point in the world revolving around the fact that getting into a more famous university would give you better chances in the society. More brains does not mean that there is more substance - it may just mean that the person is able to mug really well. Why should some jobs like even teaching primary school kids require a single piece of paper to state that you have graduated from university? Does that mean that the world is putting everything else before a simple thing like passion?

And another thing is why do people choose to or not to participate in certain events when they are open for all to join? If a certain group of people chooses to participate while another group doesn't, does it mean that the event has only been catered to that certain group of people or does it mean that the other group should open up and try mingling around with others beyond their comfort zone? Does the other group of people choose not to participate because they think that the event is biased against their wants or is it because they are uncomfortable mixing with people they are unfamiliar with?

Why do people enjoy talking others down? Are their opinions objective or are they simply made because of personal reasons like them trying to come up with excuses for their lack in performance or to boost their own confidence by making others feel their suffering? Why can't people accept things for the way they are and simply move on with their lives? Why hold grudges when you can be a happy and free soul?

Well now that you have read all the questions that have been lingering in my mind for the past few days, you must be thinking that either 1. I am a depressed soul with many emotional problems and I need help from the counsellor, or 2. I am writing these questions out on my blog because when I write them I actually have someone in mind, or 3. I think too much and should stop thinking, or 4. I am not making sense at all. It's none of the above! Okay maybe 3 or 4, but definitely not 1 or 2. These are just random things I think about all the time. I don't know where these questions come from! Maybe I subconsciously crave for somethings and answers to these questions would satisfy them! :O Hm, yeah, another question, are things we do during each and every moment of our lives that we do not notice due to things that we are thinking about subconsciously? Or are they actually things that are we do on purpose but we choose to disconnect the movements of our bodies from our hearts?

Do people choose to be happy or do they choose to be sad?

This isn't goodbye, even as I watch you leave

2011-10-21T00:32:00.003+08:00

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY IS WESTLIFE SPLITTING ): ): ): ):

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

I am super emo ):

They were not supposed to split.....there were speculations but it was not supposed to happen!!!!!!! I hope that this is just a prank that they are pulling on the whole world!!!!

-START OF BIMBOTIC FANGIRL-ING-

They are the boyband I grew up with and fell in love with and still love very very much!!! They don't just make covers okay! People who actually follow them and know would know very well that they have been producing their own top hits in the past few years!!! They may not be mainstream, but they are good! To each his (or her) own! Stop criticizing them!! How many artistes can actually make it this big without singing with vulgarities or sexual connotations in their lyrics?! Or go touring the world and having girls (and guys alike, trust me! Lots of guys at the concert last month!) falling in love with them without taking off their shirts or even look close to hunky?? VERY FEW. Even little kids like Selena Gomez are jumping onto the bandwagon and singing explicit songs! Westlife may not be special to you, but they are to me!!!

-END-

Okay. That sure made me sound like a blonde bimbotic fangirl. Conclusion: Westlife is awesome.

Shall update more soon when farewell assembly is over!! Busy busy days!

It's where the stars line up

2011-10-11T01:11:00.000+08:00

So the exams are over! Like woah. Woah. (Haha only people who watch Discovery Home & Health would get that :P) That's quick. Two exams over within the blink of an eye! That practically brings my high school life to an end! And I'm partying!! :D Okay not really, but I've been having a great time! Pigging out session with Mingyan, Ada and Serene right after Proteins was great! :D Holland V is (Y)! And USS with Heidi, Lewis, Andre, Christopher and Hehao was really fun!!! :D With the rest of the gang - Joanna, Weining, Yingwei, Kenrick and Zikai - joining us for fireworks at night! :D

Sorry 403 and my dear cousins, but the visit to USS last Friday was the best trip there I've ever had! :P Going with crazy people really makes a difference! There's no need to take all the rides to make a great day :D Hehao dancing was absolutely hilarious! Well Heidi's dance wasn't...that bad :P And watching Lewis squirm at the thought of taking the rollercoasters again and again was funny :P Bumping into the other group was pretty cool too! And the fireworks were awesome!!! Watching them in the front row (yes we went early and got to stand right at the front! :D) was amazing.

I would totally go through another day with this crazy bunch of people! I've grown very fond of this group of friends :D I guess I can't choose one group of friends over another because they both mean the world to me! Will definitely miss all of them when we graduate ): We may not have seen eye to eye on some issues or have had a perfect few years together but well, we still have one month before we part and go on our own separate paths so let's make the most of the remaining one month!

Oh yeah, I attended Westlife's Gravity Tour like two days before my exams :P IT WAS AWESOME!!!! They sound soooo much better live than on the record! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! :D Love them soooo much! Why was their concert so short ): The $153 (x2) was soooo worth it! The view was perfect, the sound system was great, and the boys looked good :P Would DEFINITELY pay to watch them when they return the next time! Can't wait!

My FAVOURITE boyband EVER!!! :D

My last week of lessons was great too! Haha never taken so many photographs in a week in school before! Going to miss 603 alright (:

Boy do we sure love PE!

Best roommates and friends ever! (:

One of the best friends I've ever had (:

Mr Tan has definitely never seen such indecency before :P

Hanging out after school! Last time we'll ever get to sneak out on a Tuesday!

Blur girl!

One of the most patient teachers we've ever had, considering that our class has, well, many clowns!

The always-cheerful Mrs Chong!

Would I miss 'lending' this pig money in school? NOOOOOOO!

Mr Ku. No need to say anymore :P

Our favourite mentor! :P

Bestest friend ever

Going to miss our Chemistry lab/gossip sessions a lot!

So that sums up my high school life - the parts in classes anyway!

For the next few days, I'll be having driving lessons, baking cookies, pandan chiffon cake, cupcakes, catching up with some work, working on my UCAS personal statement, attending FA rehearsals, getting my scripts back, taking my FTT, gobbling ice cream down at B&J's Chunkfest (!!!), sending my cousin off back to Australia...busy days! But I still feel bored. Maybe it's the lack of company at home. I miss the gatherings every morning on the concourse! I NEED SOME FUN LAUGHTER PEACE AND JOY! Okay no I'm not that desperate, but I do miss my friends. Can't wait to go back to school!

OMG a year without school after this. Just die from boredom.

Dread or excitement?

2011-09-25T12:20:00.000+08:00

Hohoho more trips to Orchard on Saturdays should be made!! Got free B&J ice-cream and polaroids :P And H&M still has a superrrrr long queue so we gave up even crossing the road ._.

Tomorrow's going to be the start of the end of our lessons in high school! Mixed feelings :\ I can't wait to move on from this state where I have no choice but to study for subjects that I can't even see myself touching for the rest of my life. I can't wait to start university because at least I know that I would be studying something I'll actually be able to enjoy and well, I won't be studying imaginary things ._. I can't wait to get English lessons over and done with. I can't wait for Math to be over (sorry Ms Sie, I still don't like Math :X) and for Physics to be out of my life forever. Chemistry practicals would be missed though ): Really enjoy them! Biology lessons..well, let's just say proteins just ain't my favourite topic. I'm going to miss hanging out in school with my friends ): Even if it were to be just lingering around for five hours waiting for our first lesson of the day to begin, playing cards, playing hand games to decide who clears the plates, having crazy chats that involve unconventional topics (lolololol).. I am sooo going to make my last week of school a week to remember - don't be shy if I take my camera out randomly in school okay! Shall post/upload photos all at one go after the exams!

Need to finish my last bit of homework (for the next one year OMG) before I attend Andre's birthday BBQ!

Oh yeah, I will definitely NOT miss school food!

Chapter 2

2011-09-18T20:19:00.002+08:00

So our performance during the Colour Fusion concert on Friday was our last concert as part of the choir, ever. I only really dawned on my on Thursday that the performance the next day would be my last, which gave me rather mixed feelings I guess. I guess was happy because heh who likes rehearsals during which you just sit, stone and wait half the time? And there was no need for make-up ever again until prom (oh make-up, I detest you more than you'll ever know). And no need for weird warm-ups or interacting with funny people (seriously our school has lots of funny people, and I'm not referring to those who can make good jokes). But then again, I was kind of sad that we won't get to perform on stage anymore. I kind of like it, the whole singing together with awesome friends, harmonizing, being able to learn new songs, and stuff. I may consider joining choir in university, but maybe I'd like to try something new. Who knows, I might end up in gavel club or poets' society or something! No I'm kidding; there's no way I'll ever join any of those. So the concert concluded my four years of CCA in choir. Guess this is only part one of the start of the end. Soon it'll be the last English lesson in our lives, last PE lesson, last lesson, last exam, last school day, last time we'll meet some people we are so used to seeing in school everyday. Gotta get used to it!

Oh yes, The Vampire Diaries is getting exciting!!! Can't wait for all my favourite shows to begin! :D

Ciao! Busy week ahead!

And the countdown begins!

2011-09-11T19:15:00.001+08:00

It's the last day of the September holidays, which is also the day before our very last term of high school begins! The last four weeks and our exams would be over, our high school life would be over, and our new life would begin! Well, almost.

This holidays didn't feel anything like a holiday at all! Can't believe I've had to go through my last school holidays like that :( I didn't shop at all, no one came over, no Kbox....nothing :O I only remember doing a lot of work and giving tuition and making mooncakes! Well and maybe watching a few movies and window-shopping for prom clothes ;D Prom shopping (window-shopping) was really fun! :D I'm glad I have an awesome group of friends to do silly things with :D Tried on lots of dresses! Even managed to make Mingyan wear, not one, but many dresses! :D She looked awesome in this turquoisey toga! And another white/blue full-length toga! :D Yanling ALMOST bought an orange dress, but it was the last piece so she didn't :( But I guess it's not good to buy too early, in case you see something else you like even more! Rachel tried on a few dresses and looked super good in this baby blue one and a silver tube! :D I really liked a pink tube dress and white toga! Long dresses are....funny. I mean they look good! But...funny, like, how are you going to dance in them?? And what on earth are you going to wear them again for?? But the dresses we saw were mostly from Daniel Yam..which is quite 'risky' in the sense that there may be another person turning up in the exact same dress as you because that brand is so common! The guys looked great in their suits! Never seen them look so handsome before :O I guess the things a person wears can really transform him/her huh! Well, I just can't wait to go shopping for real :D

Celebrated Seina and Roxanne's birthdays last night! I really love my family :D The silly things we do, the way we interact, I guess we are the only ones who will ever get our own jokes :P Everyone's growing up so quickly! :O Can't believe Seina is 14 already! (Or well, three days short of 14!) She, and everyone else, still acts like a little kid! Haha our family is just really young at heart I guess :P Joshua's coming back from Melbourne on the 28th! :D All of us miss him like mad!! Then we're going to celebrate his birthday on the 29th I think! :D Great timing huh! I think I'll feel really homesick if I were to go overseas to study :(

Oh yes, and guess what! My brother and I have bought two tickets to Westlife's Gravity Tour!!!! :D (Okay actually my mom bought them for us) I'm so excited! Yeah I know they aren't like the most 'in' boyband or the kind that would hold concerts you can stand up and dance nonstop to. But I just love them so much! Their ballads are awesomezxzxzx. Favourite boyband ever! (With Mayday coming next!) :D Oooooh I want to watch Mayday's 3D concert/movie thingy too! :D Think it's um, a little lame, but it's Mayday man! I haven't been shopping much but I'm spending so much :( Still want to go for the Wicked musical, and go on a graduation trip with the girls, and I still have to save up for driving, and then there's prom shopping, and finally there's still family holiday in November/December. I have to find more tuition jobs after the exams to fund all that!!!

Week one of school is going to be so hectic. FYP, FRP, Math quiz, Bio quiz, Physics test, Chem test, choirchoirchoirchoir, tuition, concert :( Kill me.

Alright, I need to shower and have dinner! Didn't have lunch today :( Enjoy the last five hours of the holiday! So not looking forward to school.

All or nothing

2011-09-08T23:46:00.000+08:00

Yesterday's sleepover at Joanna's place was super fun! :D I arrived quite late though, so only managed to play one game of pool :( But it's okay! The night was just beginning ;D JOANNA'S HOUSE IS SUPER COOL OMG HIGHTECH DOOR LOCK WITH ALARM SYSTEM??!! And so many balconies :O Lots of cool stuff too! Joanna, Weining, Kenrick (lol yeah I know right??) and I played Speed and Bridge the whole night till around 3am! :O Then Kenrick went to sleep on the couch HAHA while we three girls slept in Joanna's room. Well, we didn't sleep straight away. Camwhored a little and chatted for over an hour till 4+! Awesome sleepover! Kenrick managed to leave at 6am+ without setting the alarm off :P I left around 10am while the two pigs slept without waking at all :P Trying to figure out my way to AYE from the condo was not easy! Had to ask an angmoh how to get to the side gate....only to leave the condo ._. Hong Leong Gardens has so many junctions! I took almost 15 minutes to decide which direction to go! Thank heavens I recognized the condo opposite the AYE, so I was able to figure out the general direction that I should walk in.

Managed to come up with simple actions for calefare for Farewell Assembly with Rachel and Ivan! :D We work very efficiently :P Went to Vivocity for lunch after that! :D Teeheehee lunched at LJS and waited for Dylan and Serene to come....then we went to watch Glee 3D!!! :D:D:D SUPER AWESOME MOVIE/CONCERT!!!! :D Was smiling throughout the 84 minutes that my cheeks were sore when it ended! You guys should all go and watch Glee 3D! Even if you dislike the TV series itself, the concert is definitely worth it. No crappy storylines - only superb performances! Ain't kidding! Heh that wasn't the only movie we watched though :P We *ehem* went to watch Crazy, Stupid Love too :D It's not bad! I love Emma Stone! Definitely one of my favourite new actresses! Steve Carell was great too! Love his acting so much! There are so many great movies coming out soon! Mayday 3D, Johnny English Reborn, Friends With Benefits, Happy Feet 2....and many many more! Really looking forward to the end of our exams!

Been reading lots too! I feel really 幸福 when I read, no matter how tired I am at 2am or how sad the story is. I know all I read are romance novels, but I just enjoy reading love stories. They can be really fake and fairytale-like, but within each story there is always something to learn, be it treasuring the people around you or not giving up on your dreams. I'm reading The Woman He Loved Before by Dorothy Koomson right now. It's not bad so far I guess, though a little sad.

"...happiness shouldn't be a destination in your life. It should be part of the journey of your life.Profound, I know, for someone as shallow as me, but take it from a man who knows: putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing you wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy."

Doesn't it make so much sense?

I'm going to read Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe by Jenny Colgan after I finish this book, and I feel like re-reading Before I Forget by Melissa Hill! Want to borrow/buy The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson too!

Alright I had better sleep now. Goodnight! Three more days of the holidays are left :(

BOREDOM

2011-09-05T00:18:00.003+08:00

Hohoho, merry christmas! Not. But it's coming in just three months! :D

This September holidays feels boring. Packed with work and it's the first time I've to think twice about going out ): Yesterday's event was really interesting though! Went to help out as a volunteer for an art and crafts workshop at the Singapore Flyer for kids from Club Rainbow. It was a new experience because I've never worked with kids with chronic illnesses before. Much as it's heartbreaking to watch some of them because they can't do some things that we 'normal' people can, it's heartwarming to know that they are still much more compassionate, braver and have more vibrant spirits than some of us 'normal' people. I guess their parents must be really strong too, to have to take care of one or sometimes even more kids with such conditions. I would be really sad to know that my kid has to go through all that pain and inconvenience that I would never be able to fully understand or help relieve. But was really fun mingling with the kids I made friends with during the percussion! :D Chloe, Celine, Xavier and Zhen Jie :D Can't believe Xavier fell asleep when Genevieve was teaching him to make the photo frame during the arts workshop :P Wish I took some photos with them, but I guess seeing them happy is enough to make me happy :) Well, at least after this workshop, I know that teaching kids is what I really enjoy :)

Going to make more mooncakes tomorrow! I think. Traditionally baked ones and snow-skinned ones! :D I think my family's the one of the few families that actually prepares every ingredient, be it for mooncakes or pineapple tarts, from scratch :O Cooking lotus paste is no joke! It took us almost two hours to wash and peel off the skin of lotus seeds, and an additional three hours or more to cook the lotus seeds into paste!

Lotus paste in the making! :D

Popo and I were sweating like mad after the crazy five hours! I just hope that I would be able to cook all that on my own when the time comes, since our moms are all too lazy to pick up these recipes from Popo ._.

I love my Popo!

I'l try making pineapple tarts on my own after my exams, and maybe mooncakes too! Well, it doesn't have to be the right seasons to eat your favourite treats, right? ;D

Yummy mooncakes! :D

Okay I shall turn in now! Sleeeeeepy. Goodnight world!

Lasts

2011-09-01T22:15:00.000+08:00

Some of us 603 people had a BBQ at my place on Monday! :D Conclusion: sambal sotong, cheesy sausages and BBQed bread with bacon are enough for an awesome BBQ ;D Sad that Heidi and Joanna couldn't stay though :(

Yesterday was our last sports day, ever. And today was our last teachers' day celebration, ever, too. The next term is going to be a nostalgic one, full of 'last's, which is kind of exciting!

Sports day wasn't BOOMZ this year. Maybe it's just the Fibo side. Fibo's spirit is really bad that I'm actually kind of missing it when our seniors were around because they were the ones who could make the crowd cheer. And being Year 6, many of the guys chose not to run and enjoy watching the races instead, which made sports day even more boring because we didn't have many familiar faces to cheer for. Company was great though!

We love Mrs Soong!

Fibo and Fleming gathering :P

BROTHER

Tug-of-war was postponed due to slippery grass :( We were all looking forward to that though :( It was cool that Fleming (finally) won! Congrats to all winners too! :D

Awesome-st house captain ever! :D

The happy Fleming-os :P

Fleming doing their victory lap!

Mingyan, Bernard, Ernest and Jingmin came over to bake after that! We bought orange icing :P Didn't taste that great but it was fun! It's hard work squeezing the icing out! Shall try making my own next time!

Ho ho ho Ernest baking?!

Cupcakes anyone?

I'm going to miss hanging out with 403 when we graduate. They make me smile :)

This year's celebrations were, well, I kind of expected better. Somehow I didn't feel very excited about teachers' day this year. Maybe because it has finally dawned upon me that appreciation for our teachers need not be confined to be shown only on 1st September each year (or 31st August, if they are ever going to make their minds up!); it's only a daily basis: the little things you do for your teacher by not giving him or her trouble, the things you say to your teacher to make him or her smile, and even by learning and fully grasping a new concept taught - these probably make your teacher's life a whole lot happier than just being presented a small card or gift in this 24 hours. Even remembering your teacher and visiting them often to show that you have not forgotten them makes them happy enough. Giving gifts is just an extra step, and I doubt teachers enjoy getting gifts that are impractical, because they would either just leave them to collect dust in a corner or throw them away, unless they are handmade, of course. And maybe it's because we are graduating soon, so perhaps the day that we should say 'thanks' to our teachers is when we graduate properly and make it into a good university, maybe with a scholarship, because it's all their hard work that we would be able to get to where we would be in the future. Sometimes there may be teachers we dislike because of certain reasons, but those reasons aside, the thought every teacher puts into teaching and bringing us up is the beauty of teachers, or they wouldn't even be here giving us lessons and the never-ending consultation lessons. Much as they may complain about the school's system, the stress, and the students, there would still be a little flame somewhere in them that ignites them and makes them come to school everyday. And as much as we dislike some teachers, without them around, we wouldn't know what great teachers are, no?

A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell when his influence stops.
- Henry Adams

So, to all teachers out there who have made a difference to our lives one way or another,

HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY!

403 lies HERE! :D

On a side note, 'good teachers teach, great teachers inspire', and I'm really excited because...MOE scholarship application is open! :D I'm soooo going to apply soon! This holidays!

The September holidays have begun! Have a great holiday everyone! :D

Woo Weekend!~

2011-08-28T10:30:00.004+08:00

Teeheehee I was watching lots of BoA's live performances yesterday on Youtube. I really miss her Girls On Top era and when she had lots of Japanese songs coming out! I am soooo going to attend one of her concerts someday, with my own money!!

The holidays are here!! :D (More or less!) Long list of things to do already! Making mooncakes, BBQ, tuition, baking, family time, and an entire pile of homework! Oh gosh, I can't wait for our exams to be over. And for graduation to come. I really can't wait to graduate. I never thought I would say this in Year 4, but now, yeah, I can't wait! I can't help it but there are some people in school I really don't want to see anymore for the rest of my lives. I know that that sounds mean but I just feel really stressed meeting them all the time. And it doesn't matter when we stay in school together or not, but good friends will always remain good friends and we'll still keep in touch no matter what. And when I graduate, it just means that I would be one step closer to doing the things that I want to do, getting in a university to study the things that I actually enjoy studying, and entering a career that I would (I hope) remain in for the rest of my life! It all sounds so exciting!

But right now, let's get back to work :(

It's bring me out the dark

2011-08-25T21:59:00.002+08:00

Poke a needle through my skin and let my red blood flow out clean. Okay that was random :O I donated blood today! :D It's a totally different experience! It's cool watching the blood flow out, but not cool watching the needles poke in. THE NEEDLE WAS HUGE. I still like needles though, just well, not the sight of them entering my body. Guess that's why I was not cut out to be a medical student huh. Had to come home to cook dinner after that :O Was trying not to use my left arm but it's kind of hard when you have to cook udon for the whole family. My left arm is still a little weak though ): Felt really shagged after donating too. Snoozed off on the cough after cooking.

I feel really tangled up these days. There are so many things bugging me. Why do people choose to do some things, even though they know that they are putting their hearts before their brains? Why are some people so eager to seek the truth, to seek revenge, to seek 'justice'? Why can't people learn to let go of things and live freely? How do people choose who to believe and who not to? Who to trust and who to never? I'm really curious as to how some people's minds work. If I could dissect a human's brain to learn his or her chain of thoughts, well, maybe I would!

Let's do the math

2011-08-21T20:20:00.002+08:00

In 1 month and 16 days, our exams would be over.

In 2 months and 3 days, we would be performing at farewell assembly.

In 3 months and 1 day, it would be our convocation.

In 3 months and 2 days, we will be busy dressing up for prom.

In 4 months and 11 days, a new year would arrive.

So how much time do we have left to waste?

I'm feeling really annoyed at everything. It feels like there's a fire burning inside of me that is going to trigger an explosion within the next few days. I feel like lashing out at everyone who stands in my way. Gosh. So if I happen to have done some lashing at you in the past one or two days, or if I were to do that to you in the next one or two days, I'M SORRY I can't help it!

So looking forward to Tuesday! Universal Studios (again)! Feels like I'm going there for the first time all over again! :D

How do you love?

2011-08-11T20:25:00.001+08:00

From Eat Pray Love:

“I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my dog’s time – everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain. I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else.”

–Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

I'll stand by you

2011-08-06T23:22:00.002+08:00

It's really heartwarming to know that you have friends there for you whenever you need them, whether it's when you are feeling down or are having a tough time making a decision.

OMG THEY ARE PLAYING THE NAKED MOLE RAT SONG FROM KIM POSSIBLE ON DISNEY CHANNEL NOW WAHAHAHAHA I LOVE KIM POSSIBLE

ANYWAY.

It's been a tough week this week, so thank heavens we're getting a long break next week! Time to recharge and read some books and do some swimming! I'm craving to watch lots of movies too! Just watched Captain America with my cousins - I pretty much like it! Better than Transformers 3. I really want to watch Bridesmaids and Horrible Bosses and The Winnie The Pooh Movie and Zookeeper wahaha so many! Going to JB again tomorrow! :O Wonder what we're gonna do tmr.

Oh yeah our college counsellors were talking to us about BMAT. I've decided not to do Biomedical anymore. Yeah I like Bio, but not that kind.. I don't mind doing Biomed but ultimately, I think Life Science suits me more. It's so hard to find a balance between meeting people's expectations and going for what you want, because sometimes they clash. Oh well.

Okie bye world!

A lady's intuition

2011-08-03T22:38:00.002+08:00

How do you know whether the decisions you made were the right ones? And how are you supposed to know which step to take next?

If you had an opinion, would you stand up and voice it? Or would you just sit there and wag your tongues with the rest, leaving a cloud of misunderstanding in between you and your target?

Why do people enjoy gossiping so much? Where are their backbones?

Why do people think that someone has bad intentions the moment he or she does not do something in their favour?

WHY ARE HUMAN BEINGS SUCH SKEPTICS?

I can't wait to graduate.

GIF?

2011-07-30T15:52:00.003+08:00

I think I'm starting to like my class a lot now! :D Well hopefully it's for long-term :O

Went to Clementi Central to film our ND video, and to give you guys a sneak peak....:

And these two were trying to burp:

Okay bye! :P

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEIDI! :D

Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

2011-07-24T15:35:00.002+08:00

Went to watch fireworks last night!! :D:D This year's NDP fireworks are really pretty! So colourful and huge and spectacular! :D

(Okay my hands were obviously shaky as you can see from the background...but that's cos I was concentrating on watching the fireworks off the camera screen!)

Planning to go again next Saturday, who's in? :D The view from MBS is superb. Not very crowded either!

Can't wait to watch the actual NDP on the floating platform!!! Never watched NDP there before!! :D Hopefully our tickets are good!

Been thinking about Uni again.. Not a lot of people go to the UK for Bio, and very few Bio students are offered MOE scholarships... Looks like my dream is about to just get popped by the sharp needle of reality ): I hope I end up an exception though, getting an MOE scholarship to study Bio in UK! Really want to go overseas for undergrad studies! And I really want to teach! Maybe I should go and find Mr Uy soon...

BAKING

2011-07-12T20:23:00.001+08:00

I tried baking Japanese Cheesecake today! Flavour was awesome but well, the bottom-half got soaked because the water from the water bath leaked in ): I wasn't the only one getting this problem though! But now I've learnt! I shall wrap the outside of the tin with aluminium foil the next time! I shall try baking again on Thursday and if it succeeds, I shall consider baking again to bring to school next week :P And now I've learnt how to beat egg whites properly and when to add sugar! My egg white mixture failed the first time so I did it again and yay, got it! :D Yummy. I got burnt by the oven too ): But it's cool :P

Egg Whites: Soft and Stiff Peaks

White Collar vs Homework

2011-07-09T17:15:00.003+08:00

HM. Temptations temptations. I shall watch White Collar S3 while doing lab report later during my sis's birthday party :O

Was supposed to go swimming this morning but....

Yeah that happened :X Shall go tomorrow morning instead!! Must wake up early!!!

And it's so warm today!

Oh yeah and we went to see my aunts and uncles' new office today! :D It's really nice and cozy! Isn't it cool? 3 families' different businesses together in one office! It's so cool watching all the brothers and sisters (our moms and dads) work together to put the office together :P Maybe I can go visit them after school someday! It's on the way home anyway :P Maybe I could do internship at their office :O

Okay I need to shower!! I'm melting in my room!

Bye!

End of another week

2011-07-09T00:11:00.003+08:00

So...another has passed! :O OMG time flies! I don't really remembering doing anything for the past week :O Scary.

I'm getting lazier and lazier to blog.....! Anyway I have signed up for driving BTT test during the September holidays! :D Because those this month and in August have been fully booked ): Emo. And yes I am learning auto....so what!?! Well they created 'auto' for a reason right! And that reason is ME! I don't think I would ever drive a truck, bus, lorry, taxi...or even a sports car! So what for :O

Chem lab today was :O Joanna and I got um, crystals that looked like peanuts, then bread crumbs, then digestive biscuits, and finally potato chips...?! :O Weird much! But at least the melting temperature turned out fine! Phew. So scary to be the only ones to get different results from everyone else!!! We got back our AP results too! Happy with mine :D

Oh yes and we briefed the level about FA performance today. Hm, well I guess the level's response to the briefing can be split into four kinds:

A. The Positives - There were so many people asking us about the scenes and shuffling and stuff after the briefing, makes it so encouraging! Don't worry people, you won't be disappointed with the plot! :D

B. The Neutrals - They weren't as excited as group A, but they didn't mind helping out and were thinking about signing up too! :D Cool stuff!

C. The Skeptics - Well, they aren't the most encouraging bunch of people around, and would rather just sit in the crowd during the performance, but I guess it's great too because without an audience, what would a performance be right? :D

D. The I-Don't-Give-A-Damns - Hm. Yeah their title says it all!

So cool :D I really hope this works out great! This will definitely not be a one-man show, because it's without doubt going to be a really huge group effort, be it from people backstage, onstage, or behind the scenes!

Okie I think it's time for bed! I'm looking forward to the rest of the semester! Except..I really need to think of how to past my hours of free time in school!!! And, oh gosh, I really hate English and P.E. ._.

Bye!

19 weeks

2011-07-01T23:53:00.002+08:00

That is kind of the number of weeks of school we Year 6s have left till graduation! I am kind of looking forward to graduation, or at least to the end of the year, because the exams would be over, farewell assembly would be great, convocation would be cool, and prom night would be awesome! And it'd be cool to start seeing guys enter NS! But it's kind of sad and yeah. Oh well.

The first week of the last semester is so free and empty...!! Seriously, there is something wrong with our SM. WHY WON'T THEY JUST LET US OFF??? I can actually squeeze my enter timetable into 3 days and end lessons by 3pm each day!! Everyone is just wasting time in school. They should just let us be able to leave school early because honestly, after staying in school for 5 years, having to stone in school for 3 hours or more at a go is not cool.

Right now everyone is busy thinking about prom seating and stuff...it's confusing and it's giving a lot of people headaches, but at least when we work it out, we know that we'll all have lots of fun on prom night! When we work it out.

Well I should probably sleep soon. Lots of work to do this weekend! Thank heavens for Youth Day!

It's the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities

2011-06-25T20:27:00.002+08:00

Ladeedadum. Today was really fun! :D Sad that I couldn't attend Zikai's birthday party (sorry!), but managed to have a really great time with my family! :D Went to the treetop walk starting from Rifle Range! :D So awesome! We walked for a long 3.5 hours! But it was great exercise and was really fun! :D Saw lots of animals and cool plants and stuff. The treetop walk isn't that scary I think. The boardwalk at Alexander is freakier! Went to take a look at the railway too! Cool stuff! I hope it would still be there when it's my turn to get married! Cool place to take wedding photos :P Anyway I'm lazy to type out everything that happened, and since pictures speak a thousand words, here's 168000 words: CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTOS

I shall go and enjoy the rest of my holidays! And attempt to complete SOME English tomorrow :P Bye!

25 days just flew past?!

2011-06-23T22:50:00.003+08:00

AND THE JUNE HOLIDAYS ARE ALMOST OVER??? D: Well it has been quite fun but it feels like the holidays just started...but on the other hand, I'm kind of looking forward to going back to school on Monday! :D I'm pretty satisfied with my timetable...maybe that's because I have yet to experience it. But seems okay, and I really hope that choir stops having CCA on Mondays :X I have really long breaks on some days...hopefully I'll find enough books to read during those long hours!

Anyway went out with Rachel (and my sister) today! :D Yay girl time! :D Sad Yanling and Jieun and Mingyan weren't back yet D: Ate at pizza hut and used our Ben & Jerry's voucher! (Sorry Yanling! Didn't know where you were!! :O) Then watched Something Borrowed! :D:D OMG it's super funny and nice!!! :D:D Now I'm really motivated to read the book (yes I ordered it online and it's here!!), because it seems like the movie is going to have a sequel! :D Exciting! LALALALA.

Okay I shall attempt to finish up Safe Haven tonight! Love the book! :D Anyway do some English homework tomorrow...... I hope Mr Tan doesn't kill me the first day of school..! At least I've done my personal statement for Dr Dewey!!

Bye everyone! Do a good job enjoying the rest of your holidays okay! :D

730 days

2011-06-11T13:45:00.003+08:00

So Joshua flew off to Melbourne last night and he'll be gone for two years or more ): He's the first of the family to fly off for university and we're all so proud of him! :D But it was sad last night ): But it's okay! Hopefully we'll be able to visit him as one whole noisy bunch some time soon! :P The MRT ride to the airport was a noisy one! :O 11 out of the 14 cousins on a train was chaos for SMRT :O People were staring at us like we were aliens, a whole bunch of smurfs or avatars making so much noise on the train :O Hopefully we don't appear on STOMP! Oh yes and I tried Popeye's for the first time yesterday! Yummy! Definitely better than KFC! :D

Anyway this week was really great! :D Let's see, what did I do... I bought a pair of shoes, two tops and a pair of shorts on Tuesday! :D And I really want this pair of flats I saw at Clementi Mall so I'm trying to convince my mom to buy them for me! :P And yay! I've learnt to make pineapple tarts from scratch! :D I shall attempt to bake them on my own again soon, then I can sell them next time teeheehee :P Giving tuition for the first time was...a little scary! Was afraid that I wouldn't be able to explain things well but I guess Secondary One Science is chicken feet ._. I just hope that I can help my kid improve! Volunteering at the polyclinic has been fun and a whole new experience! Well, I'm pretty sure now that I enjoy doing admin work :D X-Men: First Class was quite nice! Though a little too cheesy.... I shall watch the previous movies now! :D Wow okay to think about it this has been a really packed weeked! :O

Well but next week is very free! Who wants to go out? :D Lalalala.

Okay I shall watch TV now :D BYE :D

You won't find faith or hope down a telescope

2011-06-06T20:46:00.006+08:00

Lalalalala. Can't believe the first week of the holidays are over!

Weekends were great! Okay except SAT. Sucks. So long and boring. Worst exam ever!! At least Physics AP was interesting! Joshua's farewell dinner on Saturday...can't believe he's going to be away for two years or longer!! ):

Went to JB for a day trip yesterday! :D Wasn't as good as I expected ): I prefer shopping in Singapore because 1. I can shop in safety, without the fear of being kidnapped or something any moment, 2. Toilets. Are. Cleaner., 3. People do not smoke in malls, 4. Traffic is sane, 5. Walking from one mall to another does not feel like a trek at OBS, 6. I know my way around! So we didn't buy much. But the good thing was that the manicure and pedicure was really good! So cheap!!! They cost the same in Malaysia, but in ringgits! How awesome is that! So it was 58RM for a manicure and pedicure together, classic! :D Very awesome :D I love the colours of my nails now :D

Should have done nail art! Regretted not doing ): But it's okay! Next time! It jammed on the way back but all was good! Managed to get home by 8.30pm I think! Wish the services in Singapore were as cheap as in Malaysia! :P But I'd rather pay the high prices in Singapore than to shop in those conditions! Scary!

Met up with Yingyin today!!! :D Missed her so much!!!! Haven't seen her in over a year! Went to Food For Thought for lunch! :D Really nice place - good ambiance, awesome food :D I tried the seafood risotto (yes, now I love risottos!), and Yingyin tried the veggie sandwich I think. Shared an Earl Grey Creme Brulee! :D Really yummy!

There were so many cafes in that area :O Really should go try them out when I have time, instead of always eating at foodcourts and the typical restaurants, so boring! Went to NLB to return some books and went to Bugis to run an errand before Yingyin had to go off for tuition ): We will meet up again after her A's! :D

Anyway this week is really packed! Going out with Mom, Sis and Bro tomorrow to collect Bro's passport and shop a little. Wednesday morning would be spent in school, lunch with Kailin, afternoon at Popo's house cooking pineapples, evening giving tuition! Long and packed day! Hopefully there are no hiccups so that I can get from place to place on time! Thursday afternoon and Friday morning would be spent at Choa Chu Kang Polyclinic doing some voluntary work, and we would be sending Joshua off in the evening. Saturday morning would be spent giving tuition at Yew Tee! Yep, now I've two tuition jobs. The one at Yew Tee is a Secondary Three girl, Math Chem and Bio. Hopefully I'll do a good job! My heart keeps changing. Like, one moment I regret taking this assignment up because I'm afraid that I would do a bad job, but the next moment my heart changes and I feel like giving it my all teaching this kid! Looking through the Math syllabus now because I'm kind of rusty! May all go well this week!

And I'm getting my reading spree going again! :D Katie Fforde is good! Reading The Perfect Proposal now (: Pick up a good read if you guys are bored this holidays! Make good use of your free days!

Alright! Time to continue studying Math! Bye everyone! Have a great week! (:

Time flies

2011-06-02T12:01:00.003+08:00

Oh my it's already Thursday of the first week of the June holidays and I have not done anything productive ):

I'm putting off studying for the SAT (yes it's on Saturday but I have barely started), I'm lazy to pick up my book to continue reading (because I am very tempted to watch TVD instead), I should be swimming right now (okay I will go in the afternoon), baking seems to be put on hold (anyone wants to come over to help?), English journals should have been done by now (oh bugger) and yay, I am just rotting off on my sofa.

At least I've found a job! Going to give tuition to a SOTA secondary one girl starting next week for Science! I need to find out about her syllabus though, I'm afraid I might be the one looking like the kid being tutored when I go there. Any tips for the first lesson?

Okay here's the plan: I shall watch an episode or two of TVD, have lunch, read some SAT stuff, go swimming, shower and study some secondary one Science. Sounds like a good plan? Let's hope I stick to it..

Oh and the Book Depository is having the 10% discount extended till Sunday! Shall convince my mom to buy me the entire Nicholas Sparks collection and a few Jodi Picoult and Dorothy Koomson books!

Time of my life

2011-05-31T19:24:00.003+08:00

I've been having quite bit of fun these days now that the holidays have begun! :D

Council selection camp was first. Most tiring camp ever. Don't know why but maybe it's because it's the umpteenth time facilitating a camp so it gets tiring, or something. But goodness, I crashed the moment I got home. Had barely two hours of sleep on Sunday during the camp. Well, I'm glad it's over. Interesting experience having to grade juniors based on their performances. Shall not comment, not very nice to comment on a public space!

Yesterday was great too! Haven't had such a nice day in a really long time! Just going out for lunch, running some errands, shopping, trying new things (hey Rachel, Mingyan, Yanling! I've tried a macaroon! Yummy! :D), great day :D Oh wow and the ice-skating rink in MBS is...pretty small :O But it isn't made of ice! Then what is it??

Using a top-of-the-line synthetic surface, created from very high Molecular Weight Polyethylene, the skating surface has undergone both laboratory and on-the-rink testing to produce the closest skating experience to real ice. Its unique surface will make you feel like you are gliding across pure magic.

COOL STUFF! :D Who wants to go ice-skating with me now?? :D It's quite cheap! (I think) Adults $7 for first hour, $5 for additional hour! Just bring gloves and socks because they are a scam there! So exciting! Really miss ice-skating! :D

So many people are flying all over the globe this holidays! Ivan and Yanling are off to Germany tonight; Feyra is back in Brunei; Mingyan is in New Zealand; Rachel will be going to Cambodia; Bernard will be touring Europe; Stuart is in UK; Ernest is going to US; Heidi and Andre are off to Thailand; Joshua is flying off to Australia; Kaiqi is in Turkey...half my world won't be around this holidays! ): So lonely ): So I'm trying to get some tuition assignments to keep myself busy and to earn some extra pocket money! Hopefully I get some soon... I don't really care about the hourly rate, so long as it doesn't go unreasonably low, but my mom keeps pressing me to not be a wimp and to up my prices, but that's not really my main goal. I just want to get some teaching experience and make good use of my free time! I know I have to learn to teach my brother and sister for real first but it's kind of hard teaching your own siblings - it's a fact. Sigh. May I get a job soon!

Anyway, The Vampire Diaries is a really nice and exciting series! :D Just completed Season One, shall take Season Two slowly over the next few days! Guys, THIS IS NOT TWILIGHT. It's not lame, so if you really are bored and have nothing to do, try watching it! Let's just say...you'll be turned ;D

So, ciao for now while I work out my holiday plans! English journals, TVD, tuition, helping Popo with some cooking and baking... Think my holidays would be pretty packed if all works out!

Bye! Have a great holiday!

Pop it, lock it, pokka-dot it!

2011-05-24T21:41:00.003+08:00

The results of your analysis say:

You plan ahead, and are interested in beauty, design, outward appearance, and symmetry.
You are a social person who likes to talk and meet others.
You are diplomatic, objective, and live in the present.
You are not very reserved, impatient, self-confident and fond of action.
You enjoy life in your own way and do not depend on the opinions of others.

:O:O:O:O

True? Yes? No? Well I think it's pretty true! (Though it depends on which options you click on when you answer the questions about your handwriting :P)

OKAY I AM JUST BORED.

The Vampire Diaries is not bad! So far at least. Shall watch more tomorrow! And maybe I'll start on Parenthood too! :D

Okay I'm going to go to bed soon! Really tired!

Bye everyone!

Choo Choo Train!

2011-05-23T23:13:00.004+08:00

OMG I REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE WE GOT 1ST FOR OUR CATEGORY :O Really, not kidding. Thought they made some mistake and it was like, the other way around with Dice first instead. And I thought CP would win a third at least ): Oh I loved An Zhi and Ye Ye's duet!!!! It's like a totally awesome duet!!!

Thank you to everyone to came to support us (and those who didn't but wished us well too!) and voted for us! :D Thank you very very much!!! :D

*Update: Here's the video Eugene took of us during our performance! Enjoy! :D

(Click on the link!)

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150193451908762

Photos from Feyra and Sabrina's facebook! :D

Can't wait for our next project! :D

xoxo

Just a lazy Wednesday

2011-05-18T17:48:00.005+08:00

Very long since I had such a relaxing day like today! Been doing well, rubbish. Woke up late, had breakfast, watched Gossip Girl and HIMYM, then had lunch, watched a movie on my computer, played some games, and now...I'm bored. Haha.

Gossip Girl is really exciting now! Can't wait for Season 5 to be released! HIMYM is kind of...boring now. Hopefully the next season would be better! Loading Glee now! Hm, in the meanwhile, I shall start on a few more drama series! What shall I watch?

Anyway, here's a nice song!

And going to USS twice in a week is...weird. Took BSG four times yesterday! Ate humongous pizza! Took lots of silly pictures! Can't wait to go again this holiday! But I want to go there to just chill out, since I have the annual pass ;D No running around and rushing here and there and queuing ridiculously long for rides!

Cheerios!

Post-APs!

2011-05-16T18:21:00.002+08:00

Been having a lot of fun since the end of APs! :D Went to Sentosa twice in two days, going to make it thrice in a week tomorrow, USS with the best bunch of friends ever, family time, baking! Heaven!

USS was really different with friends! No need to take care of little kids :P Well Friday the 13th wasn't that bad, though it rained twice, it was a blessing in disguise because it gave us a reason to get out of USS during mealtimes to get good food! Big Easy is a really good bar-restaurant! And Ramen Play is really good too!

Oh Battlestar Galatica is AWESOME. Though it can't beat those overseas, but I'd say it's pretty good for a rollercoaster on a small island like Singapore! I got my annual pass so my cousins and I are going to USS again tomorrow! Yeah public holiday, so long queues! But it's okay! A new ride is open! And we have annual passes so, hooray! :D The fireworks at USS were awesome too!! I loved them more than NDP's, because they are prettier and shinier and just..more beautiful :P HEH. The only sucky part about Friday was the cab waiting time ): Quzhi was feeling sick so he offered us a cab ride to Clementi since it's on the way home. But the queue at Vivo really sucks on Friday nights..... We waited for an hour or so, only to decide to take the fixed-rate cab because all cabs were booked. Got home safe and in one piece anyway, so, hooray! :D

Went to Sentosa AGAIN on Saturday with my family. Basically we just camped by the beach ._. Only the little kids played in the sand. Kailin and I went to Vivo for a pig-out session after everyone went home for dinner. Soup Spoon for soup, Awfully Chocolate for icecream, and Secret Recipe for cheesecake. How more pig can we get?

Yesterday and today are baking days! I attempted to bake Auntie Janice's chocolate cake...but I failed quite miserably. Well there's a first time for everything! Now I know how much water is there actually in one cup, it's 240ml! Took my long enough to realise that I could actually search for conversions online. Shall try again this holiday! Well they do say that 失败乃成功之母, no? :D Went swimming this morning, 22 laps non-stop, woohoo! Shall slowly increase my laps by two each time I go swimming! Need to lose some weight! Came back, had lunch, and made some marshmallows! :D Okay they aren't done yet because they have to sit for at least eight hours, so hopefully they would taste good tonight! :D

Made fruit tarts after that. Now I know why they are so expensive though the raw materials are probably only just half the retail price - you take so long to make them!! First the crust, then the custard, then to assemble everything, phew. Thank heavens they were a success! :D Tried making the custard twice, because the first time failed. Just have to make my crust a little thicker next time, and not use self-raising flour! Can't wait! :D They taste really yummy!

Going to celebrate Uncle Tamano's 47th birthday tonight! :D

Cheers everyone! Hope you guys are enjoying the fruits of your labour, just like how I'm enjoying my fruit tarts! ;D

In just 24 hours....

2011-05-12T21:19:00.000+08:00

We would be entering Universal Studios! :D This is so exciting!!! I know I've been there twice already, but going with friends is different from going with family! And this would be the first time I'm taking the rollercoasters! :D So exciting! I really really hope that it wouldn't rain tomorrow, just like how it has not been raining for the past few days though the weather forecast said it would! May it rain on Saturday instead!

Muahaha. Went to check Nex out today! It is HUGE! :O I think it's a better mall than Vivo because the shops are kind of more relevant to people with budgets and a stomach for good food! There is a really wide variety of food to choose from! :O Went from the lowest level all the way up to find lots of cool stuff to eat! Can't wait to go back to shop some day! :D Went to try Cold Stone Creamery at Orchard Central too! Yummy! The Mint Mint Chocolate Chocolate Chip flavour was really good! :D Want to try more flavours the next time round! :D

May the rain not fall on us tomorrow! :D

Oh yeah and I dreamed that I was baking lots of fruit tarts last night! :D Going to try making them, as well as chocolate cake and marshmallow, this weekend, and hopefully I will succeed and bring them to school to let everyone try! Fingers crossed!

Now, which book shall I start reading?

So...it's over? :O

2011-05-12T00:53:00.000+08:00

YES THE EXAMS ARE OVER MUAHAHAHAH!!!

Never felt so happy over the end of the exams before!! It's the first time in six years that I have been studying so hard for such a long period of time! (Not that I don't usually study hard - I do! Just that it's more intense this time round!) Continuous squeezing of my brain juices for an entire month, goodness it killed me. That heavens we need not do that again (I hope!). I guess the APs were not as bad as the worse-case scenario I had in my head for the past month :O But let's not jinx it, shall we?

Today is not just the end of the APs.

Today marks a very special day.

An extremely special day in 37 of our hearts.

BECAUSE WE TOTALLY OWNED GV TODAY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

37 TICKETS BOUGHT?!?!?! SERIOUSLY?!?!?! FOR A MOVIE ABOUT CARS AND HOT GIRLS AND MORE CARS?!!??!? HOW MUCH COOLER CAN THIS GET!!!!

Our string of tickets held vertically is taller than Dylan! :O:O The guy at the counter was shocked at our purchase :O It was so cool watching the movie! Turn right, turn left, entire row full of familiar faces :O Bad idea to go out with a whole gang in school uniform though! The movie itself was....well I didn't really like it. Thought it was flat and boring. I mean yeah, there were lots of scenes of fights, be it punches thrown back and forth or gun-fights, and there were lots of cool cars and hot girls too...but I thought the plot was pretty....typical and boring ._. And the fighting scenes weren't that cool. Yeah it was exciting at some parts, but it didn't bring my excitement up all the way. Oh well, maybe because I'm usually a fan of the typical Hollywood bimbo movies.

Anyway if you didn't believe me about the tickets being taller than Dylan, here's proof!

Okie great day! The next two days are going to be even better! Have a good rest everyone! :D

"I vote for....."

2011-05-08T14:01:00.003+08:00

I DON'T CARE.

Not that I don't care about the General Elections - it's good to know about current affairs and about the political system in your country because your life kind of depends on which party you choose to vote for. What I don't care about is what people's opinions are, which party they prefer, and stuff like that. I mean, yeah, everyone has the right to support a certain party, be it the ruling party or opposite, but that doesn't mean that you have to go around flaming others who choose to support the other. You can't blame others for not choosing the opposite or ruling party, because everyone is entitled to a vote for their choice and they are bound to have their own reasons for voting their selected party. So STOP telling the whole world about how bad the ruling/opposition party is and which party they should vote or root for, because for one, the voting is over, and everyone is entitled to making their own decisions. You have to respect others' decisions. If you can choose your religion, why can't you choose which party to support? So STOP IT. It's annoying. If you want to see change, go and make the change, and not just complain behind the scenes.

Anyway the GE was really exciting last night. Personally I thought that it is a pity that George Yeo has to step down. But then again, I have yet to experience the real deal so I can't choose between the parties. Guess this is just an appetizer for me, when the next elections come, it'll be our turn to choose our leaders. And may Tin Pei Ling do a good job and prove to the public that she is not just a dumb blonde or something.

On a side note...

Good luck for the APs! :D

Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me

2011-05-02T17:56:00.001+08:00

One obstacle down, six more to go!

Well the AP Chemistry paper wasn't as easy as I hoped it would be, but it wasn't the toughest I'd imagine either. Let's just ignore the mistakes and hope that we get a 5! Another nine days to go! (:

I really love The Script right now! I think their lyrics are very nice and their songs are pretty unique :O Irish/British bands beat American bands hands down in terms of uniqueness and quality of lyrics!

Had the longest nap in a long time! Most of my naps have been a quick 15 to 30-minute power nap, but today's was a good 90-minute long one! :D Felt so good after that. Studying Bio now - I really dislike protists...

I really can't wait for the exam season to end! Want to do lots of things! (Think I've been saying this for the past 10 posts or something :O) And sdfhasjkfnwejnaslkfjhasglhwoein okay that is how I'm feeling right now, how descriptive ._.

And the Royal Wedding was really cool! The entire thing was so grand! But I really pity Kate sometimes (or should I say, Princess Katherine?), she can't have a wedding inviting all her close friends and people she know, she can't have a wedding that is more personalized, she might have to quit her job and give up her dreams to fulfill her royal duties, she would have the pressure from the media and the lack of privacy (what happened to Princess Diana should never EVER happen to Kate!), she can't meet her family very often, and she has to be prim and proper all the time. Sigh, the sad truth behind the oh-so pretty fairytale.

The couple looks really good though!

Bye! Good luck everyone! :D

For the first time

2011-04-27T16:16:00.003+08:00

Now that the mock APs are over...mugging for the REAL thing is supposed to have started! Well I am studying Bio everyday because there is so much!!! But there's always this *urge* for me to just forget about everything and just slack my butt off watching movies and TV and stuff D: HOW?!?!?

Personal statements personal statements. Thinking about what to write makes you wonder what exactly have you been doing for the past 6 years of your life. That is 1/3 of our current lives. Which is kind of long. I feel like I have hardly done anything useful ): Well I did start on my personal statement, which revolves around SC. But...I don't have that...feel when I write that! Well yeah it's my biggest accomplishment, but it ain't that big, sounds like I'm desperate for a topic or something. Yes there was PSL and SC and exchanges and SIMC and Choir and 403.....but it all seem to just fun and joy but nothing concrete came out of all that!! How much time have I been wasting!!! I need to get my butt out and do something good! Something fulfilling!! I need to find a job after the APs! For real! Go and earn some money! Find out about the REAL world! Maybe go do some volunteering somewhere nearby! Catch up with friends and family! BAKE. Oh bugger. Let's just go back to Bio for now and forget about all that time I've wasted. Need to stop wasting time!

BYE! This place well be a little of a ghost-town for the next few days/weeks/Idon'tknowhowlong!

Exactly TWO WEEKS more!

And we are halfway there!

2011-04-21T21:27:00.004+08:00

Our school Mock AP exams just ended today! :D Think they went pretty well! Now I really need to work on Bio and Physics though, hardly studied/practiced! Chem and Stats were generally okay, so hopefully I do good!

Today was a really, really truly enjoyable day! Went to Vivocity to have lunch with Ivan, Rachel, Yanling, Dylan, Ernest, Jingmin and Stuart. Carl's Junior :O I can never finish an entire set on my own, even though my burger was really small :O Think I should just have the chili cheese fries when I go there next time!

Then Rachel and Dylan went to watch Never Say Never :O Don't know how that is awesome but they said it was so, maybe I'll watch it online or something, don't want to spend money watching about Bieber's life :P Went window-shopping with the rest! :D Met so many other fellow post-Mocks-pre-APs celebrators :D

Ivan went off so it was just the five of us left! Went to Awfully Chocolate and was too full for icecream ): So both ONE piece of the truffles (OMG damn expensive please, $1.95 for that piece!) - so good. Worth the money! Chocolate is good!

Decided to explore the Sentosa boardwalk since it has opened! It's really nice and peaceful there! It's the kind of place where you can totally envision couples taking their wedding pictures at! With the sunset and the sea in the background and the nice boardwalk, amazing! Since we walked all the way to the entrance of Sentosa, we decided to enter for $1! I'd say that that was the best-spent buck ever! Thank heavens we didn't watch Rio, or this amazing trip wouldn't have happened! Discovered a small waterfall with a 'cave' at the back! Another great place for some photo-taking! I just have to get a DSLR soon!

Explored RWS and spent super long window-shopping once again, and imagining getting rich in the midst :P The shops there are really classy! Stopped by this gallery which is really amazing. Go and check it out if you have the time! I think it's at Hotel Michael. This artist, Chihuly is a glass-blowing artist. Makes splendid artworks from glass.

"In 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye. After recovering, he continued to blow glass until he dislocated his shoulder in a 1979 bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe, he hired others to do the work; Chihuly explained the change in a 2006 interview, saying "Once I stepped back, I liked the view" and pointing out that it allowed him to see the work from more perspectives and enabled him to anticipate problems faster. Chihuly describes his role as "more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor." San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Erin Glass wrote that she "wonders at the vision of not just the artist Chihuly, but the wildly successful entrepreneur Chihuly whose estimated sales by 2004 was reported by The Seattle Times as $29 million."

Some of his artwork:

This last one is one of his pieces at the RWS! :D

That's one amazing artist! His artwork on display is really fantastic. Would love to view more of his art pieces!

Go see his artwork here:

http://www.chihuly.com/glass-series.aspx

We managed to catch the Crane Dance! :D It's a new show by the waterfront with musical fountains. Really pretty. We caught it when the technical crew were testing it out after maintenance in the day so we couldn't view it with the light. But it was already so pretty then, it'll definitely look prettier at night with the lights! :D Walked back to Vivocity, got some drinks and headed back home! Really amazing day! This shows that you don't need lots of money to spend a good day, so long as you have awesome people around and a whole bunch of awesome ideas for an outing! :D

I really can't wait for the actual APs to end! I'll bake and watch movies and go to Universal Studios! :D Can't wait!! :D

Okie I'll get back to my slacking for the day! Going to start studying Bio tomorrow! Go go go!

Bye bye! :D

Fin?

2011-04-15T17:47:00.001+08:00

My mom came home today and told me that there's a rumour going around about how the world would end in May. Well, I went to search more about it and it specifically says 21 May, around 6 pm. Don't know how much of that is true, considering that there is no scientific evidence. The only 'proof' these people have are inferences made from the bible. I don't know how true the bible is about predicting these things because I'm not a Christian. If it were to be that people die because they choose not to follow the path of Christianity, it would be unfair as everyone has the right to choose who or what to believe in, and it's not a sin to choose one from the other. There may be many natural disasters now but it's just all part of how the earth works, and some researchers say that it is normal to have a few serious natural disasters in a year. Not that I'm against Christianity or anything, but just wondering since I wouldn't be able to understand how a Christian feels, do all Christians believe in the world ending like what was said in the bible, or is it just this small group of people in the US reading too much into it? And would Christians choose to believe the bible or scientific evidence?

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Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro?

2011-04-08T23:42:00.002+08:00

Really cool live feed of Decorah Eagles!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Go and check it out!! :D There are eaglets now!!! :D

Oh and Pia should totally not have been eliminated from American Idol. Any other contestant, maybe I'll feel sad, but I'll get over it. But PIA??!?!!? She has the best voice in the competition!! So not fair!!!

And Physics really sucks ): Or maybe it's me ): Yes it's me ): I am a total noob at Physics ):

Taking a little break

2011-04-07T14:48:00.002+08:00

Yay! Gone are the tests! Though there is still AQ next week. But at least the um, more important ones are over! Physics test was really hard ): I think I'm going to fail for real this time ): Need to start studying really hard for Physics...but today is a Bio day! Shall finish up plants today!

The Script has pretty nice songs! Breakeven is really awesome! The Man Who Can't Be Moved too! Been listening to lots of random songs these days of artistes I've never heard of in my life, till now :O

Shall attempt to cut down on the number of times I turn my computer on in a week! Need to really mug!

Oh yeah Heidi and Andre brought their Thai buddies to class today, seem pretty nice :D But Lewis (he's better now, yay!) and Hehao were being really bad and were saying bad words in Thai ._.

Okie I'm just bored. Bye!

Send me away with the words of a love song

2011-04-06T17:16:00.004+08:00

Just had Bio Honours test! Left with Physics test to study for. Then the AP marathon officially starts! It's kind of weird how the school wants to squeeze lessons in between the weekend and our exams when we don't even have enough time to finish revising for them.

Lewis fainted before the test today ): It was really scary because he didn't even realize what was happening and he was all bouncy right before that ): Hopefully he's okay now.. Dislike it when people I know get unwell... Makes you want to treasure them more.

Go and listen to "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry. Really meaningful song, about not wasting the time that you have and treasuring the people around you.

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar

They're worth so much more after I'm a goner

And maybe then you'll hear the words I've been singin'

Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'

Change!

2011-04-03T21:51:00.001+08:00

Changed to a standard template! Felt like it :P And Blogger has this new cool feature! It's coming soon I think, but you can always view it by simply adding /view behind a .blogspot address! Cool stuff! Going to be so much more convenient to view blogs next time! :D

梦想

2011-03-31T17:27:00.004+08:00

Just watched the last episode of 你在囧什么? It's a teenage talk show discussing topics that are sort of close to teenagers' hearts but have never really been talked about before. They were talking dreams and it's kind of cool finding out what other teenagers are thinking of doing and stuff.

I know that our college counselors have been kind of like trying to get us to think about our future and careers and stuff, and I've thought about it for a hundred times, but well, after listening to the talk show, and after what my dad told me yesterday about having to balance both passion/interest and the salary, it kind of struck me. Well I want to teach. Yes I do. But at the same time I'm hoping to open a little cozy cafe, maybe in Holland V. Maybe I could do the latter like, after I get sick of teaching or something. Maybe I could give tuition in my own cafe. Okay I'm just blabbering. I'm sure all that would fulfill the 'passion/interest' part..but salary? Not that money is the world (yes Kenrick, it's not), but I would still have to make sure that I get a decent salary that would be able to support my lifestyle right? To go shopping once a while, to get a nice house with a big kitchen and awesome equipment and ingredients to cook/bake, to support a family... Of course it is best if my husband ends up having a nice paycheck every month too :O But what if all that doesn't work out? What if teaching isn't actually my thing? What if the paycheck isn't enough to sustain my wants? I wouldn't mind doing office jobs (I think), research is okay too, but.....I don't know. I think my parents are kind of attempting to dissuade me from going into teaching. My mom is a teacher so well she sort of knows best. But I have not even tried it yet and they want me to give it up?

Maybe it's time to pay a visit to the college counselor..

On a brighter note, I can't wait for the exams to end! I want to bake! And learn to cook! Giada's recipes look really simple and yummy! Auntie Janice's chocolate cake. Croissants. Cheesecakes. Shortcakes. Butter cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. Pineapple tarts. Fruit tarts. Puffs. Chicken rice. Curry. Noodles. Yummy, makes me hungry!

Watch me, because I'll make all of your mouths water like waterfalls someday!

Have you ever wondered?

2011-03-27T21:45:00.002+08:00

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY YINGYIN!!!!!! :D

Hope you had a great birthday! See you soon okay!

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if you actually never met a certain someone in your life? How everything that is happening right now would be different if not for that person appearing that very day? What would things be like if you actually took even as little as five minutes out of your busy schedule to accompany or talk to a certain someone each day? Or what if you actually choose to forgive and forget? Or not? Is it true that no matter which path you choose, you would still end up at the very same spot because fate brings you there no matter what?

Have you ever thought what was beyond the blanket of stars lying above you every night? Whether there actually lies some other person on another planet wondering about the exact same thing as you? What if bombs were never invented? What if nuclear power was never discovered? What if the earth was never discovered to be round? What if there actually are people in the world who can move at the speed of light, but you just wouldn't know because they are always moving fast than your eye can see? Is 2012 really the end of the world?

Am I the only person who ever wonders about things like that that can never be answered?

No more holidays?!

2011-03-20T12:04:00.002+08:00

It's the end of the March break! Didn't feel very long, and doesn't feel like I've studied enough... I will study consistently every week till the APs! Everyday! If I've no homework then I have to study! Have to start sticking reminders all around my room now! :O

What have I actually done this week? DSTA AC on Tuesday was superrrrr long, thought it would only last an hour ._. I'm really hoping to get a scholarship to study in UK! Oh! I've tried two new recipes this holiday! :D Fruity juice and garlic cheese bread! OMG garlic cheese bread is really super nice! Can't get enough of it! But it's really fattening ): Jiuma and my little cousins really loved the fruity juice! :D Awesome! Giada's recipes really are good! :D Shall try more after the APs!

List of things I want to do after the APs:
Bake, bake, bake! Maybe cook too!
Start giving tuition?
Read all my books!
Get some photographs printed!
Watch all the movies that I have!! :O
Watch some dramas :D

Thursday Lewis Chris Yeowchong and Tony came over to do Bio project....of which progressed really slowly ._. Brain dead after the few hours of discussion ._. Friday was choir practice. The guys sound really weird singing the set piece :X Went to eat dinner at Ding Tai Fung after that with my family! :D And I bought a new pretty sling bag to replace my dying white one! :D Sis bought some uh, beanie thingy, cute on her! She looks like a strawberry with that on Oo Saturday was choir exchange. Our choir is damn puny. Puny puny puny. Really cool listening to the rest of the choirs! And some juniors in choir are really starting to get on our nerves.

Okay time for lunch, then DSTA tea session :O Bye! See you guys in school tomorrow! :D

It's the holidays!

2011-03-14T18:53:00.003+08:00

Not really ._. It's like the mugging holidays! I just completed the 1994 AP Chem MCQ paper! Took super long...

Japan is in chaos now ): It's so sad ): I hope Mika-chan and the rest are fine! Hopefully they aren't affected by all that's happening, not too much anyway. Hopefully nothing else bad happens....

Been attending the Universities exhibitions for the past two days. Really really want to get into a good UK Biomedical course! Okay I take my words back, maybe being a researcher wouldn't be so bad, after listening to what Auntie Adeline said just now. Though I would still want to do some teaching some time in my life! After looking at all the UK Bio courses....NUS's Life Sciences course and the NTU BioSc course look...bad ._. Haha. Cambridge is the top for Biological Sciences in the UK! But I don't think I'm smart enough to get in :X My parents have been trying to persuade me to not do Bio because they think it's useless and stuff. But honestly other that Bio...there isn't really anything that catches my attention. Maybe NTU Accountancy? I don't know! Sinrui Jie Jie went there, and she said NTU is really boring ._. Well I'm just hoping to go to UK!

Joshua's SAF Band performance yesterday was super awesome! They played really nice songs like medleys of Singapore songs, Disney songs, and even Lady Ga Ga songs! :O So cool :O We are all so proud of our awesome cousin! :D

Oh yeah and on Friday it was House Carnival. Pretty good I guess! :D Should get Koi instead next time :P Celebrated Stuart's birthday at IMM Swensen's during dinner! Glad we made his day! :D Swensen's is goooood :D Also celebrated Feyra's birthday at Vivo Secret Recipe on Saturday :D Rushed there from NUS, before going to Javier's party! Hope she had a great day too! :D

So many people are turning 18! Soon it wouldn't be just that! It would be getting into NS, going to Uni, turning 19, 20, 21, graduating, getting married, having kids, having grandkids, :O

Okay bye! Shall study Bio tonight! :D

Oh baby it's raining, raining

2011-03-08T20:03:00.002+08:00

TS Auditions were....freaky! But I think we all did good! :D I went off a bit for Choo-Choo Train (well, Heidi thought of it) but I hope we do good in the semis! :D

I shall attempt to finish up my homework by this weekend, so that I can dedicate my entire March holidays to studying for the APs. So right now it's completing Physics assignment. Next would be Math journal and Chem AP questions. Phbt. Sounds a lot!

I kind of miss how things were like in 205 a bit, though I prefer my subsequents classes more. To think about it, there was a lot of drama going in 205. I don't know what happened to all that 205 thing, well yeah there is still a big group of them/us who are pretty close (okay I don't know what proverb to use here because that big group doesn't really include me), but I don't really feel that much attached to 205 anymore. Felt like a..growing-into-secondary-school phase. And then now after 5 years in this school, you start to really see how people are really like. For good or for bad, I guess people change and I think I did too..not sure for which though. Friends came and friends went..it's sad and I miss some of my friends, but it's all part of life right?

"People come, people go -they'll drit in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favourite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past."
-Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

Oh bugger. I need to stop spending so much time typing rubbish on my blog. Time to shower and continue with Physics! Bye!

And Ms Sie! If you ever read this, do you still need help with your blog? SMS or call me okay! (:

E-I-G-H-T-E-E-N

2011-03-06T13:18:00.002+08:00

Had a super great day yesterday! :D

Started off with going to school for house carnival stuff! Fun! :D Heh heh okay that's all I'm going to say :D

Then went to Sumo House for lunch with like 10 people :D Their miso soup is yucky ._. Met Feyra and headed over to my place :D Lol Kenrick and Wenxiang came over early :P Haha everyone slowly started coming over after that. Wii and stuff. Then 403 were being really secretive and didn't allow me to enter my room! :O Very funny though :P Then somehow it became present-opening session after that Oo

THANK YOU RACHEL MINGYAN YANLING BERNARD STUART WENXIANG DYLAN ERNEST FOR THE RAMEKINS AND MIXER AND AWESOME APRON AND CARD!!!! :D Will make sure I use them and make awesome food for you! :D

THANK YOU 603 GANG FOR THE BOOKS AND THE COOKBOOK-SET AND THE PRETTY CARD! :D Really really love the cookies book!!! :D Will make more cookies for you guys too!!!! :

THANK YOU IVAN FOR THE STORY BOOK AND CARD!!! :D

THANK YOU FEYRA FOR THE COOKBOOK!!! :D OMG where did you find it??? :O

THANK YOU JIEUN FOR THE LIPGLOSS!!! :D Will use it! :P

I LOVE ALL OF YOU TO BITS!!! :D You guys are the bestest friends ever! :D Really appreciate the gifts and you guys coming to my party yesterday! :D Sorry that Zikai and Ying couldn't come ):

AND THANK YOU PAPA MAMA GORGOR AND PIG FOR THE BOOKS!!! :D AND PAPA AND MAMA FOR THE BBQ! :D

Oh yes, and THANK YOU VIJAY FOR HELPING TO BOOK THE BBQ PIT!!! :D

Thank you thank you thank you everyone for helping to cook the food! Haha a few of us went to swim for a while after eating! Good exercise for the arms, water fights :O And uh, heh sorry for kicking Tan and Wendy :P Didn't want to kick your balls but uh, well I guess I have better aiming that I though? Oo :P Indian Poker is really quite fun :O And Hehao was like semi-drunk or something? :O Haha and hey, Pass-Around-The-Parcel is actually quite fun too okay! :P Haha my mom was wondering how you guys managed to eat so much!

Yay best birthday party ever :D Wonder if I'll still get to have one next year! Maybe not at home, because it gets a little squeezy. Haha. Hopefully we would all still remain great friends after we graduated! Wouldn't want to lose a single one of you! (:

And....I'm 18! :D

I'm the whisper in the wind, and I'll be there till the end

2011-03-02T19:52:00.003+08:00

I'm Already There is a really really nice song! The lyrics are so meaningful, but sad; I could cry just listening to that song ):

Do you sometimes really wonder why on earth you are keeping a blog, because well, it's supposed to help you to just write out your thoughts and get rid of your frustrations and stuff right?? But I don't like writing stuff like that for the whole public to see, and then again, keeping a password-coded blog feels weird because I might as well write in a diary, but then once again I'm too lazy to write a diary. I have like, so many things I really feel like saying everything I open up a new blog post, but it feels weird telling the entire world about my personal problems because...they are personal? I don't know but it feels weird too. So I end up not typing stuff that I wish to type and I just keep everything in. And then I would decide to tell a friend about stuff. But it's really really weird because well, I don't know, I end up not being able to open my mouth to tell them anything because it would be burdening them, and sometimes it's scary to think that you wouldn't get the kind of reply you wanted. So....then the whole cycle starts again! And TADA my blog just serves as a memory-storage area for my puny brain because honestly if you ask me what I had for dinner yesterday, or what happened the day before, I wouldn't be able to remember ._. I always have to refer back to the blog, or my notebook to check what actually happened. Gosh my memory sucks. Okay what's the point of even writing this paragraph??

I'm really bored. But I have to study Math. I don't like this chapter ): Don't really get it ): And Chem sucks, I failed two quizzes in a row ): Or maybe it's me ): Yes it's me ): I hope I don't fail the one this Friday!

And another thing, are your parents like mine?? The typical Kiasu ones? Because it's like, my mom keeps telling me to sign up for everything, whether I'm even interested in those things or not. Like the SATs. I don't really intend to go to the US. Even if I want to go overseas, my first choice would be UK, then Australia. US is uh, not even in the list. And then come the scholarships. I really have no interest in research. Bam. Sorry school, but research really sucks. But my mom just wants me to sign up for all the scholarships. I mean, if I don't know what I want, then fine, yes, I should do that, so that I would have something to fall back on. But now I do know what I want. I want to get either the MOE or PSC scholarship. I want to teach. I want to study Biology. And I don't want to study in US. So why can't I just sign up for things that are actually relevant to my interests? Since I want these, I would work hard for them, and get them. So why do I have to apply for everything just so that I have something to fall back on when I am determined to not fail? It's not that I don't want to take her advice, but to waste time, money, and energy to do all that, and make myself look like some desperate kid which I'm not, I might as well just work hard and get what I want right? And I know, that even if I end up not teaching, I AM NOT GOING TO GO INTO RESEARCH. No way. I'd rather set up a bakery, a cafe, or a bridal salon. So there.

Giada At Home

2011-02-27T12:27:00.002+08:00

I absolutely love this cooking show on Food Network!! Lovelovelove Giada! And her kitchen! :P Her kitchen is HUGE. So is her fridge. And she seems to have every ingredient in the world in there! THREE OVENS?? And she has a backyard where she grows her own plants and she gets her own fresh vegs from there! :O SO COOL. And the food she cooks all look super yummy! And are very very simple to make! So. Good. I'm going to try a few of her recipes! :D Raspberry-vanilla smoothie :D Chocolate Rice Pudding! :D Just wish I have the time! Someone get me her cookbook!!! :D I really need to start learning to whip up some nice dishes! :D

Lalalala. Homemade pizza for lunch! I'm starving :D

PLEASE RETURN ME MY STORYBOOKS

2011-02-26T19:33:00.001+08:00

I'm sorry for my horrible memory, but because I don't remember who I've lent my books to, and I've some missing ones so...if you have any of my books with you, please return them to me ASAP okay! It'll be the best birthday present ever! Thanks!

1. The Gift - Cecelia Ahern

2. Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella

3. The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks

4. The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks

5. My Best Friend's Girl - Dorothy Koomson

Zig-zag, cross the floor

2011-02-26T14:17:00.002+08:00

Lalalalala. This week passed pretty quickly! Research Congress wasn't that bad! At least we didn't have to stay till 5+ for our graders! Think our poster is pretty pretty :D Heh.

Yesterday was a pretty tiring day, for my brain at least! First, oh my, I think I know very little about the world. During English, Mr Tan gave a really brief overview about some Israel-Palestine issues, and I was like ???? through the entire 15 minutes+ he was teaching us about that because I HAVE NEVER, EVER HEARD ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE. Never heard of Palestine, or anything about Jews and stuff, so I was totally in shock :O Then Thng and a few others gave me a 5 to 10-minute crash-course after Mr Tan left. Oh my oh my, the world is weird. I think sometimes I'd rather be left ignorant than to know about all that! Why can't they just be in peace?? Then Chem quiz totally kind of killed me. And Bio AP Prep was....scary, because I have completely forgotten about Botany. Poor Dr Tan had to go through with our very we-can't-remember-anything silence ._. Felt guilty for not studying beforehand ): But I'm so laggy that though I study every week, I can't catch-up with the week's topic ): And then choir was like woah woah why on earth were there only 4 out of 9 Soprano 1s turning up?? So. Scary. Because we had to try to reach the volume and stuff of 9 people but there were only 4 ): Luckily Esther showed up after a while....so we had 5? But I think we did pretty good! :D Guess all we need is confidence! I think I learnt a lot more during yesterday's choir session than the previous few put together because Ms Lim decided to help us along more today, so, yay us! :D

Gaaaahhh there are so many things that I really want to find someone to tell, but it's so hard to find that somebody!

Okie time to continue studying Bio! Bye!

'Cause I miss you baby

2011-02-20T16:33:00.002+08:00

Oooooooh I really love Lauren Alaina's version of I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing!

Awesome stuff! She's only 15 years old!!! Really really love her voice!! :D Can't wait for next week's American Idol!! :D

Lalala going to the gym is nice kind of nice :P Need to improve my 2.4 timing! And train to do more inclined pull-ups! Okay actually it doesn't really matter because not like I would need NAPFA anyway :P Yay! I shall go to the gym twice a week from now on! (Hopefully! :P) Roxanne! Come over to the gym with me when you are free okay??

I'm kind of like on a study spree this weekend! Just realised how much I'm lagging behind for Bio.....! Studying Biomolecules kills! Phbt. Math tutorial isn't any better either. 17 questions!!!!! Die. I'm not going to complete everything....

Okie time to do more Math! Going to West Coast Park later! :D Should I run or rollerblade? Hmm..

Let There Be Love

2011-02-16T20:25:00.003+08:00

The visit to the 42rd SAF thingy yesterday was pretty cool! :D Was kind of dreading it the day before because seemed like a waste of time, but thank you to the army guys for making the trip interesting and all! Especially our tour guides :D They are really cool :D I guess it would be quite exciting when our boys go to the army next year too! :D Haha I can't imagine them all shaved and monk-like :O

Math test is tomorrow! Just finished reading through my notes, shall go continue with my revision exercise! May the test be good! Though I heard that it's hard ):

Listening to Westlife's old albums! They sure do lots of genres! :O This album now is jazzy :O Cool stuff.

And the Scholarship Guide they gave us today was like, woah, Singapore has that many scholarships?! But I know my mind is set on the MOE one, that's the one I really one. I wouldn't mind serving the bond, even if it were 10 years! (Okay maybe not that long, but you get my drive!) Time to start looking up scholarships, and applying too!

Okie time to continue with Math! Good luck to all! :D Going to slack my ass off tomorrow muahaha. Gossip Girl, Glee, HIMYM, here I come! :D

Ciao!

As Love Is My Witness

2011-02-14T23:21:00.003+08:00

Haha this is a really random post at a pretty weird time of the night! (To me la)

But I really love ballads! You can call me old-fashioned or whatever, but I think ballads are the nicest kinds of songs that can ever exist! Yeah dance songs are nice to uh, dance to, but ballads are those that touch the deeper parts of your hearts! They tell each tell a unique story of their own and it may be about love, about family. Love ballads are the songs that are played when a couple walks into their wedding, when they take their first dance as a couple. Sometimes they remind me of an elderly couple who is able to tide through all thick and thin and to really 白头偕老. Ballads about family are great too, makes you think about your own. They touch your hearts and sometimes are able to move you to tears just listening to the words because they make so much sense to you!

I absolutely love Westlife! They are like, what I'd call a perfect fit for a band that sings love ballads! And their songs are really beautiful! The lyrics, their voices..awesome! :D

On a side note, Need You Now won like 5 or 6 Grammys!!! :D OMG I totally recorded the entire Grammys down, going to watch this weekend! :D

Well, Happy Valentine's Day! :D

As love is my witness I swear
I'll be with you 'til the end
Nothing can tear this love apart
I'll put my hand upon my heart

This is the promise I make to you
Whatever comes we'll see it through
Nothing can break it, feeling's too strong
As love is my witness

Love is all that I can give to you

2011-02-14T20:35:00.002+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! :D

Today's been a pretty nice day! We had a little food exchange session on the concourse this morning :P Valentine's day is a great excuse to binge on cookies and chocolates :D Then there was gift-delivery at the start of English lesson :O Joke :O P.E. was 2.4 run :O Okay that's like the only bad part of today! Totally was not expecting having to run the entire thing! I will run properly next week for the trial run! Math was okay, then Mr Soh was on MC again :O Wonder what happened to him again :O But all's good and Bernard and Ernest and I went to WCP Starbucks to chill out :D Really miss spending time with them! And the rest of 403 too! Awesome people! Geeeeeeez drinking Starbucks right before choir is not a very good idea because I was kind of like some rocket shooting all over the room! Okay no not all over but I was really really high! :O Serene must have been scared of my high-ness :O (HAHA HIGHNESS) But today was a great day! :D

Thank you Ivan, Rachel, Yanling, Jieun, Weijin, Jingmin, Heidi, Weining, Amanda, and choir for the gifts! :D (I hope I didn't miss anyone out!) I guess spending time with your friends on Valentine's is a great way to spend the day too! No need to emo! (Ehem ehem) Well if you Valentine rejects you, I guess you can still be friends! All's good! :D

Okie I reallyyyy need to catch up with my work! Slacked my ass off during the weekend, must do work and study!

Well, to all those you need got to hear the three words on a lovey-dovey day like today: I love you! :D Bye! :D

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow!

2011-02-13T20:45:00.002+08:00

It's Valentine's Day tomorrow!

-Pause-

Okay I don't know what I want to type here actually, just bored :D

Oh the Grammies are tomorrow I think! :D Exciting! Wonder who are the big winners going to be :O

Okie I should go do some work!

Bye!

失败是成功之母!

2011-02-10T22:00:00.003+08:00

I tried baking cheesecake and oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies today! Well.....it didn't go hundred percent well.

The cheesecake turned out weird because it was watery and stuff, didn't taste like cheesecake. Maybe I shouldn't mix the eggs in so early. I'm pretty sure I followed the recipe correctly so well, maybe it's the way I did it. I'll try again though! Shall go online and search for tips on baking cheesecakes! Since I still have half the cream cheese left, might as well!

The cookies turned out not bad I guess! A little too sweet and overbaked, but more or less fine! :D But well try again this weekend! Shall bring one box to school tomorrow! (To get rid of some :P)

I really really want to try baking croissants! But I feel very bad...because baking is a pretty expensive hobby I think... The equipment is expensive, some ingredients are too.. I got a new mixing bowl and baking tray and cookie cutters and teaspoons and tablespoons! :D I think it's time to get a new mixer though...my hand mixer is dying, it screams and cries when I use it ._. Ramekins are really tough to find! The baking shop in Clementi don't sell them though it sells lots of baking stuff!

On a side note (again HAHA), I wasn't referring to anyone when I typed that post the other day. Just the school population in general.

Okie going to get ready to sleep! Goodnight world!

AND PHYSICS TEST WAS REALLY HARD.

Love, was made for me and you

2011-02-07T19:43:00.004+08:00

I'm so excited! I've decided what recipes to first do already! :D I'm going to try baking cheesecake and oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies! :D Going to buy the ingredients after school tomorrow and bake on either Wednesday or Thursday! My mom told me that there's a shop near Clementi Central specially for baking, though I'm not sure if it sells only the ingredients or the equipment as well. I'll check it out tomorrow! :D

Chinese New Year has been great (: Family bonds are well, the strongest I guess. Friends are great, but you can't deny that it's around your family members where you can actually let your wall down and be whoever you want to be. It's where you feel safe and cozy! Though there are fights and misunderstandings, these can always be overcome, and well, I feel very very thankful for the family I'm born into.

Overdue photo from Lewis' 18th birthday celebration! :D

Celebrated Ivan's 18th on New Year's Eve! :D

New Year!

Visited Ms Sie's house on Saturday :D

Visited Mr Chai on Sunday! :D

Then went to watch Joshua's marching at the Istana! (Okay KL and I missed him marching in D:)

Then we went shopping :D:D

On a side note...

Our school discipline really, really sucks. I cannot stand it. I honestly have no idea what our discipline master has been doing. Sometimes I think I can do a better job. Enforcing discipline doesn't mean you don't scold or punish your students, neither does it mean doing that all the time, but all that talk and no action? NHPS's standard was so much higher. The students in our school seriously lack discipline, respect, sense of urgency and well, basically everything that is counted as part of the 'basic values' in many other schools. I'm not surprised the members of the public wrote in, because I can understand why. Sitting in a bus with other schoolmates is really embarrassing. They are such a disgrace. I felt like covering my face when that junior started talking really loudly, not about normal topics, but about sensitive topics like religion, in front of a multi-racial society. Dude, use some common sense would you?

Sometimes I really feel like telling the people around me off for doing all that inconsiderate stuff, but it just feels weird. No one really takes me seriously when I tell them off. Simple things like paying attention during a talk, even during lesson when the teacher is teaching, is like, so hard for these supposedly high-IQ students. Yes sometimes I do that too, but I don't talk at the top of my lungs, at least I do it with some discretion, and I don't talk through an hour's lesson, just a few sentences here and there. (Well I'm trying to not do anything stupid in English...but I'm still working on it.) I'd honestly prefer a student to be dozing off in class because he's tired than to be talking in class. At least when dozing off, he tries to pay some attention, whereas the student who just talks disrupts the entire class and is obviously showing no respect, even worse when he talks back as if he has done nothing wrong. Punctuality is such a simple thing too, and yet our students can't even follow the clock. It's annoying.

And I really dislike it when girls come to school with accessories, be it hair accessories, earrings or things they wear on their arms, of all sorts of shapes and colors. Well, being a girl, of course I would love to dress up and look pretty, but this is school, and there ought to be some form of discipline. If you are using a different colored hair tie, it's not so bad, but for those who clip on ribbons and other fanciful stuff on their hairs, goodness, do you have no sense of shame? Is coming to school in simple black hair accessories that difficult? Because I can always find clips and hair ties for prices below a dollar, fifty cents even.

The worst thing is that most of our teachers don't even care. They not only close one eye, they close two. They don't even bother enforcing discipline onto their students, and they want them to carry the school name around without ruining it? How is that possible? Because for one, most of the students who first enter the school already lack basic values. If I were a parent, the discipline here would be a turn-off already, I'd rather send my kids to other JCs, where they would at least get some good character development and would be taught these simple values. This is one reason I want to be a teacher, because I not only want to impart knowledge, I'd want to teach my students to be role models and to have proper upbringings.

Well I'm not saying that all the students in our school are bad, nor are all the teachers, it's just that there are a lot of students with well, characters (if you would even say that they have any character at all) like that. And there are quite a handful of teachers who don't really care. Sigh. All teachers should go through proper training, I believe, though it may seem like a waste of time, but then again, the upbringing and the future of their students lie in their hands.

Dreams

2011-02-04T23:31:00.005+08:00

Chinese New Year's been interesting! Kids joining the table, exchanging 'life stories'.. :O Auntie Janice gave me a baking book because she had two copies so she gave me one! THANK YOU AUNTIE JANICE!!!! :D:D It's bake by Rachel Allen! :D

Seems like a really good book! Lots of recipes for cakes, cookies, muffins, pies, bread, and festive stuff! Just looking at it makes me want to start baking immediately! :D Really want to try baking croissants!

Now I have a really really long wishlist, most of which are baking equipment! I need soooo many things! I really really want to have a complete baking set! It's like a must in my dream kitchen! Big working space for chopping, mixing, baking, cooking, and eating!

1. Ramekins

I really really want them to make nice chocolate lava cakes and other puddings!

2. Flat baking trays

So that it'll be easier to bake cookies and stuff! Like what Popo has!

3. Swiss roll tin

Haha what else can it be used for? To bake swiss rolls of course! :D

4. Biscuit/cookie/scone cutters

5. Mixing bowl

I AM IN DESPERATE NEED FOR THIS OMG.

6. Icing bags and piping noozles

I want to make fairy cakes! :D

7. Lots and lots of ingredients

To bake lots and lots of stuff! :D

8. (Okay now for non-baking stuff.....) Headphones

Pretty baby pink ones from Challenger! (I don't really care about quality of sound, so long as it's not bad :P)

9. Precious Thots figurines/snow globes

They. Are. Pretty.

10. Hairbands

I really want those pretty baby pink ones with a simple glossy ribbon on the top :D So pretty :D

11. Books

Mini Shopaholic by Sophine Kinsella!!!! :D And The Haven by Nicholas Sparks!!!!! :D

12. New clothes

I haven't gone shopping for clothes for very, very long....

I don't know why is it so hard to find those shops catered for bakers, selling all these baking equipment you know?? Even looking for a simple thing like a mixing bowl is really hard! Been to at least 5 shops and can't find one! Need to search for such shops!!

Yay going visiting tomorrow! Then celebrating KQ's birthday at night!

Goodnight everyone! Happy Chinese New Year! :D

It's Chinese New Year Eve!

2011-02-02T18:16:00.002+08:00

We can't exactly celebrate CNY this year, but we're still having lots of family gatherings as usual! (: I'm glad that our family is pretty tight because well, even though our family politics is um, crazy, it's just the comfort of being around each other that makes me feel safe and warm. I CAN'T WAIT FOR STEAMBOAT HAHAHA.

Great plans for the new year!

Eve: Dinner at Popo's house

Day 1: Steamboat at Popo's house

Day 2: Ba kut teh lunch at my house

Day 3: 403 goes visiting! And Kaiqi's birthday celebration at night.

Day 4: 603 goes visiting! And steamboat lunch/dinner after that!

Been celebrating friends turning 18 at least once for 3 weeks continuously! And this would probably continue till....well I don't know when, but at least for two more weeks! :O Haha every week we're always in the canteen singing a birthday song, I think the people in the canteen during that same period of the week get bored of us!

Well since I'm very free this CNY, I shall finish up my homework and study like, everything!

Okay I'm going to Popo's house now! :D Shall post some photos soon to brighten up this place! :D Maybe I should get a change of skin, it's the new year!

Bye! Have a great Chinese New Year! 祝你万事如意，事事顺利! :D (Haha I remember when we were younger, Popo and the adults would make us recite a certain number of phrases before we're allowed to get our red packets! There was even this one year they wanted us to perform or something :O)

It's a beautiful night!

2011-01-27T21:50:00.004+08:00

TODAY WAS A TOTALLY AWESOME DAY!!!!!! :D:D

It's been really long since 1. all (or most) of us gathered together to have some fun together and 2. we had dinner together! I really miss all that! We had lots of fun today! :D

Around 1.30pm, Ivan, Rachel, Dylan, Wenxiang and I left school for my home! :D Met Bryan Lee on the bus :O Watched some TV first when we reached, then started baking chocolate lava cake!! :D So exciting melting the chocolate and butter! :D Then soon after (okay not that soon, but while we were still baking,), Yanling, Ji Eun, Stuart, Ernest and Jingmin arrived! And everyone tried mixing the awesome mixture :D My sis helped set up the Wii and the ehem eye-powers transferred over to the entertainment part :P

Aikann came when we we just put the cakes into the oven! :D Made some milk tea, and yay! :D Around 10 minutes later, the cakes were ready!! :D:D SO EXCITING PLEASE :D Took them out and attempted flipping them over. I'd say an 80% success rate! :D THE CAKES WERE SO GOOD OMGOMGOMGOMG :O Second attempt and tastes like heaven already! :O Sooooo much nicer than my first attempt! :D It's all goo-y in the middle and yum everywhere! :D So happy :D Shall bake this on Saturday! :D

(Forgot to take a picture of the inside!)

After having totally awesome cake, we packed up and continued the Mariokart race and DDR :P Ernest looks totally gay on the DDR :P And Rachel is quite fail :P Dylan and Yanling left around 5.30/6 ):

Dinner smelt awesome :D Yay :D Ji Eun took a really quick bite and left for hostel ): Bernard and Quzhi came just in time to fill their growling tummies after DB :P Cleared up and heehee gave Wenxiang a very very belated birthday present - a bottle of white wine! :D Rachel's dad bought it :P (Thanks Uncle! :D) Hope you like the wine, Wendy! :D Rachel left after that ):

Tried the icecream I made! One was with yogurt, the other with cream. Hm, I prefer the yogurt one because I think I added in too much cream to the cream one! But the yogurt-icecream tastes like sogurt! :O

Everyone left around 9 I think!

Haha this post is so random :D I'm too happy to put my words into proper sentences that might sound entertaining :D

But anyway, here's the recipe I used for the Chocolate Lava Cake! :D

Ingredients
(makes three 6-oz ramekin cakes)
- 100g dark chocolate (example, Cadbury Old Gold 70% cocoa), cut to small cubes
- 100g unsalted butter, cut to small cubes
- 2 eggs
- 60g caster sugar (you can adjust this according to your preference for the sweetness level!)
- 20g self-raising flour

To decorate (optional)
- icing sugar and small sieve
- berries
- vanilla ice cream

Additional tools needed
- spatula
- electric whisk (hand-held)
- oven safe ramekins (6-8 oz)

Directions
1. Melt dark chocolate and butter using either the microwave (see below on how), a hot water bath or a double boiler (note: do not use direct stove heat or the ingredients will burn).
2. In a large bowl, use an electric whisk (you can whisk by hand too but it’s more tedious) to beat the eggs and sugar till the mixture turns pale and frothy. This will take a few minutes.
3. Pour melted chocolate/butter you prepared in step 1, into the egg mixture prepared in step 2. Stir in the flour. Use a spatula to mix everything evenly.
4. Grease your ramekins with some melted butter (so that the cake will come off cleanly when it is baked; you can powder the inside with additional flour too). Fill the ramekin almost 3/4 full with the chocolate mixture and bake in a preheated oven of 180C (356F) for about 10 minutes. (For those with complicated ovens, try using the 'top heating only' function instead of both the top and bottom; mine took between 10 to 11 minutes.) The cake is deliberately slightly undercooked so as to achieve its ideal consistency which is runny in the middle (hence the name fondant/molten/chocolate lava) but if you over-bake it, you will get a super moist chocolate cake which is yummy too.
5. When it is baked, remove ramekin from oven and let cool for 1-2 minutes. Use a spoon to gently loosen the edges. Carefully invert the cake onto serving plate.
6. Serving suggestion: Use a sieve to dust icing sugar over the cake. Serve a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some berries at the side.

(Notice how the sides of my cake is 'striped'. You should try using smooth ceramic ramekins instead of those aluminum cups for a better-looking cake!)

Melting Chocolate in Microwave Oven
- If your microwave oven comes with a control for the heat (low, medium, high), always go for the lowest setting first. Go for short blocks of microwaving (10-20 seconds interval) so that you can check the progress more regularly and the chocolate will not be burnt.
- With each heating interval, you have to stir the chocolate with a spoon or plastic spatula to check out the actual extent to which the chocolate has melted (it’s not obvious based on appearances alone because chocolate gets heated inside-out, and retains its shape when heated), and to allow for more even microwaving. Stirring is essential!
Step 1: Measure and break off the amount of chocolate needed based on the recipe you are using.
Step 2: Cut the chocolate to smaller pieces using a knife as shown, so that they will melt faster and more evenly.
Step 3: Place cut chocolate pieces in a microwave-safe bowl. Note: if you’re melting chocolate chips, the time needed will be significantly shorter so microwave in even shorter intervals than the timings shown in this guide.
Step 4: Microwave over low heat for roughly 40 seconds. For the first round, I actually microwave it for slightly over a minute over high heat, but every microwave oven is different so start slow and check the progress regularly; you can always put it back to the microwave oven for a few seconds longer if it’s not melted. If you’re greedy and microwave it for a longer time, you risk burning the chocolate and you won’t be able to salvage a burnt chocolate. After the first round of microwave, this is how my bowl of chocolate looks like (see above photo). It doesn’t look very melted, but in reality …
Step 5: … if you stir it around with a spoon or spatula, you will realise that the chocolate has in fact melted substantially! Remove the spoon (no silverware inside microwave oven) and return the bowl to the microwave oven. From here on, you need to microwave the chocolate in shorter intervals of say 10-20 seconds.
Step 6: What my bowl of chocolate looks like after microwaving for a further 20 seconds. After stirring, remove the spoon and return to the microwave oven. It’s almost done by now.
Step 7: I microwaved it for another 10 seconds, stirred the chocolate and it has fully melted … it’s velvety smooth and shiny. You can now use it as a dip, or in your recipe.

Melting Butter in Microwave Oven
Step 1: Cut butter to small cubes and place in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on low for about 15-20 seconds. With butter, it melts very quickly so use very short intervals of heating. Check the progress regularly; you can always put it back to the microwave oven for a few seconds longer if it’s not sufficiently melted. If you’re greedy and microwave it for a longer time, you risk overheating the butter which will result in a greasy, watery liquid which may not usable for most baking recipes.
Step 2: What my bowl of butter looks like after 20 seconds in the microwave oven. It doesn’t look very melted or very different from the first photo, but if you observe the leftmost corner of the bowl, you can see some melted butter at the bottom.
Step 3: If you stir it around with a spoon or spatula, you will realise that the butter has in fact melted substantially! Remove the spoon (no silverware inside microwave oven) and return the bowl to the microwave oven. From here on, you need to microwave the butter in shorter intervals of say 5-10 seconds.
Step 4: I return the bowl of butter to the microwave oven for another 5-10 seconds. This is what the butter looks like when I take it out.
Step 5: I stir the butter with a spoon and I found that it has melted more that it appears to be. The texture resembles butter melted at room temperature – the butter though melted, is still quite “solid”. I use butter which is melted to this state when a recipe calls for “butter melted at room temperature”, such as for my strawberry muffinsand cranberry muffins.
Step 6: If I microwave the butter for another 5-10 seconds (remember to stir after microwaving), I get butter that has melted completely – its texture is more watery though it is still creamy and relatively chunky (reminds me of cream of chicken soup). I use butter which is melted to this state when a recipe calls for “butter that is melted using gentle or indirect heat (such as a water bath/double boiler)”, as I did for my chocolate lava cake.

Most of this, I got off this website, but I edited the Chocolate Lava Cake procedure a bit. Enjoy! (: It's actually really simple to make!

Okie! If you have baked Chocolate Lava Cake before tell me okay! :D Want to learn some tips :P Heehee.

Okie I shall go and sleep soon! Tired from a whole day of fun! :D

I (L) MY FRIENDS! :D

Goodnight world! :D

Oh yes and one thing, ALL CLASS OF 2011! Go and check out this website, specially made for us!
http://classof20eleven.wordpress.com/
Credits goes to Junhan! :D

Vanilla Ice Cream!

2011-01-23T13:06:00.002+08:00

I'm lazy to type this out over and over again so I shall just do it once! So here's the recipe I used for my vanilla ice cream! :D It's not perfect yet, but it still tastes delicious! I think you should strain the mixture first before attempting to freeze it, might make the ice cream creamier and smoother! (: And it's better to put a sheet of cling wrap over the surface of the mixture to prevent a layer forming over your ice cream! (Tips learnt from Junior Masterchef recipes! :D)

Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients

· 120ml milk
· 120ml whipping cream (heavy cream)
· 60ml sugar
· ¼ teaspoon vanilla flavouring/vanilla

Steps:

1. Prepare your ice cream mixture (mix all four ingredients together), then chill it over an ice bath.

2. Put a deep baking dish, or bowl made of plastic, stainless steel or something durable in the freezer, and pour your custard mixture into it.

3. After 45 minutes, open the door and check it.
As it starts to freeze near the edges, remove it from the freezer and stir it vigorously with a spatula or whisk. Really beat it up and break up any frozen sections. Return to freezer.

4. Continue to check the mixture every 30 minutes, stirring vigorously as it’s freezing. If you have one, you can use a hand-held mixer for best results, or use a stick-blender or hand-held mixer.
But since we’re going low-tech here, you can also use just a spatula or a sturdy whisk along with some modest physical effort.

5. Keep checking periodically and stirring while it freezes (by hand or with the electric mixer) until the ice cream is frozen. It will likely take 2-3 hours to be ready.

I SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM! :D

2011-01-23T00:23:00.003+08:00

I tried making some vanilla ice cream today, and it was awesome!! :D:D Thanks Dylan for the idea HEH :P My family loves it :D Just that it's not that smooth and creamy yet, but I'll work on it! Maybe try straining it or something! Shall try making another two batches this week, one in time for Thursday, and another for Saturday! :D

And to think about it, there are quite a few things that I really need/want to get right now!:

1. A measuring cup for baking!

I used my water bottle for that purpose just now when making the ice cream because it had markings on it, but OMG to think about it, my bottle is going to smell like milk and cream on Monday :O

2. A mixing bowl, stainless steel one!

My mom threw the plastic one away when we moved out the last time because it's kind of old and run-down but we never bothered to replace it, now I really need it!

3. Some ceramic ramekins!

Need these to bake chocolate lava cakes and souffles!

4. A pair of pretty pink headphones!

My previous one broke ): So emo because it's actually really comfortable and it's really pretty! The quality need not be that good because I'm not an audiophile or whatever you call it!

5. A new handphone cover!

My red one is falling apart........ And it's boring!

6. AN IDEA ON HOW TO STUDY FOR THE APS AND SATS!

Going to start studying tomorrow! Physics I think! Because my Physics really sucks..... Bio AP looks scary! And apparently the Bio SAT is harder so maybe I should take Physics, but...Bio's what I want to study, not Physics ._.

I WANT TO GO ON A SHOPPING SPREE FOR ALL THAT!

I really really want a nice dependable array of baking equipment! I'll add one more thing to my NY resolutions: Learn as many new recipes as possible!! :D

Oh yes and my mom and Eryi and Sanyi and KQ cut their hair at some Orchard salon yesterday. HM. Weird I'd say. Weirdddd.

WHAM

2011-01-21T22:14:00.002+08:00

NOOOO. It feels as if there are random blobs of information about universities and stuff dropping on me every other day! Now I'm getting freaked out! There are so many things to do!

1. Apply for SAT I and Math, Bio and Chem SAT Subject Tests!!

I know that I don't really want to go to the US, but my mom is making me taking them 'just in case' I decide to!

2. STUDY.

It suddenly dawned on me how important the APs and SATs are!! I had better do well for them!

3. STUDY LIKE MAD.

I NEED TO REVISE LOTSSSSS OF STUFF! Especially Physics! I totally died for the try-out Physics AP MCQs!

I think my first two weeks of May are going to be reallyyyyy busy! There are the APs, AND there is SYF, AND now there are going to be the SAT tests! People say that the APs and SATs are kinda easy..but my standard is like, totally different! Really really scared I don't get straight 5s (weird saying this, because people usually say straight As Oo)! And I really hope I get at least a 2100 for SAT I (I scored really low for PSAT) and like, full marks for the subject tests!

After our 'visit' to the college counselor this afternoon, the decision I made about what I want to study is kind of...swaying a little. (Okay not that we actually talked to the counselors; we had our own mini-discussions about university.) I know I really want to do something Biology-related, but thing is, what if after taking the the Life Sciences courses or something, I end up not being able to find a job and stuff? It's so scary just thinking about the future! I think I should go and ask a bit more about the courses I wish to apply for soon..

Gaaahh okay I shall do some homework.

Bye!

Time is ticking!

2011-01-19T18:32:00.003+08:00

Everyone is slowly turning 18! Which is kind of scary I think. It means we're all growing up! But it's kind of exciting thinking about how each of us would do next time! OH NO IT'S MY TURN SOON ):

We had our first College Counselling ACE lesson today. Some of the things we were briefed about seemed...kind of redundant I think ._. But gaaaaah WHY MUST THE US UNIVERSITIES MAKE US TAKE THE SAT??? Not that I want to go to the US to study, but my mom is making me take it anyway 'just in case'. I really, reallyyyy don't want to go to the US to study though!! I'd rather go to UK or Australia than go to the US!

Our swimming/baking/something (we still can't decide what to do yet!) is postponed to next week so that more awesome people would be able to make it! :D

Okie got to go bye!

Maltesers

2011-01-16T17:40:00.003+08:00

Yeah that's my afternoon snack for the day :D

JMCAU is really good! The kids there cook really good stuff! Poached pears, tampered white chocolate, souffles.. Goodness! Makes me so inspired to really start learning cooking and more baking recipes! Go to http://www.masterchef.com.au/home.htm to learn some new recipes!

Last night was a funny night :O First of all, Dajiu came over to Ryuto house???!?!? :O:O It was like, the first time he EVER went to any of our houses! :O Wonder what Ryuto used to bribe him! :O Second of all, woah, the topic at the table changed like mad. First it was pregnancy (?! Roxanne, it's all your fault!), then it was about having more than one wife/husband, then it was about religion, then somehow everyone started discussing about Kaiqi's university applications, and it came down to whether having blood group B is good or bad?! Oh but the wine accompanying that really long conversation was good :D

I'm glad I've more or less made up my mind about what I would like to do in university! I'm definitely going to try for Life Sciences in NUS. It's like, what I've decided to work towards since Year 2 or 3? I wanted to try Medicine last time but thinking about it, it isn't really my passion. Yeah it would be great, it's quite interesting and of course the pay is going to be really good. But I think my liking for Medicine isn't as strong as the rest out there, and if I really wanted to help out in a hospital, there's always the voluntary part of it. And earning big bucks isn't really a good reason one should apply for Medicine and become a doctor, I reckon. I've decided, I want to be a teacher. Of course it would be awesome if I could become a university lecturer. That's like, the dream. But if that doesn't happen, I wouldn't mind being a JC or secondary school teacher. Maybe even come back to NUS High (if 1. the discipline improves, 2. the school were not run by parents). And if, yes if, I manage to actually have enjoyed enough teaching, and have saved up enough, I would love to open either a childcare centre or a tuition centre, or if I have actually learned and perfected enough recipes, maybe a cafe! Well yeah that's all I'm hoping for right now! I don't expect to actually be some wealthy lady or anything, though having the money wouldn't hurt, I just want to make sure I live with no regrets and do what I really want to do, instead of following others' dreams and not mine! Can you believe that I actually wanted to be a policewoman last time? :O

And I'm actually kind of scared that I might actually lose touch with all my friends after graduation. Because it seems like there's a teeny bit of drift right now with a few people. Hopefully the ties stay strong, because really, you guys are the best friends that I've ever had and I really don't want to lose any one of you. Well yeah you should know who you are!

Okay I think I should go and study some Bio right now! I don't know why but yeah! APs are coming up in about 4 months, and I've tons to study! I really hope that I don't get below a 4 for Physics AP because judging by the looks of my Physics AP practice paper....uh-oh. Haha. Okie bye for now!

Oh yes one more thing, if you are really quite bored and would like something entertaining to do, do go to http://www.canon.com.sg/eosacademy/schoolchallenge/gallery/ and vote for people from your own school!

1. Create an account. It's really simple, 3 minutes and you're done.

2. Activate your account.

3. Search the gallery for your own school, or whoever you are looking for.

4. Vote!

SENIOR

2011-01-14T22:16:00.002+08:00

We're Year 6! Just experience the first proper week of being a Year 6! Well it's weird I think Oo No more seniors around?!?! But well, we do still see a few of them coming back to school for a bit Oo I love my timetable! If only I didn't have CCA, then it would be perfect! Because my days are actually very short, but wham, CCA at 4pm twice a week ):

Our classroom is all the way up at level 5! And the aircon is superrr cold! Colder than my own room's! :O

Talking about my room, I kind of love the way it is now! :D Okay it actually looks smaller I think :O Because the 3D space is filled up too :O The shelves and my awesome semi-hanging super-single bed! :D Andddd my favourite part of the room is actually the window-sill! Because it is completely lined up with my pooh bears :D Heehee.

I can't wait for next Thursday!!! :D The girls are coming over to swim! If it doesn't rain, of course :P Well if it rains, I guess we could either just hang out upstairs and play or go to play pool :P

CCA fair was really boring (IMO) ._. I think they should just cut short the PA skit thingy. The juniors don't even get to hang around long enough in the hall to interact with us and stuff.

OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT I'M POSTING JUST FOR THE SAKE OF POSTING I AM GOING TO DO MY HOMEWORK CIAO.

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2011-01-10T18:05:00.003+08:00

The past 4 days were...unexpected. Maybe they weren't, maybe it was just unexpected to us kids. It never actually occurred to us that things like that would ever happen to our family, because it's always all of us together, and it felt like would remain like that for like..forever.

When my mom called me in the middle of the game of charades on Thursday, I was..shocked. My mind literally went blank. Then right after that phone call, Kailin, Ryuto and Kaiqi all started calling me at the same time. Looks like our parents decided to call us all together. And from then our next 3 days were spent at Popo's void deck. All I remember doing were burning incense, serving drinks, serving peanuts, going through prayers, collecting funds, and the few hours of mahjong till 4am when Kailin and I got KOed.

Yesterday was the cremation. The first time we saw everyone crying out loud. A few of us left early to attend Joshua's concert so we couldn't go collect the ashes with the rest.

This is definitely a first time for our family. But in the past 4 days, we got to meet our relatives from China, some of our moms' cousins, found out how vast Uncle Roger's network of friends is, learned and interacted more with our Dajiu, and found out a lot more about our family. I guess it's during things like this that you get to see who is actually here for you and who are those whom are not.

RIP Gong Gong.

On second thought,

2011-01-05T23:11:00.002+08:00

Maybe I should have some New Year resolutions. So that I would at least have some goal for the year! Moreover this is practically the last and most important year of my high school life, I ought to do well! So let's begin:

1. Get as close to 5 for this semester's CAP!

OMG it would be totally cool if I could get a 5......but my brains...don't seem to fit that standard :P

2. Make it to the distinction list for graduation!

3. Not let PMS get the better of me!

I totally hate PMS please ): I think it makes me evil ): Very bad ): I will be a really good girl this year!

4. Get a part-time job in the June holidays/semester two!

I've been wanting to get a part-time job but haven't gotten one after all that thinking ._. Will get one this year!

5. Be a good choir member and go for as many choir practice sessions for SYF as possible and do well at SYF!!

My first and only chance at SYF! Must do well!!!

I shall attempt to fulfill all these resolutions, I promise!

AND AND AND

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG WE ARE GRADUATING THIS YEAR OMG.

I think I'm going to cry like some waterfall at convocation! ._. Gaaaaaahhh.

OKAY I NEED TO DO MY ARP REPORT BYE BYE.

The start of the last year of high school!

2011-01-03T19:25:00.002+08:00

Tomorrow is the first day of school for the last year! :O

I'm excited! I want to meet everyone in school again! I don't care about what others say about school being sucky and how they totally hate school, because I love school! Instead of complaining so much, why not just take it all in your stride!

Chinese New Year is coming in a month! I always look forward so much to it..but when it comes, I get disappointed because it isn't as fun as what I thought it would be ): So! I shall not remind myself about CNY at all and think that it'll be totally boring, so that I would actually end up having fun during CNY! Okay I think I'm just very bored right now ._.

Can I pleaseeeee keep my nail polish on for school???

Oh yes it's 2011 already and I know it's a bit late, but I really want to thank some people for making my 2010 great:

Ivan, for being the bestest friend that I could ever ask for (:

Rachel, Yanling and Mingyan, for all the fun and love in hostel! Thanks for being awesome roommates! :D I miss you guys a lot!!!!

Ms Teh, for being the best cluster mentor ever!!! Thank you for joining us in the cluster games and taking very good care of us! (:

Rachel, Yanling, Mingyan, Jieun, Bernard, Ernest, Dylan, Wenxiang, Stuart, Jingmin, Weijin, Ka-Shing, TPL, and the rest of the 403 gang, for all the joy and laughter! I love being around you guys because I can totally be myself (yes - dumb, blonde, blur, childish) and feel good about it!

Heidi, Weining, Joanna, Zikai, Lewis, Hehao, Andre, Thng, for the great company in 503! I totally thought that my life in 503 would suck really bad because well, I didn't have anyone from any of my previous classes with me in this one so, yeah. But thank you lots and lots for proving me wrong and making this year great! And thank you Zikai and Lewis for taking care of Heidi and I in Tioman :P

Rachel, Mingyan, Bernard and Weijin, for the great band performances we've done last year! We so have to *try* to continue doing that this year! :D

Stuart, TPL, Debra, Tiffany, for doing great in last year's selection committee! I know sometimes it got hard but well, I think selection went pretty awesome last year! :D

Feyra, Heidi, Hafizah, Serene and the rest of the sopranos in choir, for being great choirmates! I know I got lost quite a lot, but thank you for teaching me (:

Ivan, Zikai, TPL, Thng, Aikann, Zhixin, Annabeth, Johannes, Terry, Darryl, Russell, Yong Qin, Tan Shoun, Ms Teh and Ms Chua, for the really really amazing Xi'an exchange (whether you guys went over or not!)! I'll definitely never forget this trip! :O

And of course to my dearest cousins and the rest of the family for all the great things that happened this year! Yeah we didn't pull of Christmas as well as we normally did last year, but oh well! We'll do better this year!

I hope I didn't miss anyone out!

Okie bye bye!

My life in a book

2011-01-02T22:59:00.003+08:00

Wow imagine if there were to be books that actually depict our lives :O I wonder how thick my book would be! And what my rating would be! I hope it'll go on the best-sellers' list! What if the books we read on Earth are actually actual stories of other people/aliens/weird beings living on some other planet in some other galaxy :O Then somehow the essence of their life stories somehow floated to the Earth and got put into these authors' brain and they end up writing these stories :O Like, they are the writers' 'secret inspiration' :O And when these writers get writers' block, maybe it's like, a point in these aliens' lives that are boring so they don't manage to reach the Earth :O And maybe the books written in these other places are actually about the lives of actual people living on Earth :O

Anyway I'm in the middle of reading Never Say Never by Melissa Hill (yes I know it's a Justin Bieber song title but, whatever ._.) and gaaahhh it's so sad ): There's this woman Oliver who is married to her college boyfriend Peter and she went for a checkup in the morning and found out that she was pregnant. And she wanted to tell her husband only when they get back home so that she can see his expression and share the joy with him and they said they'll see each other back home at 4pm. But she got caught up with an emergency of saving a dog and got delayed. And when she got back home, her husband had suddenly died because of ....okay I don't know the reason because I stopped reading there...and she never got to tell him that they are having a child after trying for 2 years and he is never going to know that he has a daughter ): It's so sad ): ): ): I hope nothing like this ever happens to me ): I don't ever want my husband to leave me so young, especially before he even meets our child ):

Reading storybooks make me nervous!

Okay I'm tired! I should sleep! Goodnight World! (And aliens living on other planets!)