there's a hope that never fails

a surprise party

2012-02-18T01:17:00.003+08:00

In my house before CG - and that was already 24 people.

The largest caregroup session to date!!! 32 people! (totally unexpected) Lol we took up literally every sittable inch of my living room - we stretched from right beside the main door to spilling out into the corridor towards the rooms. And people were already squished together on the couch.

So memorable because it was JG's and Rachel's last one with us too...

So we'd planned a surprise party for JG with potbless and everything, but it was ruined because he simply turned up earlier than expected out of nowhere -.- hahaha omg and Rachel's piercing shriek when she saw him at the door.......

"I never knew Rachel could scream like that"

Anyway anyway I will truly miss them both but yes, change for progression, change for growth. Can't wait to see what God does in their lives and in the new season for JC South :)

Love love love all the pics we took today ^^ memories captured.

Anyway the cleanup was MAD haha we used almost 10 huge plastic bags for clearing up after everything.

I like this picture :] Spot me!

"You know why cg today so big? It's because God is preparing your parents for a bigger house" ehehehe.

Going kayaking tomorrow and Sunday - to take the 1-star course! Up until this point I have been rather excited. I still am, but right now it is mixed with a tinge of fear!

v day 2012

2012-02-14T23:38:00.004+08:00

Happy Valentine's Day!!! :)

So beautiful :)

Heard so many heartwarming stories about this year's V Day in Singapore :) Like a bus driver who would play/sing love songs in his bus and wish every passenger a happy V Day. Or a guy who went onstage at Timbre and proposed to his girlfriend :3 he sang her a song and had 99 roses apparently!

And then.........there are the quirky stories, like my dear CGL who went around Orchard and asked couples whether they would like a date.....and then he would promptly take out a single date from his bag of dates to give them AHAHAHA. He's turning it into a film!

And my female friend who LOL-ed at the last-minute boys (because "men are always prepared") who were queuing up at Precious Thots!!! Aahahahahaa

But aww at all the fuzzy stories haha :) V Day is a special day... I don't understand how people could go hating on it though! Sure, it's rather commercialised, but which holiday isn't? Sure, you might be single, but being alone doesn't necessarily mean loneliness. It seems too much to take all the negative feelings and ball them up into such intense anger towards the day itself D: ah just leave them behind and create your own happiness!

Anyway I caught Valentine's Day on HBO today, it's such a feel-good movie haha. (and there's Taylor Swift in it!! I never knew!!!) (Right after she appeared, my cable set-top box went wonky and I missed a few minutes of the movie -_-)

Hope everyone enjoyed V Day today with the people/person you love :)

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There is One who will always be my first love :)

"boys can give flowers, chocolates, but Jesus chose to give His LIFE." -- Desmond

sullied.

2012-02-13T21:36:00.005+08:00

:'(

I lent my brother the ball to practise at home. It would be a little dirty, he said. I said I wouldn't mind.

But unbeknownst to me, he took it out to school today to practise outside because he had lost all his own. I only found it out today.

He said it'd gotten very dirty and offered to buy me a new one. At first I said okay, that would be fine.

But then I realised that I'd written a date on that ball. It was a special date. He said it's okay, you can write the date again on the new ball. I asked, it's still visible right? Because I want to get the date right. He said yes.

But after a few moments I just didn't want a new ball. I wanted my old ball. Because the ball itself was special. Because I bought it together with another ball.

My brother was puzzled that I wanted the old ball back. He got more annoyed when he saw how sad I was that it would be very dirty. I said it's okay, I will clean all the dirt off. He said I would not be able to get all the dirt off. I said it's okay, I would try.

He took it out. A layer of dirt clung unquestionably to the ball. Misery clouded my eyes. He got annoyed that I wanted THIS ball back and was so sad to see it dirty. "Why are you so SAD?"

I looked for the date. It was there. But barely visible.

:(

He offered to clean off the dirt but I said it's okay, I'll do it myself. If that statement annoyed him more, I didn't mean it.

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At first when I found out that he had brought the ball outside and it was dirty and he was planning to replace it for me, I didn't mind...

But I remembered its significance. Why I even bought this ball for myself in the first place when I was at the store, when I wasn't even a floorball player and this was a pro's ball.

It was because those balls would be bought together.

A kind of special bond.

And the date written on the ball would remind me of this bond. The date was meant to last forever.

I guess my attempt to keep the ball is a microcosm of my feelings and desires.

It's small coincidental incidents like these (and the tweet, etc) that have been happening for the past few days, and they've been building up, and finally, this, and yeah...

:'(

been busy

2012-02-07T01:41:00.003+08:00

I've been so busy with Chingay 2012 (the first time our church is participating!!! ^^) for the past 4 days (everyday ending at 12 am!) so I haven't been blogging!!! THE EXPERIENCE WAS PHENOMENAL.

I've spent today sleeping in and resting hahaha so maybe I'll blog soon! It was such a precious experience really :) reaped so many benefits, both tangible (unexpected!) and intangible!

Watch some videos to entertain yourselves till I get back again! :)

HAHAHA this is so cute and so funny, seriously! Oh Kristen Bell... I watched it 3 consecutive times because it is so adorable!

At first I thought she had a deathly fear of sloths!! But it's just that she really loves them and gets so excited LOL.

Plus you get to see her personality through the little nuances of her expression hahaha.

CHINGAY VIDEOSSSS

There was an impromptu dance-off at one of the rehearsals!! The people in red outfits are from church, and the rest are from other contingents! I didn't see this firsthand, but one of the dancers took this video and shared it on our Facebook page. Hahaha dope!

Our church's full performance at Chingay!! It's the Friday one. Found it on Youtube, taken by one of the spectators!! SOOOOOO SWEEEEEETT to see our church people giving us a standing ovation in the stands to support us!! :') really cannot compare y'know, the feeling that you get as you walk past them!

I'M IN THE RAINBOW TEAM BTW HAHAHAHA. Raising and lowering the balloon rainbow! SO COOL RIGHT. Hahaha. Rainbows, speaking of God's unending love and mercy for us :)

The song that is played is entirely written, composed and performed by our church people too! Our theme for Chingay is Dreams Realised, so everything from the float to the costumes of the contingent to the song is replicated as closely as possible to artwork done by children! Birthed directly from young minds :)

I really had such a fun time at Chingay, even at the voluntary session on Sunday to sit on the actual float and ride through Chinatown and smile and wave at the crowds for 3 hours :D blog about it soon.

Feeling so fulfilled with a sense of His peace and His love for me :) :)

orientation 2012

2012-01-31T00:51:00.004+08:00

#thistimelastyear,

1. I first gazed upon the namelist of their names in LT1

2. I thought Julian was a guy and that the namelist had made a mistake

3. I had just called 30 numbers and left school at 10 pm

4. My OG kids were all over the place - overseas, had their flight delayed, transferred hostel (had to track them likeaboss), hadn't come home from wherever they went out to yet...

5. Academics were totally shoved aside

6. I was brimming with so much anticipation that it was difficult to fall asleep

7. Months of hard work were about to bear fruit

8. I had to wake up at 5.30 am the next day to reach school by 6.30 am.

Top 10 things I like or miss about Orientation 2011

10. My OG kids calling me gangster and mafia boss...

9. Searching about our school and Orientation on Twitter with Adam / secretly discovering my own kids' tweets (all good ones)

8. The OG 6 Sexy cheer that Nathaniel created in 2010 and passed down to me!

7. When they called for OG 6, my kids cheered "SEXYYYYYYY" on their own!

6. Hosting stage gamesssssss (especially being called on impromptu-ly and prepping insanely urgently)

5. OG 6 being enthusiastic on the first day and winning Adam and Ping Woo's OG and requesting for a rematch and winning them again

4. Showcasing 33rd's own mass dance / performing the Council intro where EVERY councillor got cheered for :)

3. The epic moment when I demo-ed a water game with Gerald T and had to throw a cup of water in his face and the photographer was around to successfully capture it

2. Receiving a card from my OG at the end of Orientation :') (I need to go dig it out again)

1. The moment when, after a few days of Orientation, my OG kid told me that he did not want to appeal out of SAJC anymore :')

Going back later to see the awesomeness happen for the 34th :)

Top 15 Things and Moments that I miss about SAJC

2012-01-31T00:31:00.006+08:00

(in no particular order)

1. Having breaks at the round table in the caf with 10A08

2. Awesome uniform

3. Shifting classroom tables to their respective places around the teachers' table for Lit lessons

4. The anticipation of Council events or activities, whether throughout lessons or in the upcoming days

5. The feeling of doing mass dance together, or in front of a crowd

6. Having tons of t-shirts to choose from for dress down day / wearing the stickman shirt with pride

7. Floorball and tchoukball matches during PE

8. SHOWERING AFTER PE with friends

9. The library which is always, somehow, conducive for sleeping

10. Minding the Student Lounge, with PS3, Wii, board games, bean bags...

11. Chatting and laughing with teachers

12. Being awed and mind-effed in GP and Lit lessons

13. The school spirit during sports matches

14. The SAJC sunsets ('nuff said)

15. Chilling at the gallery steps at any part of the day (morning / afternoon / evening / middle of the night)

why are you

2012-01-29T00:47:00.001+08:00

Doing this to me?

AD-AS

2012-01-27T01:12:00.003+08:00

I have just drawn about 4 AD-AS graphs again, highlighting the shifts in the AD and AS curves!

As well as a flowchart illustrating the components that make up a BOP!

Quick midnight Econs consultation yeah.

There's Econs MSA tomorrow, that's why!

Haha Council all over again...except that I'm experiencing it from this side now. :-)

CNY 2012

2012-01-26T01:10:00.005+08:00

GONG HEI FATT CHOY!!!~~~~

How was your Chinese New Year?? :)

It was pretty uneventful for me this year, didn't get to visit much boohoo :( I feel like...my outfits weren't...maximised, you know??? LOL.

CNY Day 2

(I was randomly surfing Facebook after Day 2 AND I SPOTTED SOMEONE'S RELATIVE WEARING THE SAME NECKLACE AS ME!! WHERE GOT SO 'LUCKY' ONE?????)

There are so many things to like about Chinese New Year! The new clothes, new bedsheets (waking up to new stuff all around us reminds us that He has made all things new :)), the colour red everywhere, ABUNDANCE of food, yummy food!!!!!

Hehehe I had like, 3 steamboats over 4 days during the CNY weekend! And with steamboats there's always so much food... Also, I tasted the YUMMIEST PEANUT BISCUIT THING I HAVE EVER EATEN at my father's uncle's place!!!!!!! Totally melt-in-your-mouth and the right kind of salty! I was all OMG get them away from me!!! Hahahahaa.

I also tried making pineapple tarts!!! Doesn't look too bad for a first try eh?

Hahaha my first batch had too much pastry and not enough pineapple in it, the pineapple paste was negligible.................

Then I increased the pineapple in the pineapple-pastry ratio but I got a little bit too enthusiastic with the glazing, so it came out a bit weird but whatever hahaha.

Another thing to like about CNY is the continuous nua-ing for the 2 legit public holiday days!!!!! How to not enjoy that?~~ Ehehehe I think I especially enjoyed it this year because I didn't need to worry about MSAs or any other academic/CCA responsibilites.

Anyway, there are many things to like about CNY, but I wouldn't say "What's not to like?", because evidently there are quite a few things to dislike...like many people of my generation generally experience awkward situations being gathered around relatives you're not close to and all...

I get that too and sometimes I wish it were different :( family is supposed to be warm and fun. But well..

Anyway there were a pretty few amusing CNY stories that I heard of!

1. So apparently my OG kid was going to his grandma's house. SOMEHOW he managed to trip and HIT HIS HEAD ON THE DOOR LOCK!! When I read up to this point I was like, omg hahahaa. THEN he said EVERYONE RUSHED OUTSIDE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED (HAHAHA), because THE SOUND WAS SO LOUD!!!

AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA at this point I was laughing so hard that half my angpaos fell off my lap!!!

OK sorry if I'm sounding really sadistic right now but I tend to laugh when people meet with non-fatal accidents like these! HAHAHAAHA I guess when I imagine it it just looks really silly in my head?!

ANYWAY he is fine so it's ok I'm allowed to laugh! EHEHEHEHE he says he's gonna get a black eye HAHAHAA look more like ah beng now!!!

2. This story was told during one of the gatherings in CNY! My cousin....invited his girlfriend to dinner with his nuclear family, and they went to dine at MBS. AND, COINCIDENTALLY, AT THE VERY NEXT TABLE, was his ex-gf!!! And yeah his gf knew who his ex-gf was! Oops drama much!

And my uncle (his dad) almost called his gf the wrong name that night. Almost called her the ex-gf's name lolol.

3. A quote, from my recently married cousin: "美女追到了！生命没目标了。" Which means: "I've chased and gotten the pretty girl! There is no more goal in life." HAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Well, CNY is now over~ My plan to spend holidays doing meaningful things was foiled on Sunday when Junda pulled out from a Econs AD/AS tutoring session at the last minute :(

But today I made more wallets!!! KACHING $$$

Pretty eh? Instagram filters make them prettier haha.

Anyway, THEY ARE FOR SALE! Check them out on M's blogshop here! There are more things like super affordable, customisable pencil cases, handmade rose rings, shoes and cardholders!

Like our Facebook page too! :) AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDSSSS

And this is a random image of me....holding open my door? Haha. M snapped this when she came by for a while today. Yay for neighbours!

musings

2012-01-20T00:47:00.002+08:00

Thinking back on the past few months of break (about 2 or so), how did I spend it?

Was it farted away? Cluttered up with frivolous activities with little value?

(I can't really remember so thank God for FIF - whose name itself already speaks volumes...)

However it was spent, I'm ready to make it meaningful now.

Learn a skill, give back to others, invest it in loving people, anything. One should just...stop bumming around.

On another note, a possible phase of my life might unfold soon. I just wanna say that, if I do go through with this, it would be a happy kind of roundabout completion/fulfillment thing, and kid Sherrie would be really excited.

On yet ANOTHER note, tomorrow is my first social activity (there are two, actually) since leaving the hospital!!!!!!!! I am stoked that life is resuming normalcy.

the hospital stay

2012-01-18T23:21:00.003+08:00

The balloon that JG, Broderick, Isaac John, Esther and Rachel got for me when they visited!

I WAS SO PLEASANTLY SURPRISED because it was just the 3 guys at first, then after we talked for about 10 minutes (and they were still just standing beside my bed), Esther and Rachel came up slowly, then popped out from behind!!!!!!!!! :')))))

^^ and they stayed all the way till 10 pm aw. It was a really great evening lah hahaha loved our conversations.

It really helped so much that they came, because it really gets SOOOOOOO boring staying in a hospital!

No matter how novel anything is, like experiencing putting on a drip or whatever, ultimately, staying in a hospital sucks. And I don't think anyone would voluntarily sign up for it.

There's nothing much to do other than sit or lie down. And thank God I could be off the drip by the second day because that meant I could bend my right arm again, and going to the toilet was made considerably more convenient. Also thankful that at least I still could walk around by myself, not like other patients worse off than me (shared the room with 3 others). So that I didn't need to bother the nurses or anything.

Spent my time between logging in and re-logging in on Wireless@SG, surfing Twitter, reading the bible, watching TV (omg there was HBO...watched Burlesque on my first night)...and yeah actually not much else :'(

Thank God for the group of them cuz I borrowed Game of Thrones from Isaac and The Grand Miracle from Esther :)

But anyway, staying in a hospital sucks.

When I got discharged yesterday afternoon (omg HAPPY DAY) and got home, I wanted to get rid of all traces of the hospital on me. De-hospital myself, as I called it. Took a long shower to get off the hospital smell, kept pacing because I'd been doing so much sitting, threw away my hospital identification bracelet, ate random things so I could forget what having a loss of appetite every time I was faced with dismal hospital food felt like...

Ok maybe it was just my choices but hospital food is not so fantastic :( idk whether it was the combined elements of the hospital or what but I really had nooooo appetite to eat. The fruits were always the best. And the hot milo. Well I didn't get to move around much anyway. So maybe eating not so much was good. But really it was just a few bites every meal.

I just think there's something about a hospital that keeps people sick...somehow, y'know? By the 2nd day I already felt pretty depressed.

Anyway I'm just glad to be home, really really glad. Need to start resuming normal life again :) :) because for now I still feel like I'm confined but just at home. Haha but it beats hospital any day :)

Omg it was such an experience...I realised how tough it was to be sick and now see the value of good health. And also, how people cannot be so easily judged...like for example, you wouldn't know what they've gone through, or are going through, unless they tell you. Because you can't see it for yourself. It could be the worst pain or tragedy in the world, but because it's internal and may not affect the external (kinda like mine), you wouldn't know.

And this just made quote resurface in my mind, which I find not just applicable to healthcare, but to everything:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato

at least now I have books and a balloon

2012-01-17T08:59:00.000+08:00

I dislike being in a hospital :(

2012-01-15T21:42:00.002+08:00

Updating from the hospital.

IKR how did it come to this!

Anw I'm fine NO NEED FOR SURGERY (my greatest dread) THANK GOD. cuz suspected appendicitis. Either that or another thing in my womb. But at least the latter can be treated w meds?!

Haha there was a brief confusing period where one doctor would walk in and say it's probably appendicitis but we should wait for the radiologist, then another would walk in and say it's not!

Soz to the friends whose texts I haven't replied :(

K staying for 1 or 2 nights. Gtg bye!

being sick sucks

2012-01-12T11:57:00.003+08:00

I am sick!!!!! :(

It really sucks :( I've missed some shifts of work already.

Stomach flu yo. It's terrible because u really really have no appetite, and for me, eating food or even the thought of it makes me want to throw up. Ha ha the only foods that aren't unappetising are porridge and water...

With stomach flu there's also nausea/vomiting or diarrhoea. I only have the latter lol.

Not to mention fever and aching and headaches..

Ahhhhh ok all this talk about sickness is really depressing...I'll just continue my sleeping of literally 3/4 of the day :(

Being sick is also really gross but I don't think u wanna hear me elaborate on that.

omg i would

2012-01-11T01:51:00.002+08:00

really love to blogggggggggggg but

I'm too busy

Working

Procrastinating

Doing other things with my life right now hahaha...

Like..............

~~Stalking~~

Checking out

~~Cute guys'~~

People's

Facebooks and Formsprings

...and other things.

:}

Add a few meaningful things into the mix... like digging out notes for juniors, JOINING CHINGAY (Rainbow Team!!), jumping onto the bandwagon for a friend's online business (but more like hitching an additional smaller wagon to be pulled along behind) and going for SA's open house tomorrow :) :)

I've experienced so many things this week and learned so many things as well :) praise God for everything really.

I wouldn't say that life's peachy right now but it's quite meaningful :)

See u all soon!!

Have you ever met a stranger you just know you could get along with really well?

2012

2012-01-05T23:56:00.004+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The theme for this year is unceasing fruitfulness~

:D

Jeremiah 17:7-8
7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
And whose hope is the LORD.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters,
Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when heat comes;
But its leaf will be green,
And will not be anxious in the year of drought,
Nor will cease from yielding fruit.

Haha shall really look forward to it :) to being evergreen, and not fearing when heat comes. And being planted. Unceasing fruitfulness amen!

It's already the 5th day of 2012 eh? It's just a tiny fraction of the year but I feel like I've already gone through so many things! Mainly because I just started out on a new job in the beginning of the year I guess!

SO MANY new experiences have come with having my first job...of course, all the attractive aspects are there, but you also get down to do the dirty stuff which no one else sees :)

Ahahaha so that has been my 2012 so far! My New Year's Eve and New Year's was pretty good, spent it with loved ones :) haha like the 2 KJs and my beloved JC South.

And of course I'm back from Korea!!!!!!! The holiday was soooooooo good GOSH I miss it! The weather, the kimchi (DEFINITELY), the shopping, the motivation to look good, etc. Hahaha. And basically the unrestrainedness that comes with being a tourist ^^ like, oh we missed the train? Oh it's okay we'll wait for the next one, and it doesn't really matter how long it takes to come, we don't really need to be anywhere~~

Should I blog about it though? There are hundreds of pictures!! Hahaha Kah Jun says I should hurry before I forget... but would y'all be interested in reading...??

And what's with people uploading their holiday photos on Facebook? Haha are there really people who will look through them....?

I would understand for albums on more farflung places like Europe or those of people studying abroad cuz it would be interesting to see from their point of view... but mine is like I really take pics of almost every single semi-interesting thing one hahaha!

No work tomorrow! TGIF ^^ and Junda and Rebecca are coming over earlier to make...... MILO TANGYUAN hahaha yay!! Then CG afterwards! Woohoo excited :)

off to south korea!

2011-12-22T00:33:00.003+08:00

The Christmas card that I received from M via snail mail even though she stays 2 minutes away from me ^^

I am leaving for Korea in a few hours' time!!!! :) :) Will be there 22-29 Dec!!!

I'M SO EXCITED! My family's always been on tour for the countries we go on holiday to, but this is our 2nd time to Korea and our very first self-planned one! We'll be doing all the navigating and everything, ALL BY OURSELVES! :D taking the public transport, all! Yay!

The best part is that you can decide where YOU wanna go and how long YOU wanna stay... We love skiing so we're gonna stay at a ski resort for 3-4 days whereas normally tour groups will only stay for 1-2 days!

And as for the shopping, OMG... Read online about how cheap skincare products are in Korea! SO PUMPED.

I'll see you guys in a week's time!!!! :)

a jc south christmas

2011-12-19T15:53:00.004+08:00

Hello!!! I've been having fun the past week! Hahahaa.

You can go read FIF (frivolityisfrivolous.tumblr) for a daily account :3

One of the more memorable days was Sunday, when JC South had our annual Christmas celebration!!!!!! Yeah it was a little early - 11 Dec - I think it was because many people would be overseas during our initial plan of the 23rd.

Anyway it was soooooo much fun hahaha. We went for 1st together, then had lunch, then to ZD's house early! There was to be a potbless, and while we were in Suntec, the girls had an impromptu plan to cook! Yay! Debz and I got the ingredients for oven-baked pasta! :)

Obligatory smiles!! Hahaha.

Melz always cuts me off in pics!!!!!! Hahahaha

She took lots of pics trying to accuse me of sitting in the Reserved Seat.... BUT THERE WERE NO OLD PEOPLE AROUND

Otw to ZD's house! Hahaha these are their candid faces. Melz called them then I snapped a pic! LOL her evil plan.

ZD and his Christmas tree. Jealoussssss. It's so tall and nice!!! And he said he decorated it with his brothers aww.

After a while I finished decorating my epic present (I was to pass down the tradition - refer to JC Souoth Christmas celebration '10!!! Hahahaha. I got Yeu Keed's present and now it's my turn to do it to someone else), and explored some of the house. Hahaha ZD's house has lots of interesting stories.

Then Charissa and I chilled at a table in the backyard...It was the kind which looked like it would be proper to sip Chinese tea there the whole day. LOL.

The weather was lovely!! Clear skies but sooooo cooling, even though it was about 3 pm!

Sadly the camera focused on the table instead of us. LOL but I still super love this photo of us!!!! :) :) and oooooooh my red hair.

ZD and JG joined us after a while... I liked the conversation :)

HAHA ZD said he used this chopper to chop down some trees in his yard...and he says he doesn't know why, but it's just kept there.

LOL resident turtle that just plonked itself there years ago and refuses to move! ZD doesn't like it at all. LOL

Elsewhere in the house...

Hahaha a snoozing JG.

SOON IT WAS TIME TO COOK.

:D :D :D

First it was me on pasta duty... hahaha we were joking that we were cooking in a cauldron. Doesn't ZD's pot look so??

And it was Debz on cheese duty!! Hahaha we were looking to save $$$ so instead of buying the blocks of cheese, we bought simple and plain sliced cheese, even though we were intending to grate it!

And SO MANY people exclaimed, "If y'all wanna grate then buy this [sliced] cheese for what?!?" HAHA but Debz achieved the impossible and grated sliced cheese! (y)

Cooking pasta in a cauldron is so thrilling!!!!~~~~

Charissa assisting me ^^

Our first batch, going into the oven!! SO EXCITED :3

It was just pasta, and the sauce, and cheese!! As well as some thyme on top (I learned from Masterchef Aus LOL). All into the oven! Hahahaha. So simple and easy but yeah. Our baby!

For the 2nd batch, we decided to level up!! Hahaha. ZD found sausages in his freezer, and we added mushrooms too!

I don't know why but there are a gazillion photos of Debz grating sliced cheese..

FOUND AN IMPURITY IN THE PASTA :(

Okay this is us mixing the sauce into the pasta... and although the bowl was bigger this time, it was getting more difficult to mix because there was A LOT of pasta and A LOT of sauce! And stuff kept falling out..

Plus there was some sauce that refused to get out of the jar...

So you know what ZD's brilliant idea was??

USING TONGS TO STUFF SOME PASTA INTO THE JAR!!!!!! HAHAHAHA SUPER FUNNYYYYYY.

It solved both problems because less pasta in the bowl meant easier to mix, PLUS the pasta in the jar would be coated with the remaining sauce that refused to get out!

Oh man hahahha looking lovely there~

Hehehe #WINNING

Much better now!!

Anyway, if you were wondering where the sausages came from..

We sliced and boiled them first! SO QT RIGHT THE LITTLE FLOATING SAUSAGE PIECES?! HEHEHE

2nd batch on its way in! :) O look at the uncared for leftover cheese. Hahaha. Left ungrated and unceremoniously laid on the top.

Ok, and while we were making the 2nd batch and the 1st one was done, we kept taste-testing hahaha. REALLY KEPT EATING. Like pick a bit and eat a bit, but not only the cooks ate, the other Southies also stopped by to taste-test!! Hahaha so when dinner started we were left with like... 1.75 batches instead of 2.

There, 1.75 batches. And a bowl of fried chicken haha.

The 2nd batch!! YUUUMMMMMMMMMMZZ

(it didn't taste as nice as the 1st batch though ._. MAYBE NOT ENOUGH THYME)

Anyway, after it all, I realised that I cooked in dress + makeup! And manicure + bangle...

AND THE DINNER STARTS

Just some of the food! There were loaaadddddds more.

In the back of my mind I kept thinking of last year's Christmas celebration too. It was quite different...like how last year everyone took food and were spread out from the living room to the steps to the dining area...but this year everyone gathered and kept to the dining area.

HEHE FOOD GONE!! Esp the 2 large pasta dishes :) :)

OUR PRESENTSSSSS :D UNDER THE TREEEEEEEEEE

Hahaha Esther took this secretly!!! Vellman sitting #LIKEABOSS

We played games :)

With forfeits :)

Had pizza~

And sang Christmas songs :)

And exchanged gifts!!! Hahahaha all the newspaper from my gift. Kaijie got it!!

And next year he has to pass it on! And just nice next year is his last Christmas, just like how last year's was YK's and this year's is mine....

:) :)

Fun shot :)

Hehehee fun fun fun day. In the morning when on my way to 1st, I tweeted "12+++ hrs with the cg today! Yay!" and yupppp my anticipation was met :) it was soooo fun.

Halfway through cooking I realised that this would be my last Christmas with JC South :( plus the last Christmas that would be at ZD's house (it's a tradition...) cuz he's graduating too. And it would be just another half a year when CG would be held at my house... because I'm graduating with my batch peers to some Uni CG in July :(

SO FAST uh. Last year was only my first Christmas with them?!

Oh man really gonna miss these guys :(

No wonder I always see those JC South seniors I don't know at all sharing warm smiles with and always happy to see some of the current seniors. The time in JC South is always anointedly fun and blessed.

It won't be easy to say goodbye yeah?

I need a

2011-12-13T00:06:00.002+08:00

Sleep-in-all-you-want buffet!!!

Who knew living a lifestyle of indulgence could be so exhausting!!! (and now I am sick :()

Need to pace myself.. And prioritise.

sudden.

2011-12-10T01:28:00.004+08:00

Friendship is a funny thing eh??

You don't know why but you just want them there with you all the time. You can be doing nothing in particular. Chillaxing. Talking rubbish. Just knowing that they're there is enough.

It's enough.

So thankful for the simple fact that I've met certain people, and had the privilege of calling them my friends.

It's inexplicable!

grad night 2011

2011-12-09T23:17:00.004+08:00

Finally ready to blog about Grad Night 2011!!

It was especially special to me, because it was my first and only prom in my whole entire life (gosh, am not tired of repeating this!) and so I was really really looking forward to it!

Let's start with prep. It was sooooo hectic haha, and I left it till after A's because I wanted to focus on studying.. and it wasn't too bad a decision, because I had 2 full weeks to prepare for prom and I still managed~

I had my pedicure done and my clutch and shoes bought the very day before prom itself done haha.

Anw, on the day itself, 4 of the girls came over to my place, and we headed to Orchard together, to a salon called Francis & Jean, because we bought a Groupon for hair and makeup to be done there!

Don't know who took this. Whoever it was, she must have been super intrigued by Cheng's hair haha!

See the camera at the back? It's one of the staff taking a photo of us camwhoring. Haha. SNEAKY! The pic is probably going to be up on their Facebook page!

There seems to be a line separating us~

This was the pic that I uploaded to Facebook! Haha it's a pic of a pic in Angie's cam. This pic was warmly received! LOL.

Thennnnn after the hair and makeup, we zoooooomed back to my place and changed into our dresses haha! Ashley joined us then.

Mandatory group shot!!

Otw in the car!! We split into 2 cars - TY, Sherlyn and I in my dad's car, and Angie, Abi and Ashley in Ashley's dad's car.

My car reached first, and we were sooooo nervous when we got out!! Hahaha we kind of dithered outside before going in, because the lobby was full of SA people already!

With an action that I would liken to holding one's breath and plunging into the deep, we swung open the door and hurried in haha! Saw familiar faces but I was feeling soooo shy hahaha, idk why. Maybe cuz EVERYONE would have been judging you by your appearance. But anyway, we went to the toilet to adjust ourselves. Lol.

Before the ballroom doors were open, there were lots of people hanging around. Lots of faces I recognised. But idk why leh I just didn't have the mood to take pictures! :(

Haha but anyway once we went in and after the 1st course was served, I heck cared all and the whole evening was 70% spent taking pictures haha. Fun fun! Anyway the pictures don't take themselves.

Inside! M and I :) loved her dress; pong pong one!

Charm and Mark! I just adore them ^^

There was an external photo booth service which the 34th hired for GN, and it was awesome! Soooo many funky props - M and I had loads of fun and we love all the shots!

A pic of the first course!...which is the only food pic you'll ever see because after this there was a lot of photo-taking with people going on. :D

Looking like dolls!! Our heads so big and our bodies so small haha.

H1 Math!

Wow the evening just passed by really REALLY quickly... After some picture-taking with friends and acquaintances and time spent at the photo booth, when I returned to sit down and continue eating, I realised it was like 9.08 pm already hahaha. I was like, 2 HOURS PASSED ALREADY?!

Towards the end of prom. The 33rd councillors were onstage leading the cohort in College Song and College Hymn! :')

Anyway, the whole thing ended at around 10+... more photo-taking ensued!! (Considerably more hectic this time round, because of the crowds and because people were rushing off to post-prom!)

Omg this silly Gerald couldn't stay still. And Abi was a terrible photographer!!

TRUST

While waiting for some of our girls to change, because the only buses taking us to post-prom were already all taken up and left :(

Charm and I :) love!

With Sheraton Towers' Christmas tree :) :) I love Christmas trees!

When we reached Zouk slightly after 12, there was just this mass of people outside it, spilled out onto the roads...soon we got organised into a queue, and so we waited...

I remember it being quite hectic because some of the girls didn't have post-prom tix, some were arriving from returning home for a while, and we all needed to find each other, etc..

Plussss my feet hurt superly from the heels :( why oh why didn't I trust my initial instincts to bring flats haha..

Ran into Shaun and John in the queue!!!!! :) for some reason it felt so good to see them.

With Gerald Y. Hahaha I wanted to give a ":(" look but it came out glazed instead.. haha wth. G said I looked drunk even before I went in -_-

Oh well, so we finally went into Phuture, the whole group of us! Me, Jess, Charm, Marilyn, Haein, Abs, Jocelyn and Teshura.

We were late and missed the dance performance though!

Omg how act... hahaha

While resting!

Anw it was crowded...a little sweaty...good to see friends there though ^^ And wow all the dancing and in heels really nearly killed me man. HAHAA my thighs damn buff now cuz of that night AHAHAHA.

Finally at 3 am, all of us except M and Abs (who left earlier) left Phuture haha, to wait for Charm's brother to pick us up, for our sleepover!

I did have a few drinks (didn't have to fork out a single cent for them though ;)), more than the others, but I just got a little light-headed that's all.

They kept saying I was drunk -________- I so was NOT, and they replied "That's what all the drunk people say!" but omg really, I had FULL consciousness of everything lah, haha although I did tend to say almost everything that came to mind, and also Sherlyn who was with Paul and ran into us outside did say I looked really happy..

Anyway, we were sitting on the pavement observing other people sitting on other pavements. It was a rather calming part of the night :)

OMG... what is up with that expression hahahaha

I only noticed how unglam-ly I was sitting when I saw the uploaded pics!!!

Finally Charm's brother picked us up (all 6 of us!~) and it was so funny because he was so agitated with the taxi drivers hahaha.. And also, he missed quite a lot of turns and at one point of time we even ended up at the airport!!! HAHAHA. In the end we passed by Anchorvale CC and ordered drive-thru Mac's! :) :)

Haein shouting our orders through the backseat!

...and on my lap!

Hi drive-thru guy!

Whooooo finally reached Charm's place and it was like...sanctuary! Heels off, sat down and ate... Omg Mac's fries at 4 am was so good, I only had the hotel dinner and Gong Cha and a piece of walnut bread the day before!!!

Jess and I, while nomming on Mac's ^^

The final picture before removing makeup!!

We chatted a little bit and I was the 3rd-last to bathe, and I ended at 5.40 am :) far from sleepy though! So I watched The Big Bang Theory (S4) on Charm's Mac while the others dozed off around me...

I didn't really like it? :( Sheldon seemed quite annoying..

Went to sleep after about 2 eps! I slept from around 6.30 to 9.30 am I think!!

When we woke up.. peekcha time!! ^^

(initially I posted a "normal" picture up...but OMG AHHHHHH THE CONTRAST BETWEEN MAKEUP AND NO MAKEUP...)

Our attempted drunk faces. LOL

WHEEEEEEEE then Charm's parents brought us to dim sum lunch at Orchard!! ALL 5 OF US (Joce left earlier)!!!!!

Omg I was starving already haha because the last thing I ate was at 4 am and by the time we left the house it was 12 pm!! PLUS we had to wait outside for a while ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. By the time we went in it was almost 2! But I'm not complaining cuz I got to eat good food!

OMG there was sooooooooooo much food!!!! Hahaha Charm's dad really went all out man.. besides our individual meals, he ordered super a lot of dim sum! Like, the plates kept coming and soon there was no space so the waitresses had to transfer some dim sum to share plates and stuff!

Hahaha but the food was really really good :) even got to try some new foods which I always thought were yucky but were actually very good! And Charm's parents kept encouraging us to eat, and continue eating!

LOL when we were all weary from the eating and managed to put just ONE MORE dim sum into our mouths, we would get a "YES very good, very good!! Continue!" and Haein said, "Omg I feel like I'm in some skinny club or something where they encourage you to eat..." hahahahaa!

I would say this is 1/5 of the total dim sum that was ordered?! Notice the DOUBLE LAYER char siew pau!!!

Such a great meal :) Hahaha I was really stuffed and didn't even need to eat dinner after that...

And so I reached home at around 4 pm that day, marking the end of my Grad Night 2011 :) hahaha omg what an awesome 21 hours man! (even more if you count the pre-prom prep) Really memorable :) :)

lovely day

2011-12-09T00:35:00.003+08:00

SO MANY eventful things happened today!

1. First ever job interview!!

Hurrah! And when I tried my outfit on for the first time, my dad went on with all the "Sighhh my daughter is growing up already~" and all that. Hahaha. And together with my hair tied up, I couldn't quite recognise myself this morning. But I definitely didn't want to look different from all them working people.

Still thankful that I have my red hair!! I think the contrast is lovely.

2. Created a house and a last-minute Christmas tree, made out of leftover material (!), with Bryan!

Gorgeous gorgeous I love it.

3. Wow serious D&M-ing at dinner haha. The 3 of us.

4. I wish I looked less retarded in the picture - I was smiling so happily that my eyes disappeared HAHAHA. But that's what it's meant to be right? When you're so overcome with joy that you don't even pause to think about anything else as the memory is being captured.

PS - PROM PICS SOON I know you're waiting Kim Joo! Hahahaha.

the boy and the tree

2011-12-08T00:09:00.004+08:00

There once was a boy, who found a tree.

He liked climbing the tree. He frequently went back to climb it. He would climb all the way up until its leafy branches obscured his view of the ground, and he would just stay there. He spent time relaxing amongst the branches. The tree gladly supplied him with whatever it could give - shade, big, strong branches, and allowance for the cooling breeze. Although the boy would also climb other trees, the tree did not mind it as the boy always returned.The boy liked climbing the tree, and the tree liked the boy to climb it.

But there was one thing that was peculiar. The boy only climbed the tree at night. Or very few times during the day, perhaps when no one else was passing by.

The tree was puzzled by this. It seemed strange of the boy to like climbing it, but to do so only under certain circumstances.

The tree started musing, why was this so? The boy climbed other trees in the day at all kinds of timings. And though he climbed other trees, this tree certainly knew that the boy enjoyed climbing it as well. The relationship between the tree and the boy seemed abnormal.

The tree continued wondering. But the boy remained unaware.

Some time passed. There were other girls and boys who climbed this tree before the boy found it, and there would be other girls and boys who would climb the tree after the boy found it.

One day, the boy tried to climb the tree again. However, the tree had changed. Its bark was now slippery, no good for the boy who used his hands and feet to climb, rather than rising through strategic branches. Its trunk now carried scurrying ants which terrified the boy, although other girls and boys would not mind this. The boy wondered when the tree had altered.

Again and again the boy would try to climb the tree, but he would persistently be deterred from doing so. The tree was saddened that its allowance of the alteration of itself would deny them both the relationship of the boy climbing the tree. But it had been done.

Not long later, the day came where the boy gave up trying to climb the tree.

He climbed other trees. The tree accepted this, and allowed other girls and boys to climb it freely.

The boy never climbed the tree again. He could not. He sometimes sat on a hill admiring the tree from a distance, but he never climbed the tree again.

prom prep!~

2011-12-04T22:48:00.004+08:00

[after re-reading this post I realised it's quite a girl-exclusive post haha. As you can probably tell from the title anyway, IT WILL BORE THE GUYS]

3/5 of us!

Today was such an exhausting day!!

After church (which was awesome), the parents dropped me off at Somerset where I bought some things, then headed to Orchard to meet the girls. In the span of 5 hours, I walked BETWEEN and WITHIN Ion Orchard, Taka, Wisma, Far East, and Lido AT LEAST 2 times EACH!!!! CRAZY. Shopping should be a sport!!!!

Girls would excel in it very well. As long as we're wearing reasonable footwear, we would walk anywhere for a sale!

But yeah some of the crazy amount of walking today could have been avoided lah haha...just...inadequate planning lol.

Did a $6 express pedi while T, J and J did their express manis (and pedi). Haha some China shop in Far East.

I'm still so glad I got the gellish groupon ($25 incl soak-off on next visit; UP $54!) and got a gellish mani. GELLISH IS THE BEST! It's super long-lasting and gorgeous!! I went to Le Princesse (at Prinsep Street) and yeah I could see why they put a groupon out haha...it's super out of the way and difficult to find! (le me had to call for directions after walking to and fro forlornly IN THE RAIN in the stretch of pubs and bars AT NIGHT. le sigh)

It's quite cosy and peaceful - fortunately I got to do my mani at a booth near a small window with curtains framing it and I could hear the soothing sounds of raindrops pattering on the windowpane overlooking an alleyway with darkness outside hahaha ambience win!

Anyway they're quite new (2.5 months old), and the bosses are quite young, and they do all sorts of manis, not only gellish, so you girls should pop by and give them a chance!

Hahaha my design was a hitherto unattempted one, and my manicurist took a pic of my nails to (presumably) post a pic on their Facebook! Wheeee imma nail model.

Yup and they use good quality products too, like a sand thing to glue on my 3D ribbons with a diamante (pics soon!), instead of normal glue, and IT HAS BEEN STONE RIGID EVER SINCE! I kept feeling apprehensive the next few hours cuz I always felt like I was snagging the ribbons onto things, but yup they never showed signs of falling off!

And another point to add to gellish's list of awesomeness is that it dries INSTANTLY after using UV light...no more worries about being "handicapped" (as J puts it) for the next few hours after your express/classic mani!

I LOVE GELLISH, I'M A CONVERT AND I'M NEVER GOING BACK (unless I'm cash-strapped)

Hehehe thank God I knew about it through my mom~

ANYWAY back to today. I got convinced to buy HIGHER heels for prom! LOL. Cuz of the post-prom arrangements and blah blah... they are black and shiny!

And also got my clutch! Super happy, everything found in Far East basement in half an hour...

Ummmm come to think about it my whole prom ensemble is from Far East?!?!?! HAHAHAHA. Prom dress all... Even hair and makeup!! Only my wonderful gellish is from Prinsep Street hahaha.

OK you might be wondering why I'm posting so enthusiastically about my prom prep (or more like, today only). It's because this is my one and only prom in my whole entire life!! My secondary school didn't have one, so... JC's one is gonna count!

And to frivolously borrow an excerpt from Glee,

"Junior prom is the most important event of your life!"

"What about marriage?"

"You can get married as many times as you want. But you only have one shot at junior prom."

Ahahaha okay prep has been SO hectic so far, there were even moments where we were so discouraged and had to sit down and eat something to take a break.. (prom prep like that I can't even BEGIN to imagine how wedding prep will be like) But the day is finally here!!

I pray that the next 36 hours will be smooth-sailing (especially the next 18 hours or so!) and enjoyable and memorable :) :)

Gonna research hairstyles now...a bit last minute I know. But everyone else also is!

My day starts at 11 am tomorrow!

steamboat cont'd and jc cluster

2011-12-03T01:14:00.003+08:00

Smiling the John way........

4E4. Still fabulous after all this time.

I love my red hair!!! It is so different and uncommon and I love the richness of the colour - how it blends with my very black hair towards the ends.

I find that generally girls are more receptive to it than guys. Haha there have been squeals of "OMG!" and "So nice!!" and "Looks like a mermaid's~~"! Whereas some guys have mixed but relatively less enthusiastic responses haha. J told me it fits my personality?

Personality is relative, though.

I remember the night when I got it this red, I had a dream where many other SA people also got their hair dyed to red! I was so horrified!! Hahaha coz not uncommon anymore...

The only thing that's slightly not-so-cool about it is that it turns my perspiration and shower water a tinted pink. Whoops. Haha. Red runs easily.

*******

Today's JC Cluster outing at Sentosa was awesome :) loved the games. And God's grace was so so so prevalent throughout, because as heard from the organising team:

1. When they were taking the monorail, it was still raining. When they stepped out from the monorail, it lightened to a drizzle. When they reached the pavilion, it stopped entirely!

2. When they reached the pavilion, they were a little disappointed because there was already a huge group (like 50 people) occupying the pavilion! And it seemed like there was very little space left for the committee to carry out their own activities as planned. But once they arrived, the group had just finished and just nice started packing and leaving! So blessed right! In a way this group was "reserving" the pavilion for them too!

3. Before the group left, THEY GAVE THE TEAM PIZZAS! Hahahaha cuz they had extra! So some of us got to eat some before we started! Wowwww. And Melz was telling me that one of the girls was just saying earlier that she was hungry and wanted some food :)

Yup, and 4. The weather was TOTALLY PERFECT that afternoon. It had just finished raining (when the rest of us reached at 2+), so it was quite cool. And there were still thin clouds in the sky, which covered the sun. So no ugly tanlines for Grad Night! I WAS QUITE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. Hahaha but all things worked together for good! :) (Romans 8:28)

Games were super fun lar!! Hahaha JC South so few people and majority girls but we got by! :)

Would reaaaally have loved it if we had CG in Sentosa though!! But many were joining us after the games so we had it on the sky park of Vivo instead, leaving the other CGs behind :'(

Imagine the setting sun, the sound of the waves, the ocean breeze, and the rustling palm trees! With guitar and singing. Ahhhhh

I always feel closer to God when surrounded by nature.

But nvm sky park was also good :) Also got ocean breeze lah hor.. Haha that session was just so precious. So simple but so powerful.

Y'know prayer requests? I offered one area for to be prayed for (for A level grads one lah) and yup it got prayed for, amongst the other prayer requests (like favour and fruitfully-spent holidays)...and I kid you not, like 5 minutes after the prayer ended, I GOT THE LONG-AWAITED SMS (relevant to this area that was prayed for)!!!! Finally!! Sorry I can't say in public what it is but yaaaaa! Breakthrough :) so hapz man. Prayer works!

He was so tangibly felt today! It was a beautiful night when we were all singing. Coz He was there.

Fell deeper in love.

ang moh

2011-11-30T23:58:00.004+08:00

With chengypockets ^^

E4 STEAMBOAT WAS AWESOME. Didn't want it to end? Now waiting for the DSLR and Powershot pics to be on Facebook hahaha *PNS wilts in shame*.

Some of the girls said my hair colour was like a mermaid's!

shoppingz

2011-11-30T01:34:00.002+08:00

Exhausting day today!! Shopping should be made into a sport. It trains endurance, cultivates patience and definitely tests physical ability (walking around in order to search out the best deal).

Hello brunch at Real Food!!! ^^ Om nom nomz.

Ordered this though I don't like mushrooms (donated them to Angie)!

I still love the pancakes though~ they're warm and fluffy! AHHH should not be thinking about them in the middle of the night! will have them again next time~

I SUPER LIKE this picture!! Hahaha very tourist-y but whatever!! I adore the "walking around" scenes of the people around us...I love them for some reason. Gives the pic more life?

An owl!

Goodnight all! My hair is fire engine red now, under sunlight.

chem p1

2011-11-29T00:13:00.002+08:00

FEELING EXCITED FOR THE MAJORITY WHO WILL END A LEVELS LATER TODAY (CHEM MCQ)!!!!!!!!!

SO MANY OF MAH FRIENDZ ARE IN THAT GROUP.

All the best for last paper!!!!! (if anyone sees thissss)

OMG just realised I need to wake up at an obscene timing for hardcore breakfast and hardcore shopping and maybe a hardcore showdown. K GOODNIGHT

13 pm

2011-11-26T12:36:00.004+08:00

With some people it's so difficult.

With some people it's just so easy. So freaking easy you wouldn't believe how smooth it is.

I don't blame either of us; I just wonder what happened and when exactly did things become so awkward and contrived.

*******

#youaretheappleofmyeye You will always be perfect to me. I know you have flaws but really, it's wonderful how they don't hold much significance when I see the beautiful things about you. The things that I love. You'll always be remembered.

post-A's

2011-11-26T00:55:00.003+08:00

Post-A's have been AWESOME.

HAPPY END OF A LEVELS TO ME!! Hahaha I like this pic a lot. I pestered TY, Abs and Alastair to ask the waiters for a candle for our lava cake dessert. LOL STEP BIRTHDAY. HAHAHA but same what, celebration!!

It was rather self-centred because the other 3 hadn't finished A's yet. LOLLLL. I felt like it was my birthday and they were celebrating it with me!!

Anyway they didn't have a candle :(((((

But the food there (Kungfu Paradise, Bedok Point) is really really good! Will go back again soon as their menu looks impressive.

Bedok Point itself is already a sort of miracle. It is 4 FLOORS ALMOST ENTIRELY DEDICATED TO FOOD. Besides the ubiquitous semi-fast food places like Subway and Pastamania, there are also tons of other restaurants which will leave you spoilt for choice. Some of the interesting ones there are NYDC, The Chicken Rice Shop, and I think Sushi Tei or something like that.

WE FOUND A NEOPRINT MACHINE IN TIMEZONE. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!

So old school!! But ahhh brings back memories of like what, 2006, 2007??

The quality of this neoprint machine wasn't so good though :( :( need to go look for another one.

Anddddd later on...I was asking a shop whether I could pay with "this card" and I accidentally took out my Timezone card instead of my debit card LOLOLOL awkwardddd.

But with my ninja-like reflexes it was quickly averted.

Hahahaha but Abs saw the whole thing and she was laughing her head off.

Hehehehe.

Richard III! Although it was a tad longer than we all expected.

Thereafter, we traipsed around Orchard Central:

Sakae Sushi was EMPTY except for us!! :D I told them it was because I paid $2000 for the whole restaurant to be reserved for our private dinner ^^

Initially I thought this was a hat and I wore it on my head. Then TY said it was for car seats LOL OOPS!

Quixo, a board game that we tried out. The combined team of TY and I won!!!!!!!

Hahaha it was pretty funny because we figured out that Sherlyn and Abs could have won in 1 move, but we hoped aloud that "as long as they don't see it can already..." and we tried to counter their winning position, and it was so funny because in doing so, we won! Lol we also didn't see that we could've won in 1 move...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!~

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12

2011-11-21T23:14:00.000+08:00

Exactly 12 hours from now my A levels would have ended :) I would have finished writing my very last essay (Lit P5 - Women in Literature) and would have finished tying up my scripts, waiting for the invigilator to collect them.

I've progressed from a restless excitedness to a calm acceptance.

No more driving force governing my time, the reponsibility of academics perpetually hovering over my shoulder and shadowing every single one of my decisions. No more condemnation from failed attempts and sunken hopes. No more tense anticipation of how much of my future potentially hinges on how well I write an essay in 45 minutes.

But in a way, there is also no more pressing sense of purpose, no more adrenaline rush, no more moulding process of being corrected and growing and improving.

So gratifying but it was so stressful.

Anyway, just read Ms Soh's final reminders to us via Moodle and I can really feel her care :) gotta love how she embodies both the authoritativeness of a teacher as the head of the classroom as well as the tenderness of a motherly figure and confidante at the same time.

Ok gonna sleep now :) I will never underestimate the importance of sleep before a Lit paper again..

(PS OH WHAT ON EARTH, my sec sch Lit teacher just broke news to me over FB message that she "has a big baby coming soon"?!?!?!?! Y ALL MY TEACHERS GIVING BIRTH/GETTING PREGGERS)

(PPS OMG EPICLY FUNNY SHE MEANT HER HUSBAND. HAHAHAHHA
"Omg omg I meant my husband!!!! Hahhaha noooooooooo baby for me nooooo
Hahahhaha omg this is funny
Btw if u look at my stomach u might jus think I'm pregnant though hahhaha
But I'm NOT")

assortment

2011-11-20T22:04:00.005+08:00

From that time in 2009 (or 2008?) when I was feeling so stressed that I cried. I've kept it in my To Kill A Mockingbird all this while :)

(sidenote: I can't believe there once was a time when I did Lit without my text with me during the exam! I must've read it in such a way that the quotes were ingrained in me or something. God's grace mann..)

15 Nov early morning :) SEA history and a Peppermint Mocha.

18 Nov. A freaky-looking Humpty Dumpty Happy Meal toy! I chose this over the junior Humpty Dumpty because this looked less likely to come alive in the middle of the night and murder me in my sleep.

Wish I could have gotten the junior Puss in Boots :( daymmmmm cute!

Speaking of cute...

Hahaha isn't she adorable?! Squishing her cheek against the glass wall lol. Esther, Caris and I were super amused today while studying.

Sometimes we all await a fairytale.

And..............

The best thing that happened today :) :)

This freaking makes my WEEK! ^^

God's style is really to bless in abundance :) I feel so loved!!

You can give, but your style of giving is also significant. You can give begrudgingly, or extravagantly and lavishly. And Daddy God definitely does not fit the former.

Now and evermore, I say
You are my righteousness
My life is in Your hands, in Your hands

Now and evermore, I say
I am forgiven much
Your mercy knows no end, knows no end
It knows no end

Pumped up for Econs tomorrow :)

vainnnnn

2011-11-19T22:31:00.004+08:00

Jess is a wonderful friend.

EXCEPT WHEN SHE PRESENTS ME WITH DILEMMAS.

AHHHHHHHHHH

Hahahaha aiyah.

Fun dilemma.

444444

2011-11-18T23:27:00.003+08:00

It is with great joy that I'm typing this post because A LEVELS ARE ENDING IN FREAKING 4 DAYSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!

(Calvin: "Can you don't do your countdown so loudly?!?" hahahhaa bio ppl and their 2nd dec)

OMG yesterday was one of the most intensest days ever! I reached school at 9.30 am then SEA History-ed all the way till my exam at 2 pm...so my brain was working non-stop from 9.30 till 5 DDD:

Yeaaaahhhh everything seems to be ok so far la aiyah don't want to think about past papers.

CAN'T WAIT FOR POST-A'S!! I get a nervous tingling down my spine just thinking about my plans!! :D I tweeted, "How long is your post-A's list?" and got a myriad of responses, like "as comprehensive as my geog notes" and "MS Word 4 pages, font size 12" etc etc haha so interesting!!

Anyway, this is really random but the other day we were talking about pets, and how some of our families are averse to pets, and we were saying next time when we move out or get married we'll keep our own pets.

HAHAHA and I frivolously said, "YAAAAA you know after I get married I'm going to get a dog, then when I have a kid, the kid and the dog can be BEST FRIENDS~~~~~~~" like grow up together you know?! HAHAHA MACHIAM DISNEY MOVIE HAHAHAHA. Anw I got laughed at for saying that!

But quite cute right the idea?!

Sherlyn patronised me by saying, "Yeah yeah then the kid can ride on the dog right............" and OMG I totally didn't think of that but HAHAHA SO QT!!!

Ok ok gonna go nomz on green tea cheesecake now, SO HAPPY. Tomorrow is a Starbucks and Lit + Econs day! 2 PAPERS LEFT GOGOGO!

RED HAIR HERE I COOOMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE

the one that got away

2011-11-13T00:54:00.002+08:00

OHHHH MY GOSHHHHHHHH IT'S HEREEEEEEE

The MV for Katy Perry's The One That Got Away! Released on 11.11.11 aw :)

It's just. So. Sad... Omg the last scene, really cannot tank. When he re-appears beside her as a manifestation of her memory... And when the haunting Sunshine song cuts short.

Oh man I literally froze in my seat, eyes riveted to the screen.

Would you rather have loved and lost, or not loved at all?

*******

Right in the middle of A's now. It's been alright.. My worst day is over (Thur - Math AND History P1). Am left with 5 papers!

Thankful that I end on the 22nd! It's pretty early! I daresay it's earlier than more than half the cohort (who takes H2 Chem therefore ending on the 29th), or Singapore, for that matter.

Today's Arrow service was REALLY REALLY GOOD :) so much LIFE. It was just what I needed!! Praise God mann. And yup as usual enjoyed time with the cg :) so blessed.

It's when I'm spending quality time with friends, especially laughing with them, that I feel really really rich.

Concealment

2011-11-06T00:52:00.002+08:00

I've heard so many stories of how people's parents (usually mums) would support them during the study period for major examinations. A common practice seemed to be how their mum would stay up together with them, perhaps in the same room, into the wee hours of the morning as they studied.

While I knew that my own mother didn't do this, I didn't desire to exact any kind of sacrifice from her to demonstrate that she was supporting me in my studying. I reckoned that I was alright without any outward show of encouragement. Truly I felt okay!

But then today - and only today - I realised something. It was when she came into my room and asked if I needed more water before topping up the bottle and retired to bed after. I realised that she'd been doing this every night without fail, and only recently, like in the past month only. :) heh such a small simple action but it means so much la. I mean, water is important during studying what! And her gesture saves me the trouble of breaking my momentum and refilling my water myself.

Hmm truly thankful :) it also goes to show that if you look hard enough for something, you're bound to find it!

Ok ok gonna zzzzz already :) everyday I feel like I could have done better, but...I shan't condemn myself lah.

Goodnight!

#nowplaying

2011-11-03T23:32:00.004+08:00

3 reasons why I like this video!!

1. Love love love instrumental music :)

2. It's about the environment, hello! Mother Earth ftw!!

3. My friend is in the video HHAHAHA. Check out 1:13 - he's the dude second from right! Hahaha he appears for like 3 seconds in the whole video. When I first saw it on TV I was like, EHHHHHHH LOOK LIKE HIM..

Clean & Green Singapore 2012 music video "World Without Fences" depicts the development of Singapore's beautiful, clean and green environment through the eyes of a female protagonist, as she grows progressively younger. The video hopes to inspire every individual to play a part to safeguard and cherish this environment for future generations.

I think this competition/campaign is a really good idea in drawing awareness to our environment! Last year I heard some of the submissions and they were beautiful :D

Anyway, saw this on Katy Perry's Facebook page:

Caption: Could you still sketch every line of their face?

I guess it's safe to say that the music video for The One That Got Away (which was the title of the photo album) is coming out soon!! Can't waitttttt. I love it! It's such a pensive and delightfully mellow song~

So, could you still sketch every line?

*******

Just saw this pic that she tweeted :)

Do you remember what it was like to hold your hand in theirs? #1thatgotaway

Still waiting :) :)

hippo

2011-11-02T01:49:00.003+08:00

For some obscure reason I'd been feeling a little insecure about my blog recently. As in the content that goes on to it; that it may not be intellectual or meaningful enough, etc etc.

But I realised there's really nothing to be ashamed of, because just as there are many different types and personalities of people, so it is with types and genres of blogs.

And my blog is however I want it to be!

Afterall, the text you read here could simply be a persona and not even a true or accurate reflection of myself. Who knows?

PS - on a completely unrelated note, have to stick some Thirsty Hippo in my locker tomorrow cuz somebody else's stinky shoes in a neighbouring locker is stinking up my own locker. x:(

7

2011-11-02T01:12:00.006+08:00

Looking up Math solutions on Moodle at this time of night :'(

Kind of stretched out quite thinly now.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but ahhhhhhhhhh can't wait for this week to end..

Not that I want A's to come any faster, but argh the endless cycle of arranging and planning and prepping for consultations...

I know, I can just stop arranging consultations; then the cycle will stop. But it's a little too late to do that now eh?!

Nvm once I get past Thursday it will be quite manageableeeeeeeeee

I neeeed timeeeeee tooooo myselfffffffff

And Lord, I really don't need additional stress coming from that person..

7 days to A's

20 days to freedom

(until Uni starts)

(Zenda: "I didn't want to tell y'all this until after A's but...IT DOESN'T END [even after you get into Uni]!!")

lakewood church

2011-10-30T23:18:00.003+08:00

Live streaming of Pastor preaching a Sunday service at Lakewood Church, USA! His first time preaching in the US :)

Watched from 9.30 pm to 11 pm (their AM!)...ahhh really felt like we were joining them in their church service haha! Loved their praise and worship!

Just finished watching...I am so so so blessed and HONOURED to be under Pastor Prince's ministry :') the ministry where people are set free, where grace is preached!! God chose me to be part of the ministry leh! :) :)

It's so easy to take Pastor for granted cuz we have him every Sunday. But his explosive international ministry is a really good reminder haha!! People really really love him and appreciate him overseas!

I'm just so glad I'm part of this :) and like my family stumbled upon the grace teachings of New Creation.. I really don't wanna think about how I'd be like if I didn't know grace haha.

Going to sleep feeling very very rich :) :)

:')

Now and evermore, I say
You are my righteousness
My life is in Your hands, in Your hands

the snowsuit guys

2011-10-26T23:57:00.004+08:00

Today I watched Disney's Minute Men on TV!

Image credit: x

A comedy sci-fi adventure, the movie starts out with 3 friends - Virgil, Derek and Stephanie - beginning high school together. The first day of school turns out to be pivotal, as Derek tries out for the football team, Stephanie for cheerleading, and Virgil defends a young genius called Charlie, when Charlie causes chaos on the football field and is picked on by the jocks. Subsequently, the movie fast forwards to the high school senior year, where after 3 years, Derek and Stephanie are part of the popular crowd, and Virgil and Charlie remain social outcasts.

Although the whole deeply-entrenched-high-school-hierarchy-system thing might seem too cliche to be integral to a plot, the movie turned out to be progressively interesting and meaningful!

The main thrust of the story is that Virgil, Charlie and a 3rd guy called Zeke, whom they rope in later, eventually succeed in building a time travel machine and start to use it for good, like "rescuing" high school outcasts from embarrassing moments, etc. Virgil also uses it to prevent Stephanie, whom he is in love with, from falling off a cheerleader pyramid and breaking her leg, hence preventing her from losing her cheerleading scholarship.

But they soon run into dilemmas - once Stephanie finds out about their time travelling abilities, the 3 are soon reluctantly drawn into fulfilling other's requests, like preventing a streaker from running beside the field during a major game so that Derek is able to pull off the winning shot and win the game.

Their time travelling activities soon run into legal and technical problems, and subsequently the 3 guys have to embark on a risky mission to prevent a black hole from consuming the entire world!

ANYWAY. What I wanted to say was that, I was touched by one of the final scenes, where their risky mission took them back to that very first day of high school, the momentous afternoon where the fate of Virgil's social life would be decided.

He desperately raced back to the school field, eager to alter the course of history and rid himself of the victimisation he faced throughout all his years at high school.

But just when he sees the events of that afternoon unfolding and is about to race down the bleachers, Charlie, a normally capricious and cheerful boy, solemnly approaches him from behind and entreats him to stop.

Virgil says, "I have a chance to be somebody!" Stinging from all the years of humiliation.

But Charlie says,

"All right, but know this. What happened down there is we became friends. That day we were tied to that stupid Ram's statue. This day, this day that you hate so much because you got a little embarrassed. This is my favourite day. Even though I'd still be a nerd, it didn't really matter anymore. Because I had a real friend. And that would always make everything okay."

Oh man... The "this is my favourite day" really got me..

It's just so touching because sometimes when you feel like you've gotten the shorter end of the stick, you're actually being such a blessing to others and making a difference in someone else's life. For Charlie, it was such a huge huge huge difference. All Virgil needed was just a change in perspective and look at his circumstances in another way.

And sure enough (in true poetic justice), Virgil later sees from the bleachers that Derek had egged the jocks on in bullying him and Charlie, proving of course that he wasn't a loyal friend all along, and that all the "I wish we still hung out like we used to" was all crap.

So yup, happy ending! Virgil and Charlie are reconciled, the loner Zeke finds fulfilment in their friendship, and all 3 guys get their girls ;)

Such an odd teenybopper movie (with Justin Bieber haircuts all round), but yet strangely meaningful!

murderess

2011-10-20T23:49:00.008+08:00

"Eh he going in on May ____, it just popped up on my news feed I swear."

"Mine is dec to march, dam can't meet this asshold"

HAHAHAHA LUV U, PLZ FORGIVE ME ♥

PS - today I accidentally stepped on a centipede/caterpillar!!!!!!! My classmates and I were walking along in the corridors and it was crowded...THEN, I realised I stepped on something, and there was like, a crunchy feeling...and I exclaimed, "OMG OMG what did I step on?!" and we turned around and we saw the darn thing! TRAUMATISINGGGG!! (yeah ok I do realise it can't be more traumatising for me than it is for it)

YEAH then Junie conveniently passed by while there was a small commotion so the commotion MAGNIFIED by 1000x because of her loud voice!!!! HAHAHAHA dammit, it was a crowded corridor!

AHH then I got accused by my lovable adorable classmates of being a "MURDERESS" and "We don't even know if it's a caterpillar or centipede because it's so mangled!!" and "OMG if it was a caterpillar I cut short its life...maybe it was motivated to become a beautiful butterfly...but then..."

Anyway I am truly sorry for its unfortunate death! :( RIP!! What were you doing in a corridor anyway.....

35 = 5 x 7

2011-10-18T23:48:00.004+08:00

Omg YOU GAIZZZZ

It's 35 days until my A levels end!! (HELM)

(hahaha Rachel says it's "A levels that are ending, not us")

Just one month left! It's gonna be the best month yet ;)

Really gotta plan the remaining time well! But this week's crazy lah! See my schedule!!

Packed all the way from Thursday till Saturday...but wow Thursday, really can't get any fuller than that!

And the cat drawing on the weekend...adore it, haha. By my beloved Absss

Here's a picture of her and I!

AREN'T WE SO PRETTY ^^

Lol our GP tutor actually commented on the photo on Facebook, saying "How far does the above photo reflect the true faces of young Singaporeans today? Discuss."

Anyway, next week is really busy too! Heh just a few more left..

Psalm 61:2
From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

uprising

2011-10-09T20:57:00.003+08:00

Water You turned into wine
Opened the eyes of the blind
There's no one like You
None like You

Into the darkness You shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There's no one like You
None like You

Our God is greater, our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is healer, awesome in power
Our God, our God

Our God is Greater by Chris Tomlin. It's suchhhhhh a beautiful songggggg :) :)

So full of hope.

You guys gotta listen :)

1 month to A's. Yup He's the One who turned water into wine.

Peace love and joy all!! :)

Exciting stuff is happening :) :) and nowadays I keep finding myself placed in the right place at the right time. Really awesome :)

salar de uyuni

2011-10-02T22:56:00.003+08:00

Oh how I would love to go there one day :)

Really wanderlusting so badly!

Image Credit: x

final prep

2011-09-26T21:00:00.005+08:00

Dear future me,

I hope I would have studied and prepared enough over the next few weeks to make you confident about walking into the exam hall to take those A level papers.

I'm in the midst of receiving the prelim scripts now and all seems fine so far.

But I'm really gonna speed up a whole lot. Don't want you to panic and go hating on me during A's when you open the question papers or something, wishing I'd done more. No regrets yeah?

And yup - it takes a David ('beloved') to slay a Goliath. :)

Love
Me

recorded 'live' chat

2011-09-22T23:18:00.003+08:00

Video streaming by Ustream

Oh man how can anyone not like George Young after watching this vid??

Adorableeeee. Doesn't look 31 right?! And he's real funny and interactive too! :)

I actually watched the full hour haha! Of course not staring at him the whole time lah, but randomly surfing around while listening. But he does break out into really cute dances!

Aw that accent and sense of humour and those huge eyes..

He really does carry himself well in the video. I didn't even last a full minute into Ris Low's one -_- like, she was slouching and mumbling and all..

Anyway!! George is real nice and sweet in that live chat video haha.

Post-prelims now, but I can't seem to enjoy myself fully cuz it feels like mere borrowed time T-T

puhreeleemzz

2011-09-20T22:58:00.002+08:00

Losing steam.

Press on, me!!!

1 paper left (thursday).

awesomesauce

2011-09-17T23:57:00.005+08:00

Hi everybardeh I forgot to add that the small part I studied for came out for my exam!!! :)

Hehehe. This is what I mean by, even if I don't get to complete what I planned to study, He's still got my back :) Rachel also; the day before the exam, she happened to ask some questions which pertained to the EXACT question that came out in the paper! :)

It's so beautiful cuz we didn't even mean to spot questions or what. It was really just Him guiding us and showing us what to study. :) haha for me I didn't even pray to ask for that. Isn't He generous!

Of course, we will continue to study lah. Not that we can go and relak one corner already. But our studying will be restful :) it means not stressed out :)

Oh today was such an awesome day. Really was counting my blessings today and it felt so good!

I chanced upon New Look's crazy 2nd-item-at-$2 sale, happened to go back home by the front gate (then realizing that I didn't bring out my condo card - which would've been super inconvenient if I went home by the side gate which i usually do), then I come home to a super super yummy dinner of leftover buffet food from my niece's 1 month old party (which I didn't attend cuz A's)!! And there are mangoes for dessert (my fave!!)!! Woo hoooo

And I remembered, just the morning of today, I prayed this prayer: God, today You shall be the centre. You are in charge. And since You are in charge, it's gna be a great day. Even with any bad things that happen. Because all things will work out for good.

True story :) And yeah honestly I didn't expect today to turn out to be soooo awesome :) from just a simple prayer.

Yes that is all. :)

(I will refuse to think about you.)

from 1 to 3.

2011-09-17T00:04:00.003+08:00

Today was so simple and great :)

It started out with Melz asking if she could come over immediately after school, at 4+ before cg just to hang out a while hehe :) I said sureeee, then she ran into Junda in school and he joined her, then they ran into Desmond at nex and he joined them, then they all came over! And Debz came shortly afterwards :)

We watched Ugly Betty and Got To Dance UK and The Bachelorette 6 and HIMYM!! Woo hoo. All the way from 4+ to 7.30 I kid you not! Haha. There was nasi lemak and bubble tea... And super fun lar Debz and I attacked Melz hahaha. I kept trying to tickle her knees.

After a while Junda wanted to go gym at my condo's gym!! HAHA I lent him my girl PE shorts and he actually tried them on over his long pants!!! Too short lah, so he borrowed some adidas shorts from my bro!

Lol. Oh oh oh and I also gave away my God Is Able album iPhone 4 cover (((((: SO happy because I've been thinking about who to give it to.. Like, I love it so much and I really think it's super gorgeous, just that I don't own an iPhone 4, and I just really want to bless someone with it, but I wanted to choose someone who would really really love it.

Here it is!! Together with the album! :)

So, it started when I noticed that Rachel had the cover too - she just bought it - but the sides weren't in red! (yeah you can't tell from the picture but it's a dark red.) I was like, "Eh how come yours transparent one??" Then I was like, eh look a bit funny leh...AND I ACTUALLY ASKED HER IF IT WAS PIRATED LOL :X then I went to find my cover and brought out to compare, and Junda also came to see, and imo Rachel's one was nicer cuz the colours were richer, but she thinks mine's nicer cuz of the red sides!

Then Junda was also keen on having the cover so I gave it to him :D he was like :O o_o I buy from you, how much?? Hahaha! He offered $20 some more.. I said free... He said ok next time buy you dinner. Hahaha.

But since Rachel thought mine was nicer, she traded with him. :) It works out also lah cuz his iPhone is white (so he got the one with the transparent sides) and hers is black (and the red sides will complement it more). So we wound up with 2 very very happy kiddos with new God Is Able iPhone cases!!!!

TWO very very happy people, instead of ONE! :) how amazing!

So cool eh? Now that I think about it! See, I gave away ONE iPhone case intending to make ONE person happy, but God multiplied it and it became happiness for TWO! :) :)

Wow wow wow. Honestly, only He can orchestrate such a situation :)

You can make it 3 happy kiddos if you count me, cuz I was happy that I could give it away to someone who would genuinely love it, PLUS I was happy that there were TWO happy people instead of just one! :) :)

Hahah yeah it's a privilege to be a blessing! You'll get the spillover effects also! I am blessed seeing them being blessed (((:

And also they are super appreciative about it so it makes everything even nicer (((:

O I didn't expect to blog so much about this one incident. Haha. But really uh, now that I think about it..........I'm really so blessed by realising this!

Also we had a super awesome cg session after that :D

And Zheng Da looked at the reflection of my living room ceiling light in the glass coffee table and found that it looks like a moon!! :O HAHAHAHA.

And also, the conversation topics over the yummy supper tonight were super super interesting!!!!!

Heh so yeah like I said, simple and great. :)

prelims

2011-09-13T00:10:00.004+08:00

I still feel that I am not milking enough out of every day.

His grace catches me every time I fail :) what a reassuring thought.

I will study as much as I can, but if I can't complete, I will not be moved from my rest. Worrying = out of rest man. He's got me covered :)

everyday i'm studying

2011-09-09T00:04:00.005+08:00

Studying in school:

Super super super productive!!! Except for when we ate egg tarts then became retards HAHAHAAHA

Srsly we somehow became childish, like, seeing who can reach the bench faster. And saying nonsensical things and laughing away. Hahaha.

Yes and the chocolate egg tart is nice, worth the $1.30!! Full of eggy goodness ^^ and it arrives warm! JW maintains the view that the best way to eat it is to stuff as much of it as possible into your mouth. HAHAHA if you don't get burned then yeah pretty awesome!

Anddd mini soccer break to continue my training to become The Greatest Goalkeeper There Ever Was HAHHAHA! To replace Lionel Lewis.. (DID YOU SEE THE SG-IRAQ MATCH 2ND GOAL SDFJNSFLKSNDFLSKDFS)

Also y'know what.. Adam came back from running and wiped his sweat on me :(

Studying at TY's house:

Super super super unproductive but really fun!!!

Hahaha loved dancing madly to Moves Like Jagger (see below!) with Angie! The exact dance in their cover! Hahahaha.

And also...we learned lots of new stuff....... Hahahha old books are really interesting...

And I am ashamed to say, Kartrider-ing also :(

Nevermind tomorrow shall be a more productive day!! :)

Oh look, a YOG placard! :D

Hahaha we were like, "YOU STOLE IT?!" but it turned out that the placard holders just discarded their placards after they were done with it! So some uniformed people like TY went to pick up the placards of cool countries hahaa (discrimination~).

earwormmmm

2011-09-06T23:13:00.002+08:00

:) :)

Moves Like Jagger

The Ballad of Mona Lisa

Who Says

I like them all better than the originals!

What makes a

2011-09-01T21:13:00.005+08:00

Good friend?

Someone you can click with really well, personality-wise? Same wavelength on different issues and even the type of humour?

Someone you can confide in easily? Can trust them with your secrets?

Someone who also shares their secrets with you and is willing to appear vulnerable to you?

Someone who genuinely enjoys your company and doesn't merely 'use' you?

Or perhaps even someone who sticks up for you behind your back, and loves you enough not to judge you more than they care for you.

Friends are rarer and harder to find as we get older, I feel.

No, there was no one incident that sparked off all these thoughts. And no, there is no one person that I'm trying to talk about.

On a completely unrelated note, talking to E now, and I must say, it's always nice to be chatting with ZH people.

:)

The Toh Friendship Theory
Hi
How's life.
How's soccer.
Wanna go out?
Need to tell you something important.
Follow me!

baby, baby blue eyes

2011-08-29T14:51:00.001+08:00

"He sounds like a bastard."

Hehe.

I removed the blinking green light already! But I sighed as I did so.

well.

2011-08-28T22:25:00.003+08:00

This exact one, except for the straps in navy blue :(

Sighhhhhh so close.

But you know, if getting it means losing the peace, then I'd rather not get it..

Though, it was very painful to let go :'( I won't deny that.

Well yeah, submit to them as unto the Lord.. So the expectation is on Him to provide the blessing for it. Will believe that He is setting up an even better situation next time.

Selah.

Image credit: x

Prelims have startedddddddd

2011-08-25T23:22:00.004+08:00

Lol GP down, EVERYTHING ELSE to go.

This time, it's history that's before the holidays. SEA history, and it's making me (and many others) all siaaannnnnnzz :( sigh, don't even wanna try explaining why, haha.

GP today was alright. I guess the main thing is REGRET. Spent 2 minutes in P1 regretting not reading 2 particular articles that I'd photocopied myself. After P2 I was regretting not writing down all the ideas for AQ that came to me during the paper (but no time), or those that came waaayyyyy after the paper haha. Hm hm hm.

I had no time partially because I was writing furiously about a certain newspaper-run citizen journalism site. And that it aptly demonstrates, to quote from the passage, how "unrestrained and anonymous speech" actually "discourages participation". :/ Anyway I was very impassioned about the issue and may have bordered on ranting haha. I think I was more emotive and subjective than the author that I was supposed to be evaluating lor.

Anyway, I love the topic of mass media! Prepared it for promos last year and it came out double for prelims! ^^

Aiyah siannnn should have remembered to use the MOST RECENTEST OF RECENT NEWS, the resignation of Steve Jobs as Apple CEO, and how their shares dropped by 7% after the announcement lol. Just found that out like 1 hour before the GP paper! I even said "imagine if we can use this for GP later!" and ironically, Jobs was mentioned in the passage also haaa.

Mm no time for regrets lah need to go cosy up to SEA history now. Bye!

grades

2011-08-24T00:03:00.002+08:00

Happy :)

Putting in some effort, and then seeing the results. Finally.

For one, finally broke the 26/50 barrier for GP essay!! Now at 31 :)

Though, one very important thing that GG taught me in the beginning of this year, which I still hold fast to, is to not be easily contented. Keep aiming and striving until you get that A.

I think it has been essential in preventing me from being fully satisfied with any of my grades. Which is a good thing, because every time I celebrate an improvement, his advice comes to mind and I'm propelled to strive for greater things, instead of being comfortable and staying in that band of marks. This way, I avoid sliding into a lull where I become contented and then complacent. And having this mindset has definitely expanded my potential. It can take me further.

And of course, wisdom from God to know HOW to study and how to improve :) like essay-writing skills; don't know how to improve even though I've been paying attention for 1.5 years? He inspired me to grab my friend's stellar essay and I gleaned many learning points from there, soon writing my own not-bad essay.

I don't know when and how my summary and AQ suddenly improved hahah but up to Him to maintain lah.

Different techniques of learning for different people. So pray about it.

Excited :) Looking forward to break the 25.5/50 barrier for Lit soon eh.

judean desert

2011-08-21T00:38:00.004+08:00

I RT-ed Andrew:

@xoxosherrie: omg miss this soooooo much RT @Werdnaaaaa: Wish I was still at the Judean desert lying on the rocks and gazing at the stars.

Sighhh feeling so wistful!! I really really love that place and miss that moment soooo much! Those precious 20 or so minutes, where we all just lay down on a dune of a million little rocks under the moonlight, which was so bright that it casted shadows and had guided our steps a little ways into the desert.

We were freezing our butts off lying down there, cuz c'mon, NIGHTTIME in the DESERT, but it was just such a peaceful moment, so much stillness. We sang a song or two. We gazed at the stars, all laid out above us like a sheet of artwork. All intricately placed and designed in the night sky.

We saw 2 shooting stars!!

All the stars were spread out on the huge sky above us. It just felt like God and heaven was so NEAR. You could literally feel Him. (Even if one isn't a subscriber to the belief of a higher being, I daresay it would be difficult to not feel any sense of wonderment and awe being there at that point of time.) That closeness...for me, there was a spirit of sonship that I felt. That there was an infinity and a God beyond that infinity, and He loves me and takes care of me. And He is so much bigger and He holds me secure in His hand.

On our way back to the camp (Bedouin tribe settlement tents), while some others were picking up rocks and dashing them against the ground (which was more rocks) to create sparks, I just had this sudden desire to like drop everything in my fast-paced urban life and embrace the simple life of living in a desert and taking care of camels and their poop and maybe growing my own food HAHAHA. Seriously! I could give up technology and just live day after day just with other desert homies and talking to God hehe.

But obviously that didn't happen..

That night in the Judean Desert. A moment of stasis. So beautiful and peaceful. Not like nowadays.

It's a treasured memory. Thank You Lord.

I hope I never forget how the sky looked that night.

centre of it all

2011-08-20T01:09:00.004+08:00

ALWAYS feel so blessed after having caregroup at my house!!!! :) :)

Hahaha today was memorable. Did a spontaneous song performance where I sang and KJ played the guitar. KJ and Darren sabo'edddddddddd

At first I was panicky cuz I'd only heard the song ONCE, LIVE, not a CD track that's replayed over and over again until I was familiar. Scared that I sing wrongly! Lol Cherlyn searched for lyrics and I sang with a phone in front of me.

And I like singing but I'm only used to singing to myself!!

But I did it anyway!

Rachel secretly video-ed!!!! THINK I DUNNO!! Hahahaha.

First few lines were shaky; the feeling is like, can't wait to rush to the end of the first line hahaha.

But it was alright! :) hehehehehe. Yeah my first, to a crowd of 20 people.

Anyway this is the song:

I really do love this song :) it's so beautiful. Was so good to sing it :)

Jesus in the centre of it all :) everything will fall into place when He's in the centre.

Anyway, today has been such a favour-filled week. Can really see it all around me :) whether through the little things or the rather big things.

And like, trusting God for good A's results isn't just some airy-fairy concept that is uncertain or far away. I know that He loves me and yup...it's a journey :) it may be tough but He's with me every single step of the way.

It will be a good ending :)

crunch

2011-08-16T23:21:00.003+08:00

(no time to blog substantially)

98 days to my last A levels paper (aka ensuing freedom)

85 days to A's (CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS ACTUALLY)

9 days to prelims!!!

You are the centre of it all! ^^ and that's what's keeping me sane.

blinking green light

2011-08-14T18:24:00.003+08:00

My most recent journal entry starts with "Okay, this is so stupid I can't even hold it in anymore." (obviously frustration, in case you didn't know) lol.

Well, yeah, I remember Adam talking about Pensieves (the basin that Dumbledore has in his office) and how they would really come in handy cuz sometimes people just have so many thoughts and wanna store them somewhere to get rid of them first, then look over them later.

But I realised that Pensieves do exist; they're journals. I realised it after writing the most recent entry; expressing all my frustration and conflicting thoughts swimming around in my head. Then I read my journal from the beginning (fairly new, first entry 2 April 2011), and yeah it was like recounting what I was going through during those times.

I even read a super detailed recount of an intriguing dream that I had, and some of it surprised me cuz I'd forgotten!

So yeah. Pensieves, journals.

Oh and you know how sometimes you read previous entries then laugh at yourself? My this "Okay, this is so stupid I can't even hold it in anymore." started being ridiculous to me 2 minutes after I finished writing it HAHA. Which was like...10 minutes ago. Hahaha.

I guess this could mean my feeling better already? haha. yah lah, loose hand lah. If have then have, don't have then don't have lor.

I wonder if this person knows that they're being journal-ed about SO MUCH. hahah.

lullaby

2011-08-10T23:22:00.003+08:00

I really adore most of my College friends right now, all the different groups of them; the little things they do, the way they are.

Being squishy
Soccer-loving
Chatterbox-y
Gentlemanly
Being exuberant and extroverted
(Or even quiet and just being with me)
Being sarcastic in the poking-fun-at-you way

Sharing their music with me
Studying with me
Making fun of my unconscious whining
Hugging me
Camwhoring with me
Reassuring me
Showering with me
Eating with me
Sharing epic moments with me
Lmao-ing with me.

I genuinely wonder if we will still keep in touch after A's. :(

Same concerns every graduating year. 2005, 2009, 2011.

If we do not, then I will really truly miss them, and the states of the friendships that I enjoy now.

They are really a unique bunch of people :]

On a completely unrelated note:
Sometimes it is just favour that makes all the difference.

a walk down 2008

2011-08-09T23:37:00.004+08:00

Firstly,

HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!

Don't know if it's the role of new social media (Twitter) or what, but it seems that the spirit of patriotism is more pervasive this year! Even when I didn't watch the NDP.

At lunch, there was a whole family next to mine that was seriously all decked out in red and white. Lol!

Anyway, I chanced upon my 2008 organiser!! I captured some silly things that my friends wrote inside then shared (exposed) them on Twitter, then I saw my own things and...thought I'd share some of it here haha :)

Aw it's been only 3 years but it seems like there's a world of difference between then and now...

January 2008

The first day of 2008. Haha. WHAT! I was just really enthusiastic. Ok I admire the "08 doesn't scare me" part cuz...almost everything was new man. Subject combi, classmates, lecture-tutorial system for some subjects.. Haha looking back, there was no reason not to be scared! I really had such faith in God hee.

Haha, "funky cap" refers to the dress code for that week for Ambs!! Ambs = Ambassadors. Omggggg I miss Ambs.

I remember thinking, during an Ambs gathering/outing, "If anyone wants to find a family, really, they just need to start serving."

February 2008

That time when I really wanted a Macbook. Hahaha.

:) :) Lit! Only when I entered JC did I realise that the stuff Miss Kaur taught us was really of standard and quality :) iambic pentameter is still very much relevant in Lit now :)

March 2008

1. I have no idea what filming that was that took 6 freaking hours.
2. I have no idea why I had to go to Novena Square and why I was so enthusiastic.
3. Why I so easily excited one ah??

Wait, if this was the March holidays then I think the filming was for some scenes of a Royston Tan film where the ELDDS acted as calefare hahaha. (I don't remember getting paid) (I do remember staying up almost the whole night the night before)

Sigh, foreshadowing of my downfall in Physics.

(But I still maintain the view that the catalyst was the change in administration. Cough.)

April 2008

Yeah, I couldn't just draw one heart -_-

May 2008

Hahaha I remember being really happy and proud of us (3E4) cuz we entered inter-class floorball and thrashed even the team that played floorball as a module in their PE while we didn't even learn it before the competition!

June 2008

3E/4N inter-class English debate :) we were Tagore :)

HAHA JASMINE. Shameless #1

July 2008

Shameless #2

Wah this one. Omg Tagore got into the debate finals :) :) it was hugeeeeee. We debated in front of the whole school onstage at an Assembly. I remember it was against the better English band of E5/E6. We lost. But I got best speaker if I remember correctly.

Haha 2009, we met the same band at the finals again. We won :) :) also, best speaker went to me :)

Ignore the "is in", it's part of something else, haha. The hearts are also a separate 3rd thing.

August 2008

TOMORROW is Kah Jun's birthday!! :)

HAHAHA I got A2 for Physics!!!

B4 for English :(

September 2008

I loved how Jasmine, who sat in front of me, would turn around and chat, whether it was stuff like Gossip Girl which we spazzed about, or random Higher Chinese phrases that she would teach me HAHA. There was one which I remembered all the way right up to O's, even until now!!

Hai di lao zhen :) like looking for a needle at the bottom of the ocean floor. I think.

Don't have a pic of it but the Friend Of Singa Award Ceremony was on 10th Sept hahaha :) thanks ah Kah Jun! (he nominated me awww)

Btw all the recipients there are really super courteous. I dropped a pen on the floor and 3 people rushed to help me pick it up..... True story.

1. I have no idea who Freya is but that day is her birthday.
2. The B M S thing was for the 3 of us to keep count cuz we vowed not to talk about certain people hahaha.
3. "Warren, JM and Chit Ann is here at 10.54 58 sec." hahaaha.

I loved how Shannen (my Physics bench partner) used to write song lyrics on all my stuff - Physics worksheets, organiser and all. Loved her doodles too.

October 2008

End of the year overall score :) hahaha Physics B3!! And my AMath improved! But this is all in sec 3 only hahaha joke.

In sec 4 I would plunge down to 21 points (prelim 1), then 15 (prelim 2). But then finally 8 minus 2 for O's :) :)

I remember getting my first F9s in my whole secondary school life, in sec 4 (Physics and AM). Thank God for tuition crash course and His grace!! O's saw B3 for Physics and A1 for AM :D happy endings. :)

Oh and it turned out that I got Top in Level for English with this score!! Woohoo even with the most slack English teacher OF ALL TIME hahaha (gossip, anecdotes, pics and vids = lessons) yay! Praise God really :)

Miss Kaur's recommendation :)

November 2008

Planning for our sec 3 class chalet :) we got a Costa Sands Pasir Ris chalet in the end :)

HAHA I remember the last night where JM suddenly sleeptalked and motioned with his hands. "Mr H I don't want to go back for NCC!!!"

Oh yah and Deon and I went back to school for ELDDS the day we all checked out of the chalet. -_-

A Random Page

Our Teachers' Day dance in the planning stage!!! Omg fond memories! Deciding the retro songs, choreographing our own steps in the most random ways, rehearsing in JL's condo's function room...

Oh and our DONUT!! :) :) (we collected donut orders and made and sold them for our fundraising! Most hectic thing ever!)

December 2008

WHERE GOT PEOPLE ORGANISE EXTRA LESSON AT THIS KIND OF UNEARTHLY DATE ONE. RIGHT? RIGHT???

Maybe it was cancelled eventually. I can't remember. Hah.

Ah things were so simple back in 2008 ((:

national day celebrations

2011-08-08T20:25:00.007+08:00

Sporadic updates!! Whatchu gonna do.

Today was a day of dressing up, flower-arranging, quiz-answering, ROJAK MAKING, watching J2s being sabo'ed to sing old school National Day songs, EATING, and TAKING PICS!!

NICE ANOT my pink sari?? Haha gotta thank Faizah for lending and an Indian toilet cleaner for helping me wear!!! LOL. Racial harmony ftw.

With Zexun who put up some random unglam photo of me despite my "HAVE MERCY" text and relentless persuasion HAHA.

Seriously, he was like, "It'll be up by tonight" followed by an evil smirk.

Hahahahaha. I asked Hosung how to convince a photographer to delete unglam photos of people and he suggested tickling but ZX not ticklish one -_-

Back to National Day celebrations: Ok lah it was quite nice singing National Day songs together (evoking pri sch memories) with our arms around each other's shoulders. It's our last opportunity cuz Uni won't have already! And there was a running train going around the caf, like what we have in praise and worship during the Run songs! Hahaha.

Later...... CELEBRATED JESS' BIRTHDAYYYY :) :)

RAINBOW CAKE! (but here cannot see all the colours!)

It's true!

Hahaha honestly while making the rainbow cake my self-esteem plunged to a low because I really felt that I am not graced for cakes and it was becoming so ugly T-T and to me it didn't even taste that great (used cake mix, if not I can spend 10 000 more hours in the kitchen already) lol. I even sms'ed them all hahah I was so sad!!

I didn't even feel like making a rainbow cake, only did it solely because Jess said she adored it and wanted it for her birthday. :) (and also that was what kept me going)

By the time it came to the frosting I was already quite depressed!! Like CAKE Y U NO BE PRETTY?? No matter how much I tried smoothing the frosting it REFUSED TO BE SMOOTH.

I even prayed for it before sleeping HAHAHA like magically become nice(r) inside the fridge overnight or something.

Yeah but the next day everyone kept saying "OMG so cuteeee" and Haein they all really reassured me and REALLY I'm not trying to blow my own horn here or what, but people really kept saying that and somehow to me it just felt so undeserved?! I even tried to hide the cake from Deon when he wanted to see it cuz I said I'm ashamed of ittttt hahahaha. I really felt that it was ugly but everyone had like rose-tinted glasses on or something haha.

Anyway glad that Jess likes it :)

We had to rush it before going for Lit lecture!!!!!! :|

Haha yeah glad that it worked out. Aww Angie even said that she thought Marilyn bought it from somewhere when she saw her carrying it around lol.

Oh and Jess asked me if we had a pic of the cake before it was cut. I realised I didn't. This is evidence of my reluctance about it lololol.

ANYWAY moving on.

Studied with Angie and Desmond today and Angie and I reaffirmed that we both look good when we take pictures together!! Somehow! LOL.

We went home to shower first then we happened to wear red and white together!! :D

SUPER a lot of epic moments in just ONE EVENING, from BOTH OF US!! HAHAHAHAHA

1. We ran into Hongjie on our way to City Square Mall! I said hi to him. He paused for quite long to finish chewing his thing before talking...we stood there for FOUR WHOLE SECONDS. Talk about awkward ahahahaha!! Then he had to hold up his hand to his mouth - he looked like he was gonna gag! Then Angie squealed to me,

"PEOPLE SEE YOU THEN WANT TO PUKE!!! HAHAHAHHA"

-_________-

Hahahahaha ok......

2. While studying, I went to Angie's Whatsapp group chat with her besties, and I spammed stuff like "I'm having a mental breakdown", "fvsokfwoefmsfsfv", and DDDD: Emojis.

AND THEY HECK CARED HER AND CONTINUED DISCUSSING THEIR DINNER PLANS!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

3. On the way home. When the train was approaching Woodleigh station, I said, "Eh, Serangoon station. We alighting." I didn't expect Angie to alight BUT SHE DID!! HAHAHAHAHAHA. She alighted alone then looked up from her phone, then rushed back in and physically and verbally attacked me!!!! )))): BUT SUPER FUNNY LAR HAHAHA

4. At Serangoon she pushed me and I stepped on someone's foot -_-

"HAHAHA YOU ALIGHTED AT WOODLEIGH"
".......AT LEAST I DIDN'T HURT ANYONE!!!!!!!"

HAHAHAHAA ok this one quite funny.

5. Hahahaha okay by the time we came up at the platform we were laughing like mad already like clutching each other's hands and all that and I didn't realise her friends were waiting at the corner!!! LOLLLLLL quite embarrassing!!!! It was the first time I had to introduce myself by saying "I'm normal...I'm normal..." while lmao-ing. HAHAHAHAHA

Ok ok fun and happy afternoon :D I'm so thankful for it. Laughter is health to our bones the bible says!~ (or something like that haha)

once a saint always a saint

2011-08-05T22:41:00.001+08:00

Today, we happened to wear the same shirt!! ^^

momentous

2011-08-02T15:56:00.004+08:00

WHEW finally some time to catch my breath in between schoolwork and a dental appointment (and churchie after that~)!!!

Anyway, the only significant non-academic thing that happened to me in the past week and a half was THE FIRST CAREGROUP THAT WAS HELD IN MY HOUSEEEEE :DD

The previous house that we went to was George's (PP), but he graduated already :( so yup haha volunteered my house. Living in Serangoon is really super convenient!!!!

Anyway I didn't think much of it. Then as it got closer I was kinda nervous. But it all turned out fine in the end, and even much more than that!! :) (isn't it like God to bless exceedingly abundantly and above?) haha my cg people are really lovely, I kept getting compliments about my house, like "Omg you've been hiding it from us, it's a paradise!!" hahaha. And yup everyone was really happy and thankful about it so that was gooooood :) :) even little things like down to the food - I wasn't exactly satisfied with what the mother got cuz I thought it wasn't the kind that they would like, but it turned out that they loved it~~

At the end of it all, after sending allll of them out, I just felt sooooo satisfied and filled :) not just from the sharing which was really good, but also the blessing that came with opening up my house for Him :)

I was "happy like toad"! :D To borrow a quote from my quirky Econs teacher hahaha 8)

About 20+ days to Prelims
And 99 days to A's!!

Grace grace! ESSBB; here are my 5 loaves and 2 fishes.

I had forgotten

2011-07-22T23:03:00.003+08:00

What it was like to have it flow through me, flow through my heart, and then out of my mouth.

Today I remembered.

:)

Gerald got me listening to Taylor Swift songs again, after so long. I like her voice, it's so smooth. Like satin slipping from your fingers.

Tomorrow is HOW exciting!! Saintsfest (going back to help junior class) - DEFINITELY wanna catch 34th's mass dance (video-ing) and take Polaroid with the mascot!!! I mean, our tiger is iconic man. And until now I still don't have picture with it!!!! What is this.

And of course, the Arrow Grad Party tomorrow too :) :) awesome.

Pretty? :) I was so satisfied with them after they were done.

i can see your halo

2011-07-21T23:37:00.003+08:00

We had class photo-taking a few days ago!! It was so much fun - we decided to make halos for our informal shot!!! :D

Cuz we're saints!!

Hahaha it was quite a last minute thing (decided only the day before and finished in the morning of the photo-taking), we rushed it out and I'm so glad we did! Totally cuteeeee

Abs and I :) :) the llama and the owl, HAHAHA

Okay thanks to the presidential elections (and Hari Raya and Teachers' Day), Prelims are possibly gonna start as early as freaking 25 Aug. And I will have to take 2 GP papers and 1 History paper all in 1 day!! Y LIKE THATTTTTTTTT

Lol, it's like whut. I haven't even finished consolidating my knowledge from after BT2.

Today I had Gong Cha with my classmates again!!! Earl Grey Milk Tea with Pudding Jelly this time. Hehehe Kim Joo.

It seems that City Square mall on Monday afternoons is becoming a routine!! Anyway I decided to limit myself to 1 bbt a week! CONFIRM. If not I'll go up to like 4 a week la!

Oh, and on Monday, Joey found an abandoned pen in the caf, and so I acquired a new pen cap for my cap-less pen! Yay! What happened was that I was doing math on Sunday and my pen dropped on the floor and the cap simply disappeared. Haha. So yes, a restored pen cap :D #littlethingsinlife yeah and speaking of doing math, Matthew was with me that Sunday, and I found it sweet of him to help me with my math even though he probably hasn't touched it for 1.5 years haha (though he had to google sine rule lol). :)

Lalalala I forgot what I wanted to blog about. :( anyway life has been about studying recently. Hope I don't burn out too fast! Grace grace.

heartzxzz

2011-07-18T22:27:00.000+08:00

So much uncertainty...........

...That is all.

r.a.d.

2011-07-17T23:33:00.000+08:00

Relived a little of 2009 in one night.

:)

there's a fine

2011-07-13T21:44:00.002+08:00

line between love and hate and right now I adore you so much but I'm scared it will all suddenly turn to hate one day :( :(

PS - a teacher from my secondary school is live-updating his Facebook about his wife's pregnancy/delivery!!!! Statuses, pics of the graph showing the contractions, etc. It's happening right now as we speak, omg so exciting. Funny thing is that his news never really showed up on my News Feed until now.

squish

2011-07-11T22:14:00.005+08:00

Honey Milk Tea with Pudding Jelly.

Today was cool :) not brain-intensive, released 2 hours earlier than expected cuz now PE is optional and the weather was really...

Had Gong Cha, sushi and Yoguru with Abs, Angie and Sherlyn! MY GOODNESS. Hahahaha. Anyway it was a really nice afternoon ^^ Angie said my hand is super nice to hold, and "Can I hold it forever??" LOL she's always complimenting me in funny ways like that..

Got back some results today :) I'm quite happy. I set my BT2 targets on 24th May, before June holidays. Although I missed my Math target by a grade, I superceded my GP target by a grade. So it's cool, hahaha. Averages out.

I'm super happy lar I actually got an A for GP paper 2!!!!!!!! I'd never have dreamed of an A for GP before, srs!!! (but then my P1 pulled it down lar.)

Haha God is amazing :) I didn't expect anything out from GP, it was just okay.

Haha okay hope the rest of my results are okay too! Today was such a slack day cuz there's no homework. 8)

Saints shirts coming tomorrow!! WHEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh yes, and today I started my day off with Jesus. It felt so right. The rest of the day felt right too 8D Like Martha and Mary in the bible, when we sit at Jesus' feet and receive from Him first, instead of trying to gao dim everything ourself, He takes care of things for us!

SLEEPING EARLY TONIGHT YAY

lovely holidays

2011-07-10T15:34:00.006+08:00

Saturday, 2 July 2011 (the Saturday before Youth Day)

The Zone's Youth Day celebrations at Toa Payoh Stadium!!!! :D

The theme was 'Celebrating You' and it was SUCH a fun day!!! Hehehe they brought in loads of inflatables and cool booth games! There was even a mechanical bull on an inflatable!!! COOL SHIZZ. Even if you didn't go on it, it was still fun to watch people haha :) another awesome inflatable thing was gigantic inflatable balls where 2 people could go inside and be strapped to the inside of the ball, then two teams have to roll their balls to the finish line the fastest!

It was such a hoooooot day and I got SOOOOOO RED hahaha but it's okay according to B red is cute.

My caregroup :) :)

OMG it is the GREEN LANTERN!!!!! Hahahaha Jeremy volunteered to be one of the mascots for JC cluster so he walked around in this for half the day!!

Haha that's Desmond and Raphael on the gladiator station!

ESTHER AND I!!!! Hahaha if she didn't ask me to go I wouldn't have gone on it!

Anyway we took a really long time, kept whacking each other but neither of us fell off hahaha.

SORRY ESTHER

(anyway I lost in the end) (the trick to quickly ending the game in the case of a stalemate is to swiftly throw yourself at your opponent and knock them off their podium lol!!!!) (which is what she did)

Yup that's me right there.....

This is us being super tired from jumping madly!! It was supposed to be a station where you're attached to a string and you have to run as far as you can while the string keeps tryna pull you back. Haha but after a while it was out of order so we just jumped around!!

Super fun lar if you jump at the correct timing your friends' jumps can launch you even higher!!! WAHAHAHAA

Anyway it was super tiring!!!!

Oh haha.

Kai Jie! Omg another epic moment of my life, cuz sometime in the day I was just remarking to a group of us that transitions lens are very ugly and only uncles wear them and I DIDN'T REALISE THAT KJ WAS STANDING THERE WITH HIS TRANSITIONS LENS HAHAHAHA until D pointed it out to me and I was like :O O_O OH CRAPPPPPP hahahaha

But KJ's cool lar! We laughed about it.

Then after a while I realised it was his BIRTHDAY summore!!!!! LOL OMGGGG talk about epic......

:] :]

Anyway, those are just SOME of the pics that we took on Youth Day celebrations...we had praise and worship in the early evening and it was just so awesome! LOL then during the Run song where we usually run around the ballroom or place where we're at, this time we ACTUALLY RAN around the TRACK hahahaa!! It felt so weightless!

And wow, just when Pastor Benjamin was speaking to us, suddenly FIVE F-15s soared above us all at TPY Stadium, in a formation!!! And they parted when they were right above us :D wowowow then some people from the air force like Pastor Lawrence said that they do that to salute the people that they are flying over. Cool or what! It was totally coincidental by the way.

Rest. :)

At night :) the guys took a series of individual shots and called it the JC South Calendar Boys hahaha what on earth.

Thursday, 7 July 2011
The Railway :)
+ Haji Lane

Lunch at Rail Mall!

Friday, 8 July 2011
Friendship Week dinner treat by Mr Gn :)

The staff are smart!! We asked them to help us take a group pic and they got us to stand under their hugeass sign AND included it in their photo!! Lol.

Saturday, 9 July 2011
ARROW!!!!!

No piccies though :)

Oh and I spent a total of $130 at the new Forever 21 at Orchard Exchange in just 2 days. LOL

Sunday, 10 July 2011

Today!

There was church in the morning :)))

(Do you believe in coincidences??)

And then cousin's wedding :) tea ceremony just now, gonna head out again in the evening for the dinner :)

Beautiful :) I love weddings :)

Hope there's yam paste :D

I have 9 hours left to my wonderful 4.5-day weekend!!!!!!! :(

Argh, going back to school. It's not that I don't like studying, I just don't miss waking up at the unearthly hour of 6 am WHEN THE SUN HASN'T RISEN ahaha.

Oh by the way did you know that it's 7 weeks to prelims??? GP (and maybe Econs!) are before the Sept holidays.

Nvm I call Term 3 blessed! :) amen! He is gna bring me through it :)

4.5

2011-07-08T14:44:00.002+08:00

Day 2 of my 4.5-day weekend has been awesome so far!!!!!!!!

I've gone running swimming tanning, FINISHED MY ESSAY, now about to head out for shopping and then FRIENDSHIP WEEK DINNER TREAT by Mr Gn!!!! YAY!

These are my REAL June (July) holidays!!!!!!!

threadless, again

2011-07-08T00:39:00.003+08:00

ANYWAY. I feel compelled to share my Threadless order with everyone :D :D

So Threadless is given to periodically going on mad sales where tees are $10 instead of $20, and this time round I made a hasty decision like on the day of the deadline itself to order haha! Hmm ordered with Bianca, it's always good to order with friends so that y'all can share the shipping (8D), although Bianca's tee turned out to be a Special Order so that was a different story..

Anyway here they are!! :D :D :D coming to me soon in 1 to 3 weeks from Chicago, Illinois, USA!!! Whoopwhoop!

(ALL PICS FROM THREADLESS.COM)

Omg how cute is this~

OMG HOW CUTE IS THIS!!!

Think it'd be pretty funny if I happened to be in a foul mood the day I wear this. HAHAHA.

:D

Plus another one whose image I can't find.

Omg I really love Threadless, their designs are beautiful and the material is really quite awesome :) :) they are my fave graphic tees!!

I remember when I first discovered them I adored like TWENTY over designs hahaha and even then my mum was really against online shopping cuz it entailed giving out a credit card number over the internet, lol. So I got none of those twenty designs (ahaha thankfully).

But I bless the day in 2010 where I ordered with Kah Jun and Kim Joo for the first time!!!!! ^^ Yay.

Hahahaha and Bianca was so surprised when I told her that USD 19 was like SGD 23. Yay for a recently appreciating SGD!

Eep can't wait for the tees to arrive!! :)

$1 pt 2, and railway tracks

2011-07-07T23:01:00.003+08:00

Okay so here's the answer for the missing $1 conundrum!!!!

The trick is that...there is no missing $1.

The $27 that the three men paid (all having paid $10 each then refunded $1 each) is for the room ($25) PLUS the $2 that the bellboy pocketed!!!! The remaining $3 is the total refund that they got!!

... ....

:O :D

LOL y'all got deceived by some tricky phrasing!

But ok la, this conundrum is not as impressive as I thought...50% of the people I asked got it -_- (lol but ok that's a grand total of 4 people)

Anyway, I've been having really fun post-BTs so far!!!! Today my PW girls and I went to the Tanjong Pagar railway tracks!!! The train services have stopped but the tracks are still there, they're gonna be closed from 17th onwards though (I think)!!

We went there to walk a portion of it, see see, and to take preeeeetty pictureeeeees hahha. A bit crazy lo we had 1 DSLR (borrowed), 1 SLR (M's), 1 instax (mine), 2 digital cameras (M's and mine)! LOLOLOLOL.

But it was loads fun! We went to lunch at The Rail Mall first and climbed a perilous hill (ok just kidding, although it was a little steep) to the railway tracks! That was pure instinct btw! HAHAHAHA.

It was so intriguing just being there! And the portion of the tracks we went to had this...bridge structure which was rather magnificent. Then we walked down some more...away from being above the main road to the jungle parts, past some high-rise buildings in the distance..

Sooooo interesting haha but it was SO FRICKIN HOT, would never go there on a date or whatever hahahaha! We all perspired super a lot!

Anyway most of the pics are in the DSLR, and I only have 3 instaxes and a few compact camera pics, haha.

Here are the compact camera pics! The other pics another time. Aw the train tracks just have this association with nostalgia and timelessness! And especially when there is the walking of the train tracks by Sylvie and Ruth in Housekeeping :]

It was a fun day of taking pics for other people, and getting people to help us take pics. One couple was so friendly, I approached them first but they got me to take for them first then they took 4 instaxes for us, haha. They even lent us the 2 yellow rubber duckies they brought as props hahaha!! SO CUTE. In the end I took an instax for them and gave it to them :]

On another note, SEEEEE it's normal to bring props what!! HAHAHA I suggested (albeit not seriously) like BALLOONS or huge FLOWERS then A asked me to bring more practical things -_- HAHAHAH. Only cuz M brought vitamins and durian cheesecake lo!!!!! Hahaha.

All in all it was a very novel experience for us :D haha why we so adventurous one ah?? (Punggol Expedition) But I like!

~~~

2011-07-05T11:08:00.003+08:00

"My life be like oooo ahhh" -- Dave Days

(it's a song) (kind of)

Econs P2 in less than 2 hours' time. I think this is the exam that I prepared the most for and feel the most ready for (after H1 Math, for the latter).

May everything stay in my head!!

$1

2011-07-03T18:58:00.007+08:00

Three men decided to book a hotel room for one night. It cost $30, which means that each of them forked out $10 to pay for the room. However, after they checked in, the manager realised that the room was actually supposed to cost $25 instead of $30. Upon realising this, he sent a bellboy up to the room to refund $5 to the three men. The bellboy, after arriving, did not know how to split the $5 refund between the three men, so it was decided that the three men would receive a refund of $1 each, and the bellboy would keep the remaining $2.

However, if each of the men ended up paying only $9 for the room (and therefore $27 altogether), and the bellboy kept $2, where did the remaining $1 go?

:O ;)

[EDIT]
NO, KAH JUN, (and anyone else thinking this) THE $1 DID NOT GO TO THE POST TITLE. -_-

I where got so bo liao one??

Will post up the answer after my BTs!! (last paper on 6th July)

(felt a bit weird saying that cuz sekali KJ is the only one who cares hahaha)

EXCITING!
[/EDIT]

9 days more!

2011-06-27T20:07:00.004+08:00

HELLO HOW IS EVERYONE?????

Today was the first day back to school and the first day of Block Test 2, woohoooooooooo!!

I had my H1 Math today, it was an afternoon paper. Goodness, I love afternoon papers. :D There's time to revise again right before the paper and hence.. you can sleep a little bit more relaxed the night before haha.

Anywayz I never really blogged about it but I dropped to H1 Math about...in the middle of Term 2. Remember one year ago after CTs when I flunked it and said that if they'd wanted me to drop one of my 4 H2s, they'd have to drag me kicking and screaming? ...Yeah. But now I've realised that it was pride that was holding me back last time.

I'm so glad I've dropped to H1 Math!!!!!!! Less academic burden...I feel like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders! It's so simple compared to H2 Math, really really.. And now I can concentrate on my other H2s.

Anyway today was a good start to BT2 :D When I couldn't figure out one major question...I prayed then stared at the diagram a while more then it dawned on me and I got it!! Got so crazy one not???? Hehehehe.

Yeap He loves me :) BT2 is bread for me!! Nom nom nom.

legacy camp 2011

2011-06-23T00:01:00.003+08:00

Jimmy asked on Twitter, "What is one word to describe #LegacyCamp ?" and I replied, "overflowing/life-changing/abundant/fulfilling/anointed :) :)"

HAHA ok I know it's only supposed to be one word but those are the choice of words I'd be picking from!!! :) :)

Legacy Camp 2011 was really so super awesome. I guess the best way to describe it is...after the whole camp, my heart was just so so filled (((: really. Sitting under the anointing and soaking in Jesus-consciousness for 5 days really made me so full and satisfied!

There were also so many new revelations taught and caught...omg Jesus is just so beautiful ((: like not only do the pastors preach from the bible, like practical tips are learned also, and of course when you're so attuned to His still, small voice inside you, anything from your surroundings can speak to you!!

Like one of my own mini revelations that I caught; so mini but impacted me so greatly. Y'know when we heard that Pastor Prince was gonna be speaking at Legacy camp, we were so so so excited and crazy and just couldn't wait for the 2nd night's service where he would be speaking? In the midst of that atmosphere I realised that we were all like, wah, Pastor Prince leh, an anointed man of God, listens to the call of God, gets super sart revelations! Such a privilege to hear him speak! And we can be like wahhh so powerful and stuff like that.

But Jessica, his daughter, 12 years old, if she wants to, anytime she can just run backstage while he's waiting to go up, and get a hug from him. Cuz she's his child and he, her father, and he loves her.

And that's the same way we are with God! That's why He's called the Father. He's not only the powerful creator of the heavens and the universe, the Almighty one...He's also our Father who loves us :D personalise it - He's my Father who loves me! Very very muchhhhh.

In Econs we learn about willingness and ability. Isn't it awesome that God is BOTH willing AND able to bless us?? He not just loves us, His arm is strong to move on behalf for us! He is mighty to save :D

ANYWAYZ. Speaking of Pastor Prince, I'm really really so glad that he keeps pointing back to Jesus. Even when it's so easy for him to boast. Like, his international broadcast ministry reaches to how many hundreds of billions of households around the world lah! (including Israel yay) Even if you take away some of it and leave 1% left, IT'S STILL BILLIONS OF HOUSEHOLDS!

And yet he still remains a Jesus-pointer. He said he endeavours to be the greatest pointer to Jesus :D that's so so precious.

Anyway! Having Pastor Prince preach in a youth service was really awesome...we had fun :D haha like his "grand entrance" and all...the band very kua zhang one lor!! Hahaha. MJ and Rocky and all...and it's all so precious cuz Pastor'd probably never be able to do that in the adult service?! All the haters will be like...eeyer you all over-sensationalising your senior pastor/Christianity, etc etc.

THANK GOD WE CAN HAVE FUN IN THE YOUTH SERVICE! 8D

Oh yeah if you wanna visualise like how big the camp is...it's like D.A.R.E (sec sch kiddos) plus Arrow (JC, Poly, ITE, NS men, Varsity) so it's like 900+ campers!! WHOOO

(kk randomly thought back to Adventure Camp 1 in 2005 where the WHOLE D.A.R.E attended and it was like, what, 200 people??)

We went to Sunway Lagoon Hotel in KL, Malaysia! (was very tempted to check in on FB using hotel wi-fi (hehe) but like I'm still quite unsettled by the idea that people will know EXACTLY where I am for a few days...) Our service is always in a ballroom with a stage and all...HEHEHE GOTTA LOVE ALL THE SPACE.

Partly cuz it's in our culture for some people to start running in a huge circle (think around the circumference of the whole crowd) when TWO CERTAIN praise songs start playing haha!! Super fun lar!!

I'm gonna run, with fire
The good news of the gospel I will speak
I'm gonna fly, in the Spirit
I'm soaring over mountains of defeat

Because Jesus, You are the truth that sets me free
Jesus, You are the power in me
Jesus, You fill my heart with faith
I'm JUMPING in the river of redeeming grace

Don't play play, THIS SONG VERY HIONG ONE OK!! HAHAHA. Kk I can't remember what's the other song now but daym, I always get super excited when the intro for this song (Shout Hallelujah) plays! Like super nostalgic uh :) since 2007 maybe??

The camp wouldn't be complete without the fun times with........

MY CAREGROUP :) :)

We be so cool~

Denise took this photo of me!! NICE NOT?? Hahaha so bright and sunny and wonderful ^^

LOL I SWEAR I DIDN'T KNOW Charissa was doing that exact same pose too!! Roomie telepathy!! ^^

OUR ANNUAL. JC South CG tradition at Sunway Lagoon theme park!! Escalator photos!!!

Hehe roomies!! (Faith dunno go where) One clean one and one dirty one (ew theme park water ew ew).

HAHA we ate at Sushi King for lunch on that free day...Junda and Desmond almost attempted this!! But if you cannot finish then pay RM 38.80 leh! Siaoooo and we asked to see the bowl and it was like, really big and deep. Like bigger than an average person's face.

Love this photo!!!!! Because...
I love Denise!
I love the hairband braid that Charissa did for me hehe ^^

Wah lau eh this Zhengda and Dave at the back!! Hahaha.

Wheeeeeee (most of) the CG!!

We had some pretty fun times...err most memorable was when I got sabo-ed to go on stage (stage games emcees are cruel people!!! (ha) Haha jk I love Ireen) for some cheerleading thing cuz I'm (was?) in Council :'( and cheering's one of our thangs. Hahaha at least it wasn't the main thing that was happening, it was an indoor crowd captain's ball thing hahaa...

Oh! On our free day, before Finale Night, the girls decided spontaneously to get matching outfits to wear cuz it'd be so cute!! And some more the JC cluster dressup theme was nerd specs :D

To cut a long story short, the hideous (imo!! but I would get it if everyone was getting it even though I hated it haha) polka dot shirt (meant as a joke) that we wanted to get was OOS, so in a squeeze for time (cuz at first they had to call their retailer and stuff...), we went to Cotton On to get really cheap shirts, and settled for guy shirts!!

IN THE END, truly truly everything works out for good and delays are God-sent and we found out our reason at the dinner table.. :)

We were thinking about what was the reason behind the delay if God was behind it, like, not getting the initial shirts that we wanted. Then at the dinner table, we realised that the guys were able to buy the shirts too then we would be dressing up as a complete CG!! Instead of only a CG girls' thing!! Wawawee.

SOOOO blessed right?? If we'd gotten what we initially wanted, the guys CONFIRM cannot dress up along with us one la, hahaha. But thank God we had the inspiration to buy a guys' shirt, so in the end they rushed down to the Cotton On and got matching shirts with us girls (: (:

Dressing up as a CG is like, infinitely better than just the CG girls?! Then the guys get left out!?

ANYWAY. We all dressed up together in one hotel room and we were SO jittery and giggly and nervous making our way down to the dinner place lah!!! HAHAHA. We got LOADS of attention and we had to keep pep-talking ourselves hahaha, like "Look back at them like THEY'RE the abnormal ones!!!" Hahaha.

It was very Girls Generation-ish. PICTURES!!

:D nerd specs, shorts, leggings, the shirt, and plaits!! HAHAHA

Shot by one of the camp photographers. OMG SO NICEEEEEEE we all look so glorious and happy!! ^^ hahaha!

HAHAHA JUNDA'S HAIR.

SA + RV ^^

Back in our room at like 3 am to bathe :) :) (nobodeh sleeps on the last night!!!!) After Praise Infinity and loads of sharing :)

Oh anywayz another memorable thing. I left CG sharing for a bit to go to the hotel lobby at 2 am, and I went past JC East A...Alvin P waved hi to me then I noticed they were all wearing face masks and they brought down their hotel room pillows!!! LOL LIKA SLEEPOVER, SO CUTE!!

Anyway the point is THEY WERE ALL WEARING FACE MASKS, EVEN THE GUYS! HAHAHAHA.

Anyway they gave me one!! ^^ yay!

Hahahaha then on my way back up I went to put it on and ermmmmmm I brought lots of joy to my CG? HAHAHA. Anyway like when the sharing got like really emotional and like "Don't look at me!!!" people would be like "Look at Sherrie instead!!!!!" Zzzz okayyyyyy haha.

Yeah ok looking back it was pretty absurd to wear a mask by myself HAHA like whadduppppp

Anyway Deaconness Tammie came up and she was like :O and I was like "See I promised y'all that I would wear it!!" Hahaha.

Ireen came to join us and she aimed her iPhone at me and was like "SMILEEEEE..." and I posed, then she completed her sentence, "...FOR THE ZONE MAGAZINE" and I was like OMGGGGGG NOOOOOOOOOO *shields face* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Piang eh The Zone magazine is like, D.A.R.E PLUS Arrow PLUS GenRev!!! AHAHAHA goshhhhh

BUT. No regrets on the mask cuz it made me super awake (many others too...) after that!! PLUS MY FACE WAS SO NICE AND SMOOTH!!

Haha anyway I crashed at like 7 am, fell asleep while playing BANG! (the card game) -_-

Yup so we went back to Singapore...and I came back feeling so so so filled, really ((((: My heart, especially. But I know my spirit man has been well-fed too. I am forever changed! I can feel it 8D

Yeah I will miss the memories of camp. The feeling of such a strong presence in the corporate anointing. The teh tarik at 11 pm. Seeing your friendz at every waking moment. Hearing preaching after preaching after preaching. Soaking in His presence. Hearing the rhema word, especially when it's EXACTLY what you need, an answer to the question you were just asking inside of you. But see, like Pastor Prince said, the Jesus who gave us all these, His presence we always take along with us wherever we go :)

And so, as wonderful as camp was, we're not shortchanged by having it behind us.

From now on it's gonna be different :D

a p.osh day of walking domino's into a cup

2011-06-22T01:15:00.003+08:00

Okay feeling a bit guilty cuz the other 2 have already blogged about it and I'm the slowest hahaha! But wellzzz I'm the only one who has exams after the June hols!!! *defensive*

So, (and actually I didn't even know what for at first,) Yiwei, Kah Jun and I met up for lunch at Domino's!!!!! :D

Almost totally deserted one lor!

Yumzzz FOOD!! We ate pretty fast.

Siao one lor we met The Lousiest Cashier In The World™ as termed by Chengy... After taking our order he asked me for my name, then I said "GORGEOUS" then on the receipt sticker it came out as "MS SHAY" omg can typo until like that!!...

But oh well I guess if I worked there I would be as stone-faced and queer as him too! So mundane leh only got one couple and one siao ding dong group of friends in the whole restaurant. Hahaha.

Anywayz KJ brought his DSLR which was a huge surprise!!!! Camwhoring ensues!!!

Hi YW!!

Awwwwwwww the belated birthday presents which they + Kim Joo got for me ((((: THANKS THANKS!

My new pair of sunnies which I frequently wear for nonsense reasons HAHAHA.

Nerd specs PLUS sunnies HAHAHAHAHA.

KJ: "next time when you're famous your haters sure dig out this photo"

Next we went to get Cup Walker!! Insignificant and not memorable at all hahaha!! It made me super full! :(

On our way to Heartland Mall!! HAHA KJ tryna make sure we don't get knocked down by cars while crossing the road.

After Cup Walker, we head to P.Osh at Kovan to drop Yiwei off at work! ^^

Wheeeee!

HAHAHAHAHA.

Chilling outside P.Osh for a while!

THE REAL HAIR-EATER. Anyhow hacked my Twitter and made people think that I eat hair lor :'(

Haha I was about to blink but the camera caught it in time! HAHAHAA KAH JUN I LOVE YOUR FACE.

:-D

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.

P.Osh was really de(s)serted (hehe) too!

Anyway CHECK IT OUTTTTTTT

Their brownie flavours for sale!!

More flavours!!

A box of minis!! (Drooling yet?)

Can personalise too! DOPE RIGHT??

Next time imma say sorry with a brownie!

Cheesecake with brownie base sample ^^

The "lovely" sound system!!

Err idk why I was left outside.

Haha can you tell that it's a guy shirt??

Ehehe.

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH!!

YW: "I look so sad having to serve you"

The brownies that KJ and I bought!!! ^^

20% off if you dine in! But we bought for takeaway cuz I said I was full but oops in the end we ended up "dining in". HAHAHA K SHOULDN'T HAVE REMINDED KJ BY BLOGGING IT.

Nomming the brownies. Behold our faces of immense joy.

(hehe ok kidding it was truly really yummy!!)

Haha KJ's tee from Threadless. Cute right!

Haha ooooopss playing with their signboards!

^^ behind the counter!

HEHEHEHE.

And that concludes my day with them!!!!!! :D aw it was so good to see them again hahaha.

bright eyes

2011-06-20T00:55:00.002+08:00

You put a gleam in my eye, You put a skip in my step
When my hope is gone Lord, Your hope remains yet
You put a song in my mouth and a sword in my hand
My heart overflows, with the goodness of the Lord~~~~

(I really really really love doing the actions to this, and jumping together with everyone else like nobody's business!!!!!!!!!)

I am standing under an open heaven
Drenched by endless showers of grace
I'm surrounded by love and tender mercies
As You freely gave, so freely I've received

:D

forever changed

2011-06-19T00:49:00.001+08:00

Bright eyes.

legacy camp

2011-06-14T03:16:00.005+08:00

Whew!

Compare the ways in which two texts you have studied present the ways women respond to conflict. (VJC)

With detailed reference to two texts you have studied, discuss how writers present entrapment as an inevitable part of feminine experience. (MJC)

With detailed reference to any two texts you have studied, compare how the writers’ distinctive styles contribute to the presentation of a female persona. (HCI)

Wah wah wah. Haha. Interestingly enough, the slightly more challenging questions are the ones that are more interesting to do...

ANYWAY. I am here to let y'all know that I am GOING OFF FOR LEGACY CAMP 14TH-18TH JUNE
WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

MEGA EXCITED!! REALLY REALLY CANNOT WAIT! :D :D :D :D

It's in Malaysia again, but last minute decision (I think) PASTOR PRINCE IS SPEAKING AT CAMPPPPP!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Life-changing eh!! REALLY REALLY CANNOT WAIT. (Oh look the gathering time is 6 hours away) Hahaha ahhhhhhhhh ALSO VERY TIRED RIGHT NOW!

I know what you are thinking!! "Chey church camp......study for A levels lar." or "ZOMG SO MUCH TIME TAKEN AWAY?!" Well, I trust that He who is big enough who caused me to be able to go for camp (was on waiting list at first...) will take care of my studies for those 5 days...and when I come back I'll be much more motivated and smarter than beforeeeeee (right now got loads of room for improvement - see now is 3.24 am leh haha) and yup NO WORRIES!!!!!!!! Plus I am bringing my Econs syllabus...

ANYWAY! J, who recently announced that "Oh yah my e-mail is not my name anymore, now it's meatball munch munch......" (HAHAHAAH) ("I thought usually people go the other way round, as you grow older then you change to your name??"), told me to "dl kartrider rush from app store, tomorrow can play on the bus"! AHAHAHA

Just in case you miss me, you can watch these videos and pretend that I'm watching with you.......I really think they're super awesome, all are MUST-WATCHS!!!!!!!!!!

A List of Youtube Videos and Why They are Awesome

1. Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (TGIF) music video

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH OMG HAHAHA I TOTALLY LOVE KATY PERRY MORE AFTER WATCHING THIS!!

She put so much effort into creating her alter-ego - Kathy Beth Terry - leh!! Go and see the Facebook and twitter pages, really got characterisation one!! Hahaha.

Albeit honestly it was a little unsettling at first to see Katy act until so retarded haha, but dayum she's got skillz!

AND GOTTA LOVE ALL THE CAMEO APPEARANCES!! Darren Criss omg how random but so cute! And REBECCA BLACK HAHAHHAA cuz she is associated with Friday! LOLOLOL

Forgot who tweeted it, but so many cameos, it's like a Youtube collab! Yeah! So funnnnnn :D

2. Davedays' You've Been On My Mind music video

:) :) I told y'all right? Cute + talented + funny!!! Sighhhhh

I really think the song is about Kimmi Smiles though? (she's the lead female in the video) The lyrics...and erm also partly my gut feeling haha.

3. Charlieissocoollike

I still remember that the first video I watched of him was him trying to say "quintessentially American things" (like even "I'd like a glass of water" sounds different) in his best American accent, haha! Really hilarious! His English accent is really too cute! And those eyesssss

Anyway, nearly all his videos are really funny but I'll leave you guys with two...

I watched this just today. And I felt bad cuz I totally was procrastinating :( my limbic system must be totally massive and muscular then, overpowering my rational part ahaha...

Anyway he shares some rather good anti-procrastination tips so it's worth a watch...

Okay take care babies I'll be back in a while!!!! :)

bt2

2011-06-13T11:36:00.003+08:00

I'M GONNA BE

THE VERY BEST

(student/etc)

THAT NO ONE EVER WAS

Today's!

Watch me :]

Okay I gotta get off blogging haha.

With great power

2011-06-12T00:41:00.004+08:00

Comes great responsibility, hurhur. And I've just been entrusted with so much power!!

SO MUCH POWER, really! I am SO tempted sometimes!! HAHAHAHA.

Hmmmm, haha. Well G, I just hope that after 6 months I still remember what it is, LOL.

:D

PS - just started on set 15 out of 27 of my invisalign!! Yay! One step closer to non-buck-teeth-ness!

:B

past, revisited

2011-06-09T01:12:00.005+08:00

I was...reading my archives from one year ago. Very interesting haha.

Near the beginning of my Council term I acknowledged the time it takes away from me, yet foresaw it to be "the experience of a lifetime".

I was also so so so thankful for times spent with Council buddies cuz it was such a respite from schoolwork which was so demanding and blah.

I also reread my sadness at 32nd's stepping down. My worries, concerns, realisations. Especially the dramatically placed CL Listening Compre, so timely that it justtttt tore me away from watching the last part of their stepping down ceremony which I (and some others) snuck into (hee).

Mmm Council aside (I sure did talk about it a lot last May, lol), there were also signs of a struggle between playing and studying in my J1 year, haha :)

Now it's 2011, hopefully one year on I've become wiser...and all that jazz :D

But I definitely still wanna be young at heart! Haha my blogging from one year ago was much more comprehensive than now...I didn't even blog about Orientation, hardly anything about OG 6, 34th, and there are definitely less photos...

One year can really have the potential to change one eh! I even look drastically different.

May 2010

Anyway, here's a quiz that I did on 27 May 2010. Hehe compare and contrast with my 2011 answers!

(2010 ones in italics)

Type only ONE word answers. It's harder than you think!! Here is what you are supposed to do... and please don't spoil the fun... copy and paste into your own note, type in your answers and tag a bunch of people.

1.Where is your handphone?
Beside
Elbow

2.Your hair?
BLACK
Satisfactory

3. Your father?
Home
Sleeping?

4.Your favorite thing?
Perfume
M.A.C.

5.Your dream last night?
None
Bryan

6.Your favorite drink?
MILO!
Latte

7.Your dream/goal?
Happy
Happy

8.The room you are in?
Cool
Peaceful

9.Your fear?
Lost
Passionless

10.Where do you want to be in 6 years?
Driving!
Graduate

11.Muffins?
YES
Rainbow:)

12. One of your wish list items?
iTOUCH. (hehe got it)
Backpack

13.Where you grew up?
Singapore
Singapore

14.The last thing you did?
TV
HTHT?:)

15.What are you wearing?
Yellow
Warships

16.Your TV?
Awesome
AWESOME

17.Your pets?
None
None

18.Your computer?
Lovely.
OLD

19.Your life?
Alright
Alright

20.Missing someone?
Yes
Little

21.Your car?
Sexy
Future

22.Favourite store?
Many
Clothes

23.Your summer?
Soon!
SHORT

24.Your favourite colour?
RED
RED:)

25.When was the last time you laughed?
Today!
Today:)

26.Last time you cried?
Hmmm
Dreaming

27.Three people who last email me?
Facebook
Tumblr

28.Three people who last email me?
JohnG
Twitter

29.Three people who last email me?
Samantha
Darren

30.Three of my favourite foods?
MAGNUM
BANMIAN

31.Three of my favourite foods?
Porridge?
Barcelos

32.Three of my favourite foods?
DONUTS!
German

33.Three places I would rather be right now?
Council (sigh :))
Starbucks

34.Three places I would rather be right now?
AUS
EUR

35.Three places I would rather be right now?
Yours.
Buddies.

36.Three people I think will respond?
ADAM.
ADAM!!

37.Three people I think will respond?
Abs?
GERALD:)

38.Three people I think will respond?
TZUYING
YIWEI

37. Favourite Artist
Friend.
Nobody.

40.Favorite Singer?
None
DAVEDAYS?:D

41. Favorite youtube vid?
Israeli.
Smosh?:)

42.Best Friend
Hmmm
Hmmm

43.Favorite Song?
Dance.
Jesus:)

Some of the answers are incomplete!!! Very hard cuz only one word. K whatever. See whether y'all know anot. HAHA.

you've been on my mind

2011-06-08T01:45:00.002+08:00

I won't say goodbye

I won't let you go all alone
Keep me inside
When I'm strung out, full of doubt
You keep me alive
With the smile on your face and the hair in your eyes
I won't let you go this time
I won't let you go
Won't let you go

Can't wait for Davedays' music video for this song to be out :) :)

blsc

2011-06-08T01:05:00.004+08:00

The "prettiest girls on earth soil", according to Calvin on Twitter. (ok actually me) (I meant to type "siol" - DAMN YOU AUTO-CORRECT*)

Today...the BLSC was formed.

And because I was a little bored....

...I played around with my black liquid eyeliner. Be nice!

(It's from the Wonderwoman series by M.A.C.! I am thrilled :D)

You can't see it in this picture, but I have SO MUCH eyeliner on. They disappear under the crease of my eyelid. It generally happens in pictures! In real life you can see so much eyeliner it's quite ghastly. Oh you also can't really see it when I'm smiling.

* There's a whole site dedicated to Autocorrect mistakes!! ^^

LASTLY...

EVERYDAY I'M STUDYING

(PS - it HAD to be Asians who made this video (about studying), eh? :))

There's a saying

2011-06-06T00:37:00.001+08:00

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
-- Marilyn Monroe

#totallyblessed

2011-06-04T01:14:00.001+08:00

:) I feel soooooooooo... satisfieddddd :) :)

SO happy and blessed and excited!!!!!

:) :) :) :) A MILLION SMILEYS :))))))

of going overseas

2011-06-02T22:56:00.006+08:00

I was just on Facebook, looking at photos which my Uni friend who's currently on an exchange in France (but also get to travel to other parts of Europe!) uploaded, and omgggggg Europe is really really beautiful! And of course, she also has pictures of her and her friends, their apartment in France, their eating places and hostels and their adventures in the cities. Being overseas like realllll far away from home is so exciting but scary!

Haha she really travels a lot and people are like, "You go there to study or travel around the world ah??" Haha but travelling extensively while studying in Europe is really not an uncommon thing..

Ahh her photos prompted a wistfulness for Germany haha. And I realised I never really blogged about my Germany trip! Err not that I'm gna blog about it now (A's to study for, #hello) but I feel like reminiscing so here goes!

Germany (2010)

:DDD Our first outdoor photo in Germany after arriving at the airport in Hamburg (its name prompted many hamburger jokes, yes very original)!! I wonder if I'll ever lose the excitement of stepping out of a foreign airport for the first time haha (have a feeling that it only applies to temperate countries!).

OUR FIRST GERMAN MEAL (DINNER!) WOOHOO

Super juicy sausage and yummy mashed potatoesss :) :) our Singapore tastebuds may find it a little too salty at first though! And the purple veggies are just sour and weird. Haha. But yumzzz sausage!

One thing I really love about foreign countries (the more foreign, the better) is the different sights that I get to see, so different from home, like skies (they're kinda different!!!!) and architecture and even normal downtown streets :D

While we were on the coach to Berlin. Loveeeeee

Architecture! This is (part of the front of) the Parliament House.

Hi Haeinnnnn hahaha

We were so amused that someone was jogging in such abominable weather (to us, anyway) (NOT ME WHO TOOK THIS PIC HAHA)

Er yes, those are a pair of shoes dangling curiously from a tree. This was also the same day that I found a rather nice pair of red H&M gloves on the street, LOL. (I picked one up and asked if it was anyone's...found its counterpart a few metres away...since noone claimed it it was unofficially declared mine lol. And of course I didn't use it la -_-)

:D Adam Vettel Park (AVP) at the Brandenburg Gate.

Yes a street sign.

I really adored the quaint houses on the street near the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp :]

Imagine if the street you lived on looks like this!! (L)

(but okay maybe not very pleasant to live beside a concentration camp...)

And look, literally a doggy in the window! HOW CUTEEEE :D

This was taken at a stopover :) I remember being really cold cuz I couldn't bother to pull on a coat haha.

Anddddddd, how can anyone forget the Christmas Markets!!!!

They're like, pasar malam, except Christmas version!!!!!!

(would have been complete with falling snow, aw)

Only opens in the evening!! (except for some on some days I think, haha)

Carousel at a Christmas Market! :DDD

FOOOOOOOOOOOODDDD (bought from a stall at a Christmas market - piping hot and super yummy! some respite from the freezing weather.)

Ich liebe dich :D

(they have many of these...cookie things. Surprisingly I didn't buy any.)

AVP (#likeagangster) made friends with some German stuffed toys hahaha! Haein's and Abs'. He already got acquainted with PW's Dee (a blue dolphin lol) at the start of the trip haha.

Somewhere in the city, on the last day. The most interesting vendor with the most awesome rainbow umbrella EVAzxzxzx!!!

Sighhhhhhh so beautiful, right?? I really really want to have the opportunity to go on an exchange programme in Uni!!! But first get into Uni first la haaaa.

PS - sorry if you were expecting pics of hot German guys/girls!! Didn't really feel like posting people pictures up haha.

z

2011-06-01T22:07:00.003+08:00

I told my family about my doppelganger!!!

Of course my parents denied any giving away of any twin.

My brother was showing hints of Barney Stinson.

"Hehehe you look like somebody else"
"NO. SHE LOOKS LIKE ME."
":D I know :D I just had to say it :D"

ROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Haaa then he suggested what, maybe I need to kill her to get rid of this APPARENT feeling of discomfort that's been haunting me since my birth LOLWHUT.

Anyway, y'all wanna see the doppelganger pic?? Cuz I think Bianca privated her album on Facebook.

Here goes.

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LOOK LIKE OR NOT??

I dislike looking at it!!! URGH.

Anyway, all my friends think there is some resemblance!!!!!!!! Except that she is chubbier (hehehe)!!! And, like Kah Jun says, "I'm sure Sherrie has a more interesting personality" LOL!!! (L)

But all my nuclear family members don't think so lei?!!!?!?! After hyping it up so much and finally showing them the pic, my mother took one look and was like, "NO LAH!!!!" and my brother was like, "WHAT?! YOU'RE FULL OF BULLSHIT"

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But even I think so leh?! Don't look alike meh??? Hahaha aiyah whatever lah!

Today I went to the National Library to read up on History stuff and I chanced upon some Sociology textbooks!!!!! Interesting lehhhh. I read about stuff like ethnocentrism (believing that your race is superior to all), ethnomethodology (the assumptions that are part of everyday behaviour - like when you are asked "How are you?" you accept it with all its vagueness instead of going all "How am I in relation to what?? My finances? My social life?" etc etc and being a freak hehe), socialisation, and the id, ego and superego! Some might say that Sociology explains common sense behaviour in a more complex way but it uses scientific research and observations to do so, as well as debunk myths about "common sense"!

Like how do you reconcile the contradiction between the 2 sayings, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "Out of sight, out of mind"? I got this example from one of the textbooks, heh.

Ok, abrupt end of post. I am really really tired!! Goodnight!

Sniff

2011-05-31T22:21:00.003+08:00

D: it's not that awesome to fall sick!

Haha whaddup with the weird pills with weird packaging that I don't even know how to open. And the permanent desire to sleep...

BUT THERE WAS A HIMYM MARATHON ON STAR WORLD TODAY!!! woohoooooo :D My bro was like, "Wow, great day to fall sick and stay at home." haha..

WAIT I HAVE NEWS OF THE CENTURY!!!

(wait for it)

Bianca has met my doppelgänger!!!!!! (at pre-U sem) OMG OMG OMG. SHIZZ LAH REALLY LOOK LIKE ME LEH!!! SIANNNNN I really do feel less special now :'( B says she and I talk similarly too? )))):

Maybe we are actually long-lost twins separated at birth!!!!!!!!!! I shall confront my parents about this soon.

COOKIEZ

2011-05-29T23:06:00.002+08:00

:DDD

This is the monster that I created from a packet of template bodies, wings, eyes, mouths, horns and other monster body parts!!! :D

It is also the monster that is (supposed to be) (menacingly) guarding the box of chocolate chip cookies that I'm bringing to school tomorrow hehehe yumzzz

I made them on Friday...sudden urge to bake, specifically chocolate chip cookies also. Haha. Pride is reaally really unflattering but......THE COOKIES ARE YUMMEH AND AWESOME!!

I was surprised too. It's like, super awesome. Yummy beyond expectations. Well I prayed over it :B

Haha anyway also not my recipe so I got nothing to boast about...

Well yup, I'm really happy for all the people who're gonna bump into me tomorrow haha! The cookies are really awesome!

Goodnight all :)

kung fu panda 2

2011-05-29T00:25:00.005+08:00

Image credit: x

Okay, I just need to blog about Kung Fu Panda 2 because it's soooososososo good!!!

(btw, context of post - I just put freaking salt on my freaking ulcer (reapplied many times some more - masochist much haha) and just started on set 15 of my Invisalign so it's like, total pain in my whole mouth)

I just watched it with the family and I LOOOOOOOVE it!!! It's super funny (like got at least one scene where will have side-splitting humour those kind), action-packed and yet has a deeper and meaningful message and story to it!!

Ever wondered how Po, a panda, had a goose for a dad?? It is reconciled in this movie! And through an unexpectedly complex story at that.

But I think, the thing that I like about it MOST OF ALL is the few parallels to Jesus in the bible!!!! (((: [SPOILERS] Like when Shen, the evil peacock, orders all the pandas in the panda village to be killed, because he hears a prophecy that he will be overthrown by a panda, it's totally like King Herod and the prophecy of the three wise men! King Herod ordered all the boys under 3 years old in Jerusalem to be killed. Then like baby Jesus, Po also survived! And also at the very very unexpected ending, Po's dad (revealed to actually be alive) says, "My son is alive." omg omg totally like Jesus risen from the dead lar! How cool. [/SPOILERS]

Sigh, the movie is just really really good. Many unexpected turns in the plot (like Toy Story 3), and also the quality of the animation is impressive! It's a good piece of work. The storytelling is also good; I like the use of foreshadowing scattered throughout the movie ((:

The movie also encourages good principles of belief and not giving up! "How can I use kungfu to defeat it if it defeats kungfu?" yup, daring to achieve the seemingly impossible ((:

I think 4/5 (((: only because animations aren't really my thing, but it's a really really good movie ((:

I think there will be a part 3!!!! Of course lah, got one mini cliffhanger at the end. :D Haha.

The riches of Your love, will always be enough

2011-05-24T23:21:00.000+08:00

You are peace, You are peace
When my fear is crippling

epic moments in week 9

2011-05-22T23:30:00.003+08:00

(actually they all happened on Monday, can't really remember the rest)

1. When Mr Ho told the class to run one round on lane 6 for warm ups, Haein, Abs and I held hands and skipped (as in frolicking in the garden those kind) the one round!!!!!11 HAHAHAHA. Wheeeeeeeeee~

IT WAS SUPER TIRING OK!!!!! LOLLL like 3x more tiring than running one round!!!! HAHAHA partially cuz we kept guffawing during the first third of the round cuz it was so absurd AHAHAHAA. But really, it left us very out of breath lolololol. UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE heart heartssss

But yes, definitely an epic moment. :D

2. When Abs and I just finished work on the computers in the library, we wanted to watch some smosh Youtube videos. Abs took her earpiece and plugged it into the computer. I pressed 'play' on the video. THE LOUD SOUND BLASTED THROUGH THE COMPUTER SPEAKERS (yes Abs I know you're reading this CAN. YOU. FEEL. ME. GLARING. AT. YOU. HAHAHAHA)!!!!

Hahahaha we were like !!!!!!!! DDDD: AND IT TURNED OUT THAT. Abs had plugged her earpiece into the mic hole instead, which was right next to the sound hole -_____- hahahhaa omg LIKE EMBARRASSING ONLY.

3. After a lunch where all the Lit people totally bullied me (totally), I tried to throw away a half-full cup of mango ice cuz I was too full and rushing off to SL Duty (sobsob my last one). it somehow ricocheted after hitting other trash in the dustbin and some of it splashed on my skirt and shoes -________- NOT MUCH, BUT STILL.

AHAHA siannnn then I went back to the table to show them what happened and they laughed at me some more ))))): hahahah WHATEVER

4. After stepping down rehearsal, councillors going for the dinner walked past the part beside LT2 and the 'garden' beside Pop Caf and Popular. I tried to drag Junie to "frolick in the garden" with me (the dark place of trees) but eventually only Bethany relented. I was walking but she started skipping so I also started skipping and we went really fast and my sleeve got caught on a tree branch and it tore, and NOW THERE'S A FRICKIN HOLE ON THE SLEEVE HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

stepped down

2011-05-21T23:50:00.005+08:00

I feel like I cheated all of you because I had so many hits today but there's no new blog post at all AHAHAHAHA.

Anyway!!

Stepping down is over.

The ceremony was alright. Minor hiccups. People laughed at our standing up and sitting down :( whatever. Watching the first video from behind the curtains (with people sniffling behind me), I realised for the first time that the video may mean a lot to us, but the student body will never understand. We can only show them, and they can only see it, but they'll never understand the stories and experience behind each photo and what it represents.

My heartstrings were tugged at the final scene where a pair of legs was running towards the finishing line but the frame stopped right before he crossed. Yup...

The first time I teared was onstage, at - can you believe it - Mrs Lee's speech -_- When she said "their last day in office" or something like that.

When we went back to the SL, the mood was just, woah. There were some jokes made which broke the silence. Haein and Adam, lol.

Hmmmmm then we had our final..."debrief"? I loved the video, and I'll forever remember the growth of Trust, partially described by "The sentosa outing was Adam dragging a bunch of useless girls around" LOL oh mannnnn. "And Wee Keong, you were part of the useless girls!!" ahahaha.

Like I said in the video, I'm glad I joined Council because it really grew me ("Huh but you're still very short what" -- Haein -_-) and taught me many many things. I had 2 reasons for joining Council, and one of them was to see how much I was able to streeeetch myself.

Sad to say that I've many regrets about my Council term, but I'll always look back upon this season with fondness.

Especially the people. The 36 other faces that made up Council. Irreplaceable.

Haha like Mr Gn said, it's gna be a very empty 1 or 2 weeks...we'll suddenly feel wonder why we're so free. I agree. So weird without the badge, so weird looking at "SL Duty" scrawled on my timetable but knowing that slot of time is not occupied anymore...

And on Thursday we were all so attuned to one another, haha. Junie called me from all the way across a long corridor just so we could wave at each other. Jocelyn and I hugged and DDD:-ed when we saw each other. And many more. Hahaha.

Reflection for wrongdoings

Laughing at something the teachers recounted about Haein!

33rd. Will always have a place in my heart.