AuntieSeah's Hideout

The Motorbike Gang

2012-01-13T19:51:00.000+08:00

After pre-enrolling for our driving lessons at Bukit Batok Driving Center (BBDC), my JuJu Trixy and I went down to the center to officially register for our lessons! It was kinda a last minute thing cos we had to register within 5 days after our online pre-enrolment. Since my dear JuJu is such a busy woman, we could only meet up at 7pm on Friday. Only Trixy can make me go out so willingly on a Friday night hahaha!

Trixy kinda got held up and since she lives so far away from Bukit Gombak MRT, it took her quite a while to reach at 7.30pm. My dad was supposed to drive us to the center, but he had to return home for some urgent matters so we had to find our way to the center ourselves.

So basically, there were 3 ways to the center:

1. Take the free shuttle bus meant for BBDC students which arrives at 10 minutes intervals.
2. Take bus 945 and walk to our destination after 2 stops.
3. Walk 1km to BBDC, which takes around 12mins. (According to Google Maps)

Since we were unsure if we are even allowed on the free shuttle bus, we decided to take a bus there. And damn, it took us so long cos the bus took its own sweet time to arrive. Even after getting off the bus, we had to use a GPS to tell us the direction to walk hahaha damn noob.

The first thing Trixy said when we reached there was "Wah, this place looks like a hospital, still need to wait for queue number one!"

She wasn't exaggerating, but I think it looks more like the Registry of Marriage hahahaha!

We were given informative leaflets and a queue number.

Trixy doing eye-check hahaha! We are supposed to look into the machine and say which direction the letter E is facing. Some are quite hard cos the letter is very small.

And we're given the books as part of the registration package!

We knew that we had to pay for the registration fees, but had no idea how much it would cost. The ever-so-smart Trixy brought $20 with her and still said that she can treat me to a drink. I brought around $120 with me though. We got a huge shock + a moment of embarrassment when we were told to pay $150 ($90+ for registration, the remaining amount for booking of lessons and the Basic Theory Test (BTT) costs.). I called my dad to come rescue us with money, but he reminded me that I had NETS with me hahaha! I had my NETS a few months ago but I didn't really have the chance to use it. Now is the time for it to prove its worth hahaha!

Our BTT will be on 23 February 2012!

That is the earliest date we could get, hope that we can pass it!

It was already close to 9pm when we had everything settled, so we decided to try walking back to the MRT Station from BBDC. At the traffic junction, we saw this group of guys on bikes, waiting for the traffic lights to turn green. Since they were wearing the same thing, I whispered to Trixy "Eh my right got this bike gang omg I'm so scared how!!" and we started getting jittery haha! Both of us don't loiter at unfamiliar places so late at night, so we were really afraid of being victims of gang fights and random slashing cases.

Well, they turned out to be BBDC bike learners HAHAHAHAHA it was so funny cos we were so nervous for nothing. As we walked to the MRT Station, we talked about the things we'll do like watching out for random shadows so we know that a stranger is approaching. I think it took us only 10 minutes to reach the station, and we headed towards different directions!

THANK YOU JUJU FOR ACCOMPANYING ME AT BBDC!! <3

Enjoyment

2012-01-13T16:17:00.002+08:00

宅女's favourite pastime.

Vroom Vroom!

2012-01-12T00:43:00.003+08:00

MY JUJU HAS PROMISED ME TO LEARN DRIVING WITH ME!!

To the Universe & Beyond!

2011-12-31T18:38:00.000+08:00

28 to 31 December had been a pretty hectic week for me cos my relatives from Malaysia came to Singapore! I can't really remember all the details that happened, so this shall be a pictorial post with my occasional comments!

We were trying to imitate The Thinker and my mom decides to be special.

Okay, I just realised we really look like we're squeezing our pimples hahaha!

Adam & Eve

We reached Universal Studios by 2pm and realised that we might not have enough time to finish playing, so we decided to go the next day instead. Since mom has to work and dad has to write some year end report, only me and my sis accompanied our uncle and his family to USS!

This is the ride that I queued up for, and backed out last minute. Hahaha! Damn no guts I know :(

The Waterworld show is a MUST-WATCH!!

I AM PROUD TO DECLARE THAT I TOOK THIS RIDE! THE 14-STOREY ROLLERCOASTER PLUNGE WHEEEEE!

Titanic's Demise

2011-12-22T17:57:00.000+08:00

Finally got the time to go for the Titanic Artifact Exhibition at the newly-built Art Science Museum with Chermaine and Minyee! Haven't seen Chermaine for so long, so I was really looking forward to the meet-up.

I've struggled for quite a while on whether I should write this post very honestly. I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings or my own feelings, but I felt that one of the reasons why I decided to blog again was to note down truthfully my everyday life. This post wasn't meant for anyone in particular to read and reflect on, but for me to remember what exactly happened.

Pictures first, followed by reflections! Photography is strictly prohibited within the exhibition premises, so pardon me for not taking photos of the artifacts.

The lotus-shaped Art Science Museum!

2012 commemorates the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Chermaine penning down her thoughts after visiting the exhibition.

After the exhibition, we walked around the mall and stopped at this art gallery. Seriously, the two women by the left and right of the picture looks like Mediacorp artiste Joanne Peh! We were even suspecting if the picture was supposed to be a portrait of her, but it wasn't.

You can see Chermaine and Minyee in awe, hahaha!

And so, we headed for lunch at Crystal Jade, as usual.

I must say that the noodles are really good! We gobbled them up quite quickly.

Frankly speaking, reality turned out to be far from what one initially expected. I may be looking forward to this trip, but it might not turn out as I wished it to be. Titanic was known as The Unsinkable, but it was discovered underneath the ocean eventually. We can be best friends, but god knows what might happen later? Only time will tell.

Scary Scarlion

2011-12-21T13:40:00.001+08:00

I've finally gotten my Scarlion Boss Helmet with help from Jasmine's cousin's friend Ryou!

Ms Chew better watch her back, cos I'm closing her now!!

Nobody but YOUths @ NACLI

2011-12-19T12:42:00.000+08:00

16 - 18 December 2011 was yet another fun-filled teambuilding camp with Nanyang CC YEC (Youth Executive Committee) at NACLI! I guess this post would be more of a reflection piece rather than jotting down all the activities we had.

So anyway, NACLI refers to National Community Leadership Institute, an academy meant for grooming grassroot leaders to serve the community better. I had my first camp here back in 2008 with the Crescent Secondary 3 student leaders and had a smashing fun time back then. The 2011 one with Nanyang YEC was just as fun!

Since it's my first year in YEC, I didn't get to know everyone, so I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to know my teammates even better. The actual camp starts on 17 Dec, but most of us went for an overnight stay on 16 Dec and had a Pyjamas Party! Details are not to be disclosed, but it was definitely a memorable party for me :)

Getting ready for the Pyjamas Party!

New bestie Charlotte hehehehe :)

Charlotte, Jiaying, Jiawei, and I shared a room! We were all from Jurong West Primary School! Jiaying and I knew each other existed since Primary School, but we didn't have a chance to know each other until now!

When you put 4 girls in a room with a camera, you get epic jumpshots!

Our big brother Jin De came to join us!

I've mentioned in my previous post that we broke a record in NACLI, so here's our picture framed up on the Wall of Fame!

Instructor Choy Leng and I!

During our first session, Choy Leng pointed at me and asked me, "Have you been here in NACLI before? You looked familiar." So I told her I've been to NACLI during my Crescent times and she totally remembered me! It's a good feeling to have someone remembering your face. And she said that I looked more auntie now HAHAHAHA! Whateverrrrr~

Mr Yam Ah Mee was also in NACLI Campus at that time for the New YEC Induction Programme, and I heard from Mingxuan that she was there too! A pity that we didn't meet each other, or we would have screamed and hopped around like mad.

We experienced many challenging but fun activities and completed them as a team. Even Choy Leng says that Nanyang YEC is of the most on and united YECs!

The PA cares about our welfare too, so our accommodation and meals were all top-notch standard for an overnight camp. No sleeping in tents or sharing canned baked beans.

Our very own Nanyang YEC art piece with contributions from everyone!

I admit that we all have first impressions of people when we first see them. So do I. This teambuilding camp really made me get to know everyone in YEC even better. Everyone was so friendly and approachable, and we often had our own stupid times, unglam times, or little gossip sessions in the room. I've never met some of them before, but I believe after this camp, all of them have a special place in my heart now. We may have different backgrounds, different personalities, different... But together, we're Nanyang YEC, and we all have the same heart for serving the community. This definitely widens my social circle and get to know more people who share similar interests. I've never regretted joining Nanyang YEC! Who says that Grassroot Leaders and old and bald? We're the new and youthful Grassroot Leaders!

Three cheers for Nanyang YEC!

Cheng Ho's Sailors

2011-12-15T21:15:00.001+08:00

It was a tiring but fun day out with Ms Karen Tan and Minyee! A few weeks ago, we decided to go for the new Cheng Ho (鄭和) exhibition at the Maritime Museum (MEMA) in Sentosa!

Just in case you don't know who Cheng Ho is, he's a eunuch and ambassador for the emperor, sailing the seas 7 times in total and going as far as Somalia.

The Maritime Museum!

Being the usual auntie, I bought the entrance tickets earlier so I was carrying this "Secret Document" around. And they laughed at me ._. I think this exhibition is really worth going!

The admission price is $5 for the exhibition and you get this passport for stamping at every stop. I would say that the exhibition is quite interesting and interactive, and you get to do quite some fun things there too!

The introductory video you get to watch once you get inside the Museum. Never seen a more charming and suave Cheng Ho than this.

Kids corner for children to make their own Chinese junk and colour them.

Online recipe for the different types of curry!

Within the exhibition is this Typhoon Theater where you get to experience how it's like to be a sailor met with a typhoon. Well, we were warned by Ms Tan that we will get wet, cos it's much like a 4D theater with all the physical motion and stuff, so we jokingly suggested opening our umbrellas within the theater hahaha! I must say that the effects are quite cool, and half the time I was hugging onto Minyee cos I was afraid of the lightnings. Some of the kids sitting behind me were crying in shock because it was quite realistic. There was a bit of a drizzle to imitate the storm feeling, but it didn't got us too wet.

The introductory video, showing the sailors before they set off. I find it weird to listen to people wearing olden day costumes speaking in English.

Oh, and there is this really cool section where you can crop your face into the picture so that you look like you're wearing traditional costumes! We were having a hell load of fun with that until the children gathered around us and fought for the screen.

1. Select a traditional costume.

2. Take a snapshot of your face.

3. Taa-daa!

So after visiting the museum, we went for lunch at the nearby Coffee Bean and talked about old times. We were laughing at the fact that many Crescentians thinks Ms Tan is like some ferocious tigeress and wouldn't dare to go out with her just like what we did.

After lunch, we did some shopping and playing at Toys R Us, and decided to just spend the rest of the day together instead of going home for dinner. All three of us called home to inform our parents and went for dinner at McDonalds instead! (Since glutton Minyee is craving for their twister fries)

And for the final activity of the day, we went to catch Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chipwrecked!

I must say that the movie is pretty brainless, but nevertheless made me laugh hard throughout the whole film. Theodore (The chipmunk in green) is still as cute!! This movie is definitely suitable for the whole family and for the brainless like Minyee since you don't need to think much. This is my first time catching a movie on the date of its release! Cool or what, hahaha!

Three words to describe my day: Oh so awesome!

Generation

2011-12-11T23:33:00.001+08:00

Opps! Looks like I've been too preoccupied with Maplestory that I haven't blogged for a long time. Lots of interesting things have happened recently, so lets see if I can remember them!

On Tuesday, the Chinese Gang decided to go for KBox at Jurong Safra! Anyway, Shijia was supposed to organise this trip, so we agreed on meeting at Boon Lay MRT Station at 1.30pm. I didn't like being late for meetings, so I reached there on time. Wenlin and Munyee did inform me that they will be late, so I waited for them. In the end, the 3 of us were waiting for Shijia, who remained uncontactable since the previous night. We were so worried that she had changed her number without informing us, so we actually called all our friends to ask for her home and handphone number.

In the end, we decided to just head towards Jurong Safra first while calling Shijia. And guess what, it was only until 2.30pm that she SMSed us saying that she overslept, felt a little sick, and won't be able to make it. My point is, it's perfectly okay to be late, but PLEASE INFORM EARLY when you will be late or will not be able to make it for whatever reasons. Switching off your handphone and making us worry certainly isn't a nice feeling. I don't deny that I was mad over it.

We applied for the KBox Student KALA card for Karaoke sessions at only $6 nett! The application requires $10 though, so we paid $16 this time round.

As much as I love 5566's songs, I don't sing their songs during Karaoke sessions with my friends. I know that not everyone appreciates their music, hahaha! So I shall not force my friends to sing it with me. Surprisingly, all 3 of us used to be 5566 fans, so Wenlin suggested singing 5566 songs. We got so excited singing some of their most famous songs that we nearly blasted the ceiling with our voices, hahaha! Brings back good old memories!

爱情漫游

白色花漾

存在

煎熬

我难过

I don't care what others think, but I still feel that their songs are the best. Hehehehe :) Munyee started showing off her hidden talent when she sang Korean songs! I seriously don't know how she can read all the Koreans words. Heard that she'll be learning Korean at some Korean School or something.

'Goodbye' is the only word that I can sing throughout the whole song LOL!

This reminds me of the Adeline Chia K-Pop incident recently when she published an article on Straits Times titled 'Sick of K-Pop Cult', which invited waves of lashings and criticisms from K-Pop fans. My view is... She said what I wanted to say. But then again, everyone has their own freedom to like who they want. Peace, people, peace!

Nothing beats singing your hearts out for 3 hours with your best friends :)

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Yesterday, my class went for our GP tutor Mrs Tan's baby showers! I feel bad for not attending the previous 2 class gatherings, so I planned this 3rd one for our class, also the 1st gathering after As! Except for Melissa, Xuan Zhen, and Rizwana who were overseas, everyone came for the party. Feels great to be meeting 34/10 again! <3

We were supposed to meet at Braddell MRT Station at 12.30pm, so I intended to leave home at 11am so that I won't be late. Just as I was about to leave my house, my dad said that he could drive me there, so we ended up watching HK dramas in the living room till 12.15pm -.- And he told me that he could make it there in 15mins. Well, he wasn't wrong, but he didn't expect a jam on the highway towards Toa Payoh, so I ended up becoming the second last person to arrive. Sorry 34/10! :(

Thanks Roszy for making this lovely hamper! Our class bought the gifts right after our Geog A Levels, and she helped to decorate it!

Mrs Tan, Baby Isaac, and 34/10! <3

The HDB estates at Toa Payoh have really beautiful surroundings, just the ideal background for our class photo :)

Totally candid shot hehehe!

Three cheers to our most successful class gathering!

The Final Test

2011-12-03T13:53:00.001+08:00

I've finally completed my SATs yesterday! Friends have been asking me for the reason behind my registration for the test, since they would least expect me to apply for US universities. I would say that my decision is not a "last minute hunch", more like a planned back-up plan just in case I screwed up my A Levels. Months before, I've checked the admission requirements for some of the overseas universities, and most of them requite the SATs to be taken by year 2011 if I'm admitting into the school in 2012. By then, I have already received my A Levels timetable, so I thought December would be a good month for me to take the SATs - My mind is still fresh from A Levels, yet just in time to apply for US universities. I went to ask Diane and Munyee on Twitter to see if they want to take it with me too, and managed to successfully convince them to take it with me in AJ hahaha!

So yesterday, I had to wake up at 6.15am to get to AJ. Waking up so early on a Saturday is seriously a sin. I was greatly amused by Diane who can't find the way to AJ when she came out of Yio Chu Kang MRT Station. The exterior appearance of AJ looks like a factory, so I don't blame her when she couldn't identify the building hahaha! And so we went into the school to wait for Munyee and check our exam venues.

When I reached there, I was like

OH MY GOD

I think 97% of the SAT candidates were PRC scholars, and I certainly was not expecting this. While checking out our seatings at the foyer, I saw my Crescent Chess Club junior and Inez! It was like a total surprise, and somewhat awkward situation hahaha! Luckily for them, Diane, Munyee and her friend could deposit their valuables like handphones in my school locker. We were allowed to bring our bags into the examination room, but we just deposit them in the lockers just in case they suspect us of using handphones anyway. Being already familiar with the school compound, we could find our way easily to the respective examination rooms. I could hear people all around me flustering "Where is LT2? Where is Room 414? Where is....", which was quite an amusing sight hahaha! And I realised I forgot to introduce our school's blue phallic sculpture to Diane they all hahahaha!

The SAT took more than 4 hours in total, though there were like 3 or 4 short breaks of 5 minutes between each test section. (There were 10 sections in total) I stayed in the examination room throughout the whole 4 hours though towards the end I felt like going to the toilet. From my location, 5 minutes is not enough for me to go to the toilet and come back, so I'll rather bear with it and complete my paper first.

I think I was quite unlucky in my seating. The PRC guy behind me was a total oddball. He had this compulsive burping disorder and just can't stop burping. I'm already very grossed out by this, and he still mumble weird chants throughout the whole examination, causing much disturbance. To my left, right, and back were 3 guys who kept shaking their legs because they felt so nervous. I had my SATs in the container block, so when they shake their legs, I could totally feel the table shaking too. Sigh.

After the gruelling 4hours++ of examination, I went home for lunch while the rest headed towards town area. Not surprising huh. Hahaha! We managed to take a photo in a rush before they board the MRT!

You can see that we were really in a rush, hahaha!

I went home, took my lunch, and guess what I did! I started playing Maplestory with my JC Form Teacher HAHAHAHA! Quite funny lah actually cos I didn't expect to meet her in some virtual world. Compared to the previous few times when she left some serious message on my Facebook wall, she turned out to be quite approachable and friendly in-game. My teacher so cool right? Hahaha! Just when I thought Maplestory is a place only for me to bond with my friends though gaming, my teacher is there to join in the fun.

I thought I was supposed to meet my JuJu Trixy at 10am today to continue with our drama marathon, but she mysteriously disappeared without even replying to my SMS =( We're currently watching The Life and Times of a Sentinel (紫禁驚雷)!

Got my JuJu's favourite Kenneth Ma so I 勉強 watch with her lor. Hahahaha!

Anyway I saw on Weibo that the latest TVB drama that I've waited 2 years for, When Heaven Burns (天與地), received a lot of comments about gory scenes and plot about cannibalism which makes them unconfortable. I think those people are quite lame. The drama is about how this group of 4 best friends went hiking on a snowy peak, and because they had no food left, they killed their gravely injured friend and ate him for survival. 18 years later, the 3 friends had their own successes, but still crosses each others' path in some way or another and started betraying each other in this dog-eat-dog society. I thought the plot was quite interesting and refreshing. Those viewers who complained seriously have not seen the world yet.

I remember watching this 1993 film called Alive, which was based on a true story about how a team of Uruguayan Rugby players met with a plane crash on the Andes, leaving them with no choice but to eat the corpse of their dead teammates when they ran out of food supplies. (Wiki " Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571" if you're interested in knowing what happened. A true story worth reading and reflecting on.)

If this has happened in real life before, I don't see why HK viewers should continue living in their pink bubbles filled with unicorns and rainbows, then complain about how disgusting the plot is. I like the way When Heaven Burns bring out the underlying meaning of how the dog-eat-dog society is actually worse than cannibalism. I haven't really watched the drama yet, so I can't comment about the acting or the detailed plot though.

Then again, if such an accident really happened to me, I'm not sure if I can bear to eat Chermaine or Minyee for survival. Can't imagine the psychological trauma those Uruguayan players went through before making the final decision of eating their dead teammates. Plane accidents like this always make me feel scared when I'm travelling. The thought of leaving Singapore to another country already makes me feel uncomfortable. I guess Singapore is the only country that really makes me feel safe at home.

Why Do We Need Birthday Cakes?

2011-11-29T13:19:00.001+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SISTER YANLING!

I had a fun meet-up with Vivien Lim yesterday at our neighbourhood! We were supposed to meet at KFC and use their power point, but when we got there, we realised that there were NO power points at all. The light drizzle made things worse for Vivien who didn't bring her umbrella hahaha! So being an auntie, I brought her to the community centre beside the KFC and through my close ties with the people there, the uncle gave me the baking class' kitchen for use, complete with air-con! You'll think that we are meeting up with laptops for our project work or something, but actually, I'm just helping her install Sims 3 into her laptop HAHAHA!

So we talked about all the random stuff on earth, and showed her the unglam photos of her in my laptop hehehe. And after installing Sims 3, I taught her how to play, since the last time she touched The Sims was Sims 1 and it's quite different from Sims 3. Vivien totally revealed her craving for guys when she created her male Sim that looks like this:

CHOCOLATE ABS!

We were having a crazy time creating the "ideal guy" for her hahaha! According to her, if I see her lesser on Twitter now, it means that she's officially addicted to Sims 3. After the whole installing thing, we went for some light snacks at KFC and returned home! Next time we must plan a Jurong Outing or something, since I suddenly realised that quite a number of Crescentians live in the same neighbourhood as us!

Today, my parents took leave from their work to celebrate my sister's birthday! I hopped onto my dad's car without knowing that we'll be going to Malaysia LOL. It was like an impromptu thing, just grab our passports and go! We went to this real cheap KTV that is only like, RM80+ for 4 people! That includes lunch and free flow of drinks. I bet you can't get anything like that in Singapore. KBox is forever such a ripoff yet I can't stop going there HAHAHA! Let the photos do the talking!

The KTV's name is called 大嘴巴 hahahaha! Reminds me of the nickname Laoshi always calls me.

Couldn't stop laughing when I saw 朱咪咪's face! Hahahahahaha! Epic!

If you think that the lunch will be quite lousy and cheap, you're wrong! The chicken chop, chicken salad, etc are all DEAD GOOD. Like finger-licking good HAHAHA! We were so preoccupied with eating that we just don't care about singing anymore.

Then we had our dinner at this restaurant that sells very nice home-cooked food!

And their TV plays Channel 8 shows! I thought Singaporeans are the only unlucky ones who are being forced to watch these kind of sub-standard shows LOL! TVB is the best!

I think our whole family has this common consensus that birthdays are for families. Why do you need a birthday cake for the formalities, when enjoying a nice home-cooked meal with your family is the best way to celebrate your birthday. Don't you think that when you buy a birthday cake, it's really just for blowing out the candles, but not because you really enjoyed eating the cake? At least, that's the case for me lah, hahaha!

When I got home I realised that I will be going for KTV again tomorrow with Trixy, Mel T they all! I wonder if my throat can take it hahaha! I think I'll just sing lesser lah hor. Now that all the Physics students have ended their A Levels, it's time for me to really plan for our HCL Gathering. I know it isn't easy organising such gatherings, but when I received SMSes from friends to thank me for putting the effort in gathering everyone, I'll feel glad that at least my efforts get appreciated. I hate it when people take things for granted. I don't mind doing things for you, but please at least show me that you're appreciative of it.

Since the Physics students have ended their A Levels, I would like to announce the commencement of the

TVB DRAMA MARATHON!

(Organised by the HKDAC - Hong Kong Drama Appreciation Club)

Oh, and one last question:

MEL. T WHEN IS OUR TITANIC TRIP??

A Walk In The Park

2011-11-27T23:20:00.001+08:00

I'm supposed to blog yesterday, but I totally forgot about it due to excessive gaming so let me try to recall what I wanted to blog about!

On Sunday morning, my mom dragged me and my sister up to participate in this Punggol Waterway walk organised by the community centre. So I was thinking "Hmm... Now that I've joined the People's Association, I should go for some of their activities right? Must show support what!" and went for the walk with my mom, dad, and sister. When I reached there I nearly wanted to faint.

THERE IS NOBODY EXCEPT FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS!!

So many old people gathering outside the community centre, not a single person of my age is around. My mom still dare to say "Aiya this walk $1 only mah! Still got free gift!" really auntie max. I took some pictures along the way for those who haven't been to the newly-built Punggol Waterway yet!

The free gift that my mom wanted hahahaha! The person-in-charge said that we could leave our things in the bus before our walk and so we left them in the bus. In the end we took a different bus home. Bye bye free gift.

Actually the scenery there is not bad, just that the Waterway is not 100% completed so you see construction work going on here and there. It's quite dusty from the work at certain areas, but otherwise the 4.2km track is a nice place for cycling. (You really think I'll bother running 4.2km when I'm already fainting from 2.4km?!)

My dad and my mom saw centipedes on the ground and they got so excited over taking photos of it.

My sis is emo-ing at one corner because the walk is really really boring hahaha! I think there's only 2 place of attraction, plus it's quite early in the morning so my sis, dad and I are basically walking zombies.

We started to find activities for ourselves by doing silly things and taking photos of it hahaha! The one in black is my sister, not me, just in case you're one of the 284723461983 who thinks that we look identical.

My mom treats this like her outdoor photography album but my sister and I was thinking...

Yuck, this place is so yucky she's still taking photos of herself so happily.

Trying to take a professional-looking photo of my sister and I, but I think it's quite fail hahaha!

Halfway through we were thinking, "Can we go home?"

"Really want to sleep already...ZZZzz"

So after the walk we went for Sakura International Buffet at the Science Centre! It has been more than 3 months since I've last exercised, and I still happily gobbled so much food at the buffet HAHAHA! My face is already so round from not exercising :( Oh and did I mention how much I LOVEEE the chicken satays and jellyfish sushi?

I'm supposed to meet Vivien Lim after I've reached home to give her Sims 3, but we changed the meeting to another date (Which is today!). Once you put me at home, the first thing I'll do is to start playing Maplestory HAHAHAHA I know it's so lame. Shi Jia said something on my Twitter which I felt was quite true: You find everything so boring now because you've completed your A Levels and have so much time to do everything! I've downloaded so many games to play but I realised that I only have a pair of hands and eyes ._.

Maplestory had this new update that screwed everything up. I trained a character for 4 years to be so powerful now, and their new update rendered it useless now. No choice, have to start a new one again, but it feels quite sad to see that account become so weak now :(

I wanted to watch When Heaven Burns (天與地), the drama that I've been waiting for 2 years for it, but I shall wait till my JuJu finishes her A Levels okay! SO SWEET WORRR :)) Recommend me any other nice dramas to watch alright!

Oh! And I mentioned in my previous post that I will upload Ximian's pole-dancing video right! Bet she didn't know that I have it HAHAHAHA! I have Michelle Lim's one too lalalala~ Here it is!

Liberation!

2011-11-27T01:43:00.001+08:00

NO MORE A LEVELS!

(Tearing my entry proof to celebrate Liberation Day!)

Well, not exactly the end of my exams actually, I still have my SATs on 3 December, but it feels great to finally reach the end of the race after 2 long years. I managed to plan the most successful class outing with 34/10! We had 10 out of 12 people going for the class lunch at Swensens together lalalala~ Hahaha feel so proud of myself! We were celebrating the end of A Levels, and also to shop for gifts for our GP tutor Mrs Tan because she invited us to her baby's First Month Party!

Swensens didn't allow the joining of tables, so we had to split into two groups :(

Failed phototaking skills HAHAHAHA! :P

Great mushroom soup and pasta!

The end of A Levels also means a new job for me - Clearing my school stuff. I just packed my table (And my dining table which I selfishly occupied for my files) this afternoon and BAM! threw them on my sister's table for her to study. HAHAHA! Gosh I'm so mean, but packing is such a tedious and tiring job. I simply have no more excuses to have a messy table :(

So for the next few months, I shall keep myself occupied with hanging out with friends, learning how to drive, participate in community services with YEC (The Youth Club I was previously talking about), watching TVB dramas, and being a hardcore gamer:

See the number of games I have on my desktop LOL!

I feel quite bad for missing most of the outings organised by my friends, so I shall help to plan the upcoming HCL Group2 Gathering with 林老师!! She's so sweet man, tell us to plan it during mid-December and she'll try to accommodate us! Hope that everyone can give me face and come lah hor, don't like that leh~ Hahahaha!

Oh, and I just came back from a party organised by the YEC President, will upload the pictures once my friends uploads it onto Facebook okay! I think it's pretty cool to get to know more people through Clubs like this, I need to socialise more or my only best friend will be my laptop. And possibly my soft toys 王八, Bear-Bear and Tinky Winky. I'll be going for a Team-Building Camp at NACLI with them, so I'm really looking forward to it cos NACLI has some of my best memories there :) I like leadership camps, especially those in Crescent like this NACLI Leadership Camp or the Peer Leaders Camp. Everyone is a leader and they know how to behave like one, so the whole feeling of going to a camp with people who behave themselves and give support at every possible moment is truly memorable. I still remember Ximian, Michelle they all were asked to pole-dance on stage in front of everyone, and they 说跳就跳, very on! I promise I'll post Ximian's dancing video in my next post! That's what I like about Crescent, hahaha! With everyone's support you tend to do things you've never imagined yourself doing. In AJ, the school hired external instructors to teach us how to dance on ACES Day, but I think only 30% of the whole school population bothered to move their butts, while the rest hide behind at the back, refusing to dance. Tsk, it's only a dance right? Anyway JUJU I still have your photos!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ALL BECAUSE OF YOU CHERMAINE FELL!!

Our group, the Red Devils!

The record-breaking team of Crescent Girls' student leaders!

And guess what! I checked NACLI's website and our All Aboard record is still standing! Whoo! Sigh, looking at these photos only made me miss everyone more. But don't worry, I'll just go out with everyone more often okay!

I think I got a lot of things to blog about every time, but I always forget what I want to type halfway through the post hahaha! Better go catch some sleep now! Mom said that we'll be going for a walk at the Punggol Waterway tomorrow, so hope that it'll be fun! Then after that, I'll be meeting Vivien Lim at our neighbourhood's KFC to help her install Sims 3 hehehehe :) So tired today, but life has just BEGUN!

P.S. Thanks Jas for your SAT book! Hope that it'll really come in handy, I owe you this one! :)

Reunion

2011-11-25T01:26:00.001+08:00

COMING SOON

Last One Standing

2011-11-21T12:40:00.001+08:00

Econs is officially over! I would say that today's paper wasn't easy, but I didn't expect it to be simple either. Overall I'll rate it as "Manageable" so that I won't give myself too much hope hahaha! I'm now left with Human Geog on Friday and gosh I dread Geog!! I was telling my classmates how I'll start to daydream about the things I will do when As are over even when I'm studying for a paper the next day. Really can't wait for next Friday to come!

Oh, and for all my readers, remember to leave me a message so that I know you're reading! The Live Chat thing is under-utilized since its installation hahahaha!

Anyway not much interesting things happened today, so I shall blog about Forensic Heroes III (法証先鋒III) which just ended on Saturday! I happened to learn of the ending through Weibo, and it disturbed me so much that I finally conceded defeat and went to watch the last two episodes although I intended to do that after my Econs paper today. I was supposed to sleep at 12 on Sunday night so that I can wake up at 8am the next morning and continue with my Econs revision, but I ended up watching the finale till 2am. Talk about discipline... -.- Being a loyal fan of the Forensic Heroes series, I've watched Season 1, 2 and 3, so I think I'm going to provide my opinion on the hotly debated Season 3 and compare it with its predecessors after finishing the whole series to provide a fairer opinion piece.

Warning: I might disclose some spoilers in my review (Not too much though), so if you are planning to watch the series, DO NOT CONTINUE! And for those who have no idea what I'm talking about, please watch TVB's Forensic Heroes! Its actually the HK version of CSI, definitely a must-watch if you like this genre of shows.

To refresh your memory, here's the list of the cast in Forensic Heroes. Note that Forensic Heroes III had an entirely brand new storyline and cast:

1. Cast

In the TVB Sales Presentation video, it was revealed that the same cast will be featured in FH3, but when the actual filming took place, they used a completely new set of cast for the sequel, much to the disappointment of Forensic Heroes fans including me. Though many preferred the old cast, some viewers gave credit to the production team for the fresh look in the sequel.

Not that I'm prejudiced against FH3, but the cast for FH1/2 was so much better than FH3. In FH1/2 we see a variety of different personalities from the main characters - Human Encyclopaedia Tim Sir, Romantic Sam, Charming Ivan, Cool Bell, etc. Since FH3 will be a completely different storyline from its prequel, I expected to see something different from what FH1/2 offered, but to my disappointment, many of the characters were either too similar to the prequel, lacking in depth, or the choice of actor was not suitable for the role at all.

Though Pro Sir is the main character in FH3, his character disappointed me the most. His personality, professionalism, and even facial expression was an exact replica of Tim Sir! I understand that the choice of personality of a Head Forensic Chemist is quite limited, but I didn't expect it to be so similar to Tim Sir, so I was quite turned off when they called him Human Encyclopaedia too.

As for CID Chief Ada, I thought they picked the wrong actor for the role. Both Charmaine Sheh and Yoyo Mung had the career woman look (Possibly also due to their, erm, age.), but Kate Tsui looks a little too young and "weak" for the role of a CID Chief. She looks more like she'll get bullied by her team if they were made up of more experienced people. Perhaps a more suitable candidate for the role would be people like Jessica Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, or even Joyce Tang, who has the "professional" look of a career woman. Her character's personality was also pretty bland, like she's just the ordinary woman you find on the street, while Bell and Mdm Leung had their differences so that Bell will not end up being too similar to Mdm Leung when she made her first entrance in FH2. Mdm Leung was the give-all-out type of leader where she'll always take the first step in their operations, while Bell was the witty and cool type of CID Chief who specialise in interrogating criminals before heading for a well-planned operation. As for Ada? Plain. Nothing outstanding.

In FH1/2, the CID Team had more screenplay, and even the very minor characters have their own uniqueness, so you can really feel the dynamics between the team members. I can never stop laughing at Ah Sum and the stupid things he did with his colleagues. However, in FH3, the screen time was so pathetic that even Ada and Wind (Supposedly also the main characters of the series) was demoted to a mere celefare. Oh, what are the names of FH3's CID Team again? They are so insignificant I don't think I can even remember their faces.The CID Team is not made up of Ada and Wind only, so more screenplay should be given to even the minor characters and slightly develop them more to make the show more interesting.

However, I have to give credit to Maggie Cheung for her successful portrayal of the character Mandy, who also happened to be my favourite character in FH3. It could be due to the fact that Mandy was a very different Forensic Pathologist from Sam, so they had different backgrounds and very different personalities and you will tend to not compare the two of them since they already have their own uniqueness. If they had dedicated more effort in developing all the characters like Mandy's, I'm sure FH3 will garner their own group of FH3 die-hard fans. I also liked the Ken and Angel duo, because Ken was the more traditional Chinese guy and Angel the liberal Westernised woman. I didn't see a pairing like this in FH1/2, so the pairing definitely caught my attention.

Forensic Heroes I/II: ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☺☺ (8 Stars)

Forensic Heroes III: ☻☻☻☻☺☺☺☺☺☺(4 Stars)

2. Plot

A) Crime Case

I think The Mentalist is the ideal type of police procedural that I like, because you'll never know who the murderer is until right at the very end, yet throughout the show, they dropped a few hints here and there for you to guess who the murderer is. I'm watching forth season of The Mentalist now, but my guess-the-murderer skills for the show is still as bad. When I first watched FH1/2, the series gave me the same feelings too, except for a few cases where it wasn't that great when they tried to force the impossible to become the possible. But after every case, I'll think about it again and say "Why didn't I think of that!".

The cases in FH3 was a huge, huge disappointment. It has been 3 years since FH1/2 ended, so I expected more intelligent and complex cases from FH3, yet it proved to be spending too much screenplay on developing Pro Sir's boring love story than do proper research for real solid cases. After all, the series is a police procedural, so each case must be captivating enough to get the audience involved in the drama, don't you agree? Frankly speaking, the cases in FH3 were too simple and I could easily guess who the murderer was before they revealed it. I've also noticed that FH1 and FH2 started off with a huge bang because their first cases were very very complicated and interesting. Remember in FH1 it was the murder of the Tam family for their diamonds, and the murderer was unexpectedly, their son who was gravely injured, while in FH2, they intelligently merged two cases that looks like they have nothing in common into one big case, which allowed the Narcotics Bureau with Bell to participate in the case. The first case in FH3 was pretty boring, with the only WOW factor being the improved technology used by the forensics especially for the gunshot simulation lasers or something. It's either I've become smarter in guessing the murderer, or the scriptwriter did not do his homework.

B) Love Story

In FH1/2, they had their usual triangle love storyline (Sam-Bell-Ivan), but the supporters for both sides were quite equal and both the male leads are quite competitive hahaha! (If only this happened to me in real life...tsk.) Anyway, they continued with that triangle love for Eva-Pro Sir-Mandy in FH3, but it was kinda boring cos I think everyone supported the Pro Sir-Mandy pair and nobody really likes Eva. For the Ivan-Bell love story, Ivan's romantic gestures really makes you go "Awwwww...." and fulfill your fantasies about all the romantic things that could ever happen to you if you met someone as perfect as him. (Maybe because I'm someone who likes really really romantic guys, so when I see such scenes in dramas I'll love it!) Perhaps Pro Sir and Mandy belonged to the "higher age group" couple so seeing an old couple getting all mushy will be quite disgusting to watch hahaha! I liked the hospital scene where they got together though! Very mature indeed.

Ada and Wind were the first couple to get together, so by right, they had ample opportunities to recreate another Ivan-Bell love story. But like I said previously, the pair had so little screen time that the only dating scenes I remember about them was how they got together at the rooftop, how Wind wanted to buy a car and start a family after meeting Ada, and how the pair always gets sandwiched between their bickering moms. But overall, the pair was more romantic than the Pro Sir-Mandy pair since they are younger. I thought it would be better if they went deeper into discussing the problems met in a relationship if the girl has a higher job ranking than the guy, something relevant to the society today.

And moving on to my favourite couple Ken and Angel! I feel that they are the pair with the most potential, yet receives the least screen time for further developments. They only got together in Episode 28 out of 30 episodes, though I've enjoyed their bickering throughout the series. Since they are the "Traditional vs Liberal", "Eastern vs Western" couple, they could have looked further into the conflicts between the two if they decides to get married or something, like how the Westernised Angel might want a simple wedding while Ken opts for a traditional Chinese wedding. I feel that since dramas are supposed to be reflection of our lives, it would be better if they could discuss about some of the issues relevant to the modern world which the audience could reflect on.

C) Finale

Similar in FH1/2/3, all three series ended with an exciting case that involved the kidnap of the main characters by some psychopath and an action-packed episode with the CID and Forensics racing against time to rescue their friends. I've mentioned to Trixy before that 2011 is TVB's Year of Tragedy. Out of every 10 TVB series I've watched, 9 of them will end up with a tragic ending. Like in Kevin Cheng and Yoyo Mung's Only You (只有您) where a couple dies of an accident in the most unexpected times, Angel died of a gunshot in the finale, quite to my surprise. TVB kept emphasizing on how "We should treasure the people around us while they are still alive" by making almost all 2011 series end up in a tragic way, but I think they should only do this for a few selected dramas, not most of them. I was quite disturbed by Angel's sudden death, but it lasted only a while because when I thought about it again, I should have expected an ending like this since I've already seen the trend in 2011 TVB series. Let's hope that this trend stops for the future TVB dramas I'll be watching after my As.

Forensic Heroes I/II: ☻☻☻☻☻☻☺☺☺☺ (6 Stars)

Forensic Heroes III: ☻☻☻☺☺☺☺☺☺☺(3 Stars)

3. ??! Factor

Like any drama, the Forensic Heroes series is not perfect, because they also have their loopholes and flaws in the series. In FH2, the Forensics Team managed to enlarge a video taken 15 years ago right to the smallest detail, which was quite unbelievable. In FH3, there seems to be this glaring discrepancy with the characters' ages throughout the show.

According to the TVB website, it states that Mandy's age is 32 years old, but when the drama talked about Mandy's tragic childhood when she lost both her parents while she was 5 years old in a murder that happened 30 years ago, I couldn't help but think, "Doesn't that make Mandy 35 years old this year?" No matter how I calculate, I couldn't get the ages right. If Mandy is 32-35 years old this year, her grandfather would be at least 80 years old by now. But watch the drama and you'll see that Mandy's grandfather seems to be very close to Pro Sir's father, and they look roughly the same age. This also means that Mandy's grandfather is roughly the same age as Pro Sir's daughter's grandfather?! And not to mention, Mandy married Pro Sir in the final episode, which makes her... Pro Sir's daughter's mother. What??! This whole messed-up generation thing is making me confused. Maybe I too particular about details like this, after all, it is hard to write perfect scripts.

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Overall, I think that the series is suitable for people who are not particular about serious crime-solving and is simply looking for a random series to watch. However, I have my reservations about die-hard Forensic Heroes Series fans like me liking the new sequel. Looks like I still prefer a continuation of FH1/2 instead of starting a brand new storyline yet retain the name Forensic Heroes III to attract fans from the previous two prequels.

Wow, I took 3.5 hours to type this whole blog post when I actually stated in front that I have nothing to blog about today, hahahaha! Hope that my readers will not be turned off by the lengthy post and specific topic of discussion, because I really spent time evaluating my all-time favourite TVB dramas to provide my personal point of view.

If you share a different opinion from mine, feel free to leave a message and tell me why!

P.S. Moose, if you are reading this, here's the reason why I preferred FH1/2 as compared to FH3! Watch the whole of FH3 and you'll know it!

Surprise, Surprise!

2011-11-20T00:02:00.001+08:00

Wah, I've always thought that my blog has only 3 readers, Mel T, Trixy, and me, but I'm so surprised to know that Vivien reads my blog too! Aiyo so paiseh she say on twitter about my duanyuqiao say until so loud somemore hahaha!

Anyway, did I ever say that 还珠格格 (HZGG) is the most addictive drama on earth? I mean the old one with 赵薇, 林心如, and 苏友朋, not the new one with the ugly-looking 紫薇 and 小燕子 with a mole that makes her look like a 媒婆 =.= Anyway I think I slept at like, 3am last night?! I actually went to bed at 1am, but I couldn't get to sleep so I started watching HZGG on my phone. Seriously, it's like ONE EPISODE AFTER ANOTHER, NON-STOP. I'm like giggling at 小燕子's crazy antics and oogling over 五阿哥's cuteness in the middle of the night. If my parents were awake they would have thought that I'm watching dirty videos or something. I think I've watched HZGG 3 times, and just this year alone, I watched it another 3 times! HZGG is the new nicotine I swear.

Oh, and not to mention, it's actually still my exam week. Watching HZGG without any guilt makes me feel so ashamed of myself :(

If TVB will hire me to help them type in the subtitles for their new dramas, I'm willing to fly all the way to Hong Kong to accept the job! Come on, it's like watching a new drama ahead of others, and you can fastforward or rewind as many times as you like! Once you're addicted to drama, you start dreaming of impossible things like meeting Prince Charming or having jobs like this. I'm not called AuntieSeah without a reason hahaha! I realised that aunties like to get hooked onto dramas, hallucinate about the good-looking guys in the show, and start complaining about how sad their lives are when their husbands are nowhere like those from the dramas. Like what I told Trixy before, the Perfect Guy Syndrome states that if you watch too many TVB dramas, you will sub-conscientiously have this picture of the ideal boyfriend/husband that you will like, which are the exact replicas of the male leads in dramas. Well, you know that's impossible in real life, so people suffering from this syndrome usually end up being nuns after losing hope in guys hahahaha! They can buy a big house and live together with all the other nuns, discussing about dramas everyday.

In the evening, it was the SEA Games again! This time round, they were showing Singapore's female badminton gold medal match against Indonesia. From what I know, Indonesians have always pride themselves in badminton. It's a bit like how Singaporeans are crazy over soccer, just that at least the Indonesian badminton players are known internationally unlike errr, the Lions? It was seriously one of the most exciting match I've watched! Fu Mingtian (What a promising name!) had everything against her - Playing against an Indonesian player who's ranking is higher than her and had the home ground and audience to her advantage, but she displayed true courage, sportsmanship, and perseverance to finally clinch the gold medal home with an outstanding win in the final two games. Openly disgracing the Indonesians by winning the gold medal on their home ground in their national sport was nothing but SHIOK!

When Yahoo! News reported her win, many were disgusted at the fact that she's born in China, she's a foreign talent, they are not proud of her gold medal, etc. I beg to differ from their views. My close friends would have known my criticism of China and the disgusting habits they have brought to Singapore, but in my opinion, I think China-bought sports talents are way different from the foreign talents you know of out there. They should be respected, not jeered at. Why?

1. They left their families and gave up their nationalities to come and represent Singapore. Did the China woman selling you your bubble tea gave up her China passport too? I don't think everyone is able to do the same. Fu Mingtian was tearing when the national anthem was sound. She may not know how to sing it, but I believe she'll be able to sing it loud and clear in the same event 4 years later, during the 2015 Singapore SEA Games.

2. The China-born air-con repairman took away your jobs, but did China-born athletes took away your gold medals too? Those foreign talents earned their money in Singapore and sent it back to their China homes, causing the outflow of our money, but I don't think China-born athlete did that too. Surely you can argue that they are after the bonus monetary reward for bringing home medals, but are you sure you are willing to give up your studies and train everyday from 5am-9pm? Trainings are physically and mentally grueling. You work overtime also got money, but they train overtime no money hor. And that doesn't guarantee them a medal too. If they unfortunately under-performed, they are replaced by another countrymen of theirs sooner than you think.

3. If I've given up my nationality to win a gold medal for Singapore, yet gets lambasted verbally by ungrateful Singaporeans for being unhappy at my China name, accent, and face, I would have called it quit. Singaporeans usually post pictures on STOMP about disgusting China immigrants who cut their toenails on the MRT or perform other socially-unacceptable antics of theirs in public, but are China-bought athletes like that too? I bet they are so busy with training, they don't even have time for that. I've never heard of the name Fu Mingtian before the SEA Games, and that shows how low-profile they are. I really cannot believe how can any Singaporean said that they do not feel proud of her achievements at all because "she is a Cheena". Your great-grandparents were from China too, that's a fact that I do not like to, but have to admit it. I study Chinese Literature, and you can imagine how harsh my criticisms are of China, yet I have nothing but respect for China-bought athletes like them. Sure, I do feel happier when they are true blue Singaporeans, but I'm proud of Team Singapore regardless of whether they can sing our national anthem or not.

In fact, I despise the Indonesian audience more. Cheering for their Indonesian athletes and jeering at athletes from other countries is not the best way to show how "cultured" your country is. Like what a netizen mentioned, when Singapore plays against your country, you jeered at us when the results were announced and made fun of our national anthem during the award ceremony, but when your people gets drowned by tsunamis or buried by landslides, we are always the first few to send our rescue team. Reflect on that please.

Oh well, this was supposed to be a short and happy post on how happy I felt with Singapore's first badminton gold from SEA Games, but I couldn't help sharing some of my views when I saw the insensitive remarks by Singaporeans while searching for Fu Mingtian's pictures. You may not agree with me, but I think we should thank them for helping to realise our Singapore dreams in the international sports arena.

Way to go, Fu Mingtian!

Soup Dumplings

2011-11-17T22:54:00.001+08:00

Yet another tiring day today! Guess I can finally chuck my Physical Geog notes aside and get started on my final two papers.

While we were gathering outside the examination room waiting to go in for our paper, I saw this school attendant carrying a plastic container with what looks like white-coloured balls (?), washing them by the tap. Curious, I asked Xuanzhen to help me see what those things were. She totally gave me the roll-eye look and said "She's washing towels lah!", like those hotel towels where they rolled them up neatly. It didn't look like towels to me, so I told her "What? I think she's washing bao (Chinese steamed buns)! Towel where got look like that one!", and we dragged Sinwoon to verify the identity of the mysterious white balls. Sinwoon screamed in her usual high-pitched voice,

"Aiya! Xiao long gou bao lah!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA TOTALLY COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING!

For those who didn't get the joke, the school attendant was washing the mysterious item at the water taps by the side of the drains. Xiao long bao (小籠包) refers to Chinese soup dumplings, those you see in Chinese dim sum restaurants. Xiao long gou (小壟溝) in Chinese means small drain, and when put together, it just means Chinese soup dumplings containing drainage water.

Can't believe that we'll be starting Geog in 5 minutes or so and we still had the mood to laugh so hard. Well, at least it was a good laugh before our most dreaded paper!

So after the paper, Sinwoon, Yihan, Syairah, Samuel and I went home on the MRT together, and we decided to go for lunch and reward ourselves for surviving Week 2 out of the 3 hell weeks of A Levels. Being ~~ultimate aunties~~ typical Singaporean students, we had our lunch at Pizza Hut @ Lot 1 because of the Students' Meal!

Samuel was really happy with the free flow of Coke, but I opted for iced-water instead since I cannot drink carbonated drinks. While chatting, Sinwoon made herself the joke of the town again by saying "Yay! Go home can touch my bed already!", but Samuel and I gave her the WTH?!?!?!?! look cos we thought we heard her saying "Yay! Go home can touch my maid already!" HAHAHAHA! Sorry, bad hearing :P

When I got home, I was already so tired from all the laughing, eating and exam rushing with just 4 hours of sleep on the previous night, and the sofa became my ~~maid~~ bed for more than 4 hours I think! Evening was the usual broadcast of SEA Games for entertainment. Today marks the end of the swimming events and I think the Singapore Swimming Team have really done us proud! It was a joy watching them swim. Money should be pumped into nurturing home-grown Singaporean talents like them instead of merely importing talents over as the only way to win medals. Oh well, I guess talents are hard to find in tiny Singapore.

The Swimming Heroes!

Oh, and since we're on the topic of swimming, I can't help but want to share some really funny swimming fail photos:

#Off-topic: Did I mention that I forgot to take my Chess hoodie with me after the exam for the second time and my friend had to help me pick it up again!! My memory is seriously failing me.

Can't Buy Me Love & Happiness

2011-11-17T02:14:00.001+08:00

I know I should be asleep by now so that I won't feel tired for tomorrow's Geog, but I really felt like blogging about some of my thoughts today.

Today's Econs Paper 1 was rather okay, I feel, just that there wasn't any question on Market Structure, hence the school's effort at drilling us Market Structure case studies is kind of useless and a waste of time. I have reservations about the final results though, since I've never been seeing results for Econs anyway. I guess the only subjects that I can get B or higher will be GP and CLL, hope that they really won't disappoint me.

At night, my sister and I went to the dining room to study, and so my mom came over to talk to us. I seriously think that I have the best parents on earth. They have never given me pressure for my studies and give me the absolute freedom to do what I want actually. For those who thinks that I don't stay out late because I have a curfew, you're wrong. I just didn't want them to worry about my safety and I enjoy having dinner together with them.

Anyway, my mom was telling me to take it easy, A Level is not everything, and even if I am unhappy with my final results, she is totally supportive of me taking it again. I know that I've become lazier in JC, and my mom knows that I wasn't at my fullest potential too, but she didn't say anything. She merely ask me to do my best and be a good role model for my sister. Frankly speaking, I think that even my sister is more hardworking than me. Like what my mom says, I have the intelligence, but I am too lazy. My sister may not be as intelligent, but with her hard work, she will one day climb higher than me, who is still depending on pure luck and the mentality to "just do ok-ok" will do.

They show their concerns through other ways, like talking about random stuff for a long time though I have a Geog paper to study for tomorrow. No, they don't mean to disturb me, they are there to tell me that everything is fine and they will accept whatever results that I've scored. No amount of money can buy me family bliss like this, but I am willing to buy my family love with my time and heart.

So, mom and dad, sorry if I don't do well tomorrow. I'm supposed to be able to ace it, but I really don't have the confidence. Just let me be a not-so-highly-educated person so that I have more time for you two and will not be so career-minded. Not an excuse for my potentially disastrous results, but true words from the bottom of my heart.

And to my sister: All the best!

Secret Chat

2011-11-15T19:39:00.001+08:00

Today has been a really tiring day. Mel T messaged me telling me that she's feeling very stressed so in the end we chatted all night. Hahaha like seriously late into the night kind. I just find it funny how we weren't that close before, while we were still in the same HCL class, but I guess once the bond is there, it doesn't matter when you start to really know each other. As long as we have each other for support and encouragement, that's enough for me :)

We chatted about everything under the sun, and shared a lot of secrets hahahaha! Shhh... We got so high from discussing about our post-As plans that we typed EVERYTHING IN CAPS HAHAHAHA! I finally found people to go for the Titanic exhibition with me!!

So at around 10am in the morning, Mel T SMSed me to wake up, but I only replied her when I finally decided to wake up at 12 noon :P Hahaha paiseh I was really too tired!

In the afternoon, I heard my grandparents talking bad about someone but they never mention names, so I asked who they were talking about and they said "YOU LAH!" Aiyo embarrassed max. Anyway they said that I shouldn't be so rude to the relative I dislike, so I tried evaluating to them my reasons for disliking them, and in the end we all started talking bad about the relative, like "Yahor! That time he thisthisthis....!!" So proud of myself that I finally exposed their evil doings! Wah they piss me off another time and that's it man, don't ever expect me to acknowledge him as someone I know.

Sigh, it's Econs tomorrow, and I don't have confidence for it :( I think our PD tutor has high expectations of us, but our class disappointed her again and again (Especially me lah shitshit).

Omg my study room is like a war zone now, and I even occupied our dining table to place my files. Mom and Dad is not very pleased with that oh-oh! Better go back to studying!

P.S. Damn, my Facebook post has 202 shares as of 12 noon today, which means that I now owe her lunch :(

The Lame Bet

2011-11-14T23:17:00.001+08:00

Firstly,

ALL THE BEST TO XIMIAN, XIFAN, TRIXY & MINGXUAN

for their China Studies A Level tomorrow! They are the only ones I know who are taking China Studies hahaha! Brave move! Let's China together~

You know, the thing I dread most about international examinations is that it spans over a few weeks, and my heart is itching for it to end as soon as possible. I'll rather all my papers to be held everyday, like in Week 1 for Maths, General Paper, Chinese Literature, etc. At least there are no breaks (like 3 or 4 days) in between that provides the slightest opportunity for my lazy bugs to multiply and take over my body. So frankly speaking, these few days have been pretty unproductive. And to think that I have my H2 Econs and H2 Geog papers on Wednesday and Thursday. Huiyan you better start mugging hard!

I guess a number of my friends haven't heard that I've joined Nanyang YEC! YEC refers to Youth Executive Club, a youth branch in the People's Association for youths who like to engage in community services. Oh, and Mr Yam Ah Mee is our boss HAHAHA! I know it's so not me, but I think it's a good way for me to go out more often, engage in more meaningful activities, and get to know more youths in my area! I'm feeling quite sad that I'm unable to join the recent meetings due to A Levels (What a pain in the neck), so my team members have to communicate with me through email. As part of the Welfare Committee (And Secretary of Children's Programme), we are supposed to think of ways to keep YEC bonded, and I suggested flash mobbing! I guess this idea isn't that popular yet in Singapore since many are afraid of legal issues, but I shall think of a way to make it "more legal" and appropriate for us to participate! And did I mention that YEC has really nice people? Really hope that I can get a chance to know some of them even better! :)))

Anyway, my sister told me about their assembly today. Ms Leong (Our principal) was talking to the JC1s about their Promo results and she suddenly flashed a picture:

Pure hilarious hahahaha! From what I know, this troll picture was made by some NYJC student which began to spread on Facebook the night after Maths Paper 1. People were comparing the paper's difficulty to that of AJ's, since we are notorious for setting ridiculously hard Maths papers. And so Ms Leong was telling the JC1s "If you think that our Maths papers are difficult, the A Level is even worse." or something along that line. We just got trolled hahahaha!

And so being greatly amused by this, I uploaded the picture onto my Facebook, which, according to my friends, "went viral". Actually not that famous also lah hahaha! I didn't believe that a lame picture like this would get 200 Shares, so at the 150 Shares mark, I bet with my sister that the post will not receive more than 200 Shares, or I'll have to treat her to lunch. Hmm let's just hope that she loses the bet! But it was a good laugh for everyone on Facebook anyway hehehe :)

I seriously think that the A Level is a highly inappropriate time for the SEA Games in Indonesia. Channel 5 has been broadcasting the live coverage of the games, which made me stay glued to the TV cheering for our swimming team. What a distraction. Nontheless, I am extremely proud of our native swimmers! No wonder Singapore's icon is a Merlion, they are truly the lions in the water!

Okay, my mom is now in my room, playing with those prank toys like magic disappearing ink, pens that give off electrical shocks, etc. And I think she just got cheated of her money cos the toys can't work. Grr...

M18 - Viewer's Discretion Adviced

2011-11-14T01:46:00.001+08:00

FOR MY JUJU (TRIXY!!):

Seen Law 霸 before?? Let you see it once and for all! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

係唔係好 Sweet 啊? <3

#Sorry if the above picture is disturbing, my dear Trixy loves to see such photos.

Rainy Afternoon, Lazy Afternoon

2011-11-13T18:18:00.001+08:00

My first posting through my phone's Blogger app!

I can't believe how insignificant my alarm clocks are since school break. I can set 3 alarms, and still refuse to wake up! I guess nobody likes to come back to reality huh. Believe me, once the As are over, I am becoming a full-time sleeping pig.

The weather has been really unpredictable these few days, with occasional storms that threaten to sink Singapore like the next Atlantis. And as usual, cool rainy afternoons make really great napping times! I guess lazy bugs prefer the rain.

Well I'm supposed to look up on the internet for my Econs and Geog case studies, but I ended up reading Trixy's blog -.- Really missed those times when we'll watch HK dramas together (By clicking on the Play button on our players at the exact same time and chatting wildly through MSN by the side.) I know that the A Levels will end in 12 days' time, but you will still get the occasional urges to relax.

Oh well, I better hit the books after dinner or I can wait to see straight Ds or Es on my A Level certificate next year. I haven't passed Econs for a long time this year, and although I am able to understand the relevant Economic concepts, I am unable to translate them into results. Sigh, to think my teacher actually said that I have the potential to take H3 Econs in J1.

My parents gave me absolute freedom to take charge of my own studies, and no matter how badly I scored, they don't pressurize me to do well. THAT itself is quite pressurizing, so sometimes I wish they could scold me for not stretching my potential, because I know it myself that I'm not putting in my best.

And if that irritating cousin of mine scores exceptionally well for his As this time round (Which is highly possible), I would be conceding defeat to my bastard uncle. Damn.

P.S. My left ankle still hurts at times, especially during cold weather. Please don't tell me that I have rheumatism at this young age. I still want to run around and engage in physical activities. It has been over a month since I twisted it, and it's still not fully recovering. Anyone has any suggestions for me to hasten the recovery process? I've never done anything more than walking for more than a month. Yes, not even jumping or running to catch the bus.

Brand New Look

2011-11-13T01:43:00.001+08:00

After days of consideration, I've finally decided to come back and revive my blog! I know that I've lost all my previous readers with my long hiatus, but it always feels good to start something afresh isn't it :) Gave my blog a brand new look with a simpler and cleaner template, and most importantly, this template is called Awesome Inc! What an apt description of me hehehe. I have my reasons for coming back actually:

1. Amnesia
I looked back at some of my older blog posts, especially those from 2006-2009, and I started to remember all the happy times I had back then. Blogging become obsolete in around 2009, when I created Facebook, and I thought that I'll rather share with everyone snippets of my daily life through updating my status than to post lengthy blog posts. What a big mistake I've made! Frequent blogging keeps a record of my daily life, be it happy or unhappy ones. Come to think of it, I've forgotten approximately 80% of my school life in AJ, mainly due to the fact that I didn't even bother blogging about them. What a shame though, they could have been such interesting blog posts on my blog. I hope that when I'm in my 20s, 30s, 40s, or even 50s, I can still read about my past blog posts and laugh at all the stupid things I've done when I'm young.

2. Reflection
The best thing about blogging other than keep a track record of my own "achievements" is to learn from my past actions. I spent quite some time reading my past blog posts, and I realised that I've learnt so much just by reviewing my life. I've learnt that my temper was a lot better back then. I'm so cranky now I feel like some auntie undergoing menopause at times. I've learnt how much I missed my Crescent friends. They made up an important part of my past memories, and I hope that in my future blog posts, my AJ friends can be part of my life journey too. At least I'll know who's nice and who's not, hahaha! I've learnt that my life recently is nothing but a Shakespeare tragedy. Frankly speaking, my life is so lacking in fun and surprises. Since I'm back to blogging, I shall make it a point to participate in events that will spice up my life and make my blog more interesting. Well, you can also say that it will be the start of a change for me! (Hinting that I might go out more often in the future, book me early!) Nothing is more no-life and boring than having to blog about the computer games I've played, or the HK dramas that I've watched, so stay tuned for more action! (I hope!)

3. Advancement
Another main reason why I'm more willing to diligently record down my daily activities is because I'm more high-tech now! (Although I've always been very techno please.) I just downloaded this Blogger app on my phone, and since it has made blogging much simpler, I shall blog-on-the-go! I'm amazed at how much Blogger has transformed to while I'm away all these while. They've added some really cool animated blog templates, and even provides a mobile view for surfing on smartphones, how cool! Oh, and there's a reason why my blog is in black now. If you tend to suffer from insomnia during lonely nights, reading my blog will not be so glaring to the eye since it's in night mode! Please say that I'm very considerate and attentive thank you :)

Wow, I've only planned to post a short post to announce my come back, but it seems that I'm too used to writing lengthy posts opps! You can always feedback to me if you'll like to see shorter or longer posts alright! Oh by the way, that Cbox tagboard is so obiang and OUT!! I shall switch to using a COMMENT button at the bottom of every post for a neater look :) Goodnight folks, need to get up early in the morning and start studying for Econs on Wednesday.

Hang in there everyone! We're very close to FREEDOM!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

2010-06-15T23:39:00.002+08:00

The difference between a man and a woman.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

2010-03-28T18:35:00.004+08:00

Wow almost a month since I last posted on this dead blog. I shall make an attempt to revive it :)

This week has been a rather hectic one, with lots of work piling up and not to mention, the stupid GP project about Politics. I agree that Politics is a really cool and interesting topic, but its kinda hard to make a presentation about it. You know, its quite of a sensitive issue and you really have to watch what you are saying or else people will think that you are trying to be anti-government. Ah well. Old gum-chewing witch made me carry my tablet to school for three consecutive days without really using it. Okay, at least my tablet came in useful when our class has free periods, so we would have movie marathons wahahaha! We finished watching the first half of Percy Jackson and it seems that our class enjoyed the movies alot. As long as the class is happy, I'm happy, really. This is a great opportunity for the class to bond together! The class can be one huge clique and I really liked this feeling. I've heard that other classes have split up into different groups and cliques already, so I'm glad that my class is still quite bonded :)

Had my FIRST Sports Day in Anderson and it was a BLASTTTTTTTTTT. Our school's house system is such that the whole class will be in the same house together, so its quite cool. Our class has decided to get into the Sports Day mood by bringing face paint to paint our arms. Most of us painted PANTHER (Our house name) and ♥ 34 (Which is my class). We were like the only ones in the whole school who painted our arms. Our class managed to get into the finals for the 8X50m run, but sadly we didn't win anything in the end cos we dropped the baton twice :( I remember overtaking the class beside me and becoming like 2nd or 3rd okay. Oh well, nevermind, at least all of us had fun :)

Some photos my friend took during Sports Day!

Everyone was very high especially me, hahahaha!

See the nice painting on our arms!

We have 3 missing people in this photo, but it's still a nice class photo anyway :)

Saturday, March 6, 2010

2010-03-06T15:25:00.003+08:00

Changed a new picture for my blog since I've used the previous one for a long long time, hahaha!

I shall disclose the decisions I've made recently on this blog that nobody ever comes.

I've decided to sign up for the National Youth Achievement Award (NYAA) Silver since it was made compulsory by our school. As for the CIP component of this award, I've long decided what to do for it.

Just a few weeks ago I went back to my primary school to meet my teachers, and was also hoping to get a chance to meet the new principal of the school to discuss my new decision with her. I told her that I wanted to be a teacher helper/tutor in this school for this award. Much to my surprise the principal agreed readily, but told me to write a detailed proposal for her to look through. She says that this "attachment" is on own-time-own-target. At that point in time, I haven't received my permanent timetable, so I told her that I'll present the proposal to her once I've gotten everything ready.

My teacher has also agreed to help me with this, which means that I'll be her helper for a period of 6 months. Although teaching might be a possible future career path for me, I'm still trying to get myself exposed to more choices and paths so that I can have a clearer picture of my future. This is one great opportunity to give me a feel of how its like to be a teacher, the commitment and patience you need for this job.

Frankly speaking, I don't care much about the CIP hours I can gain from this "attachment". I hope to make use of this chance to improve on my communication and presentation skills that will come in handy for my Project Work later this year. Most importantly, I get to help the weaker students improve on their studies. From what my teacher has told me, these weaker students are usually the ones from low-income families and their parents simply do not have the extra cash for them to attend tuition classes. This free tutoring I'm going to give them in school would be of a great help to them, and to me, it feels really great being able to participate in such a meaningful activity.

Other than tutoring the weaker students, I will also get to sit in for my teacher's lessons at the back of the class, sort of like a teacher helper. I can observe how she handles a class of 40 Primary 2 students and make them listen to her quietly. I can assure you, getting the attention of 40 Primary 2 kids is way difficult than handling a class of 15 JC1s (The current population of my class).

I haven't prepared my proposal yet, but I'll need to submit this proposal to the principal next Thursday. Gosh I don't know how to write a proposal! Can't wait to start on this "attachment", but I still need to get my proposal ready first! Hopefully, everything will work out well :)

Returning to my Primary School reminds me of the days when I was in the same school as my sister. Will I get this chance to be in the same school as my sister again next year? Only time will tell, but I'll keep my fingers crossed for this.
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The A' Level results were out yesterday, and it appeared in the newspapers today. I'm quite confused over the table of top scorers of every school in the newspapers. My school has 7 subjects 7 As as our top scorer, which is a really good score, so no surprise that his/her name appeared on the newspapers. Now why is it that some schools has like 7 subjects 5 As, yet the student's name is still classified under the same table? Maybe I'm not used to the new A' Levels score calculation system, so I shall not make too much comment about this issue, hahaha!

P.S. For the 7 subjects 5As, I wasn't referring to any school in particular, it was just an example.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

2010-02-20T20:04:00.003+08:00

THE LIGHT BULB THEORY ABOUT SINGAPORE JCs
So choose your JC wisely!

Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.

Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.

Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.

Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.

Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’re too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.

Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They’ll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.

Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they’re able to change it for ACJC?)

Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They’ll prefer it to be darker. (:

Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.

Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?

Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.

Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.

Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?

Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let’s do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.

Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.

Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They’ll find ways out of the dark.

Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.

Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.

Adapted from: http://walkyourtalk.tumblr.com/

Saturday, February 13, 2010

2010-02-13T14:26:00.003+08:00

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!

Yesterday's CNY celebration was such a bore. Wanted to type out some of my feelings but decided not to just in case the school checks on my blog and send me to the Principal's Office for publishing racist comments on personal blogs although that wasn't my real intention. Anyway, boring CNY celebration was bad enough, the late dismissal time made it worse. AJ is super super far away from Crescent and I had to take one whole round on the MRT with Lisa just to get to Crescent. Luckily Ariel was waiting for my in Crescent to have lunch together at Orchard!

I reached Crescent at around 2.05pm and by then, all the teachers were gone. Big disappointment and regret, since I wanted to visit some of my teachers. Actually, I was a bit reluctant to go back to Crescent in my AJ uniform, because I have this feeling that everyone thinks that AJ is a very lousy school and AC is a lot better. Oh well, this is not the first time I'm hearing this anyway, one day I will prove to them that students from AJ can do well too!

When I saw Ariel in the canteen, the first thought that came to me was "OMG when did my wife become an Indian princess or something!" She was very very tanned and I kept laughing at her saying that she go chao da herself hahaha! Her beige-white uniform made her look even darker, but the ultimate chao da person was Christabel HAHAHA. We then took 132 to Orchard together with Nicole, Lisa, Aloycia, Trixy and gang. We planned to meet Wanmin at Taka I think, but when we reached Taka, Wanmin had walked to Ion to find us. She then said that we took too long and cancelled our meeting.

Ariel, Christabel and I walked to Taka Yoshinoya to find Peiqi to have lunch together. On the way, Ariel and I kept chanting "AC Sucks!" to piss Christabel off hahaha! Both of us didn't like AC anyway, but no offense to AC people, I have lots of very good friends in AC too :) Peiqi wanted to eat Sakae Sushi but it was nowhere near us, so Ariel suggested Tampopo which is right behind us. I remembered my mom saying that the food was cheap and nice... But I guess I made a mistake as she was referring to the other restaurant just BESIDE Tampopo.

Tampopo was freaking expensive I'm broke now. Peiqi kept blaming me for bringing her to this expensive restaurant HAHAHA. Eh we had to pay too okay, but at least the food was nice. When we saw the menu prices we got a shock and decided to get out of the restaurant secretly. I suggested for us to leave the restaurant to go to the washroom one by one so that we will not look so suspicious HAHA. Peiqi's idea was the bomb.

Peiqi: Excuse me~~ (Waves at waitress)

Waitress: Yes, may I help you?

Peiqi: Is the food here halal?

(Waitress rolls eyes and flipped the menu over, showing the picture of a pig)

Peiqi: Okay sorry, guys lets leave now, the food is not halal.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Of course we didn't do that lah, but it was so hilarious. The lunch was really fun and funny, haven't had that feeling for a long time already. It feels good to meet up with your friends again and reminscise about the fun times we used to have together. Wanmin came to look for us for a short while and the three of us (Ariel, Wanmin and I) started chanting "AC Sucks" again to spite Christabel, Peiqi, and I-Forgot-Her-Name-I'm-So-Sorry.

Ariel, Peiqi and Christabel then brought me to Orchard MRT to meet Minyee and Sheena. We saw Moose, Munyee, Diane, Lisa, Nicole and gang! Omg it was such a huge surprise and everyone was really really happy. Luckily we took a big group photo together! I can't express how much I had missed everyone. Though we might be in different schools, singing different school songs and wearing different school uniforms, our hearts will forever be with each other, singing the Crescent school song in the Crescent uniform that we are most proud of.

The day when we must part,
May Crescent remain in our hearts.

# Damn! I didn't get to meet Chermaine!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

2010-01-30T12:48:00.003+08:00

Forgot to mention something. My sister is a genius! Wahahaha. She can play with Photoshop while I can't, so too bad she's better at this area than me :)

This was the original photo which one of the actors uploaded, showing the script of the show.
After a few clicks on Photoshop by my sister, you can actually see the last line of the script and also words from the previous page!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

2010-01-30T12:10:00.003+08:00

Didn't managed to get into NJC in the end. Can sense the disappointment in my family, since they all had thought that I could get in. Although I could appeal to get into NJ, but I think I'll just stay put in AJ. I mean, AJ isn't a really bad school right? Maybe not as branded, but at least the school environment and culture is more suitable for me compared to ACJC.

Attended Day 2 of the Orientation, and the school is still not so bad I would say. Day 1 was really quiet and nobody interacted with each other, except with their own schoolmates. During recess you can see big groups of students in the same uniform gathering together. Day 2 we had icebreakers and mass dance, which proved to be quite effective in getting people in the same Orientation Group to interact with each other, although remembering everyone's names is still a challenge for me. Hope that my choice to stay in AJ and my choice in choosing the subject combination that I want will be a wise choice instead of a crazy one like what others are saying.

This blog post is to remind myself to study really really hard in AJ, or I'll be letting my family, my teachers, everyone who cares about me, and myself down. Though disappointed that I did not get into the ideal JC that I wanted, my family was there for me, encouraging me that my school isn't that bad afterall. My grandfather accompanies me to the bus-stop every morning and will only leave when Lisa's dad comes to fetch me to school. My mother respected and supported my decision in choosing to go to the Arts stream, commenting that Arts stream is not as easy and lousy as it sounds, and she has high hopes for me that I can excel in them. My sister is now very motivated and wants to score well for her O Levels this year so that she can also enter AJ next year, which I feel is a very very good and achievable goal. I admit that I studied hard to make my family proud of me, but I feel that there is nothing wrong with it. They hoped for a better future for me, and I hoped to bring glory to them. The luckiest thing that had happened to me was to get such an encouraging and supportive family.

Lots of pressure on me and on my uncertain future, but I must let all these pressure be a source of motivation for me to strive harder! Hope that in two years' time, my A Level results will impress my family and let them be proud of me.

Huiyan you must study hard!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

2010-01-17T22:54:00.003+08:00

穩定中求發展
發展中求成長
成長中求突破
突破後求...神明好了哈哈

By 曾沛慈 Pets Tseng

Yes, I want to 求神明 now hahaha! Waiting for the release of the school posting results. Hope hope hope that NJ will take me in! Apparently, my cousin topped his school and got interviewed, but we got the same score, just that I had Higher Chinese and I have 2 more bonus points than him, winning his score wahaha.

I wasn't really happy about my score at first, but seeing my parents so proud of me suddenly made me feel happy and proud of myself too. Proud that my family finally has someone who scores well. Proud that I didn't let my parents down. Proud that these 4 years, my parents haven't fetched me to school everyday for nothing. I guess sometimes you have to share your happiness with your family, then you will feel really blessed. My results might not be as good as the others, but seeing their happy faces, its really enough for me.

I must strive harder and hopefully 2 years later, something like this will happen again!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

2010-01-14T18:34:00.003+08:00

Yesterday's JC tour with my parents and Ariel was a blast! I'm really really proud of my parents, for being so nice and friendly to my friends haha! My dad was the bomb man, making Ariel laugh thoughout the whole day. I shall try to note down everything that has happened yesterday since it was so fun and memorable. Really thank my parents for being so supportive all along.

First we visited Saint Andrew's JC in the morning at around 9.30. Its too far from my house and not very convenient for me to go there. Actually I'm not very impressed by the school, but I guess everyone has different opinions. Ariel and I go there for fun one, since we didn't want to enter this school anyway :) So, SAJC is in this SA Village with their Primary and Secondary schools, so Ariel told my parents that its sort of a 三代同堂 (3 generations living under the same roof) school. When we reached the school, we had this tour guide bringing us around.

Dad (In a serious tone): I heard that your school is a 三代同堂 school?
Tour Guide: ......??

Omg it was really funny then, because my dad's tone was very serious and the guy was speechless hahaha! Ariel nearly rolled on the floor. Then the tour guide brought us through this route that looks like an underpass. Its quite dark and quiet there, and so my dad said in a damn sissy voice "Eeeeee, why so scary oneeeee." HAHAHAHA. Ariel laughed like crap and my mom said that my dad suddenly become very sissy HAHAHA! My dad is classic. We tried to pass time in SA until the Open House for Anderson JC starts.

When I reached AJ I tried to call Jas, but I couldn't reach her. Then Ariel and I saw a very familiar face staring at us. It was one of our tour guides from Nanyang JC when we went there for Media Camp 2 years back! Really a coincidence, but she was glad to see us and hear about our great results. Hope that everything's going well for her! We got 3 sucky tour guides who dumped us in the lecture hall showing their principal's speech and walked off. We then went to the hall to see some of their CCA displays and managed to get Jas to come meet me! It was quite scary, meeting Maple friends for the first time though we knew each other for like 3/4 years.

It was really nice of Jas to bring us around the school campus and tell us more about the life in AJ. Although everyone (including Ariel) says that AJ's school compound is lock-kok and very laoya-pok, I still think that its not bad. At least the school culture suits me. My mom was damn smart to tell Jas that she wants to visit the washroom, so that I can have time to hide in the toilet cubicle and write the cards for Jas and Cheryl as I've prepared presents for them to thank them for inviting me and bringing me around their school campus. Met Cheryl and some of her friends after her performance in the hall ended. Took a photo with Jas and handed her the gifts before heading for a rushed lunch at Ajisen.

Luckily, we managed to reach National JC in time before our tour with Jialing starts. My mom, Ariel and I listened very attentively to our tour guides throughout the whole tour. The school compound still not bad lah. They had alot of very high-tech Science equipments and a very good environment for studying. The only thing that I don't like might be the two big contruction works within the school compound? I'm still quite impressed with NJ though.

My dad never stops making people laugh. He said that he'll buy everyone a drink if they call him korkor (An affectionate name for brother) or Shuaige (Handsome guy). Hahahaha! Then Jialing and Ariel just kept calling him korkor and he bought everyone bubble tea at the school canteen. Hahahaha. Jialing was also very amused by my dad. I even asked our male tour guide to call my dad korkor so that he gets a free drink, which disgusted him HAHAHA. But we bought him the drink anyway. My stupid mom went to comment that the male tour guide and I look like a couple because both of us were wearing red. Stupid can, make the atmosphere so weird and embarrassing.

Heheh, then we visited Anglo-Chinese JC and saw lots of Crescentians there, including our juniors who went there after school. My parents had wanted me to go AC since its situated quite near to my sister's school. I called Minyee and we tried to find each other, only to realise that we were just beside each other, with my mom in between us HAHAHA. Sheena thinks that we're such a joke. And so, Minyee and Sheena joined Ariel, my parents and I on a guided tour around ACJC! My dad says that the school compound looks like a hotel. I think it looks more like a holiday resort HAHA. So classy and nice can.

Throughout the tour, the tour guide, Minyee, Sheena and Ariel was very very very amused by my dad, which is no surprise for me HAHAHA. Sheena laughed like shit at many points in time. I must say that AC is a very very nice school with very nice facilities, but very small classrooms. I don't want small classrooms cos if I talk to my friends I'll be so loud that the teacher can hear me HAHAHA. Anyway after the tour my parents sent the 3 of them home, and we were quite quiet on the car cos everyone was very tired already hahaha!

Okay okay this post in long enough. NJ NJ please accept me!

P.S. Thank you Jialing, Jas, Cheryl, etc who offered to be my tour guide!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

2010-01-12T18:10:00.002+08:00

Finally its all over!

Now, I have to find a suitable school by Friday, which means there is very little time left! Going for a JC-Tour-Round-SG with Ariel and my parents tomorrow!

I've realised that with my points stuck between nowhere, its hard to choose a suitable school for me in this vicinity. The other schools are either too far away or the school's culture unsuitable for me. To make matters worse, my Sciences sucked. This is bad.

P.S. Looking at the happy and proud faces of your family members is really shiok! Glad that at least I didn't disappoint them. My sister's friends were awed by my score. Feel so proud suddenly hahaha!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

2010-01-10T17:48:00.002+08:00

Getting results tomorrow. What a disaster. If I can't win my stupid cousin in this I can really jump down the building. Hate that sucky uncle who thinks that his son is the best.

If you think that exams are scary, you are wrong.

Getting your O Level results after a long holiday is worse.

God bless.

Wednesday, December 6, 2010

2010-01-06T19:20:00.000+08:00

What?? What did you say??

O LEVEL RESULTS OUT NEXT MONDAY??

SHIT.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009-12-31T15:00:00.002+08:00

Last day of 2009 - Time to look back at what I've did this year.

Sec 4 O-Level Year, I've never expected it to be relaxing anyway. At least I wasn't struggling with my work like I did in Sec 3. I'm glad there there were friends and teachers around me and helped me along the way. This is why you should always have a hardworking gang of friends heheh. Had many new experiences in year 2009 that I want to list down.

Scoring distinctions for both Amath and Emath in major exams for the first time.
Must really thank Mrs Tan and Ms Ho for their superb teaching. Ever since P4's incident I've lost all hope in Maths. I've never expect that Maths would one day be one of my better subjects other than Chinese. I've finally achieved what others said - People who plays chess are good at Maths. Finally!

Sleeping at 2am and waking up at 6am for school the next day for two weeks.
I swear Post-Prelim was the worst period of time. Homework piling up and you have to complete them all within a short period of time. I really felt like dying. I don't see the point of making us sleep so late and giving us mass lectures while we're so tired. Nothing goes into our heads anyway. This stupid period of time changed my biological clock, making me sleep at 2am so often now.

New experiences. New environment. New friends.
Shall not talk too much about this, heheh. Graduation Assembly was a blast. I think this is really going to be one of the days I'll remember vividly in my life. As for new environment and new friends, it was after the O Levels when I had lots of time to have a new idol, heheh. But that doesn't mean that I've given up on my current one XD I watched Channel 8 last night! They came to SG just to film that show, hohoho.

Aiya suddenly forgot what I wanted to write. Will fill in if I can remember heheheh.
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Doctor: There is no use for you to start worrying now. Its not as if there is a prevention or cure for this.

Ahhhh. So you tell me, should I relax or start worrying about my future?

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

2009-12-15T14:54:00.002+08:00

Hello. I'm here to revive my blog!

-------Silence-------

Ahhh my readers are all gone. Too bad. Anyway, happened to meet this Crescent senior through the net. Come on man, so cool! I've decided to heed her advice and revive my blog.

Show starting. Will blog more tonight.

Wahahaha.

# Excuse me my blog is not for others to advertise/ sell their idol merchandise. I'm not interested in your whatever shit autographed albums. YOU THINK I DON'T HAVE IS IT.

No signature only =.=

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

2009-03-31T22:13:00.002+08:00

Urgh, I'm super disappointed with myself. Why was I so slow then. I just needed one more second and I could have won the RGS girl. I mean, its a kind of prestige to win them! I was playing a perfect game, zero mistakes, and I exploited both her mistakes, make good use of it, ended up in a very very good position.

For those who don't play chess, imagine this. You are playing in a basketball tournament, into the finals. You are some lousy shit team that managed to get into the finals and play with the best basketball team. You were only losing to them by a point, and on the last second, you threw your ball into the hoop, but it wasn't counted cos you ran out of time! If only you had one more second, your 2 points throw would have crowned you the champion!

I know, that feeling sucks. Especially if you're like me. I detest losing. Sounds like a loser, but I can only say that this makes me strive harder for my next game with the same person. That game hit me hard, really hard. I was under tremendous amount of stress then : Team captain, best player, the only player who's good enough to even have an equal game with them, my win/loss matters alot, my teammate sucks (except for Mingxuan), everyone including the arbiters (judges) and people from the governmental departments were looking at my game, etc.

I've cope with the stress other's gave me, but I think I'm falling under the stress that I'm giving myself.

2009-02-13T19:58:00.002+08:00

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Thank you very much.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

2009-02-08T21:54:00.002+08:00

Suddenly missed the NACLI days, where there were no homework. Rushing through my Chinese Newspaper Articles now, urgh!

Hope that when I'm 16, 61 or 160 years old, this record will still not be broken! Please do not send kindergarten kids to NACLI please.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

2009-01-18T18:07:00.003+08:00

It has been a looooong looooong time since I last posted, I know. People too busy lah!

Anyway, I'm posting now because I'm on TV!! Hahaha nothing special anyway, its for DV Campus hahaha.

Check this out!

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Other than that,

A1 FOR CHINESE!!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

2008-11-19T19:54:00.005+08:00

Wahahaha. I think I'm so in love with Hong Kong dramas. Now then I realise that I missed out so many good shows!

I've watched:

Forensic Heroes 1 (法证先锋)

Forensic Heroes 2 (法证先锋2)

Last One Standing (与敌同行)

Omg so nice please. And I found out something. Hong Kong actors' looks are so different from their actual age. Some of them, like 郑嘉颖, look so young, but in fact they are super old. I'm so glad I watched Forensic Heroes! Its a super nice show. You know, I thought I was clever enough, but I didn't expect the show to be smarter than me! Even though I know who the murderer was with the help of Wikipedia, I still cannot figure out how they can kill those victims. After watching this show, I think I got some crazy HK-Drama-Virus. Found out that its hard to find shows as nice as Forensic Heroes. Wahahahaha.

Okay. I need to find some cure. I'm leaving for Malaysia soon. Need to finish all my homework. Real fast. Arghhhhh!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

2008-11-06T20:45:00.003+08:00

3 Main reasons why I'm not blogging so frequently now:

1. Massa didn't win World Champ! I hate it when I see that idiot showing that face. He's so ugly luh! I tell you, he won't be so lucky again next year. Go Raikkonen and Massa! Who knows, I might even support Kubica for his fantastic blocking feat.

2. Just finished my O level Chinese. The paper wasn't too difficult I would say, and O levels isn't as scary as I thought it was. This is my first time leaving the hall earlier than the rest since I'm taking the Chinese paper! For paper 1 I mixed the names up, paper 2, I lost 4 marks. All is not lost.

3. Blogger is getting boring nowadays, I have nothing to blog about. Plus, I'm on gaming spreeeee. Just downloaded this game called Celebrity Restaurant in chinese. Its so cute! Your employees are all the famous celebrities and you see them running around cooking broth.

Anyway, I can say that school has officially ended for me. No more extra lessons, just lots and lots and lots of homework. I think the most exciting thing will be going off to Malaysia soon! Haven't gone back to visit my relatives for a long time (Supposed to visit them during Chinese New Year, but I got food poisoning =X)

See, I really have nothing to blog about.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

2008-10-16T19:46:00.003+08:00

Hello everyone, I know I haven't blogged for a long long time. Since everyone has gotten back their results, I shall show everyone my results!

Click on the image to enlarge it. Did you see it?! What good results, 1st position in class! My mom would be so proud of me.

Another 1st position in class. I must have been born a genius! Eh I just found out I'm actually quite tall, hahaha!

Actually I happened to find my Nursery and Kindergarten report books one day before the release of the End-Of-Year results. Was quite funny to see your teacher giving such good comments about you. The class photo was the bomb. Everyone had different expressions, some were sleepy, some had huge eyes, some twisted their body in a weird angle, some looked like their body is made of wood. It would be so cool to go back to the old days where you had nothing to worry about.

When on earth on you get results like 49/50 for English, Mother Tongue, and Maths?! Well, looking at past results before getting your final year results isn't such a good idea after all.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

2008-09-27T13:50:00.002+08:00

F1 IS FINALLY IN SINGAPORE!

Watched the practice session yesterday, the circuit was beautiful. All drivers were full of praise for it, except for the fact that its quite bumpy in some chicanes. I think they are shaving away some of it today morning.

Anyway, HCL exam was quite horrible. Seriously, I've never done such a difficult exam before. I think I will fail it. Its quite unfair for us, cos I heard that the CL paper was quite easy. I bet HCL paper is going to pull down my scores like siao. Haiz.

Emath and Lit exam on Monday, but I think I'm watching F1 luh. Annoying crap.

Friday, September 19, 2008

2008-09-19T22:58:00.000+08:00

Cheer up Chermaine, you can always come look for me when you're down!

Love you!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

2008-09-07T21:50:00.003+08:00

I HEREBY ANNOUNCE THAT LEWIS HAMILTON SUCKS TO THE CORE.

DISGUSTING PILE OF DUNG.

Ever since he overtook Raikkonen in the last 2 laps, all the accidents happen. I think he used BLACK magic.

Raikkonen and Massa, I'll always support you!

That crap commendator said that it was a superb race. My foot. Stupid Hamilton is making his victory speech now. I hope he ends up in some serious accident or something.

NACLI was just... F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C

More about NACLI in later posts!
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Walao I lost my favourite pen during my chess tournament. Like seriously, I shouldn't have lent my pen to her when her pen ran out of ink. I know I'm being mean, but that pen had special significants to me. I sincerely hope that I can find it back.

Dear God, please let my pen come back to me.

Monday, September 1, 2008

2008-09-01T21:42:00.010+08:00

Went to Singapore Chess Federation's website today to see the finalised results of Saturday's tournament. I just found out that I'm so pro! They listed out the top 100 best players of the tournament and guess what position I am?

In case you don't know how to read the table, the 0 beside my name is my ratings. 0 means unrated, which also means beginner. Actually, I'm supposed to be rated, just that I don't want wahaha. I just want to be unrated and suprise my opponents who thinks that I'm lousy. My estimated ratings was 1265 for the individuals okay! For this tournament, my estimated ratings was 1537, but I don't think its really so high la, haha! For those with ratings like 1800 and above, you know they are national players. As for the 'FM' on the left of some of the names, it means Fide Master. See the word MASTER? You should know their holy level of their chess.

Anyway, I think my results are really good okay! 23rd out of 142 players, beat that! I didn't fake those results luh, its REAL. Oh man I'm so proud of myself hohoho.

Anyway, I think this is the last time I receive my chess medal or get such good results already. I have to play in the open category next year in the individuals, no longer Girls' Under 15. This means that I have to play with both guys and girls. I don't think I can get a medal for that. After the individuals, I might be participating in the Char Yong Cup, a chinese chess tournament. I think my chinese chess suck now, so I dont think I can get into top 4. Please, I was 15th last year. I will be stepping down in April, which is the end of my chess career in Crescent.

Well, who knows, I might continue joining chess club when I go to JC or Poly.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

2008-08-31T17:27:00.002+08:00

Won my 3rd chess medal of the year yesterday! Thanks to everyone who supported me, because I really thought that I couldn't get anything by looking at the standard of my juniors. If Stacy was here, we would have gotten higher than a 3rd position.

I think I embarrassed my mom infront of my uncle yesterday. I couldn't felt anything worse than that. I thought for a really long time and realise that it was my fault. I must prove to that uncle that I can do much much better. For my mom, I will study hard from now on!

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

2008-08-27T23:13:00.003+08:00

Defination of HOLIDAY:

A period of time rest from work, school, etc; usually a spercific number of weeks in a year.

See that, teachers? What kind of September holidays is this man, going back to school almost everyday. Even worse, we student leaders need to go for this NACLI Camp from Wednesday to Friday. The amount of homework teachers give is meant for one whole week at home okay! Its super crazy la. I have like 8 test papers for Higher Chinese!

This is nuts. Really.

Tournament is on this Saturday, so wish me luck! I don't pin any hopes on my juniors, so basically its Mingxuan and I earning points to keep the team going. Like seriously, the standard of all my juniors are below competitive level, so I don't expect too much from them. What can I do? These people do not practice at home, do not have the passion for chess, and do not have the right attitude.

When I asked one of them to play chess with me today, she was like "Aiya, don't want la.". Excuse me, we specially stayed back just to practice chess and you don't want to play with me just because you don't want to lose to me? Come on la, when she said that I felt even more angry and trashed her. They do not even want to learn, and whatever goes into their ears come out from the other ear. Simple end-games also cannot solve.

I really really hate one of my junior. She thinks she's so close to you. During recess, she sees you, she slap your head. Stupid right! Like I'm very close to her like that! When I say I want to play chess with my other friends, she'll just "Aiya don't play with Huiyan la, she's forever like that kill people." What the hell? If you know me well you'll know that I'm usually very kind when playing chess with my friends not from chess club.

She's like forever so rude and stuffs, and I found out that Joyce doesn't like her too. Just one disgusting cheena. She's really from China okay!

Now, Mingxuan and I are still thinking who to choose to succeed my position, because we can't find anyone suitable. I confess that there are still a few who are keen to learn and have the right attitude, but I'm just afraid that they'll get bullied by people whom I mentioned.

All of these are driving me crazy.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

2008-08-17T22:58:00.006+08:00

Well, I can't express how proud and how touched I was when I saw the Singapore flag soar. To others, it might just be a silver piece of metal, but to them, its 4 years of hard work, and to us Singaporeans, its another hope for a small country like us, 48 years later.

Seriously, when our flag was raised, I felt like crying, don't know why. Too patriotic. Haha. I hope that 4 years later, Singapore's flag will be in the middle. It will happen. Go Singapore!

For this table tennis finals, I sort of fought with my dad. He kept saying that Singapore cannot win lah, lousy la, blahblah, being such an annoying butthead. I totally couldn't take it anymore. He was the one who sent me to school, asked me to learn CME, to love my country, and there he is looking down at our athletes. If he doesn't want to watch, then don't watch la. Keep commenting on how pro the China players are. I'm serious

So what if everyone knows that our chances of winning China is not big? So what if our players are "bought" over from china? For 48 years, Singapore finally managed to get a medal. I'm proud to say Singapore did it! I think its the never-say-die spirit that really matters. No matter how slim the chances are, you have to believe that its still possible. After looking at our athletes, it really inspired me alot of do really well for my upcoming tournament, so what if they are guys? TRASH ARH!

Sorry, I don't have nice photos of our table tennis match. Other than this, the other athlete who rocked.

Michael Phelps

Look at this, short-handed Milo something Cavic of Serbia. THIS is what I call LEGEND. You wanted to be the guy to take away Phelp's final gold yeah? Now historians are saying he won by an astonishing 0.01s to some short-handed guy. Haha! Too bad!

Well done, Phelps. Looks like I didn't watch the wrong person swimming 4 years ago in Athens. Knew that you can do it! I will watch you again 4 years later!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

2008-08-16T17:37:00.002+08:00

YES! Michael Phelps had done it again while the rest were in school having their oral. Ho ho ho! I have no orals today. Anyway, 7th Gold and the most exciting race of all! Too bad to that short-handed guy who got 2nd.

Friday, August 15, 2008

2008-08-15T18:36:00.003+08:00

SINGAPORE'S TABLE TENNIS TEAM GOT INTO THE FINALS! WE SECURED A MEDAL!

Omg I'm seriously super high now. Other than that,

Michael Phelps got his 6th gold in WORLD RECORD while we were having Bio Common Test! I'm such a huge olympics fan.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

2008-08-12T20:02:00.003+08:00

Michael Phelps you rock man! 3rd Gold medal, so aim for your 4th!

P.S. Chem and Lit common test sucks man!

Monday, August 11, 2008

2008-08-11T15:55:00.004+08:00

I think this is hilarious, hahaha! Becareful everyone, think before you act.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

2008-08-10T00:51:00.001+08:00

Common tests are just around the corner and I'm still slacking!!

Buck up and study hard, Huiyan!

Btw, Day 3 of my Taiwan post is up!

www.mytaiwanphotos.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 7, 2008

2008-08-07T20:40:00.003+08:00

Today's CME lesson was the bomb! I've never enjoyed CME lessons so much like today.

Mr Siow was showing us the MV for Beijing Olympics, and I know that 5566 will be singing a small part. I was hoping that I can see 56 you know! Half of the MV passed and I still haven't seen them (Infront got Ah Du OMG). Then, I was thinking maybe 56 is singing another song instead of this one, since there are a few more olympic songs.

5566 came suddenly! The whole class was like looking at me cos I stood up, cheered and clapped damn loudly like some mad woman. Hahaha! 30 seconds later, they didn't pop up for the 2nd time, so I said super loudly "If I see 5566 coming out again ar, I will pay $5 to class fund!". Big mistake.

I discovered that the whole class was hoping 5566 to come out, but I don't know whether to hope for them to come out or not, haha!

Minyee was talking to me, and halfway through, the class roared. When I turn my head around, I didn't see 5566! The whole class was like insisting that 5566 came out luh, but too bad, I didn't see it, so not counted. Hahaha!

I quickly went to download the same song and MV, so I can watch it alot of times, whoo!

Watch out for 5:35 and 6:28 (This lasted less than half a second)

Monday, August 4, 2008

2008-08-04T20:59:00.002+08:00

School is ______ now. I don't know how to describe it. I think the only lessons that I enjoy is Higher Chinese where I can go crazy with Cher and Ximian.

You know, we're like having lots of extra lessons and everything, yet I have this feeling that we're still lagging behind other classes. I don't know if something's wrong with me, or should I blame my classmates, my teachers?

Ever since we changed quite a number of teachers, some subjects that I excel in starts to become a bore. Sometimes, I really feel very sorry for the teacher as no one in class is listening to him/her, but he/she simply cannot make me show interest in the lessons.

Common tests are coming, so are the Nationals, and everything is supposed to be piling up, but I feel very free suddenly. Maybe something's really wrong with me.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

2008-07-29T21:27:00.002+08:00

I am seriously very pissed at the fact that my stationeries are going missing. In this year alone, I lost 5 rulers, 1 pencil, 1 eraser, 2 pens. I am very sure that I didn't lose them myself.

You know, I hate to say this, but I'm seriously suspecting that there are people who have been stealing things like pens. Its really very annoying when your pens are going missing and you have to go buy new ones when you have just bought a few weeks ago. This not only happened to me, but some other classmates too, who found out that their stationeries are going missing.

I will not allow my pencilbox to be placed on the table during recess ever again.

Pen stealer, watch out!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

2008-07-24T18:46:00.002+08:00

Okay, it has been a long time since I blogged, so I shall talk about my chess tournament!

When we arrive at Singapore Poly, we were like, the only girls in the tournament, I'm serious! I took a look at the list and to my horror, its all the JCs and Polys, but also some other schools like ACSI and Hwa Chong. However, I don't know any of their players, which means, they didn't send out their best players for this competition.

Chermaine came to support me! Hahaha. I was afraid that she would be bored, so I brought my rubik's cube along for her to play with. When she came, I had already finished one game, which I lost. Walao you know so unfair, all my opponents are very strong players and every of my games involve pawn promotion, which is like, the very very very end of the game. Normally, I'll either lose or win at the middle game, not so late. Then, Mingxuan and Jeeyen, my teammates, will finish their game early and watch my games. Damn stressful la!

I taught Chermaine how to play chess and how the play the rubik's cube, so that she can at least understand what's happening around her. I think she was playing the rubik's cube with Ms Chua, hahaha. She commented that all our games were too cheem for her. She left at around 5+, before I could finish my game with this JJC guy. I WIN HIM OKAY. He resigned when I made a move that left him with no chance of survival. It was quite a difficult end-game for me though. Actually, he's quite a nice guy la. He'll pop around and ask how my game goes and will chat with me, hahaha. I guess the best part of competitions is being able to make new friends.

On Sunday, the match was even tougher. You know, one game made me couldn't sleep at night. The Catholic High guy made a mistake, I could have checkmated him, yet, I didn't see it, and I lost instead. Everyone around us who were watching our game felt that its a pity I lost. Why didn't I see his mistake?! When I didn't see his mistake, he really HEAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF, like, damn loudly. He look like he had an asthma attack la! Scare me, then the whole hall was like looking at him. Damn weird. I made a promise to myself, to win him in the upcoming National Schools Team Tournament. Even if I won't get to play with him, I'll challenge him. This time, when I win him, I'll make sure its MY turn to HEAVE A SIGH OF RELIEF. I promise.

Spent my weekends just like that, I didn't even had a chance to do my homework. I had to iron my clothes till 10+. So tiring. Although it drained me out, I've learnt alot from the tournament, so yeah, I still want to go for tournaments! Anyone wants to come support me next time? Hahahaha.

Friday, July 18, 2008

2008-07-18T19:14:00.002+08:00

Tournament tomorrow at Singapore Polytechnic. Chermaine is coming to support me, yay! I shall play very good games tomorrow so that she will not make a wasted trip to come and support me.

GO GO HUIYAN!

P.S. Chermaine, I LOVE YOU!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

2008-07-17T23:25:00.001+08:00

I have posted my high quality pictures on my Taiwan blog.

www.mytaiwanphotos.blogspot.com

Saturday, July 12, 2008

2008-07-12T14:23:00.001+08:00

Great news everyone, I've created a new site for all the info and pictures I took during my Taiwan trip. It is not really finished yet, so do check back from time to time for more updates.

http://mytaiwanphotos.blogspot.com/

Friday, July 4, 2008

2008-07-04T20:26:00.003+08:00

Today's Youth Day performance was quite funny, although it was pretty unprepared. I know we couldn't blame the teachers, since they had alot of things to do including the e-Learning week that is coming very very soon.

The performance put up by the Humanities Department was super hilarious. The moment Mr Siow came out, I laughed till I had tears in my eyes, I'm serious! I don't know why too. This is like the most well-prepared one cos they had funny costumes and funny dance moves.

Then there is the English Department doing the skit about how messages passed from the upper management can turn into another story when the message finally reaches the workers. Ms Ng looks hilarious.

The Mother Tongue Department sang a number of chinese pop songs, there is only one song which is quite old and out which I don't know how to sing.

The Mathematics Department doing old retro dance with male teachers wearing bowtie and suspenders. Imagine your teachers wearing suspenders! Mrs Tan was wearing this thick yellow hairband and she looked so cute! They did some funny dance moves, then came the Science Department.

I thought Ms Azilah and Mrs Yip would do something funny, but in the end Mrs Yip came out for around 15 seconds while Ms Azilah acted as a teacher giving her students huge Chupa Chups. They did this skit about how the teachers would help and support the students (us) when O levels are coming, so in the end the student in the skit got 6 points for L1R5, hahaha!

We received alot of chocolates and sweets from our dear teachers. Tonight, Huiyan is going to get a toothache, hahaha!

Good luck Chermaine and Ximian for your Oral on Tuesday!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

2008-06-26T22:04:00.003+08:00

I am very fed-up at the fact that my stationeries have been going missing since the beginning of this year. 3 of my rulers have gone missing, and one of it was from my cousin who gave me his beloved ruler after pitying me for losing so many rulers. Now, its my pen that is missing. Walao eh why always go missing!

If it was me who lose it myself, then too bad. If there is SOMEONE who took it cos they are very cheapskate, then I shall curse that person to be so poor that he/she does not have a pen to use in the future. Im so mean cos I'm sick and tired of seeing things disappear from my pencilbox.

Went home super late with my fellow netball teamates hahaha. I reached home so late! It was quite fun going home with Chermaine and co, doing all sorts of stupid things on the train like not daring to touch the MRT poles cos we think its too dirty and bacteria-infested. We are very very lame.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

2008-06-22T21:08:00.003+08:00

I AM PISSED. REALLY PISSED.

1. I went to cut my hair just now and that stupid hairdresser cut my hair so short! I am going to burn down their place tomorrow. Please do not laugh at me when you see me or I'll be crossed. To think my mom said its not really bad. PISSED.

2. School reopens tomorrow. PISSED. PISSED.

3. This was the amount of time to do my holiday homework:

Week 1: Went to school everyday.
Week 2: Went to school everday except Monday.
Week 3: Went to Taiwan.
Week 4: Went to school everyday except Tuesday.

In total, I had only 2 free days to do my homework, WOW. I guess this is called HOLIDAYS huh? PISSED. PISSED. PISSED. PISSED. PISSED!

4. My MSN is lagging! PISSSSSSSSSSSED!

5. I cannot find a proper website to upload my 480 Taiwan pictures!!! ARGHHHH.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

2008-06-17T11:02:00.002+08:00

HELLO EVERYONE!

I'M BACK FROM TAIWANNN!

And I found out that I have alot of blog about:

1. OBS
2. Chinese MEDIA Camp
3. Taiwan Trip

After much consideration, I've decided that I will not blog about OBS and the MEDIA Camp, since they can be found in other blogs. However, Taiwan post is a must, and it will be a detailed one. Do wait patiently for my post yeah!

Sunday, June 8, 2008

2008-06-08T15:10:00.002+08:00

In a few hours' time, Huiyan will be off in Taiwan! She will not be blogging for about a week or so. During this period of time, do not miss her too much yeah! Continue to flood her tagboard so that she gets a pleasant surprise when she comes back!

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

2008-06-03T20:10:00.013+08:00

As the OBS post will be super long, I shall blog about my trip to Malaysia first!

This is the first time we are going to Malaysia with such little luggage (2 Day 1 Night)! Usually, we'll go back to Malaysia to visit my relatives, for a week or so, but this time, we are really there to enjoy ourselves.

Actually, the place is just like a chalet, just that its in Malaysia's biggest mangrove island called Kukup. Most of the people had this chalet business, like what I mentioned in my previous post. Anyway, The place was really stinky. Imagine this, everyone dump their shit and pee into the sea, and you are like living at the coast with all the mangrove swamps and stuff. My mom, my mom's friend and I were taking a walk, then we heard some noises. There was this woman who poured the rubbish in her dustpan outside her window, into the sea! Right before our eyes you know! So disgusting.

However, although its stinky, I really enjoyed myself there. I actually survived without internet, cos I was playing Mahjong all day long! The Healthy Mahjong Team (Name taken from my sister's blog), which consists of me, my sister, my "boyfriend" and his brother. Hahaha! We played Mahjong till like 12+ or 1 at night! Now I understand why some people play Mahjong through the night. Since most of our relatives are asleep, we had to shuffle the tiles in slow-motion and quietly, so it looked quite funny and we giggled like shit. Dinner was barbercued feast. The satays are damn nice luh! The chicken wings too. Aiya I think everything's nice, hahaha!

Anyway, The Healthy Mahjong Team woke up at like 6.30 in the morning the next day, which is freaking early. We bathe and what did we do? MAHJONG DUH! Hahaha. After that, we went to take a walk again and this time, I saw this pole with a hollow core. There was some water inside and guess what I saw inside. Larvae! You know, those worm-like creatures that is the baby of mosquitoes? Walao so disgusting la! After seeing that I felt itchy all over. Anyway, we had our breakfast and had to pack our bags.

We took a ferry to one of the "fishing grounds" (??) there. When we reached there, the fishermen showed us some of the fishes that they caught. One of it was this gigantic bug-liked thing that looks like a tanker. It really looks like a tank! It has got this super hard and squarish shell, with a long pointed thing sticking out infront like the guns of a tank. The man put it on the ground and said that its harmless and will vacuum the ground?! After that, the man took out a starfish and some humongous snail. Then, he took out a baby shark!! So cool right! He claimed that the shark could smile for the camera and he kept squeezing the shark's head to make the shark look like it's smiling. So cruel luh. Anyway, we saw this dried up pufferfish. Its like, totally puffed up, fat and pointy with its mouth wide open. You can see it from the pictures later.

At around 12 we went for our lunch at a seafood restaurant (paid for by the owner of the chalet). The food was superb and we ordered more food! We gobbled down like, 3 fishes?!?! And thats not all you know. There is like crab, scallop, oyster blahblah.

After eating, we drove back to Singapore. So sad to leave the place although its really very stinky. However, no matter where we are, The Healthy Mahjong Team will still play Mahjong as frequently as they can! Wahahahahaha!

Pictures! Sorry if its blur, taken using my sister's handphone.

Thats it! By the way, I'll be off in Taiwan on Monday, 09/06/2008, so, you won't be able to see me blogging for around 8 days. Wish me luck! Hope that I can get to meet Xiezhi or pick up Renfu's lost phone in Taiwan! WAHAHAHAHA.

P.S. Huiyan is a happy girl!

Monday, June 2, 2008

2008-06-02T19:23:00.002+08:00

Woah, when I viewed my blog, I saw so many people scolding me for not updating. Yay proves that I'm damn popular and I have lots of fans in my fanclub. Hahaha! Stranded on Ubin for a couple more weeks than the rest as I fell off my kayak and nobody came to save me. Ahah, just kidding. Really very bored la, need to keep blogging and I have too many things to blog.

Since there are too many things to blog about, I shall do this in note form. Lets hope the "note form" will not turn into novels as I write on. Hahaha!

1. OBS

OBS was fun since I met lots of new friends and discovered that I can actually trek more than 12km with a haversack! Actually, trekking was not as tiring as kayaking, cos when you are kayaking, you are using your arm muscles only. The stupid waves keep turning my direction, and it gets really frustrating when other people's kayaks crashes into you. You lost your direction while the person's kayak is straightened. Walao! It will take another 3X more energy to turn the boat around. So annoying. Trekking was not so tiring although I will die during 2.4km runs. We cheered, joked, sang and talked alot during the journey. Hannah and I chatted with our instructor Elton about everything under the sun - from why guys play chess better than girls to most memorable birthdays. Isabella should totally be the mascot of our watch - COUSTEAU! (Please pronounce it as cruise-toe, not cos-tew). More details can be found on my blog post about OBS, which will come SOON, I promise :)

2. MYE results

MYE results were so-so, and I actually scored better in my Amath and Emath than my all time A1 Geography! Shocking. Please do not laugh at my results.

English - 60
Higher Chinese - 63 (Damn pro okay!)
Emath - 56 (3rd in class OMG! But its really considered)
Amath - 58 (Never fail!!!)
Chemistry - 49 (Big disappointment, 49 again!)
Biology - 45 (Could have gotten better cos of stupid mistakes)
Core Geography - 52 (Sucks like shit)
Elective Literature - 70 (2nd in class please!)
Social Studies - FORGOT (I think I failed)
Combined Humanities - 58 (Pulled down by stupid SS)

In the end my class position was quite lousy. I actually wanted 3 or 4 places less. Its okay, I must be contented with what I have and work even harder the next time round.

3. Holiday to Kukup Malaysia

SUPER FUN. Although the place was quite ulu, its always fun when my "boyfriend" is around. Hahaha! That place is actually quite a disgusting place. Its near to the coast and people build their houses on pillars. During high tides its abit like sea village, but during low tides, all the disgusting things will come out. Mudskippers so big and long like frogs, wet and slimy mud, all the garbage that people dump out of their houses, including the things in the toilet bowl are being flushed into the sea. POLLUTION PEOPLE, POLLUTION! Some houses are really ulu, made using PLANKS?! Luckily, the chalet my mom chose was one of the higher class ones, and one of the nicer ones. The people there fish for a living or do chalet services. Each person pays around 80 bucks for 2 day 1 night. Food is provided. The best thing is, they cook and barbecue for you, wash the dishes for you, fold the blankets for you! Omg thats heaven. And so, my cousins and I played Mahjong all day long cos we just learnt how to play it. Eh I found out that I'm quite pro luh. There was once I got "tian hu", which means, you win at the beginning of the game without discarding any tiles! Other than that, all my tiles were of the same "species", which means, they are of the same kind! Mine was all the circles, I don't know what its called in english. I was so shocked to win that round luh, but my cousins were like %@&#&@^ Heheh.

4. Movie date with Moose (Made of Honour)

The movie itself was quite funny with the thunderbeads and stuffs. I've posted too many movie reviews so I don't plan to post another one about this movie. Before watching the movie, we met JessKhoo&Co. They went bowling and since our movie will not start so early, we watched them play. They were having a competition and Kailing's group was losing, so she asked me to help her place a few times. Hahaha pro one luh! While watching the movie, this ***hole guy spilled my drinks on the floor. Walao leh, say "I'm so sorry" only. Never even offer to pay for my drinks! My shoes were wet (I ordered Ice Lemon Tea), my bag is wet. Not only that, he and his friends were super noisy la! I felt like pouring the drink over his head man. Stupid *****!!! Pissed. When the movie ended, I went to take a GOOOOOOOOD look at his face. SO BENG LA PLEASE. Disgusting freak. Urgh.

Okay, thats its for "note-form". I think its still very long. Okay, please put your bats and sticks down after seeing this post. Do continue to support me hahahaha!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

2008-05-11T16:12:00.004+08:00

The owner of this blog will be going for her OBS (Outward Bound Singapore) tomorrow, 12/5/2008. She will only be back on Friday, 16/5/2008.

She wants to say goodbye to all her readers and please, do not miss her :)

P.S. OBS is some sadistic and tough camp that treats you like a guy more than like a girl. Their mission is to tire you out, make you pissed, and do not provide you with toilets. As a result of this, there has been rumours that white floating creatures inhabit that place and do not welcome visitors. Please be sure not to pee in their direction or I don't know what will happen to you.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

2008-05-07T20:48:00.003+08:00

Watched a new movie:

Oh man, I swear this is the most touching movie I've ever seen, not that I really like swearing. The exams are over, and I can finally find time to complete the list of all the movies I want to watch. Anyway, I think that the movies in Singapore are quite slow, like, this movie was in the theatres in other countries last year? Singapore ended this movie recently, or is it still showing?

The movie is about a happily-married couple living happily in their happy little apartment. They were married for 9 years because they got married really young, when the girl, Holly, was 19. The guy, Gerry, is a sweet and humourous Irishman who gives in to Holly everytime they quarrel. One day, Gerry died due to his brain tumour and Holly is devastated since they love each other like shit.

During Holly's 30th birthday, she received a birthday cake, by Gerry. Subsequently, she receives a letter from Gerry every now and then, with a task in each letter which Holly has to complete the task. This is to help Holly find a new goal in life and to pull her through this period of time. Each letter will be signed off with a "P.S. I Love You". Gerry even bought tickets for Holly and her good friends to visit Ireland, the place where Holly and Gerry met.

The letters were really from Gerry and he wrote them before he died, after finding out that he has a brain tumour. Knowing that Holly would not be able to accept the fact that he died, he decided to write a series of 10 letters, guiding her through and helping her find a new guy. And so, he asked Holly's mother to send Holly the letters together with some planned surprises.

It was so touching! Although the front part was abit "errr..." and the guy acting as Gerry reminds me of the king in the movie 300 (He is the one who acted as King Leonidas), its still considered a good movie, so, tell your friends you love them before its too late!

Good guys like this do not deserve to die so early!
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Now, its the time for me to relax and stop thinking about the exams. I know I will do badly, but no point thinking about it now. Learning journey tomorrow, and OBS camp on next monday. I seriously don't feel like going for the camp. Finally survived through the exam period and here comes the OBS. You are just paying so much money to suffer there, so I don't really see why I should enjoy it.

Well, who knows. Maybe I'll say I love OBS after coming back from the camp. I know I will certainly miss my pillow.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

2008-04-24T21:32:00.003+08:00

The English Mid Year Paper is just TOMORROW.

This is how near death is. I swear I haven't studied so hard in my life. I studied like how many times more than my PSLE please! My PSLE is never study one.

Anyway, had A Maths consultation today with Mrs Tan! The 2007 paper was really hard, lets hope the A Maths paper will not be so difficult. Mrs Tan said it is manageble, so GO GO GO HUIYAN! I only hope that I will at least PASS A Math. Disappointed my parents, Ms Lee, and maybe Mrs Tan for the past few times already. I don't want to get another borderline fail or even worse, F9 for A Math. I struggled so hard just to get A Math!

I think algebra hates me, which results in Indices, Surds, Logarithms, Alpha and Beta hating me too. I need to practice alot more of my A Math assessment book during the weekends. Can you believe it, the popular Math-Hater Huiyan has A Math assessment book!? Yes, you didn't see wrongly. Need to buck up on my math, no choice.

I've asked my mom to print this huge A3 size Periodic Table and pasted it on the wall of my study room, just right above my tablet now. Hope this will fill my brain with all the ions, formulae, reactions or whatever.

Anyway, alot of people have been telling me not to write any bad things about teachers on my blog, since Mrs Tan knows my blog already, hahaha! Too bad, I have nothing to hide! I'll only complain verbally, won't be so stupid to write it on my blog to let others print it out and mail it to the DM right :)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

2008-04-23T20:36:00.005+08:00

Till now, I still miss the days with NYTF.

Those stupid but really fun days with my stupid partner Chermaine. Hahaha omg I sound like I love her. Anyway, she never fails to let me copy her homework and scold me while I'm copying. My current partner always don't want to teach me how to do sums even though I asked her 5 times, yet I answered every single question that she didn't know. How nice.

One of the funniest and lamest things Chermaine and I have done, hahaha. Chermaine, if you are looking at this, I'm sure you'll laugh! I spent time digging it out okay!

Although everyone in NYTF is in the same school it doesn't feel the same anymore. I guess I won't find friends who know me as much as they know me.

You know what, it gets really boring sometimes, when you don't have someone sitting beside you who at least know some Taiwanese artistes. You have no one to talk to. If it was like last year, things would be alot more different.

Mid years are just round the corner, so I'm currently participating in a

MUGATHON

And I guess I've only completed 8km out of the 100km race.

Monday, April 14, 2008

2008-04-14T21:50:00.011+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUIYAN!

Today is a very happy birthday because Irvin celebrated my birthday with me! Haha!

The class sang for me a birthday song in the canteen today, together with other friends like Zhongjie and Lynnette. Like seriously, this is the first time someone sang a birthday song to me in school, haha, because NYTF always plan special things for me during recess, so, no birthday song!

I'm thanking every single one of you for wishing me happy birthday (Not in order): Cheryl, Jasmine, Vin, Chermaine, Ariel, Mingxuan, Ximian, Loi, Youliang, Kelly, Shumei, Zhongjie, Lynnette, Joanne, Desiree, Diane, Munyee, Nicole, Lisa, Siying, Yenler, Chuxuan, Joyce, Mandy, Eugenia, Vivien, Michaela, Joey, Cynthia, Jovina, Lixin, Jollin, Brenda, Liqin, 3S1. (Do not be sad when your name are the last few, I have a bad memory, haha!)

Received quite a number of presents.

1. DJ Vin's birthday wishes over the radio, together with a Happy Birthday song, haha!
2. Cheryl's midnight birthday SMS, and the ONLY one I received.
3. Janell, Ariel, Michaela, Joanne's birthday SMS.
4. Youliang, Ximian, Jasmine, Mingxuan, Joey, Brenda, Liqin's birthday testimonials.

5. Mingxuan's birthday card.

6. KitKat Chunky from Audrey.

7. Magnetic dont-know-what with my initials HY from my sister.

8. Cute flower bookmark from Lisa.

9. Wishes-in-a-bottle and cute keychain from my mom.

10. Very nice and yummy CUPcakes from Ximian.

11. 1kg fruit cake from my grandfather.

Lets hope this list will go on! Hahaha!

Sunday, April 13, 2008

2008-04-13T16:00:00.002+08:00

Sec 3 is a stressful year.

Went to Mount Faber Safra (Telok "Bangala" Safra) after our dinner yesterday. Didn't really felt happy when I went there. The feeling isn't the same anymore. When I saw Ya Kun Toast, I thought of that faithful day NYTF was laughing, chatting, eating kaya toast happily. I still remember Ariel putting too much soy sauce into her half-boiled egg and wanted someone to exchange eggs with her. Hahaha. Then, I forgot with who, decided to quickly rush up to the bowling alley while Peiqi & Co. were at the toilet to make them thought that we left with their bags. Of course, it was quite lame and they found us, since our purpose of going to the Safra was to go bowling!

I still remember:

1. How lousy Peiqi was at bowling
2. How a 5-year-old kid could get a strike, while Peiqi only got gutter.
3. How good Chermaine was at bowling.
4. The fries Mingxuan bought, but NYTF ate them all up in World Record speed.
5. All of us laughing at each other when we have lousy scores.
6. How we taught Peiqi to bowl by asking her to put the ball in between her legs and roll it.

When will I get another chance going bowling with NYTF again?

The days with NYTF were really the happiest days of my life. But now, I know that I won't be as close as them anymore. Soon, they'll have their own friends, their own class, their new cliques. I can't possibly be with them all the time, or they might find me "sticky".

Most of the time, I will refrain myself from telling them my own problems, cos I cannot always have them to help me solve my problems. They have got their own stuffs to do, their own lives to lead. I don't think I'll be able to find anyone in 3S1 who is just like NYTF.

The Mid-Years are coming, and they have got their own things to do. School is stressing us out. I shall not think about the class anymore and concentrate on my studies. For every A I get, I can get $50. Work hard, Huiyan!

NYTF, I MISS EVERY ONE OF YOU!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

2008-04-06T10:40:00.002+08:00

We finally made it!

After a long day yesterday, we emerged 6th in the overall open category! You might think that 6th is quite lousy, but you see, there are Secondary Schools AND Junior Colleges. It obvious that we can never win schools like ACSI, SJI and RI. They have FIDE Masters and Candidate Masters in their team! But still, we topped the girls' category whoo!

I won 4 out of 6 games today. The 2 that I lost was to a guy from Victoria JC and another guy from ACSI. I know I cannot win them, but at least I hanged on to the very last minute. As for the ACSI guy, I'm quite happy that I managed to block most of his checkmates, until the last one as it really cannot be avoided.

Its the finals today, and I'm not very confident against every player from RGS. RGS has got strong players and they are often seen among the tops in the girls' category. However, I will still put on a tough battle today, for the champion medal. Even if I didn't manage to win RGS, we can still get a medal wahaha!

Special thanks to Ariel, who came and support me all the way through. She was the first and only one who came and support us, chess club. Thank you Ariel, I love you! Thanks to the rest for supporting me too!

Friday, April 4, 2008

2008-04-04T21:10:00.001+08:00

Tomorrow is the Public Service Chess Competition.

All the best man, Huiyan!

Hahahaha!

Remember, you're not there to win, but to gain an experience.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

2008-03-30T20:13:00.003+08:00

Watched 江山美人 last night!

I think the movie is so-so, not VERY nice, and not VERY bad either, just like some normal war movie, without the gory battle scenes. Wasn't really good compared to movies like Troy and Gladiator. For those who are going to watch the show, do not read on.

The movie is about Yan Dynasty at war with another country. The king was injured on the battlefield, and decided to let Xuehu (Donnie Yen), an ophan whom he adoped, ascend his throne after he die. The nephew of the king, not happy with the decision made by the king to let someone with no blood relation with them to ascend the throne, kills the king. The princess, Fei'er (Kelly Chen), "somehow" became the new ruler and she has to be trained to be a princess warrior. It something like Mulan actually. The nephew ordered assassins to kill Fei'er, making her unable to appear on the day she was to be crowned queen. Fei'er was hit by a poison dart and rescued by this forest dweller called Duan Lanquan (Leon Lai). Why is everyone's surname Duan nowadays?! Abit of the flirting scenes here and there, and Fei'er went back to the palace.

Apparently, she couldn't forget Lanquan, gave up her throne to Xuehu and another loyal subject and decided to be with Lanquan. Some scenes that involve them stripping (You know what I meant) and blahblah boring stuffs. One fine day, the nephew led a group of army and killed the loyal subject. Xuehu went back to the palace and was ambushed by the nephew's army. THEN. A bunch of Xuehu's loyal warriors shielded him from the attacks and ask him to escape, while sacrificing their lives to save him. At the treehouse of Lanquan, they were attacked by ninja-liked assassins and Lanquan died while saving Fei'er. Subsequently, Xuehu died too, from his injuries. Fei'er managed to kill the nephew who betrayed them and blahblah, became the queen and announced that there shall not be war, or the innocent citizens will suffer.

Anyway, I watched the movie with my mom and sister, and during the bed scene, we all went ?!?!?! Actually, it cannot be counted as a bed scene, you can only see the back, but yeah, its still quite weird watching this with your mom HAHA! And so, halfway through, I cannot bear to watch it any longer and made an excuse to go close the door. Hahahaha. I am not interested in what happens next okay! At the end of the story, the girl placed the dead body in a primative hot air balloon and let it float in the sky. Can you imagine, one fine day you are farming and BOOM, a hot air balloon appears infront of you. When you look into the basket, you see this rotting corpse? Quite disgusting huh.

I just found out that its quite a long post, so I shall end here. This shall be a post about the movie!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

2008-03-23T21:29:00.008+08:00

I AM GOING TO TAIWAN!

This is really, so so so cool. It has been a really long time since I travelled to other countries (Other than Malaysia), okay, I know, my family is pathetic.

For this trip, I am CONFIRMED bringing my 5566 album with me wherever I go, just in case I get to meet them, hahaha! I shall go buy a gold marker and bring it along. The only sad thing is that Jingqin is not going with me. That is really really very sad! Like seriously, there will only be me and my sister, so boring! By the way, for those who don't know who Jingqin is, he is my BOYFRIEND. Hahaha! Go find out yourself if you don't believe.

Went to the Tour Exhibitions at Suntec City today, and took some pictures so that I can blog. Anyway, my dad told us that 郭妃丽 (Phyllis Quek) were in the same lift as us! I didn't know that, cos the lift was quite crowded and I was near to the lift buttons. My dad insisted that he saw her when the rest of us didn't. Its okay, I shall trust my dad, maybe she was really in the same lift as us. For those who doesn't know who Phyllis Quek is, this is her picture:

Something just happened. JUST. And I swear I will not talk to my mom (I don't even want to call her MY MOM) for one whole week. I don't like swearing, but this time, I am really swearing. I cannot take it anymore and I feel like saying the f word.

That totally destroyed my mood to blog. Just move on to the pictures.

These dolls were showcased at Suntec too, on this exhibition that was showing Beijing

These disgusting-looking dolls were there too. Some think they are cute, but I think they will only give me nightmares.

Ice Blended Chocolate from Starbucks, still my favourite drink, since I don't drink coffee.

People like me, take artistic photos like this.

This is the Induction Cooker I got from the lucky draw after buying the air tickets to Taiwan! We had 6 tries, and all the other 5 were Travel Cutlery Set. This is won by me okay! ME! Just a few years back I won a rice cooker, haha! Why am I forever getting cookery?

P.S. CONGRATS TO TAIWAN, THEY GOT THEMSELF A GREAT PRESIDENT! I knew that Ma Ying Jiu (马英九) would win! There is cure for Taiwan!

Friday, March 21, 2008

2008-03-21T22:10:00.007+08:00

Watched two movies today:

The Water Horse
Run, Fatboy, Run

Of course, The Water Horse is nicer. Nessie is really cute inside, and how I hate the soldiers. Some people might have different views, but I myself think that things like the Loch Ness Monster, Afterlife, Retribution, Atlantis existed. Some may think they are just stories to ensure that kids can enjoy bedtime stories, but for me, I really do think that even Atlantis was once on earth. Maybe the main reason for my thinking is the games I play (Age of Mythology : A strategic game that involves Greek mythology.) or the books that I've read since young (Life after the death of an Egyptian). Ahahaha, my mom says I read the weirdest books on earth when I was young. I'll read about Egyptian mummies (One of my favourites), Greek mythology, science-fiction stories by H.G. Wells like The Time Machine and The Invisible Man. Can you imagine it? Reading this kind of books when you were in Primary 2! Proves that I'm smart, wahaha.

But now, I totally have no time for books, or games, or whatever. Its just homework and homework. Why can't we learn more interesting things in school, maybe about how cellular regeneration (You could grow a new head if you chopped off your head) is possible in lets say, 50 years from now? It might be really crazy, but at least it is better than boring things like SOCIAL STUDIES, especially when you have such boring teachers. We might even learn about the legends of Atlantis! How did it sank? Is it really because gods were unhappy that Atlanteans became greedy and to punish them, Atlantis sank beneath the sea in one night?

I think that when I have the time, I'll do more research on things that interest me (Definitely not ghosts and UFOs), and one fine day, I might be a very well-known researcher.

Took a little test on what kind of major am I advised to take. Its still quite early but yeah, better to start planning!

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

You scored as a Biology/Chemistry/Geology
You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or related majors (e.g., Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, Genetics, Marine Biology, Zoology).

It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it.

Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests.

Biology/Chemistry/Geology ---94%
History/Anthropology/LiberalArts ---94%
Education/Counseling ---88%
Psychology/Sociology ---88%
French/Spanish/OtherLanguage ---81%
HR/BusinessManagement ---75%
PoliticalScience/Philosophy ---75%
English/Journalism/Comm ---69%
Nursing/AthleticTraining/Health ---69%
Visual&PerformingArts ---63%
Physics/Engineering/Computer ---50%
Accounting/Finance/Marketing ---50%
Religion/Theology ---44%
Mathematics/Statistics ---38%
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Cool, looks like I have a bright future ahead of me, hahaha!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

2008-03-20T23:42:00.005+08:00

TODAY IS CRESCENT'S SPORTS CARNIVAL 2008

Awesome, I love Bronte. Anyway, our sports carnival started really late due to the heavy rain. Bronte, which was the champion house last year, had the priority to sit at the corner, where it is closest to the tidbits stall, the toilets, the main gates, and the milo truck. Sadly, the rain forced all of us to sit in beside the teachers.

Anyway, I was so nervous today! I was afraid that I'll forget my dance steps and just stone there. All of us went to the stadium really early to help out and to practice the Mascot Cheer & Dance. In the end, we didn't even have the dance! Rain rain rain. The Cheer & Dance was postponed and to be performed in school. Walao! This is like, unfair to Bronte. We started our dance and mascot so early, and perfected the dance when some houses only started like yesterday or Tuesday. Postponing the thing means allowing the other houses to quickly finish their dance

Mr M was singing songs to make the rain go away, and lots of other houses did their cheers. Of course, Bronte was the best. We sang and danced to 'That Thing You Do' and was awarded extra points. Our banner and mascot are really very cute and nice too! Gladys was being super funny. "Hello I'm Bobbyna." all the way. The mascot was supposed to be called Bobby, but she went to change it to more girl-like, Bobbyna. Weird. Hahaha. There were also free hugs!

Ariel, Nicole, Letty and I helped the house comm with other stuffs, and we stood infront of the house, leading them with the cheers. I was telling Ariel "Eh, we mixed into the house comm, although we aren't from the house comm." Hahaha! But still, standing infront of the rest gives you a great view of the track and the results of each competition.

Went home with a really muddy shoe, and so I scrubbed my own shoes! I'm being filial okay, by scrubbing my own shoes so that my grandparents do not have to help me wash them. I was so tired I just slept on my sofa till 5.30?!

Watched '27 Dresses' after my dinner. It is about Jane, who loves being a bridesmaid since young. The beginning of the movie even showed her attending two weddings in one night. She went for a total of 27 weddings and stuffed all her bridesmaid clothes into this huge closet. The closet burst anyway. At one of the wedding she was pushed down by someone and fainted. This guy, Kevin, helped her up and yeah, sent her home. Kevin likes her but Jane loves her boss, George. One fine day, Jane's sister, Tess, came back from her holiday. George fell in love with Tess and even proposed to Tess. And so Jane had to help the guy she love plan the wedding. By the way, Tess is this annoying bimbo who is super @$#$$! She lied to George about being a vegetarian, liking animals and loves outdoors, just like him. In fact, she eats ribs like crazy and holds cats by their tails. And so yeah, go watch it yourself, wahaha.

The movie is quite nice actually, and Kevin is so sweet! He liked Jane, and so when Jane dropped her organiser and he picked it up, he went home to write his name and phone number on every single day of the organiser. Hahaha! Jane got really fed-up and didn't like him at all. But in the end, like all fairytales and stories go, they ended up together.

Okay okay, its really late now, I need to go sleep or my dad is going to lock my out of my room haha. One last cheer for BRONTE!

BRONTE BRONTE ALL THE WAY!

Friday, March 14, 2008

2008-03-14T15:57:00.003+08:00

My 101th post!

Anyway, I've just finished watching the movie August Rush. Pretty nice actually, and you will feel very relaxed while listening to all the symphonies and everything.

The story is about this child prodigy, Evan, who can listen to music all around him. His grandfather sent Evan to the orphanage when he was just a newborn as he thinks that the child will hinder his daughter's future as a musician, since his daughter was unmarried, obviously cos she had a one night stand. Anyway, one fine day, Evan followed the music and escaped from the orphanage, hoping to be able to find his parents by following the music he hears. A series of events happened and blahblah, some pastor saw the music talent in him and sent him to Julliard (Its the number one music school in the world), where he wrote amagnificent piece called "August Rhapsody" during one of his lessons. The piece would be performed in some concert thing, and blahblah, his mom, dad, were all there and they reunited. The end.

Of course, the movie sounds... boring, from my poor description, haha! For more information, WATCH IT ON YOUR OWN!

Okay, I saw the show 10,000 BC on my player, so planning to watch it I guess. Oh wait, there's JOHNNY ENGLISH! Wahahaha! Yeah man, its going to be hilarious. Off I go now!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

2008-03-13T15:41:00.001+08:00

Changed back to my previous blogskin, cos the left hand bar of the chess blogskin is TOO THIN. However, I changed the picture to another more recent and nicer one. Thanks Diane for helping me with the picture.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

2008-03-12T21:46:00.002+08:00

Yesterday's tournament was great. It didn't wasted all my hard work.

To all those who looked down on Crescent Chess, WE WON A MEDAL. You pathetic souls go face the wall and cry. I bet some of you never even win a medal in your CCAs before.

Although it was only a medal for the 17th position, it didn't came easy and I had a great sense of achievement. I have to admit that some losses in the game was really a blunder and I SHOULD (not could) have won her, just like what my coach says "She didn't win you, you LOST to her.". I thought about it for a few mins and I really felt that I've let the school and my coach down. I had 4 points before the last game, and if I win the last game, I can surely get a medal. In the end, I got so stressed up that I over-protected my king, and did not see a move that could have checkmated her. Now imagine. Your coach, your friends, were all watching your game behind you. EVERY move is crucial, one mistake and thats it. Your friends are looking at you, to see if you can really help the school to get a medal.

At the last few minutes of the game, I totally gave up hope. I was hoping for a chance to be stalemated, and so I let her eat everything of mine and force myself into a corner. In the end, I ran out of time.

I really felt like the whole world crashing on me. A medal, gone! Just like that. Ariel SMSed me asking about my score, and I told her that I threw my own medal away. She consoled me and although I felt much better, I sat through the presentation with a heavy heart.

The 20th position was first called. And I look. It was my friend from Yishun Town. Slowly, all my other opponents that lost to me went up for the medal. I totally gave up any hopes of clinching one. Then, 17th Position, Seah Hui Yan of Crescent Girls' School! I was so shocked! My first ever chess award!

Anyway, this tournament also let me take a good look at some of my friends whom I thought were quite nice. One of them were so annoying I felt like slapping her. She was sitting beside my opponent during the last game. At the beginning of the game, I offered my opponent a draw, and said that having a draw will benefit us both. And you know what that "friend" said to my opponent?

"Aiya, eh don't draw with her. I think you can win her, not that I think you (looking and referring to me) are lousy, but yeah, I think she can win you."

At that point of time, I don't know whether to smile or flip the chess board and knock the table over. And of course, she influenced my opponent not to draw with me. I complained to my coach about this, and she warned her, saying that the Arbiter might punish her by deducting her time. What a loser. Its not about the thing that she said that my chess was lousy, its that CAN SHE JUST MIND HER OWN BUSINESS? In the end, she was just two positions infront of me. Big deal!

By the way, I changed my blogskin to the current chess one, cos I think that this is quite nice, and CHESS IS THE NEW IN THING! But if I think that my previous one looks nicer, I'll change it back, haha.

For those who don't know how to play chess, learn and enjoy chess! Make your life a fruitful one, chess isn't boring AT ALL.

Monday, March 10, 2008

2008-03-10T20:33:00.004+08:00

60th National School Individual Chess Championships 2008

Just ahead of me.

I CAN DO IT.

Show your support for me, man! Wahahaha!

Friday, March 7, 2008

2008-03-07T21:43:00.003+08:00

Mr Koh and Ms Lee left school today. Actually, Mr Koh is leaving at the end of next week, but it doesn't really make a difference, cos next week is the school holidays.

Mr Koh sang for all of us again today! Walao the song really made me feel so sad la, like, he's really a very very good principal and is always so cheerful and humourous. He's like the only one to write a Chinese New Year card to chess club when the whole school don't even care about chess club. I'll never forget the days where he was briefing us for the EV Interview and that day we asked him to help us film a DV Campus video for Mrs Lee's departure. He was laughing away about how fake he look cos from the camera, its quite obvious that he is looking at the script which was placed behind the cameras.

Our cute little A Maths intern teacher, Ms Lee left too. I was quite sad about it, trying hard not to cry, but I know that she has to leave Crescent some day, she has her own studies and her ambitions. I hope that she gets what she wanted. Anyway, her letter for me was really encouraging, and I nearly cried when I read it, especially when she gave me a hug afterwards.

Ms Lee is always encouraging me to do even better for my maths, and she said that no matter how the end results are, its through the process that we learn and grow. No teacher has EVER came to console me whenever I failed my maths tests, and especially during this common test, I felt really sad when I flunked it. Ms Lee told me that I could do it, because hard work pays and she know that I could do it. I think practically all teachers gave up on me. I don't do maths homework, I don't pay attention during maths lessons, I don't really care about my maths results, and in the end, I have so many borderline failures.

But for this year, I'm really different. I have wonderful teachers who can really make you interested in maths (I've always thought that maths only stands a teeny weeny part of our life and whoever makes a big fuss over maths is seriously dumb). These two months of maths lessons have been a really fun and productive one, and I really thank Ms Lee for being so patient with me, always staying back after lessons to teach me questions that I do not know how to do. For those who doesn't appreciate what the intern teachers have done for us, you ask yourself, why must the teachers help you when you don't even appreciate them.

Ms Lee (I know you are reading this), I'll miss all your lessons where you had such a soft voice and often had to scream, your (3sf) which turned into (3s1), your maths consultations after school, that day we went to find the 3 of you for Chemistry consultation but we ended up talking to the other China teacher instead, and your test paper filled with mistakes.

I really hope that you get the results you wanted, and to the Poly you wanted to go to. I promise you, I'll work hard for my A Maths, cos I know one day, I can tell you that I scored well for it!

By the way, I forgot about the (3sf) chop that I said I was going to make for you, cos too many people in our class would always forget to write (3sf).

Pictures!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

2008-03-04T20:49:00.002+08:00

A very short post, so it would be in note form.

1. I'm changing the picture on my blogskin.

2. Mrs Wong came over and congragulated me on getting distinction for E Maths. She went to ask my teachers for my score cos she knows that I'm very concerned about my Maths scores. She really motivated me alot, and before I forget, this blog shall remind me to go visit her when I have the time after I leave Crescent.

3. Mrs Wong wrote me a card and made me a lovely bookmark. Really sweet of her. She really remembered everything that I told her during the councelling session. I am considering writing a card for her in return, if I have the time.

4. Miss Lee is leaving on Friday, thats sad. She is receiving her A Level results. I hope she get what she wanted. She helped and motivated me alot in my maths and I'm very disappointed that I didn't manage to score a distinction for her to see before she leaves. She nearly made me cry when I receive my A Maths results!

5. Our new Social Studies teacher is seriously very boring. So I played online chess during her class instead.

6. Lunching with Moose today was great, thanks Moose.

7. Our class really scored very bad for English Common Tests, the highest in class got only 23/40.

8. I got a distinction for my Social Studies!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

2008-03-02T14:13:00.006+08:00

10000 words Wow, I'm so pro. Nah, I edited it, haha.

I had such a stupid dream yesterday. I dreamt that *breathes* my mom actually married me off to...

MY COUSIN.

Oh my god that is like hilarious. An arranged marriage between me AND MY COUSIN?? (The cousin is my dad's cousin's son. Which means, my grandmother's brother's son's son." I've made a family tree to let you see how far we are related.

(Click to enlarge)

Anyway, the cousin I meant isn't the one I often talked about, he's not Jing Qin. Its another male cousin of mine who is like 20 years old and in NS now? He is actually better-looking than Jing Qin, opps! But really, that is really like the stupidiest dream I've ever had. The problem is - in the dream, I am actually PREGNANT, even before the wedding! Super funny and stupid, so stupid until I feel like killing myself for having such a stupid dream. This is really driving me nuts. Anyway, in the dream, I told Chermaine about this "good news" and she gave me her classic "OMG" face. I think when she see this post she is going to give that face again, haha. I'm not very close to that particular cousin of mine, and I don't see him very often, maybe only during Chinese New Year. That dream really freaked me out. Why on earth would I dream about someone so... random? Walao when I woke up I burst out laughing, then, started thinking if I'm really on the verge of madness. I just hope my mom don't see this post, or she'll laugh till her jaws ache and the next time she sees my cousin she is going to tell him about this. Oh my god so embarrassing. Luckily, I don't see this cousin often, or I'll be reminded of this pretty often and I won't go near him. Hahaha.

Okay, stupid topics aside, I found out that I'm quite relaxed after the common tests, and the results are fairly okay I would say. I studied so hard for A Maths and yet I didn't get what I wanted. E Maths was a jaw-dropper though.

Like seriously, I hate school nowadays. I had a talk with Mrs Wong, and although what she told me made me felt better, some things still cannot be changed. What is worse is that I cannot write what I feel in this blog, or my tagboard would be flooded by all the vulgaraties and I'll top the chart for the 'Most Un-welcomed Person" in my class. I cannot tell everything to Chermaine either, so I had no choice but to go to Jessica. Thanks moose, for everything - your encouragements and your listening ear.

Now then I realise that being a Treasurer isn't easy, people will always think that you swallowed their money whenever you want them to pay for anything like competitions.

"Why can't we use the money from class fund?"

"Why is the money going out so quickly?"

"Why are you forever getting money from us?"

"I forgot to bring the money, I'll give you tomorrow." Tomorrow and tomorrow and you still haven't pass me the money, GO. AND. EAT. YOUR. OWN. CRAP. WORDS.

Some are worse, they give you attitude when you ask money from them nicely. I called your name 3 times and you just "urm" so softly. Don't think I cannot see your irritated face, come on la, you know it yourself that you aren't very well-liked in class with this kind of attitude of yours. Get a life man, you need to change all your dumb attitudes that you are giving to your classmates and your teachers.

I'm just super fed-up with all the stupid things happening here and there. Its not that I dislike school, its just all the little little things will add up to irritate me like hell. Why can't we even play during __ nicely and treat each other like classmates instead of trying to kill them? What the hell is the problem, man.

I'm super irritated now, and I think I'll have to go see Mrs Wong again. I have so many things to say and yet, I cannot tell them to my form teacher. It'll be so obvious to the class that I'm the "bad guy" who bitched about the rest of the class behind their backs. And I'll top the "Idiots Chart" for the whole year. This is driving me crazy.

Monday, Febuary 25, 2008

2008-02-25T16:14:00.002+08:00

I am currently a new fan of Phil Hansen's art works. All I can say is that his art works are JUST.SO.GODLY. If you want to know more about him, search Goodbye Art in youtube. Anyway, he is just someone who uses small objects to create a huge picture, normally political issues. He reminds me of the Art Attack man Neil Buchanan who does that too. Phil Hansen made a large portrait of George Bush, using Pointallism (Using small dots to create a big picture), and he wrote names of all the soldiers that died during the Iraq War due to that decision he made. Also, he sketched the picture of 48 women on different shades, photocopy them, and cut them out. He then pasted them onto this huge board to reveal the big picture - the picture of the muderer who killed all the 48 women. So cool right!

Anyway, one of his best works was making a huge picture of a Buddhist monk burning himself in protest, using 1800+ oreos to create the picture on the floor. Like seriously, I saw the real picture of the Buddhist monk, and it was really a picture that says a thousand words. It left a huge impact on me on how human's determination can overcome fear. IMAGINE SETTING YOURSELF ON FIRE AND SITTING DOWN THERE NOT MOVING, TILL YOU DIE. For us ar, you play with the candles during Lantern Festival and a drop of the hot candle wax falls on your hand can send you screaming through the whole street. That is also the main reason why Huiyan doesn't play with fire. Her life is too important, wahaha. It was said that the Buddhist monk was protesting something, and he sat in the middle of the road and he set fire on himself, without even yelping in pain or moving an inch. That must have been such a torture. Some people said that the photo was from this American band called Rage Of The Machines or something, and so I went to check it out on Wikipedia.

I shouldn't have trusted Wikipedia so much, our clique was so right about how sick Wikipedia is. And so, while browsing through the page about this band, I came across this super gross picture of them, NAKED. Like seriously, Wikipedia should not be meant for kids. AND THEY ARE REALLY NAKED, TOP TO TOE.

Walao till now I'm still very grossed out that I ACTUALLY SAW THAT PICTURE. I can bet that I'll have some weird things growing on my eyes the next day. WIKIPEDIA YOU KNOW WHATS CENSORING??

Urgh. Too grossed out to continue. By the way Ariel, get well soon!

Thursday, Febuary 21, 2008

2008-02-21T19:47:00.002+08:00

Seriously, I haven't laughed so hard for a long time, ever since I left 2S1. Thanks Chermaine and Ximian for giving me such a fun time in the train, laughing my hearts out.

Also, congragulations to Singapore for winning the Youth Olympics.

And finally, to Edison Chen. So you finally got the guts to confess huh. Be a man!

Wednesday, Febuary 13, 2008

2008-02-13T21:24:00.001+08:00

AIYA! NO TIME TO BLOG! COMMON TEST COMING!!

Still look at my post for what, GO STUDY LAH!

Saturday, Febuary 2, 2008

2008-02-02T21:22:00.000+08:00

Haven't blogged for a long time. Hectic week for me, with Chemistry Test on Wednesday, Biology and A Math Test on Thursday, and Pure Geography Test on Friday. All tests are considered manageble, except for A Maths, of course. It is very annoying that no matter hard you listened in class, wrote down all the notes, how neat your homework and how punctual you hand up your homework, you still cannot even pass it in the end. Haiz, what can I do! Like seriously, I have never paid so much attention during Maths lessons before, considering the fact that I have been hating Maths for the past 4 years. Forget it. I told my mom about this and she consoled me, saying that since I tried hard, she don't see why she cannot accept it when I fail my test. So nice of her.

Anyway, I had my first bowling lesson today! It was quite fun actually, but the coach asked me to use number 10 bowling balls, which is super heavy. I know you might say "Its not heavy!". And of course its not heavy to me. But we were not supposed to carry the ball, we were supposed to SWING the ball effortless. And of couse, we had to be in the ending position, which is one leg bent behind your front leg. And so it becomes a very difficult job. Today was quite productive though :)

However, my allergy is coming back :O On Thursday it looked only like a mosquito bite, and I thought nothing of it. Last night, it was really itchy and to my horror, it swelled up and looks like a gigantic mosquito bite the size of your palm+fingers. I'm not kidding about the size. I was so shocked I showed my mother and she gasped. Eee looks very disgusting. Today, it got worse. Although it became smaller, about the size of 4/5 of your palm, it turned purple. I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow. Luckily it didn't grow on my face. Lets hope its not like cancer or whatsoever. I need to renew my medicine anyway, its running low and its pretty useful in case of allergies. Gahh.

Anyway, Ariel just told me something so cool. She was flagging for a cab in the rain with Mingxuan and DAZHIDE, and there was this guy who honked them. He offered them his umbrella! They rejected, but when he smile, Ariel realised that he was PIERRE PNG! Omg soo cool. I think Pierre Png is quite hot, haha. Anyway, it was really sweet of him to do that.

If you don't know who's Pierre Png, thats him.

Okay, I'll walk in the rain more often. Get myself drenched and look helpless and who knows, Xiezhi might come by and offer me his umbrella. HEEHAW.

Opps, can't dream too much. Anyway I didnt see them in the Sheng Siong show today! Nevermind, ending here!

Thursday, January 24, 2007

2008-01-24T20:12:00.000+08:00

2007 GCE O'Level Results out today, and our results are scary, said by Mdm Kala. Its too good till its scary. Mean score of school = 9.5

THREE CHEERS TO CRESCENT!

Wednesday, January 23, 2007

2008-01-23T20:40:00.000+08:00

I'M SO FREEEE NOW! This is because Huiyan the very guai student did all her homework beforehand.

Anyway, we'll be having our Literature unseen prose test tomorrow, and who knows how difficult or easy it would be. It had been a long time since I last wrote LOOOOOOONG essays and I think I'll die.

Social Studies was fun today due to the fact that we have such a sick and funny teacher! The backrow gang was trying to be sick all the time.

Ms Malini: What do you think is the main reason for couples to have so many children in the past?

Backrow Gang: Because latax was hard-to-get then! (Referring to condoms)

Me: Cos they used gunnysacks since they were too poor to buy latax.

Ms Malini: Ooooooooomg.

Ms Malini: So what did the government do to stop the population from growing too rapidly in the 70s?

Backrow Gang: GIVE OUT FREE CONDOMS!

Hahaha we are seriously the best students the teacher can ever have. Anyway, I gave a name for the 3 trainee AMath teachers. They are called the family. Hahaha. Big sister is the one in blue, second sister is the one who knows Judo, youngest sister is the one who's in dance. And their mother? YOU KNOW WHO. Hahaha, not being mean here la! In fact I find all my maths teachers very nice and I'm beginning to like maths after 4 years of hating it.

Class interaction yesterday was fun too, but I'm wayyyy too busy.

Ms Azilah: I need a secretary to take down all the notes, who wants to be the secretary?

Class: HUIYANNNNNN!

Me: Huh what? (Looks up at Ms Azilah)

Then someone stood at the door outside our class.

Students: Can we see the peer leader head of this class?

Class: HUIYANNNNNN!

Me: What! Me again!

This is how busy I am.

Haiz. I think I'll be working as a part time beggar soon. I've been spending too much of my parent's money. Due to the change in the SCHOOL SHOES RULES, I had to get a new one although everyone said mine looked fine and shouldn't change it just because my shoes had a few speks of yellow. I told my mom to buy me cheap shoes like bata, but she bought Nike instead. She said she wants to encourage me, and would get the best of everything for me. But you know, alot of people thinks that I have very nice parents, but they were way too nice it makes me feel really bad to let them down if I fail any subjects.

Its like an invisible pressure. I know they meant well for me and have always got me what I wanted. My mom even implemented the "Cash Bonus Policy" and said that she won't mind giving us money if that would really motivate us to score for our tests and exams. Anyway, instead of using the $50 my god-mother gave me to let me buy clothes, I'm planning to spend it on studies. Maybe this would reduce the amount of money my parents have to fork out. I'll be getting my Jap JLPT results soon too, and I don't think I can pass. Haiz, do you know how much money my mom spends just to let me study Japanese? Again, learning Japanese isn't just because I'm interested in it, its because I can find a better job next time when I know another language, and Japan is rising its economy fast, soon, Singapore would be flooded with Japanese companies. Look at Fujitsu, Honda, Toyota, or even your toaster Sanyo. I hate it when people always say "Aiya, I know you learn Jap cos Xiezhi knows Jap too right!". But its quite okay nowadays, nobody says that to me anymore.

My dad had been coming home really late nowadays, ever since he changed job. He would always face his laptop till late at night before going to sleep. Seeing him working so hard makes me feel sad, you know why? All the money he earns goes to me and my sister. But I've decided to keep like $50 from my angpow money for paying future class funds, and the remaining money can go to my parents :)

Life is really hectic nowadays, and problems are rising in Chess Club, only Chermaine knows. Thanks Chermaine, and remember, I'll always be here for you!

Okay I think this post is quite weird. The front is so lively and happy, and at the back its so sad. Ending here!

Friday, January 18, 2008

2008-01-18T18:50:00.000+08:00

SILENCE, EVERYONE. I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE.

"To all the 108 good souls in the 'Hate LHG & PRC & HCL lessons Club':

I, the President of 'Hate LHG & PRC & HCL lessons Club', is here to tell you that I am disbanding the club, 4 days after I founded this club. This is due to the fact that all PRCs have now disappeared from our class, and life is great ever since without the comparison of us. I am sad to say goodbye to everyone, and our week in the club had been a hectic one.

I would like to thank the following members in my club:

Vice-President - Chermaine
Treasurer - Cindi
Road Sweeper - Ximian

And other 104 good souls.

Sincerely,

Huiyan
President of the Hate LHG & PRC & HCL lessons Club"

I don't know why, but I'm feeling super hyper today. I guess its because I've done a great deed! Anyway, my sister and I decided to help Ms Magata and her long lost best friend in secondary school regain their closeness, AND WE DID IT!

Haha, I told Ms Magata about this friend of hers. Once I mentioned her friend's name, she seemed really happy you know!

Me: Ms Magata, do you know someone called Lai Qiu Xuan?

Ms Magata: Eh! How you know Qiu Xuan, she's your cousin ar!

Me: No la, she's my sister's teacher and she mentioned you when they were talking about best friends.

Ms Magata: Ohh... What subject is she teaching?

Me: She's teaching my sister English.

Ms Magata: Qiu Xuan teaches English? Hahahaha! Okay, I shall SMS her later.

Then, I saw Ms Magata again when I was waiting for Ximian to go home with me.

Ms Magata: Eh, you know ar, I SMSed my friend, and we'll be meeting up very soon, all thanks to you!

Me: Hahaha my sister and I wanted to help the two of you! Who knows one fine day I'll receive some flowers to my house saying that the two of you thank us alot, heheh!

Ms Magata: Hahaha, okay. Aiya, I think don't send flowers, exams give you a few more marks, that one better. (She was joking about the exam marks okay, dont be so dumb.)

You know how they actually met? Ms Magata was tying her shoelaces, then the Qiu Xuan (her friend) was playing some 'walking backwards' game and was walking backwards. She didn't see Ms Magata tying her shoelaces and she was walking till her butt was like on top of Ms Magata's back already. Ms Magata then suddenly stood up after tying her shoelaces and she fell down flat. So hilarious. Okay I know I sound like some scary stalker of hers, but IT IS REALLY A COINCIDENCE! It had been a long time since I touched Japanese and I learnt some things from her okay!

Anyway, this week didn't pass as long as last week, which was a very good thing. The"backrow gang" sitting at the back of the class was super funny today. Ms Ng's tablet suddenly went into standby mode, and we were super happy about it cos we can drag English lessons. Then we got so happy we decided to do Kallang Wave at the back of the class and Ms Ng went "The back of the class, what are you all doing!"

Anyway, today was a great day! Okay, I go watch show now, BYE.

Wednesday, January 16, 2007

2008-01-16T20:04:00.000+08:00

I found out something very shocking today.

MS MAGATA JUNE IS A HALF-JAPANESE!

Which means, her surname Magata is a Japanese surname! Omg I ought to be shot. I learn Jap yet I didnt know that. I thought she eat potatoes too (Meaning ang-mohs). CHERMAINE, who has got totally nothing to do or link with Japanese, actually guessed it correctly that Magata is a Japanese surname. I think she secretly photocopied my Japanese notes, hmm...

Anyway, E Maths was amazingly fun today, considering the fact that I hate Maths. Natalie showed me how to type the word KISS.MY.ASS into the scientific calculator and everyone sitting at the last row laughed crazily, I then raised my hand. Thinking that I had a question to ask her, Ms Magata walked to my seat. I told her that my calculator had gone bonkers and she told me to reset it. I then showed her my calculator that has the word KISS.MY.ASS and she rolled her eyes. Hahahaha. Its always nice to have such a fun and YOUNG (that is the most important thing) teacher who can stand these kind of jokes. If anyone dares to do that to Ms Ng, I'll kowtow to her.

Anyway, I told my family what happened in school during dinner. And my sister suddenly said that her teacher told her she has a very good friend who is teaching in Crescent called June. Hmm... I shall go and ask Ms Magata if she knows her, haha.

I'm becoming famous in the whole Sec 3 level now (hahah I'm so ego). This is due to the fact that Mdm Low tells every of her class her best pickle-ball (or however you spell it) player is from CHESS CLUB. And everyone roared cos they know thats me. In future, I'll keep a signature pen with me, makes it easier for me to sign my name for my fans like Chermaine. Hahaha.

My grandfather just went for a surgery yesterday and he looks like a pirate now. Hahaha, wanted to buy a cool eye-patch for him but I don't think I can find it. He said that he could finally see the actual colour of my house sofas, cos he had always thought that they were BLACK instead of blue before the surgery. I have such a cute grandfather.

Higher chinese lessons are such a bore nowadays. I think, if I didn't go for Higher Chinese, I would ace in express Chinese cos I heard that its just SO EASY. I bet Janell Kuan thinks that its difficult wahahaha. Higher Chinese test today was okay, I was really being such a paranoid this morning, thinking that the test would be SO DIFFICULT. Hope that I don't fail, that is. I think I'll fail my summary, its too tough.

Homework time, BYE.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

2008-01-10T21:40:00.001+08:00

Around one week spent in school and I felt like I'm graduating Sec 3 soon. Everything is so unfamiliar to me. Although my new class is nice and everyone, I really still prefer 2S1.

I will miss:

The name 2S1
Class of the year award
Everyone's laughter
Everyone's hyperness
How everyone would look at me when there are chess announcements
How they laugh at me for being the Crescent Ambassador
Our way of dealing with teachers and can make them smile even when they're angry
Mr Goh's ammonia gas
Our coastal cleanup
Our peacehaven
Our last day of school classroom cleaning
Our lame Ms Vicky cheer
Our class video
and most imporantly, my friends

How I wish we do not have to change class, and can always remain in 2S1. I've never felt this sad when I left my primary school, maybe I just love 2S1 alot.

Talking to Jess Loi is like the bestest thing on earth. We're like chatting with each other and talking about how she can be my child's god-mother next time. And how we can play chess with the oldies next time at Peacehaven. Hahaha. Then we'll sit infront of our grandchildren and say "Come girls, say hello to Ah Mah Jessica, she'll be coming over to our house for a few days' stay, now be nice and play chess with her okay?".

HAHA!

To think we're so old to even talk about GRANDCHILDREN. I read the newspapers and there was this author saying how sad he was cos although he had his secondary school friends' contacts, he never talked to them. He'll only get to meet them during weddings or funerals and usually, they have nothing to talk about. Now I just hope this doesn't happen to me when I grow up and have my own personal life.

2S1, HUIYAN LOVES EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!

Wednesday, January 9, 2007

2008-01-09T22:45:00.000+08:00

Jess Loi and I shared some things with each other today and I can feel that she is really unhappy. I just hope that she can cheer up. CHEER UP MOOSE! YOU KNOW I TRUST YOU! I told her about things like liking 5566 made my life miserable sometimes.

Maybe lots of you didn't know it, but sometimes even I myself feel ashamed of being a 5566 fan. Whenever I play online games and make friends, I'll be very careful not to let them find out that I'm actually a 56 fan. Normally, people will turn away in disgust when they know that. This has happened before and I don't understand why is this happening. I have to say things like "My idol isn't so low class like 5566" just to test their reaction when they hear 5566, and if they continue my topic of saying how 5566 sucked, I'll know not to get too close to them, in fear of getting rejected just because I want to be friends with them. I know I sound like very desporate for friends, but I didn't mean this way, making friends is like one of the most important thing in my life.

Sometimes, it really feels very sad when a friend ignores you or looks down on you when you like something that they dont like. Happened in Sec 1, and so I've been careful ever since. Luckily for me, I've met some guys who actually likes chinese music like me and we get along quite well. I just don't know how a friend so close to you can give you the cold shoulder suddenly just because they found out that you are crazy over 5566.

I know it doesn't sound like me, but I really really feel ashamed sometimes when I confess that I like 5566. I know, I'll behave like a total crazy 5566 freak, but in fact, I was really worried that passerbys will come to know about it and start avoiding me, spread things like "Eh there is this loser who loves 5566 in 3S1, so disgusting right! And she said till they were like gods, yuck! 5566 is like PAST TENSE, she can live in history man!".

Life is like that, 3 years back when 5566 was famous, I was proud to say that I'm a 5566 fan, now its the Fahrenheit and Lollipop craze, you're being looked down upon. But for me, I'll make friends with those who can appreciate what I like, and that is how I treat others too. If they like someone that I dislike, I'll say it, but I'll never critisize their idols. No matter how many people can dislike me cos of my idol, one thing for sure is that I'll never give up on myself and I'll still like 5566 no matter what others think. I will buy their album proudly infront of fans of other boybands just like what I did today.

Just a note for Jess Loi:

Moose, you saw what happened to me on top, so don't feel that you're very unlucky now okay. No matter what, I'll still support you and won't listen to gossips. You can always tell me all your unhappiness although we are in different class. Just telling you that I've never regretted knowing you or liking 5566, so you musn't give up too!

Love,
Turtle

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

2008-01-08T20:11:00.000+08:00

5566 ALBUM IS OUT IN ALL LEADING CD STORES NOW, GRAB YOUR COPY TODAY!

School life had been so-so, except for the extremely annoying higher chinese lessons which I do not wish to mention in case I get sued. Guoju and I are discussing how unfair our teacher can be, catergorising us when we are counted as ONE WHOLE CLASS.

I should have just joined the express chinese class and rule them.

MS TAN SIEW HUANG I MISS YOU SO MUCH, SO PLEASE COME AND TEACH ME, I MISS YOUR LESSONS, SO DO THE REST OF 2S1 MISS YOU!

But lets hope the teacher will be nicer gradually, cos I heard that she's actually quite nice to the express chinese class and I know teaching the whole class with totally different viewpoints is not an easy job. Tomorrow's chinese compo would kill me please, I totally don't know how to write.

Being the class treasurer isnt easy job too, Im afraid of getting kidnapped :S