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2009-05-18T23:37:00.004+08:00

Day 84: 18 May 2009

BLOODY HELL! ROARRRRRRRRRRRR!

舊的不去, 新的不來

2009-05-17T01:25:00.003+08:00

I strongly believe that my sis and I have compulsive behavior! Sometimes in the middle of the night, we'll just randomly say, "okay, let's pack the clothes!", and we'll start packing and throwing away stuff. And so, we did it again tonight. It's partly also because my sis moved back everything from hall and our room's like a warzone now.

The t-shirts.

Goodbye clothes, we're dumping you.

In total,
51 t-shirts,
61 tops,
18 pairs of jeans,
21 pairs of shorts,
15 dresses,
4 skirts.

But right, if I only go out on weekends, I shouldn't repeat my top for almost a year! But I always have that few favourite tops. I don't know why we've such pathetic number of skirts. T_T The good thing about dumping clothes is, we can get more new ones! 舊的不去, 新的不來! So sis and I are going to shop for more new clothes tomorrow. Hehe.

Timbreeeee!

2009-05-16T15:13:00.003+08:00

Day 80: 14 May 2009

The best way to counter our sis who always switch on the lights when we want to sleep at night! LOL.

Mummy bought a superrrr big tub of Kueh Bahulu!

Day 81: 15 May 2009

Finally managed to get ourselves into Timbre, the outlet at The Arts House. The attendance this time's double of our usual one. Minhua likes to flirt with waiters! She broke one of the glasses accidentally and this waiter came to pick up the pieces, and then she started flirting with the waiter non-stop. LOL. Then we helped her dedicate a song to the waiter, but too bad he didn't hear it. :(

Darren was irritating another waiter throughout. When he came to take our orders, Darren kept asking for suckling pig. When Darren wanted to order "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which is one of the drinks in the menu, the waiter thought he's trying to be funny. LOL. After that, one of the waiters wanted to clear the chicken bones on the table, so he asked, "can I clear your bones?" Then Darren was like, "I'm boneless".

We had pizzas, fries and chicken wings but I've no pictures because we're too hungry. Everything's gone before I can bring out my camera. I tried Mango Mojito because I did one of the quizzes on Facebook and it says that I'm a Mojito, so I just tried. It wasn't too bad, the mint leaves were disturbing though.

It's a great night catching up and we got to meet Siyuan's boyfriend! For like.. 1 minute I think. Fantastic company, fantastic atmosphere and good music. Let's meet up again soon, with more people! (: I want to go 愛情海 next!

Day 82: 16 May 2009

For the past few days that we've been eating out, I kept craving for mee siam. But nobody sells mee siam, at 511 market, at night! And I've no time to eat during weekdays because I'll wake up too late and have to rush to school, so I cannot go downstairs for breakfast. I usually settle my lunch in school or at home, so I don't have a chance to eat out. Then this morning, mummy woke me up for breakfast but I refused to. Who wants to wake up for breakfast on a Saturday morning! So, mummy and daddy dabao mee siam for me. Lovely! :D

哭笑不得

2009-05-13T19:24:00.002+08:00

Day 79: 13 May 2009

I don't have picture for today because nothing much happened. I went to school and then came home and sleep. Zzzz. So here's a picture of Hayden. He's like how cute! (:

Some of the funny things I heard in school!

Colleague 1: Those students never remember teachers' name, they just call you "teacher teacher"!
Me: No, they don't even call you "teacher", they'll "cher cher"!
Colleague 2: Yah! If they call me "teacher", then I'll call them "student". If they call me "cher", I'll call them "stu".
Me: LOLLLL! Should be "dent"!

Student 1: Teacher, #2 scold me cheebye (cb)!
Me: #2, come here! Why did you scold that?
Student 2: Noooo! Teacher, I didn't scold her cb but she said that I scold her cb. I really didn't scold her cb but she kept saying I scold her cb!
Me: Do you have to keep repeating that word!

This is another friend's encounter, which is super classic!

Student: Fuck!
Teacher: Do you know how the word 'fuck' came about?
*Proceeded on to tell students the origin of the word, hoping to educate and inspire them.*
Student: Orhhhh. Teacher, so how did the word 'cheebye' come about?

Students nowadays are super creative, to the extent that I don't even know if I should laugh or be angry.

我睡覺時愛說話

2009-05-12T23:43:00.002+08:00

Day 78: 12 May 2009

The practicum people from NIE left already. Two of them are posted back to the school so I thought they'd be coming today, at least I won't feel so bored. But I think they're off for a short break now and will only be back on the 25th. So I'm going to feel bored for the whole of this and next week. I was quite shocked when I went into office this morning because the whole place's like empty! There used to be 4 other teachers from NIE around me plus another relief teacher. And the NIE teachers' tables are all stacked high high and full full. So it looked super packed. But now they're gone and so are their things, so the place's pretty empty.

Anyway, my meimei is super evil! I sleep-talked again (for the 203439840194th time) last night and she purposely made me talk more so that she can record it down! Tsk! The other day, my aunts and I were talking about sleep-talking and my xiaoyi's amazed that people who sleep-talk can answer according to context.

My liuyi was sleeping when her daughter went into her room..

Liuyi: How much you want?
Cousin: Huh? Err.. $100.
Liuyi: Hundred thousand ah? I don't have, fifty thousand can?
Cousin: Okay.

My liuyi is super funny can! People only want $100 and she wants to give her $50 000. What a good deal! I was telling my cousin that she should make her do an immediate bank transfer or something.

I always get irritated when people try to get me to answer them when I'm sleep-talking. When I'm sleep-talking, I always speak very unclearly. So my aunt always ask me what I'm talking. Then I'll repeat a few times (still unclearly) and then get irritated, "aiyah, don't want talk to you already lah!" and go back to sleep. Hahaha!

New look

2009-05-11T23:44:00.003+08:00

Day 77: 11 May 2009

Oh yay! My new header is finally up! :D Nice nice?

The picture on the extreme left was taken at my void deck, before we went for my ah ma's birthday celebration at Tampines' kopitiam, which cost $4000+ for 5 tables. O.o Ridiculous price for eating at coffee shop. The second one's 2008's sports carnival. I cut away the other four people in the photo. Hehe. The top one in the centre's taken during 2008's Teachers' Day celebration in school, when we all wore our junior high uniform. The bottom one's taken with Hayden during one of the visits to dayi's house. The next one's taken with Tienleng's camera, when we're playing volleyball after interhouse 2008. The last one's one of the prom night's photos.

Today's a school holiday in-lieu of Saturday's Vesak Day. So I stayed at home and rot my life away. Rotting has become a luxury ever since I started work because I'm busy day in and day out! But I guess my life's not so bad, at least better than those working from 9am to 5pm. I end work at around 3pm daily, eventhough I start at 7am. And my school's (super) near to my house so I end work at 3pm, I reach home at 3.05pm.

Anyway, I told my teacher that I'll be able to help them till end of July. I'm too lazy to find another job and I don't think I'll be able to find one that's good. Economic downturn yo! Plus relief teaching pays very well. So I think I'm going to stick with it till the very last minute. Then August will be left for me to bum around and prepare for my studies. I need to read up on some good books, meet up with friends, spend time with my family, go for short overseas trip (hopefully!) and buy things that I'll need before I leave Singapore.

On a side note, MOEMOEMOE, please call me NOWWWWW!

Also, congrats to friends who've received acceptance letters from their desired course/college! (: For those who've not, wait patiently, I'm sure you'll get it soon! <3>

有媽的孩子像個寶

2009-05-10T23:46:00.004+08:00

Day 75: 9 May 2009

Favouritest photo of the day - Ah ma and Hayden! They look so happy!

The "cake", which is actually jelly.

Had Mothers' Day celebration + Dayi's birthday celebration at ah ma's house today. Aiping ordered the jelly as "cake". That's because all the aunts like the jelly after eating it at Hayden's birthday.

My cousin, ah hiang gor, is super funny. He told his mum (dayi) that he's going to celebrate her birthday at ah ma's house on Saturday. So, dayi called ah ma to tell her about it. A few days later, ah hiang gor told dayi that he's not celebrating her birthday already because he didn't manage to order the buffet. Then, ah hiang gor proceeded to sms everyone in the family to tell us to keep it a surprise. When ah hiang gor reached home at 3am plus this morning, dayi still told him, "eh tomorrow dabao some stuff to ah ma house and eat lah". So ah hiang gor continued to pretend and asked her dabao for what. Then dayi was like, "tomorrow my birthday leh! You celebrated for your son then you didn't celebrate for me!" Ah hiang gor still pretended to ignore her then dayi got angry. So ah hiang gor asked her sister to buy 100 satays to ah ma house in the evening, in order to make dayi a little happier. So when they came to ah ma house today, ah hiang gor kept teasing dayi whether her satays arrived already not. LOL.

HAPPY MUMMY'S DAY TO MY MUMMY AND ALL THE MOTHERS!

Day 76: 10 May 2009

We always have trouble finding mothers' day/fathers' day/birthday presents for our parents because they don't wear watches, their wallets can always last for a long time, my dad doesn't wear belts... So, this year, I suggested giving them angbao since they want to get a new tv for their room. So we can help fork out a little! Haha.

Spent the night watching 《愛的發生練習》。For the whole (almost) 2 hours, I don't know what the show's really about! It's really a 文藝片 to the maximum! The story line's abit weird.. Why did Barbie Hsu move in to stay with her first boyfriend, along with her sister and the gay partner? So is 彭于晏 straight or gay? So confusing!

Anyway, something random. My erjie just moved back from her hostel these few days because it's term break. Her things are really scary man! It's like our house times two! Some of the above are the slippers she brought back. Name the colour you want, we have it! Heard from my mum that there's another bag of about 10 pairs of slippers. Wtf, my sis is a centipede!

反思

2009-05-09T12:59:00.001+08:00

自從開始教書，開始常和朋友聊關於現在的學生，加上最近８頻道９點檔的戲劇又帶出了多現代學生在學習上的態度等等問，我就不斷地在想新加坡的教育制度到底是在往哪裡走？現在的學生到底在想什麼？他們到底學了什麼？雖然我也剛離開＂傳統＂的學生時代不久，但我覺得我好像跟他們很不一樣，有隔閡！

我同意戲劇裡所說到＂以前的學生比較懂得尊師重道＂。以前的老師和學生之間是很嚴肅的態度，只談公，不談私。現在的師生間似乎已看不到這樣的隔閡，師生間就像朋友一樣。有時，我向媽媽提起我們和老師之間的事，媽媽會說＂哇，現在的老師可以這樣的啊？＂但在我心中，就算跟老師再怎樣的玩鬧都還是會保持師生間的一道線，絕不越過。但我在上一所學校時卻發現，現在的學生好像忘了這條線，經常過分的＂友好＂，甚至沒大沒小，讓我非常煩感。看著他們，我有幾次都很想站起來教訓他們，最終卻沒有。因為那名老師都沒說什麼了，身為旁觀者的我又能說什麼呢？

我們常說＂因為學生學習態度改變了，所以教育制度也要改變＂。但我覺得，這些學生的所謂＂學習態度＂是不存的。牠是由社會、環境和教育制度賦予生命的。換句來說，應該是由教育制度來改變學生的學習態度，而不是由學生的學習態度來改變教育制度。

就拿華文教育來說吧。記得以前，同學們都要為填寫漢字和造句等把整本詞語手冊吃下去。但現在，為了不鼓勵＂死記硬背＂的學習法，填寫漢字和造句已從考試中廢除。不讀死書固然好，但也造就了今天許多學生不認字，不會寫字的狀況。雖然以前的讀書方法很死板，但至少牠是有效的。我在小六時也曾痛恨我的華文老師要我們被一大堆諺語等等，但現在，我非常感謝她。況且，我發現有很多學生練漢語拼音都不會拼！他們口上可以說‘自己’，但結果拼出來的是 'ji ji'。更糟的是，報章、雜誌、電視節目上再也不用標準華語了。我常常會在雜誌、電視節目、廣播等等裡看到或聽到語病、錯字等等。這樣要怎樣推廣華文教育？現在，各各學生只會說＂華文很難！我不要學！＂仔細想想，是難還是你們沒有接受牠？也許，接受了，學習起來就會更輕鬆呢？

現在既然還要廢除小一小二考試制度！說是為了讓學生能不必為考試做準備，也可是為了樂趣而不是考試來學習。但對於一二年級的小學生來說，他們能明白嗎？對他們來說，就是不用考試，誰管你是為了什麼原因。更何況，若在他們剛加入小學時不考，到了更高年級時突然要考試，他們能適應嗎？我是舉雙手雙腳反對此政策的！

有多少人成為教師是為了熱忱和興趣，又有多少人是為了金錢與利益？接觸了，你就會知道。可能是我太理想化，當我看到不做功課的學生時，我會逼他們做，一定要他們以自己的力量做完。但資深的老師會跟你說：＂算了吧，把答案亮出來給他們看，讓他們抄一抄。學生好過，你能交差，學校也滿意。＂真的是這樣嗎？在前一所學校，我還遇到一名非常莫名其妙的華文老師。他問我想讀什麼，我便說中文系。他既然說：＂為甚麼要讀華文？念別的吧，華文很難，千萬別選。＂我保證，他當時絕對不是開玩笑，他很認真，而且還一直勸我不要念華文！我當場傻眼了。現在既然有這樣的老師，我無言。

我又上報了

2009-05-08T17:44:00.001+08:00

Day 73: 7 May 2009

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After appearing on xin.sg, I'm now on The New Paper! This news was actually published on the 28th April 2009, but I had no time to take picture of it and my cousin only passed me the newspapers a few days ago. So it shall be my project365's picture for today!

Day 74: 8 May 2009

My dajie and erjie's offices all banned MSN, so smart people like us use email to chat! LOL. We exchange at least 50 emails a day. 吃飽沒事做的OLs!

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY, ANLI!

You're freaking old, OMG!

Gua gua gua to Mas Selamat!

2009-05-08T08:12:00.002+08:00

*GUA GUA GUA* Mas Selamat is caught! Maybe the rewards should be given to the Malaysian authorities. But why is the news only released now when he's caught in April?

(Click on picture for news on straitstimes.com)

秋天數落葉

2009-05-07T16:43:00.003+08:00

I was reading Cruz's blog, when I realised the girl in the video, whom he's mocking at, looks awfully familiar. Then, I realised, WTF, she's my primary school classmate!! Guess what, she's on Channel 5's The S Factor. Unfortunately, she didn't even survive through the first episode. Maybe we all know why.. LOL. And she gave herself some name called Autumn. ??? seriously!

(Click on picture to go to her profile page)
She's "I can give very seductive eye contact" and "use my eyes to give electricity" girl in the following video. I almost fell off my chair when I heard her saying that. We're from the same class in P6 and even though my english is cui, it cannot be this bad right?

This girl always has different stunts! When we're in primary school, she told everyone that she feels depressed or isolated or something like that, which I cannot and don't bother to remember, so she slit her wrist and covered it with a plaster. We saw the plaster, but not the wound. We kind of pitied her, but one day, one of my friends saw the plaster dropping off and there wasn't even any cut on her wrist! If my memory didn't fail me, it's just a SUPER DUPER tiny hole. WTH? Then, we went on to different secondary schools and one day (Again! Because we obviously don't keep in touch anymore!), she added me on Friendster (yes, how long ago is that) and I happened to see her blog. To my surprise, she's dating a guy who's like almost 30 years old! O.o Afer not hearing from her for so long, she's here to surprise us again!

I saw the video while I was having my lunch break. So after the break, I ran excitedly to the staffroom and asked my P6 form teacher, "Ms Koh! Do you remember Honghui? She's on Channel 5's The S Factor!" Yes, I know, super 三八 right. But juicy news must be shared! Then, I texted the primary school friends (namely Darren and Hazel) about it and Darren said that Royston mentioned it to him before. Hazel was shocked, just like me!

Oh man, hideous.

我决定每天都要吃早餐

2009-05-06T16:20:00.002+08:00

Recently, 933 kept playing this 卢广仲's song, called Rock n roll的style. OMG it's freaking annoying okay! Irritated me to the maximum!

Does he really like eating breakfast that much? But I don't really care.

I went on Youtube to search for this song, then I linked to another video which showed 方大同 and xiaozhu imitating 卢广仲. Then I linked to all the videos of xiaozhu imitating people on yubai. Then I linked to the videos of xiaogui and Rainie Yang. Like how they got together, what they did when they're together, how 暧昧 they always are when they're on yubai and many other videos! In the end, I spent 2 hours youtubing!

Xiaozhu and 方大同 imitating 卢广仲. I think xiaozhu's is super good! Especially towards the ending.

2 Days of MC

2009-05-06T12:26:00.003+08:00

#70: 4 May 2009

As MOH raised the pandemic alert level from yellow to orange, I had to report to school at 6.45am this morning for briefing by the principal. Was told that we've to take temperature twice a day.

I've been feeling feverish since last night. I ate panadol while I was in school, so my temperature was kept in check. But when I came home, it rose to 38.1. Thought I would be okay after eating more panadols, so I did and went to sleep.

#71: 5 May 2009

Woke up in the morning and felt freaking sick. Temperature's at 39.2! Reported sick and wanted to take some medicine before going back to sleep. But when I walked out of the toilet, my vision suddenly went blur and everything around me started spinning. Luckily I was fast enough to sit down immediately. Then my mum made me milo and I was like drinking outside the toilet, and beside me is the dustbin. Yucks! After that, I took panadol and went back to sleep again since the clinic doesn't open so early.

I slept all the way till noon when my mum woke me up for lunch. I only ate one mouth and I felt like puking already so I ran to the toilet. When I was walking out, I couldn't see and my world started to spin again! T_T I kept having blackouts these days that sitting down immediately has totally become a reflex action. Sat there and asked my dad to bring me sweets to bring up my blood pressure. Then, mummy brought me to the doctor and got 2 days MC.

Our bodies are so hard to please. High blood pressure is not good, low blood pressure is not good either! Argh!

#72: 6 May 2009

What kind of crisis is Singapore's Chinese education facing?! My grandma asked the person at the clinic to write down the number of times and pills she has to take everytime and this is what the person wrote! What is 升时? This person is really the 有边读边，没边读中间 kind. 粒 became 米! WTH!! I almost died laughing when my mum showed me these. There's another one which she cannot write 抗生素 so she wrote 抗 in hanyupinyin and used another word to replace 素, but I cannot remember what. I think my grandma threw it away already. OMG.

Oink oink

2009-05-03T23:14:00.000+08:00

People, beware of Swine flu!

Bad time to be sick. Moreover, I've to be in school at 6.45am tomorrow for briefing! Although the school is very near to my house, I still have to wake up earlier! Sian...

Happy Mothers' Day in advance!

2009-05-03T19:49:00.006+08:00

#67: 1 May 2009

Had lunch with erjie and meimei at Century Square's Billy Bombers. The waiter there is so screwed. He couldn't answer most of our questions! He kept saying, "okay, wait huh, I go and check". Reminds me of the episode of Paris&Milan the previous day. LOL! It's the Patricia Mok, Zhou Chong Qing and Yi Da Li's show.

Nice and cheap!

There's some lunch set, up to 3pm from Monday to Saturday, which includes Soup of the Day, Main Course and Drink at only $14.50!

Then, went to check out iPhone and Prada(II) because erjie wanted to get either one. But nobody has Prada(II) on display, have to make order. :(

Erjie went to meet her friend while An Qi and I came home first. Freaking tired! Concussed for two hours and then went running with erjie while Mummy went to cycle. Healthy lifestyle yo!

At night, Yoke called to ask, "Eh, you know what we're doing tomorrow?". Then I was like, "Yah, just now Jason told me online that he cannot attend my birthday celebration tomorrow". LOL! So she asked what present I want and I couldn't think of anything I need! So asked her to get me vouchers then I can go and buy what I need when I think of it. Shopping vouchers is like the bestest birthday present! I think we should just get it for everybody the next time. Don't have to search high and low for presents.

#68: 2 May 2009

Met theclique for lunch at City Hall. Went to Billy Bombers again! It's okay, because I like! (: Anyway, as usual, many people were late, so we went shopping first. Got myself a top from Mango. It's only $25!

My new top from Mango.

YUMMY!

The cake from Bakerzin is freaking cheap. Half price at $12.30 only! Minhua said that every season they will different cakes at half price. The last time was Oreo Cheesecake I think. But poor Minhua's name went missing and my name was written as Anting. D:

We asked this uncle (who looked very weird in a way) to take a group photo for us. Then when he said "1.. 2.. 3!" his hands started shaking SUPER badly. And he looked like he's about to smash the camera on the floor or something. He just looked at the camera screen super fiercely. So scary can! In the end, we got the Billy Bombers staff to take for us, which turned out super blur as well. T_T

The girls.

My birthday presents!

We just rot around and suddenly, someone said that it's almost 4.30pm already. I was freaking shocked can! I'm supposed to reach home at 4.30pm to take family photo!! O.o Called mum and rushed home. Wanted to take cab but luckily I didn't because when I was on my way to MRT station, my mum called to tell me that it's cancelled. Apparently, my aunts and cousins are all late. -.-

So I reached home at 5pm plus for nothing. Waited till almost 8pm before we started dinner. Then we took our DIY family photos! Haha.

What a spread! Homecooked!

Mothers' Day celebration in advance.

The mothers! :D

It's really time we replace these hideous looking photos!

Spot me!

Individual families with my ah ma.

Like class photos, we must have fun shots too!

The cousins.

My ultimate tallness cousin.

#69: 3 May 2009

I know this sounds bad, but don't you find the woman in the middle very disturbing?

2009-05-01T23:17:00.008+08:00

I'm really quite sick of getting clothes from Singapore. Especially tshirts, which are so severely overpriced. -.-

Solution: ORDER FROM ONLINE SHOPS! :D

(Click on the picture to link to blogshop's webby!)

Project 365: Day 63 to 66

2009-04-30T23:27:00.003+08:00

#63: 27 April 2009

#64: 28 April 2009

Received a call from Wang Laoshi at 1.34pm and he's here to deliver the bestest news on earth! Was told that I'm accepted by Fudan and also got the Shanghai's scholarship!! Hehe. Happy to the maximum! :D I was telling my sis that they probably accepted me because I was super cui at the interview and they decided that I have to go over to Fudan so that they can teach me well. LOL.

Then was in such a good mood that I went to cut my hair after school. I think there's something wrong with all hairdressers! I told him that I don't want the back to be straight (like it is now) and he said okay. He even repeated, "你要丝丝的对吗？" In the end, it's still the same! ARGH! In the past, when I tell hairdressers to keep the length, they'll never do it also! Why they cannot follow instructions?!

Still freaking straight!!

Came home and received NUS FASS acceptance letter as well. 不来，全部都不来；一来，全部一起来.

#65: 29 April 2009

If you need to know, I like to take many pictures of myself in the same outfit and same angle. And also, I only have one set of formal clothings. In fact, it belongs to my sis. T_T

Went to school as usual because there's relief duties for oral examinations. Then went for the NIE's BA/BSc interview at MOE HQ. Met Mr Ng before the interview to pass him my GC. He's amazed by how I managed to keep the whole set (with the box and instruction book) till now. I knew that I won't need them once I finished my A Level, so I made sure I kept them well so that I can sell it away.

The questions were like, "Have you been to China?", "What's the difference between the learning attitude of Singaporeans and PRCs?", "Do you agree that Singaporeans are losing interest in Chinese Language?", "How are you going to let your students be interested in Chinese?", etc... After asking me so many questions, the interviewers told me, "With your background, we think that you should take up Chinese in NUS or NTU, then apply for our PGDE course. Then you can teach at Secondary or JC level because this programme is more for the Primary level." I was like, O.o! I didn't know that! When I went for the briefing, I was told that this programme is for teaching at primary and secondary level. But anyway, it's like my last choice for my tertiary education. Although I want to teach, I don't really want to be stuck with an education degree.

This interview's very relax for me! I actually felt good after the interview. I wasn't as nervous as the Fudan's, so I could answer most of the questions. And I think my answers made sense.

Anyway, I think that the girl at the reception is super anal. I didn't know that I've been registered as visitor, so I don't have to surrender my IC to exchange for the visitor pass. Moreover, the security guard doesn't know anything as well. So when I went up, she asked for my IC to confirm my identity and I asked if I can use my ez-link card, which's still valid because it only expires on 30th April 2009! She said no and insisted that I go downstairs and get back my IC. After that was a moment of confusion between the security guard and I. Apparently, I wasn't the only one because I saw some other people getting back their ICs when I was registering.

After the interview, met mummy and An Qi for dinner at Cineleisure's Xin Wang. We finally got to use the vouchers and discount card which mummy signed up for the other time. I love eating at Xin Wang because they always play chinese songs! It's always Jolin, Jay Chou, Lin Youjia and all the latest songs. At the same time, it distracts me from eating because I only have one mouth so I cannot eat and sing at the same time. LOL.

#66: 30 April 2009

Am so sad that I cannot find this book, recommended by BGSS' VP during one of the contact time. Anyone knows where I can get it?

生日快乐我对自己说

2009-04-27T23:59:00.003+08:00

365 days ago, I turned 18, after which I didn't watch a single M18 movie. Instead, I spent my year on many other things..

#1 Played competitive sports for the first time

Our netball team encountered many difficulties on the way to playing A division. The lack of training time, teachers, school... However, I was glad that we eventually made it to East Zone. Although we didn't win a single match, it's great experience gained. Through the course of training, we've also built stronger bonds and had lots of fun!

My present from trainings and competitions!

#2 As crazy as ever

I started going crazy over Lin You Jia. Throughout 2008, my blog entries were often flooded with his videos from Youtube and Tudou. I also spent most of my free time watching videos after videos.

Then, on 18 July 2008, I managed to meet him in person in Temasek Poly! I was lucky enough to win the tickets from 933 and brought my sister along to his campus concert. At the same time, I managed to convert my sister into a Lin Youjia's fan.

Soon after, Jay released his new album again and I was going crazy over him! So I was practically switching between Jay and Youjia. But both are good, so why not!

#3 Meeting my number one idol

As if being able to meet Lin Youjia in person was not enough, I managed to meet Chen Xiao Dong in person as well! I stood so near to him that I could even smell the cigarettes smell on him.

It's a pleasant surprise as I didn't expect to be able to meet him since he hadn't been to Singapore for 6 years already. And he's currently more focused on the Mainland China's market.

#4 Changed my appearance

Nope, I didn't go for plastic surgery! I merely cut my hair. But that already took me a lot of courage. After Netball A division, I decided that I should do something to the long hair that I've kept for almost 6 years, so I went to chop it off, really short!

Procrastinated for very long as to whether I should cut it short. Then, I experimented my hair and tried to make it short. Thought that I looked okay with it, so I just went ahead. Now, I'm loving it! (McDonald's!) Though sometimes, I'll miss my long hair when I see people doing fancy things to their long hair. *Jealous!* Though having short hair makes my head feels lighter, it's definitely not easier to manage. I've to cut my hair almost monthly and I've to blow my hair every morning.

#5 Did a lot of CIPs

I spent a lot of time on CIPs when I was 18 because I found the joy in doing so. Helped with SANA's badge scheme, Paralympics, Project CAN...

Meeting special people and being touched (not physically!) by them everytime I do CIPs really made these time worthwhile. For example, one of the organisers of Paralympics who's deaf and mute. Even so, she appeared more normal than anyone of us. And she's so friendly and nice! Then it's the stranger whom I've never met during Project CAN. She just left a big bag of food outside the house for us to collect because she's not at home.

Jingwen's friend was quite shocked that we're still doing CIP when it's already August last year, when prelims and A Level were really near. Nevertheless, we enjoyed ourselves and I didn't regret going. Plus the boxes of chips that we brought home were bonus. LOL.

#6 Played a lot

Other than the netball trainings and competitions, I did other sports, mainly Volleyball, as well. The school also provided many occasions for us to play! There's Senior High Sports Carnival at Sentosa and Interhouse in school.

Despite not winning at both Sports Carnival and Interhouse, I had a lot of fun with fellow dunmanians and also roasting myself under the sun. Not forgetting burying Yoke's slippers and couldn't find it in the dark because we spotted the wrong marking. -.-

#7 Ran a lot

The 18th birthday celebration that I had for Singapore was different from the past ones. Instead of singing songs and watching concerts in school, we took it outdoor this year! The whole school went to Changi Beach for cross-country.

After running 3.6km at Changi Beach, I started falling in love with long distance running. During the mugging period, where exercising became scarce after trainings and mass PE were cancelled, I reckoned that running is the best way to stay healthy and keep fit. So, when I stayed back to mug in school, I'll go running around the track at least twice a week. The longest I've done so far's 8km. I'm trying to find the motivation to run and do at least 10km this year.

#8 Mugged a lot

For the first time in my life, I mugged THIS much. In primary school, I don't have to study a lot but will still be able to get good grades. Then, I went on to secondary school and thought of dealing studies the same way I did in primary school. That's an ultimate wrong move because my results started to dip real low. Then in Senior High, I finally started to sense the urgency to mug because A Level was really near!

So, I began spending days and nights mugging at airport during exam periods. T3's McDonald's and TCC became my favourite hangout spot with my mugging buddies.

Eventually, I survived A Level and got a reasonably satisfying results. Am glad that I woke up before the exams and turned on my mugging mode.

#9 Typed a lot

Think I was crazy when I decided to take up H3 CLL because that added another thesis writing to the CSC one. It wasn't really enjoyable having to struggle between two thesis. My laziness definitely didn't help! So it resulted in many many last minute work. The teachers were stress, we were stressed, everyone's pulling their hair.

I spent hours and hours wondering if my professor is going to kill me because I took supperrrr long to show him my first draft. Doesn't help that people like Chinyang and Geok Joo were already like at their final draft when I just completed my first draft. -.-

I was desperately looking for people to vet my CLL lunwen on the day of submission and they spotted many many typos! And I didn't even know that there's standard formatting, so it's another round of ganjiong-ing before I finally submitted my thesis. No wonder I only got a Merit.

#10 Converted into the best student you can find in school

Last year Teachers' Day celebration is the best I ever had in Dunman High. Despite missing the parties we used to have in 正心园, I still enjoyed myself during the celebration because the theme, Movie, was good!

Initially, our level thought of dressing up as characters in I Not Stupid because we're lazy to get the clothes and everything. In this way, we can conveniently wear our junior high uniform. Who knows, this ended up to be such a fun thing! Seeing the guys in those shorts was really hilarious.

It’s also good seeing how much effort the juniors put into dressing up. I think the Hair Spray and Iron Ladies classes were good!

#11 Took part in international events

Nope, I didn't take part in person, I took part by being engaged in the events! Haha. First was the Beijing Olympics 2008 where the Singapore team won our very first silver medal at Olympics after... How many years was that? I cannot remember!

One of the matches, the finals I think, was during our CLL lessons. And I remembered Jinghui and I, each holding a laptop under the table, trying to search for live telecast online. Haha! In the end, we could only watch live update of scores because there's no live telecast. And we started updating the whole class on the score.

Then, it's F1 which was held in Singapore for the first time. Was out for dinner with Vayl and company and happened to see the practice session. Quite a cool experience although I almost turned deaf after that. But the sound seriously added on to the excitment! Sadly, I missed all the exciting parts of the actual game, like when the Ferrari (I think) didn't detach the pipe thing before driving off, and all the crashing. I'm not a saddist, but what's so exciting to watch if there's no crashes or accidents?

I hope that I can be one of the volunteers for the next F1 held in Singapore!

Oh, and it's the first time I knew that brisk walking is one of the competitive sports in Olympics. Wth? O.o It's really scary to see so many people brisk walking at the same time! Their legs looked like they're going to break anytime. Yucks..

#12 Said goodbyes too many times

Had too many farewell sessions this year. We had last mass PE, when we all went crazy playing stupid games like table tennis with tennis and badminton racket.. And people going around snapping photos non-stop.

We had last PE, which Mr Chew was supposed to take photos with us but he had to go for some meeting with some dua dua people. T_T After strolling round the track for many many weeks whenever he asked us to run one round for warm up, we finally ran seriously on the last lesson. But he wasn't there to witness. I hope Mr Tang told him about it. Haha!

Then, it's before we went off for our A Level study break, which all the teachers came together and put up performances for us. The farewell ceremony that lasted for 5 hours. Will never forget the band formed by the Science department and the coolest dummer, Mr Tan Leong Howe!

After A Level, we had the Graduation Ceremony on 3rd December. Then we had our first ever prom night.. We said farewell too many times.

#13 Experienced my dream job

It’s actually not a dream job since teaching is something no as far-fetched as being an astronaut? LOL. Lucky for me, MOE decided to have teaching internship for A Level students so that we can experience what’s teaching like. So, I gladly signed up for it and went to Bedok Green Secondary school because one, I want to experience teaching at neighbourhood school; two, it’s within walking distance from my place!

I would say that the experience’s really good. Got to meet very nice teaching supervisors despite meeting mean people at the same time. -.- At least I enjoyed going to school everyday, though I dread pulling myself out of the bed every morning.

Then I decided that I should try out teaching at primary school in case I like working with younger kids instead. So, I looked for Mdm Ng and asked if Yu Neng can take me in and they did! Currently, I’m doing relief there, teaching Mathematics.

#14 Lost some wisdom

After much procrastination (again!), I finally decided to extract my wisdom tooth because I kept biting on my inner cheeks, causing ulcers to form. I got really irritated and went to extract the right lower one.

The dentist said that I will have to wait for the upper one to grow out more before extracting. It’s still in my mouth and I think I’m going to extract it soon.. God knows how long I am going to take to finally drag myself to the dentist to do it. I really dread the whole process of having the numb my whole mouth and then feel the dentist pulling out my tooth with all his or her might. T_T

#15 The drama mama moments

Got involved in an action-packed incident at Tampines Mall. Helped to “chase” after a man who hit another man and attempted to run away. Although I wasn’t directly involved in the “actions” part, I’m proud to have friends who’re helpful and brave! Haha.

Heard from Vayl that the wife whom we helped wrote into Straits Times to thank Jinghui and Roy. But I’m not sure if it’s published. Anyone saw anything?

#16 Fell, hurt but picked up again

I really think I grew up and learnt a lot in this year. Many things happened and I saw the different faces of people. Genuinely nice? Hypocrites? Well, every mistake is a learning point.

Somehow, I don’t really mind having shitty people appearing in my life anymore. These are the people I need in my life to help me grow. But duh, I hope they will never appear again. And I appreciate all the friends I've found, who stood by me no matter what! (:

#17 Spent a lot of time planning for my future

The whole year was kind of filled with tea sessions and open houses. There’s PSC, PSC China, MOE, NTU, NUS…

There’re many takeaways, apart from the freebies LOL, from these tea sessions and open houses, but some are quite boring. Because they’re merely repeating things that can be found online. Guess the good thing about these sessions are the Q&A sessions.

Subsequently, I spent a lot of time filling in application forms, writing personal statements, photocopying documents and going to school for umpteen times to look for teachers. There’s a period of time when almost everyday, I spent hours before going into dreamland thinking about how life would be if I study overseas or locally.

#18 Gained a life again

The end of A Level really returned me the life I’ve lost. Finally had the luxury in the world to do what I like, like sitting in front of the computer and tv day in and out watching dramas. And I got to try funny jobs like counting cars by the roadside.

Also managed to catch up with the 2G people a lot. Ever since the end of schooling days, we’re meeting up almost every Friday night. YAY to old friends! (: On the other hand, I seemed to be seeing lesser of theclique’s people ever since school ended. When’s our next gathering??
Spent a lot of time and money on mahjong as well since I now have both time and income to play. Haha. But it’s really not my year, I lost quite a sum already. Say NO to mahjong!

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Today, I turn 19!

A very very big thank you to those who sent your well wishes in a way or another. Vayl, Yoke San, Jamie, Xue Ling, Feng Yi, Zihui, Darren, Uncle, Sheila, Jane, Hazel, Sieu Ping, Ivy, Chinyang, Jason, Jie Xin, Aaron, Roy, Li Li, Min Hua, Freddy, Justin, Joy, Cedric, Yihui and Janice!

I found out that Jane has the same birthday as me! I finally found someone whose birthday is the same as mine. Haha. Yayness to fellow Youjia, xingguangbang and Ah Dong’s fan! :D Happy birthday to you too!

The devil wears Prada

2009-04-26T23:40:00.004+08:00

Day 61: 25 April 2009

Yay, I love meeting up with theclique! I miss singing!

Met Vayl and Gabriel for lunch at Wisma's 鼎泰丰 after collecting my laptop. Minutes after collecting my baby, I dropped it! I wanted to lean my laptop against the wall and it dropped onto the floor because I didn't know that there's a gap between the bench and the wall! T_T But I told Vayl that it's okay because the service centre is just upstairs. Haha.

We're walking to the bus stop after lunch when we saw some people playing stomp. Then I said, "wah, scully got Zihui and Amelia". Immediately after saying that, Vayl spotted them and they're really performing because there's a YBC event there. How 巧 is that! So we stopped to watch them for awhile and had a short chat. Today's a really 巧 day because just before that, Vayl met Jinghui, who just booked out, while she's walking to Pioneer MRT station.

They're really shocked to see us.

Finally, we got to Teoheng! Jingwen came shortly after that and both of us started having our concert because Gabriel and Vayl refused to sing! Then Chinyang, Jinghui and Aaron came to join us.

The usual photos at Teoheng.

Jingwen always shows her ultimate unglamness at Teoheng!

After singing, we went for dinner at Aston. Luckily we're early because when we finished our meal, the queue formed outside was supacuppa long! While deciding where we should go next, Vayl started shouting, "Jingwen! Your mother!" So we all turned to look and we saw Jingwen's parents in their lorry, stopping at the traffic light. Haha! See what I said about it being a 巧 day? So Jingwen started talking to them and her mother suddenly decided that they can send us to The Cheesecake Cafe. So within a minute, the seven of us hopped onto the lorry and it drove off! I've never seen these people moving at such great speed before. I think the people in the cars behind were all shocked. It's really an extremely funny sight.

Sat in The Cheesecake Cafe and talked for almost two hours. We started sharing our primary school experiences because I was telling them about the little terrors in my school. Jingwen's wallowing in self-pity's story is really classic! Actually, I couldn't recall much about my primary school except for the times when I bullied people.

There's once when my erjie and her friends were having some Science exhibition thing in their classroom. I went there and played with the displays. One of it showed a coin on top of a bottle and toothpick. I cannot remember what's the experiment about, but somehow the coin will drop into the bottle, with water, eventually. So I picked up the sucker, which was used to add water into the bottle, and splashed a few drops of water on a guy, my erjie's classmate, who's tending that station. Then, the guy started crying! I was only P3 and he's P6! I swear it's only a few tiny drops of water. I don't know why he cried! Moreover, he's a super big-sized guy. Omg, so funny can!

Day 62: 26 April 2009

My next phone!

Mum suddenly called to ask if I want an iPod Touch as birthday present, I said no because iPod has no FM and I don't like it. The only thing that I like about it is the WiFi! So I told her I will think of something else to buy. Then, I thought of a phone with WiFi! Wouldn't that be a better option? I've always wanted a phone with WiFi, Qwerty keyboard, slides sideway and a decent camera, especially after watching Gossip Girl where all of them have blackberry! After goggling, I found Nokia N97, which is not launched yet. Heard from my sis that it's going to be freaking expensive, probably almost $2k! Then.. I saw Prada (II)! It has all that I want for a phone! WiFi, Qwerty keyboard, slides sideway and a 5 Megapixel camera, all checked! Plus it's chio! But price's not checked, because it's $787! D:

Check out the phone HERE!

Stayed at home to sleep for the whole day because I HAVE NO TUITION! I finally fried the mother's cuttlefish (translate yourself!)! Major happiness! :D

Sadly, I was too lazy and thus didn't go for my run. Ahhh, self-discipline is dipping to zero again! Then, I watched Star Awards. As expected, Little Nonya's the big winner.

陈美凤's quite irritating. She's so AA and her nehneh is so disturbing!
Felicia Chin's dress is really off!
I'm glad that Joanne Peh won Best Actress.
I'm glad that Pornsak, 郑各平, Christopher Lee, Quan Yi Feng, Elvin Ng and 赖依玲 made it into Top 10 Popular Actors/Actresses.
I was shocked when 赖依玲 started running in heels and almost tripped on her dress when she's pregnant! O.o
Why didn't Quan Yi Feng win Best Host?
Why didn't 章缜翔 win Best Supporting Actor?
I cannot stand it when 阮经天 and 曾国城 kept por-ing Zoe Tay when they're presenting together with her.
Why did Li Teng ignore Elvin Ng when he's interviewing the Top 10 Popular Actors during the 庆功宴. He's the only one who didn't speak a single word!
I saw the contestants from Campus Superstar taking food like some ah soh during the 庆功宴. They're accidentally included in the scene because there's some interview going on infront of them.

Project 365: Day 55 to 60

2009-04-24T16:36:00.002+08:00

Day 55: 19 April 2009

Had tuition again, so you obviously know where the above photo was snapped from. The mother screwed up everything again, so there's a big confusion as to whether I should be there. Aiyah, whatever lah, zzz!

After tuition, met my family for dinner at 85 Market. There's thunder and lightning and we're sitting outside. We're right beside the bus stop, so I told my mum that if it starts raining, we just carry the table to the bus stop and eat.

Anyway, my sis took cab and there's another woman on the cab, sitting beside the driver. My sis thought she saw ghost! So stupid can. Before she alighted, she asked the cab driver and he said that that's his wife and they're going for dinner. There's once when someone called into 933 and said that he saw a driver who brought another person along with him when he's driving because he cannot recognise the roads. So the person's helping him! Wth?

Day 56: 20 April 2009

My ultimate messy office table.

1) 金嗓子 and my water bottle, which are two very very very important things! I cannot survive without them because I cannot stop screaming at the rowdy kids!
2) My super useful 环保袋! I always throw in everything I need for lessons and drag it there. It's super useful because I can just dump in worksheets, texbook, workbook, pencil case, file, etc!
3) This stack and the stack infront of it are all Science assessment books! My teacher lent them to me for reference because I'm trying to churn out Science worksheets and revision paper.
4) That's the 早报中国 I'm reading. Recently, I realised that reading newspaper is quite enjoyable. Haha.

I cannot remember what I was doing, why are all my markets and stuff stranded all over the table?! I'm packing my stuff during most of my free time because I've too many things on the table! I separated my books and worksheets into 4 stacks, namely P2, P4, P5 and P6. Then I've one stack of miscellaneous stuff. And the pathetic amount of space left in the middle is my working space.

I overheard some teachers discussing about Saturday's weather. Yes, it's freaking bad! I bathed THRICE. Think it's 35 degree Celsius. My tolerance for heat is usually quite high but on saturday, I started perspiring the moment I stepped out of the bathroom.

I always hear my colleagues discussing funny stuff! The other day, C was telling W how much she hates those China prostitutes who cheat dirty old man's CPF. I didn't eavesdrop okay! It's because I'm always using the computer in the resource room and they always chat there.

Day 57: 21 April 2009

After work, met mummy and sent my baby to hospital. I need to leave it there for 5 to 7 days! :( It's totally screwed man. I cannot shut it down, cannot open window explorer and I cannot reboot the system. And I like Sony's service centre, the waiting time is super short!

Then, mummy and I wanted to go Swensen's, so I called my sis and asked her where it is. She's told me it's at Crown Hotel there. We walked all the way to Heeren but still didn't see it. Then, we realised...

It closed down already! T_T

So we ended up at Ah Mei's cafe.

Day 58: 22 April 2009

Chocolate from Ms Koh.

Day 59: 23 April 2009
Received the letter from NIE.

I didn't go running today because dayima's here to visit. Hope I can make it up on sunday.

Day 60: 24 April 2009

Just a random photo of myself since I didn't go out today.

Have been helping with the teachers with collation of marks for SA1 these two days. Mrs Janet Lee treated Walter and I to lunch today! The Nasi Lemak is super nice, I wonder where they got it from. Mr Mark brought us Hersey's chocolates, which his cousin bought from Australia or New Zealand (I cannot remember) and it's super nice too. It's not the traditional kind of Hersey's we find in Singapore.

Then I stayed in office to finish up the revision paper I was setting so that my teacher can vet over the weekend. I finally completed it at 4.30pm but when I reached home, I realised that I forgot to put the paper on my teacher's desk! How stupid~

Alright, that sums up my week. Teoheng tomorrow! WOOHOO! :D

像风一样的男子

2009-04-18T23:53:00.000+08:00

Warning: Heavy images and text ahead!

#54: 18 April 2009
Cannot find one that both of us are looking at the camera! :(

Sis chanced upon Chen Xiao Dong's forum, where a member offered to buy 伟松思松《好友音乐派对》2009's concert ticket at 50%! Bought the $148 one because the special offer cannot be used to get the most expensive one, which is $168. Suddenly, Michelle (the person who bought the tickets for us) called my sis last night. Thought she wanted to tell us that she couldn't get the tickets. But, NO! She's here to deliver the bestest news on earth! She asked if we want to go for the closed door gathering with ah dong today. Apparently, the fanclub (Danieland) suggested to ah dong that we should have a gathering since he hasn't been to Singapore for 6 years already and he agreed! WOOHOOO!

Went to meet the other members at Taka at 10.30am. Then we walked to Meritus Mandarin, where the gathering is held. Ah dong and the other guests for the concert also stay there. We're led to one of the meeting rooms and waited for an hour before ah dong appeared.

While waiting...

OMG HE'S STILL SO VERY FREAKING HANDSOME! There're only 30 of us since it's a very exclusive event. And the whole thing was very very casual.

The moment ah dong came in, he said “好，你们想怎么玩儿就怎么玩儿！”and then started asking for coffee. Then this uncle, one of the hotel staff, came to serve him coffee and started talking cock. He even mistook ah dong as a taiwanese. He replied, "Actually I'm HongKong (pardon the bad english please), but I'm a Shanghainese, I stay in Beijing and I'm now in Singapore." Haha! After that, one of the reporters asked him to elaborate on why he's based in Mainland China now. He's super shocked and said, "wah, we're talking about such serious matter?" (in Chinese of course!). He still answered the question though.

During the interview..

Then, ah dong started telling us about his rashes because he has skin allergy. He kept pointing to his nose, eyes and even pulled open his shirt to show us the rashes. So free-style can! We're asked to write down our IC number for the "lucky draw". Then they got ah dong is autograph 5 posters and pick 5 IC numbers to give to. So he just ticked 5 IC numbers randomly and got Michelle to read out the numbers. I WAS ONE OF THE WINNERS! :D When she read out my IC number, the rest were shocked. Because the others there were all 8xxxxxx and I'm the only 90xxxxx. Youngest of all. Ah dong also said, "wah, no younger than 90 one already right?".

Thanks to the poster, I'm on xin.sg(CLICK)! Haha.

Imagine how many photos we snapped. Linked action. LOL!

They brought out the cake to celebrate Danieland's 11th birthday. Ah dong popped the sparkling juice and had to leave because it's time for rehearsal. I'm so sad that I totally forgot that we should go to the airport when he arrived! Heard from the others that he stopped to chat with them for quite long! :(

The hotel staff is really super AA.

The toasting part and ah dong thanked everyone.

The poster that's N years old.

Group photo.

After the gathering..

After the gathering, went to dayi's house for Hayden's 1st birthday celebration. Just ate and played with Hayden, Sonia and Merissa (I think!). Then came home at 3pm plus.

Camwhoring on train and station.

Happy birthday boy!

His ferrari!

My nephew and nieces.

Left the house again in the evening for 伟松思松《好友音乐派对》(Garden of Music Concert). Sis and I were late so we'd to cab down. But stupidly, the concert didn't start on time so we're still early. -.-

Honestly, the concert wouldn't be so fantastic if not for the guests. The Lee brothers sang a lot of songs that're composed way before I was born. They started out in 1984! The performing guests were Jam Hsiao, Deng Miao Hua, Chen Xiao Dong, Show Luo, Jolin and Stefanie Sun, in order of appearance.

Woohoo, ticket at 50%!

Jam Hsiao sang exactly like how he did in his album, just that he sounded more powerful in live. I was kind of disappointed by his 雨天, thought he would be able to sing better than Aska. Okay, skip the Deng Miao Hua's part.

Then it's Ah Dong's turn!! Ah dong was the only one, other than Stef Sun, who sang with both the brothers. The others only sang with either one of the Lees. See, he's a big shot! Anyway, he sang SUPER DUPER well! Was expecting his standard to fall a little since he hasn't been singing for quite sometime. But he actually became better! His singing's supacuppa good! :D I'm not being biased! I saw a lot of positive reports regarding his performance that night.

I was quite surprised that many people cheered for him when he appeared on stage. Significantly more than the brothers. Seems like he's not forgotten! If I've not mistaken, a lot of Show Luo's fans cheered for him too. Maybe because Show looks like Ah Dong? He sang 我等到花儿也谢了,你的名字我的姓氏 + 一千个伤心的理由, 比我幸福. He sang the most number of songs among the guests that night! 4 compared to 3 that the others sang.

我等到花儿也谢了

你的名字我的姓氏 + 一千个伤心的理由

比我幸福

Btw, I am featured at the start of this video! LOL. One of the people holding the placard.

After he sang the medley, some fans gave him flowers. I sat with the Fanclub people, and we were waving the placards with his names and screaming non-stop. And he thought that the flowers were from us. We're so AA that he could spot us from the stage. He was like, "oh, I haven't said hi to my fans" and he turned to us and said hi! He thanked Danieland (the fanclub) on stage, while gesturing to us, and all the other audience turned to look at us.

Talking to the brothers and saying hi to us. Pay attention to 3:50. 2:12 is when he spotted us.

From xin.sg, saying that Ah Dong has many fans!

这场星光云集的派对，众多的目光似乎都是投在嘉宾的身上。不少观众都是冲着偶像而来的，当中萧敬腾和陈晓东的后援会就派了不少人来支持偶像。

From sina.cn, saying that he's one of the highlights of the night!

新加坡音乐教父李伟菘曾为陈晓东谱曲如今耳听能熟的《比我幸福》，为感谢恩师，当晚陈晓东甚是卖力，而新加坡6年没有见到陈晓东的观众在陈晓东一上场便声声惊叫。10多分钟的演唱为新加坡数万观众带来了三首张学友的经典歌曲《我等到花儿也谢了》等，深情清唱更是引来全场降降尖叫与热烈掌声，六年前观众眼中的阳光靓仔即时成为实力唱将，而时隔六年才难得来次新加坡还真是让新加坡的歌迷们“等到花儿也谢了”，初期还是青少年的他们现已升华成了上班族，而不变的是新加坡人对晓东的厚爱，人气火爆可说舆孙燕姿成为当晚最有看点的“台柱”。

After that was the climax of the whole concert, when Zhou Chong Qing appeared as Ms Aiyoyo. It was freaking funny! The 2 brothers were supposed to have a singing PK competition to see who gets to date Ms Aiyoyo. So the bothers took turns to sing and while they sang, I was looking at Chong Qing because he never stopped acting and kept flirting with either one of the brothers. Ultimate funnyness! The other day, Chong Qing was still saying that there'll be a secret guest performer on 933. I didn't expect it to be him.

That's Chong Qing!! LOL.

Then Show came on and his performance was just normal. But I realised that his live is so much better now! His singing finally improved. Haha. But his pants was really zzz that night, so ugly! Jolin's super puny! I was expecting to see her dance but she didn't. So disappointing!

Lastly, Stef Sun was the finale of the night since she's like the product of the Lee Brothers. She wore a top that's translucent and I could see her abs from the screen! The top created a super big hoo-ha on the newspapers the next day. Anyway, she looked super sui bian can. Her hair was horrible. My sis said that she looked like she just woke up and drove a motorcycle there.

Eversince they played mahjong at V Power concert's backstage..

These artistes go to all backstages to play mahjong!

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Super tired after one longggg day.

Project 365: Day 51 to 53

2009-04-17T22:44:00.005+08:00

Went to school as usual. I was feeling a little less sad about the interview which I screwed yesterday. But the moment I stepped into office, my teacher asked, "how's the interview yesterday?" I totally felt like dying again. T_T

Helped out with the practical test throughout the day. I had to walk up and down the hall for countless times because I was invigilating. So tiring can! I don't remember having practical test when I was in primary school! Is it just me? Hello, can some YNPS people please tell me if we had science practical when we're in primary school. And they start from P3. So fun (:

Confiscated my P2 student's magnet during lesson.

It's the "clapping magnet" which was very popular when we went Nanjing in 2006. I think he bought it from the school's bookshop. The magnet is super strong! He kept playing with it and it's super noisy, so I just took it away. I already warned him a lot of times, so it wasn't my fault. It's still lying on my table.

Went for tuition after school. Felt supacuppa sleepy and almost fell asleep while my student was doing her work. So I asked the maid for a cup of coffee. I don't know why she's so shocked. But after that, she even asked if I want bread. Haha.

#51: 15 April 2009
Received my first pay from my tutee!

#52: 16 April 2009

No photo today, so shall post a quote from icanread, which Xueling introduced on her blog. This is exactly how I'm feeling right now. Now that school's out and I don't get to see the usual people day in day out, I find it really hard to maintain relationships. Even meeting up every weekend is difficult. :( People are always not free or too tired or simply too lazy. Rarh, I'm missing school again.

The most hated thing at the moment is putting in utmost effort into a relationship when the other party is not giving it a damn. Freak you, scram!

Helped with the practical test again. Today's quite bad because it's the P3s and since it's their first time, they're super blur. And I think they don't really understand the questions. If it's me at that time, I probably won't know what to do as well.

Went for my last dose of Hepatitis A + B jab after school.

Nurse: When was your last menses?
Me: Errr.. I cannot remember.
Nurse: Give me a date!
Me: *So fierce for what...* Errr, last month? 5th?
Nurse: Are you sure? It's already the 16th leh.
Me: Yah.. Mine quite irregular.
Nurse: Are you sure you're not pregnant?
Me: Hahahahaha! WTFFFF? *Turns to sis* How to get pregnant? Binary fission?
Nurse: *Super angry* This is just a routine question! I ask everybody, not just you!
Me: *Wtf, so angry again?* Orhhhh... *Continues to laugh with sis*

Why I always meet angry staff?

After the jab, came home and slept for 2 hours and went for my run! Woohoo! I feel like I'm starting to get into the routine. Will increase the frequency when I'm feeling less tired from work, which means never. Work seems to suck every single bit of my energy.

This time round, double the distance but the same time taken as compared to the first time. If the distance indication in the park didn't fail me, I did about 5km today! I'm getting nearer to the usual 8km I do when I was studying for A levels. Happy happy! (: Am going to start increasing the distance and finally do my 10km. Am also thinking of going to Bedok Stadium to run instead because there's a track and I'll know how much I've done. But it's kind of far and I'm lazy to walk there. I'll probably be too tired to run after walking there.

Anyway, I went out for 1h 45mins, inclusive of warming up, cooling down and some random workouts. My mum got ganjiong and she cycled around to look for me because I don't bring my phone when I go running. So troublesome! I know she's worried, but 2 hours is okay mah. And she went to the wrong place to look for me. I was at the park and she went to the mini park at my void deck. Haha. But somehow, I convinced her to go exercise with me the next time I go! I will run and she will cycle.

#53: 17 April 2009

Fridays are supposed to be exercise day, so that's how I appeared in school, although it's not very exercise-y. But the teachers in my school wear t-shirts almost everyday. Seems like the dress code is not very strict. The office clerk's super funny. She saw me while I was signing my attendance, and she came from behind me. Then she was like, "Wah An Ting! Your shirt got your name leh! I also want!" LOL.

Came home and concussed for 2 hours before meeting the usual 2G gang for dinner. Was supposed to go Timbre, but the queue was freaking long, so we gave up. We can never get into Timbre! We've already planned for a few times but always fail. We've already decided to book 2 weeks in advance. Haha!

So we ended up at Esplanade's Thai Express for dinner. Darren used his POSB card and we got a complimentary bowl of red ruby. It's super pathetic. Looked like the four of us were too poor to afford anything, so we had to share one pathetic bowl of red ruby. After eating, we went loitering in Esplanade.

Why my friends all look retarded?

Group photo of the day.

Wanted to go esplanade bar for a drink, but we're all too full. So it's home sweet home! (:

My weird little habits..

2009-04-15T21:40:00.008+08:00

I've been rushing all my Project 365 posts that I don't have time for boliao posts. Since my photoshop is down (AGAIN x 10000), I shall do a boliao post while waiting for it to heal, hopefully miraculously. And for no reason, I suddenly thought of the weird little habits I have and feel like blogging about it.

Okay my first weird little habit! That's.. Eating in the toilet! First, I must make it clear that I no longer have this really weird habit! That's when I was young. I think it's because I used to think that bathing is such a waste of time. So while bathing, I must do something else so that I will feel that I'm not wasting my time that much, so I munch on something. I remember that I like to stuff a lot of sweets, usually Mentos, at once and then finish them up while I'm in the toilet. But again, I now think that eating is also a waste of time. So doing two time-consuming things, in my opinion, don't really make a difference right?

One day, my erjie said, "eee, eating in the toilet is so disgusting!" Then out of a sudden, I started thinking about it and feel that it's disgusting too. So I stopped doing that. Now, I think it's really gross to eat inside the toilet, even it's just one sweet. I will make sure I swallow whatever food I have in my mouth before stepping into the toilet.

Anyway, digress abit. There was once when my erjie challenged me to see who can stuff most mentos (mint) into the mouth. I don't know how much I stuffed, but it's really a lot. Maybe 30 to 40? While I was happily chewing (because I always do that when I bathe and I'm so used to it already), my sis just spit out everything and said she give out. So cheater lah!

My second weird habit is leaving my favourite food to the last. For example, when I eat 菜饭, I'll definitely leave my favourite dish to the last and finish up the one I don't like first. There's once when I went to eat 杨枝甘露 (the Mango Pomelo Sago) with Zihui and my china buddy at Chinatown. I wanted to leave the mango cubes to the last because they're my favourite and Zihui thought that I don't like to eat mango! I don't know if this reflects anything about my personality, maybe I'm a 先苦后甜 person? Haha!

Third one is also about eating. I usually don't eat and drink at the same time and I hate to see people do that. When I was young, my parents will only order drinks when we finish our food. That's because eating and drinking at the same time is bad for digestion and is therefore unhealthy. I later heard that drinking and eating at the same time will make one fat. But I'm still fat leh, why? But anyway, I still keep that habit till now. Even if I order the drink, I will either drink before I start on my food or after food, usually not while I'm eating. Unless I choke or something, duh. However, I realised that I seem to be losing this good practice slowly.. Maybe it's peer influence.

Wait, why're all my weird habits related to eating? Let me think of something that's not.. Okay, I thought of something that's not related to eating! I always wear my right sock or shoe first. I'm talking about those that I have to use my hands to wear, not the slip-on kind. When I put on my school shoes in the past, I'll definitely put on my right sock, then left sock, then right shoe and lastly left shoe. So organised right!

Oh, and I re-tie my shoelaces whenever I put my shoes on. I don't untie them when I take off, but when I put on, I will untie and then tie again. Because I like my shoelaces TIGHT, like really tight. And I'll do double knot so that they can last the whole day and I don't have to re-tie them until I put them on the next time. We're discussing about this the other time and Yoke they all said that I'm crazy to tie my shoelaces everytime I put on my shoes. Really meh? I thought it's normal to do that. But apparently, the people there all said that they tie their laces once in a blue moon.

I'm very anal about my bed as well. I think it's because my bed is like my little heaven, so I take good care of it. I HATE IT when people sit on my pillow. Hello, that's for my head and you put your butts on it? NO! When I was young, there was once when my dajie's friend came to our house and put her butt right onto my pillow. I whacked her man! I rarely put my head at the end where my legs are usually placed. I think it's dirty. If I go out, I will not lie on my bed before I bathe. But my sisterS like to do that a lot. Disgusting shit. I also have friends who always sleep without bathing, even after spending one whole day in school! You know who you are, it's not only one person! LOL.

One more, I like observing people a lot! When I want to get new shoes, I will keep looking at people's shoes; when I want to get new bags, I will keep looking at people's bags; when I want to get new clothes, I will keep looking at people's clothes. I look for nice things and try to find similar ones and cross out what's too common. Sometimes, I just like to look at people. I actually don't mind waiting for people if I'm not in a rush because I can just stand there and people-watch. When I'm not sleeping on trains or buses, I will observe! There are times when I'm scared that I'll get bashed up if I stare at the person for too long.

Well, that's about it. Share your weird habits with me too! :D

As my dream drifts further...

2009-04-14T22:58:00.007+08:00

#49: 13 April 2009

Just another usual day in school. I didn't take any photo for the day, but I've a screenshot from facebook! I took the "which F4 is perfect for you?" test. It's so easy to cheat and get Gu JunPyo! The questions are super obvious. Haha!

#50: 14 April 2009

Before the interview, and therefore the optimistic face.

Totally screwed up my Fudan’s interview very badly. When I say bad, I really mean bad. My answers were so short and stupid that I think the interviewers had nothing more to ask, resulting in many awkward pauses in between. I think they are not only going to reject me in their university, but also blacklist me and stop all other universities from accepting me into their Chinese faculty.

The day started off pretty badly. Woke up at 11am and took 1.5 hours to prepare myself. Heard from Shiling that they asked content-based stuff. And my CLL textbooks were at my grandma's place. Luckily my mum was out, so I asked her to bring the books back on her way. Then I started flipping the books frantically, trying to recall what I memorised half a year ago. But obviously, my short-term memory failed me. Then second suay thing, I took the bus from the wrong side of the road! So I had to alight somewhere near Tanah Merah (waste my money!!) and go to the opposite side. Luckily 45 was at the bus stop and I don't have to cab down.

This is the first time I’ve been to an interview which questions are all content-based! They didn’t ask me why I applied for the university and stuff like that at all! 其中一个问题是，李白是什么朝代人? 李白写的是唐诗，当然是唐朝人，我既然说不知道！人们常把李白谁放在一起评论？答案是杜甫，而我说苏轼！那个人简直傻眼，回我说：“李白和苏轼是不同时期的诗人”。后来又问了唐诗和宋词有什么分别？我也不知道！They also asked what are the English books I read and I said Merchant of the Venice and Hamlet, which I read during Literature classes in secondary school. Actually I forgot all about the story, plus I didn’t even read Hamlet lah! Then I was asked which one I prefer and I said Hamlet because it’s about family. Which is so very -_- to the maximum! They asked me to say a few 成语 and I only managed to say one! Luckily I had some 歇后语 to salvage this part. OMG lah, I can easily say out 3256410121成语s now! 一箭双雕、三言两语、人云亦云、道听途说、能言善道、力不从心、事半功倍… ARGH!

I think the only questions I could answer was “name some of 鲁迅's work” and “what did you do for SYF Drama, which you all got a silver”. I started blabbering about what’s our script about and how we came out with it.

The worst thing of all, I couldn’t even recite《送友人》! Ultimate already, even Aaron could do it okay! Wah my life sucks to the maximum. I wasn’t thinking straight at all. Afterall, I haven’t been to an interview for a longggg time. The last time I had such interview was in Sec 2. One for the SAP scholarship, TJ’s IP and CS committee. I didn’t get the scholarship, I didn’t get into TJ and the CS one was with seniors, so it wasn’t that bad. DAMN, I’m so ill-fated.

And is it because I haven't been to an interview for very long, thus not knowing the transformation of "interview culture"? Why nobody wears formal anymore? I looked like a crazy woman in formal there okay. Jinghui was in tshirt and jeans, some other girls from RJ were super casual as well. Gabriel said that he's also one of the few who wore formal at the SMU interview, which Jinghui also went in tshirt and jeans. You mean, all interviews have become so casual now? Where're all the discussions about leaving a good first impression?

站在十字路口对抗心痛一个人

2009-04-12T22:45:00.011+08:00

Busy busy day! Woke up early in the morning and dragged my mummy to 四马路. It's usually mummy dragging the kid there, not the kid dragging the mummy there. But mine's opposite. LOL. Mummy wanted to go another day since it's the 15th today and it'll definitely be very crowded. But I'm not free on other days and being Miss Bang-dang, I insist on going. So we went and it was indeed VERY crowded.

After that, we went to ah ma house and played two rounds of mahjong. I lost $100! T_T That's like 1.5 days of pay. Maybe I should just quit mahjong. Maybe, perhaps, probably. Haha!

Then, met the rest of the family and went to meet my ex-tutor, Mrs Peh, for dinner at somewhere near Simpang Bedok. This tutor taught all four of us when we were in primary school, and now my sis is tutoring her eldest son. So our families are quite close. Mrs Peh brought her whole family and our whole family minus my dajie went too. We saw Mark (her eldest son) and Mr Peh climbing over the railing into the canal when we reached. So we're quite shocked! Then Mrs Peh told us that her three kids were challenging to see who can kick the pebbles the furthest while waiting for us. Before she knew anything, she saw a shoe flying and it landed into the canal, and that's Max's (her second son) shoes. So the father and brother had to help him retrieve it. Super funny can! Then Max had to walk barefooted because the shoe's super dirty and he cannot wear it.

On the way there.

We ate crabs (again!) and had a good time catching up. The food's not bad, except for the ginseng chicken. Looks good but taste normal. In fact, below average. And the price's quite worth it too!

FOOD!

#46: 10 April 2009

#47: 11 April 2009
Look at Aaron's hair for the one last time. Haha!

Woke up early (again!) to send Aaron off to Tekong. Jingwen complained that we didn't send her off the other time. But it's a weekday and that's when we're having the TIP course at NUS. Vayl, who stays at the other end of the MRT line, reached first! So amazing o.O!

After sending Aaron off, had breakfast at Mac. I didn't know they don't have the $2.50 breakfast meal on weekends! It's so rare that I wake up for breakfast on a saturday morning and they're not offering the special discount. Tsk.

Waited for Gabriel and we went to Tampines to walk walk. Amazingly, Tampines One was quite empty! Probably because it's early. Who shops at 10.30am? Anyway, I don't see anything special about Tampines One what, what's with the big hoo-ha over it? The shops inside are mainly shops you can find elsewhere, maybe except for Uniqlo. And the design/layout is very normal too. Actually, I find it quite boring.

Since there's nothing much at Tampines One, we went over to Tampines Mall. Was in Perlini Silver when a woman, carrying a kid, started shouting ".... don't let them get away!". Couldn't hear the front part properly, just heard her repeating "don't let them get away!". She couldn't chase after whoever she's chasing because she's carrying the kid and nobody's helping her. We thought it's snatch thief. If it's snatch thief, the thief should have dashed past before her or what, but we didn't see anything. Nevertheless, our two brave NSF, Roy and Jinghui, decided to give chase. So they ran after whoever the woman was pointing at, which is a couple. After that, one or two men went after them too. Many kaypoh people saw people running so they just followed.

Vayl went to ask the woman what happened and she told us that the man accused her husband of knocking into his girlfriend, so the man punched his husband and walked away. We stayed there with the woman while keeping in contact with Roy and Jinghui. Heard from them that the couple attempted to run away in a cab but one of the men who chased after them stopped them from doing so. Jinghui asked the Century Square's security guard to stop the couple from boarding a cab at the taxi stand outside Century Square and the guard told him, "sorry, they're out of the mall already". WTH LAH, seriously! The couple just went to the HDB flats near TM area and just kept walking.

While Roy and Jinghui continued to follow the couple, Vayl and I went to ask the woman what she wants to do next. So she went to look for her husband to see what they can do. Some passers-by came by and helped. Eventually, they called the police and heard that the man was quite badly beaten up and was sent to the hospital. The two guys stopped the couple and Jinghui told them something like, "I suggest you walk back because they can charge you with blah blah blah if you just run away" and the couple had no choice but to walk back to TM. Jinghui is the best lah! LOL.

In the end, the couple came back and the police came. Took down Jinghui and Roy's particulars and we resumed our shopping. Hope the man's okay now. And can totally see that the wife was scared out of her wits lah. She totally didn't know what to do. But I guess the guy who beat the man up acted on impulse. He looked resentful when he walked back to TM. Please lah uncle, 30 years old plus already still like that! Oh btw, the girlfriend secretly walked away when the guy was brought away by the police! Gua gua, get into trouble because of her and she ran away. But again, maybe she didn't run away, she just went home to.. Errr.. Sit down? Because they walked so far and she's tired. Haha!

What an exciting day! So action-packed can! I was telling Jinghui and Roy that maybe they'll waive their NS because they're brave. Haha, wait long long!

The brave NSFs!

After the drama, Gabriel, Jingwen and I came back to my house to play mahjong with my sis! ~~I thought I said I wanted to quit?~~ And I won $1! After the game, I realised that I've another $1 of chips in my drawer. That means I actually won $2. I always miss out chips, I don't know why. Anyway, thanks Jamie, for pangseh-ing us. Still say you not MIA?

Then Jingwen went back to Tampines to cut hair and I went to ah ma house to play with Hayden while waiting for her. I stupidly left my camera at home and I still thought it's in my bag, so no photos of Hayden! :( My aunt is damn evil. Hayden's sleeping and we wanted to play with him, so she just went into the room and carried him out of the swing (the one baby sleeps in). He wanted to cry when he first woke up, but they just brought him to downstairs for a short walk and he started smiling already. Cute kid! When I was about to leave, I brought him downstairs and my sis is supposed to bring him back after I left. But he saw me with my bag and knew that I'm going out, so he refused to let my sis carry him already! So smart!

Finally, Jingwen came after 1.5 hours and his dad sent us to school for 《戏剧木麻黄》庆功宴. Needless to say, we're late for 2 hours. When we reached, they're just about to start eating. Wangls made the juniors step back for us (Darren, Vayl, Chinyang, Jingwen and I) to take the food first because we're seniors. Super shocked lah! We refused to because it's so paiseh and we're only seniors what, not some bigshot. And she's quite angry, for a moment. Haha. After eating, went up to the hall and they had some mini prize presentation. Then they showed the photos taken during the performance.

Camwhoring!

The mini performance by the committee.

Credits to Hooves for the pictures!

After the actual thing, we stayed to talk to some of them regarding the commitee elections that's coming up. Suggested some stuff regarding the next performance and the future of Senior High CS. Was shocked to find out that the Year6s are going HongKong later this month for the drama interaction thing, which we went when we're in Year5, since it's A-level year. And they already spent 3 months of this year preparing for the performance.

#48: 12 April 2009

Thanks a lot to my tutees for changing my surname. 最好是 got people use this 菜 as surname!

Had tuition in the afternoon and then early dinner. First time we've dinner at 7pm on a sunday! We usually drag till 8pm plus.

Watched Campus Superstar finals and I got freaking pissed. How can the boy win lah! He's not even good please, let alone champion. -.- He went so far simply because he's good at acting cute and Xiao Han is freaking biased. Was clearing my sms when I saw one that friend sent me some time ago, during one of the preliminary rounds, and it says, "the stupid xiaohan is damn BIASED even if he went on stage and farted for 3mins she will still praise him can" LOL, totally agreed!

And Lin You Jia's hair is freaking screwed! What's he thinking man! And for the second song, 慢一点, he simply ooohhh ahhhh yeaaa through the whole song!

Here's the video.

Half a week's worth

2009-04-09T23:24:00.007+08:00

#42: 6 April 2009

This is one of the "instructions" in my tutee's house. They've instructions everywhere! Like, "After open the door, close it" and "Switch off the light gently". Anyway, this says "Please past u-rine into toilet bowl". I don't know what's with all the english.

#43: 7 April 2009

During drama practice..

Met mummy and daddy for lunch at market before returning to school for drama practice. The benefit of working near my own house is I get to go for lunch with my parents and then go back to work. Was told to help out with the drama club because they're having a competition at the end of April. The kids are super funny lah. Their story is about an adventure to space. Haven't seen such script for a long time already. We're always told not to do such science fiction stuff in secondary school. LOL.

#44: 8 April 2009

Another photo snapped in my tutee's house. I did it while my tutee went to the toilet and the maid was in the kitchen. LOL. I totally -.- when I saw this. What's "Today Homework Today Done"?!?!?

It's tuition again. But I was in better mood today because it's PAYDAY! :D Like what my HSSR professor said, 教书除了是需要热忱，也需要吃饭. Although there're 3 tuition sessions this week, it's still the most enjoyable week. Two things to look forward to! One, payday. Two, 4-day week!

Ended school at 1pm on thursday. Slacked around in school and was told to do some editing for the science papers I set when I was about to leave school! T_T Oh yes, I was told to set worksheets and diagnostic test for the primary 5 SCIENCE, on photosynthesis. Don't be shocked! I still can manage primary school's science hor. Haha.

Then I flew to Bedok interchange to meet my mummy. Was supposed to meet her at 1.45pm to eat mac, the lunch discount thinggy which is from 12pm to 2pm. So in the end mummy had to order first because I was freaking late. After eating, mummy suddenly said that we should go dayi's house. So off we went, to dayi's house! Haha. As usual, we played with Hayden! Favouritest activity of all! :D

HAYDEN!

He started attacking wuyi's nuggets once he sees it! Fatty!

This kid invented his own way of playing the keyboard. Future musician!

Favourite photo of the day. So cute lah!

Reached home at 7pm, got changed and went jogging in the park! I'm so proud of myself! I ran for 40 minutes, after procrastinating for.. 4 months! Wanted to run more, but it's getting really late and the park's freaking dark. Was reminded of how I used to run while studying for A levels. I miss those days, when I stayed in school to mug till 6pm and go for 20 rounds around the track, minus the mugging part. There's once when I ran at around 8pm and I saw bats and rats on the track!

My initial plan was to return from school before 2pm then sleep till 5.30pm and go for the run. But mummy messed up my plan! In the end, I decided that I should stop procrastinating and just go run even though I was already tired to the maximum when I reached home. And I'm very happy that I did that. I promise to run regularly. By regularly, I mean at least once a week. Not once every 4 months. Haha!

#45: 9 April 2009

This picture totally showed my cui face with a lot of pimples and check out my eyebags man! Just trying to show my netball tee and the watch I borrowed from my sis. She bought it for $5 only! I think it's quite nice. Love running in my netball tee. It's super comfortable. And not forgetting my FBT shorts! Haha.

每个人都有梦想幸福总站在最远方

2009-04-07T16:12:00.002+08:00

讨厌命运被掌控在他手里。
现在，轮到我转命运的轮盘了。
我有勇气动手吗？

Parents' visit day at OCS

2009-04-05T23:55:00.001+08:00

#40: 4 April 2009

My toenail broke again! I don't know what's wrong with them, kept breaking one after another. Anyway, when I was taking the picture, my sis commented, "eee, your toes look like fingers!" LOL. Thanks huh. It's Jan-di in the background. I spent my whole saturday watching Boys Over Flowers! I'm so sad because I'm finishing it already. :( No more Gu Jun Pyo! At first, I kept dragging and refused to watch everytime because I cannot bear to finish the show. But now, it's so nice that I cannot stop. I'm at episode 22 already, just 3 more!

#41: 5 April 2009

Met Yoke, Vayl, Minhua and Chinyang for brunch at Jurong Point's Subway. Have been craving for Subway! (: We're supposed to take a bus down to the bus stop outside SAFTI MI to meet Jingwen's parents and her dad will drive us in with his lorry. But we decided that we should just cab in because it's raining super heavily. So we'll look retarded holding ella on the lorry and we're super late so we probably cannot make it in time.

But, the queue at the taxi stand was FREAKING long. Suddenly, Jingwen's mum called to say that there's shuttle bus from Boon Lay. So we started looking for the shuttle bus but obviously found none. Wanted to take cab again but there was none in sight. We tried calling for one, but couldn't get through the lineS. We looked super retarded while sharing one big ella under the big rain, desperately looking for shuttle bus and calling for cab at the same time. Then, one cab came by and the cab driver asked us for our destination. After we said SAFTI MI, the cab driver just said nono and drove off. WHAT THE HELL? I took down the carplate number because my dad said that taxi drivers are not allowed to ask for destination and refuse to pick up the passenger. It's either they just ask and pick or don't ask at all. So if next time any cabby does that to you, take down the carplate number! Just make sure it's not my dad's cab. LOL. But my dad won't do that, I'm sure.

Finally, we managed to get a cab. He didn't want to take 5 of us initially. But the rain was freaking heavy and among us only Vayl knows the way, so the uncle gave in eventually. Thanks uncle! Haha. We boarded, drove to SAFTI, had some trouble changing the visitor's pass, lost our way inside the camp and finally got to Sierra! We braved the thunderstorm just to see Jingwen okay. It's so funny when we reached because we seemed like the only friends around. It's parents' visit day after all. Saw Colin the moment we got off the cab, then went to Jingwen's room. Jingwen brought us around, to the toilet, laundry room, etc. Our butts were all automatically attracted to any chair around. LOL.

Just camwhoring around.

The rain stopped and Jingwen brought us to the tower. We're lucky because we're the first to reach when they just opened the tower for visiting. So there wasn't any queue. When we came down, the queue was freakingggg long! And we met Tienleng.

Nice scenery, minus the freaky insects up there which drove us crazy!

We fought through the scary insects and went to Cadet's Mess and slacked there because there're our favourites -- chairs and aircon! Had some drink and just sat there to rot while waiting for Roy to walk to OCS from Joo Koon. Then Tienleng and Kenghoe came and we took photo! Then we went to the cookhouse and listened to Jingwen and Tienleng's stories. I think how Delta woke up for other people's fire drill and even reached before them is supacuppa funny!

Took the last shuttle bus to Boon Lay MRT and went home. We're lucky (second time!) to catch the shuttle bus. Didn't know there is and we almost called for cab. We decided to go Joo Koon to take a look since we haven't been there before. Alighted and took some photos. Super retarded. -.- Totally fainted on the way home.

Joo Koon!

Indian 101 pose at Joo Koon. LOL.

Then we set timer and started taking photos on the empty train.

Went to ah ma house after that. Then was dinner with family. Sundays = family day! :D

Aunts and uncle paying 100% attention to the 4D results on tv.

Cutie pie

2009-04-05T23:24:00.005+08:00

For the benefit of my aunt who has no access to Facebook, I shall post the photos of this cutie on my blog. He's turning one years old next next Saturday! Credits to Hayden's mummy who posted the photos on Facebook!

Okay, Project 365 and pictures from OCS visit (Jingwen's PARENTS visit day) tomorrow, when Vayl sends me the photos. Am going to sleep even though I haven't set the worksheets I am supposed to for tomorrow's supplementary class. Tuition after school tomorrow. What the ****! T_T

Little boss!

Haircut

I don't know how this little fatty managed to squeeze into the basin. LOL.

I think he's a born racer. Afterall, he grew up riding in BMW sports car. O.o

Look at his hand on the gear thing!

Or maybe a musician?

CUTE!

Project 365: #39 Pizza Hut

2009-04-04T14:28:00.004+08:00

#39: 3 April 2009

I think all four of us look super tired in this photo. And can you see the waitress, who's taking the picture for us smiling into the mirror?

Now, zoom in.. Can see already? LOL.

Met up for dinner with Darren, Jove and Sheila as mentioned. Initially, we wanted to go Holland V's for Crystal Jade's steamboat but it's fully booked. Then changed to Hotpot Culture but it's freaking expensive. $24.80++ for friday nights. WTH? While waiting for Jove, the three of us walked up and down to search for a good place to eat. But we ended up at Pizza Hut where the queue is freaking long. LOL. We only managed to take our orders at almost 9.30pm when we met at 8pm. However, the waiting time was quite fun this time round. Jove brought her laptop so we started surfing Facebook and gossiping about people. Found out something that's super shocking x 10000.

Am very pissed now. Refer to locked entry for more information. GRRR!

Is it too late to worry?

2009-04-03T19:03:00.003+08:00

I ought to strangle myself! I've been so slack with my university application and reading about people all stressed up about the application and stuff makes me wonder why I'm not worried about it at all.

I applied for NUS the first day it was opened and merely filled in my details, without writing any essay or anything. Then a few days later, I applied for NTU after considering for many many days because I cannot decide if I should spend $10 on it. I don't really want to get into NTU. Eventually, I applied. But now, I cannot even remember if I placed Bachelor of Education (Arts) as my first choice or Chinese as my first choice. See what I said about being slack? I didn't write any essay or whatsoever for NTU as well. I just filled in the basic particulars.

I only went to check NUS website to see if they received my supporting documents yesterday. And that's wayyy after the closing date for application. I don't even know that I have to re-confirm that. AHHHH, I need to slap myself x 10000!

Come to think about it, I should have at least applied for some scholarship or financial aid. I was too lazy when I saw the "two reference letters". I don't want to travel to and fro to school again just to settle the reference letters. But again, not like I would get it if I applied. I was just too obsessed with MOE scholarship and didn't apply for anything else.

Heard that some people already got their acceptance letter from NTU and NUS. Where's mine? Where's mine? There're also people who already either got rejected or asked to fill in the part 3 of application by PSC. My fellow intern at BGSS went for MOE interview already. WHAT ABOUT ME!! Can PSC/MOE just call me NOW? I'm desperate, seriously.

Project 365 later, I'm going out for dinner with Darren, Jove and Sheila! :D

Project 365: #38 Impressed

2009-04-02T20:29:00.003+08:00

Yay, am glad that I've time (or maybe not that lazy anymore) to blog more!

Was told to relief 3B today. It's a class that's qurantined because they've 11 cases of stomach flu already. So 11 of the students were absent, so was the form teacher. They cannot even go to the canteen for recess. They can bring their own food or order food when the canteen vendor comes up. Then the canteen vendor will send the food up. After eating, the school cleaner will come and clean their tables with dettol I think and the smell was freaking strong.

I ran out of things for them to do after completing the grammar exercise and science reflection the teacher assigned. So I ended up showing them videos of bacteria and fungal growth. I also showed them a video on multiplication rap, which I thought was quite amusing. But I cannot find it on youtube anymore. So intellectual can! However, videos were just 1 minute plus each and I've 45 minutes to spare. So I let them watch Mr Bean, the cartoon version, which they watched while having recess. Saw the teacher playing for them so I reckoned that they're allowed to watch that. Glad that the kids had fun!

When I was in the class, I started to have severe stomachache! I was like, "oh shit, don't tell me it's so easy to kena?!" Then I went to the toilet twice and thought I was going to die. Okay, that's too drama, LOL. But luckily it's just pure stomachache. Zzzz.

Went to watch the East Zone table-tennis semi-finals after school since Yu Neng is hosting it this year. I think we've been hosting it for a few years already. Saw cousin there because she brought her Ngee Ann Primary team here to compete. She kept complaining about how many imports Yu Neng has. Last week, I saw Lu Laoshi in Yu Neng's school hall too. He's there to spot talents. He also commented to me, "look at that boy, how can he be in Primary 6??" I agree. Moreover, the boy that he pointed out, who looks like 16 years old, is only in Primary 5! Haha. I won't be surprised if his actual age is 16 because it's quite common for the imported players to change their age in order to be qualified to play for the school and also to be able to play for a longer time. FYI, the maximum qualifying age for primary school senior boys is 13.

#38: 2 April 2009

This picture shows my favourite players playing doubles. They're really good! Domestic product okay. LOL. Looking at the kids play table-tennis really inspires me a lot. Although they're barely taller than the table, I can see the might in them when they play. And the kind of determination and confidence I see in their eyes.. Impressive! And this doesn't apply to the Yu Neng players only. I saw one of the Red Swastika players and he's really good too! He looks like Kenny by the way. Cousin told me that this boy stopped school for a year to go Beijing to train. Wow...!

Came home and concussed from 5pm to 8pm. Had difficulty waking up but had to because mum kept asking me to wake up for dinner. And I actually have some stuff to mark, but I'm so lazy! Watching Gossip Girl now and I'm confused by the characters, whom I think appeared 384108403 episodes ago, appearing out of a sudden. Who are they? Okay, that's a paragraph made up of very no link sentences. Just random thoughts.

Am going to watch the table-tennis show on channel 8 already. I think Joshua Ang did a good job in acting stupid. Or maybe he wasn't even acting. LOL, just kidding!

Waiting for my dinner...

2009-04-01T18:59:00.003+08:00

My title explains why I am here even though I'm super tired and busy. Actually the 'tired' and 'busy' are linked because I'm busy sleeping as I'm tired. Haha. I knock off at 3pm everyday, then I'll come home (which is 3 minutes later), bathe, use the computer till 4pm and concussed till dinner, which is usually at 7pm. Then at 9.30pm, I'll go to bed again. It's getting worse these few days because I drank the cough syrup which makes me really drowsy. I really wonder if it's the effect of the cough syrup or it's me. LOL! Today's routine is abit different, will elaborate later.

Project 365!

#35: 30 March 2009

I'm secretly a musical genius! WOOHOO!

#36: 31 March 2009

My burnt arms.

After 2 weeks, my burnt hands are finally starting to peel. And they're peeling really badly! My students asked if I fell. When I said no, they pointed to my hand and asked, "then why like that?" I didn't bother explaining because they probably wouldn't know what's sunburn since they're only primary 4.

#37: 1 April 2009

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY! =P

This picture tells a lot about me.
1. My freaking big eyebags show how tired I am!
2. I became blacker. -.-
3. My hair is neatly tucked because I must appear neat in school.

Went to school as usual and then for tuition. One of the djs on 933 mentioned that it's April Fool's and only then I realised that my day was so peaceful! This year's April Fool's is so different from those we had in school. So, texted my sisters to tell them I got into Fudan and they got scammed. Then texted Yoke and Aaron to tell them that I went back to school and some teachers wanted to meet them tomorrow. LOL! I think the funniest is Sheila. Texted to ask if she wants to go for steamboat buffet this friday and she thought I was scamming her!

YAY, at least my April Fool's is not so boring. Hope you guys had fun too!

On a side note, one of my students looks like a child actor. The boy who acted as Sean, Clement Tee's son, in Perfect Cut 2. I observed him for two days and finally asked if he's a child actor. Sadly, he's not. But the resemblence is really 99.99%! And my student's name is Colin Batchelor. LOL! I was saying I shall call my son Diamond Bachelor （钻石王老五）in future. Hahahaha!

This is the boy!

Shall go and wake my mum up for dinner. I'm going to die from hunger already! OMG, it's 8pm!

building castles

2009-03-30T00:29:00.003+08:00

One of the bo liao conversations between nothing-to-do office lady 1 (OL 1) and nothing-to-do office lady 2 (OL 2). They're talking about the upcoming concert organised by the Lee Brothers, which is going to feature Show Luo, Chen Xiao Dong, Jolin Tsai, Jam Hsiao, etc.

OL 1: Maybe ah dong and xiao zhu go clubbing together. Do you think I can pretend to be drunk, make ah dong drunk, rape him, say he rape me, then make him marry me?
OL 2: Can..
OL 1: Ok. So do you think I should migrate to HK with him after we get married or what? But I think stay in Singapore better cos don't have 狗仔.
OL 2: I think go USA better. Because those 狗仔s are only interested in Hollywood stars. Plus they don't know ah dong.
OL 1: Ok. But very far leh.

LOL! Continue to day-dream lor...

P.S. I am not OL1!

Project 365: #34 Angry Day

2009-03-29T23:04:00.002+08:00

#34: 29 March 2009

WTH lah, I waited an hour for my dinner!

I concussed from last night till 12pm this afternoon. Woke up to cancel tuition, had lunch and went back to sleep till 7pm. Yes, I'm that tired. Plus I'm sick! Flu plus sorethroat plus cough plus on and off fever. Ahhhh! T_T My voice is SO sexy now. Hope I can still teach tomorrow.

Had dinner at some coffeeshop called Juz Eat at Tampines. SO PISSED CAN! We waited an hour for the food. It's not very fantastic also. I hate eating at places where we have to wait for super long. I can't tell the difference anyway. I'm going to boycott that place!

Then cabbed home and the cab driver almost killed us twice. First time, he almost banged into a bus that was turning out from the bus stop. Second time, he didn't slow down near the zebra crossing and almost banged into a pedestrian. Thanks huh, what a careful driver. Hope your license gets suspended soon.

我又恋爱了

2009-03-29T01:44:00.003+08:00

虽然现在累得已经能马上趴下，心中还是有很多感触想和大家分享。

今晚，《戏剧木麻黄》之启点终于圆满的落幕了。
打造了三年的梦想，感谢有你们为我们实现！

还记得，两年前，当中文学会高中部刚成立时，我们是有多想要办公演。
但当时的人力和财力根本不允许我们这么做。
是你们把把当时的不可能变成了如今的可能。

在我参与筹备演出的这个月里，
我看见了大家的泪水；
听见了大家的笑声；
闻到了大家的汗味。

有些话想对参与演出的学弟学妹们说。
秀萍：真的辛苦你了！想起你在控制室里紧张地指着银幕的样子，还是觉得很搞笑。当演员紧张时，你比他们更紧张；当后台人员慌张时，你比他们更慌张；当大家累时，你比他们更累。看着你在控制大局时，我多次忍不住地想告诉你，你真的很让我佩服。
郭馨：连续几天我都看见你拿着饭盒走来走去，里面的饭却还是满满的。当你告诉我你紧张得吃不下时，真的有些不舍。我从你中一就认识你，看着你从一个害羞内向的小女生变成今日能干的行政总监。我为你感到非常开心和骄傲。
《爱，很难？》的演员：第一次看你们拍戏时，我就已经留下了深刻的印象。小精灵（卓菲）真的很放得开，感染了我。没想到木木的周昊宇可以演活Thomas，黎阳能把很 typical singapore ah soh 的王阿莲演得比新加坡人还新加坡，本来很放不开的May（俊秋）能豁出去。俊龙（维良），在你和妈妈吵架时，我的毛都站了，太传神了。
《小旗子》的演员：你们原本是我（还有其他人）最担心的一组。但后来你们证明了那些担心都是多余的。当我看见志杰在后台哭时，我也很想哭。我看到了那种努力耕耘后得到回报的感动。
《蓝胡子》的演员：昨天在后台看见你们手牵着手在过戏时，我被你们的团结感动到了！晓亦（星相）每次自己加的戏都会让我们在控制室笑翻。每当到了夜绮用手喂晓亦吃时，我和仪霖即使是坐在地板，都会爬起来，跑到窗边去看。嘉仪的演技也越来越纯熟了！
道具：你们真的很棒很棒！我知道你们从开始时的一直被“骂”，到最后的一直被称赞，一路走来不简单。能在三天内又那么惊人的进步真的让我看见了你们的努力。
灯光：我亲爱的“后代”们！在这个小剧场里做灯光非常不容易，必须自己画灯的位置等。这些都是我没做过的。慧玲是一个非常非常好的组长，带领着她的组员走向光明！哈哈。

看着你们的哭与笑，
我很想很想再次参与这样的演出，
很想念很想念那些没天没夜地排戏的日子，
为台上的那几分钟付出几个月的努力。

谢谢你们，
点燃了我心中想要疯狂的为一个演出付出的那把火。

谢谢你们，
让我再次爱上了戏剧。

《戏剧木麻黄》，我们明年再见！

Project 365: #30 to #33

2009-03-28T23:59:00.004+08:00

#30: 25 March 2009
Oh no, I hope my tutee's mum doesn't see this, if not she'll sack me immediately. LOL.

#31: 26 March 2009
Bump-in day for 《戏剧木麻黄》之启点.

Just slacking.

After debriefing, Vayl, Darren and I went for supper at some random coffeeshop. Vayl and I thought it's the last train and we ran super fast to the platform. In the end, it wasn't. So retarded.

#32: 27 March 2009
Actual performance day 1, with the poster.

I had parent day in school from 8am to 5pm! Wth! I was supposed to be the translator in case the parent cannot speak english. I only translated for two parents. -.- So I just slacked the whole day, walking up and down the corridor and sitting in one of the classrooms. The teacher had very few parents visiting her as well. LOL. And I'm quite shocked that the school dedicated one whole day for teachers to meet parents, unlike other schools which usually put it after school. I ended up setting worksheets in the staffroom for the last few hours because it's super hot and I had nothing to do outside.

Was so bored.

Then, I rushed down to Blackbox for the performance. Vayl and I took a nap in the dressing room for the first half of the performance and went up to the control room for the second half. The whole show was great! Heard a lot of postive feedbacks. After debriefing, had supper again with Darren and Vayl.

Cheesecake for supper!

#33: 28 March 2009

The ULTRA humongous lift at Blackbox.

Had trouble crawling out of my bed in the morning. Was supposed to reach Blackbox at 11am. But I had major headache and sorethroat due to lack of sleep I think. So only went down at around 2pm, just before the start of the afternoon show. The afternoon performance was a little below expectations. But luckily, the final one was a BLAST! :D Everything was perfect. The acting was great, the technical was great, the crowd was great, everything was just so goooood! Great job everyone! I'm so proud of you guys! (:

The aircon in the theatre broke down during the afternoon and night show. It only resumed working towards the end of the night show. We're wondering if it's because of earth hour. LOL, imagine Blackbox decides to participate in earth hour. They'll off our lights from 8.30pm to 9.30pm! I was telling Wu Laoshi that we can have interval during that period of time to support earth hour. Which means, I didn't participate in earth hour this year. I will try again next year. LOL.

After performance, the three of us went for supper at TCC. Oh no, supper for three consecutive days! So sinful lah.

Teaching starts again..

2009-03-24T22:44:00.003+08:00

#28: 23 March 2009

One of the many posters in the staff toilets.

#29: 24 March 2009

Inside the toilet.

Started work yesterday. Well, it wasn't exactly a very pleasant start. I hope the rest of the week will be better. It's going to be a busy week again. Tuition after school tomorrow, bump-in at Black Box on thursday, performance on friday and saturday, tuition again on sunday.

Since I've started teaching again (both school and private tuition), I'm going to open up my wordpress again! All the bitching and complaining is going to start soon. LOL. But will not update so soon since I'm going to be freaking occupied this week. Eh, I can't remember who I gave the password to, so ask me for it.

Anyway, I made up for all the missing posts already. Project 365 Day 23 to 26 and Sentosa trip. Finally!

Project 365: #27 Petition for nothing

2009-03-22T22:06:00.002+08:00

#27: 22 March 2009

I actually had a photo for today, but I decided to post this screenshot instead because it's really funny. I really tried very hard not to laugh when I saw this on the homepage of facebook. WTH? A petition on FACEBOOK to extend LA dateline? LOL.

Point number 1: I don't think the teachers will log on to facebook to check if there's any petition or whatsoever going on.

Point number 2: Even if they do, I'm quite sure it will never ever get approved. I remember that we signed some petition the other time too, but there wasn't any news after that. LOL. But I can't remember what was the petition about. And if you follow the groups on facebook, which include things like wanting the old facebook back, etc, I guess you guys have to be prepared that this group will end up like the others on facebook. Did we get the old facebook back?

Point number 3: Instead of wasting your time setting up and joining the group, why don't you use the time to do your proposal?

Project 365: #23 to #26

2009-03-21T23:52:00.003+08:00

Rushed down to school on Wednesday morning to pick up my fudan application, then took 158 to Crestar to hand up the form. Then travel back to school and changed to bus 14 and finally got to Katong. Then went to meet Yoke, Gabriel, Jason and Daniel for lunch at Katong's Astons with Feng ba. We queued for an hour to get seats! OMG. I hate eating at places with long queues. But anyway, the wait was quite worthwhile since the food is nice and cheap. Just $6.50 (inclusive of GST) for the Hickory BBQ Chicken (with 2 side dishes) and $5.50/jar for the rootbeer, which can serve up to 5 cups. Then Jamie, Aaron and Vayl came to join us.

Yoke, Jamie, Gabriel, Jinghui, Daniel and I went to Parkway to rot after eating. Got some tidbits for my students from Giant, then we went over to arcade. We ended up spending like 2 hours watching people kiap sweets! Those game machine where the player will just scoop and drop the sweets, then it'll keep pushing and the sweets will drop. Those people are crazy lah! One man (NOTE: grown-up, like around 50 years old) got the platinum card, which are only given out to people who spend $2000/year topping up the arcade card. WTH, $2000/year on arcade?! Looking at the man play, I think he spends $2000/week at the arcade. Then there're two kids who just kept putting in money and played non-stop too. Spending money on arcade is so bo liao! I was also addicted to arcade games when I was in upper primary, just for the fun of collecting the tickets to exchange for stupid gifts. Haha.

#23: 18 March 2009
Rotting in giant. Wanted to put the group photo taken with my students, but they haven't sent me yet!

The cheater machine.

After rotting, I walked to East Coast Park for my students' BBQ. I turned in too early and had to walk a super long way in the end. At first, I didn't know what to do because the students were either busy playing in the sea or busy BBQ-ing. So I stood there and talked to Mr Wong, their form teacher, for awhile. After that, I started gossiping with the students! LOL. I left after taking a group photo with them.

My students kept teasing their form teacher and me. Totally -.- to the maximum because I don't even know the teacher. Only spoke to him like once? It's funny because I remember that we used to do it when we're in primay/lower secondary. So bo liao can! I see the young me in them. LOL! Oh no, that sounds old..

Rotted at home for the whole of thursday. Then went down (like literally downstairs only!) to YNPS in the late afternoon to meet Ms Leong and Mdm Ng to settle some adminstrative stuff and get the textbooks.

#24: 19 March 2009

My TCC card finally arrived! :D

Followed mummy to dayi's house on friday since I had nothing to do. We went to Hougang and met wuyi for lunch. Then wuyi drove us to dayi's house. Hayden is getting cuter and cuter! You just have to say "Hayden, gai gai!" or "Hayden, car car!" then he will just stretch out his hands and let you carry. Can easily kidnap him lah. Haha. So we brought him to the void deck for a walk. A walk for us because he still can't walk, so he's being carried around.

He's only 11 months old, but he's so smart! He loves to play with the vending machine. He just kept pressing the buttons and laughed to himself. He can even direct me! He will point to where he wants to go and I will carry him there. When my aunt asked him, "where's Hayden?", he will put his palm on his own chest! It wasn't a coincidence because it happened a few times. Cute boy! :D

CUTIE!

I took a nap and played mahjong after that.

Then was dinner with wuyi at the coffeeshop nearby and then home sweet home. Hayden insisted on leaving with us when we wanted to go home. So the maid had to bring him down and we went off. He still wanted to follow us. Haha.

#25: 20 March 2009

Baby Hayden!

#26: 21 March 2009

My favourite scene, "May, will you marry me?" LOL

My day was spent in school watching 戏剧木麻黄之启点's rehearsal. I kind of miss the hectic rehearsal schedules during qingchun-s. The fun of seeing the same performance over and over again until almost all the people can memorise everyone's lines. Haha.

Awww...

2009-03-21T02:36:00.002+08:00

They are really loving to the maximum!

I need to think more..

2009-03-17T23:56:00.001+08:00

Having an outdated blog is so not my style. But I really have no time and most importantly, no mood to blog. I've one week worth of photos for Project 365 unedited and not posted yet. So many things happened over the week and I haven't blogged about them.

My mood is even more spoilt now because the Crestar person just called me in the afternoon (while I was enjoying myself in Sentosa!) to tell me that they didn't receive my fudan application. Vayl told me that she saw my envelope still lying in the school office when she went to school this morning. Which means, IT WASN'T PASSED TO THE CRESTAR STAFF! I handed up before 12pm on Monday as instructed! Now I have to go down to school tomorrow morning to pick up my application then go to Crestar (which is at Serangoon, wtf!) and then travel back to Katong to meet Feng Ba and theclique for lunch. That also shows that I WENT DOWN TO SCHOOL FOR NOTHING YESTERDAY! I am seriously pissed!

Can people stop sending me the message on Facebook which says it's going to delete inactive members and all active members have to send the message to 15 other members to show that they're active?! Isn't obvious that it's just a chain mail? I think MSN and Friendster already had some on-going ones for 2746194 years and obviously the members are not deleted! ARGH.

Okay, I am just pissed, with the freaking fudan application and my freaking burnt arms. I also need sleep! I should seriously stop packing my last week of holiday before I start teaching with so many stuff. I am not getting enough sleep. Tomorrow is going to be another long day. Actually it WASN'T, if not for the freaking application thing. AHHHH!

Will make up for the missing posts when I am done with all the thinking I have to do. Too much stuff in my mind now. Bye, goodnight. Life sucks by the way.

Sentosa!

2009-03-17T23:18:00.002+08:00

Monday, I went down to school to hand up my fudan application. I realised that it rains whenever I go back to school. But again, it rains almost everyday. -.- I thought it was a super small drizzle, so I walked from 30 bus stop to school. On my way, the rain started to get heavier and heavier, and I don't have an ella! On top of that, the freaking side gate was not opened. So I was half-drenched by the time I reached school.

Saw Chinyang on the way to office and he wanted to lend me his ella since he won't be leaving school so early. But since it wasn't raining, I didn't take his ella. Luckily, it started pouring only when I reached Kampong Arang. The only lucky thing that happened to me the whole day.

Waited for Vayl and Aaron at LUST noodles for lunch. Then, the three of us dragged ourselves to Marina Square to look for Gabriel's present. I find it amazing how the three of us are always super tired when we go out. Okay, we're just perpetually tired. I think it's just me. We toured and toured the whole of Marina Square to look for a good shirt and most importantly, the freaking white belt! Haha. Got a polo tee, which is the first step to changing Gabriel's image! Then we went to Raffles City to search for the white belt. We finally gave up and called Gabriel to see if he wants anything else. Ended up that he doesn't mind any other colour but we still got a white (a little milky) belt for him. -.-'''

We rotted super long in River Island cos Vayl and I refused to life our butts off the chair and Aaron was looking at accessories. After which Vayl kept trying to convince him to give her one of the braclets. The only comforting thing was that the MRT station is super nearby. Cannot imagine if we're still at Suntec and we've to walk all the way back to the train station.

#21: 16 March 2009

Screwed up hair, thanks to the rain.

Tuesday, Sentosa trip with theclique! :D We're supposed to meet at 9am. But when I reached Habourfront train station at 9.30am, the place was EMPTY. Empty as in no sight of the other people but there're strangers lah. Realised that the rest, namely Roy Jason Jingwen and Daniel were eating at mac. So Gabriel, Chinyang and I just rotted at the train station to wait for Jiexin, Yoke and Aaron. Finally, at almost 11am, we moved off to Sentosa!

Just the usual stuff there. So photos! (: Credits to Vayl for the photos.

Blue sky and white clouds, the example Wangls always use during CLL lessons.

I think this picture very got feel!

Group photo <3

Then was dinner at Kim Gary, where we celebrated Gabriel's birthday.

#22: 17 March 2009

Super burnt!

I haven't been out in the sun for a super long time already. Really had fun today though I was badly burnt. Luckily I put sunblock on my face! I hate it when my face gets burned and starts to peel. Anyway, something funny happened when we went to 7-11 to get drinks. Minhua's cousin, who's 11 years old, wanted to get Jolly Shandy. Suddenly, he came to tap me and told me to pay for him because the cashier doesn't want to give him the drink. I was like, "huh?! Why he doesn't want to give you?!" So I went to the cashier and the uncle asked for my IC! WTH lah, totally. IC for Jolly Shandy?! I think the uncle was trying to be funny. Then he really checked my IC and passed me the drink. OMG. -.-

Busy week with 3 Open House(s)

2009-03-15T23:41:00.002+08:00

Woke up at 8am on Thursday because I need to go down to YNPS to meet Mdm Ng. Got my timetable and the list of students I'll be doing remedial for. I'll be doing co-teaching during normal lesson time and remedial in the afternoon. I don't really like co-teaching though. Will only get to knock off after 3pm everyday.

Came home and sleep, then Yoke called me at 3 plus. Rushed to bathe and met her on the train about half an hour later to visit The Tourism Academy's open house at Sentosa. This is the first time I heard of this institution! It's quite cool. The campus is at Sentosa, the students only have to study for about a year and the other year will be for internship, the lecturers are quite interesting (at least those that we met) and I think more than 90% of the students are foreigners. Only one bad thing, the school fees is freaking expensive!

After the talk, Yoke and I went Habourfront Centre for KFC, which both of us were craving for! Haha.

#17: 12 March 2009

KFC! :D

Had lunch at Parkway's Swensens on friday afternoon with eryi and mummy. There's 1 for 1 for all ala carte! :D But don't visit the branch at Parkway, the service sucks to the maximum! I needed to wave for like ten thousand times before I could place my order, I asked for 4 times before my ice water was served, I reminded the waiter 3 times before my ice water was refilled! Argh! Eat until I almost vomited blood!

Mummy and eryi <3

Went back to school AGAIN (third time this week!) to submit my fudan application after lunch. Ended up not handing up my application AGAIN because I met Jinghui, Berlina and company, and realised that I didn't include my CCA records and stuff. Bleah =X Vayl and I walked around the school for I-don't-know-how-many times to look for teachers, get envelopes, get letter paper, photocopy stuff, look for xiju people and many other things. We really walked every corner of the old block, including the staffroom. Yang Laoshi said, "you all are not students anymore, can just come in!" when we stood outside to wait for teachers. Haha.

We finally got to rest when we found the xiju people and watched them paixi for awhile. I think the "May, will you marry me?" guy is really funny.

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Vayl and I then went to sit outside General Office to wait for Jinghui to photocopy some stuff. The teachers who walked past all looked at us like we're some weirdos cos we just sat on the floor right outside the door. LOL. After photocopying, Jinghui stredded my original copy of Lu Laoshi's recommendation form!! I almost went crazy! Hahaha.

After waiting for Jinghui for 821092031 years, as usual, Vayl went to play tennis with Gabriel while I just sat there to slack. Then we met Aaron and went for dinner at Marina Square's Xin Wang. Ahhh, tired!

#18: 13 March 2009

Vayl and I at the tennis court.

Got forced to wake up early on saturday for the 39841701th time this week for NTU Open House. Met Yoke and Aaron on the train and go all the way to Boon Lay, which sounds less ulu now since there's Joo Koon. Haha! We're pretty early, so we went to mac for breakfast and saw this twin who're super cute! The meimei should be enrolled into some drama class! She's pretending to cry throughout. LOL.

The queue for the shuttle bus was supacuppa longgggg, but it only took us awhile to board cos the frequency of the buses was quite high. But anyway, we're late for the FASS talk, so we skipped it in the end. We went for breakfast (times 2!) at the one of the foodcourts there after meeting Jingwen and company and then went off separately for talks. Yoke and I went for the NIE and MOE one. I think it's pretty insightful. For once I'm benefitting from such talks. Haha. It's lunch after the talk (seems like we're eating non-stop!) and then we left the campus.

Jingwen and I couldn't decide if we should go NUS because we're super tired but also want to find out some stuff. In the end, we still went. Went for the last 10 mins of the FASS talk cos we're late and then went up to look at the booths. Jingwen finally caught a guy who's from Political Science and talked to him while Jinghui and I just wandered around. We saw a person who brought a luggage to contain the freebies! How exaggerated is that! Then, we saw Hexun who told us excitedly that the CCA exhibition is giving out very good freebies, so we went down.

Some guy from Kent Ridge Hall tried to promote KR to us. And some guys were playing live rock music in the background. So the KR guy had to scream his lungs out just to get us to join the orientation but we just told him that we'll take a look and go back again. That was obviously a lie, a white lie. We kept searching for the free Singtel bag which Hexun told us about but they're not giving out! Jinghui went to ask and the person said the next session is at 5pm. So we went to the tentage outside to slack and talk for awhile and went back into the exhbition hall at 5pm. Cheapo to the maximum! LOL. There's a super nice notebook inside the bag! :D

We just stood around to watch the geyao performance. The girl's voice is really good! And the second guy was very funny. He was super excited while listening to the girl sing. Jingwen and I couldn't stop laughing at him man! We decided that we're too tired to stay on, so we took internal shuttle to AS7 and then took 30 home. Had a super good sleep on the bus! (:

#19: 14 March 2009

At NTU.

#20: 15 March 2009

The nice diary I got from NUS yesterday.

I spent my whole day watching shows and slacking at home. So there's no picture today. Decided to show off the nice diary I got from NUS Open House yesterday. I've also completed my fudan application. All ready to be handed in tomorrow!

不会造句就不要造！

2009-03-11T23:42:00.004+08:00

#16: 11 March 2009

This is what I've been busy with the whole of today.

I (half) settled my NUS application already. I think the website is crazy! We've to complete the application within 30 minutes, if not it will just auto-logout. What the hell! Like exams can, so stressful! But the application is quite easy, just have to verify the information because all our results and stuff are all stored in already. Now, I just have to send in my sec4 results to complete the application.

Talking about sec4 results, why are they still asking for it! Whenever I take out my transcript, I feel like stabbing myself. The results are like.. 不堪入眼! I only had like one A, and that's for my HCL. My maths and sciences grades are really scary can! I really played too much in secondary school. Luckily I had DHP to save my ass.

Was supposed to meet Yoke for lunch in school, but we're all too full to eat. So we just rotted in canteen and basketball court. Then I went to see Huangls regarding my personal statement IN CHINESE! Haha. After that, I spent a long time photocopying my documents, getting them certified and then edit my personal statement. Yoke came to join me to rot in the canteen, then Aaron came as well. We went up to see volleyball training but there wasn't much to see (LOL!). We actually stayed in school from 2.30pm to 5.30pm doing nothing! When we're students, we rot in school. Now we're no longer students, we still rot in school. School is such a great rotting ground. Haha.

Biggest news of the day was sis called me to say that Jingwen's sir is her poly friend. And I played mahjong with him once before! LOL. No wonder I find him so familiar but I totally didn't even think of my sis friend. The weirder thing is that he didn't recognise me. Because usually my sis friends can always recognise me. Even when I've not seen them before, they will ask "do you have a sister called An Mei?" Haha! We even met him when I was at Suntec with Jingwen the other time. My life is so boring that stuff like that can also be the biggest news.

Okay, now back to what my title says! 933的周重庆和Ivy在〈给你四个字〉的单元中提到了“自吹自擂”这句成语。Ivy便用了“自吹自擂”来造句。她说：“我一定要把自己的事做好，不能自吹自擂，遭人反感。”这是什么句子！根本没有表达“自吹自擂”的意思啊！“自吹自擂”指的是自己炫耀自己的能力。把自己的事做好和自吹自擂有什么关系？她应该给类似“做人要谦虚，不能自吹自擂，才不会引起别人的反感。“的句子，才能表达其成语的意思。这种“智慧型”的单元是很好，但可别误人子弟。

Jingwen's POP

2009-03-10T23:03:00.002+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUMMY! <3

Woke up at 5.15am (0_o!!) to attend Jingwen's POP, which is at BOONLAY! Was supposed to meet Minhua on the train but she's late, so we met at Boonlay's mrt platform instead. We ended up being late because we're supposed to meet Jingwen's family outside SAFTI Military Institute at 7.45am. I think we reached at like almost 8am? And the ceremony was supposed to start at 8am. I think they expected family members to be late, so we just sat there and rot.

They marched out, sang some songs and then gave our prizes. Jingwen got best shooter! :D Her sis was saying that Jingwen totally didn't smile while she was receiving her prize, like so unwilling to receive the prize. LOL!

Spot Jingwen!

我是年轻的卫国军~~~~

I'm so proud of Jingwen! So seh! (:

After that, we went to the cadet's mess and had refreshments. Meanwhile, they're showing some pictures of their training and stuff, Jingwen is major unglamness okay! Haha. Then we started taking photos.

Jingwen's mum said that we're like visiting our boyfriends.

Towards the end, we almost fell asleep while waiting for them to clear arms so that Jingwen can leave with us. And the girls started going crazy, taupok-ing each other. Waited for Jingwen to pack her stuff and her dad sent us to Jurong Point. Had lunch at New York New York and then home to sleep! The three of us totally fainted on the train. Haha.

Check out Minhua's super classic china hair! LOL.

#15: 10 March 2009

I have to move on

2009-03-09T22:21:00.003+08:00

Decided to go school very last minute today because I suddenly remembered that Jingwen's POP is tomorrow and not wednesday. So I cannot collect my recommendation letter from An Laoshi tomorrow. It's raining cats and dogs (so primary school!) and I hate going out on rainy days, but I've no choice. :(

I sat in canteen to rot after seeing the teachers because the rain was super heavy and I really don't feel walking under the rain even though I've an ella. I just sat at one corner and watched the junior walking in and out of the canteen. Then I watched some juniors play table-tennis and table soccer. Then I saw Miss Lee coming by and confiscated two table-tennis balls because the students were playing in school uniform. Then Wanglaoshi came by and gave me a lift.

It feels good to just sit there and watch the juniors. I really miss the happening school life. I really miss Dunman High. I really miss my friends.

失去了才懂得珍惜
I remember how much I wanted to get out of school when I was in there.
If not for examination stress, I would want to stay in Dunman High forever and ever.
The best of both worlds, impossible.

#14: 9 March 2009

That's me in my mum's super thick blanket. It's freakinggg cold!

NTU stabbing case - another side of the story?

2009-03-09T12:03:00.003+08:00

I am one of David Hartanto's close friend and I am here to give yousome facts, assumptions, possibilities about this case

Facts:1. Lok Tat Seng: Dean of Student of NTU gathered all Indonesian students inInternational Student Center on evening after incident and he just said there was witness on the spot who saw David's body lying on the ground,dead. Dean did not said that witness saw David jumped from balcony. And that is, according to him, all he has saw.

2. The only official statement from police is: David was found dead atthe crime scene, they did not mention whether he commited suicide.The link: http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIM...20at%20NTU.pdfThey also just mention 'The professor was believed to be stabbed'. The policedid not say that 'the professor was stabbed'. Where this assumption come from? Whythey did not say about it?

3. I and some Indonesian students gather tonight, 3 March 2009, at 8 pm, at International Student Center and talked to David's parent. They have seen his body. There was NO WOUND whatsoever on his wrists and police also has confirmed it. I assumed that his parent would not lie it means that all media news about'David slashed his wrist' was FAKE.

4. The wounds found on David's body, according to his parents, were on his head (It is assumed due to fall injury),and slash wound on his neck. The wound on his neck is very suspicious, inmy opinion. How he received that wound?? Again, according to his parent,police guessed that it may be happened when the bottom part of his head smashedthe ground. In that case, his chin will have broken and it did not.My question is: WHERE DOES THAT SLASH WOUND ON HIS NECK CAME FROM?

Assumptions:1. David stabbed professor. How did you know? The crime scene is closed room,only David and that professor. No one see what has happened. Eye-witness only saw David run out from that room.

2. David commited suicide. How could someone who commited suicide drop himselfinto glassed roof, instead of directly drop himself to ground.

3. David slashed his wrist. I do not know where this news came from...

4. David's motivation.

4.1. He pissed off since his prof did not give satisfactory grade
The grade has not been released and he even has not submitted the report.It is also NTu policy not to inform the student about the grade which they gotbefore release of the result.

4.2. He has mental problem
No record in Student Counselling Centre about his attendance. For bright studentas him, I did not believe that he did not attend counseling if he has someproblems. Also, he still brought bag with usual daily stuff, on incident day,such as drink bottle, towel, etc. If David planned to kill someone why wouldhe prepare to bring such things. It is easier for him to just bring one knifeand stab his prof on spot.

4.3. He pissed off because his scholarship has been revoked
I knew David since I was his roommate for 2 consecutive years during Mathematical Olympiad training camp. He almost did not qualify for IMO, only managed to get at 14th rank from 15 people selected.He still joked and laughed to me at that time. He also did not get anythingfrom IMO and still fine, not seemed depressed whatsoever, and according to hisparents, he said 'At least, I managed to represent Indonesia at IMO'He also still play Hammerfall game in Facebook at 2 am on the incident day. My friendsaw his Facebook account online. How comea murderer played game in the night before incident? If I was him, I will seriously think how would I prepare myself tomorrow

Possibilities:
1. Professor attacked David. I deduced this thing for several key points.According to many reports, David's cloth was soaked on blood. If the blood is the result from slashing his wrist, it should not soak his cloth since wrist is far from body. If the wound is from neck, it is easier.

2. David tried to run from Professor. After he realized that he was attacked, he resisted and run from that room, with wound on his neck.

3. David falled because of unconsciousness. He became panic and probably lose his common sense because of terrible bleeding, drop himself down into glassed roof to escape from his Professor.

I am responsible for what I have written here, and contact me at kaminari.no.me@gmail.comif you need any clarification.

Source

Quite convincing?

Project 365: #13 Daniel Chan?

2009-03-08T22:28:00.006+08:00

#13: 8 March 2009

Another screenshot from Boys Over Flowers.

Spent my day watching Boys Over Flowers and the recorded Perfect Cut. I took this screenshot from BOF because I think Ji-hoo looks like Daniel Chan!

Compare!

Maybe, just maybe, it's not that fine afterall. I think the results take some time to settle in. I feel neither here nor there. How?

Project 365: #12 Grandma's birthday

2009-03-07T22:21:00.003+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GABRIEL!

(in your favouritest colour :D)

#12: Grandma's birthday celebration

Look at the base of the candle. Star-shaped instead of the usual kind!

Nothing worth mentioning. Just the usual dinner and stuff. Am struggling to fill up the Fudan application form now.

The BIG day

2009-03-06T22:55:00.001+08:00

Yes, it's finally here. Met Yoke, Ailyn and Aaron for lunch at mac, then Gabriel, Chinyang and Jiexin came to join us. They're very amused when I said Jiexin is ganjiong spider. LOL. Then we walked to school and on the way, Aaron's junior sms-ed to say that Mr Sng declared next thursday a day off due to A level results. Then, I had the legendary dessert. Not bad! And cheap at the same time.

They accidentally flashed the names of those who got 7 and 8 distinctions on the tv screen in canteen. But when everyone crowded around to see, they took it off. Anyway, congrats to Huanglin, Shi Ling, Zhiying, Kenghoe, Li Hui, Baojia, Selina, Yu Han, Kek, Mei Hui, Munyi and who else? I cannot remember.

Mr Tan Leong Howe briefed us regarding re-taking A levels and some other admin stuff. Then Mr Sng gave an overview of the results in general. He invited those who got 7 and 8 distinctions to go on stage. Blah blah blah and we finally went up to get our results from the respective CTs.

I met Mr Tan JS while walking down the auditorium steps..

Mr Tan: An Ting, what you want to get for GP?
Me: Aiyah, can get B very happy already lah!
Mr Tan: Wah, that means you will be very happy.
Me: Don't bluff!
Mr Tan: You don't believe me? Later you see..

I was the last few to get my result slip from An Laoshi. And those above me (i.e. register number 1-4) already gotten their results, so my slip was like lying there for everyone to view. I took a peep when Amelia was collecting hers and saw As and Bs on my result slip. I was super relieved because I was already all prepared for the worst. And, I really got a B for my GP!! Hahaha. We also got the collective memory book (which my photo sucked to the maximum I swear) and a disc with videos from the graduation ceremony from our CT.

I thanked all my teachers after getting my result slip. Am really grateful for their help and patience which helped me pull through A levels. Thank you! But I didn't get a chance to thank Mdm Leong. Although I got a B for my econs, I still want and need to thank her! I started off econs with a big fat U and was still struggling for a D at the end of Year5. I shall thank her when I go back to school next tuesday.

Although my results weren't fantastic, I'm already satisfied. I think being satisfied is the most important thing. I am happy because mummy and daddy are happy. I am happy because the teachers are happy for me.

To my dear friends, I'm sorry, all I could was to offer my hug. Take a good rest and think about it later. I'm just a phone call away. (:

I went to collect the fudan's application form and was given a super big bag of university-related stuff outside the auditorium. I went out to meet Sieuping to get the tickets for the performance and the woman wanted to give me another bag of the same thing. I told her I have it already and 2 minutes later, another woman came and attempted to give me the bag again. -.-

Waited for Jinghui to laminate my results, then went to Suntec's Crystal Jade for dinner with Jingwen, Ailyn, Darren, Jinghui, Gabriel, Daniel, Aaron and Chinyang. Then we went Gelare for ice-cream. The ice-cream is so not nice!

#11: 6 March 2009

The last time... in this set of school uniform.

Project 365: #10 Slack

2009-03-05T23:37:00.005+08:00

#10: 5 March 2009

A screenshot from Boys Over Flowers.

Nothing much went on today. I just had a 宅女 day, which I enjoyed a lot! :D I finally finished the last episode of 豪杰春香 and I'm going on to Boys Over Flowers (Korean version) now! My sis had been telling me how handsome the Korea's F4 is. I'm only at episode two and I'm already hooked on! Haha.

I still have two weeks worth of internship journal. I cannot continue anymore. Shall finish them up tomorrow, which is the deadline! :(

School uniform tomorrow. This is really going to be the LAST time.

Thanks to those who wished me luck for tomorrow. I hope they work! Haha.

It's tomorrow!

2009-03-05T12:31:00.002+08:00

Yay, I finally cleared all my outdated posts! (:

Results will be released TOMORROW!!! *Screams around hysterically* Although I've been wanting to get my results back very long ago because 早死早超生, I still can't help but feel nervous about it. Who won't be? Imagine if I screw up, I will only have my PSLE cert! I've been filling in forms and forms for tuiton agency, scholarships, etc and I realised they don't ask for PSLE results! Eh, how can like that! That's like the only cert I can haolian about lah. My sec4 and prelims results all suck.

Anyway, release results means 有人欢喜有人愁. Of course, I hope that the whole cohort will be happy with their results, but that depends on the target you set for yourselves.

Dear friends,
Please do not expect any consolation from me because I believe that nobody wants to be bothered when they're not feeling very good. So don't think I'm very heartless when I don't approach you even when you are crying your eyes out. However, should you need any assistance in any way, be it a hug or a listening ear or someone to slap you awake, please feel free to approach me. Even if my own results suck, I will still be glad to assist you. Even if my results are super sucky and you need someone to share your joy because you got freaking good results, you can still approach me. I'm not the kind who will scold you because you for showing off your results because good news are meant for sharing! Moreover, I hope that all of you are approaching me because you got freaking good results. :D

And my advice to all,

STAY AWAY AND BE SENSITIVE.

Be sensitive goes out to both those who got satisfying and unsatisfying results. To those who got satisfying results: Not everyone can share your joy like me, so keep a look out and beware of stepping on mines. Don't attempt to console anyone unless you're very sure that person needs help or you don't mind being hurled at. To those who didn't get satisfying results: Although I understand that good words don't usually come out from the mouths of angry/disappointed/sad people, don't think you can say hurtful words just because you are upset. I believe that friends approach you because they truly care and want to help (although I don't think they can really help), so try to contain your words within youself instead of throwing out hurtful words and regret later on. And, don't think that people won't take it to heart because everyone wasn't thinking straight at that time. I know of people who really mind what you've said! Most importantly, to everyone, don't casually ask others for their results especially when you're not very shou with the person (although our whole cohort is supposed to be very shou, but you know the difference right?).

On a side note, please check your DHS mails for Mdm Leong's email. And please don't wear school uniform if you've already dyed your hair. Thanks.

Last but not least, good luck and all the best to all! (:

Next, I want to declare my hatred for lizards! Lizards are not supposed to be hated because they're nice little things that help eat up disgusting insects like mozzies. But look at the lizards, they look so horribly gross lah! What's with the scaly skin? And I think the lizards in my house are not lovable because they didn't do a good job at eating mozzies! There're so MANYYYYYY x 10000 mozzies at home! I saw a small lizard in the toilet while I was bathing the other day. I swear I was freaking scared because I could see his (somehow I think all lizards look like they're male!) skin and feet so clearly that it gave me goosebumps! I had my eyes fixed on him because I was afraid his sticky pad would somehow screw up and he will fall off from the wall. EEEEEE!

Sakae buffet

2009-03-04T21:10:00.005+08:00

Sis treated me (half only!) to Sakae buffet at Century Square today. We just kept eating and taking photos. LOL. And then went to shop around TM for awhile to get presents for sis friends. Both of us were tired to the max and just came home and concussed on the bed. Perpetually sleepy sisters.

#9: 4 March 2009

My favourite photo of the day. :D

Other photos.

I can see that the person in the kitchen is quite bored.

There's supposed to be strawberry smiles (frozen strawberries) for dessert but there's no more stock already! >=( And there're only yam and sesame flavour for the mochi ice-cream. Yucks, what the hell. So we didn't take any in the end. I want strawberry smiles!!!

Project 365: #8 Grandma's visit to the polyclinic

2009-03-03T22:40:00.003+08:00

#8: 3 March 2009

Super bad hairday!

I did nothing much today. Brought grandma for her regular checkup at Bedok Polyclinic. I had an exciting morning! Was supposed to go polyclinic to borrow the wheelchair first, then go to grandma's house to bring her to the polyclinic. I started calling grandma when I was on the way to her house to ask her to come downstairs, but nobody pick up the phone! Called mum and she said they're probably downstairs already. I searched the void deck but grandma and maid were not in sight! I went upstairs and they're not there either! Called mum again and she went to look for them at market and they were having breakfast there. -.- So I had to bring the wheelchair to the market and all of us (mum, maid and I) went to the polyclinic together.

It started raining after we're done with the consultation and the maid didn't bring the ella along! WTH! So I brought grandma for breakfast at Block 216 and eryi came to meet us. The maid used eryi's ella to go home and pick up more ellas for us. The rain got heavier and it's super difficult for us to reach home because there're construction going on at the void deck (where I was super scared to walk by) and the roads were blocked, so the wheelchair couldn't go through.

Slacked at grandma's house while waiting for the rain to stop, then came home and slept. Yawns!

I cannot blog!

2009-03-03T14:41:00.003+08:00

Because my freaking Photoshop is DOWN! T_T x 1000000!

I don't know what's wrong with it. It just doesn't want to open. Whenever I try to use it, it'll just hang there and says that it's not responding. ARGH!

I tried downloading the free trial for Photoshop CS4 Extended but it couldn't work. I tried installing and uninstalling for like 3 times, and it takes super long okay. I'm going crazy! *Screams and pulls hair!* I am now trying to get the free trial for Photoshop CS2. I hope it works because it's a lousier version and there's no reason for it to be too high-tech for my laptop. Haha.

All thanks to my screwed Photoshop, I cannot blog because I cannot edit pictures, I cannot add the watermark, I cannot do any shit. All thanks to my screwed Photoshop, I cannot do the t-shirt design for CS drama production and I have to hand-draw it, which spells UGLY.

I have like 3 drafts in my blogger now, but I cannot post them because the pictures are not done yet. OH CRAP! I've no time to finish up my internship journal because I am wasting all my time on fixing this crappy Photoshop. JINGHUIIII! Save meeeeee!

Will try to post up the drafts if I'm able to download this crap. *Prays hard!*
Everything's up, all below this post. (:

Project 365: #6 and #7

2009-03-02T23:43:00.003+08:00

#6: 1 March 2009

In Levi's fitting room.

Went shopping with sis at Orchard. We went DFS to choose our gucci wallets! :D x 1000! Now I just have to wait for my sis to help me place the order for me. But I think that's going to take very long. Wanted to get new shoes and clothes, but couldn't get any. :(

We ended up at Levi's because it's on sales again! Haha. Any 2 jeans (below $199.90) for only $199.90!! My sis and I went into the fitting room for like 10 times. Levi's has another sale, which is to exchange your old top for a new top and you'll get $20 off! Wooohooo!

Met Yoke and Gabriel at TM for lunch, then watched Marley and Me.

Throughout the movie, I was thinking what has the show got to do with the dog? If you remove the dog's parts, the movie still can go on and there won't be any major changes. That means the dog didn't play a major role in the show! However, the role kind of switched towards the end and it's SUPERRRR touching. I'm able to see the major role of the dog in the show and their attachment towards the dog. The touching factor is using the children's perspective to show the dog's importance in the family, like how it's like a family member. I won't say it's a must-watch movie, but can watch if you have no other shows to catch. Haha.

After the show, I decided to go for a haircut! Have been wanting to do so but had no time and no mood. Since I'm free and this week is An Ting's week, I should spend time and money for and on myself. Haha. I didn't ask for any hair stylist specifically, I just take whoever's free. It's a wrong choice! The guy insisted I cut the back shorter so that it'll be more bob but I don't want! Then he kept trying to convince me and seemed irritated because I refused to. Eh, it's my hair leh!

#7: 2 March 2009
New haircut

I think the back is too freaking straight! But my mum said it's nice.

Mum suddenly called me in the evening and said that grandma wasn't feeling very well, so I went over to grandma's place. Luckily it's just her legs which felt weak. That's pretty common for old people and especially her since her legs are quite weak.

Then Yoke suddenly text me to say that there's rainbow!! I flew to the window immediately and saw the pretty pretty rainbow! I think it's nicer than last wednesday's. Haha. So lucky to see two rainbows in less than a week's time. :D

Jason's birthday celebration

2009-02-28T23:42:00.006+08:00

Met up with Vayl at Cityhall, then had lunch at PepperLunch (so apt!). Then Aaron came to join us. After eating, we went to look around for Jason's present. Wanted to get him a watch but we gave up because no watch suits a 死小孩 like him. LOL. Yoke came to join us shortly after. In the end, we got him a wallet and an earpiece which he requested for!

Anyway Swatch sells super hilarious watches like Tweety bird and Powerpuff girls'. We couldn't stop laughing at it man.

We met at 12 when dinner's supposed to be at 6pm! We went to TCC to rot after getting the stuff because we couldn't walk anymore. I want new clothes, but I'm lazy to shop and I've no money. Boohoo.. Vayl ordered Irish coffee at TCC, then the waitress was like, "WOW!" super loudly! All 4 of us got a shock. Then she said, "the alcohol is quite strong, can you take it?". But Vayl said that it's not very strong. Make sense what, the drink is only $12.80, how much Whiskey would they put? LOL. I thought she's going to check Vayl's IC. Haha. We attempted to wow back the girl a few times but still failed.

Then, we went to Carrefour where Aaron bought many many tidbits to stock up the staffroom. Yoke and Aaron started eating like it's free lah!

Look at the amount of food.

Chinyang and Jason came to join us and we continued touring in Carrefour. Then went off to sit outside Pizza Hut for super long before Jingwen, Jinghui, Roy and Daniel came. After that, we headed off to Fish&Co. We're there because everyone wants to see Jason and the birthday bash! Haha.

The birthday bash.

Camwhoring while waiting for food.

The gigantic drink.

Then, we realised that Jingwen and Aaron were wearing 情侣装! But Jingwen was wearing back flats instead, so she borrowed my white flats! Haha.

The photo on the right is taken by the super talented me. I think it's so freaking hilarious.

#5: 28 February 2009

HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY JASON! :D

A little game on the way home. Focus on the shoes!

No more counting of cars

2009-02-28T10:12:00.002+08:00

Yesterday's road survey was at Upper East Coast Road, just outside my cousin's 1 million condo. I saw a few Lexas, so pretty can! Expensive at the same time.. Haha. Seeing these cars driving pass makes me consider whether I should learn driving. But I don't have a car to drive, why waste the money to learn!

Eryi and 2 other surveyors were at the other side, so I was left alone at the bus-stop. I was super near to the road and it's super dusty. Yucks! They had a coffee shop to sit down at. But the coffee shop closes at 5pm, so they had to sit outside during the night shift. I really sat till my butt was SUPER pain. T_T Sitting for 5 consecutive days! Moreover, the void deck stools, road curbs and bus stop seats are all super hard!

No other complaints other than the dust and the hard seats. The task was quite easy cos I only had to count the number of cars going in one of the directions and the number of people jaywalking. Haha. Actually it's the number of pedestrians crossing the road. Since there's no traffic light or overhead bridge there, they could only jaywalk.

Walked to Bedok South (opposite TJC) to meet mum and sis for dinner. I influenced my aunt to walk with me! Haha. We took about 20 minutes I think. I saw some recreational mixed teams having netball training there. I kind of miss the training days. At least I was exercising regularly then.

Think it's going to be my last day at work already. Going to take a break next week to complete my internship journal, which has to be handed in by next friday. T_T!!

Sheila texted and I went to meet her at Paya Lebar MRT after bathing. I attempted to help a little girl save her balloon which flew away at Bedok MRT station's platform. Her mum stopped her from retrieving the balloon and I happened to walk past. But I only had one hand because I was holding on to a lot of stuff on the other. I caught the balloon already, but it floated away again! The balloon still flew onto the track in the end, I only prolonged its death. Haha. I think I looked super stupid while trying to get hold of the balloon. And the girlgirl looked at me very sadly, like I caused the balloon to go onto the track. OEI, at least I attempted to help you okay!

Met Darren at Marina Square to watch movie. But we couldn't decide on what to watch and the timings were quite sian, so we ended up at kbox! Haha. We wanted to leave when the person told us we could sing from 11pm to 4am at $35 each because it's freaking expensive and we don't want to sing till so late. In the end, the person said she can just charge us two persons' price. I didn't know kbox can bargain one! LOL. So we sang till 2am and cabbed home. I told them the Marina Square's ghost stories and they're super freaked out, so was I.

Long time no see, kbox! Haha.

Darren tried to spoil my camera again!

#4: 27 February 2009

I love rainbows!

2009-02-26T23:30:00.010+08:00

Did road survey at Xilin Avenue (near Singapore Expo) yesterday. Another guy, Weiquan, joined eryi and I. The most shocking thing is he happened to be an ex-dunmanian! And he's only 2 years older than me, which means Justin's batch. See what I said about dunmanians are everywhere and I always have a lot to say when I meet fellow dunmanians. Haha.

We sat at the roadside curb from 6.30am to 9.30am. OMG, my butt super pain can! And we had to classify the cars into 5 different categories. They are: motorcycles, cars (normal cars and taxis), light-weight vehicles (lorries and vans), heavy-weight vehicles (big lorries) and buses. Luckily there weren't many cars for the lanes I was in-charge in the morning.

It started to rain when we went for our second shift from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. Eryi and I hid at the bus-stop where I couldn't see the vehicles very clearly. But the rain was too heavy and there's no way I can go out there and count the vehicles even though I had an ella.

I walked out to join Weiquan at the roadside when the rain became lighter. And I saw the PRETTY PRETTY RAINBOW! I was so super happy! Am glad that I walked out! Haha. I've never seen such a well-defined rainbow in my entire life before! Those that I've seen are always very faint. But it's so sad I didn't see the smaller one. :( The rainbow created quite a huge hoo-ha because so many 933 DJs mentioned it on air today and the newspapers reported on it. The newspaper article said that there will always be a rainbow after the storm, which is a sign to show that things are going to turn better after this economic crisis. It's quite crap I would say. It's just a natural occurrence, don't read too much into it.

#2: 25 February 2009

The rainbow! :D The photo doesn't do the rainbow justice at all!

Today's road survey is also near Singapore Expo, but just outside the ITE there. We also have to classify the vehicles into five categories, just like yesterday's. But there're 6 people working today! Eryi and I just sat at some drain cover by the roadside. So many drivers and ITE students who walked past stared at us like we're some aliens. Hello, we're just trying to earn some money lah! It rained just before we started our second shift, so the drain cover was wet. But eryi was smart enough to bring a plastic sheet to sit on! Haha. Sadly, there's no rainbow today! Okay, I cannot be so greedy.

After work, I walked home! It took me about an hour. I felt guilty for eating and slacking so much. The last time I exercised was a few days after the end of A levels I think, which was 3 months ago! HOW SCARY! I should start running, seriously.

#3: 26 February 2009

Under a random overhead bridge near Tanah Merah. Super dark! Haha.

Walking alone is quite an enjoyable thing to do. It's pretty breezy because it just rained before that. However, the floor wasn't exactly that clean to walk on. On the way, I just listened to 933, focused on the music and thought of nothing else. Good for the mind and body.

It's funny how I walked up and down at somewhere near my grandma's place because I was afraid. I wanted to cut through the blocks of flats so that it will nearer, but there's construction work going on at those blocks of flats. So, the void decks are mainly blocked out and are therefore super dark. Plus I don't know why there weren't anybody at the void deck even though it's only 8pm plus! I decided that it's too dark and it looked super eerie, so I walked back to the side of the main road. Then, I saw another block of flats which looked quite properly lit and I decided to walk up again. Upon reaching, I realised that once again, it's freaking dark! So I walked back to the side of the road again. LOL. I walked up and down twice or thrice I think.

Buzzz!

2009-02-24T23:01:00.008+08:00

I am so busy, like a bumble bee! I don't even have time, or rather the energy, to blog! LOL. But anyway, since I've stopped hibernating at home, I decided to start on Project 365, which I saw on fourfeetnine's blog. Basically it's just about taking a photo everyday, post it on my blog to record my life. Sounds quite fun, just that I'm afraid I don't have the determination to go on for a year. We shall see how it goes..

Since I ended my internship at Bedok Green and I'm waiting for YNPS' reply, I didn't look for a long-term part-time job (sounds confusing!). I went to work for my cousin's cousin's company, which is to do road survey. I just had to sit (I stand most of the time though) by the roadside and count the number of cars passing by. The survey results are then analysed and given to LTA, who will then decide if they should build new traffic lights/build overhead bridges/expand the road etc.

Yesterday, my duty was 6-8pm at Kallang Road, outside the Indian temple where they're having a major event or something. It's pretty easy for the first day because I only had to count the cars on two lanes. Everything went on pretty smoothly until I got dizzy out of a sudden! Everything just started to turn blur and I couldn't see, just like what happened before I fainted at home four years ago. Then I started breaking into cold sweat and felt like vomiting! I was super scared lah! I quickly passed my job to my aunt and sat down by the roadside. At this time, the people from the temple started walking out of the temple, carrying the god, and playing loud music. I swear I felt like my head was going to explode anytime and I might just puke onto the people walking by.

I thought that looking at the zooming cars made me giddy, so I tried to look away for awhile but when I stood up, the whole thing just came back again. So, it's probably because my blood pressure went low low low ~~and hit the floor~~ again. I quickly grabbed some biscuits from my aunt and stuffed myself with it. LOL. Luckily everything went back to normal after like 15 minutes. I totally heck-cared about glam-ness and just sat down at the place where people normally stand to wait for traffic lights because there're no chairs around.

Project 365: #1 24 February 2009

The survey forms and counters.

My duty's from 7am-2pm (7 hours straight!!) at Ang Mo Kio today. Luckily the location's fengshui is quite good and we got to sit under the void deck near the road instead of sitting by the roadside, which means lesser dust and air pollution. Moreover, there's a kopitiam nearby and we get to buy drinks and go toilet! Haha. Today's job was pretty easy too, I only had to look at one lane, but separate the vehicles into buses and others (which includes cars, lorries, motorcycles, etc).

My aunt and I were like having a mini pinic there. I brought bread with ham, my 5th aunt came to visit us with kueh bahlu and curry puffs, my aunt went to the kopitiam to get coffee, milo and kueh. Throughout the 7 hours, I ate till I was super full and I sat till my butt was super pain!

My only source of entertainment is listening to 933. Haha. I heard some interesting news on air today. For example, George Bush went for a job interview at a DIY store to be their salesman. But he didn't accept the job eventually. The manager even told him, "you don't have to worry, this job is much easier than your previous one". Like, DUH! His previous job is the president of America okay! Then, Cruz Teng said that people want to boycott Carl's Junior because Edison Chen is coming for one of their private events. These people have nothing better to do is it? Why they want to boycott Carl's Junior? Not like Carl's Junior is a fast food restaurant which says they only serve food to those who have only sex partner and have never taken any sex photos. Not like Edison Chen is endorsing some chasity band instead of Carl's Junior. His scandal has nothing got to do with eating fast food what. Or maybe they just want to boycott Carl's Junior so that other companies will not dare to hire Edison Chen to do anything and he will have no job and he will die. But that's not quite possible because he comes from a rich family.

Oh one more funny one is when a guy went to put a stack of notes into the hot oven because his boss asked him to keep the money at a safe place. When the boss open the oven the next day, the notes were chaotah already! LOL.

我正在边听边唱大嘴巴的<結果咧>。突然，我打了一个哈欠。

二姨: 大嘴巴
我：你怎么知道！我还蛮喜欢这首歌的！

没想到二姨既然认识大嘴巴，还知道我在唱的是他们的歌，所以我非常惊讶。

二姨: *想了一想* 不是，我是说你打哈欠，嘴巴很大！
我：-.-''' 我还以为你这么新潮！

Last day at Bedok Green

2009-02-20T23:50:00.003+08:00

Started off my day by visiting NDC to remove my stitches for my wisdom tooth wound. My appointment is the first one, at 8am! I don't know what the dentist was doing so I waited until 8.20am before I got to see her. People who came later than me even left before I went in. I don't like this dentist cos she's super violent! She poked the scissors right into my lips when she was about to cut the thread! She got cock eyes or what?

Then I rushed back to Bedok, went to Sheng Siong to get chocolates for my teaching supervisors, took 67 to school, chiong-ed up and down the overhead bridge, punched card at GO, got my teaching materials from office and ran all the way to class. I managed to reach there before my teaching supervisor did eventhough it's already 9.37am when I entered the school gate. LOL. I was supposed to be back in school by 10am, but I rushed to reach before 9.35am, which is the only class I had that day. If not for the delay at NDC, I probably wouldn't have to rush like a mad woman lah.

Gave 2E2 some sweets as farewell gift. I told them they've to listen to me after eating my sweets although my wish didn't really come true. LOL. I finally got to go through the stack of zuowen notes I prepared for my two sec2 classes. But I don't know if they're really listening and how much they absorbed. It's such a rush and I couldn't finish everything. After lessons, I went over to 2E3 and gave them some sweets as well. But most of them left for recess already so I just passed it to Jiaqi and got her to give to the rest. Some of the remaining students came and thanked me and stuff. (: I feel guilty for forgetting to get some little treats for my sec3 classes. I'm so sad that I didn't bring my camera to class and therefore no photos with students.

I wanted to look for thank you cards in the bookshop, but they only had the super minute kinds. However, I saw some superrr cute ez-link card holders which are sold at $1 each only! I got super excited and ran back to office to get money to buy! LOL. I think my students were shocked to see me so fascinated by ez-link card holders. -.- Then Cassandra and friends forced me to treat them to drink! LOL. So I bought drinks for them and we had a little chat in the canteen.

Went back to office to rush out the thank you cards for Mrs Quek, Ms Koh and Mdm Chng. I seriously think the cards were quite nice given the limited resources I had, which include a black and white laser printer, Microsoft Words 97 and coloured papers. The computer doesn't even have photoshop! *faints* I forgot to take photos of the cards cos I was in a rush! So sad :(

The 3 of us wrote on the cards we had and then went up to staffroom to give to our supervisors. Mrs Quek was not in, so we just left it on her table. Then I went to take photos with Ms Koh and 庄老师.

Photos!

The farewell gifts I received.

I'm really thankful to be able to have Ms Koh and Mdm Chng as my teaching supervisors. They're very motherly, caring, encouraging and inspiring teachers! Both of them really made my internship at Bedok Green very enjoyable and memorable. All the bitchy days were also salvaged by them. Thank you for forgiving all my silly and careless mistakes as well.

I'm also really glad that I was given the chance to teach 3E3 and 3E4 mathematics and 2E2 and 2E3 chinese language. Although some of the naughty kids always don't do their homework and correction, and cannot stop monkeying around in class (Hong Kuang, Daryl, Henry, Mandy and Pearlyn!!), I must still thank the rest who listened to my lessons and did their work dilligently. Even to those classes which I only went in to relief, thank you very much for the experiences you guys gave me.

I will never forget how Hong Kuang was shocked when I knew his name, how excited Henry got when he knew that I watched Fated to Love You too, how I always mix Mandy and Pearlyn up, how I forever cannot recognise the malay girls in my sec3 classes because they all look the same to me, how Kelvin came running after me just to thank me for teaching him, how Hazel, Yasmin and Murni will always smile widely at me when they see me along the corridors, how I tried to trick Julianna into telling her I'm called Julianna Poh, how happy Shuchun was when she knew that I typed out her zuowen as one of the references for the other students, how some of the students I don't even teach will greet me very happily along the corridors, how happy I will always be when marking Bernice and Shuchun's work cos their handwritings are pretty to the maximum. Every single one of you played a different role in my 6 short weeks in Bedok Green. Thank you!

I must also thank the principal for the warm welcome eventhough we don't get to see her very often, Ms Nooris for attending our sharing session and always smiling to me when we meet in the staff toilet, Mrs Koh (CL HOD) for the suggestions she gave me, my fellow interns who're there to gossip, share experiences and have lunch breaks together with me, and each and every one who helped me in a way or another when I was in Bedok Green.

I stayed to finish up the marking for 2E3's test papers and then went back to dunman at 3pm plus. Got Vayl her favourite suan pan zi from Bedok inter and hopped onto the snail-speed bus 30. The bus was rrreeaaallllyyy slow, I don't understand why. Was supposed to help with xiju but I realised there's nothing much to do. So Vayl and I went to have a drink in the canteen. Aaron came to meet us and we went to the staff lounge, where Taxy and Meihui joined us and they played wii. We're noobs and we took superrr long to set up the game. It's super funy man. Virtual tennis, bowling and boxing got all 5 of us super high. See how stressful teachers are?

Here's a short video of Miss Ang. She's considered glam already if you compare her to Taxy.

The music students left for some dinner, then Vayl and I went to watch volleyball training while we chatted. What a fruitful trip back to school! :D

We left at 7pm, after which I went to meet Sheila and Vayl went home. We walked to Fullerton Hotel to meet Darren and Minhua for our chocolate buffet.

Fullerton's chocolate buffet.

The chocolate buffet costs about $44 each but it wasn't really fantastic.

We sent Minhua to the busstop after the meal and walked to esplanade. Sat by the river to chat for awhile and then went home cos I realised that we shouldn't be spending on cab fare unnecessarily.

Anyway, I realised that the recent chats I had with my friends and people around me were all about intellectual topics! LOL. Like, I talked to my fellow interns about the chinese education system in Singapore; Minhua, Sheila, Darren and I talked about learning attitudes of students nowadays; Sheila, Darren and I talked about Singapore's defence; Vayl and I shared about what we've learnt in school and from students, etc. I really enjoy such conversation once in a while.

Work. Mahjong. Sleep.

2009-02-19T23:03:00.000+08:00

Basically, my week can be summarised with 3 words.

Work. Mahjong. Sleep.

My aunt's staying over at my place cos her place is under some construction, so we played mahjong like every night.

I was so suay for the past week that I lost almost $300 altogether! My tiles are always super nice and big, but I just can't game. Cannot even understand why. Must be cos I didn't wear red undies. LOL. On the other hand, my sis is super heng! She just kept winning and winning. When she came to stand beside me while I played the other day, I won 3 4tais! LOL.

There's one time when I had 3只动物（3台）+自己的花（1台）+西风（2台）=6台 and another when I had 2只动物（2台）+半色（2台）+碰碰（2台）碰白板（1台）=7台. BUT BUT, I stupidly threw some random tiles and let my aunt game 1tai! Wah I almost felt like dying okay.

Another night, we couldn't end the game cos my aunt kept 连庄-ing. She's waiting for 3 and 6 tong and I was also waiting for it. Luckily I was her upper player and I managed to snatch the winning tile! LOLLL.

The difference between heng and suay is really very vast. When I'm heng, I'll get super many kah-longs that I want. When I'm suay, my tiles will be cui to the maximum.

Luckily I managed to win back about half of my money towards the end of the week. I'm abit of sian of mahjong already. Playing it everyday is no joke okay. But my dajie and I took turns to play cos she's quite sian of it also already. LOL.

Happy Friendship Day!

2009-02-14T23:47:00.004+08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! <3

Went back to Dunman in the morning. Wanted to settle some of the lights stuff with Geraldine and I needed to get myself updated before I can help. Was supposed to reach at 2pm, but I was still at Bedok at 2pm! LOL. The security guard asked me, "you so late ah, I think most of them went home already". He was smoking when I walked past the gate! The whole guardpost is SUPERRR stinky. And when I wanted to get back my ez-link card when I was leaving school, he was sleeping in the guardpost! Dunman is so safe man, seriously.

Reached the school and met Darren, Jingwen and Wang Yenchun laoshi on the way. They're going up her house to put the ice-cream Darren bought (but the 3 of us paid) in laoshi's house. So all 3 of us went up and had a little chat while Jingwen had her lunch. She's so excited over kfc cos camp has no kfc. Omg, no life. Haha.

Went back and they're taking group photos. Saw bits and pieces of all the ju-s. Then discussed some of the lights stuff with Geraldine. Hope they're useful. Got to meet the new xiju teacher as well.

I think the one of the guys in the ju (acting as May's boyfriend) is super funny! He's like a block of wood! We almost died while trying to help him design an action to look seh. Because everything looks wrong on him! I just couldn't stop laughing.

Anyway, the ice-cream is super yummy! Okay, no link.

After xiju, Jason and I went to meet Vayl, Yoke, Minhua, Aaron, Chinyang, Daniel and Roy for dinner at Marina Square's Hotpot culture. It's quite sucky to sit outside cos the waiters keep ignoring us! We had to wait for 500000000 years before our order gets through. My fried rice didn't come in the end! WTH? But the fondue was not bad. (: Minhua flirted with one of the waiters called Taufik!

We didn't take a group photo. :(

After dinner, we went Esplanade's rooftop and slacked. Very soon after, the security guard came to chase us away cos they're closing already. I didn't know that there's closing time for the rooftop. Maybe the security guards need to go home for Valentine's day celebration. Haha! And throughout the night, we're thinking of stupid ideas to disturb the couples we see.

Example 1: Yoke suggested that we have a competition to see who can walk through the most number of couples, especially those who're holding hands. She even added that we should try to snatch the flowers or bears the girls are holding. LOL!

Example 2: They're many couples on the rooftop, and the one sitting near us were hugging and kissing. So I said, "eh, while they're kissing, you go super near to their faces". When they ask what you're trying to do, then say, "I'm trying to see got tongue not". HAHAHAHA!

We had nowhere else to go, so we just went home.

I miss the valentine's days we had back in dunman, when we'll exchange gifts and will always be late for the first lesson cos we're too busy giving out gifts. I miss receiving 17 valentine's day presents although I had zero valentine. I just miss you guys. It's ironic to see how we used to spend so much on gifts when we had no income and didn't spend on gifts this year although we're earning.

Yet another friendship day on 14th February.

I just lost some of my wisdom

2009-02-13T20:13:00.003+08:00

Friday the 13th!

School as usual in the morning, then rushed to National Dental Centre at SGH to meet mummy and grandaunt. Ate lunch and went for my appointment to remove my right lower wisdom tooth.
Settled some paper work and I was brought into the changing room. Put on an operation robe and had to cover my hair with shower cap and my shoes with some shoes cover. I think I looked funny but no photo cos phones are not allowed in there.

Went into the operation theatre where the nurse cleaned my face and teeth. The doctor first injected anethesia on my gum. She was like, "you'll feel a LITTLE pain" and she emphasised on the little. She gave me 3 injections and I almost died. Little your head ah, it's freaking pain can! T_T

After my whole right gum plus cheek plus tongue became numb, the doctor came and started cutting up my jaw. I couldn't feel anything except for pressure on my gum. Then she started sawing my wisdom tooth into two! It's super gross cos I can hear the electic saw very clearly and could feel abit of it. Then the doctor literally pulled out the tooth which was already cut into two. I could feel her tugging very hardly. It felt like she needed a lot of force to do so, like tug-of-war. LOL. By then, I could already feel abit of pain.

The scariest thing is I couldn't see a shit and could only hear. Cos of the strong light they used, they had to cover up my eyes. And the dentist didn't inform me of what she's going to do next. When the nurse prepared me for the mini operation, she would tell me, "okay, now I'm going to clean your face", "now I'm going to put some equipments on your chest" and stuff like that. It made me feel more secured and comfortable. But to think about it, it's also quite scary if the doctor says, "okay, I'm now going to cut up your gum", "now I'm going to saw your tooth into two". LOL! I cannot decide what I want.

Although my dentist is a gentle-looking young lady, I imagined her to look like this while she was trying to pull my tooth out.

This is not her lah, I just grabbed it from google image. But you get the idea right.

The super minor operation ended and I was asked to sit outside, with a gauze stuffed in my mouth. The nurse came to change the gauze for me then gave me some more gauze to change myself later and I was allowed to leave.

I think I looked stupid on the way home cos I couldn't close my mouth with the gauze in my mouth. I took the bus somemore! And throughout the bus ride, I could feel the gauze being soaked, but not sure whether it's soaked by the blood or my saliva. Around evening time, the anesthesia started to go off and I could feel the pain already! T_T X 100000. Luckily I had painkillers.

I still have to remove the upper right wisdom tooth after it grow out properly cos the dentist who's from dunman said that there's no use keeping it since the biting partner, the one I just removed, is gone already. And it's very hard to keep it clean and if I don't, it will affect the surrounding teeth. Although the dentist said that removing the upper one is easier than the lower one, and it's not an operation, just a normal extraction, I'm still super scared. Sian!

I am very sad!

2009-02-12T20:40:00.003+08:00

学生：老师，您是本地人吗？
我：是啊，不像吗？
学生：你的口音有点像中国人。

This was the short conversation I had with one of my students, who's from China, today. I stunned when she asked me that. I was like, "shit, is she going to say I'm a PRC?" I almost went crazy when she said I sounded like one! AHHHH. I am 200% Singaporean!

I shall console myself that she said that probably because I speak good Chinese and that's pretty rare for Singaporeans. Maybe I should start saying all the lah-s, leh-s and lor-s in class. Just kidding! I am going to be a good role model for my students! :D

Disclaimer: I am not discriminating against PRCs or whatsoever, I just love Singapore very much and am very proud to be a Singaporean.

Busy weekend

2009-02-08T23:47:00.002+08:00

My mummy is so boliao and cute! She bought some super nice rock melon, cut it and put it in the fridge for us. Then my greedy meimei went to finish up everything when I only had a few pieces and the rest had none. So the next day, my mummy bought more and this time round, she put them into separate boxes and label them! So each of us is only entitled to one box. LOL!

That's mine! (:

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Went for the APEC job interview at Alexandra Road yesterday afternoon. I regretted going, like seriously. Oxy said that they had enough people already, but the person still called me up that afternoon. I was about to be late already, so I took cab from queenstown MRT station. Then the uncle kept talking to me after he stopped the car at my destination and he didn't stop the meter!! Although it's only $3 in the end, that's an additional 20cents for nothing ok! Plus I didn't get the job, so I wasted my money travelling down and getting scammed by the cab driver. And the main point is the interview didn't start on time, so I should have taken my own sweet time to take the bus down!

The interviewer asked for events management experiences and there're people who mentioned school orientation!! LOL. One of the guys doesn't know how to convert a Word document to a PDF one. Then the rest were like o_O?

After the interview, met Vayl and her mum at Cityhall. We ended up at TCC cos we're too lazy to walk. Lazy people like us always end up in cafes! Haha. Met up with Aaron, Yoke and Gabriel after that and then was dinner at Cafe Cartel.

Went to get Jingwen's present and then we rotted in HMV for super long! Don't even remember what we're doing inside. Then, Sheila and Darren came to meet me and we went to Esplanade to look for a pub/bar to sit down. But apparently there're none. So we walked all the way to Clarke Quay and ended up in a random pub with weird indian music.

We just sat there and talked till Joy came. We wanted to walk to Zouk cos Sheila wanted to say hi to Kejing and company. But halfway through, we thought we're on the wrong track and it's almost 3am so there's no stranger for us to ask for directions. In the end, we took a cab down and realised that we're on the right track! -.- Sheila and Joy wanted to wait for the free admission, which is at 3.30am I think, so Darren and I left first.

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Went to Fengba's house to bai nian in the afternoon. We're super stupid lah! We wanted to take 293 and there's a sign near the newspapers booth, so we just stood there and wait. We waited for super long and was wondering where's the bus. Then, we realised that we're waiting for the bus at the wrong place! The queue is behind us and all the while we've been standing there like idiots. I wondered how many buses we missed.

We camwhored cos there's nothing for us to do.

We They played taboo while I recorded score for them. I was too sleepy and couldn't even think straight. Haha. Then, some of us played Blackjack with the random seniors there, who're 2 years older than us. Jinghui came in his full uniform and couldn't come in cos he'll take super long to take off and put on his boots again and he had to book in very soon. So, we went out to take picture with him instead.

Taboo!

The number of photos we took this year is so pathetic compared to previous years. I also have one big folder of photos after returning from his house.

We left Fengba's house at 6pm plus and decided to walk to Ikea for dinner and Jason needed to check the price of some xiju's props.

It's drizzling and looked at the two poor girls who had no ella! LOL.

Disclaimer: The two gentlemen with the ella infront ARE NOT Jason and Aaron!

We saw a 乌龟车 which has very funny colours like PAT's and it's really hers! She even waved to us when she stopped at the traffic light. So qiao!

After dinner, we cabbed down (again!) to Pasir Ris to send Gabriel off. It's so scary cos all of the botak ~~boys~~ men looked the same! We just stood there and crapped with him until he had to board the bus. Then it's back home to sleep! (:

I think I should stop filling up my weekends with activities. I need to have some time for myself! I shall stay at home this weekend to get enough sleep, watch a good show and slack around.

The Biggest Fear of my Life

2009-02-07T13:04:00.003+08:00

The biggest fear of my life (up till this point) is visiting the dentist! I think it's caused by the violent and scary school dentists. My primary school's dentist left a super deep impression on me cos she's SUPER violent and fierce. Even my sis(s) can remember her! Even those "mobile" dentist that came to our school during secondary school days were fierce and scary as well. Is it because school dentists get lesser pay compared to those working in other clinics? I think so..

I wonder if dentists ever visit dentists themselves cos I don't think they know that it's very difficult to keep your mouth open widely for a long time. When I was in primary school, the dentist will scream her head off if I close my mouth a little smaller after a long time. Excuse me, very tiring one leh! And do they know that it hurts when they poke that sharp sharp thing on the gum? I always kena that when I was in primary school!

Despite my fear, I had to visit the dentist at National Dental Care to check on two of my wisdom teeth which are quite problematic. Luckily, the dentist is a nice and friendly guy and he happened to be an ex-dunmanian! Even so, I was super nervous and scared during the consultation. He did a simple check on my teeth and then sent me for x-ray to check the condition of the wisdom teeth. Turned out that I have to extract the lower one and leave the upper one to grow more before extracting.

Something funny happened when the dentist was checking my teeth. The nurse, who's supposed to take down notes for the dentist, cannot spell 'stained pit'! The dentist repeated for a few times, and even had to spell it out for her a few times. And all these happened while my mouth was still opened and the dentist's mirror-thing plus the sharp sharp thing were still in my mouth.

During the consultation, the dentist and I started chatting about DHS. Generally, I have the feeling that dunmanians tend to keep in contact with secondary school friends more than JC friends. Is it true? And everyone has to agree that a must-talk-about topic when dunmanians meet dunmanians is Mr Kiw! Both of us agree that Mr Kiw's era is definitely better than now, in terms of discipline.

We didn't talk a lot cos the dentist was like, "Eh cannot talk already, must do work, if not later get scolded. It's like that when you're a relatively new medical officer."

So, the conclusion is, I have to extract the tooth next Friday. I am very scared! T_T

The Arena + Mdm Leong's

2009-02-01T23:54:00.006+08:00

Met up with the 2G people again yesterday. Seems like we've been meeting up quite often lately. (: Wanted to go Timbre initially, but they're having some function which is only for invited guest. First, we couldn't decide on Boat Quay's Timbre or the one at Arts House, so we walked up and down, in and out of mrt stations. Then Sheila and I walked around Clarke Quay trying to locate Siyuan and Jovena. LOL. In the end, we met an hour later than the proposed time.

Walked around to try to find somewhere to sit down and have a drink. Almost went into Clinic, but the drinks there are expensive. Ended up in The Arena. $28 entrance with free-flow of housepours till 12am. It's pretty empty when we first went in, but the crowd started coming in very soon after. I had 3 cups of Vodka with Sprite/Pepsi and 1 cup of Bourbon Orange Juice and I was abit high already. Haha. Shouldn't have mixed the two plus a few sips from here and there.

It's funny to see how we're screaming our lungs out inside to chat. They've a live band there and their singing is pretty okay. Just that the songs are abit old. My sis insisted that only people who cannot think straight will go into The Arena.

Anyway, while deciding where to go, we saw Huang Yida! He's quite good-looking in person leh! Then I heard some stranger saying, "那个有发过片的，可是不红"! How evil is that! LOL.

After 12am, we came out and celebrated Darren (belated) and Sheila's birthday by the river.

Then Darren, Sheila and I went Geylang for supper at Yong He! :D

Woke up early in the morning (7.15am!!) to get ready to go to Mdm Leong's house to bai nian cos she stays in Yew Tee. It's at some ulu spot on the red line. Jingwen and I were the first to reach! Punctuality is a virtue, haha! Junming and Darren came and we proceeded to Mdm Leong's place. Some nice residence from her condo directed us there and even let us in through the side gate. We waited for Royston, Suleng and Kenghoe and we started entertaining Hannah (her daughter). She's super cute lah! She said she doesn't like Barney cos it's purple colour. So Darren asked her what colour she likes, and she said VIOLET. Stunned can.

Mdm Leong, or rather her maid, prepared beehoon and curry chicken for us! We ate and talked about army life (what else?). They tried to pull the topic back to something that's out of tekong, but somehow we'll be back to tekong life again. Moreover, Suleng and I were the only ones who're not part of army life there.

I laughed at Junming cos he doesn't know that tongs are called tongs. But the next moment, I was fooled by Kenghoe! He said that he's from Opera Estate Primary School and Mdm Leong didn't know that school. Then Kenghoe was explaining and said that they're called Opera Estate cos their school's core CCA is opera, and chinese opera to be specific. For a moment, I believed him! Cos his face was super convincing. Shit, I think my IQ dipped as well.

Mdm Leong had to go for her church service, so we left at 2pm plus. Jingwen and I just randomly decided to go have Ben and Jerry's at Suntec. We only realised that it's closed down already after dragging ourselves all the way there from the train station. So we settled for Coffee Bean cos both of us couldn't walk any further.

I just ended my day so randomly and sleepily. LOL! We stupidly forgot to take photos at Mdm Leong's place when both of us brought our cameras. -.-

Grandma's 80th birthday

2009-01-30T22:52:00.002+08:00

Had psychometic test at Civil College in the morning. I was super sleepy and my eyes almost dropped out after staring at the patterns (General Reasoning ) for too long. I was super slow at the math question and I didn't even finish half of it. So, I just shaded randomly for the remaining half. The last part where we had to tell if the statements were true or false was super difficult too. I must have worked too hard for GP's inference skills that I could almost infer anything from the passage and thought that all the statements seem true. Bleah, it's just so screwed.

Returned home to sleep and then went for Grandmother's 80th birthday celebration. It's originally held at a restuarant near Bedok, then changed to the revoluting restaurant (I don't know where but have been there before once) and eventually, we ended up at a Kopitiam in Tampines to have zichar.

A few cows (fake one lah!) were placed at our void deck, just beside the expressway. So, sis and I decided to go take photos while waiting for daddy to come! Haha.

MOOOOO~

Everyone at the kopitiam. We had 6 tables I think! LOL. My uncle's friends crammed 13 people in one table, so my family (6 of us) had one table to ourselves! Eat till we almost exploded cos the food was wayyyy too much! Seriously, I think even 10 people cannot finish the serving for one table.

Everyone

Camwhoring is the best way to kill time.

FOOOOD!

Not forgetting the main attraction at all events, Hayden!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AH MA! :D

The Wedding Game

2009-01-28T22:06:00.001+08:00

The story begins when Jack (Christopher Lee) publicly proposes to Sue (Fann Wong) during the live telecast of a regional awards show. Surprised but happy, Sue accepts. What the public doesn't know is that the entire love affair is an elaborate and meticulously planned ruse designed by their ambitious managers May and Tom. In reality, Jack has disliked Sue from the first day they met and vice versa. But through it all, the two stars keep up with the charade. Just when everything is going so well, an incident has rattled some of the fans and the media. There is doubt now lingering about the authenticity of this love match.

Had a hoo-s family outing to watch The Wedding Game. Rushed down to Suntec from school to meet Hooves and Hooligan. Honestly, the show was such a disappointment! It's quite funny at the start, but it began to get boring after half an hour. The pace was slow, the storyline became repetitive and boring. Other than the fact that Christopher Lee was half naked in many scenes, I don't think the show was worth the money. Luckily we watched it at student's price ($6!!!).

It's such a waste cos I don't think it's easy to get Fann Wong and Christopher Lee to appear in a show together eversince their relationship was made public. The cast is good but the storyline isn't. 周重庆 and 黑人 acted super well too! Vayl couldn't stop laughing everytime 黑人 appears. LOL.

If you haven't watch the show, I suggest that you wait for the DVD or channel 8 (probably next CNY?) to play it.

Lunar New Year

2009-01-27T20:38:00.004+08:00

大年初一头一天，
家家户户打麻将！

CNY time = mahjong time! LOL. Before reunion dinner, dagu, An Li, An Mei and I played mahjong. And I won $35! What a best way to kickstart my new lunar year! Haha.

Played with the chio mahjong my sis bought.

After the game, we had reunion dinner. I love steamboat! As usual, we had two tables cos one table is never enough to fit all of us. Plus the amount of food my cousins eat is supacuppa scary T_T

Everyone just sat around and watch tv after dinner. I realised almost everyone watched 《雀神自模三百番》 cos most of my relatives were talking about it when we went visiting the next day. LOL.

My aunts, uncles and cousins left after that and I helped mummy mop the floor (omg, so filial!). Then sis helped ah ma with the decorations.

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This year's 初一 was definitely different! Cos mummy didn't wake us up early in the morning to bai nian at ah ma's house. We got to sleep in till 11am plus and then got ready slowly, then off to ah ma's house! Although we're SUPER late this year, we're still the first to reach!

Camwhored while waiting for the others to reach.

Then we went to laoyi's house.

And back to ah ma's house and played blackjack with ah ma, laoyi, uncles and cousins. Then camwhored with crazy cousins! They're crazy bunch of kids! LOL. Weixin set the camera on timer mode and it's 10 consecutive shots. We're supposed to do 1 to 10, but kept losing count cos we don't know the camera's momentum! Super funny. The adults kept coming into the picture to disturb us.

Last but not least, mahjong with cousins and sis!

After one round, went home for dinner. Mummy was tired already, so I took over her place and played another round with xiaoshu, dagu and An Mei. Xiaoshu left after that and ah ma took over.

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I spent my 初二 sleeping at home cos I don't have anything else to do. For mother's side, all my relatives gathered at ah ma's house yesterday, so it's mass-visiting at once. For father's side, all my relatives will gather at my place. So, we finished all the visiting in one day. Haha.

新年到！

2009-01-26T00:00:00.001+08:00

祝大家：
新年快乐！
心想事成，
万事如意。
身体健康，
天天开心。

懂得珍惜才是福气。

Meeting the botaks

2009-01-25T12:41:00.004+08:00

The guys are finally back to the civilians' world, where life is more than just green colour. So, we met up at Bugis for lunch and celebrated Vayl's birthday at the same time.

As usual, they were all late! Vayl and I were the earliest, which is pretty amazing. LOL. So we went to walk around in Kinokuniya (because I wanted to find out which book she likes so that I can get her a birthday present!) and we met Mr Siva. His ever 灿烂笑容. I think my acting really improved tremendously! I managed to bluff Vayl throughout and got the book for her eventually. Wanted to get something from Bing Xin, but that lousy kino doesn't have it. :(

In the end, I got her something apt!

After a longggg time, the rest finally came and meet us at kino. Chinyang called Vayl "Miss Ang" from behind and she totally jumped! It's super hilarious can. Then, we went for lunch at Ajisen. Met my dua gim at Ajisen and she gave me $100 voucher to pay for the meal. Thanks! (:

Yoke, Roy and I sneaked out to buy Vayl's birthday cake. The two of them went to get the cake while I got the book. They're thinking if Vayl will suspect cos we went off for quite long. But I said, no worries, she'll be too focused on her food that she'll forget about us. Indeed, she didn't even know when we're already behind her with the cake!

My botak friends.

Over lunch, the guys were sharing their NS stories non-stop. And I conclude that their IQ really dipped by at least 50%. Wenjian took super long to find the right word to describe how he almost sprained his hip, Chinyang need us to repeat instructions for 50 times and the rest were behaving like kids who're out of control. LOL.

After lunch, we shopped around, looking for caps. Met Jinghui's primary school friends, who are also botaks, in BHG and they started chatting endlessly. Ahhh, all the NS stories. Then the guitar people (namely Roy, Jason and Daniel) and Wenjian left and we continued to walk around. Jinghui and Chinyang left after that.

The rest of us wanted to go Siglap for cheesecake, but it's closed till 15 Feb! WTH? So we went NYDC instead. Gabriel left shortly after.

My apple crumble with ice-cream. Not as nice as Swensen's.

We met Vayl's boyfriend at NYDC! And he kept rolling his eyes at Vayl. LOLLLL!

I think the NYDC people think we're crazy. Cos Vayl attempted to feed the cookie monster with her mudpie named cookie monster! Then we kept laughing and laughing, I don't know why. Back to the crazy days we had in school.

After recharging ourselves with food, Vayl, Aaron, Yoke and I continued our shopping! We just told Aaron to search for his overdued present himself. Haha. Cos we really don't know what to get for him! And I continued with my "I'm scared of crowd" crap. LOL! Unknowingly, we shopped till almost 10pm when we (only Vayl and I actually) met up at 1pm! o.O Shopped till we almost dropped. OMG, so tired.

Am really glad that I finally got to meet up with theclique people! I MISS YOU GUYS! I miss the crazy days in DHS. It's been long since I last laughed so much in a day. Thank you to those who turned up. :D See you all soon!

生日快乐！

2009-01-23T23:19:00.005+08:00

To my dearest HOOVES,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! :D

Love you like a fat kid loves a cake!
(I'm quoting you! Haha)

Love,
Hoo-hoo

Sorethroat plus blocked nose plus ulcer

2009-01-19T23:30:00.003+08:00

My nose has been blocked (and is still blocked..) for a week already. I was considering if I should take the flu pill cos it makes me drowsy and I'll feel super tired the next day, which is bad cos I still need to go for lessons the next day. But I had enough of not being able to smell and breathe properly so I just took the pill anyway.

My sorethroat is getting from bad to worse, and probably on its way to worst. It doesn't help when I had to teach in school today cos Ms Koh is sick too, so I had to take over. And had to relieve Mrs Lin for a Sec1 class. I didn't want to take the lozenges yesterday cos it usually doesn't help much. Seems like I don't like to take medicine. Who likes anyway. LOL. But the pain was so bad today that I just took two. I don't care if it works, I just need it to numb my throat. I hope Ms Koh will recover tomorrow cos I really can't teach in this bad state.

The stupid ulcer makes it difficult for me to eat and speak properly. Have been wanting to go check my wisdom tooth X 2, but I either forget to make the appointment or nobody at the clinic is picking up the phone! Argh. The wisdom teeth kept biting on my inner cheek, causing the stupid painful ulcer!

Many people around me are getting sick too. What a time! All the CNY goodies are still waiting for us! :( Get well soon people!

Lessons to prepare, worksheets to generate.. Work is starting to pour in!

Stringraphy

2009-01-18T18:58:00.004+08:00

I came across a kind of music called Stringraphy on the tv some time ago. I think it's pretty cool creating music with just paper cups and silk threads!

Kazue Mizushima, a composer, formed Studio Eve in 1992 with Midori Yaegashi and started to create STRINGRAPHY works. She created indoor sound installations that utilize a multitude of "string telephones" (silk threads attached to paper cups). These installations transform the entire performance space into an immense acoustic "harp" whose strings of criss-crossing thread create a geometric web where both performer and audience become part of the resonating chamber. (Source)

Here's a video of it!

What do I do after internship?

2009-01-17T22:14:00.006+08:00

Aiyo, I cannot understand why photobucket must screw itself up every now and then! -.- ~~So, I cannot post pictures!~~

CNY clothes shopping with sis at Bugis last Saturday! (:

I love CNY cos there're nice goodies and it's the perfect excuse to get new clothes! Bah gua, pineapple tarts, Kueh Bahulu and many more! But then, good news is, I think I'm too heaty and starting to get sorethroat and ulcers (partly caused by my wisdom tooth too). So I cannot binge on these goodies. Sian! BUT BUT, I don't like CNY cos all the shopping malls, supermarkets, and even 933 keep blasting CNY songs. Ahhhh!

Anyway, this is my favouritest CNY food of all, KEUH BAUHULU!!

Photo credit

Went to cut my hair on Monday. I gave up on JYJY, so I went to the hairdresser near my place cos I'm lazy to travel to TM and I don't want to waste money. I was super angry cos my hair stylist is supposed to be Sam and I called to book already! One guy sitting at the counter asked who's my stylist and I said Sam. He asked me to wait and continue doing his stuff cos Sam was serving another customer. 5 minutes later, he asked me who's my stylist again and just went on to do his stuff after I answered him. He didn't even inform Sam I was there already! And by then, Sam was done with that customer and he's at the back (the place where they wash the customers' hair), doing what, I don't know. Suddenly, this stupid woman came in and he wanted Sam to do her hair too. The man (who asked me the same question twice just now!) just said okay and went off to do his stuff without informing Sam about BOTH OF US. Suddenly, that woman just went to the back to look for Sam and both of them emerged from the back, then Sam starting doing her hair! I was like, WHAT THE HELL! I was super tired from work already so I had no energy to do anything, so I just asked a random woman to cut my hair. Luckily she didn't screw it up and in fact, I think it's quite nice! Haha. I like my hair short. I wanted to cut it long ago but was too lazy and I wanted to wait for CNY so that I don't have to cut my hair again. LOL.

I'm thinking if I should get another job after the end of internship. Should I..
1) Continue my life as Miss Chua in BGSS;
2) Be Miss Chua in another school;
3) Do private tuition;
4) Go try out some adminstrative/promotor kind of job?

Option 1, I need to see if the school still needs me. There're already a handful of relief teachers there, so I don't know if they need more. And I feel like trying out something different, hence option 2.

Option 2, I'm thinking of trying out to teach at some random primary school or go back to DHS (that's if they want me). Going to a primary school allows me to decide if I prefer to teach primary or secondary school students. But if I'm just going to spend my 6 months doing internship/relief teaching, it'll be quite boring. But but, it's going to help me prepare for what I want to do in the future, and will be useful for scholarship interviews (if I ever get one -.-) as all these experiences have connection with what I want to do in future.

Option 3, it's still teaching, but now 1 to 1 or maybe 1 to 2 instead of 1 to a class. And, it pays well! Haha. But, this depends on my A level results. Hai...

Option 4, if I really want to do something DIFFERENT other than teaching, then I should go get another job. Moreover, I think this is going to be the last time I'll have the chance to try out random jobs. Oh, I'll most probably have chance during university term breaks. Moreover, it's ECONOMIC DOWNTURN now, why would companies hire more people when they're retrenching staff?! LOL.

Anyway, photos of chalet are finally up! Thanks Jiexin! (:

Signing off with a nice video. Luo Zhi Xiang's 撑腰. A lot of artistes appeared in it and made it cool cos I don't think anyone has done it before. And the song is not bad.

Engrish!

2009-01-15T18:37:00.002+08:00

Not much personal life. My life is all about school, school and school. So, nothing to blog about. I've been enjoying myself tremendously in school recently. Finally started on some serious work and I don't find myself rotting in school anymore. And I've learnt a lot!

Something really funny on kennysia's blog. We should stop laughing at the translator-translated-English signboards and menu in China cos they've come to Singapore! OH NOOOOO~~

How do I help a cat stuck on a tree?

2009-01-12T23:15:00.004+08:00

My posts regarding TIP are here. Please ask me for the password if you want to read. I'll give as long as you're not a stranger! Thanks! (:

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On our way to dinner last night, we saw a cat trying to climb down from a tree that's about 2-3 storeys high. But it kept slipping, so it just stayed up there and kept meow-ing for help. We thought the cat would be able to get down cos cats are supposed to be able to climb trees.

Recall the primary school story, about the cat not teaching the tiger how to climb trees. So one day, when the tiger attempted to attack the cat, it climbed up the tree and escaped off. That's why cats can climb trees but tigers cannot.

Back to the topic, after dinner, the cat was still up there! And it sounded super pitiful and scared.

The cat's eyes are freaking scary when I use the flashlight!

So, I walked to the nearby police station and inform the policeman on duty about it. He said that he'll inform the responsible department to rescue the cat. When you don't know who to ask for help, always call for the police! Haha. After like an hour, the rescue team (which is SCDF I think) didn't come! So my sis went to the police station and the policeman asked her to call 995. So we did and they said they don't do animal rescue! We're told to call 999 again. My sis called and the police said, "how can you call the police! Call SPCA!" My sis called SPCA then and the person said, "just leave the cat there, call us if it's still there tomorrow morning". My sis said that the cat might have died by then. And the SPCA person replied "this is a learning process for the cat!". WTH?! Like Aaron said, I ask you go climb a mountain and take away your rope, see whether you'll die or not. It's a learning process what!

Why can't they just send someone down to save the cat?! SPCA always ask people to protect animals. They aren't even doing their part in saving an animal in distress! I am going to boycott them and stop donating money to SPCA when I see people selling flags for them on the streets!

So who do I call when I meet with such situation again? Don't ask me to call SPCA cos I need some organisation that will come save the cat!

I'm so kind to save the cat although one attempted to scare us at Pasir Ris park the other day!

By the way, the cat was gone this morning. I wondered if it fell to death or just ran off.

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I'm amused by how Xiao Han attempted to correct one of the CSS contestants' pronunciation when she herself pronounced 词 as chi2.

Zhengning's acting and chinese improved tremendously in the 9pm show, 团圆饭, on Channel 8!

By the way, release of A level results will most likely be on 2nd week of March! Can't wait for it! We've to get it back anyway, so why not get it earlier? At least I'll be able to know what's in for my future.

Yeepo's house visit

2009-01-10T22:55:00.001+08:00

Went for house visit at Yee Po's house cos the aunts want to see his new home. It's only at Upper East Coast Road but we paid $8+ for the cab cos the driver took a longer route and we met with a traffic jam infront of Bedok stadium! How can there ever be traffic jam there?!

Oh no I forgot to take pictures of the food he ordered, he ordered so much that we didn't even finish 1/4 of them! So we had to dabao back to ah ma's house. Then the adults played mahjong with Serene while we watch tv and played with Hayden. Hayden was so amused by his own mirror image and he kept laughing. LOL. I realised I didn't take photos of his house too! -.-

This house belongs to one family. ABIT too big huh..

At cousin's balcony.

Red Cliff 2

2009-01-10T12:17:00.002+08:00

I really don't know how I'm going to keep awake when school starts. I slept for about 11 hours the night before Friday. Then on friday, I went to BGSS at 1.30pm to meet Mrs Quek. She gave us a brief introduction of the school and some rules. Then she brought us around to know where is where. Collected our timetable and got our markers. We're supposed to follow our supervisors and also do relief teaching! At 3pm, everything is done and we left. I reached home and felt like I didn't sleep the night before!

So I slept and met Vayl at Cine at 5pm. We got tickets for Red Cliff 2 and Jason came to join us (late as usual -_-). The show is at 5.50pm and we went at 5pm, we still got the first row seats!! OMG almost died because the sound effect for the war scenes is super scary.

I think Part II isn't as nice as Part I! Maybe because the fighting scenes were not as exciting. In Part I, the fighting scenes were super creative and funny. Zhuge-liang and Zhou Yu never fail to impress me! How can they be so smart?! Zhuge-liang can predict the wind and fog, Zhou Yu can make use of his enemy to kill traitors. Even Lin Zhiling is super smart. She tried to stop Cao Cao from attacking Zhou Yu's camp by making him tea. Why didn't Cao Cao rape her since he's so obsessed with her and he's not the gentleman kind?

The Cao Cao's army is super funny. They attacked their enemy by throwing arrows at them. Literally THROWING. They didn't even use bows lah! How is that possible? And all their armours don't seem to have any effect. They just need to be hit by one arrow and the person will die eventhough the arrow hit the armour.

The show is not bad! At least I managed to stay awake for 2 hours plus. LOL.

TIP course Day 3

2009-01-08T23:03:00.002+08:00

Oh another coincidence! I'll be doing 3 weeks of Chinese and 3 weeks of Math at BGSS and my mentor for math happens to be Ms Koh Phey Ling, the ex-teacher-in-charge for CS Jingju in Dunman High! No wonder I found the name familiar when I received the email. Then she rang Darren up to check if it's me cos she only has his number. LOL.

I think she hates me cos I always have excuses to skip Jingju practices in the past. At the end of Year4, I asked my mum to write a letter and requested for me to be excused from Jingju since there won't be performances and my results sucked so I should concentrate on studies.

But anyway, I'm looking forward to meeting her as well! Mini ex-dunmanian-and-ex-dunman-high-teacher-gathering at BGSS.

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Alright, back to what's mentioned in the title. The morning crowd was really bad. I waited for Vayl at the bus stop and she couldn't squeeze onto the bus 95 at Buona Vista cos it's too packed. Then I saw Aaron, Taxy, Yiling and Yuezhi (I think) getting off a cab cos they couldn't squeeze on TWO bus 95.

The third day of the course is basically a sharing session. I can't recall what's shared infront because they're just some stuff that can be found online, about Singapore's education, etc. Then was tea break and more sharing, then lunch. After lunch, Mr Sng came and shared about his experiences as a scholar, a teacher and a principal. A malay girl went up after Mr Sng to share about her experiences in TIP last year.

After the sharing, we went down to talk to Mr Sng since it's supposed to be a 'mingling session'. But apparently all the other interns just left. LOL. We sang Mr Sng a birthday song cos it's his birthday and he was shocked that we knew it's his birthday. The wonders of facebook! LOL. Chatted with him for awhile, took a photo and we went off.

TIP course Day 1 and 2

2009-01-07T18:38:00.008+08:00

What a coincidence! My sis' literature teacher in Bedok Green is Ms Tan Ai Fen who used to teach my class in lower secondary. The other day Feng Ba was still telling me that Ms Tan is at Bedok Green now. Means I might be able to meet her when I start teaching there! Amazingly, my sis class doesn't like her like how we used to hate her when she first came our class. But we realised that she's really nice and teaches super well if we behave ourselves. Oh yay, I'm looking forward to seeing her! Wonder if she still remembers me..

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Had TIP training course at NUS these few days. My instructor is Mr Cyril Sena, an ex-principal who had been to many schools and later went on to pre-school education. Now he's retired I think. My group was pretty lucky to get him cos I heard that some other groups got some boring old lady who's totally sleep-inducing. And Munyi was in the same group as me, so I wasn't all alone.

On the first day, Mr Cyril talked about some classroom management skills, how to make lessons interesting, how to have an effective introduction to your lessons, etc. The speaker is quite humorous and he tells us a lot of personal experiences. I really love listening to people's personal experiences cos they reveal a lot of things that I might not be able to encounter all my life. Just like how I used to enjoy Mr Kiw's CME lessons cos he always tell us stories.

Towards the end of the lesson, Mr Cyril asked us to use a fairytale to come out with knowledge questions, comprehension questions and high order level questions, so we decided to use Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. One of the knowledge questions asked was, "how was Snow White revived?" Most of the people answered that the prince kissed her and she just woke up. But one of the girl in our group said that it's because while the dwarfs were carrying her coffin, it dropped and the apple unchoked, so she was revived. Then we started debating whether Snow White was poisoned to death or choked to death. I thought she was poisoned to death and prince charming came to kiss her? If she choked to death and was revived because they dropped the coffin, where does the prince come in? Where does the 'they live together happily ever after' come in?

Apparently we're all not sure of the fairytale we once read! LOL. So I went to google and this is what I've found.

Version 1: And now the king's son had it carried away by his servants on their shoulders. And it happened that they stumbled over a tree-stump, and with the shock the poisonous piece of apple which snow-white had bitten off came out of her throat. And before long she opened her eyes, lifted up the lid of the coffin, sat up, and was once more alive. Oh, heavens, where am I, she cried. The king's son, full of joy, said, you are with me. And told her what had happened, and said, I love you more than everything in the world, come with me to my father's palace, you shall be my wife. (Source)

Version 2: Time passes, and a prince traveling through the land and sees Snow White strode in her coffin. The prince is enchanted by her beauty and instantly falls in love with her. He begs the dwarfs to let him have the coffin. The prince's servants carry the coffin away. While doing so, they stumble on some bushes and the movement caused the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, awakening her. The prince then declares his love for her and soon a wedding was planned. (Source)

Version 3: Then one evening, they discovered a strange young man admiring Snow White's lovely face through the glass. After listening to the story, the Prince (for he was a prince!) made a suggestion. "If you allow me to take her to the Castle, I'll call in famous doctors to waken her from this peculiar sleep. She's so lovely . . . I'd love to kiss her. . . !" He did, and as though by magic, the Prince's kiss broke the spell. To everyone's astonishment, Snow White opened her eyes. She had amazingly come back to life! Now in love, the Prince asked Snow White to marry him, and the dwarfs reluctantly had to say good bye to Snow White. (Source)

Seems like Snow White really choked to death instead of being poisoned to death. *Gua gua gua!*

Another higher order question was, "why do you think the seven dwarfs made friends with Snow White" or something like that. Then Mr Cyril said, "oh cos they suddenly have a foreign maid and they're happy about it!" LOL!!

After lessons, I went for dinner at West Coast Plaza with my sis. Just had Fish&Co, nothing much there anyway. It's a mall which sells a lot of food and Vayl just reminded me that I teased her the other time when I saw the advertising brochure the other day. Cos the brochure just featured food food food and more food, so I said, "wah west side people very hungry hor, no wonder you like that ~~(fat)~~". LOL.

Then I stayed over at sis place in the night so that I can wake up late the next day and save on transport fare too! (:

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Second day, Mr Cyril continued to talk about more classroom management skills, getting the attention of students and clarity. I wasn't paying much attention cos I was super duper sleepy. I slept for 7 hours the night before already! I think it's cos I'm still not used to staying awake for such a long period of time after slacking for so long. I tried really really hard to stay awake!

Luckily lunch was cut short from 1 hour to half an hour so that we can be dismissed earlier. And we went off at 4.30pm. There's a part during the lesson when we're suddenly told to tell jokes. So a few people told some jokes and we had a good laugh. But I can't really remember what the jokes are already! LOL.

Anyway, MOE fed us very well! We go in at 8.30am, then after 1.5 to 2 hours of lecture, there'll be a tea break (food provided!). Then another lecture which lasts for 1.5 to 2 hours again and then it's lunch (food is also provided!). After lunch, another lecture which again lasts for 1.5 to 2 hours and then another tea break (fooooddd!) and lastly, another lecture and we're off. So basically we just eat and eat and eat. And the food is not bad, actually good. :D

Munyi and I were super stressed cos our group's people always go back to the class very early after breaks and they'll just start lesson. We're considered late even if we're technically a minute earlier. So we rushed to return to class 5-10 minutes before the prescribed time. Not that we're really worried about missing the lesson, just that it doesn't look good if we're always late.

I'm over at sis place again. Dabao-ed curry rice from outside and I'm very sleepy already. Probably going to bed soon. Last day of training tomorrow.

4H chalet 2009

2009-01-05T18:28:00.011+08:00

To my dear friends and schoolmates who're enlisting this week (6th to 9th January), please take good care of yourselves in Tekong! Hopefully I can see you guys with your botak heads after your 2 weeks confinement or during CNY! Enjoy life in NS! :D

Just came back from 4H chalet. Shall update another day because I'm super duper sleepy now. Probably will do the updates on friday as TIP will start tomorrow and I won't be free anymore!

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Had 4H chalet from 4th to 5th January at Downtown East's NTUC chalet. It's only a short 2D1N chalet. Was supposed to meet the 4H people at 2.30pm to check in and buy food. But I overslept (again!!) and only met them at 5pm plus! When I reached there, they were about to go to the beach, so I joined them. Jingwen, Yoke and Jamie went to Escape because there're 3 free tickets while Jiexin, Gabriel, Jason, Chinyang, Jinghui, Daniel and I went to fly kite. Roy and Aaron went roller-blading and cycling respectively but together. Actually I was only sitting there to slack because I was still feeling super sleepy. LOL.

The wind was very good for kite-flying that day. Jiexin, Jinghui and Jason managed to fly the kite super high. But later on the string was either not enough or snapped. Then, Vayl came to join us and we just slacked around and took photos. Oh, I was busy calling up a lot of people who stay in Pasir Ris to ask if we can borrow a mahjong set. But apparently most of the Pasir Ris people don't have a mahjong set at home!

~~Photos later, after I've gotten them from Jiexin.~~

Trying to put the kites up.

The kites

I didn't fly any of the kites up, I only pose with it! LOL.

Instead, we camwhored!

Don't you think photos of shadows are very nice?

Chinyang went back to start the fire first and then we went back. Then, Jason and I cycled to Serene's house to get her mahjong set. Wahaha. Jason is a hao ren leh! He cycled up slope to Serene's place while I just waited at his back gate. Haha. I even saw my xiao gu cycling while on the way to Serene's house. Think she's going White Sands. I'm suffering from muscle ache on my butt and back after the cycle! Goes to show how long I didn't exercise.

When we went back, they already started eating. So I also sat down and eat. The fried rice Gabriel cooked was not bad what! I can eat anything as long as it's rice. Haha. At almost 9pm, Vayl and I decided to get breezer from NTUC, so Aaron, Gabriel and the two of us hurried to and fro NTUC because we wanted to watch Campus Superstar at 9pm. I got two bottles of breezer, Vayl got one breezer and one hoegarden (yucks!), and Aaron and Gabriel got some unknown alcohol which tasted like cough syrup.

Talking about Campus Superstar, Lin Youjia seemed to be in such a bad mood during the recordings! I think it's just one of his moodswings which happen so frequently. He'll either be super duper high on stage or super duper emo. And, Felicia Chin cannot host for nuts! She totally cannot think on her feet. On the other hand, Li Teng and Pornsak are super funny! Seems like the CSS3 contestants are all not bad..

After watching CSS3, Jamie, Gabriel, Chinyang and I played mahjong. We moved away the mattress and played on the bed frame because there's no table! Mahjong session during chalets always stimulate our creativity. Jamie was the big winner and I lost $10. While we're mahjong-ing, the rest went downstairs to play Shoot, Shag, Marry because they refuse to let us listen to the contents since we're playing mahjong. -.-

In between, I don't know when, Tienleng, Oxy and Yiwei came to crash our chalet. I think this is the first time 4H chalet has crashers. Oxy missed her last bus home, so they stayed till morning.

After the game, the rest came up and another round of Shoot, Shag, Marry went on. We started discussing some funny stuff and laughed like crazy then got a little bored at 4am plus, so Vayl, Yoke, Jason, Aaron, Gabriel and I went for a walk in the park. It's super windy and we just walked all the way to the end where the big ships are parked. While walking back, we met a white cat with black spots. At first, Vayl was very scared while the rest of us were quite ok with it. But it started following us in a very eerie and scary manner the freaked all of us out. The rest said that it's eyes were super spooky. Luckily I didn't see! So it kept following us and we kept trying to run away from it, it's just super scary because I've heard all the stories about cats being possessed. Yucks to the maximum! Fortunately, another group of people came and diverted the cat's attention. Maybe the cat followed them after that? LOL.

We went back to chalet at about 5.45am because Chinyang and Jamie are leaving for orientation in school and Vayl had to return Chinyang his slippers. Waited for Jamie to bathe and both of them left for school while the rest of us went mac for breakfast. Right after breakfast, we went back to chalet and I fainted. But was woken up by all the snoring and weird noises made by the other people who're sleeping. LOL.

At Mac, Daniel called Jason..
Daniel: Where are you all?*
Jason: Eating breakfast at mac.
Daniel: Who's in the chalet?*
Jason: Jingwen and Yiwei are sleeping in the chalet.
Daniel: OMG!*
Jason: They're sleeping on separate beds lah!
Daniel: OMG!
Jason: I told you they're sleeping separately already still OMG what?
* I made up these lines myself because I don't know what Daniel was saying as he was on the other side of the line. But I suppose that's what he said judging from Jason's answer.

Then, we woke up at around 10am, after the alarmS went on for numerous times. Packed up, checked out, Jason and Daniel went to collect Jason's bike at White Sands while Yoke, Vayl, Gabriel, Aaron and I wanted to walk to Jiexin's house to pass her Jamie's pants, which are left in the chalet, to save bus fare. It's super hot and we gave up after walking 2 bus stops, so we still took a bus in the end. We rotted at Jiexin's void deck while waiting for Jason and Daniel to come. Then Jiexin took 50 years to came down and we continued rotting because we're all too lazy to move. Finally, we moved off and walked to Jason's house, which is a bus stop away and almost died thanks to the freaking sun.

Jason's house was transformed into a chalet. We watch tv for awhile, then Vayl kept wanting to see Jason's dog (传说中“放狗咬你”里的狗) but was super scared of it. Then, the 3 girls fell asleep on the sofa, Jason, Aaron and Gabriel played Xbox, and Daniel and Yiwei used Jason's computer. When we woke up, the guys were playing Dead or Alive new version, with bikini hot babes playing volleyball! They're secretly enjoying it while we're sleeping! Haha. We went to look around his house and then Aaron and Yoke played with his sis fatty hamster. Daniel kept saying the hamster looked like a meatball! Where got meatball with fur one?! LOL. Continued to watched them play revealing volleyball for awhile and I went to bathe because I didn't bathe the night before and stinked like shit.

Soon, Jinghui came with dabao-ed chicken rice and bubble tea. Ate and continued to watch the guys play revealing volleyball and stupid hopping game and we went off at 4pm plus after the rain stopped.

Credits to Yoke for organising the chalet, Gabriel for collecting the money and cooking the food, Chinyang, Roy and Jinghui for cooking the food for BBQ, Jason for having us at his place and getting and returning the mahjong for me, anyone who helped in a way or another and is not mentioned, and everyone for turning up! (:

Ironically, we didn't take many photos eventhough we're going to go our own ways after this and might not meet up often. Hope everyone enjoyed the chalet, the food, and most importantly, the company!

Shopping spree

2009-01-03T21:25:00.009+08:00

Went on a shopping spree with my sis at Tampines today! :D Walked around for many many hours and I finally got all the clothes I need for work. But I haven't gotten a piece of cloth for new year yet! HOW!? It was the same suitation last year, when my sis and I were still sourcing for clothes frantically on New Year's Eve. Haha.

Anyway, there's sales going on everywhere! Giordano has 40%, Isetan, Giordano, Charles&Keith are also having sales. WOOHOOO! What's worth a mention is the long pants from G2000. Each pair only cost $29! Haha.

The things we bought. I bought another pair of long pants from Giordano, but I sent it for altering already.

~~Photo later because freaking Photobucket refuses to load!! Argh!~~ Photobucket finally unscrewed itself.

Total damage of the day: approximately $230.

We are home, we are home!

2009-01-02T23:19:00.003+08:00

The day started off pretty badly. I only woke up when Vayl texted me at 8.15am when we're supposed to be seated at 7.45am! LOL. I bathed and got ready within 20 minutes, took a cab down to Tanjong Rhu campus and reached at 9.05am. I paid $13 for the stupid cab fare thanks to the 35% surcharge. Argh! I don't know how I managed to oversleep! I set my alarm at 6.10am and put the snooze on for 10 times. If I didn't hear and stop the alarm when it rings, it should snooze for 10 times until I hear it what. You mean I didn't hear all 10 times? Cannot be!

Went to the new air-conditioned hall and I thought the rest were in viewing gallery so I went up. Then I realised that they're sitting in the hall, farrrrr away from the stage. I thought we're supposed to be behind the VIPs? Yah, behind, but FAR behind. Went down to look for them but there's not enough seats, so Yoke, Jingwen and I decided to go to the viewing gallery since the view there is much better.

I didn't catch much of the concert. I was late, remember? I only started watching from the performance put up by the volleyball and soccer teams. It's my first time seeing sports teams performing on stage during major events like this. I was told that I missed the funniest performance put up by the uniform groups. :( Honestly, I was quite disappointed with the concert. Shouldn't have cabbed down and waste my money.

After the concert, we went for refreshments outside the auditorium, slacked around and took photos. We mistook a student for Mr Jason Ng and almost went up to him to take photo. So paiseh! Then, we went on a tour, conducted by Tour Guide Thng Jing Hui, around the new campus. The facilites are really good!! Fortunate future batches of dunmanians! The area for the performing arts group is super cool. There're also many open areas which are super good for relaxing after a long day in school.

The first photo, which is the new "pond" I think, super got feel!

Mr Hia

He's my favourite teacher in Dunman High! Eventhough he taught us in Sec1 and 2, he still can remember all our names! I was shocked that he knew I wanted to study Chinese Languange and Literature in university!

While touring, we camwhored around.

Daniel attempted to jump.

Slacked at the rooftop tennis court with the other Year6s. It started to get hot, so we went to the hall for aircon. The guys played abit of volleyball and we're told to leave the place because there's some event going on. Before leaving, we helped to move the chairs to the side of the hall.

While waiting for the rest to go for lunch, we slacked in the canteen. Then some balloons kept floating around and one of the hit the fan and dropped down. Jason was super retarded and didn't manage to catch it. The scene was suppacuppa funny!!

Jason and the balloon.

Door gifts.

~~Xueling said that we're supposed to get a 2GB thumbdrive each, with the MV they took inside! Why don't have?! Kena scammed..~~ Apparently the thumbdrives are only for the VIPs. I'm sorry for the mistake!

Finally everyone gathered and we went to Just Noodles for lunch. The price increased already! We just rotted there for more than an hour, almost two hours, I think. After lunch, which ended at 4pm plus, we walked around Suntec aimlessly. Was super sleepy (eventhough I overslept!) so we went home while the other guys continued to shop.

The making process of the notes I wrote for everyone in theclique.

I was supposed to give it on graduation day but couldn't finish in time. I had to rope in my sister to help me do cutting and outlining the night before graduation day. LOL. She said that I have to credit her, so here you go.

新年新希望

2009-01-01T23:49:00.001+08:00

New year, new start, new blogskin! My new blogskin is finally up! I'll change the header another time, no idea what to do for it.. Many many thanks to Xueling for helping me with the html codes and helping me tidy up my very ultra messy codes. (:

A summary of my 2008

2008 wasn't a really good year. Had to deal with friend's problem in the beginning of the year. After that was Netball East Zone, which we lost really badly. As much as we didn't have high hopes of winning, there's still disappointment. Then was CT, prelims, followed by A levels. So basically I had no life this year and had to keep mugging. Moreover, I was kept really busy with CLL and CSC thesis papers. So 2008 was a busy busy busy year. Luckily, there's release of PW result, which was great for me! And I had my friends all around me to save me from all the crisis.

To all my family members, friends, teachers and random strangers whom have made my day(s) or helped me in a way or another, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Your presence is greatly appreciated. To my family, thanks for tolerating with my mood swings because of stress from school and my perpetual sleepiness. To theclique, thanks for all the fun, lame, stupid and retarded stuff that you guys have done that really made me laugh real hard and kept me sane. To Vayl, Aaron and Jason, thanks for always being there.

To all the people whom have spoilt my day(s) in a way or another, YOU SUCK. But thanks for showing me the different faces of people. Because of you people, I've learnt to be stronger, tougher and smarter. You aren't going to defeat me that easily.

I shall review the resolutions I set for 2008.

1) PIA FOR A LEVELS!
I did study a lot, much more than how much I studied from Sec1 to Sec4 add together. But is that called 'pia'? Guess I'll only know the results in February or March.
2) Continue with not sleeping during lessons.
I hardly fall asleep during lessons in 2008. I even stay awake for most CSC lessons!
3) Make friends and not foe.
Not really achieved. I made friends and also made foes.
4) Grumble, criticise and guailan lesser.
Not achieved at all! Many many things for me to complain and rant about this year.
5) Make up my mind on whether I want to study in S'pore or overseas.
Decided, overseas first choice and local second choice.
6) Don't get injured that often.
Didn't really injured myself much after I stopped netball. Only getting blue-blacks here and there once in awhile. LOL.

Not too bad. Don't think I want to set any resolution for 2009 because this year is going to be very different. The rest of the year is going to be dependent on results that are going to released in a few months. There's nothing much I can do because A levels are over, so I can only wait for the results.

2009年会更好！

Happy New Year at The Cheesecake Cafe

2009-01-01T22:57:00.003+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My new year day was actually quite boring. Planned to stay at home since I really don't want to be out squeezing with people in the malls or whatever. Then, Sheila texted me and suggested a 2G gathering at The Cheesecake Cafe at Siglap. Obviously, it sells cheesecakes! Haha. So, the botak and the girls decided to meet up for cheesecakes!

Cheesecakes! (:

The people who went.

I was super suay. I waited super long for bus 40. And there wasn't even a single bus 40 in the bus park, so for the whole time, I was thinking if the bus is in service or not today. Finally, one bus 40 returned, but the card scanner spoilt! So I couldn't board the bus. The uncle tried to fix it for very long before his friend came and did it in a split second. See lah, ask for help if you need it! Don't ge kiang! In the end, I was late, but still earlier than Minhua. Haha.

We sat there for 1 hour plus and listened (mostly) to Darren's army stories. The cheesecakes there are not bad but the service is quite bad! They take pretty long to refill Darren's warm water. When asked to refill the water, the waitress would say ok and never return with the water! And the waitresses are rather 'deaf'. They totally ignored Darren for 10 thousand times. Maybe it's just Darren.. Haha! Then Sheila ordered two cheesecakes for take-away. She asked the cheesecakes to be packed in separate boxes and the staff just gave her an empty box and asked her to do it herself. They weren't even very busy or what. Quite attitude.

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I'm still working on my new blogskin. I got the skeleton up already. But just some minor changes here and there that I'm unable to fix. :(

Looking forward to homecoming tomorrow! :D

P.S. 933 just played a CNY song sang by some mediacorp singers but I can only recognise Cynthia Koh's voice. Anyway, the main point is they sang "恭喜恭喜恭喜你" and they pronounced 恭 as kong1 instead of gong1!! WTH?!

我是宅女！

2008-12-31T18:59:00.002+08:00

OMG, even my grandmother is jio-ing her friend (actually I think is my aunt) to go Vivocity for countdown! What am I doing at home? 未老先衰.. I'm a total 宅女 nowadays. I avoid all crowded places and I refuse to go out. Sheila wanted to ask me out tonight but I said no because I want to stay at home and watch Taiwan countdown on SCV. LOL.

That day my sis and I went to Expo for Metro Sale. Both of us slept for at least 10 hours the night before. But we only shopped for last than 1 hour and we're super tired and sleepy already. So we went home after that! Hahahaha. 宅女 to the maximum.

I can only do indoor activities like watching tv, surfing the net, mahjong and singing k. LOL.

Dinner time! Happy new year to all in advance! (:

吻得太逼真; 怪胎

2008-12-30T19:12:00.003+08:00

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I like 张敬轩's 吻得太逼真 and 郑中基's 怪胎! Was reminded of the song when I saw their MVs on tv the other day. 933 used to play these two songs non-stop!

吻得太逼真

Cantonese version. But I think chinese one is nicer.

My sis insisted that I like the song because he sang like Chen Xiao Dong. 张敬轩 used to imitate Chen Xiao Dong a lot when he first started out. And I think he was "discovered" because he sounded like Chen Xiao Dong. But NO, I really like the song lah!

怪胎

A day at airport

2008-12-26T23:43:00.007+08:00

At 12am, I suddenly craved for mac. So I asked my two sis if they want to eat and off we went to mac! Haha.

I ordered a McChicken student meal, a McSpicy meal and 6 piece nuggets because three of us can't possibly finish 3 meals at such time. It's super stupid because 6 piece nuggets cost $3.95 and a 6 piece nuggets student meal is only $4.50! So I should have ordered McChicken and nuggets student meals and a McSpicy! Bleah, it's ok if you don't know what I'm saying, I just feel scammed. But again, nobody scammed me, I was just stupid. LOL.

In the evening, I met mummy and An Li at airport for dinner. T3 was nicely decorated so we took photos!

Oh no, my sis and I blocked both Mickey and Minnie in the photo above. Here's one with Mickey and Minnie. It's the announcement that kept haunting us when we're studying at T3's mac during A levels! The 'spend $50 with Visa and get a chance to visit Tokyo Disneyland...'

Acted like tourists and took photos on the sky train.

Then, dinner at Swensen's.

My sis got a mini fondue set from her friend for Christmas. So we made chocolate fondue! :D Too bad NTUC doesn't have strawberries.

Oh no, I haven't finish my cross-stitch and the notes that I was supposed to give to friends on graduation day. I need to finish them before homecoming next friday. Anyway, I'm looking forward to homecoming! (:

Renfu and Jiqin

2008-12-26T15:26:00.003+08:00

More of Wang Renfu and Ji Qin's wedding videos. They went to 关岛 to take their wedding photos. My sis and I were saying that they're going to have 10 books of wedding photos is it? Why they take so many? LOL.

And 关岛 is where 植树 and 相琴 had their honeymoon too in They Kissed Again.

The sea is so very prettaye!

The part where they almost lost the ring was super T_T!!!

Wanyu is still going to show parts of their honeymoon and wedding dinner in Taiwan!

真的很祝福他们

2008-12-23T01:44:00.001+08:00

继续幸福下去！

My table is finally packed!

2008-12-17T21:21:00.006+08:00

I finally dragged myself to ah ma's house to pack my study table. Whenever I pack my table, I will wonder why I have so much rubbish and how I accumulate them within half a year.

All the notes and tutorials to be sorted out then filed or thrown. I always have the habit of just throwing my notes to a corner after I'm done with them. For example, my first paper is CLL, I will just dump the CLL notes to somewhere I will never see again after the paper. I just want them to get out of my way. That's why I always have a hard time when I eventually have to pack them all over again.

Each of them has a story to tell.

(1) Badges from primary and secondary school. I still remember how I used to spam the log book so that I can get the reader's badge in primary school. We have this yellow log book, which we have to record the books we've read. To get the badge, we'll have to reach a quota. I didn't read most of the books I wrote. I just dig them out from my cupboard and wrote the title and author.
(2) I think it used to be every girl's "dream" to get this spectrum of colour pens in primary school! They're essential when writing autograph books! Haha. I remember saving for a long time to get these pens back in those days. I used them to write autograph books in primary 6 and about half of them are still working. I threw away those that have no ink anymore. :(
(3) 5566's autographed album, with Energy's album in the background. My sis and I switched from liking Energy to 5566 after Toro left the group. Haha. And my sis has a friend who is totally crazy over 5566. So during autograph sessions or concerts, she will queue overnight and we'll take over in the morning. But I totally don't remember going on stage to get this album signed. Maybe my sis was the one who went up. Because both of us can only get one album, so we will take turns to meet them up close. LOL.
(4) Super old Jay Chou's magazine. I considered for quite long before getting this because spending $3 on a magazine was quite ridiculous to me 6 years ago.
(5) Toro's 文字写真书. I'm going to read it again when I have the time. I read it more than 3 times since I bought it because it's $20+ and I thought it's not worth it if I only read it once. Super cheapo! But honestly, it's quite a good read. And I'm the only person who read it because I refused to let anyone touch it. People who know me should know I'm very fussy with books and notes and I'm super afraid that people might fold or spoil it.
(6) Jolin, Chen Xiao Dong, Toro and Energy's picture cards. I wasn't crazy over Jolin, I think I got hers for free or something. I wonder how much I used to spend on all these rubbish!

(1) Sovenirs from my primary school. I kept them for 6 years already! I finally made the decision to throw the pens away and give the puzzle away. They're just collecting dust and I don't know what to do with them. I might as well throw the pen away since there's no ink already and I can give the puzzle to my ex-maid who can send back to her family.
(2) My PSLE entry proof!! Haha. See, I keep all kinds of stuff. We still had to get our parents' signature on the entry proof to make sure that they've seen it.
(3) All kinds of cream and anti-itch cream I got from the polyclinic and CGH when I suffered from some mysterious bites this or last year, I cannot remember. My mum got me plasters of all shapes and sizes because I used to fall so often. LOL. If you need big plasters, please give me a call. I have a collection of them.
(4) Maths set, circle template, french curve and calculators. I don't think I will need them anymore. Anyone wants them? Drop me a tag or email. I want to sell away my GC too. It's in very good condition!

More rubbish!

You can also contact me if you want notebooks or notepads. I have too many and I want to give some away. I cannot resist nice notebooks and I just keep buying them. Those crappy CSC booklets are just going to become rough papers.

I totally forgot about the High3101 shirt! LOL. And that financial literacy booklet just went into the dustbin.

Finally done!

I'm giving these TYS away! Unread newsweeks and Broader Perspectives as well. But no pictures of them.

And selling these textbooks.

Anyone interested in my notebooks, notepads, textbooks, TYS, GC, maths tools, Newsweek or Broader Perspectives, please email me at anting90@gmail.com or drop me a tag on my tagboard. Thanks! (: Don't worry, I take good care of my things and they're all in very good conditions.

After packing, I stayed for dinner with ah ma, which I haven't done so for a longgg time. So glad that I finally did something constructive. Haha.

幸福时候

2008-12-12T00:34:00.003+08:00

看看这个吧！幸福的feel!