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Sunday, December 31, 2006

bye 2006

in less than 12 hours it'll be 2007. Somehow im feeling sort of apprehensive about 2007. But maybe that's coz 2006 have been one of my best years ever.

Orientation 06
One year ago i would have already gotten the call from my ogl. Reaching rj's hall on the first day, i remember knowing absolutely no one from my og at all. But throughout the four days, i believe i've made good frens with some of them. Like many others, orientation's been one of the highlights of jc life so far. How can i forget out magnificent human pyramid outside kfc at j8, our X!!-pia-pia-pia-pia-pia cheer, idiot geek-look during onite, the last minute one hour attempt to come up with an onite item, and not forgetting our OGLs darren and charlene and the many wonderful and colourful characters in X-peia. Im proud to say X-peia's still surviving outside LT2. Even though i dont go there anymore, at least we're still frens and say hi along the way. Plus who's OG blog can say they have more than 200 entries. Now the tables are turned and orientation 07 is coming in 3 days. Hope the j1s will enjoy the stuff oteam have prepared.

School
in RJ we no longer had a home room to belong to. Once again we were floating around like in sec 1 and 2. But the major change would be the lecture and tutorial system. Actually i like this system quite alot. Plus i can say i've never pon lectures at all this year. For one thing i think it's too troublesome to copy from frens again later. Might as well just go and copy even if im not exactly listening. Also, rules are alot more slack than in RG.

07S06Q
Im staring at my very first class photo now, trying to consolidate my thoughts. Initially, i had very good frens in the class even though i didnt exactly think the class was really enthu or interesting. But as some left, i admit feeling kinda lonely during one period of time Unlike in secondary school where i had my group of frens to stick to, i really didnt know where i belong in the class. But thoughout the year, i guess i got use to it and made new frens, good frens as a matter of fact. Plus everyone..well almost everyone gets along with one another. And it's quite a colourful bunch of people actually. Really glad im feeling enthu about the class now esp during the hols where we had our first major class outing at my house, plus some smaller "class outing" to movies and even an overnite mahjong session at my house again. Really happy to be in the class lah. Next year let's all work hard and make teachers proud of our class!

PW
Probably the most hated aspect of academic life i've had this year in terms of the work we had to do. It's just saikang lah. Though we werent exactly that close as a PW group, we managed to pull it off and the last few meetings were pretty enjoyable i must say. ROCK ON! RJ 219!

Chinese dance
Really thankful to have gotten into chinese dance. The 16 people are truly a great bunch to hang around with. Trainings though tiring sometimes are always fun! Even though lao shi said i did chinese dance like a foreigner earlier on, i believe im looking more chinese by the day. Chinese dance has given me exposure to another form of performance/art other than rgym and im greatful for the experience i've had. Let's work hard for SYF next year. I dunno how im gonna cope with NUS H3 Geog and dance, but i'll work something out when the time comes.

Amarante
Dance nite was absolutely fabulous. I remember the endless practises we had months prior to the thing. Dance was on Mon, tue, wed, thur and sat. It was tiring no doubt, plus homework had to be put aside. But it's worth it if im doing what i like. Remember during yvonne's dance practise, we did stupid things like singing the school song in the tune of Barney's i love u u love me song and cheered for one another as we tried to zua1 our hou4 tui3. Once we even started crying together. As for dai3 zu3 dance, it was truly a J1 effort. Though many of us were hardly experienced in chinese dance, it was pulled off amazingly after much practice. Xin ying really did a great job choreographing and teaching us the dance. Kudos!! Finally, dance nite gave me exposure into different types of chinese dance-tribal, classical and comtemporary through the 3 dances i performed in. We became closer to one another, and the j1-j2 were also brought closer.
Plus plus..even the post dance nite muggin sessions together were fun as we tried to chiong all our uncompleted homework.

Next year's dance nite would be much smaller scale compared to this year. But we'll still put in our best to make it rock!

Rhythmic Gymnastic
Gym this year suddenly became so much slacker than in secondary school. From training 3-4 times a week for 3-4 hours each time, training was cut down to 2 times a week, 2-3 hours at most. Plus sometimes i went late coz of dance. Also, from having a coach to choreograph our routines and niao1 all our moves, all we had this year were ourselves and the art gym coach who couldnt help us that much. Thirdly, our fabulous training ground at ccab became RI's gym this year. No more nice r.gym mat. Instead, we got the green art gym mat that's seriously in need of repair. Coz it's more bouncy, we often trained either on the judo mat or on the floor.

Preparation for gym comp started really late this year. I only started choreographing my routine in mid may in places such as the canteen. We had to do everything ourselves this year. The confusing rules and the guidelines that took so long to be decided upon didnt help either. But to cut things short we got through it lah. Won 11/ 12 medals at the comp. This comp will probably be my last. Next year i dont think there'll be much time for training. After 5 years at gym, it's been all worth it. I've had my ups and downs, laughs and crys, cheers and consolations. Gym life will always be remembered. Hope the juniors next year will join gym again and compete or we might not have a team.

Common tests/ Promos/ Tests
Got really bad results for some tests this year including one single digit mark for this physics lecture test earlier on. It was pretty funny actually. Throughout the year, i've learnt to be more acceptable of such grades. Not that it's okay to do badly, but after all it's a learning process. Mug hard and ultimately it'll work out fine.

Didnt do really well nor really badly in the common tests. Grades ranged from B to E. But for promos i believe i worked hard enough within the time that i had. The school canteen was almost my first home. The september hols were practically spent in school from say 10am to 8pm. Thankfully i had great mugging companions- Huihui and Wan Chee and many others whom i could always consult for anything. I even made frens throuhg these mugging sessions. It's all paid off. Got my best results ever and it feels really great that my efforts werent wasted. Still, the most important exam lies in the A levels next year. I havent touched my books at all this hols. Im still scolding myself for wasting this hols away, not mugging, not clearing my room, not doing my homework. Still, im here blogging instead of mugging for SATS. There'll be alot of catching up to do next year. Hopefully with hardwork and frens to go along with me plus touching that stone that'll supposedly give good results in taiwan, my A level results will be something to be proud of. 5 As man!! Jiayou everyone!!

Oteam o7
Being in oteam has been damn fun. Being in decor, it's basically saikang. But my sub-sub com isnt that bad actually, dont really have that much to do compared to the banner people. Though im not one of the most involved in oteam, i try to be enthu when i can lah. These few days, onite dance prac have been really enjoyable, see everyone put in so much effort. Furthermore the dance is really fun to do.

We didnt really plan anything for the OG. But i hope the people in it will talk to one another and take the initiative to have like og dinners, or discuss strategies for their games etc. I really dun want moments when the whole OG sits around and stares at one another and dun talk. Whatever it is, it'll start in 3 days and im really looking forward to meeting the J1s plus all the activities and performances. LAMBADA!

Through oteam, i've also met more people, be it the random dance partners, friend's friends or just someone I see around and just talk. Really glad to have met all of them.

Friends!
In RJ, im really happy to have met so many people. Although we may just be hi-bye frens, it's always nice to just smile and wave when we meet along the corridors. But at the same time, im really happy that i can remain really good frens with many of my secondary school classmates and cca-mates and be able to talk about almost anything. I was quite afraid last year that alot of us would change and we would drift apart. Maybe that's true to a certain extend. But i've also become closer to many of them and appreciate the friendships much more. Like i said before, i think i've went on more outings with hui this year than the last two years combined. Plus im always damn happy and excited when the group of us can meet up or just see each other around school. Thanks hui, rachel, kelly, sabbie, sherri, angela, zhixu, aster, 6Q classmates, chinese dance mates and everyone else i know for being great pals!!

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

still at the same question

I dont believe i cannot do it!!

Bet it's some qian4 bian3 easy question!!

AHHH!!
it's 1am now. But mugger me's still trying to do question 1 of physics tutorial 12a and there's no one online to help me! Feeling damn quilty now bout wasting my whole hols away. Will be going out everyday this week somemore. Actually have one free day tomorrow to stay at home and work. But decided to go watch deathnote instead. That means 4 movies in 2 weeks. Im damn screwed lah and yup, feeling damn guilty as well. Spend so much money! Yup..so diedie im gonna finish some of the tutorial today. HELP!!

Monday, December 25, 2006

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

firstly..

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Got my best christmas present ever!!

SONY CYBERSHOT T50


wanted the T10 but my parents got the T50 instead. Really wasnt expecting it. Luv them loads manz!! I actually screamed when i saw it. HAPPY HAPPY!! Plus got this teddy bear from SK plus a necklace from my sis=)

Later went out with Zhixu. Had lunch as xin wang hk cafe before watching The curse of the golden flower. It's not too bad. But seriously i'll get a headache if i ever lived in that palace. It's too colourful plus every two hours there's this group of people making lots of noise just to announce the time 0_o. After that went to take neos and then walked around aimlessly. at the cafe.. orchard road closed cutting tada!! MERRY CHRISTMAS! (haha..lan2 hua1 zhi3)

Christmas Dinner part 3

Dinner!!the food
wine.. fake ribena...haha=) Not enough glasses.
cassie also wants!

Christmas Dinner part 2

Preparing part 2

wait

wait somemore

still waiting

oh it's done??

YEAH!! Roast Chicken =)

Christmas Dinner part 1

PREPARING!!

fry prawns...

waiting

cannot wait anymorei can cook!!

cannot cook also can make salad=)

to be continued..

Saturday, December 23, 2006

busy again

the last few days have been damn busy with orientation dry run two. Wednesday still had to stay back to do decor stuff till bout 730. Really felt like dying when i reached home. In the end fell asleep on the couch and missed project runway except for the last 10 minutes. Shit lah, second last episode somemore.

As usual, tried out the games, war games, and learnt our own batch dance. Also, went out as in went out went out for external activity. Most importantly we found out our co-ogl. Im happy to say the least. But now i have to abandon MR for MT. Haha.

Friday after dry run went for movie with hui. Night at the museum. There goes my $9.50. Damn zing1 tong4. Love the easter island statue in the museum. " I not dum-dum, he dum-dum, now give me gum-gum." Haha...and umm..."QUIET!! My dum-dum fren wants to speak." It's just the way it says it. Anw, hui and i went by the shirt shop outside macs coz they gave me the wrong shirt on thur. Then saw new shirts so decided to have christmas give exchange. As in i buy for her she buy for me lah. End up getting the same top but in diff colours. As long as dun wear on the same days can already. Total bought 3 tops from that shop within two days. Argh, feel damn broke now.

Today went to spend more money. Went with shaun to ikea to find stuff for the og. In the end bought the decor for opack and their gift and came up with the og name within 2 and a half hours. Super efficient. It was a joke at the cashier seeing the number of red (and stupid) things we got. Luckily my dad could fetch me. Cant imagine carrying that big bag of stuff home. Later went for music and then spend damn long at the super market looking for things to cook tomorrow. First time spending christmas at home in many years. No special parties or anything, but normally we'll just go out for dinner. So tomorrow shall be spent helping my mum cook. Haha..sounds fun.

Suppose to blog on the trip. But blogger has some problem with the pics thing and i dun really have the time these few days. Homework are still untouched, plus next week seems quite packed. Anyway...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

taiwan 06 part 1

it's been raining heavily the whole day. Just the right kind of weather to stay at home in. Woke up damn late at 12 plus coz somehow i couldnt sleep last nite. Plus i think im starting to get sick.

Suppose to do homework today. But my mind's not working. Haha..excuses excuses.

k...TAIWAN TRIP!

9dec (Sat)
left home ard 10am. Reached the airport, checked in and went in. Finally got a new pair of Nike sports shoes. The last pair was really dying. Dad had to glue back the sole countless times. Anyway this year jie and i switched roles...as in last year i bought a book and she bought shoes (from the same shop), this year she bought book i bought shoes =) Okae...useless information. Anyway boarded the plane, took off, watched little miss sunshine onboard and after 4 hours we reached taipei.
the plane

see pulau ubin??

Since we were two hours earlier than the rest on china airlines, the guide took us to this shopping centre first. Walk walk awhile then went back to the airport. On the way got my first look at bing1 lang2 xi1 shi1. I always heard of them but never knew who they were. Anyway, my earlier worries were uncalled for coz the tour group was 34 ppl big!! Later, left for ximenting, had a zong mian xian and walked around. Love the place coz it's packed with all the shops for youths, like shoes, bags, clothes etc. Didnt buy much except for some hair accessories. Went to some hotel in some secluded area, and that ends day one =)

10 dec (Sun)

woke up real early for breakfast which was surprisingly good. Later left for Yeliu (if im not wrong) and got my first taste of how geographically wonderful taiwan is. Next went up to Chuifen. Had to stop somewhere to take a public bus up. Anyway it's this hill top um...settlement cum tourist attraction. Basically there's a narrow street with loads of shops, alot dedicated to tourists. But also, there's loads of food and also muah chee food stalls. Bought lotsa muah chee thing and had fishball for lunch. Like so many other places in taiwan there's also a 711 there. Later went and took a 2 hour train ride to hualian. That nite watched the a-mei zu2 performance and went to the hotel.

funfunfun

i cant get this pic to the bottom. But anyway! Hebi Hiam "hebe hiam"
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today got woken up by hui's sms

Anw, met hui for lunch. First time see her in two weeks. Later then went to school to do the orientation logo. Met more problems than we expected. But as usual floorwall overcame everything and the thing actually turned out much better than expected.

hard at work..


Later rushed to vivo to catch THE HOLIDAY with hui, rach and sab. Somehow we were all in similar attire. Big school like t-shirts+ fbts/burmudas. But we abit late and so decided to catch the 7pm show instead of 550 one. But who know, we still ended getting up first row seats 0_O. Never got tickets with letter A for the seats before. Neck ache!! But overall it was a good and very long movie. 2 and 1/2 hours i think? ANyway after the movie decided to pig out at toast box. In one word it was funny! And never laugh with peanut toast in ur mouth. Details read hui's blog lah. All the jokes and qianbian remarks.

hallo!

the cute telephone and calander.

plus the hebi hiam pic at the top. Damn fun catching up with them again!!

Left vivo at 1030. Just found out that there's only bout 2 weeks left of hols left. Seems like i havent really done anything productive this hols. Homework are practically still untouched except for abit of maths tutorial. Plus there's SATS to study for. What happened to the mugging that i promised myself i'll do plus the hw that i was suppose to do early on in the hols? What have i done this hols actually? I dont really know. 6 weeks passed already?? Tomorrow is gonna be mugger day. Seriously!! And suddenly i seem to have things to do and so little time left. We still havent had that boardgame thing yet! Haha..panic.

Oh, and i got the NUS H3 module- Urban land use and development=))

Okay, next entry will be on taiwan=)

And i dunno why im not asleep yet. My eyebags are so bad hui got me eye serum thing from korea. Haha...THX ALOT!! No..as in seriously. Not being sarcastic k=))

Gtg now!

Sunday, December 17, 2006

homesweethome

im back!!

touched down in singapore at around 11pm last nite. Hope we didnt piss the taxi driver off by only going to pasir ris. Anw somehow i wasnt sleepy at home and slept at 2 plus.

Overall taiwan was really fun. Still trying to get out of the holiday mood and kick some taiwan habits. Like umm, looking left when crossing the road, that the passenger side is on the left in singapore rather than the right. And that u can throw toilet paper into the toilet bowl in Singapore. In taiwan it's not advisable in case it chokes the toilet bowl. Shall update on the trip when there's the time.

Woke up at 145pm today. Sianned ard home today and ate alot. Ate pineapple tarts, muah chee from taiwan and loads of other rubbish. Anw tired already. Cya=)

Saturday, December 09, 2006

sayonara

hi!!!

Reporting live from the airport now, flying off in about an hour. Never use the internet in the airport before...haha..cheap thrill. Anw my sis is here..say hi jie! HI!! She says she's brokes. What a sad life. Haha...so sad for me also=(

Ok. Not much time left, shall go walk ard first. Transit area exclusive area u know, can only come in once a year or so. Ok..byebye!!

Friday, December 08, 2006

cya

im flying off for taiwan tomorrow!! So see yall in 8 days time....hope it'll be fun!! YAY =)

Update: Yay..the deadline's extended!
Anw the most impt issue now is...OGL PAIRING!
i desperately need one more name to put down coz the deadline's 15th but i wont be back by then. That leaves me one day to think about it. Actually think about it, it doesnt make that much of a difference since i dun even need to make much choices or considerations. All i need is to see who i know more. Sigh...why i so antisocial, dunno anybody one!! HELP!!!

Anyway, today dad was on leave. Went cycling with him in the morning for bout 2 hours i think. Went to the park and then over to IKEA just to see how big it is. Shld have cycled at least 10km hopefully. Surprisingly it wasnt that tiring, just this uphill part at the end =( Btw, finally saw the pony/horse stable thing at the park. Haha, very interesting, never thought such things can be held in the park.

Later went to novena square and bought this pair of slippers i've been looking at for quite awhile. Wanted to buy it from wisma coz of some basement voucher. But they have no more size and they dun do transfers =( Oh well, after that waited for dad in town and then went to look at laptops and shun4 bian4 look at cameras for fun. Pretty like the sony cybershot T10 one. Then dad decided to tell me how to bargain with my mum and jie for it. Make me laugh until heart pain..k not really but something like that. Dunno if i can get it...nvm.

Havent finish packing yet. But im still gonna watch tv first. And someone please give me suggestions on ogl pairing leh. I have up to tmr morning to fill up that blank. K...cya all!!

Oh and i didnt manage to finish my hw! Read the physics notes twice already but still dunno how to do=(

Sunday, December 03, 2006

the last week had been hectic.

Wed:
Orientation dry run day 3. Basically just tried out the games for external activities and revised the batch dance and song. And with that dry run 1 was over.

After the thing went out for lunch with the decor floorwall people then headed to lincoln's house for oteam gathering. Reached there quite early and played musical chair, concentration and this pass the coin thing while waiting for the rest. Later went down to the street soccer court when everyone started arriving. Total turnout was over 100 people. Imagine sitting in a circle with a diameter of say 20+ metres and playing concentration. The forfeits were also amusing to watch...as long as u don't have to do them. Anyway, best part was when this small boy came and asked the whole group if he and his friends could use half the court or have our best 5 people against him and his two friends 0_o!!

The rest of the evening was at the pool eating (very little though coz there wasnt enough), watching people trying to dunk others and get dunked, a case of missing specs in the pool, a handful of guys in the pool looking for the specs, rescued specs, talking with people and stupid hand games. It was fun overall...but basically we stayed with the usual group of people so i only know the names of people and that's it. Haha..think i'll have some problem trying to come up with 5 names for ogl partnering >_<

Thur:
went out for class outing to watch happy feet. It cant exactly be counted as a class outing since only me james toffa bee juan and yiyan went. Nonetheless, it was fun and happy feet's a good show. Baby mumble and gloria are damn cute!! After the show, went to drink milkshake at billy bombers b4 toffa and james went to my house to play mahjong. Went to the park first while waiting for yiyan to come from training. On the way back, this cat kept following us and umm...we chased it away some how. Anyway throughout the mahjong game the cat became our best friend. If u get it during the game...umm...good luck lah. Later they decided to stay over to play coz we started at around 10 and it wasnt shuang3 to play for only an hour plus. So we played through the nite from 10 to 630am. Went through 2 rounds of dong1 nan2 xi1 bei3 feng thing. Anyway i won in the end even though i gave my lucky seat to james and got his suay one coz earlier in the game won one round with 64-32 one and another 32-16 one. Get it?? Too bad we only played with tokens..no cash...or i'll be rich now!! Later left the house around 650 and took bus to school.

Fri:
Went to school damn early for oteam meeting. But realised it started at 9 instead of 830. Luckily i never take cab from j8 to school. Meeting was damn sian..did some reflect and review thing. After that was revising the dances. Somehow my group was damn onz and didnt want to leave. Everyone switched roles so like the girls did the guy part and vice versa. Was damn funny and the other groups gathered to watch. Especially since my partner is quite tall..so some parts are qutie hillarious. At least everyone had fun. Later, collected my gym jacket, went for lunch, went to the bishan library for the first time and finally got a library account. Borrowed the dragon lady book andthen went back to school to try help paint banner. But there wasnt much to do...so just did some emulsion paint thing. Soon, left for town with hui and bee juan, ate at toast box b4 everyone left and went to the taka library to rot while waiting for my parents. By then i was seriously deaded...and it was damn sucky trying to stay awake while reading my book. One and a half hours later, met my parents and sis for dinner at yoshi and then went home. Fell asleep immediately at 830.

Sat:
Woke up at 10. Which means i slept for 13 1/2 hours. More than enough to make up for no sleep on thur nite=) Sianed at home the whole day, went for music and that's it. A great contrast from the whole of last week.

Sun:
Didnt go skating again. Went to S11 to eat by myself and bishan library to rot coz my parents had to attend a wedding in the area. Later went to do the final payment for the trip next week. BUT...we find out that we're sort of the only people in the group coz we're taking a different flight from the rest. Meaning we'll reach taiwan two hours ahead of the other people. I dunno how it'll turn out. Hopefully the problem would only be the difference in timing when we arrive and depart and not like in the HK, Shenzhen, Macao trip many years ago when we were seriously the only people in the group and had to take the boat and train rides by ourselves and got picked up in the tour guide's car. Pray hard!! I want to enjoy myself!

Next week will be damn free. Only dance on mon and wed. I still have all the tutorials yet to be done and im so gonna finish them before i leave next week. Anyone want to go out tell me k...class cca watever!! Byebye=)