Slices of Life

Towers

2010-02-24T21:53:00.001+08:00

My little magnetic humans. Haha.

Human Behaviour

2010-02-24T17:40:00.006+08:00

Confirmation Bias

The tendency to remember events that confirm our beliefs and ignore those that contradict it.

New year, new start

2010-01-25T13:16:00.005+08:00

Monday, 25/1/2010

2009 seemed to fly past just like that. I have to remind myself that it's already 2010 whenever I write dates. Looking back, it feels as though it wasn't long ago that I was working for SYF and in Say Cheeze. Then uni came and everything went on fast forward, and some things changed, for better or for worse, I guess only time can tell.

True enough, we reminisce, and people say we can learn from history. But history is afterall, history; there is only so much we can learn from it. We can't go back, or try everything again. Sometimes, the past has to stay in the past, and we can only look to the future and hope for the better. I'm not asking for anyone to agree with me, I'm merely stating my view. To people whom I've promised things, or said that I would do something, and end up not fulfilling it, I'm sorry. I am human after all, and humans make mistakes; they're unable to make everyone happy at the same time. That's what I'm learning slowly, that not every situation is a win-win in real life. I'm not trying to make up excuses for the wrongs I've done in the past, but I just want people to understand that I'm just an ordinary girl who have her own aspirations, thoughts, and feelings. To all my friends who have shared with me their fun and laughter, let's have some fun together again! Haha. And to my family and loved ones, even though they might not be reading this, I just want to say thank you for teaching me that sometimes joy lies in the simplest of things.

Seems like a reflection post. Haha. All I know now is that studies are top priority, or I would be wasting my parents' hard-eaned money. But of course, family is just as important, which I have realised, having spent weekdays in hall and seeing how much my family misses me when I return home during the weekends. I can't wait for this sem to be over! Then loooooooooonnnnnggg holiday...... Lol.

P.S. Sorry about the skin, I haven't got round to changing it due to the imcompatability issues and stuff.

Loss

2009-11-22T13:06:00.006+08:00

Sunday, 22/12/2009

There is something nagging at me but I dunno what. Like an empty space calling for my attention, it just perpertuates itself, spreading out, consuming my focus, my being. I really dunno what is it.

An empty space which used to be filled up with doubts, but also laughter and comfort.
It's eating at me.

Why is the human heart so capable of having so many compartments, each with such mixed feelings, that one does not know his/her direction?

I am lost. Lost in happiness, in sorrow; lost in thought, in confusion, in me.

Light, and the absence of light

2009-11-14T21:34:00.002+08:00

Friday, 14/11/2009

If we have nothing to fear about light, why do we need to fear darkness?
Darkness is just the absence of light, not a separate alien entity on its own.
As long as you fill the unknown with knowledge, the nothingness becomes less overwhelming, less suffocating, and not so fearsome.

-Musings of the day by lyn-

I miss those times.....

2009-10-29T14:16:00.012+08:00

Thursday, 29/10/2009

Random stuff that I used to do (on long train rides)

Receipt from 'Say Cheeze'

Hardworkingness(for studies) = {Amount of input for studies} / (Play + Sleep + Time spent with loved ones + Responsibilties + Commitments/ Interests)

There might be such things as fairytales, but only you have the ability to make it happen.

Fencing is a form of art, not a sabre race to determine who is the speediest, most ruthless and most violent.

The well of knowledge comes from deep within oneself; the will to learn, to discover, and to understand.

A good dance never fails to make the heart pound with excitement in tandem to the beat and rhythm of the music.

What is true love?

Love goes beyond making your other half happy. It involves compromises, sacrifices, keeping faith and loving the other person's flaws and perfection. In short, everything that you've learnt in life. (I know, sorta an anti-climax here. I didn't know how to end it. Haha.)

Heroic ventures

tend to make the female heart

flutter with anticipation, tension;

turn like flapjacks

on a frying pan,
melt like butter on a hot toast.

(A haiku turned poem halfway.)

2009-10-11T23:29:00.005+08:00

Sunday, 11/10/09

Love is fragile, like the flutter of gossamer wings;

yet love is strong, that it can withstand the forces of time.

-Brought to u by musings of the day by Lyn-

Historical figure?

2009-10-08T18:19:00.005+08:00

Thursday, 08/10/09

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness;
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people;
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry;
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day;
And for poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."

Audrey Hepburn

I love her quote.

Training!

2009-10-07T01:18:00.001+08:00

Wednesday, 7/10/09

I'm getting my muscle tone back, and it feels sooooo damn good.

Random recall

2009-10-03T23:52:00.004+08:00

Saturday, 03/10/09

Part of love, is a happy compromise.

I dunno where that came from. One of my musings of the day. Haha.

Ok time for some recall. Been studying the whole day today. Finally finished notes for the long and arduous chapter 2!! But but but....it's one only one of the 5 chapters tt I have to study by mon. Sian. Jia you jia you!! Lol.

Action potential: Na gates open and depolarization occurs. When threshold is passed and cell reaches peak, K gates open too. Soma fires electrical signal down axon when it receives enough stimuli. Passed nodes of ranvier. Myelin sheath speeds up transmission. Vesicles in terminal buttons contain neurotransmitters which are released into synapse. 4 things can happen: reuptake, digested by enzymes, cytosis, or binding to receptor sites on post-synaptic membrane.
Whew. Ok I did refer just a teeny bit. Hee.

Layers of brain: Limbic system, brain stem and support system-thalamus and cerebrum.
Limbic system:
hypothalamus-balance body's internal conditions, detect and correct changes.
amygdala-produces fear and apprehension. For long-term mem.
hippocampus-essential for long-term memory, or rather, episodic declarative memory.

brain stem:
pons-nerve fibres, connect brain stem to cerebellum, regulates slp and dreaming.
medulla-regulates body's process outside consciousness.
recticular formation-core of brain stem , controls alertness, directs incoming neural info.

support system:
thalamus-receives incoming msges from brain stem and sends it to parts of brain that are specialised in processing specific info. "central processer".

cerebrum-4 lobes:
frontal- planning, sense of 'self', motor movement, speech.
parietal- sensory, spatial imaging
temporal- auditory
occipital- vision

Ok tt's all..time to go back and revise more =p

Spring Cleaning

2009-09-28T14:51:00.009+08:00

Monday, 28/09/09

Ellyn is back again! Suddenly feel like blogging again, no idea why. Haha. Probably a little sian of studying. Psychology test next Mon, 30% weightage!! (If I didn't get it wrong.) And I've missed like 2 lectures and duno how many tutorials, some coz of public holidays, the rest coz of my hand.

Yup, my hand. Time for some updates. Haha. First month into uni and I've alrd gotten a fracture. When I've been fencing for almost 7 years and have never gotten a frac b4 =_=" Stupid way to injure myself actually. For those interested to know how I injured it, read below:

3/9 (Thur)

Actually, it wasn't even netball . It was just a warm-up prior to being taught the rules of netball, before we started really playing. We were having inter-block games (for my hall, or hostel for those who dunno) about 3 weeks ago, and so I decided to just join in the fun. Well, I tried to block a ball and jumped, but my shoe tripped against the ground when I landed and I just fell backwards. I've never learnt to break a fall backwards, so I ended up landing on my butt and left wrist, but my wrist bore the most of my weight. (I know ppl have reiterated so many times NEVER to break fall with ur hand, but hey, better my wrist than my head or spine right?)

It just started swelling at 2 places almost immediately. But u know, sometimes u injure urself during exercise and it doesn't really hurt coz the endorphins still run in ur blood, so it just felt like a sprain to me at that time. The pain really hit only after a while when I was icing it, and there's this feeling of nausea and dizzines. And there I was thinking it was a bad sprain only.

4/9 (Fri)

So I went to see my sinseh and even he didn't dare to touch it, only wrapping it up with medicine to reduce the swelling. I went for hall ball in a dress and a bandage. Haha.

6/9 (Sun)

I went back to my sinseh, but when the swelling didn't go down, he advised me to take an xray coz it looked like a dislocation. Great. So I went to CGH that night for an xray and they told me a had a minor fracture on one side of my wrist and put a back slab (it's just a slab of plaster on the back of my hand, wrapped up with bandage) to stabilise the bone so it can heal by itself.

7/9 (Mon)

I happily went back to school thinking that my wrist was gonna recover in no time. Then that night, the hospital called and said a bone specialist reviewed my xray, asking me to go back the next day for an appt coz I may need an op. Double great.

8/9 (Tue)

I spent my birthday in the hospital. Lol. Dr Lim, the bone specialist was a funny guy. He was also the same guy who saw my bro, coz he fell 3 days before me, getting a frac and dislocaton in return. Bonus. We're really bro and sis man. Haha. Well, he arranged an op for me coz tt's the only way for me to get 99.9% of my wrist function back (dunno wad's the 0.1% tho), and I really want that, otherwise, I cant even rotate my wrist next time. Seems like I fractured the radial bone and ulna bone, but the ulna fragment was displaced, tt's why I needed the op. So he's gonna put in wires (he initially wanted to put plates but changed his mind) to stabilise the bone.

11/9 (Fri)

Went to the hospital in the morning. My op was scheduled at 9pm, but the previous op was delayed, so I ended up having it at 3plus instead. And imagine how hungry I was coz I fasted from 12am the night before. Lucky my stomach didn't growl when I was gg into the operating theatre. Haha. Anw, I was under general anethesia, so I had no idea wad happened after they injected smth into my hand and asked me to breathe from a mask. I guess the worst thing about the op is not being able to eat. Haha. Damn sian, coz the next food I had after fasting for 18 hours was broccoli, and I was trying so hard to keep it in aft my first bite. Lol.

I stayed overnight and that was actually my first exp of staying in a hospital (apart from the one time that I stayed too when I was very very young and I forgot for wad). Then the nurse kept coming in to check my vital signs lol and inject antibiotic thru the IV thing (bleh) throughout the night. I got discharged the next day. Yay! And went walking around Tampines with my mum. Haha. A big THANK YOU to my mum for being so supportive, she's been running to and fro the hospital for me and my bro during her sept holidays.

Anyway, they cleaned my wound before I went back home, so I had a glimpse of what they did to my wrist.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING. YOU CAN OPT NOT TO VIEW IT IF IT UPSETS YOU OR IF U REALLY CANNOT TAKE IT.

When they took the bandage out, u can imagine my expression. My jaw was hanging. I didn't expect wires to be sticking out of my hand. Gross. But I've gotten used to it. Haha. Just dun come near me now, coz I'm a live wire. Hahaha.

Well that's roughly all. I'm on the road to recovery now, so when Dr Lim takes out my wires at the end of next month, I'll be able to go back to fencing! (Lucky it was my left wrist, not right, haha.) But byebye cheerleading =( I can't support my own weight that soon yet, so next year ba!

I got in!!

2009-06-08T01:44:00.005+08:00

Monday, 08/06/09

Gonna start school in early Aug, for those peepz who are wondering.
I was so thrilled when I received NTU's msg! Haha. Whoohoo! Ok the thrill was like a week ago, but I'm still feeling excited tt I'm gonna experience campus life. Haha.

For the lag time before going to uni, I'm currently holding a waitress job. Now I know F&B is never easy, but it's interesting gettin to know food- and people of coz, haha- especially customers who appreciate ur service.

Oh yeah, and the reason I wanted to blog today is tt I just wanted to say...
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I feel that I'm very lucky.

Hahaha. Seriously, all the good things in my life--my friends, my nice managers at work, my education pathway (even though I did regret not gg to poly), and last but not least, my very supportive family.

Guess I can say I kinda grew up these 2 years and am still growing, learning lots of things along the way. It's like I now know that the world isn't what I used to think it was-just right or wrong, black or white. Yeah, true that GP teaches us that, but it's one thing to just apply it in essays, and another to experience it for urself.

One thing that's stuck in my mind right now is this quote: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved." ~Eden Ahbez (later used in Moulin Rouge too). Dun ask me why, I dunno. Haha. It's just stuck there like cotton candy on ur tongue.

I went on a baking spree the past few days..

2009-03-10T15:06:00.006+08:00

Tuesday, 10/03/09

Bread and butter pudding (1/4 of them in stomachs):

The original look:

'Nuts about u' (they're actually just alomond cookies but tt name popped into my mind)

The makings of my first-time-tried cookies. They look like scallops.

Tea bread, in other words, fruit cake, but butterless:

Chocolate banana cake:

Back to Basics

2009-03-03T10:36:00.010+08:00

Tuesday, 03/03/09

Why is it just so hard to install a new blog template? Spent like one hour trying to find nice templates and there's just some error one way or another. Ok fine I'm a blog idiot. Haha.

Anyway, I went for work last sat. Working at SCH has really opened my eyes to the kind of Singaporeans we have here. Since we weren't given instructions to open the doors yet, a huge crowd started gathering outside, until it became impossible to queue anymore. Can you imagine--a curious lady who was wondering why the doors haven't opened came into the hall. And couldn't get out. That was the crowd size. Well, the problem was coz it was free seating, so it was first-come-first-to-choose-best-seats kinda thing.

So when me and Bryce opened the doors, it was quite overwhelming to face a big, and angry crowd. I felt like we were at the frontline. They started questioning why were the doors opened so late, complaining about how it's impossble to queue already, blah blah, and before we unblocked the door, one lady told the guy in front of her "I was here first". I mean, c'mon la, the doorway's jammed with people, unhappy and disgruntled ones at that, and she's worried about one person going in before her when she's the second one to choose from hundreds of other seats. =_= Another lady really made the punch line: "Who ask you all to open the doors so late? See what you get? Gate jam." Ouch. That really spiked my anger. The stage wasn't even ready, how to open the doors? But then again, customers are always right. Retaliating when there're so many other annoyed people behind her would be stupid.

Welcome to Singapore, lady.

Ok, enough complaints. Haha. Yesterday, I met up with Nan Xiao and Delia for bb. Jun Ying was supposed to come, but I guess history does repeats itself for her. Lol. We met a yellow ladybird and Delia started talking to it.

After that I went for trng at PRCS. Seriously, I get more bruises and injuries there than at Tanglin. Haha.

Oh ya..I cooked dinner the other night with my bro's help. Ok it wasn't exactly cook, since all I need to do was to heat up the pizza and the soup haha, but at least I made the salad. Ta-da!

Sorry, can't get the tuna salad to turn the right side up.

And I'm finally doing cross-stitch once again!! After neglecting it for like 5, 6 years? Haha.

Ok time to go. Ciao!

Reality check

2009-02-17T22:57:00.006+08:00

Tuesday, 17/02/09

Sometimes I just wonder why there's so much to complain about life. The mess in the house. The bad economy. The rising cost of living. Household chores. So much that it's filling my ears up with wax. Haiz..the practicalitites of life. Can't people just appreciate that they're alive and kicking? Apparently that's not enough.

Anyway...back to the reality of life. The tuition agency didn't get back to me, so I guess giving tuition's out. Back to looking for vacancies at bakeries. Haha. having a part time job only is really boring, coz most of the time I'm moulting at home. (My mum's complaining that my hair is dropping all over the floor.)

Ok enough complaining. Just for laughs: The new head rotation warm-up. (Sorry, gotta turn ur head sideways to view it.)

Update

2009-02-08T21:58:00.009+08:00

Sunday, 08/02/09

Hi guys, I'm back! Yeah I know, I haven't updated for eons. Haha.

Chinese new year came and is going--tmr's the last day already. This year I managed to put up some deco to get into the mood. Haha. But my painting's still half-done. Ok I wouldn't even consider that half, it's just my ceiling haha. But hey, it's tiring man. Here are some casualties of my painting endeavour:

But no matter how tiring it is, there's a sense of accomplishment after every paint job well done. Haha.

Ok, life's the same. Waiting for A level results (with nail-biting tension lol), part time at SCH, and fencing's still what's occupying me mainly now. In addition to cooking and baking haha. Cooked dinner on thurs night--mashed potatoes, 2-mushroom spinach , winter melon soup and our very own home-made yu sheng! It was really good (not that I'm praising myself lol) but but but...I forgot to take pictures! Urgh. That aside, trng last tues was fun! We played captain's ball instead and I've had much more fun at it than at soccer. Not to mention lots of laughing from funny things that happen--goalies falling off the chairs (but landing safely), players going for the ball and knocking each other instead, and having the ball rebounding off someone's head. Lol.

Anyway, saw this monitor lizard at my house's long kang just now. It came out of the water just to slither its tongue at me and my mum, before going back to the rubbish-strewn water.

Should be the water monitor? Haha..not sure. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Well, the other day the female was a little agitated and I should say, horny. Haha. She kept trying to mount the male. (Shouldn't it be the other way round?) I seriously duno why she's like that. Maybe it's the time of the month. Lol. Ok serious, maybe it's the food she ate. Too many gua zi. Haha.

Oh yeah , and the Hua Yi Chinese Arts Festival at Esplanade the other day. Didn't get my fav part, but this is quite good too. The sound quality isn't that good of course--nothing can be compared to watching them perform in front of you, hearing the sound reverberate through your eardrums. Enjoy!

A new year!

2009-01-11T20:54:00.005+08:00

Sunday, 11/01/09

Okok since somebody asked me to update, I shall. Haha.

2008 has just came and gone. Can't believe that I've finished my A's. Can't believe that it's finally holidas for me now!! Ok, not that I've been doing a lot during my hols, just lots of slacking around and playing, but it's really a huge relief to not have to think about tutorials all the time.

Decided to revamp my room, paint the whole house (but havent really got started yet), and take one step at a time for other things. Cleaned the house a little. Got a part time job. Pulled my neck during fencing (coz I was craning my neck the past few days to scrap the cornices). And got really confused one time. But well, that's all in 2008. 2009's gona bring me romance. Yeah right. Lol. Got that from the feng shui event I was doing the other day. So all horses look out, you may meet the One. Hahaha.

Anyway, a new year, a fresh start. What happened last year belongs to last year. I hope. And what is new year without new year resolutions? Haha. I wun make many for myself, coz really, they're not easy to keep. The only one I'll put here is to be true to my own feelings, and regardless of what kinda choices I make in the future, I'll make sure I'll think twice. No, thrice. Hmm..other than that, the usual I guess.

Ok shall end here now. Not much to blog about, or maybe not much inspiration today. Haha.

To everyone, I know it's kinda late, But HAPPY 2009 and all the best for the new year!!

Hot Tuesday

2008-11-25T13:45:00.002+08:00

Random title haha...coz the weather's crazy nowadays.

Anyway, just a post on the noisy couple in my house. They never fail to make some noise in the morning, so my mum will give them a bath to keep them quiet.

Luo tang niao.

~I'm a rock star...~

Charming eh?

Can't wait for Twilight to come out! Looks like a cool movie. Having a 90 year-old vampire fall in love with a girl and woo her the way people did back in the olden days. No wonder girls are swooning over him haha. Besides..a vampire movie is never dull. Ah..too bad it's gona come out in dec..cant watch it this friday.

Ok will blog another time. Sayo!

Day out

2008-11-22T22:47:00.004+08:00

Today went to Parkway Parade with my mum..the usual shopping around. But guess what, I saw Daniel! Haha. He came to tap on my bag at Borders, told me he was meeting his friend, then went off shortly after that. Then after that we went Isetan..and I saw him and his friend. Me and my mum went Giant, and turning a corner at the wine area, I saw him and his friend again. Haha. Hmm..Daniel have u been stalking me? Lol.

Have I ever mentioned how irritating it is to develop a cough right after your exams are over? That's what happened to me. People enjoying holidays and I'm here have my throat tickled by who-knows-what viruses. Sian...faster cough, go away..

On our way home, my mum spotted a rainbow!

Isn't that clear coz it was fading alrd.

I like this man...tumultuous clouds..but it was after the rain alrd haha.

This one's like Sauron's eye in LOTR lol!

Ok this time is a short one only..coz nth much to blog about. Good night!

Revival?

2008-11-21T16:05:00.013+08:00

Hi guys..I'm back! Finally over and done with A levels whoo! Haha. Duno if I did ok or not, but I did my best...so the rest is up to those cambridge markers spending winter marking our papers.

Went for the fencing camp the past 3 days (sorry didn't take any pictures). Sad to say, not many seniors attended. Graduates yes, but those from the first few batches who'd make the camp fun weren't there. Anyway, as usual the first day was beach training at sentosa. After the physical training we had some water footwork. Yep..doing fencing footwork in water. Later, they were all free to play, so some of us played volleyball with the teachers. I ended up nursing a bruise coz the ball kept hitting the same bony spot. Haha.

The second day was internal competition. I wanted to help with the presiding actually, but by the time I reached there they were ending already =_= Ok I probably went too late haha. We free-fenced after dinner...Gerald came back to fence too! But that was all of the sabre grads..our graduated juniors were also mia haha.

I stayed the night there...not sleeping, but going out for supper with the rest and then playing cards. Only had 2h of sleep...even I amaze myself. Anyway, Crystal told me the next day that the previous night she tried calling me, but I didn't receive any call. She even told me I msged her. Then after much confusion, we realized that she called my old phone no. which is currently being used by my bro, and it was him who replied Crystal with a "who are u?" sms. And we thought it was some supernatural force at work.

Last day always ends with the external comp and this time other than Tanglin, MJC ppl came too--4 lady sabreurs only though haha. Coach didn't want unfair advantage, so instead of having me and Eve in one team, he split us up..and we met in semi-finals. How nice. And as always in internal comps, I lost to her again. Maybe I was too gan chiong..and too tired I guess.

This time's camp wasn't as fun as the previous ones...maybe coz there was too much free time. I stilll rmb for my batch, there was a time limit for our showers haha. Then Mr Neo will 'tekan' one or more levels coz we didn't clean up something properly, or took too long to fall in, or one person did smth stupid and sabo-ed the whole level. Haha. Wadever it is, he'll surely find a reason to teach us things the hard way.

Ok time for some other updates...my mum brought me and my bro to the Biennale last sunday. Quite interesting..even though I'm dun really know how to appreciate art haha. But it's really fun trying to figure out what the artist is trying to convey thru the art work. Got some pics!! The rest are in the video cam..which I'm too lazy to upload haha.

This was made by yarn.

Evry one of these is a different species of flower. What's so interesting is tt when u walk to the other side of the exibit, the back of the flowers are gray. It's underlying meaning is smth like Renewal .

I like this one..reminds me of the native headgear haha.

Ever wondered what'll you do if you're alone on this never-ending road?

This one's one of my favs too. Just too bad tt there's the reflection.

This piece implies the damage and the stress one's body goes thru as a dancer..the amount of strain one has to put on the body. Those are actually bungee ropes.

This one isnt an art work, but look at the way the paint covers the roots of the plant haha..like it's become part of the wall.

It's meant to be an illusion..when u look thru the 'mirror', u're supposed to see urself, but u see it only at the far end, which is actually another room. Brilliant eh?

Me and my bro ended up taking pics of one another.

This swing's actually swingin...I din take a video coz it looks creepier this way haha.

My mum's masterpiece--Chocolate meets coffee.

Ferrari spiker. Cool car...I had to wait for a mother to take a pic of her sons with the car before i could get a shot of this.

Ok gtg! Tata!

Dead blog

2008-10-07T22:41:00.004+08:00

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Lyn's blog is currently dead and unable to be revived. Please wait for the period of A levels to be over to see some signs of life.

LOL.

New skin!

2008-09-18T13:24:00.002+08:00

This is a rather plain skin haha. But I havent got the time to design one or look for one that I like. Guess I'm too choosy. Sorry about the crampness haha..will do smth abt it next time. After I learn how to edit the html.

Ok tmr's the last day of prelims!! Haha. 2 more papers left--and they're both MCQ papers...spaced 5 hours apart -_- Think I'm just gona go home first then return to school in the afternoon. After that will be relax relax relax lol. For a while ba..then back to mugging for As again. But I love my post prelims timetable!! Shiok..finish early almost everyday. My earliest time before the prelims was like..3pm? And some people end lessons at 11.40 (but the gate only opens at 12.30 which I dun understand why actually). Hahaha..nvm finally I get my turn to end school early whohoo! Lol ok I'm getting high probably coz I've never gotten a good timetable since J1. And the fact that rest is coming. Haha.

During my study break...

2008-09-15T16:35:00.003+08:00

It wasn't all studying for me during this period. I duno how anyone can do that haha. My butt'll cramp and my back will creak man.

So I gladly helped my bro with his voodoo doll, coz he accidentally pulled the eyes, I mean thread, out. He choose the wrong thread colour, so it turned out like this:

Meet Mr Poop Eyes

There's some ominous feeling here...

Ha! My sixth snese was right!

Then made some tian tang coz I usually get heaty during exam periods. STRESSSSS. This jelly-like thing's called pong da hai, and it's amazing watching them expand from the size of a 10 cent coin to this.

Other than domestic chores, I went swimming with my mum and bro too!

Mr Cool

Oops..candid shot! Haha. My mum wasn't ready for the camera. But it was the only pic which she did look at the camera.

I've been asking people what they'll want to do after A's, coz I'm bound to be temporarily lost, with so much free time suddenly. Most of them said they'll work. And I guess that's wad I'm gona do also, earn some money and not keep asking for pocket money from my parents. But first, I'm gona play till I'm exhuasted first. Haha.

Some update

2008-09-15T14:19:00.010+08:00

Hey guys..havent been online for quite some time..well glad to say that prelims are almost over. 3 more papers! When the results are back it'll be another nightmare haha.

Anyway..went marine parade with my mum on sat for her retail therapy lol. There was some exhibition for the upcoming F1 race..it's like the hot topic now. Gona be on 28 Sep I think. I was asking my mum if we can stand some place where we'll be able to watch the passing F1s, then she retorted, you think they'll let you watch free show? Like that they wun be selling tickets alrd. Yeah. Right true. Haha. Here're some pics:

At first I thought it was some paper model coz it looked so flat from the side, then I realised it's not -_-

Then after shopping, we decided to walk to Eunos mrt station. Yup, from marine parade. The last time we did it, we took about half an hour. This time, we took an hour plus, coz along the way we stopped at:

Cold Storage (coz Guardian was inside)
Guardian (coz my mum wanted panadol)
7-11(to get her panadol, coz for duno wad reason she didn't get it at Guardian)
Obolo (we saw some advert along the way and I decided to check it out)
NTUC Express (coz I was thristy)

Can't get the pics for the cakes at Obolo, so go to this website if u're interested =) http://www.obolo.com.sg/ The cakes are really expensive, but we didn't eat there. I just wanted to see wad they're like haha.
Then I saw this; it was next to Obolo. The translation's funny lol.

We saw this expensive-looking taxi too, parked beside a coffee shop. A Chrysler seh..the meter starts ticking from 5 bucks.

See how troublesome it is to go shopping with women? We walk everywhere haha.

The picturesque sky made good photos, so I took some. That was when we started walking to Eunos mrt.

After coming out from NTUC, the bright blue sky became this:

This was three quarters of our journey. And nope, that isn't the sun, it's the streetlamp.

About 10 minutes later, we saw the moon.

By the time we reached Eunos mrt, it was 7.30pm alrd. Dead beat when I got home haha.

Anyway, a little on my "family". These lovebirds really relish the freedom they get once in a while. And it gets pretty funny when they start doing things. Like this:

The female one only wants to fold papers, and the male one just wants to chew pieces off to decorate his feathers. Then they get into each other's way.

Ok too many things in one post..I'll update in another one.

Wall.E

2008-09-04T12:14:00.008+08:00

Went to watch Walle with my mum at E!Hub on tuesday night. Yup, since I cant study much at night. Lyn ah excuses only. Haha. First time watching a night movie..but well at least it took my mind off the pile of notes, files, tys, guidebooks, wadevernots at home.

It's a must-catch movie! It's not just a robot kinda movie where all you hear is diu-diu-diu (robot speech). Walle is a really humanised robot who holds sentimental value for, uh junk. And Eve (E-va) of course. Ok shall not spoil it for those who've not watched it. Just feel that it's quite a meanful movie and makes one reflect. Very touching too. It's like a simplified version of how one falls in love haha. And if robots can hold thru that much difficulty, why not humans? Oh yeah, and can you imagine one day when humans become so reliant on technology that they do everything for you -from travelling down to brushing your teeth-that you realize that you can walk. Or dance. Or flip a book. Urk. Being so inactive makes me shuuder.

And that is why I can't stand exam periods. Sitting down and studying for hours straight is killing me. My back hurts. Argh..stretch stretch. Not to mention that trying to tackle all your J1 and J2 work which you have studied for less than 2years can be quite overwhelming at times. Ok thou shalt not lament. Just 2 months+ more to the end of this whole 'experience'! Man, I can't wait for As to finish.

Stress reliver

2008-08-25T07:59:00.008+08:00

Hola! I was printing out some things for chem and checking my mail. Couldn't help but had to post this..I'm not racist though haha. This is hilarious!

****** MUTHU & THE INTERVIEWER*
Interviewer : 'What is your birth date?'
Muthu : '13th October.'
Interviewer : 'Which year?'
Muthu : 'Every year.'

****** MUTHU & HIS MANAGER*
The Manager asked Muthu at an interview, 'Can you spell a word that has more than 100 letters in it?'
Muthu replied: 'P-O-S-T-B-O-X.'

****** MUTHU & LONDON TRIP*
After returning from a foreign trip, Muthu asked his wife, 'Do I look like a foreigner?'
Wife: 'No! Why?'
Muthu : 'In London , a lady asked me, 'Are you a foreigner?' That's why.'
Wife : ?????????

****** MUTHU & TOURIST*
A tourist from U.S.A. asked Muthu whether any great man was born in his village, and Muthu said, 'No sir, only babies were born here.'

****** MUTHU & HIS EXPERIMENT*
Muthu was doing an experiment with a cockroach.
First he cut off one leg and told it to 'WALK! WALK!' The cockroach walked. Then he cut off its second leg and commanded the same thing. The cockroach walked. Then he cut off the third leg and did the same. The cockroached continued walking. Finally, he cut off its fourth leg and ordered it 'walk!' But the cockroach didn't walk.
Suddenly, Muthu said loudly, 'I found it. If we cut off a cockroach's four legs, it becomes deaf.'

****** MUTHU & DRIVER*
When Muthu was travelling with his wife in a motorised tricycle, the driver adjusted the mirror. Muthu shouted, 'You are trying to see my wife, eh? Sit in the back. I will drive.'

****** MUTHU GOES TO HOTEL*
Muthu went into a hotel. To wash his hands, he went to the washbasin. Then when he had finished, he started washing the basin.
Seeing this, the manager asked what was he doing. Muthu pointed towards the signboard 'WASH BASIN'.

****** MUTHU & INTERVIEWER - FINAL PART*
Interviewer : 'Just imagine you're in the 20th floor of a building and it's on fire. How will you escape?'
Muthu: 'It's simple. I will just stop my imagination.'

Study Break!

2008-08-23T22:14:00.010+08:00

Hey guys! I'm back! Haha.
It's been a pretty fast Term 3. 9 weeks gone just like that and just 2 more weeks to prelims, but luckily that 2 weeks dun have to be spent waking up at 5.45am and staying 7 or more hours at school. Shoot..must be studying too much maths so many numericals appearing lol.

Soooo much has happened since I last blogged. I'll just talk about a few significant things ba, since with my kind of memory I doubt I'll be able to rmb much also.

Staff Day Celebrations

CG 15/07 had teachers' day celebrations at the marquee on Wed at lunchtime, and we ordered pizzas! Talk about S'pore's kiasuism...we wanted to order in the morning at 7+am in case the pizzas couldn't come on time, only to realise that the pizza place only opens at 10.30am =_=

It was nothing fanciful, just a way of thanking Mr Ng for being there for our class and helping us so much. Chun Han and Yu Bing brought mats, so we had a picnic-style lunch. But the mats couldn't fit everyone, so some of us had to stand. After that, some of us decided play 'pepsi cola', and I couldn't have missed out on the fun. I was reminded of the time back in primary school when we used to do that during some recesses. The thrill of trying to avoid getting stepped by others, then 'finishing' others off. Haha.

It was also 'Be-yourself-day', where each class has to come out with $20 which'll go to the President Challenge fund. It's optional, and our class was one of the 2 or 3 J2 classes which participated? Lol. And we thought we got the day to dress up on wrong. Then we came up with a sub-theme of "Black and/or white" under the main theme of "Party!" It was quite cool actually, witth the whole class mianly in these 2 colours only. Photos will be up when my class uploads them haha.

National Day Fireworks Display

Would you believe if I said this year was the first time I've witnessed fireworks up close? Probably not haha. I've missed my Primary 5 one coz I had fever. Even my 73-year-old grandma has watched live fireworks display before lo. So I decided to go to Raffles this year to catch the show. Too bad reached there late or else could have gotten a better view from the riverside, but anyway, it was magnificent! That's the naive response from a mountain tortoise who sees fireworks for the first time in her life. But really, the explosion of colours, and even the thunderous booms which reverberates in the heart was really worth the standing there. Besides, the company was great too!

Random stuff

My sony phone spoilt, and after sending it for repair, they called up and said it was beyond repair. That's why also no pics =( So I guess I'll be getting a new plan and phone. Any recommendations?

My bro, mum and dad were watching Red Cliff which my mum rented, and the ending of the show was abrupt. Then they realised it wasn't the whole movie; only part of it was out on VCD they watched. Now they gota wait for the next part to come out. 浪费精神 was what my dad said lol.

陶喆's songs are actually quite nice! I was listening to some just now.

Had 2 really weird dreams (ok dreams forever dun make sense, so they are weird) in a month. Correlation between dreams and stress? Haha.

Cool! I just discovered that by pressing the ctrl key, some circle will come out at the point where your mouse is!

Ok it'll probably be a long time before I blog another time, so to those who are having holidays now, enjoy the 2 months! Haha. I'm so envious. To peepz who's got over what they've been mulling over about, I'm glad for you. To her who's found her happiness, cherish it but dun worry so much! To 15/07 and my other JC frens, work hard and jia you for prelims/promos! To the one who doubles my joys and halves the sorrows, thank you!

Long time no blog!

2008-07-24T21:33:00.003+08:00

Hey guys...just back for some quick update. Seems like this blog's dead when I'm not around haha.

I came back from FSI with a bronze for senior team and silver for juniors team! The medal from the open wasn't as satisfying as the one from juniors, even though we got to fence the Koreans for open. I guess it's partly fear that we lost so badly..and wad's the use of reflecting now and saying I should have done this or that? Like Eve said, on the piste, we only have that 5 points to think about wad we can do, and I guess the rest is up to your reflex and quick thinking.

On the other hand, I had a hell of a time for juniors. Lol. Never in my 5-reaching-6 years of fencing life have I shouted so much. For some, it may even be the first time they heard my voice during a bout haha. Sure it feels really good to shout for every point you get, but it's quite exhausting too..by the time we got into finals, the tiredness was setting in. Of course, it was probably also the insufficient sleep the night before. We were playing dai di and slap jack at midnight in the room we stayed over at NTU? The night before our competition somemore haha. Then again, it was probably the adrenaline that kept me going. The fire, the will to win, the triumph...everything packed into that 15 points you fence for your team. What's so sastifying was that we won the Hong Kong team which had the left-hander I lost to in top 16 for indiv, the one which we didn't think we could win. Now I know that nothing's impossible. We lost to the nat team though...nvm, there's always another time when we can prove ourselves.

That 2 days had been great..although I didn't make as many new friends as Eve, Bryce or Naz, who were like on the top of the world coz they exchanged contacts with some friends from Hong Kong. Ahem. Haha.

Now it's back to schoolwork again. 5 more weeks left in school before prelims! J2 life will be over very soon..I can't wait! Haha. But first, there's A levels to conquer! I better start picking up the pace soon... Ok this is getting boring..I know I can see you yawning. Lol. Will update again if I have time. Tata!

Advent of FSI

2008-07-12T08:14:00.010+08:00

Well..it's a day before FSI team event for me. Not that I'm scared, just a little excited since there might be a chance of being up against top Asian fencers. Good experience haha. I know..it's kinda near my prelims and I really should be gearing up for revision, not spending so much time on fencing anymore, but fencing has been like a part of my life ever since Sec1, and I dun think I've ever taken a very long break from it before. The longest was 3 months? (with occasional trainings I think..or not. Can't rmb) Asking me to stop is like taking food from a person...still can survive, but not for long haha. Ok not that serious. It's really good exercise, and a revenue for destressing. I'd love to go back once a week still just to free-fence after this FSI, but I doubt I'd have the time. Hmm...see how it goes.

Why does work always come in humongous truckloads whenever you have the least time to do it? It's like they know I wun be in school next Tue and Wed coz of FSI Jrs and they choose to knock on my door and say, "Hello! Please complete me by this and this date." Great. Now I'm personifying work. Too much Lit haha.

Walking really does one good. The other day after the long lectures in school, I took a relaxing walk in the park on my way back home, and I made a friend! Ok..2 actually, but one was more friendly than the other.

My good friend! Didn't think it was a cat right?

The Shy Friend

I realized that beauty is actually all around us. That sounds cliche, but it's true. Really..if you just stand still and look around you, you'll realize that there are so many beautiful things in life. And I realize that I'm really lucky actually? I've got my family, lots of good friends, a sturdy roof over my head, good food, material stuff even. Guess that walk sorta inspired me. Or rather, it brought out that part of me which laid buried under tons of work such that there wasn't really much time to appreciate life. Try it. Just take a walk at the park and dun think about work. Even 10 minutes will refresh you. Some other take-aways from the walk:

See the black streaks? Fishes at the longkang near my house...protecting their nests (circular shapes) I think?

And the longkang! Actually it does hold nice scenic views.. (In case u're wondering, it's not photoshop-ed. The daylight came out funny..like too bright.)

Some other random stuff.....

See..even a rainbow appears at the most mundane place. (Reflection from Junying's bottle..during GP so I had to take it quickly b4 Mdm Lim caught me with my phone haha.)

This is what crazy people with long hair do...like mother like daughter:

Anyway, I got a new pair of specs ytd! Kind of a classy look. Ok so random haha. Yesterday my bro was playing the PS2. You know that kinda wrestling games where they show your character and you can choose his pose while deciding his appearance..and yup, he was making this poor guy do funny things. (Sorry you gota watch it sideways coz I duno how to rotate it.)

Ok gota do lots of work now..duno if can complete them in time though. Hmm...just try my best. The current song playing now kept playing itself over and over again in my head ever since that time my bro let me listened to it. I knew that song, but after such a long time not listening to it, hearing it again is nice. Enjoy!

12 July morning was significant for me. Ask me if you want, but I may not tell you. Haha.

Early morn blogging

2008-07-07T02:28:00.008+08:00

Just some update today ba. I'm fencing FSI open and FSI Juniors indiv and team! Actually didn't want to fence juniors, after the small turnout for asian schs last year, but since this year there're more people, and FS has made the price more reasonable, why not? Schoolwork is another problem, but I guess I'll cope. Somehow. My results quite 'pretty'..some haven't got back yet though, so maybe still got some hope haha.

Today went City Hall with my mum on the hunt for saga seeds. That day went Paya lebar but couldn't find any. Trust me in one thing: Perseverance really pays off. I wanted to search for a while more near the church at City Hall, but my mum keep saying she's tired, then just when we were about to leave, she saw the saga tree! Or the seed first. I duno. But I was so elated to have found them! Just that I was so happy picking them that I got bitten by a red ant =_=

I discovered some labels from Sheng Siong which are quite funny.

They call passion fruits: fruits...

And biscuits: breakfast

Ok maybe not so funny..but a little weird.

Then the little lovebirds at home are my family's laughter medicine. This is dedicated to them:

The giant and the tiny.

Peek-a-boo!

The Bird

Acrobatics

So you think you're at the top of the world eh?

Strong hold

And having little quarrels that are actually a microcosm of what me and my bro always do.

Ok that's all! Videos take so long to load..if not I would've uploaded more. Anyway time for me to sleep too. Hah see someone say I always *doze off early..I've proven you wrong. Hahaha.

The advent of A level preparations

2008-06-30T17:31:00.004+08:00

Today is the first day of school since the holidays! No count for JCTs. It's back to the lectures and tutorials again, this time with additional lectures in the afternoon for different subjects. That means, I end about 4+ or 5+ everyday! I'll be looking forward to after NAPFA test, when there are no more group PEs and I can finally have an early day! But then, there wun be anymore class games together, that is unless the class wants to play... Actually school's not that bad la..with so many good friends (and some eccentric ones like Farah who was trying to imagine school as a musical), learning new things together is kinda exciting in another light.

Like the Physics practical today. It was meant as a fun practical, meaning we dun have to study it or anything, just experiment with smth we've never done before. And boy was it really smth I've never seen before. Some zenon stroboscope and sonometer experiment..sounds like some alien language haha. I shall not go into details or I'll really be speaking alien. I guess that's the last practical we'll be having, given that all our SPAs are now over. (Yes!)

Anyway, the bbq at Dennis' place last Sat was probably one of the most fun bbqs I've had, although part of food planning was dedicated to me. We decided to shop for stuff at E!Hub's NTUC..and it's was actually my first time at that NTUC even though it's just like 5 min's walk from my house? Haha. Oh yeah, Bryce and Daniel, if you're reading this, I DO NOT have maternal instincts ok! Calling me MOM makes me sound old lol. I just happen to do more grocery shopping than you guys. The rest came later to help carry the stuff and it was a 8-ppl strong team bringing the food all the way to Dennis' place. On the bus to his place, an old Indian lady beside me started chatting with me and she said she was going to Rivervale too..but she didn't mention it was Rivervale DRIVE and not Rivervale LINK, so we got down the same bus stop as her since she offered to bring us to the condo. In the end, we were actually short of a few more stops to Dennis' place. Sorry guys..made you get down at the wrong stop haha. We took a taxi there eventually.

The sight of the swimming pool greeted us the moment we entered the condo., but the bbq pit was at the back of some other condos. I really like the narrow walkway to the bbq pit man..with the trees by the side, the shadiness and the wind blowing, there's a touch of nature there which is so seldom seen in this city of infrastructures.

Anyway, we started preparing food and even Edwin who didn't know what to do and said "too many cooks spoil the brooth" (--oops broth. Haha!) chipped in here and there. That's why I really like this bbq. Everybody had a hand in it and I duno if anybody noticed, but the teamwork was really there. We finished the amount of work which would take 2 ppl 2 hours in about 45min i think. Plus I guess everyone had some fun in helping to prepare.

After that we went swimming and the guys did funny things, like trying to stand on top of each other? Later we challenged each other to see who can swim underwater water the furthest and I didn't do too bad actually..but Dennis got furthest, followed by Ed, then me! Haha..consolation prizes to Bryce and Harshan lol. Dan was mia coz of his accident proneness..how did you manage to cut ur feet leh? But then again, the tiles weren't that user-friendly also. Later on, Bryce had leg cramps coz he swam too vigorously. (Eh he lied to me said he can't swim! The skills suddenly came to him. Haha.) Looks like swimming is quite a dangerous sport lol. Then we raced each other the breadth of the swimming pool..Ed and Harshan raced freestyle then me and Ed raced frogkick. Lost to him miserably..he still can stand up and slowly walk to the end. But hey, my freestyle won his frogkick and I was just a little behind him for freestyle haha.

After that was just eating and bbqing and chatting. Then they started drinking..and poor Jeremy was made drunk again..like the previous DP bbq haha. The funniest was Derrick..a bit high already then keep telling me he's not drunk, but purposely call me by the wrong name. He couldn't even walk straight when we were going back lol. In the end, the security guard had to ask us to leave coz we were making too much noise..and it ended too soon I felt. Just as well..since the west side people stay so far away. Sharmaine's mum was very nice to fetch the pasir ris people back, but 5 of us had to squeeze behind. But I'm still grateful for that..coz we didn;t have to wait for buses haha. Thanks Sharmaine and Sharmaine's mum!

It was a really great bbq and I really had a lot of fun! Thnaks Dennis for booking the pit too!

Ok..time for dinner!

Laughter for the soul

2008-06-25T23:16:00.011+08:00

Tmr's the last paper! And it's Physics. A subject I'm not so good at. Ok actually it's kinda easy to grasp concepts and understand them, if more time is given. And time is what we're seeming to lack most of the time. Confused? Haha..me too. I'm just rambling on and on..must be exam high that just removes the sensible part of one's brain due to too much studying and regurgitating. My thinking actually slowed?! That's why too much studying is bad for one. Ok that's just Ellyn's hypothesis, not proven yet.

Anyway, just came online to distract myself. I'm not really prepared for Physics, but that's just myself to blame for not managing my time properly during the hols. And see what I found! It's actually a joke about speaking without first thinking and it's really hilarious! I just took some parts of it though. (A great way to exercise your abs!):

FIRST TESTIMONY:
I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow
and asked loudly,
'How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?'
I turned around and walked back out and never went back
My husband didn't say a word...
he knew better.

SECOND TESTIMONY:
I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls.
I was unhappy with the women's type I had been using.
After browsing for several minutes,
I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store.
He asked if he could help me.
Without thinking, I looked at him and said, 'I think I like playing with mens' balls.

THIRD TESTIMONY:
My sister and I were at the mall and
passed by a store that sold a
variety of candy and nuts.
As we were looking at the display case,
the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help.
I replied, 'No, I'm just looking at your nuts.'
My sister started to laugh hysterically.
The boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away.
To this day,
my sister has never let me forget.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST TESTIMONY:
This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days
and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will,
in the future, likely think before she speaks.
What happens when you predict snow but don't get any!
We had a female news anchor that,
the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't,
turned to the weatherman and asked:
'So Bob, where's that 8 inches you promised me last night?'
Not only did HE have to leave the set,
but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!

The puffer fish's just for laughs, to fit this post. Ah..it's feels good to laugh so much once in a while. Hope you all had a great laugh reading this. Time for me to sleep! Sayo!

Day before Judgement

2008-06-23T07:22:00.005+08:00

Well...Judgement day is just looming around the corner!! Okok it's not A levels yet, just JCTs. Guess there may be some people looking forward to it, since it is one of the checkpoints along the A level route to determine how far one has gone.

And here I am, in front of the com this morning before the CT, blogging. Haha. Think I'll just finish up revision for math during the day and stone in front of the tv tonight, watching sutucd(so you think you can dance). No use cramming things before the exams since it wun get in. I sound relaxed right? Wrong. Ytd had a hard time sleeping coz of so many things running through my head. Or maybe it's just the effect of doing Math before sleeping. I wish the song playing right now would be what I think after I get my results back. Or maybe not haha.

Argh I hate exam periods. Miss family time, miss fencing, miss running around, miss day-dreaming, miss activities. miss fun! Tell me again why S'pore's education system is reputed as the best.

Countdown: 3 days

2008-06-22T03:12:00.000+08:00

3 more days to JCTs! And I haven't covered everything. Great. Sometimes I really want to curse and swear (except that I dun) at the education system. The realisation struck me that day that all we do is understand and memorise the 'standard' answer..we dun really put what we learn into application (or maybe it's just me). It's only during one of those rare chances that I do smth and then 'Ooh this is what I learn in class!' that I truly understand wadever we're studying. Do you know Finnish kids are the smartest so far in the world? They start schooling only at 7-years-old..and they're still enjoying teenager life and stuff. Read here if you want to know more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120425355065601997.html

Compare this with S'pore. There's this girl who's only 6-years-old and is probably even busier than me during school hols. http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/pdf/20080601/victoria.pdf
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_243250.html
This is plain scary..I'm lucky my parents didn't believe in so many classes at such a young age for me and my bro. I was still running around the playground playing 'Blind mice' when I was Pri 6 haha. Ok enough about education. What's more important is learning and getting to use the knowledge isn't it?

Time to go study soon again..lucky ytd had trng which did help in destressing haha. But I guess I wun be trng next week ba..most probably will see you guys again only on Saturday. JCTs..Prelims..A levels. Argh..it's almost like O levels once again. Only much much more to study.

Btw, I've changed the song now, to the request of someone who said the previous songs made one sian. Haha..okok it's nice to have a change too. Enjoy!

Full force?

2008-06-19T14:46:00.000+08:00

After 3 days of revision revision and revision, I cannot fathom how people can sit there for a whole day and just study revise study revise. It can drive one crazy man..unless it's your fav subject la..like how I can keep on reading Othello haha. The kan chiong-ness is catching up..just 6 days more to my first paper. GP and Math TOGETHER on the first day! Aishah said today smth about using left brain for Math and right brain for GP..if it's really true then I think I'll be brain-dead by the end of the day. Then Chem and Lit on the 2nd days..another 2 big papers. Lucky there's only Physics to close JCTs. Good and bad I guess..bad that it's not spaced out enough for rest, but good that we finish and get done with it sooner. Kinda cramped schedule..but that wun happen for As.

Anyway, today went to see Mr Lim for Math. 5 people arranged to meet him and in the end only me and Aishah turned up. The rest were busy and in Jun Ying's case, ill. Get well soon girl! Managed to clarify some doubts, but when Mr Lim heard I haven't covered so many topics he dropped his watch (on the table) haha. Well..stats is kinda ok for me just that need more time for the rest ba.

Ok time to go sleep. Tmr wake up and STUDY again! Life of a student...

Champion!

2008-06-17T00:31:00.000+08:00

Wohoo! I'm back from competitions! And the good news is.....our team got gold! Yes! I'm so happy happy lol. Especially the anchor bout with Nelicia. Actually our team had a lead which narrowed and got overtaken before catching up with them again, so I had a 2 or 3 point lead when I fenced Nelicia. I admit I was nervous, but taking deep breaths does help, although I stupidly lost 2 points coz I lowered my blade. This is also the first time smth else happened: I shouted. But I doubt anyone heard coz Nelicia's screaming definitely covered mine. It feels damn good actually..I never knew that haha. When the score drew to a nail-biting 44-44, I did feel panic before the 'allez', but it was only for a fleeting second before I got the last point. We won! It's like a release and an explosion of happy feelings and disbelief that you won. Eve and Ras came and hugged me followed by the 'little girls' (our juniors hehe). But we couldn't have won without the team effort and encouragement we gave each other, and I must say a big 'thank you!' to Eve and Ras! We earned it yeah!

My indiv wasn't that good though..lost to Nelicia in semi 15-11. Was stoning the first part when she got 7-0. That was the mistake I guess..nvm that wun happen again the next time we meet in competititons. Anyway, congrats to those who won in indiv or in team! To those who didn't do as well as expected, dun give up! There's always a next time! And to those fencing Cadet next week, good luck!

Ok now that competitions are over, I guess it's time to settle down and immerse myself in notes and books. I haven't really sit myself down and revise for JCTs since the start of the holidays =P The clock is ticking..the sand is running. I think I'll be lucky enough to pass haha. Oops can't think that way. Ok gambete! Hello mugger Lyn! Think I wun be blogging for some time now..time to afk haha.

Wonderful Wednesday

2008-06-12T05:01:00.000+08:00

I finally found the song to the movie! It's "The Call" by Regina Spektor. Really nice..can't get tired of the song haha.

This will be just a short post. It's a cooling Wednesday afternoon, after one whole night of raining yesterday. Shiok weather to sleep in actually. Ok gtg see said it's a short post haha. Tata!

Photos of 15/07!

2008-06-10T04:03:00.000+08:00

Just some photos from college clean up day and Mardi Gras..

I bet we all smelled like detergent that day.

Makers of the dwarf hats! This is one colourful picture.

Now with the name tags and me!

The end product.

Handicapped

2008-06-09T16:52:00.000+08:00

I dun feel like sleeping yet, so just decided to blog for a while. Hmm...tmr one whole day of studying since I can't walk around much with my leg wrapped like a ba zhang. Hey it coincides with 端午节now haha. Coz today I went to see my sinseh and he wrapped it very nicely..said it's a slight ligament tear (I had no idea it was that bad) but hopefully can get better in time for Friday's comp. Seriously, I need some mental trng. Help~

Ok I shall talk about Friday's Sentosa trip. I didn't know they were setting off in the afternoon instead, so me and Eve went down to PRCS like 9+ in the morning. In the end we wandered around central and had breakfast. I had my fav mee jiang kueh! And coffee which Eve thought was too thick and bitter haha.

The bus came around 12 and it's kinda nice being the seniors, when you go see the juniors gathering, doing head count and stuff and you get reminded of the time when you were back in secondary school. The other seniors there were Cheryl (if going to sports school count as having graduated), Wen Xin and Eugene..then Roxanne came later. We reached Vivo, had lunch, then set off for Sentosa.

The 'Crestians' did water-based trng and quite a lot of running on the sand, while we seniors played volleyball and monkey. Haha that's the good thing about being seniors. Actually I would have joined them had my event been on Sunday. After that was a bit of lazing around and getting wet. I dun like this part..dun like beach waters haha. Coz you have no idea wad's lurking around in the depths of the water, and after my duno-wad sting (most probably jellyfish) the other time, I dun have a good impression of beach waters. Then Eve and Wen Xin tried to pull me into the water lo. Can say I didn't give them an easy time lol..two people and they still asked the juniors to drag me into the water. So I hung onto the rope bridge until I had rope burn, and they finally got me soaking wet. As if that wasn't enough, Wen Xin wanted Mr Neo wet too, but Mr Neo hung onto his valuable bag and we didn't get a chance. Aww shucks.

We had some fun at volleyball with Ms Oh and Ms Lim in opposing teams before going to bathe, stopping the volleyball only coz we didn't have enough time. Dinner was at Central with the teachers and seniors and I had some sausage and yam fried rice. It's like salt is free..shan't say more =x later the restuarant manager come after me.

Lucky that day wasn't a hot day, so none of us really got burnt, just tired perhaps. I really admire those who went for NYAA silver camp, then fencing camp, and then had comp the next day. I applaud you..you all really have stamina. We saw a orange and black lamboghini on our way back in the bus though. The guys got so excited..it's just a car after all. But actually I agree, it's damn cool haha.

Later when we reached PRCS, it was free time! Goodness knows wad the sec 3 guys were doing in their bunks that Yi Huan said she saw something she's not supposed to see lol. Ok la not that serious..they were just entertaining themselves. That sounds wrong. Ok it's not wad you're thinking from the way it sounds. Then we seniors just sat outside the hall (coz the hall was locked) waiting for Mr Neo to come back for his photoshoot. In the end he changed his mind and didn't have it, so some of us went back home. Duno wad happened after that, although I heard stories from my bro about 'things'. Hmm...best not to talk about it here.

Ok pictures from sentosa!

Breifing at Sentosa: Palawan Beach (oops like a bit tilted).

Reflection

The 四大美树 of Vivocity.

It looks like a stone whirlpool.

You jump I jump?

The lights were flashing around the time in the bus, so I thought it was quite interesting haha.

Oh yeah another thing. I saw this butterfly at my unit's corridor and it was really weak alrd. Tried saving it with nectar from the plants, but guess it was futile. In loving memory of the butterfly I knew just today...

Ok gota sleep alrd. Seems like I'm always ending off to go to sleep. Which is not good coz that means I'm sleeping too late! Tmr will be a day of studying..Jia you!

Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008-06-08T16:40:00.000+08:00

Have you ever tried watching a movie with your best friend and her sisters? Well that was what I did on Thursday when Eve, her 2 sisters, Bryce and I went to catch Narnia: Prince Caspian at E!Hub. It was my first time there since the time it was constructed and actually, there's nothing much there except for restuarants, fast food chains and well, entertainment. There's a bowling alley, pool place, cinema and the mini ferris wheel which I think is quite weird since everybody can see you going round and round while shopping or eating.

The cinema's not bad, but I still prefer Vivo's GV's cuchioned armrests haha. This movie's not bad too! I'll probably give it a rating of 4/5. The effects are good..and I like the fact that it brings you back to the fantasy world where good will always truimph against evil (have I mentioned this before? Sounds so familiar). And I would have enjoyed the movie more had the little boy beside me not taken out his shoes.

Actually the movie's really really nice. I recommend it to those who haven't watch it yet. Go watch it for yourself ba dun want to spoil it here for you. I love the ending song...probably composed especially for the movie. Her voice reminds me of a singer..forgot her name and too tired to rmb alrd haha. Anyone who knows the title to that song let me know please? ~It started out as a feeling....

Actually I wanted to talk about the fencing camp, or rather just the sentosa trip, but it's getting late. Another time then! Night!

Bitter defeat?

2008-06-08T16:06:00.000+08:00

Did this morning's rain bode ill? Was the weather foretelling the outcome of today's National Individual C'ships? Ok la lol..I sound so serious. It didn't went well for me though. Everything and some things I guess. Not making sense. Some parts were good..but overall was bad. The sparined ankle in my first bout with Noelle didn't help much either. Lucky Edwin brought me the Yoko yoko from FS if not I duno how I was gona survive round robin. Thanks Ed! I didn't believe in such pain relivers and stuff, but now I think I'm gona invest in one haha.

I duno why..it's just today my distance and speed seemed weird. Too much preparation too. Haiz this is the outcome of stoning too much. Even against Ann I wasn't thinking I guess..that's why got trashed by her. History repeats itself once again..I still rmb the last time it happened when I was sec 4. This time, there's no more Mr Neo to ask me to reflect, but even coach didn't talk to me after that. Probably angry ba..but I'm also fed up that he left me there clueless about why I lost. I know this kinda thing must learn on your own, but I need coach's guidance too right? Not saying anything to me leaves me not understanding which equals to making the same mistake again next time. In the end, I asked Joseph and Bryce instead and I realised a few of my recurring flaws. I just duno why I dun get 'hot' enough..almost all the sabreurs there yell. I just havent reached that level haha.

Eve didn't make it into top 4 too. Eve ah you know you can win one lo. But nvm dun pressurize her alrd..she fell down during the last few crucial points with Lewina. So today DP had two casualties haha. I think this is the worst ankle sprain I've gotten so far lo..both sides of the ankle swollen. I used to pride myself on never spraining any part before..but oversight makes one careless sometimes. Just hope that it'll be ok in time for Juniors next week ba.

After the women's sabre finals, we joined the epeeists at Sumo House for Tunch? Suprising that they were still chatting there after probably an hour plus coz we thought they had left. I finally tried something different! The curry udon..and it's quite nice, although I dun really fancy thick noodles, but I like the curry. Those guys really know how to enjoy..while we sabreurs were finishing our food, they went to the nearby Mac to have ice-cream. Actually quite shiok also..with the breeze after the rain and the comfortable seats and good frens...

I can't say I've gotten much out of today, but I've learnt a few things. Start thinking! And come Juniors next week, it's gona be different.

Super Nanny

2008-06-05T12:47:00.000+08:00

I'm just really really shag now. Woke up at 8am coz my niece came over since her grandma isn't feeling well. Then had breakfast, packed newspapers, mopped floor, helped my grandma with preparations for making dumplings (which included laying newspapers on the floor, getting stools, washing dishes, etc,), went downstairs 3 times to give dumplings and take care of the little one.

Now I know taking care of a 7-year-old isn't easy. She doesn't sit still..one moment she can be playing the keyboard, then the next she wants to watch Tom and Jerry. So I play the vcd for her and she scuttles off into my room for treasure hunting (for new games).

On top of that, I was in charge of cooking the dumplings and watching the fire. I only had the opportunity to make 3 dumplings coz the little one wanted to play uno with me. I didn't get a picture of the third one, but my second one definitely was better than the first.

Later in the afternoon, I was teaching her English since her mum wanted her to do some practices. She was learning about 'has' and 'have', so I was explaining to her when to use which, then after she finished the practice and I asked her again, she forgot everything, or rather she chose not to rmb coz she's done with it. Then she was browsing my songs in the phone and asked for Sexyback and Apologize. Looks like she's a fan of Justin Timberlake..but she's only 7 years old and knows the lyrics to Sexyback already. Look how influential is media nowadays. Then I played Summer Love and both of us started dancing to it haha.

It wasn't easy to get her to nap for a while coz she just kept running around. Then even when she laid down on the bed, she couldn't stop giggling at me (for who knows wad reason). She finally fell asleep and I got my much needed 1hour nap too.

Eh nanny on offer! $5 per hour! Housework included.

Reflections

2008-06-04T18:16:00.000+08:00

I'm just back from trng! Today Mr Istvan (the new epee coach) came down and he greeted me with a really firm handshake. He still could rmb me and Eve from that time when we went for trng at Europe! And he said Mr Geza's doing fine..I kinda miss him, his grandfatherly figure and warmth. Anyway, I saw the epeeists doing warm up which reminded me of trng back at Europe and I really wanted to join them! Nowadays warm up at trngs are not as thorough since the previous epee coach left. Foilists, sabreurs and epeeists used to do warm up together. Well, now that Mr Istvan is back and the epeeists are coming back too, things might change.

Individual lesson was short today most probably coz quite many sabreurs turned up today. I fenced Naz after that and really, this is the first time I pushed myself (and still failed in the end). I was panting alrd and didn't have strength to fence fast, but the fact that I'm losing hit after hit to Naz irked me and gave me the motivation. We weren't counting points, just free-fencing, but he won so many more hits than me. I duno where his new-found speed came from, and all my parries were mild or my distance was wrong coz he was too fast. It was this mounting frustration that almost made me shout out in anger. This is the first time I've come so close to yelling, having never done that before..and I discovered what it really feels like now, that suspressed indignence and the yearn to score a point becoz you dun want to lose. I know it's not right to let it run wild, coz it's supposed to be on a slow boil, not boiling over the pot, like wad Mr Wong said for sabreurs' temperament.

Anyway, something happened when I was online ytd. Dun want to blog about it here..all I want to say is I'm totally shocked. Flabbergasted. Dropped a bombshell on. You get it. But I've managed to clear the air, those who knew what happened. Haha. Other than that, I had quite a long chat with my senior, who is currently in civil defense and assigned a job which no one in their wildest dreams would've guessed, given his physique (assuming that he really did all the pt he claimed to do..okok I believe him haha). Nice catching up with him though..once a senior always a senior? Wait till you come back and let your junior beat you in fencing haha.

Last saturday I went for trng too and missed Ms Choo's wedding as a result. Congrats to you Ms Choo! Or should I say Mrs Tan? My best wishes to you and your husband! However, I lost something on that same day too and emo-ed the whole train ride back. It was a silver chain and a pendant, the silver chain being bought by my mum just about a week ago, and the pendant holding sentimental value for me. Me la..itchy hand, took it out and kept it in my bag before trng coz I didn't want the chain to tarnish and break easily. Then after I reached Clementi central, I realised I couldn't find it. I still held on to the hope that it'll be at Tss, that I've dropped it there somewhere, and I'll find it the moment I get there. Bryce was kind enough to follow me all the way back to look for it. Thanks man buddy..and thank you people for helping me one way or another. But sad, I still cannot find it (until now) and that was when the fact that I lost it truly set in. Haiz...why do people have to lose things before they truly appreciate it? The thing is I really appreciated it and I still lost it. Am I supposed to learn something from this? Yeah dun wear necklaces for trngs haha.

I guess loss is just part and parcel of life..no matter how cliche this sounds, I think life is really like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, pieces go missing, and you just have to improvise and fill it in the gap with something else, accepting that that piece may not be as perfect as the previous one. How your puzzle turns out in the end depends on how interesting you make it out to be, how you perceive life to be.

That day I was walking home through Pasir Ris town park after a rain, and suddenly this flower just dropped from the tree. Then another dropped again, this time into the longkang by the side, unwanted. It was then that I noticed the wet ground was strewn with pink-tinged flowers, and it occured to me that life can be so fragile sometimes. Like the flowers' case, just one rainstorm and that's the end of their lifespan. But one has to accept the laws of nature I guess; there's still life after death, and the flowers will serve as fertilisers for the grass and trees, and the cycle goes on...

It's quite refreshing to reflect like that once in a while. I realised I've been so busy that I've forgotten how I used to do this? Ok ba it's getting really early and I've gota make dumplings a few hours later.
P.S. Did I mention that my grandma makes the best kee zhang ever? I tried one this afternoon and it's reeeeeeeeaaally good! Haha! Good night!

Dumpling making

2008-06-04T05:56:00.000+08:00

Do you know how much work goes into making one small dumpling which can be finished in a few bites? I used to take this kinda things for granted, until today when I helped my grandma with the preparations for 端午节. Everything used to be done by her alone in the past, but age is ctaching up with her, and it's time for me to learn a skill or two also, so I can teach my children next time too haha. Ok, that's a bit too far into the future.

The leaves which we peel away from the dumpling and throw into the bin without a second thought, have to be washed one by one, cleaned by water and cloth on both sides, then rinsed a few more times before being dried. In the process of drying:

But it's nice having the smell of the leaves reach your nose while you're washing them. It beats washing shoes or clothes anyway.

Today my grandma made the plain dumplings, the type accompanied by orange sugar. Tmr then we'll be making those with fillings, and I'll be helping her! I can still remember the frustration of not being able to make perfect dumplings when I was young. They're either too irregular-shaped or too loose..then I'll see my grandma's nice triangular ones then get fed up over not being able to make those. Then agian, that was when I was in lower secondary? Haha..can't say my skill improved much over the years of learning (once a year at that too), but at least my dumplings look decent. I was chopping garlic for the glutinous rice tmr and these show the before, during and after process:

Well, good food always come with hard work. It's the amount of preparation and effort that produces the end product, and believe me, it can be tasted.

1st time ice-skating in S'pore

2008-06-03T16:33:00.000+08:00

I just tried ice-skating today! Haha not that I haven't ice-skated before (my first being at the open air one in Europe), just that this is the first time I'm skating in S'pore. I went with my mum's students, since she had some health and fitness camp in school and have to bring the students to Kallang leisure park for this. Guess what? The girl under attachment at my mum's school (and therefore under my mum), shared the same primary school as me! No wonder I found her so familiar when I saw her today.

Anyway, it was like a day at my mum's job kinda thing..following my mum around, watching her get her students going, making calls, etc. Lucky she didn't have to scold them before leaving the school or else my eardrums would've burst..I dun have to be her student to know how loud she can go haha. Reaching Kallang leisure park, I got my first glimpse of the ice-skating ring. It's about the same as the one at Jurong, probably slightly bigger, but just as cold. Fortunately, it wasn't that crowded; there was still space to skate around. At first I saw some couple skating, or rather, one teaching the other how to skate, then the more I looked, the more familiar they seemed. Until I realised that I was looking at Liesl and Wei Wen! Shocking haha...coz I go anywhere also dun see them, but today actually saw them at such a nearby place. It's a small world after all.

If you want to skate, I suggest bringing your own gloves and socks, coz buying them there will be $2 each...tt's how they earn I guess. But other than that, it's really really fun. I havent tried the Jurong one though, so duno how it compares to that, but skating's a great experience! It's like my 2nd time skating only? But I dun rmb the first being like that. Guess that time I was struggling to keep my balance instead. Skating's like rollerblading, but minus the friction you get from the ground. Ok skating's like a 100times better than rollerblading coz you just glide. Plus a small shift of your weight can make a big turn..really amazing. I was suprised that I could do turns and stuff..but I fell once coz I went too fast heheh. Nose running and feet numb, I left the ring one and a half hour later, but I dun mind skating another time though. Any takers?

I din get to explore the place much coz I ended up eating toast at the food court with my mum after that. It was quite empty...maybe just start of school holidays and the place is new. Then again, E!Hub is new but there's already so many people walking around there everytime I pass by. Hmm..who knows? Kallang leisure park is a bit out of the way I guess.

The bus came and the students took some time deciding which bus to board, so I finally saw my mum in action shouting at students. Haha not that I'm a sadist la enjoy seeing them scolded by my mum, but it's a long time since I 've seen her do that. I dozed off on the bus back, then reached mum's school, had nothing to do, so I started packing her table. A teacher's table never neat haha. I managed to revive her forlorn-looking money plant and threw away some expired cup-a-soup. Looks like I made myself useful there..eh Ma how you gona thank me? Haha just kidding I actually enjoy packing up the place for her.

After that not much alrd...got home, cleaned up the lovebirds cage and had dinner. My mum and bro are both away for camp (nope not the same camp; my bro's having nyaa silver camp), so the house'll be quite quiet the next few days. Guess it'll be a good time to study too. See everything also think about studies...my gosh where's life? Well...guess I believe in working hard, but also playing hard.

Ok better sleep alrd...tmr I have to give wake up call. To SOMEONE who always manages to sleep till late into the afternoon haha. Duno how to accomplish that though..it's a skill! Okok good night(morning)!

Visit to Changi! (not the prison though)

2008-06-02T09:44:00.000+08:00

I'm back from Changi! Heheh I went there for a swim though, not wad you're thinking. The whole morning's been a dreary weather, raining, drizzling, pouring, then back to drizzling again. Oh tian ah...why you like to make fun of people? I was sitting there doing some revision and glancing out of the window every few minutes to see if the rain has stopped. Yesterday I've already decided to go swimming today then give me this kinda weather. But luckily it stopped raining abt 11+, so I chen ji quickly took a bus down to Changi civil service club for a swim.

Nice weather although the water a bit chilly. Haha I managed to swim 15 laps! First time! But the pool is half the normal size, so it's like 30 times up and down. Well, it's a change from the usuall soaking I'll do with my mum, but she didn't go today, so I had all the time to myself swimming laps.

After bathing, I sat at the table provided to revise Gas Laws haha. Plus my mee jiang kueh I bought earlier(did I mention how good the mee jiang kueh at the hawker centre is?) and the occasional sea breeze from the beach, it is the perfect place for studying. Seriously I've never tried this until today and it's really enjoyable! Nothing to distract you except for the radio and the sea scenary nearby. Hmm...I should go there more often, maybe my motivation to study coming back...

I took a walk at the beach too, somewhere near the jetty, coz I just felt like walking haha. Yeah I know it's kinda weird walking there alone. Usually people go there as a group or something, but it's good too have some alone time too sometimes. It's really very relaxing, but of course if you go there thinking about what work's not done, it defeats the purpose of going there in the first place. I took some photos there...maybe I should pursue my interest in photography after my As haha. Bai Mr Neo wei shi since his photography skills are so good. Then take up photojournalism..well,that's just a thought. I can't make up my mind what I want to do yet.

Photos from the relaxing walk!!

Boat leaving the jetty

It was the sky that captured me, but my lousy 2mp camera couldn't capture the effect

One day I want to try standing in the water and fishing like that!

Lalangs! I hoped I captured the against the background effect.

I like this one: Waves created at the jetty

Well, that's all for the walk by Changi beach.

Revision's pretty slow for me now...I duno why. Perhaps that sense of urgency haven't caught up with me yet? Haiz...time to buck up! June holidays will fly by really quickly and it'll be JCTs before you know it. Wake up Lyn!

Ok gota help prepare dinner already. Will be back with another post. Tata!

A lazy Thursday afternoon

2008-05-30T05:49:00.000+08:00

I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, my voice is back! The bad news is, my nose is running away instead. Think I got the flu when my bro lowered the fan that day, then it kept blowing at me.

Anyway...yesterday was a bad bad day for me. I went Far East with my mum and her ex-student to get my bro's new handphone (after so many which failed him miserably), but before that , we had lunch at Beauty World, or somewhere near there. I duno why they call it beauty world when I didn't see any beauties there, but that's besides the point. There was such a variety of food there! We had chicken rice and a few side dishes (which was mostly fried =_= so I couldn't eat much except for the chicken only). Then it started pouring very heavily. Why does the tian always create such timely downpours? That day when I wanted to go training also the same thing happened. I saw something there which was really amusing though. I guess it's just coincidental that I was eating chicken before that. See this:

Direct translation: Buying good/spoilt hand chickens.

This advert was found somewhere near 'Ng Kim Lee' cakes and confectionery shop which we went to later. I like their yam cakes! There're also mini muffins-14flavours in total, dou sa bing, egg tarts, pies, cakes and many more things. Here's the address if anyone's interested :
4, Chun Tin Road. Opp Beauty World Plaza. S'pore 599591.
Like I'm advertising for them haha.

After that, we drove to Marina Square to walk around. Marina Square was so damn cold that I wonder if the person controlling the air-con has mistaken shoppers for chilled meat. It's that kinda cold that makes your nose hurt everytime you breathe. It wasn't such an enjoyable shopping trip, with Ma taking almost an hour inside the D.I.Y store. Sorry, but I dun have an affinity for electrical parts and showerheads or containers-that-make-your-kitchen-look-neater. So I ended up strolling around John Little alone. Then I decided to get something warm to drink and luckily Jolliebean was just around the corner. But after I ordered, I realised my wallet was with my mum (earlier on I left my bag in the car so she helped me keep my wallet), so I gota go back to the store to find her before walking back to Jolliebean again =_= so paiseh that I had to tell the lady that I had to go get my wallet first.

Then my father called me halfway, asking me about some internet problem due to connection with the internet. How am I supposed to fix it over the phone? Like I can do telepathy with the computer like that. Then he got fed up and hung up on me, when I didn't even do anything wrong. That alone was infuriating enough, coz I cannot, CANNOT stand people hanging up on others unlesss the other party is incredibly rude, or it's some prank call. It's like leaving the other person there talking to him/herself, which was what happened to me before I realised the conversation had ended. In the end, I fixed the problem in 5 min when I got home.

To further test my patience, my bro started smsing me, asking if I was with Ma, then I said yeah and he asked where were we. I dun understand why he likes to send one question per sms, but the previous incident irked me too much for me to entertain this one, so I just called him. In the end he said nothing, he just wanted to know where we were. He likes to go one big round to achieve his motive (which until now I had no idea what. Maybe he wanted to know how soon he can get his hands on his new phone) but really, one sms per question is really wasteful. And not to mention vexing.

That's why yesterday wasn't a good day for me. One thing good came out of it though..I got so tired that I went to bed at 9pm and managed to sleep for 10 hours! My auto alarm clock never fails to wake me up early. Blessing or bane? Depends.

Ok guess I better go study a bit..better than leaving everything to the last minute. 100% guarantee STRESS! Haha.

Tribute to 15/07

2008-05-28T04:25:00.000+08:00

I'm back! And this time, I finally managed to upload a skin! But it's just temporary..I'll still be hunting for a new one. I dun want the 'missing you' words there, but it comes as a package, so it's all or none (until I figure out how to remove it). Then I learnt how put in page elements! Haha..not bad for one who hasn't design a blog or a webpage before. At least I've got the basic things here. No wonder people like to blog so much..it's kinda exciting actually, or maybe it's just the novelty of it which will wear off later.

I'm trying to install a video of what Nan xiao and I did during the Mardi Gras night, but duno if it'll come out since the uploading is so slow. Well...hope it does come out coz it's pretty hilarious. Anyway, Mardi Gras was a mixture of fun and not so fun. It was fascinating to see all the different costumes donned by the people there..and I'm one of Snow White's 7 dwarves-Bashful. Yeah I know my height renders me quite incompatible for the role, but if I'm tall, then what about Yu Hui and Chun Han? Hmm..unlike some people ah..know they're "very tall" still go around telling others she dun mind being a dwarf haha! Ok looks like the video isn't gona come on..sad. Nvm, I'll ask Jun Ying how to do it next time. Maybe the file's too big.

Well...there's still the one where we were cleaning CR 132 & 243. It's got almost everybody there...except for those who didn't turn up coz they had something on I guess. It reminds me of the use-your-hands campaign back at PRCS..pretty much the same..just that this one a bit more lenient.

15/07 clean-up!!

Then there's this one that I really like: Me and Farah going crazy over oldies. I think it must be the high we got from the detergent smell when cleaning the classrooms. The front part were all the NGs and the music only came on at the back. Thanks, Ben, for the recording and commentary, and Jun Ying for holding the phone which was playing the song. For those who're thinking this is so not-me, well, you duno me well enough yet haha.

Farah and I, guitarists strumming to the beat of Burning Love (Elvis Presley)

I think I'll miss 15/07 a lot after I leave TJ. We had so much fun together as a class and as friends. What was once thought as a class with poor attitude(I'm sorry correct me if I'm wrong), ok rather, a class easily distracted, has now changed and moulded itself into a dynamic class, peppered with fun and enthusiastic people. Well, even Mrs Lim the VP likes our class, so 15/07 keep it up! The journey ahead's gona be like a bullet train, so I hope we'll be there for one another. Jia you for JCTs! Gambete for Prelims! Stirve for As in A levels!

My first post!!

2008-05-27T13:57:00.000+08:00

This is my first time blogging ha. Actually, I created a blog before this, but I forgot the username, so ta-da! this is the real one haha. I spent so much time looking for a skin that I havent found one that I really like. So ironic...guess too many choices makes one picky. I wanted something with nature, but then when I find one that I like and preview it, it looks too fake. Like it got photoshop-ed or something..so artificial. But I guess it's like that nowadays. Technology comes at a price. I'll stick with this simple one first, then when I find one that I really really like and have no problems putting it up, then I'll change the blogskin. Duno how they do the html and stuff..I'm somewhat of a blog-idiot..guess it shows. Thank you Bryce for helping with the tagboard! I have no idea how he did it though...gotta learn. Anyway, I duno if this blog's gona last since I prefer writing in my diary. Some things are best left unspoken haha.

It's finally school hols! Haha sorry to poly people who have common tests next week before the advent of their hols. Good luck to you guys anyway! You'll have your laugh soon enough..I'll be pretty busy with competitions coming up, and preparations for JCTs (June Common Test) right after the June hols, so the hols are burned up for that la. Well...I guess it's the same with all JCs. 2 years of fast-paced studying and activities that you only can come out of the water to gasp a breath before going down again.

Today I was supposed to go for some petrolchem tour at ITE east college, but I fell sick =_= Great right? Start of school holidays and the virus chose such a time to attack me when I want to relax a bit. I had fever ytd which only dropped by 0.3 degrees C after sponging myself with ice water? But I'm much better now and the fever's gone! This isn't as bad as stomach flu..that's the worst of the worst. Imagine not being able to eat the food in front of you, or after you've eaten it, you feed it to the toilet bowl half an hour later.

Ok it's getting late and I think I'm gona sleep. If I'm better and Ma doesn't scold, I think (and hope) I can go for tmr's training, since coach can finally give individual lessons after his minor operation. See you guys at trng tmr if I do go! This concludes my first ever entry haha.