Thursday, May 06, 2004
sec3s: good luck for drills practical and MOI. and the squadmates must help each other out. like can prompt one. just don't be too obvious.
mich: hey sexy. haha. sounds way cool eh?
my first chem SPA is over. whoop! so a lot of my classmates screwed up the practical and i ain't all that sure about my readings either. but i shan't think about it anymore. i have this majorly humongous bio test tomorrow. and it doesn't help that i've only read 4 out of like 160 pages. but then again, 95% of the time when i sit for a test, i'm not fully prepared. prepared means that i have managed to reda the notes once. READ ONCE only.
i'm back really early today. and it's my latest day too. coz other days i'm just chilling outside and slacking my life away. my parents flew off today. sorta sad and low now.
my sis and i gave my parents the sheep softoys. my sis did this collar for each of them with our names on it and my mom totally loved it. we took a few pictures with those little cute fluffballs.
and i'm super pissed. lion dance is on this sat. at 7.30am for freak's sake! can just imagine waking up at some unearthly hour to go to school. sigh. and there isn't any make up lessons. so i guess it's unavoidable. let's just pray i can still remember those cymbal beats from 3 weeks ago.
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
the stupidest thing happened. i got called in bio lect for waving my arms. ??? whatever. i was so not doing that. in fact i was sleeping right through it. when i finally managed to wake up, i asked a friend about something in the notes. and then i got caught. and the teacher though i was out to distract her so i waved my arms. ???
chilled at venezia's with potion, lisa, shannon and jiachien. and we were the giggly bunch all over again. potion has a new nick. he's called meh-meh. it's foreign to me. coz it's their inside joke now.
but whoopee. we have started a routine. we'll meet ever so often now. shannon ponned his first table tennis meeting to come. haha. i wonder if he'll ever ever go for cca. he really should. even i'm going. :)
shannon, potion and jiachien think i have a 'wanna fight?' face. and alina agrees. alina's consolation is that at least i don't have a 'qian bian' face. very comforting indeed. i guess coz i look like i'm out to challenge people. and i crack dry humour jokes which some people just don't get. but that ain't my fault right? and of course, i just don't smile. if i'm pissed or upset or sad, i'll either scowl or just have this expression face which looks pissed. only when i'm happy i have something else. so i basically just look pissed. okay. i'll try to look meek and docile like a lamb. and smile sweetly. ah. forget it. i'll just look like some spastic retarded freak. and should just go to IMH. :(
my mom's flying off tomorrow. that's really sad. i'll have to take bus in the mornings again. and other than my pathetic allowance, she isn't leaving me any more. that's a big problem. i was hoping for a shopping spree cash stack. that's sad. if i need anything else, my sis will draw.
and then of course, tomorrow's my chem SPA. sigh. and i haven't studied for that or the bio lect test. big problem. and i'm beginning to think i won't make it for taiwan immersion. so maybe they haven't said anything about it during assembly. but it's been 2 days already.
right. needa study.
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
whoah. today my Gp teacher asked what week it was and answered her own question. it's week 7 now. i'm sorta shocked. in disbelief even. that i've been a hwachongian for 7 weeks now. 7 weeks without NJ. shocking. more shocking is that 7 weeks is just 3 weeks less than the amount of time spent in NJ and yet, i'm still ever so emotionally and physically and mentally attached to NJ. no doubt, i've moved on. but i haven't forgotten. so there's a short piece devoted to you.
i never knew why i came, except that i did.
i didn't think i'd love you, though i came to.
i didn't think i'd ever leave, but i did.
i've come, i've loved and i've gone. with so many 'didn't thinks'.
i don't think i'll forget, 'coz i can't ever.
i doubting that i'll find something better, knowing what has passed.
of what has been, i'll always remember. always.
every now and then. when i get into this wistful mode. especially on nice windy mornings, i just walk into Hc and my mind is programmed automatically to walk the halls of NJ. i'll relive all those little nitty-gritties coz it's those little things which make up your memories. and everytime i'm searching for a little piece that i might have dropped along the way. and ever so often, i'm laughing over the things we said.
"a part of me will always be with you.."
i had the aerobics marathon. for about 2 hours. it's really quite fun. and it's accomplishing to work out a sweat. i'm all achey again. and i know it'll be worse tomorrow. but somehow, i'm very much in the mood to go running. the physical ache is very comforting. it reminds me of those ole NP times when i pushed and challenged those limits of mine. and it's good to know i'm somewhere there again. i'm feeling really 'stretched' but ever so warn and tingly. i sound disturbed just hear me. but we did do some hiphop and lots of aerobics. can't wait for yoga next week.
and then i had to sign up for enrichment week. i'm really lucky coz i registered early, so i got the options i wanted. this week 10, i'll be doing 2 days of basic filming like panning in and out, fading, dollying, truck etc. and another 2 days of latina and ballroom dancing. whee! that's a dream come true. filming! it's like what i've always wanted just coz it's film. and dancing. i've always wanted to learn the waltz and looks like i finally can!
oh wait. i needa get past the chem and bio SPA and maths lecture test and bio lecture test first. that's immediate.
Monday, May 03, 2004
firstly. before you read this entry, i suggest you read the previous one. since i spent a hell of a long time blogging for the previous one typing it into word to save it. and it has the record of an eventful weekend. *wink*
weiz: i would go to all the sec 3s blogs if someone would just tell me. so please kindly tell me your blog add.
i feel accomplished today. i'm all giggly coz i'm exceedingly tired. but i'm happy tired. so tomorrow marks the beginning of nonstop bio till friday. since monday is the only happy day without bio.
first thing in the morning. i ran 2.4km. oh gawd. and i passed! i think i got a D. ain't that sure. am gonna check the timing since they didn't announce. hopefully it's a C. i am so rpoud of myself. i know this sounds really thick-skinned of me. but considering i ran 19.16min in NJ and my shoe flew off when i sprinted and lily happily laughed at me and remarked that if was unbelievable that i can do sit n' reach since he thinks running and sit n' reach being standards for fitness and very much related. i will push harder for 5-items now. sigh i need to jump more than 169cm if i want a C..
i find it oddly amusing that singapore is one of the few countries that have such fitness tests if not the only one and yet, we are one of the most obese nations.
then sometime during the first lesson of the day, it dawned on me that i had clean forgot about the fact that my immersion interview was today. just screw me. i didn't prepare. then i found out that the whole friggin' thing was in chinese. *gasp* emergency call to dad to check what human resource is in chinese and i sounded like a stupid ass practising how to pronounce my dad's occupation in mandarin. it turned out pretty okay. coz once i calmed my nerves enough, i managed to get back my fake chinese accent and sound more oriental. except for the part when the guy said something like 'luo-ma something jia-tu' and i was a complete blank. it's supposed to be roman catholic see? and this part whether i supported the green or blue team. like what? but he explained whether was i supporting chen shui-bian or lian song and i was like chen shui-bian. really relieved that i could comprehend. he asked if i was very in for this and i emphasized that i really wanted to go! i really really hope that they'll select me. that will be one of the first few things which i got based on my own capabilities.
the rest of the day was just plain boring. i managed to keep awake. one more accomplishment of the day. then i chilled at prince. ate again. there's this regular group of friends in my class, we just go eat every monday at least.
then at four i headed over to NJ and waited for alina. there wasn't any match on today. really sad. i don't want the soccer season to end. i cannot believe that i'm saying this, that i actually want to watch soccer. but also coz if there's no more matches on, it'll be harder to go back to NJ. and once the competition seasons are over...it'll be mugging time. i don't want that. ate ice cream on the way back with her. giggling all the time. she's in this really pissed mood. and i was all giggly-cranky.
yawn. i'm nice and achey all over from the run. i need to get started on chem SPA revision and bio test. surprisingly, it's really A levels for SPA and here i am not feeling in the least worked up. i should get worked up. WORK UP!
waiting for my sis to come back, then we'll watch Jeux d'enfants together. whee!
oh happy day...!
So pissed. Internet is down. Ah!!
I haven’t surfed and blogged in 3 days! And it’s down now that I’ve finally gotten the time to.
Friday, I ended school earlier than usual. The PE teacher wasn’t free, so PE was cancelled. Whee! Bought campbell’s bio text and headed home to change and shower. Then cabbed to the mrt station to take a train down to raffles city. met Cheryl. Afterwards daph came and about 3 guys from Fairfield. Daph and Cheryl didn’t tell me that they were having a mini-fairfield gathering *pouts* but those Fairfield people are great fun. Aaron came down soon after and we were discussing some choir stuff and he has this mentally-unstable classmate.
Took neos with daph and Cheryl. Oh gosh. There weren’t any proper machines at suntec so we ended up taking one at some ancient machine. You know those which come in peel-off stickers and not stamps and have hideously large borders, no glitter, nopretty icons and whatever. And it was in black and white for that matter. We looked like freaking ghosts!
Made it just in time for choir concert and I had my wish of 2 hours of unadulterated, uncensored, legal viewership. Lily looks terrible in a tux. He must have gotten it like 3 sizes too large or something. But I learnt that he was the alto section leader in cat high for its all-boys choir. That’s like wow! Apparently, he can sing pretty well though he’s in tenor now since guys don’t sing alto or sop in a mixed choir.
i was seriously put off during the interval. So it was partly my fault. But the guy was a horrid ass. Daph and I were talking during the 1st half. Like hello? Who doesn’t? we were trying to keep it down. Then during the intermission, he just turned around and said,”do you need to borrow my phone? Then you can sms each other rather than talk.” I didn’t quite get him at first and neither did daph. But it soon dawned on me. I just pretended to act dumb so he’ll look like the stupid one instead. Then I just turned around and explained to daph and angela. I wasn’t that nice coz I showed my 3rd finger. Not to him obviously. Angela was like “slap him lah!” and sinwee said “slap his face!”
‘the love of the song’ and ‘the music is always there’(I think that’s what it’s called) are really nice songs. Sang by the J1s. and this acapella(is that how it’s spelt?) thing for jay chou’s ‘shi jie mo ri’ was really good too. Tsubasa was nice too.
The whole thing ended. I ran into tammy(sec 3 squad) and I was intending on heading out with the Fairfield people again but my dad buzzed and they picked me. Only to drag me to keppel club for karaoke. It’s quite ironic since I had just come from a musical experience and then I was heading to the club for some really off-key shouting/singing. Got back at like 1am or so. Slept at about 2 plus.
Saturday. Woke at 7.15am. early right? Labour day holiday! Whee! Bused down to Vj for the fair to meet lili at 9am. But I was later by half and hour. Gosh. 76 sure takes a long time getting there. Making loops and rounds around industrial estates and residential areas. The whole journey took an hour. But the bus uncle was very nice. He said he’ll notify me when it’s time to get off. So kind of him. I’m not being racist here, but I realise when it comes to this sort of thing like giving directions, the Indian drivers are nicer than the Chinese ones. Got to VJ for the funfair, ate some stuff, ran into some people and caught up with lili.
Thennn…. I went SHOPPING!! Buzzed val(she’s a primary sch classmate) and took this friggin’ bus which takes 40 minutes to reach orchard. I’m immensely glad I did not choose VJ. I would have lost all patience on the bus before I even reached. It’s just so out of the way. The bus trotted along, through kallang and little India and everywhere else I think. Heeren was having a sale so val and I shopped. I bought Jeux d’enfants vcd(love me if you dare) then we went looking for clothes. Val found this red spag and I bought his black knit dress(it’s sort of formal) for just 10 bucks. It’s really cool coz it’s a tube dress which is made to be worn like a toga. And I bought ‘daddy and mommy’ mugs for my parents from alternatives. Saw this pale green dress. You know, you’ll look at a green dress and think, it’ll never look good on me. But it made me look like I have a nice tan, sorta all Hawaiian. Really cool. It’s a halter dress with a v-neck. But the but didn’t fit all that well, so I passed. I just love shopping, you get nice leg aches and feel satisfied. Haven’t felt that great. Then Shannon came. He doesn’t know val but just needed to chill so we just sat down and hung and discussed toilets in China.
Gawd he is funny. There were just 2 chairs in KFC so he took one of those meant for kids parties and sat on it. He looked dwarfed. The chair was so short, his head came up to about 6 inches above the table and I just laughed and laughed.
The sad part was, it was anti-climax. Coz I had to get back by 6.30pm for project work discussion. Ailin came late and she’s the responsible one so we just digressed and procrastinated before that. We have finally settled on a topic! We’re doing teenage delinquency. But we got stuck and bored so we kept going off the topic and since there wasn’t anyone else at home, we began talking about ghosts and scary stuff and got all freaked out. Maojiang’s expression can get quite scary and disturbing. We both have this super short attention span. After about 2 hours, I started to get really hyper. I had like 5 hours of sleep and I was going cranky. The study room’s puny and maojiang being tall and big and all, really made the room feel super small. Lileng was running through a bunch of NS ghost stories. Really freaky. Sharleen was just stoning. They left at about 10.30pm. I’m gonna volunteer to host the next meeting again. cannot bear the thought of having to travel.
Of course, comparatively, today wasn’t in the least fun. I just got back from this super heavy dinner. Went for mass this morning. Oh gosh. Daryl sang responsorial psalm today. Way to go! It takes like so much guts to stand there and sing. Scary scary. And then I had this really heavy lunch with my ex-chinese tutor. Went to centrepoint after and my sis and I secretly bought 4 softoys. For my parents. They are these cute sheep. And they were super ex. 2 large and 2 small. 2 cream and 2 grey.
And then there was tennis. Today’s game was really halfhearted. I’m usually that way when it comes to sports but today’s was just a lazy game.
I haven’t gotten even the tiniest bit of studying or homework done. This is freaky. I have chem. SPA coming up this Thursday and this enormous bio lecture test on Friday testing everything from enzymes to microscopy and cell structure and organelles and water potential stuff. And there’s the tutorials I have to finish before my math tuition on Tuesday. To top it off. It’s NAPFA tomorrow. And I have to run 2.4 unless it rains. If not, then we’ll do 5-item. Eewl.
This is a frightfully long entry. But I love long entries. Though I half wish I were less longwinded. At least I have stuff to blog about. Makes so much difference. Just love eventful weekends. this weekend’s gonna be exceedingly boring. And I need to get work done.
And this reminds me, need to sign up for Heer card. Or at least find a way to. If I keep shopping, better to get a card. Now, for bed. I’m beat.
