he paid the price...

2008-05-01T17:43:00.004+08:00

why, why does thou mockest me so?
does thou take pleasure in mocking me?
then why does thou call me a friend?

a friend to thee it seems not so.
i treat thee with kindness,
yet thou return hate and scorn.
thou showth no form of consideration
for my feelings. hath you no emotions,
no grace, no tactfullness?

thou turnest into none but a monster,
turning thy back on a 'friend'.
it doth seems to me that thou
considers me to be filthy rags,
Jealousy doth consume your mind,
clouded thy eyne from sensitivity.
like Alzheimer's disease,
thou hath forgotten thy madien's grace,
and like a cataract in thy eyne,
thou lost the vision of kindness.

thou annoy me so,
thy constant pursuit of my torture,
seems to please thee.
however, thou showth everyone
that ice-cold heart of yours
that will soon be shattered
by the hammer of loneliness.

one by one, friends of ye
will slip away due to the way
thou treat them.
i'm not surprised, that very soon,
thou will slip away into darkness
and cry over thy actions.

therefore, i say 'adieu'
my patience is spent and gone on thee
so adieu, adieu, adieu...

never did mockers waste more idle breath.
-a midsummer night's dream act 3 scene 2 line168

2008-02-16T22:00:00.002+08:00

HOW DO YOU LIVE YOUR DASH?

I read of a man who stood to speak
At a funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning... to the end.
He noted that first came her date of birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years (1934 – 1998)

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth...
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth
For it matters not, how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard...
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left,
That can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough
To consider what is true and real,
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger,
And shrew appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we’ve never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect .
And more often wear a smile.

Remembering that this special dash,
Might only last a little while,

So, when eulogy’s being read,
With your life’s actions to rehash...
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how we spend our dash?

simple yet lovely poem. yet again, we are reminded on how short life is and that our actions and lives are a testimony to others. and the poem says the rest.

busy week with CAs and all. thinking day's coming and with all the singing practices for the rally, my sore throat just got worse. drinking a lot of water already and it ain't helping (rawr, now osmoregulation is flowing thru my head)

CNY this year was good:) yu sheng was the best!! the food is good too. i think i gained weight ><. some of the gen acts peeps and BB boys came over to my house for steamboat and celebrate me bro's b'day on sun night:) had a really good time. after that, i really wanna learn some jazz piano from sheryl, but gotta wait for after o's :(. this girl's gotta study already.

condolences to doraline's family about her deceased grandfather. and jie lizhen gave birth yesterday! congrats!(now can call uncle tommy and aunty lizhen... hehe)

v'day was usual for me, more chocs from friends(getting pimples already:( ) and spending the day with hw etc...( u can guess)

cell debate was fun despite my team losing by 2 marks. anyway, we won overall:D. i was rather brain dead then so i couldn't really focus. sleepy...zzZ went to dora granfather's wake despite tiredness.

gtg... bb!!

2008-01-26T23:02:00.000+08:00

back, with nothing much to blog about.

found out that sec 4 cca stepdown is at the end of march(mixed feelings); realised that o's are 2-3 weeks earlier than the earlier batch; chinese in 4 months time(lao shi doing 2 compoes every week)

school's ok, caught up with friends; cutting down comittments (already); new, horrible, high frequency, physics teacher; trying to take life one day at a time; changes; growing:)

CNY's coming:) that will form an equation:
CNY = $$$ + new clothes + new shoes + some time off + reluctance to meet relatives (ironically)+ growing fat + bak gua + cousin time out away from adults + sping cleaning + younger cousins, nephews and nieces messing up my room (as always) + steamboat preparation (& eating) + study for CAs :(

youth alpha was ok so far. the debate was a lil boring: motion too wide therefore out of point; on the basis that God exists. no friends came:( my friends wanted to come and see me debate but all cannot :P too bad guys, u missed me being 'siong'. muahahaha.

homework pile seems to never cease to be approx five tasks a day. kiasu teachers are pressurising us just 'cause we're best class. i could nearly hear all the subjects teacher say that famous quote: ' all of you must do as well or better than the 2006 batch.' oh, n ariel transffered to my class:D

new laptop in place of the ancient, crashed, destop. facebook's getting boring, dun have much time on the com anyway... finished the bible for the second time:) started from genesis again. and yes, the bible is NOT boring.

going to reduce quite a bit of commitments. no piano lessons for 6 months, girl guides stop at the end of march, keyboard in cell once a month then subsequently gone, guitar callous will be softer:( reduce photographic studies, less and subsequently no going out, no ice skating (my only excercise will probably be during PE, quite a number of crunches at home, praising the Lord on sun, and, running after the bus:P)

oh, and my best friends will soon be the books.

rachel, u better stop thinking abt him.
totally not worth being distracted abt
pray girl, pray more:)
cast all ure cares on HIM.
i'm sure He'll make it right.
Jesus, be my centre

2008-01-01T22:35:00.000+08:00

hey all:) i know my blog's pretty dead, sch's starting tmr. and, arggh, o's are coming. chinese in 5 months. that only hit me yesterday.

spent new year's eve with family n friends:) rollerblading with me bro and my mum n dad on bikes at east coast. covered the path from lagoon view to parkway and back + the stretch from lagoon view to bedok jetty.

went countdown at ashley's house. then was running around the whole new year's day.

oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

japan trip in dec was very very fun. too much details, time consuming to type out everything in detail. wanna know more abt it? ring me up or sth. (lol. sounds like an ad leh...)

toodles for now. will try to be back:)

2007-11-28T17:32:00.000+08:00

yo peeps:D updates for ya'll...

my dear mum put me on a maths tuition just 'cause i'm nt getting an A. need practice anyway but means more hw to be done. oh well...

guides camp was fun:D camped for 5 days in total. we had star gazing on the first night. boy the stars were pretty but i couldn't find the stuff they were talking abt like the north star, the orion etc. the bonding was good:) the GM guides were real nice. made quite a few friends:D most of the things about the camp were fun except the food part where we had to finish the food we cook and the KC guides in my patrol won't eat a lot. so i gained weight on my side along with the GM guides. showering was probably the most enjoyable part:D the whole patrol went into a showering tent and they jetted us with water. the bad part is that the shampoo wasn't washed off properly. oh well... thats camp:D

baptism on the 18th:D welcome to the family crys, beatrice, victoria & benedict!!!

went shoppping with avina n meryl on 20th. avina bought tons of stuff just for her job attatchment n meryl bought a top, n i bought nothing.hehe...

carolling prac on sun:D was really fun. the sight reading chords on guitar was defenitely good practice. haven't really touched the guitar in a while, my callous is peeling:'(. must it peel when i need it most? and boy i gotta start growing nails on my right hand fingers or else the plucking won't be really audiable. after that went to dione's house for the first time (ironically, i've known her for 2 yrs) to teach her some of the christmas carols, with karen on the violin. had a good time with them:)

spent the whole mon afternoon doing chord vetting. only when i heard the tracks, i realized the christmas carols are not that easy at all. eg, hark the herald angels sing is CHIM! ( but fun:D) change chords every beat at a few sections for it to sound nice.O_o

spent whole of yesterday finishing my bio hw, except for the project, like finally!! still got loads though... :(

gtg... bb!

2007-11-09T18:40:00.000+08:00

woohoo!! back again finally!! loads had been happening for the past few months.. i shall generally generalize.

preparation of the ireland camp continues. went shopping for the craft items on the 28th june that was to be sold to the people there. bought henna, bangles, bindis,paper balls, five stones, chaptehs. i'm a lil better in the dance we're supposed to do. we, unfortunately, have to survive 13 days in ireland with the stuff we brought in HAVERSACKS. yes, no trolley bags.

left on the 5th jul with some of my company's guides sending the 5 of us guides from my school off. my dear seniors are as crazy as ever :D the 10 hour flight was tiring with an additional 2 hours of local flight. ireland is PRETTY!!! it was also super cold: 10-13 deg in the day, sunny; 5-8 deg at night and when it is raining(which was most of the time). visited navan town before the camp and stayed overnight at millrace lodge, a lovely place.

went to tatterstalls for the camp. i've never seend such a huge field in my life!abt 4 hec? was in camp asgard, subcamp midguard. 1st day was a lil weird 'cause there are caucasions everywhere and we were the only few asians. the irish guides were really nice and made quite a few friends. as i was talking to several of the irish guides, there were the lil misconceptions/ stereotypes abt Singapore and us as representitives of GGS. some were pretty amusing too.
1)Singapore had the four seasons
2)Singapore is in China! (hahahahahaha)
3)Our hair is not real. they are wigs.
with that clarified, the camp was quite fun. had a go with african percussion, bounce world, trips to trim castle etc around meath co. and dublin, campfires. the international night performance didn't turn out as bad as i expected. at least i managed to remember all the dance steps by then. i couldn't believe that they loved it! the bad thing is that there was no bathing facilities in the camp site and we had to go to some swimming centre to bathe there. futhermore, it was only 2 times in 7 days! too cold to sweat i guess that's their reason. anyway, i dunno why, but i instinctively picked up a bit of their accent. when the camp ended, it was pretty sad:( got the contacts of most of the guides anyway:)

stayed in dublin for one day and a night. shopped quite a bit of stuff. boy i'll miss the food there. went to london for 3 days 2 nights. went to 2 museums, buckingham palace where we saw the changing of guards, oxford street, camden town(goth place), tower of london where we saw the crown jewels(*bling*) sadly, no cameras allowed. then another 10 hr flight back to S'pore. slept for the first 4 hrs and forced myself to keep awake by eating the 75%cocoa dark chocolateand watching 4 movies to prevent jet lag 'cause i gotta go to school the next day. attempt sucessful:)

after going there, i can appreciate what we have in s'pore 'cause u can take a hot bath and not coming out of the bathroom shivering like crazy. u also dun need to get back to your home before sundown and keep buying bottled water and have budget food (macs cost 15 bucks for a quater pounder and a small coke).

NDP training is fun, crazy as it may seem. the back area of the contingent was deemed the noisy group. me being the left marker was fun. i nearly slept during one of the NE shows. oh, and the NE shows were funny! when the 1st of the 21 gun salute was shot, i could hear screams from the audience. every subsequent shot was followed by high pitched screams from the audience. the rest of the CRs were ok, the audience always laughed when the arrival of the ministers was simulated. yes, one guy just came out with a playcard that wrote 'MP' and things like that. me family got tickets to watch one of the CRs :)

climbed gulong lambak with the guides in my company:) 70 degree gradient was fun:)climbed to one of the peaks at 510m above sea level. i dun mind going again:)

wasn't there at east division competition day 'cause of NDP. but, with God's grace, we won bronze in poster, silver in mini stucture and gold in song writing:) didn't see the gold coming as the lyrics there were just random stanzas of rhyming words i wrote about the theme which was fantasy. ching probably worked the music out :) good work done by the other teams too:D

sep's full of birthdays, including mine:) celebrated with my family at sushi tei. got my birthday presents:D yougurt, my fav binging partner(good idea!) from my bro; hoop earrings from meryl and a cake from my small group.

my piano exam was also in sep. the examinger was a lady and i was real nervous then. but when i went into the room, i suddenly became quite calm (thanks God:D) my pieces and scaleswere ok, but she gave me the more difficult sight reading so that was crap. but on me dad's birthday, the results was in. he opened it as i couldn't bear to see...only to discover a few seconds later that i got distinction!!! praise ye the Lord:D got full marks for my jazz piece(surprise, surprise)

sep also means start of EOY. that sucks. stay home muggin most of the time.by oct, was very sian already. but when it ended it was worth it:) will only have a short break and sturctured lessons will start at he end of oct. end of EOYs means results too. have done reasonably well. some improvement and deprovement. top for chem and bio in the level:D really thank God for this set of results.here it is:
eng-A2
chinese-C5
e math-A1
a math- C5:P
c humans- C5
lit-B4
bio,chem, phy- A1
thats not the end though... still got 'o's. arggh 'o's! boy i'm starting to feel old now.

went ice skating with some of my school friends after eng oral. andrea and avina knows how to skate now *claps* we'll go some other time again with more people i guess.

guides camp is coming up and i'm in camp comm. the gmss guides are camping with us this year. i hope it will be fun. the whole thing's planned and we just need to carry it out. its sad we're not making the entire playground this year. we'll be doing swings

power encounter was great. most of us were touched by God:) the bonding was great too. ashley and i found out that both of us had good synergy in guitar. we should play together one day again no? sharing my testimony was crappy. all the 25 + pairs of eyes were staring at me which was the stimulus for my nervous reflex(or so i called it). couldn't concentrate on what i was saying. arggh... should have taken off my glasses so i only see blurry faces. class presentaion can just because not even half the class is really paying attention, 20 pairs of eyes is my limit. playing keyboard for ministry was ok, except i tend to go by memory and there is not enough time to discard some chord progessions of the previous song and mistakes come in. u have a long way to go rachel.

will update soon... gotta go cell.. bb!

2007-06-19T20:25:00.000+08:00

hello, yet again.

9-11 june: church camp!
yes, it was good :) the sermon is quite relevant but the bonding was the best:) managed to strenghten relationships with the gen acts girls. well, a lot happened in just 4 days.

day one: a long drive up with my parents, me grandma and uncle robert and auntie emily. when we reached putrajaya, went to the shopping centre alamanda for lunch. went a for a lil bit of shoppping but there wasn't much. bought a new top from there though. marriot hotel is sooo grand!! checked in and dumped my stuff into the room. eliz and i were rooming beside karen and yiru. went down for dinner and boy were the food good. then went down to the room for the youth to practice keyboard for the later session. history makers was ok in the end. didn't know that we could do it. our session ende really late and i slept at abt 12.

day 2: met meryl in the morning then had breakfast. then we had the egg drop competition. all the eggs didn't crack:) then it was session 2 which was the most relevant one to me:) after lunch we were supposed to do first aid but most of the youths went shopping or went missing. it eventually got postponed :( went to karen's room to play uno cards with the rest of the girls, then jaccuzi and suana and then to the swimming pool with ashley, eliz, leanne, karen, sheena and dione. then went to wash up and go for dinner. then went to the room assigned to the youth to practice keyboard for session 3. after session 3 we had the girls nite where we went to karen's room where anna talked to us abt eyebrows and even did demonstration. i felt that it was a bit redundant. slept just as late.

day 3: play keyboard again for session 4 in the morn. then had CK during session 5. the kids were abnormally high somehow that time but we still managed to have our program done :) we prepared for the talent time with the remaining time that was left. the stuff we plan was so crappy. it was the story of david and goliah, the singapore version. jeremy(david) was funny when he did the 'victory dance' after defeating jason(goliah). then the youths went for the jabalng game where i was in the blue team. was really fun:) then washed up and had dinner. session 6 was in the main hall. and there i was touched by the Lord again. crystal received the gift of tongues that night. congrats girl!!! :D

day 4: last session after breakfast was good :) then said bye bye to the 5 star hotel service and went back to singapore.

12 june
met up with some of the guides who are going to go to ireland for the international guides camp for the item we have to perform for the campfire night. i seriously can't dance. oh well, practice :(

13 june
rest day!! finished my bio:)

14 june
did more hw and had piano lesson. wanted to go out but can't.

15 june
met meryl mabel and doraline to go to my house for lil 'cell'. was good :)

16 june
NDP @marina bay. i am seriously going to be deaf when ndp finishes. the 21 gun salute is killing my ears. everytime they do one, most of the people jumps.

17 june
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!! bought pie for me dad and my mum cooked crab for dinner. yummy!

18 june
ss project today. payal, grace and vania came to my house to do it. managed to finish it :) we had a fun time too:) after piano lesson went shopping and managed to buy a swimming costume that is youthful enough and nt too matured.

today
met up with avina and grace to do holiday hw. we managed to cover english, geog, and chemistry.

toodles!:P

2007-06-08T19:45:00.000+08:00

hi peeps! back again. i know this blog is getting kinda dead. but i'll do my best to keep it updated as often as possible.

29 may
did a bit of holiday homework but was slacking most of the time. couldn't really bring myself to do A math. TV!!! O_O

30 may
NDP training again. was the same at nee soon camp. were going to marina on sat and then onwards :) went to 525 after that for the church camp band practice. Complete is now on my favorite music list <3>

31 may
went sailing with the guides. haven't went sailing for 1.5 years?! yup. wemt to sembawang yacht club to help the guides with sailing and photography. sadly the wind was pretty dead today so i ended up taking the photos in the power boat. power boat rides are fun!! the naughty coach went high speed to give the guides on the sea waves. took more than enough photos so i went on jillian's topper and sailed it to the shore. the helpers bought KFC as there was no lunch for us and there was no food stalls anywhere. then a storm brewed after lunch. played in the rain and did crazy stuff with the guides like singing in the rain but was really fun. when the storm stopped we had a paddling race where there were 4 people in a team and all u have to do is paddle ure topper hull around the pontoon and back. paddle with ure own hands and feet! was soooo fun. i was in the so called helper team 'cause it was only consisted of helpers. haha. fun but tiring day:)

1 june
jamming @ 525 again. had fun:)

2 june
NDP @ marina. we are going to march in with umbrellas?! whoever plan the whole thing sure is bright. feels funny treating unbrellas like guns.

3 june
didn't go church today. congrats to jie Paula and kor John on their wedding today! went to their wedding today at my aunts house for the tea ceremony etc etc. then went to watch pirates of the carrabean:) was GOOD, it was. except they under used chow yun fat( u go watch the movie n see lah)

4 june - today
nothing much. just prepared for church camp and went shopping at vivo on tues. saw dione, crys adn grace. wed went for NDP training then went for Band practice at 525 again. the remaining days were slacking and doing some hol hw.

will update asap... bye!

2007-05-28T19:41:00.000+08:00

lalalalala. currently in the relaxing, slacking mode with no studying!! having a well deserved break from the 'hectic' life (despite my life still being labelled as 'busy' after exams)

22 may
more results. will get the whole thing on thurs. extra boringness in class. took a lil nap in the afternoon. zzzzzzz....

23 may
read and read and read science tb whole day. nothing else better to do. gotta prepare at least a bit for the national science challenge priliminary round. mole concept is sucky.

24 may
ok, here's all the results. u may call it good, bad, whatever but i'm thankful :)

eng-B3
chinese-C5 :)
A math-C5 :(
E math-A1
Bio-A2
Chem-A1 :)
physics-A2
CH- B4
Lit-B4

topped the level for chem :D. all in all they are quite ok...

25 may
la day of the national science challenge priliminary rounds.ms chew went with us. all 5 of us thought that most of the questions given were all utter nonsense. eg: what colour star is the hottest?, what is the scientific name for the shin bone? etc,etc... they tested abt 4 questions on the sucky mole concept and there was no chemical equations at all!! about 35% was abt sound waves and stuff related to it. the rest were all different topics and funny stuff. had a lil tea break in a cafe with ms chew, suzanne, su rin, grace cheah and pattra then went back to the auditorium to see the results. we didn't get in (i expected it). all the 'smart aleck' schools got in. went back to school to get my report book.

26 may
family day!! went there in the morning to support my class that was selling malt candy, popcorn and muffins :). did mobile popcorn sales with andrea as a mobile advertisement (with shriek ears! rather cute) then went to try archery. was surprisingly good as a first timer. hit the bulls eye twice. then went for NDP. more sunshine buns again. had pizza hut for dinner though:)

27 may
2nd last CK duty :( the kids were rather rowdy today. went for baptism :) congrats to those who got baptised.

today
first week of holidays and the week is already jam packed with activities. i only get to slack one day this week. that is, tmr. did spring cleaning of my room:) then went to worship practice to watch and learn more stuff from sheryl's moving hands on the keyboard.

gtg... be right back!

2007-05-21T19:42:00.000+08:00

hello world. back after a long long long period of exams and buisness. finally got time to sit down and blog.

4th may, fri
study and study and read my lit text twice and study my geog like crazy. nothing else to do though.

5th may
no NDP :) went to study somemore. biology is really a detailed lot of info. so is lit.

6th may
church in the morning. spent the whole day studying. just a week plus of exams and its over.

7th to 11th may
lit paper one and geog on mon. i wrote a longer length in my lit essay that my unseen :) wasn't my ususal. thank God :D. geog was ok :)

lit paper 2 on tues. was quite ok. thank God for giving me strength and concentration for writing :) was quite lertargic and i dun know why. andrea and i talked over the phone for quite a while for...

LA TERROR Social studies and biology together on one day. yes, the center of our conversation. ss paper was a killer. not enough time. left my souce based question 7/8 done :(. studied like crazy for e math as i haven't started yet. Rachel has to stop procrastinating.

e math was ok in the end.thursday was kept reletively stressless. i finished both paper 1 and 2 with half an hour to check. thank God for that :).

chinese oral was not really ok on fri. was stammering when reading the passage. zhuo lao shi corrected me twice which is really bad. i think the conversation saved me a lot. it was abt maids and God helped me in that :) went to blk 525 early to practice for e church camp. in the end was just me and Dione and i thought her a bit of keyboard. then yw sunndenly asked me to play keyboard. arggh stressed! thank goodness i know most of the songs so it was ok in the end.

12th may sat
no NDP again :) woke up late and went to study for my physics, chem, and A math. then went to study and study and study....

13th may sun

church in the morning. was really tired but still had enough energy to come :). went back home to sleep for 2 hours than started work again.

14th to 15th may
chem and A math on mon. chem was ok. praise God that i was able to do most of my A math. i only didn't do 2 of my logarithm question and one weird question where i was stuck. went back home to study...

physics!! my last paper at last! was quite ok but i forgot to bring my protracter for the vector diagram. thank goodness my teacher let me borrow one :) after the paper went to meet ms chew to find that Pattra, Su Rin, Grace Chia, Suzanne and me got chosen for the National Science Challenge priliminary round next fri. totally crazy. then left school for tampines mall with Andrea n Avina <3 had LJS for lunch and met Grace Lam, Michelle and Gabby. then walked around. Avina bought 2 bags and i got a lil bear keychain from Andrea :)

16th to 17th may

went out with the old gang of Ariel, Suzy, Grass :) went to eat lunch at pasta mania then went to watch spider man 3. it was quite good but some shots made my head dizzy. and, of all reasons, why did harry have to die? somemore die like his father, so tragic. Ariel lost her wallet in the cinema but i wasn't there. we searched every nook and cranny but it wasn't found. nevermind, she needed a new wallet anyway and her ezlink card is still with her. went to look and shop around in TM and century sqaure(the second time this week). took crazy neoprints (SUZANNE TAN SI MIN!!). walked around to shop for grace's necklace for her cousin's wedding. bought hairbands

went out with me mum downtown on thurs. went to far east. the clothes there are getting cheena, soo not me. bought a pair of shorts and a new pouch :). i need new tops and some shorts, running out of them. somehow, we couldn't find anything for me mum 'cause she said that the dresses are too formal. we walked and walked and walked. didn't sit for abt 3 hours. ouch.

18th may

some results are in. some are ok. some are not good. dunno all yet. went to cell early for practice again. didn't achieve much but now we know roughly what songs we are going. my fingers are hurting from the accoustic guitar but its a good build up for my left hand callous :).

19th may

NDP was fun!!! wore full GG uniform so was very very hot. the formation and everything is sooo cool never stood this long before.one rehersal of the whole ceremony is about 1-2 hours. my heels were hurting. the dinner provided there was horrible. ate a bit for energy's sake. went back home and slept like a dead log.

20th may

church in the morning. went to east point with sheryl, dione, yiru, karen, and eliz for lunch :). went to popular for quite a while. karen went to get her stuff and i picked up a random book to read while waiting: macbeth. quite interesting to read but i wouldn't want to study it for literature. went home after that to clear up loads of stuff.

today

nothing much. haven't got back a lot of subjects. gtg... bye!!

2007-05-03T19:25:00.000+08:00

cough! cough!! yes, i'm sick. sweating like mad now. woke up this morning with a fever and cough and runny nose. wanted to take today to study but was too sick to do so. slept in the afternoon for quite a long while. tried to do A maths but was kinda pissed 'cause i knew how to do them but i somehow can't get the answers. so did a less stressful subject: literature. started reading to kill a mockingbird but slept again after reading the first 50 pages thereabouts.

here's what happened the past few days:

27 april - fri
eng MYE. was quite ok. more boringness with just 4 periods left. why don't they just let us go home?

28 april
no NDP for the next 3 weeks! :) woke up late in the morning for once in the many months where there was guides. did most of me homework and some studying.

29 april
church as usual. small group with anna 'cause meryl is in perth. we chatted so much we forgot abt the time. anna told us really random stuff and the 'anna and jackie' thing. i'll sush as i'm not allowed to tell... hehe

30 april
back to sch. was raining. was cold!! (what brief sentences) went to BBTC with me dad for worship practice where i was shadowing the keyboard. me papa was somewhere else in BBTC.
didn't get to play this time as there was not enough time.

1 may
may day!! went to east coast beach in the morning with me family. brought the guitar along and had family devotional time. then went for lunch then went back to do my work. oh, congrats to auntie joey and uncle matthew who gave birth to baby samuel!!! (haha, i now have the rights to call u auntie and uncle!!)went to visit them at night. and boy! the baby is soooooo cute. he's going to have his fair share of pinching of the cheeks from me when he grows older *snigger*.

2 may
back to sch with a sore throat. class wasn't anything much, mainly revision. was forced to go to tuition with me sore throat and do oral :(

got to study... bye!

2007-04-25T21:08:00.000+08:00

hi again! exams are coming up so i ain't going to blog that much for the time being.

sun- april 22
my team's 2nd last CK duty. played the silent game with the kids again. they were very participative and enthu today, including the worship time. was at the laptop most of the time as doraline wasn't here today. celebrated mabel's birthday with a tiramisu for her. sang happy birthday song softly (but the "God's blessing you now" loudly :P)

mon
back to sch... was unwillingly skinned by naughty vania!! she used scotch tapeand stuck it on my arm and just ripped it off. ouch!! this is how much hair she pulled out: 25 strands!!! in english class, watched some opera whimphry(is that how u spell it??) show where it showed a baby being born with the mermaid syndrome where the legs are joined together. it also showed children with torrets and a small girl who felt no pain. was a really good one. ss SBQ after that which was ok. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MABEL!

tues
got back my geography poem which got an A+. here it is:

The River

Starting small with little energy,
The river begged for mercy,
‘Send some rain, would you send some rain?
The dryness is causing me much pain.’
God granted its request.
In the sky, black clouds conquest.
Came, the gentle rain from heaven,
Gaining strength, it came even
With the earth that steals water
Inflicting pain, causing rocks to falter

Now the river’s proud and strong.
Taking revenge, it carries along
The flesh and blood of the earth
It moves on with much mirth
As the load is causing more pain
To the earth that was slain.
The earth fights and becomes more defiant,
Making the river flow on a gentler gradient,
Causing the river to lose its speed,
Meandering over the hollow reeds

The earth is victorious
Forever so glorious
The river is finally defeated
Depositing whatever it eroded
The earth recovers from its wounds
Reprimanding the river it hounds
‘Fair you well, you are done for
To the sea, you will pour
Out your soul and exist no more.’
Antagonized, the river cries out
But too late, it is tossed about
Tortured for eternity by the raging sea

(the words are supposed to 'meander'. dun know why can't get it done)

lit unseen was horrible. i couldn't really write long enough. for the poem which i found was easier than the prose.

today
boringness!! loads of hw and cleared half of my desk today because of eng mye on fri.

gtg...bb!

2007-04-21T19:58:00.000+08:00

Nichole Nordeman- gratitude

Send some rain, would You send some rain?
'Cause the earth is dry and needs to drink again
And the sun is high and we are sinking in the shade
Would You send a cloud, thunder long and loud?
Let the sky grow black and send some mercy down

Surely You can see that we are thirsty and afraid
But maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide in other ways
And if that's the case ...

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to thirst for You
How to bless the very sun that warms our face
If You never send us rain

Daily bread, give us daily bread
Bless our bodies, keep our children fed
Fill our cups, then fill them up again tonight
Wrap us up and warm us through
Tucked away beneath our sturdy roofs
Let us slumber safe from danger's view this time

Or maybe not, not today
Maybe You'll provide in other ways
And if that's the case ...

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude
A lesson learned to hunger after You
That a starry sky offers a better view
If no roof is overhead
And if we never taste that bread

Oh, the differences that often are between
Everything we want and what we really need

So grant us peace, Jesus, grant us peace
Move our hearts to hear a single beat
Between alibis and enemies tonight
Or maybe not, not today
Peace might be another world away
And if that's the case ...

We'll give thanks to You with gratitude
For lessons learned in how to trust in You
That we are blessed beyond what we could ever dream
In abundance or in need
And if You never grant us peace ...

But, Jesus, would You please ...

love this song a lot. made me reflect on what i have and how to be thankful with what i have...

18 april-wed
was quite tired today so i couldn't really focus. had chem SPA on titration. finally, after many times of overshooting the volume, i managed to obtain sodium chloride (common salt) :) helped others to do it too :)

19 april
orchid hybridnization today:) did some potting of the plants in the conical flask and cleaned the room up a bit. went to practice keyboard for tmr cell. i ain't that familiar with the songs so i had a l o n g practice.

20th april
hectic day.went back home straight from school to wash up and went straight for tuition. did compo and some other stuff and then rushed off to meet meryl, then rehearsed for cell worship. made less mistakes this time, surprisingly in the fast songs. thank u Lord for helping me :):)

21 april
guides in the morning and we did the Kim's game with the sec 1s (snigger). was in the hearing section. was suddenly called for the leadership interview that was TOTALLY unexpected. went to the interview and was interrogated by 3 teachers, 4 YAs. was really scary. if u want to know the contents ask me personally, ain't wanna say it here. anyway, i didn't get selected also so it doesn't really matter. filza, meiqing, virina and annabel got the positions. congrats to u all!! :) went for NDP combined rehersals after that. was really relaxed today. if i'm not wrong, i thought i saw benedict today. (did i?)

CK duty tmr... got to memorise my script so toodles!

2007-04-17T20:00:00.000+08:00

this blog is really dead. busy week so i shall quickly summarise.

sun 8 april
easter service. i love the pupetree :) after sermon ate with my group of gals and diones group. grace, pls stop asking me who he is, i dun want to speak abt him. not worth the time u know. i know u'll laugh and say 'thats so stupid. omg'

mon-tues 9-10 april
did assembly programme with the guides. we thought the sch international song like flea fly, crazy moose, chek chek goleh etc. was sabo-ed to sing to the mike for crazy moose. there were a lot of echo from the system which made me feel really weird. now vania's crazy abt the flea fly song. here are the lyrics for the african version and, yes, it is a tongue twister (and kind of like a rap too).

flea!
flea fly!
flea fly flo!
vista!
koomalah(3x) vista
oh no no no not the vista
inimini deci mini oolah lah walimini
askah mini salah mini oolah lah wat
bid bilee o'en do'en boy boy ber dit'en dat en
ssshhhhhhh!!

haha. can recite it fast? yes, REALLY FAST?

thurs- fri
international friendship day celebrations. another event done by the guides we thought the school toe weaving and the significance is the flag colours of the world weaved together to one long string. yup, we are trying to put our school name in the guiness book of records for the longest string of toe weaving done. thought 1/2 and my own class. missed maths 'casue of that :) stayed back for guides these 2 days to help for the east division campfire prep. did the wood pile and torches etc etc... ended up doing 2 dream catchers while waiting for the captain to come and solve the problem.

played keyboard for cell with very late notice on thurs. made abt 7 mistakes?? arggh! not good!! i dun understand why sheryl said i can play for the main service when i'm making so many mistakes. u might think i'm a perfectionist but for main service, everything needs to be near perfect. a mistake is very obvious, esp for keyboard where there are times where u need to go solo. my chord file came in handy when there was an alter call and we had to play sth else :) but most of the chords were from memory, one song from the file only. really thank God for not giving me a headache this time 'cause the last time, i had a very bad headache when i was playing with accompaniment from memory. some improvement to focus more on what i'm playing (saying too. i had to narrate the chords to owen)rather than listening to the guitar :) slowly does it with God's help i guess.

sat 14 april
ndp in the morning. forgot to put sunblock on my face so i looked a bit more chowtar than i am (carbon anyone?) after that have lunch with the NDP guides and went via mrt and bus to GMSS for the campfire prep. did the campfire gateway with some other guides. was one of the taller ones there(duh!) so i had to climb up a ladder to adjust the ropes on top and the spars. we did 4 tripods, positioned it in a zig zag manner and put 3 spars on top of them where we suspended the banners and ropes to form a kinda curtain like thing. was really cool :)

sadly, it rained when the campfire was abt to start. so we had the camp fire in the hall with the 'real' fire. was a sucess though. everything went on smoothly expect our GOH was late, really late. she said it was one of the best campfires she had ever been to for a really long time *beams*. came back at nearly 12am.

sun 15 april
sermon was good. we are doing the bible study of the book of romans. romans is one of my favourite books as it is like a debate. its really cool that we're studying it now :)

mon-today
i need more time for stuffs that i have to complete. God, please give me more time management.

gtg... bye!!

2007-04-07T16:03:00.000+08:00

back, after a long time.

sun - 1st of april
happy april fools :) grass song played a trick but i didn't fall for it :P. church in the morning. 2 gb girls valerie and ???????(oh no!! i forgot her name again!). had good fellowship. went out with dione, yiru, karen. crystal joined us later :) dropped by several places in TM then went home.

mon- thurs
school as usual. learnt a lot of stuff. come to think of it, i can't believe that i actually could cope with triple science life. all thanks to GOD :). have to sell this coupons for me school's KC family, alumnae and sports fiesta but i only have one person in my reletives that are from kc :(. got a huge problem now.

fri
Good friday :) went to pasir ris park beach in the morning with me family and we did a lil bible study. my dad cycled with me bro and me and my mum drove there. then i cycled back with my dad and my mum drove my bro back. then went out to bugis with grace and gabby in the afternoon. played this arcade drum game and boy, grace is a pro at it. lost to her, even with gabby's help doing the side drums. my coordination is super bad when it comes to drums.
went to take neoprints upstairs. took 2 machines. then went to buy grace's art brush marker. cool stuff that is. went to yoshinoya for dinner then took grace to cell. cell was fun, with games and other stuff. grace enjoyed herself too :)

today
ndp in the morning. recapped on what we did last week. did kiri and kanan beloh (that is, left and right turn while marching)was a lil difficult especially when u have to turn in a straight row when u turn and the outer column must widen their steps a lot. and i'm in the outer column for kiri beloh but it was fun anyway. ms alsagoff didn't come today :) came back to eat lunch and practicing piano. was playing something really random then i came up with a composition. anyone wants to add lyrics to it?? ain't that good yet but i'll change it a lil bit.

bye dudes :)

2007-03-31T20:05:00.000+08:00

these two days were very very long.

yesterday
was out whole day. after school a bit more practice with the singing and us choir guides were off to the conrad hotel. THAT PLACE IS GORGEOUS!! so many photographic opportunites and i didn't bring my cam!! arggh! was part of the GOH when the president walked in slowly. saw eunice olsen and she was super skinny. there were lots of waiting. we sang our items really well and we went back to school at around 11 pm.

today
woke up early for NDP practice. we did stationary drill today. marching with marching boots is entirely different than marching with school shoes. haven't really got used to it. wasn't really marching to my best yet. did a bit of marching around the carpark and it was really fun. and boy did time pass very fast. went junction 8 to have lunch with the guides :) then went down to bukit batok for laser quest. started off with bowling then went to laser quest. both of them were equally fun and the laser quest got the adrenaline pumped. went to play captain's ball but went back because of the rain. hanged around until the bus came and took us back to bnss. met some of the GB girls and got to know them better. they were more open now at least:) went dinner with karen and dione and we chatted a lot and abt sth(shhhhhh....). yup it's a secret.

toodles!!

2007-03-27T19:09:00.000+08:00

hello to the faithful readers of my blog! (and the other people reading this of course)

fri- 23 march
really l o n g day today. after sch trained sec 1s again. the 2 sec ones i took is really good! they picked up the basics really fast but they kept horse kicking like mad. they constantly need reminders. soon the sec 1s can do porch and we seniors can relax... porch is fun anyway. then went out for dinner with filza and ariel at parkway. rushed back to school for arts excursion. went to national library to watch a play called 'titoudao'. was really funny anyway. went back at 11pm

sat- 24 march
ALL 6 OF US GUIDES GOT INTO THE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL GG CAMP?!!! OMG. anyway, went for NDP selection at GG HQ. saw some army people there, standards are high. wasn't really confident whether i could get in. but i got in. i can't believe i passed the army standard. so did filza, annabelle, jillian and carmen. went back home. the weather is soo hot, perfect for sleeping. did some hw.

sun- 25 march
BB & GB enrolment service today. the fengshan primary boys are so kawaii!! mixed around with the GB girls. got to know jovy, michelle, and ?????(arggh!! i forgot her name) they were very quiet. very very extremely quiet. went home to slack and do the rest of my hw.

mon- 26 march
singing for the school was so embarrassing. no microphones so we had to sing extra loud but not loud enough. at least that was for the lower sec. tmr's upper sec and i know some unkind people are going to mock at us.

today
my predictions were correct. i shall not mention names. i feel like jamming but got no crew :( anybody wanna go? we'll go one day :).

gtg... tata for now

2007-03-22T19:32:00.000+08:00

Photospread 2!!

yu sheng done by my auntie during CNY. yum!!
naomi, my really adorable cousin
sooo cute!! zachary sleeping (is that how u spell his name?)
auntie ginny's son:)

me absailing during sec 3 camp
ohh!! this took place in dec :)
surprise, surprise. aditional $300 for my team
yay!! my team got $500.
sabby looking like a ghost. i wonder how it came out like that.

my gg uniform right sleeve!!
the dicovery of making a swan out of can!!
can craft!
the sky in the morning today!
victory! grace cheah expresses the joy of overcoming the fear of heights :)

i lost this whistle of mine in guide house :(

jie anna's pretty watch upclose :)

19 march- mon

impromptu photography duty on book and music week. took the morning's hall programme and other stuff. no lessons the whole day. our class model for the renaissance recycle project runway, cecilia, is not here so sophie got saboed into being the model. practiced dressing her up. a lot of things were not done so we pieced together whatever recycled materials we got and did it :). grass song (or should i say graa-cae?) did a really good job!! i want that photo of sophie!! anybody has it??

20th march-tues

sophie is gorgeous in the recycling outfit!! nearly everything was tied together:) hope we get into the finals

21 march- wed

poor, horrified sophie. she has to catwalk in front of the whole sch. yes, we got into the finals :)).

and she did, doing really well!! sophie rocks!! went on messenger to find payal and jason online. there was a 'debate' online. today's motion is ashraf is gay. on the propostion there is payal. on the opposition there is jason. i shall not elaborate on the contents of the debate.( come and ask us ureselves)

today

photog duty for the oratorical competition. had fun. stayed back to train sec 1s in marching, at the same time brushing up my drill for this sat NDP selection. came back for piano lesson. need more time to practice.

gtg... bye!

2007-03-17T10:30:00.000+08:00

back again!! sorry ah... very busy these days so dun have a lot of time to blog. this is what happened these few days.

fri- 2nd march
no results yet. stayed back for book and music week preparations. was teaching the sec ones to do some gadgets. was not really effective they had to wait to try it themselves. put up quite a number of exhibits. it was pouring with strong winds so us seniors got wet trying to suspend it from the gallery.

sat- 3rd march
guides meeting as usual. practicing for the east division campfire. i have to lead 2 songs on the actual day. nothing much today but a lot of spring cleaning.

sun-4th march
went church early as me mum and dad got ushering. did a theory paper at coffee bean before going in for service. after service went to susan's house for CK thanksgiving. went home after that.

mon -5th march
back to sch as usual. piano lesson today doing theory all day. this is the last week i'm doing theory and it's the last lap. mervin sent over some planet shakers songs. thanks bro!! they are really nice :)

tues to fri- 6th to 9th march
results! not really good. but there were some good points here's the summary:

eng: B3
chinese: B4 (finally!!!!:):):):))
physics: A1
chemistry: A1
literature: B3
com human: A1
e math: B4
a math: C5
biology: A2

class position: 15/42
M.S.G: 2.7 (expected: 3.1)

well thank God anyway:) a lot of improvement expecially my chinese but at the expense of A math.so is physics at the expense of e math. broke the record of a's in my maths all these years :( oh well, the most get good progress award later and study harder and get an A 'cause, to tell u the truth, i didn't really study my maths due to the other subjects :P. topped the class in all three sciences :))

tues-stayed back for BMW prep. did the gadgets for the model castles of the renaissence. yup, the theme for this years BMW is the renaissence. covered quite a bit of work.

sat-10th march
THE D-DAY. stayed for the whole 3 hours for the piano theory exam. i didn't really think i needed 3 hours to check and do everything. the transposition for the clarinet was weird and what is dolce cantando?? God really helped me by keeping me calm unlike every theory exam where i tense up. oh well, its over. i can't do anything to change it. went to celebrate my mum's birthday in advance. had crab :) yums.

sunday-11th march
church today :) the sermon really woke me up a little. it was as if the words were for me. i feel a little guilty not sharing the gospel with the right attitude. so ya, change for the better :)

mon-12march
happy birthday mum!!! spent nearly the whole day with my mum:) slack, go out etc... english supplimentary in the morning though. figured out how to make a swan out of a can :)

tues- 13th march
went to watch the pursuit of happyness. very very nice!! really sad. go and watch it! i encourage u :) went to cut my hair too. finally have the time. the hardresser cut off a whole lot of my hair, it was one dust pan full of those protein chains :P

wed-14th march
pulau ubin cycling. really missed cycling. went with dione, sheryl, andrea, crystal, ashley, zhi hao and me bro. i dun know how it happened but dion slipped and skinned her arm on the bus. my bro was the navigator there and we had a whole lot of fun on the dirt track despite crystal and sheryl being scared of stray dogs (and boy there were a lot on the island), zhi hao drifting and fell at the steep down slope, couple of scratches on his arm(ouch!) went to the old orchid farm to see the wild boar and rabbits and guinea pigs. met some of sheryl's friends there.

thurs- 15th march
guides campfire singing practice. leading 4 songs instead: father abraham, ginglee nona, gako the frog and the japanese doll song. the african version of flea fly was a tongue twister as the last part u go bid bilee o'en do'en boy boy bedid'en dat'en and u have to say it FAST. took me quite a while to catch it. more BMW prep. yong wei told me today to play keyboard tmr. but when i looked at the song list, i didn't know 2 songs. helppp!!!

fri- 16th march
more singing today again. after that went parkway with some cousins and aunties. saw grace there:) went straight to tuition after that. then went to rush for cell to practice keyboard. yong wei made things a bit difficult by changing the key for 'it is well' to Bb major. a bit hard but manageable in the end. plus, i had no pedal so the playing wasn't that smooth.God really helped me though, could really feel his spirit. quite a bit of mistakes but not so noticable. some how, he was telling me what to play when i had to go solo while yong wei prayed and, the song i played somehow or another coincide with his prayer. like he was parying for unity in families and i was playing this church. he was praying about making ourselves living sacrifices and i was playing all i'm living for by planet shakers. (find the lyrics, then u know what i mean if u dun know these songs) really hard to explain.

today
guides again. other guides came to our school to learn the campfire songs then they would go back to teach their company.met someone i haven't seen in a really long time: rachel ho. she's my primary school friend that got a hole in her heart and i didn't know what happened after that. chatted for a lil while.came back and slept. i was so tired. woke up to find dinner on the table :P

got to do school hol hw... bye!!

2007-03-01T19:35:00.000+08:00

exams are finally over!!!! (and so is the term soon). had exams for the past week so i couldn't blog. so this what happened over the past week.

con't 18 feb
went to my uncle's(mistake in previous entry) house for visitation at night. had the yu sheng and as usual was very nice. dinner with them and had a really long chat with sabby. as usual, my predictions were correct about my aunties (refer to the last entry, first paragraph)and i shall not talk (rather, type) whatever they told me which is not of my interest. saw and went to play with oh so cute Naomi!!! pics of her later. OMG! she is so adorable.

19 feb
more visitations, hong baos and another steamboat for my mum's side at night. my room was invaded by little kids and i had no choice but to surrender. haha. more kids jumping on my bed :( i so dun like it.

20 feb
went to auntie serena's house for my mum's visitation. got really bored then so went with kenneth, kendrick, me bro to SAFRA to meet karen and other youths. watched them bowling. wanted to bowl too but it was really expensive. arggh. ended going to the billard room with karen, jeremy, kun, zhi hao, kenneth and me bro. played a lil billard but we couldn't finished the game and we got pissed off hitting the balls so we left to go home.

21 feb
a lot of homework not done due to the slacking for the past three days. got a wee bit of scolding that wasn't so bad as majority of the people didn't do it too. last minute thinking day practice. was ok.

22 feb
HAPPY THINKING DAY TO ALL GUIDES :) was in full GG uniform today. some people's comments and conversations:

elaine: have u been doing ure thinking today?
me: i think i did during the english exam. :P

andrea: u look so kawaii!!!

grace song: u should tie 2 plaits more often :P
me: how about u?
grace:eh, no.
me: let's make a deal, let's tie 2 plaits on one of the days together
grace: nooooooo!!!!
me: :D:D

pattra: i like the guides uniform!!!

vania: how did u manage to change into that from PE lesson?
me: *wink* lil training during guides camp where we change in the tents.

no orchid hybridnization today :(

23 feb
bio and SS exam. i still thank God :)all were ok but i dun think i'll score very well for SS. i hate structured essay questions. went for chiese tuition after that. then went straight for the CNY party in cell. had a really fun time being in group 3. we got 2nd :). went back really late.

24 feb
didn't go to guides today because of PCR (polymearese chain reaction) compulsory for bio students. we were doing sth like forensic science. it was soooooooo cool!!!! we used the digital pipette, microcentrifuge(a lil machine that spins things so quickly so that they settle down) and the PCR machine(amplifies the DNA to make more chains of it). went home after that to prepare another steamboat for my mum and dad's old cell (that is, auntie serena and uncle roland's G12) was running around the house doing stuff before and after eating. my duties: look after kids, top up chilli, serve whatever the steamboat needed, refill the CNY cookie box. there was only karen, jeremy, zhi hao and zhi yun there. tried irsh cream with a hint of mint chocolate that my dad opened. i tried a sip of concentrated stuff and coughed with the alcohol. it tasted a whole lot better diluted with milo :).

25 feb
church as usual. had the worship team auditions today. was freezing in service today somehow. me poor fingers were a lil numb. there were 3 keyboardists there :) when jeff ang started to talk to us, then i realised that it wasn't an audition to get in the worship team, it was an audition to put us on stage. that was too sudden. when i went for the orientation christabell said it was 2-3 years training and mine isn't past one year. too fast man. but they haven't deceided when to put us up. so i guess that's fine. jeff and said i was ok and my rhythm was fine (surprisingly)

26 feb
lit and E geog exam. thank God for letting me write fast and to let thoughts flow it was ok lah. 2nd and final session of PCR. sooooo fun again. we got our results and suspect c was the culprit :).

27 feb
chem exam was quite average. thank God for helping me:) nothing much today except studying for the next day's test

28 feb
*sobs* didn't mangage to complete 4 a math questions. chinese was ok. thank goodness there wasn't any compre or else i'd die. thank God though for helping me a lot for chinese and helping me remember the formulas for a math.

today
e math and physics. couldn't finish it as well. was stuck at 2 questions. physics was quite ok. thank u Lord for letting me borrow a bit of ure memory :)

He never sleeps
He never slumbers
He never tires of hearing our prayer
when we are weak
He becomes stronger
so rest in His arms
and cast all ure cares on Him :)

2007-02-18T16:22:00.000+08:00

back again!! cny is ok this year so far. i do hate dressing up and to have to meet reletives that will go 'aiyo! yan hui zhang da le, ke yi jia chu le!'(the usual old fashioned grandmothers they are) i do get really pissed off because they forgot that i'm just 14 going on to 15. i bet it will happen tonight when i have dinner in my auntie's house later.

thurs
skipped biology lesson because of the singing audition in guides HQ. my friends futilely tried to plait my hair properly and neatly. forced to pin up every strand of fringe just because i'm going HQ to see ms alsagoff(she's one of the judges and is VERY strict with uniform and hair). it went well(in my opinion, its good enough unlike hsin ching saying that were too soft) wonder whether we would get in.

fri
cny celebrations in school. was on photography duty last minute. was fun. they had VS guys to come over to perform wu shu and lion dance for us. and boy, they were moving too fast for the camera! couldn't set the iso speed too high or else the photo would turn black. class party had over excessive amount of food. we played double wacko in class. people were screaming in fear of getting hit, especially the prefects. oh the screaming power of the prefects!! deafening i say. went out with grace, suzanne to parkway to shop for gabby's present and my belt. and we found both :))i got a real nice bronze belt that matches the outfit :D went home at abt 5 plus. cleaned up the house for tmr's reunion dinner.

sat
reunion dinner with the father's side of the family. started preparation in the afternoon. i was the meat-ball-producer and cooker and the quail-egg-peeler as usual this year. settled all the processed food. me mum settled the vegetables and my bro settled all the prawns, sotong and my father did the rest :) all the aunties and uncles came at around 6pm. we, the older side of the cousins (secondary sch and above) all relaxed in my room and the rest of the kids were stuck at the computer. me bro played tears in heaven for them and nasir and alex and this is what they said-

nasir: very nice eh!!
bro: ...
alex: u know what u could do?
bro: what?
alex: just sit at the side of the pavement with a few of ure guy friends and play this song and let girls walk by and slowly they will come to you... (cheeky smile)
bro: eh?! -_-'''

haha, sabby was really tired and slept in my bed. when she woke up, jess started jumping on my bed! arggh!! i just changed the bedsheet. ate alot as usual. i love steam boats :)

today
church as usual. today's sermon was abt our roots. i didn' know that christianity was in china long long long long time ago. haha. anyway went for visitation just came back to rest.

gtg... bye!

2007-02-14T21:13:00.000+08:00

sorry!! haven't been bloggin as i'm busy like mad!! here's what i've been running abt for the past week.

thurs
2.4 NAFA. finally passed :):) ran continuously like last time. yay!!

orchid hybridnization. finished subculturing finally!! potted several grown plants. had fun with charcoal. grace and meiqing was really naughty! they parafilmed(it's like cling wrap but stonger, more stretchy and thicker. AKA labratory tape)my hair!! i had to painstakingly take the mess off my hair (ouuuuch!!!). yes, quite a bit of hair came out (are u happy now meiqing?)

fri
valentine's day BBQ!! haven't relaxed for quite a while. we had an overwhelming response for the BBQ. most of all, avina, andrea and grace came and mixed pretty well :) avina thought that liyun and anna was 15-16 but guessed cheryl's age as 21 (oops!). got to know meryl a bit. was really fun. messed my hands in charcoal again in attempt to help kenneth to light the fire. the wind was blowing a lot in a direction where we were disadvantaged. moved to the other BBQ pit in the end. went back really late.

sat
interview day...guides early in the morning. then the captain took 6 of us to guides HQ. we were all going to ireland. 36 people applied for ireland and they are going to take in ten people so my chances is 5/18. so slim. we were interviewed as a group. so me and isabel went in with 2 other GMSS guides and Gosh! they were quiet. the deputy chief commissioner jessie tan and another guider interviewed us and complained that we were too quiet. both of them ended up talking to each other more than interviewing us. the freaky thing is that the deputy chief commissioner kept staring at me! i dun know why she was smiling and kept looking at me. i dun think i would get in 'cause i answered some of their questions wrongly because i was thinking locally rather than a foreigner's point of view. well, dun travel a lot so i obviously dun know much of their culture and how to correct them politely and what is polite to them. anyway, i tried my best so its up to God now whether he wants me to go or not.

after that ate lunch with filzah, meiqing, alanna. then took a train from bishan to buona vista and walked to me aunt's house. upon arrival, was immediately assigned the duty of mixing 10kg of nuo hiang filling. boy was my hands numb after mixing ice cold raw minced pork, carrots, raw minced prawns etc. (karen dun puke upon reading this, if u ever did read this) went on later to painstakingly measure out teaspoons of pineapple jam for the pineapple tarts. and there was one BIG pot of it plus one medium sized container of pineapple jam for me to measure. i also multi tasked to be the dough maker with my brother. had loads of interaction as nearly the whole of my father's side of relatives were there. worked through the afternoon and went home at about 10pm.

sun
meryl goined us for small groups for the first time. got pretty flower's made by anna for V day present. we also got cookies from grace :) we kinda had an interview with meryl. went home and rested and then went to celebrate me bro's b'day at sushi tei. yums :) went for a lil shopping around there as i haven't bought a skirt and/or a belt.

mon
school as usual. haven't started making my own lit notes. arggh! my compos are getting 20's these days, i wonder whether my writing is that good. mrs lingesh gave me maximum 21 last time. only one of my assignments where i got to work over the hols i got 27. never mind. thank God for these lil things.

tues
made my valentine's day gifts thru the night after homework. i have to learn to manage my time better. logarithms are a bit confusing but still manageable. haven't found a suitable belt/skirt. my eyebags are getting bigger, deeper n me eyes getting smaller.

today
happy valentine's day!! got brownies from grace and chocolates from andrea :) my chocolates are piling up. i know i'll get loads of pimples if i finish them all. went to chinese tuition and study...

gtg... bye!!

2007-02-07T15:54:00.000+08:00

hellooooo! very very busy recently. really wanna take a break. but i just can't. but anyway, i'll rely on God for strength :) and he has been helping me a lot. thank u Jesus :D

sun
CK was havoc, but nevertheless fun. the show was run by all the girls in the team. so we had to get somebody to set up the sound system. led games this time. played the 'play dead' game suggested by ariel :). really worked. anna was enjoying the five minutes of silence and no movement from the kids. the whole ck room was in dead silence for the first time. but after that, the boys were really noisy because william wasn't there to be the so called 'disipline master'. we girls had no power over the boys loh.

mon
i really need time to practice my piano these days. theory is still manageable as i do it inbetween classes; maths, physics, chem, e geog class where the teachers are explaining the stuff i already know :P. should i go for the guides international camp in ireland or canada? hmm... if God wants me to go, he would let me go thru the interview. if not, nevermind then. i'll leave it in his hands.

tues
the arena rocks!! debates are nice to watch but it is hard to debate ureself. and boy, they are dealing with adult topics. my school's team is on next week :) can't wait to watch.

today
THE MOE IS GIVING 50% OFF THE WHOLE CAMP FOR US?! yay! that will mean $1450? so much cheaper. school is getting busier everyday. admin, homework, guides, thinking day etc... soon it will be book and music week, ndp, and what?? i so need time to go shopping for a nice skirt for CNY. i dread it lah but got no choice or it will be a dress! nooooooo! any recommendations? i got a cream blouse and i need a nice skirt or a nice belt to go with my denim skirt if thats the case.

got to go for tuition.. byebye!

2007-02-03T15:16:00.000+08:00

wow, time really flies. its a month ever since school started. homework is starting to pile up already. why can't some teachers understand that we actually live busy lives and can't be totally commited to homework? we are just ordinary people who has 24 hrs a day for 7 days. we are not super heros that can finish everything in one day.

thurs
orchid hybridnization again. made 2 litres of banana media and a litre of vacin and went media. banana media is used to grow the plant's roots while the vacin and went media is used for the cloning process. did a lot of clearing up in the laminar flow room with a lot of screaming over lizards, roaches, beetles. armed with insect repelliant. we cleared up the comtaminated stuff and sprayed the bugs as well. the contaminated stuff is gross. some flasks that we subcultures last last week grew fungus and the fungus were at the point where they produced an oily substance. anne told us that thats the way they reproduce(eww!!).

fri
singing practice with hsin ching and other guides in the chapel. was really boring and i nearly slept 'cause i'm really tired and cannot tahan only to hit my head on the wall(ouch!). cell as usual. did visual. was not really used to sitting in front of a laptop and clicking while worshiping God at the time. haha. was very very very very tired. knocked out immediately when i went home.

today
more singing practice today. the planting rice actions are quite lame i personally feel. had thinking day practice also. i'm the right marker again for the contingent. that means i'll be right next to my class. now there is a sec 1 taller than me at 173cm! further more she is deepana's cousin (deepana is VERY tall). comes in the genes i guess. still have problem remembering the recruits names as i have 25+ people to remember. headache.

bye bye!

2007-01-31T16:20:00.000+08:00

Problems and profound thoughts

just finished reading quite a few people's blogs(haven't done this for a really long time). most of them had quite a few problems and they were just throwing all their emotions out. some had profound thoughts. one of them was me cousin Amanda's blog:

Empty hands held high
such small sacrifice
if not joined with my life
I sing in vain tonight

How true. I often find myself singing empty words even in God's sanctuary, words that i would not be able to live out in my life. Even though i'm not an only-Sunday christian, there are still many areas of my life that haven't been centred on God. Worship every Sunday morning or Saturday evenings can get emotional. But sometimes it's only the emotions and after worship, it's back to the same old me. Unchanged. Then there are those times when i sing words like, "say the Word, and i will sing for You, over oceans deep i will follow." Just last sunday, i kept asking myself whether i would really practise what i sing, but i knew i wouldn't. I didn't sing that Sunday morning. I didn't even sing most of the songs that were proclaiming my love for Christ. And sometimes i even wish those type of songs wouldn't exist in our worship service. Like seriously, who was I trying to kidd? will I really "simply live" for Jesus? i know i don't. I live for my friends, my family, my future career, my own interests etc that sometimes center so much more on myself than on Him.

But that's what God demands of us. And then i realised that i've fallen short of the glory of God, of His expectation. He is worthy of so much more than we normally give to Him. We have short changed Him so severely time and again. But because He Loves us, He paid the price for what we never did-- to live a life of true worship to Him. It's "only by grace" that we can enter in His Presence, which the CBSI session nicely closed up my day of doubting if i'll ever measure up to His standard. The truth is, we can never, but God provided the way-- by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.

true enough. when i read this my mindset changed. when we worship God, do we really mean it? all this while, in my life, i sing, wanting to do what the song say, but most of the time to no avail. i merely forget the meaning of the song and never applied it to my life. now, i realize, i was doing things with my own understanding, strength and mind. but God still helped me and did so many things for me and by grace i accomplished what i didn't know i could do. however, i still felt that there was something missing in my life but i didn't know what, but now i found it: simply rely on God and not ure own strength. imagine, if we ENTIRELY rely on Him, love Him, worship Him like we never did before, how much more would we achieve? the arm of God is never too short to bless us with much more than we ask from him...

in Christ alone
i place my trust
and find my glory
in the power of the Cross
in every victory
let it be said of me
my source of strength
my source of hope
is Christ alone

2007-01-27T19:17:00.000+08:00

hellos hellos!

back to school with no MC. oh well, wish not granted.bio is getiing cooler every lesson. our prac on fri was soo fun. while waiting for the experiment results, we were carving the remaining potato for fun :). mrs chang took an hour to explain a math matrix sum. nearly slept in chinese class as lao shi didn't come and mr karib was not in class for any case, however the class was very noisy lah. went to cell as usual. my group will be having a new mentor soon but we dun know who she is (in person). waited for mum and dad for abt an hour. learnt the intro of open up the gates from shane and picked it up real fast. i thought glen and him the always and forever intro. then for most of the time, me bro had the guitar and i nearly slept again. so tired man.

guides today was normal with singing practices, but with a lil interesting twist. mrs teo decided to promote some people because of the recruits. and i got promoted as the PL (patrol leader) of ixora. the other two jasminians belle and jillian moved too to become the patrol seconds of other patrols. proud of u guys!! we all should go out one day to celebrate. and our old PL, please dun cry!! we'll still be jasminians in our hearts ya?? crying sessions with other guides letting their patrol members go to become PLs, PSs. see, that shows how bonded we are as a guide family :)

tooooooooodles!!

2007-01-24T18:21:00.000+08:00

just came back from a very tiring camp. resting right now 'cause tmr still got to go to school. i so want an MC. i'm losing my voice due to over-shouting so i sound really funny. arggh. anyway, here are the happenings:

day 1- monday 22 jan
went to school at usual time with a big and heavy harversack. yup, we trekked all the way to the campsite, it was from the lagoon food court all the way to next to the sea sports centre, abt 5km! thank goodness i packed everything into one bag.

went there to find that our dorms were long houses and we had to sleep on the hard wooden floor. our first activity was zip-line(AKA flying fox) and abseiling. abseiling was sooo fun!! but a lil scary in the first part but eventually u can't look down 'cause u'll be busy looking at ure feet. hahas. didn't manage to try the flying fox 'cause there was not enough time.

shower time was only 1 hour and the instructors squeezed 3 people into one cubicle. so havoc. sleeping wasn't that peaceful. jets keep flying over the campsite with a lot of noise. i think when i get out of here my hearing will be affected.

day 2- tues 23 jan
general stations in the morning. then kayaking!! partnered sophie. ended up paddling all the time 'cause she was paddling the wrong way which slowed us down a lot. we sorta did stunts like having the back person to stand up with all the kayaks connected. and getting the to people at hte end of the line to switch boats. after that i turned to Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. haha. did raft making next. didn't manage to put it on the water because our knots kept coming out. the ropes were synthetic(never worked with them before) and short. i can't even tie a proper square lash. arggh.

after lunch prep for camp fire. made 2 cheers namely the 'dynamite' and 'fergie' cheer. did the banana song for item. it was very cute with the formation, esp when melsa gan and melsa yeo did the serve banana part. had to do area cleaning, missing our first aid, because somebody left her camp booklet lying around. i dun blame her lah because first aid is really boring and we got more time to practice. went rock climbing after that. had to switch pants with chloe because i was in 3/4 pants and they didn't allow it. but in the end didn't do it because there was not enough time :( oh ya, our class beat all the other classes with 19 reaching the top! go 3/6!!

campfire was comical. the teachers came to visit us and sat in for the campfire to find that they will have to perform. the male teachers were saboed to do the macho frog thing with the macho actions. sadly, i cannot put the picture here or else i'll be dead! the other female teachers (including mrs sng!!!)also did the sexy frog thing which involved the hips. haha. we did our items which were not really well prepared. funny anyway. i was doing photog duty when i saw a phenomenal sight.(below) it almost looked as if the world was going to end.

highlights of red and orange in the black sky.

day 3- today
home sweet home!! went home had a l o n g l o n g bath and went to sleep!! my sore throat was bad.

will be back soon. bye!

2007-01-20T17:04:00.000+08:00

hello! i'm back!

wed
having a really busy week. just had a chinese compo test and i think i really sucked. because the words i used was VERY simple. i'm definitely screwed.

thur
orchid hybridnisation again. got new sec 2s joining. went to the laminar flow room to find OUR PAST YEAR'S WORK ALL GONE! :'( :'( cloning process with the buds are contaminated because the shaker died on us during the hols. subcultured colin powell orchid was ALL contaminated. what was left was more stuff to subculture and media. anyway, did cloning again. a sec 2 was attached to each pair to watch us and try. we got the clones on the shaker and did some subculturing with the media we had. things left to do: 1) make more media, 2)potting of some mature-enough plants, 3) monitor the cloning, 4)pray that the shaker will not die on us again.

fri
got back my chinese compo with absolute shock! yup, i topped my chinese class with a SHOCKING 20/25. never got this mark before. i was gaping when i heard it. thank the LORD for it. went to cell as usual. had a lil laughing session with my group. i soo needed it.

today
guides as usu. was singing the whole time so got really dehydrated. came home did most of my homework. going to have sec 3 adventure camp from mon to wed next week. really looking forward to it.

you, yes you. u know who i'm talking about. i know u like me, but the big problem is that i dun like u. dun bother trying to tell me all your stuff because i really can't be bothered. dun say all those sweet words to me, it is no use. i ain't gonna fall for you EVER. u trying to prove to me what your character is has not moved my heart. you have only proved to me that you are only a BOY. stop waiting, thinking and assuming that i am the one for you 'cause it is CLEARLY not. you are seriously wasting your time. from what you have typed, said, expressed, i have therefore come to a conclusion that you have a very immature thinking. the way u phrase words make it so obvious. u didn't have to tell me for me to figure it out. u think ure ready to get a relationship going, but i think u have picked the wrong girl from the start. you know what i'm taking about. i shall not repeat myself so, please take my piece of advice: GET REAL, GET A LIFE!

2007-01-16T21:18:00.000+08:00

i'm sorry people, haven't been blogging for a long long time. dun really have time these days. busy with new 3/6 life. yeah yeah, many people have a sterotyped view that 3/6ers are just plain nerds, but they are just wrong. the people there are actually nice! anyway, here's what happened:

mon to fri
lessons as usual. PE is killing me. strained a muscle while 'working' my arms out. it seemed more like torture to me then working as my arms are nothing but flab! all the three sciences are actually ok lah. but boy! it's draining my energy alright. lit is interesting. geog is reasonable. ss is boring! english lessons are fun! chinese is almost like B syllabus, that's bad. maths is cool! i love matrices.

i had photography and writing duty for the beginning of term mass. took pics with the lovely, big, oh-so-cool SLR. at least i was taking photos instead of stoning with the school.

on wed, sheryl asked me to play keyboard in cell, arggh! frantic to practice 'cause i only have 2 days! prayed really hard 'cause i'm not really pro yet and i want to give the Lord the best. then on fri God gave me a word saying that he will teach me what to do. soo releaved to hear it. evermore was pretty tricky. with 2 guitar and a keyboard, it was really hard to coordinate. then when it started, they switched off the lights! had a little seeing problem.when i was playing, God really took over. i just allowed God to move those lil fingers of mine. i thought i would have problem with the fast songs, but i didn't somehow :). playing was really at ease.

Sat
guides with recruits coming! abt 20 turned up, with gan cheong recruits coming at 0730 when they had to come at 0800. did a lot of singing for the gala night for SGGA thing.the song planting rice is so havoc. can't sing the counter melody. will be singin the same songs every week until march. how sian can that get?

Sun
on CK duty today. was down with a bad flu, but still went to help out. i have been drained out from the whole week and i still have many weeks of school to come! GOD, please give me STRENGTH!! went for the thanksgiving lunch thing. caught up with some people like yvonne and meiying and a lot more. stage hands won one of the BC star awards! yay.
school tmr and i haven't finish my homework! oh man.

today
busy again and will be busy forever. stayed back today for the banner making and ended at 5 +. finally got those MP3s from andrea which consisted of Gackt, Miyavi, fergie etc, etc... some really nice songs.

i dunno when i'll be blogging next, anyway, bye!

2007-01-06T20:14:00.000+08:00

today was fun!!!

went to guides 7 am in full uniform. did final checks on the playground's safety and started to play with it. we also cooked bell chicken as one of the exhibits. set up a craft corner also for one of the exhibits. was doing Can craft too. did 2 pretty butterflies and a flower. was also running around. here's the highlight of the day: teo hsin ching or should i say ms teacher teo broke the smaller swing while swinging on it too hard. thank goodness we brought it up in time before the sec 1's saw it. phew! if not they would not dare to sit on the swing. parents were impressed with what we did. got about 10 girls signing up. wonder whether more will come. went to do the banner for the banner making competition for thinking day. haven't done painting for a very long time. was sooo fun. came back home and continue reading to kill a mocking bird (my core lit text). i have to finish it by monday which is crazy because i am not even halfway through the text! oh man.

till next time...bye!

2007-01-05T18:39:00.000+08:00

hi people! school has started more things to be busy about. yes, i won't be blogging very often now. now, where was i? oh ya

jan 1
did something that i would not be able to do when school reopens: SLACKING. yea, triple science, double math and double humans which total up to 9 subjects. went to my parents cluster event. ended up taking care of kids and trying to finish up my homework. went back home to slack.

new year resolution:
-work to learn lead guitar
-be more hardworking
-dun slack anymore
-stop thinking that i have time to finish my homework when i don't
-get closer to GOD
-pray more
-Give more time to GOD
-cut down on some things in school to make time 4 GOD
-try to love chinese

jan 2
went to plaza sing to shop for house stuff. yes, my house renovation is finally done! this was the 3rd time i went to plaza sing across the 2 weeks. did all my homework except one chinese newspaper cutting that i can't do. arggh! help!!!

jan 3
school reopens. back to the usual routine of waking up at 6am. went to school and met all those people whom i haven't chatted for a long time since end of term last year. sat in the hall for 2 hrs for breifing from the teachers. went to class to find a lot of my friends in 3ohsix! yay! got ms chew again for a form teacher. she cut her hair short!! omg, she looked soo goth with the heavy short haircut, grey eyeshadow, black eyeliner and clothes. thank goodness she didn't wear black lipstick or else i'll seriously laugh. was told by ms chai that publications won't be a CCA anymore because they can't find a teacher to head it and there only a few members in it after the sec 4s and 5s graduate :(((((( very very very sad. however they still need our services so it will be counted as school service and CIO points.

jan 4
here's the list of teachers that will be teaching me (those that i so far know)

english-ms chai.
highly humorous (unfortunately, that humor is sometimes hidden deeply in the joke and u don't even know that she is joking!). speaks near perfect english.

SS- mrs kauthar
cute, funny. good? i dun know yet. mrs koh took most of her period to confirm some things with us.

physics- ms chew
serious, high expectations of her form class. getting married to some unknown dude that is not in school in dec (thank goodness, 'cause all the male teachers are all not really compatable with her). she's in the disciplinary department so i have to watch out with my long fringe and low belt. surprisingly i haven't got caught yet.

biology- ms chua
ms chua is a good biology teacher(so my seniors say). a very nice person and my orchid hybridnization teacher. i just learnt today that there are cells without a nucleus, also known as prokaryotes. COOL.

chemistry- mdm zakia
lab lesson today. just learnt to use a pipette. we are the first batch of students to take the school practical assesment (SPA, how lovely, we get one hour of it every week) mrs koh is helping her with the SPA lessons so i think i'm going to hear her 'beautiful' voice every week.

E and A maths- ms chang
goood math teacher. she goes at my pace when i got the math ball rolling in my head. but for now, she goes too fast 'cause i have not warmed up yet. haha.

PE- mr lee
PE first thing in the morning, arggh!! haven't been excercising for a very long time. running 3 rounds around the school is tiring. mr lee talks nothing except about how to keep our bodies fit (so far thats the only topic he talks about to the class) was never thought by him before so i dun know.

school ended at 2.15pm and i had to stay back for guides to set up the playground. yes! we make them with thick spars and natural hemp rope. tied my tripod really tightly only to get a wee bit of blister on my hand. we do have to tie that tight for safety sake. didn't manage to set it up entirely because of the rain.

today
more lessons and more teachers to know.

literature- either The Captain or mrs ng
somehow this year a lot of people are taking core lit. so there are a shortage of teachers. mrs ng is very nice, and she is very good too. i think i dun need to describe The Captain, kindly refer to other posts in this blog regarding her. i hope i get thought by mrs ng this year again.

chinese- ms teh
the teachers rearranged us again and split all of us up between the classes. the best was 3C (excluding the higher chinese people) the worst was 3G. i dropped from 2D to 3F. oh dear. thank goodness i wasn't the only person from 3/6 who went there. ms teh is nice, she at least speak to us in a bit of english so i do understand what she is saying, unlike my previous teacher who spoke chinese whole time i couldn't understand half of what she was saying.

sec 1 CCA fair for some CCAs (guides is tmr) i was on photography duty, so i got to play with the SLR again. soo cool. nothing much to take there.

tmr, CCA fair in guide u, promoting guides. toodles!

2007-01-01T00:00:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
may GOD bless u this new year (to whoever is reading this)

2006-12-30T20:05:00.000+08:00

kitchen up, house painted, new gate installed, light at my piano installed to save energy. my house looks NEW. anyway, here's the updates.

28 dec
JAMMING!!! went with mervin (rhythm guitar), kenneth(singing and keyboard), crystal(singing), daniel(drums and keyboard), sean wee(lead guitar and drums), sean ri(lead and rhythm guitar) and me bro. made a bad decision to wear jeans just as crystal made a bad decision to wear birks. it was poring. walking in the rain is so emo-ish haha. went to some place that was alien to me. it sold guitars, girl's guitars too. the designs are so not me, all that shimmer and glitter makes me blind.

the jamming studio was quite small but quite cool at the same time. sean thought me how to adjust the knobs on the guitar and a bit on the amp 'cause he says that different amps do different things. we weren't really prepared so we played a few songs: one way, always and forever, great and mighty, bad day, perfect, chasing cars, wake me up when september ends and few other scraps(songs that we not played finished).

was really fun. was on the keyboards (yes there were 2!) most of the time except for always and forever where no one could do rhythm guitar and the intro in C except me (mervin practiced it in B) so i left kenneth with the keyboard (he told me he could read chords) but he couldn't change chords fast enough so ended playing the melody (sorry dude!). distortion on electric guitar combined with palm muting rocks man! first time i touched a electric guitar and actually played one of my favorite songs. the keyboards was cool. fully utilised them.

after that went with sean wee, me bro, mervin, benedict and daniel to a lot of guitar galleries. went to timothy (i think that was the name) saw this pretty acoustic guitar that had really nice sound. immediately fell in love with it, but when i saw the price tag, it was $10,500 which took my breath away. saw some other interesting guitars (i.e a 12 string one). saw some really cool keyboards too. tried it out and somehow inspired sean to learn piano. daniel thought i had a merit in grade 5 from the way i played, like in my dreams. i only had a pass. haha.

went dinner at carls jr. after that then help sean shop 4 christmas present. didn't have the time to get one i guess. couldn't find any in the end so went back home.

29 dec
went to avina's house to do eng project. the project is finished FINALLY. she then later joined cell group. yay! :) she had a fun time today as it was just games :) played 'who am i?', ultimate frisbee and 'pop the balloons on ure opponents before they pop yours' game. then went back to the room to watch the whole youth drama. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I WAS THAT BIMBOTIC. i can't even remember i learnt to act that bimbotic. *puke* so not me.

today
tuition in the morning. then did house chores for the rest of the day. how boring.

2006-12-26T12:44:00.000+08:00

THIS IS THE 100TH POST OF THIS BLOG.

my room is in the middle of painting. byebye boring blue and white, hello green and grey. soon my kitchen will be up, painting will be done in few days time, new gate will be coming in. my house is so dusty now so i'm blogging in my cousin's house.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

spent the whole week painstakingly making dream catchers for christmas present. each dream catcher will talke approx 30 mins just to do the netting itself. had thanksgiving party at 525 on fri. wrapped my three trobolone bars like a gold bar. haha. i should have wrote there 99.9% swiss gold.

24 dec
the christmas event was Great! doing stage hands was damn fun. learnt some chinese along the way eg. emmanuel in chinese is yi man nei li (can't write the chienese characters here). stayed at the expo since 9.30am. the backstage became a lil like a campsite with some sick people lying down to rest, people doing makeup on their faces. was a lil bit like santa claus finding people to give presents to . after the whole thing went supper at the airport with a group of 20 other people. went back home at 1 plus.

going jamming with crystal, mervin, benedict, sean wee, me bro, daniel and kenneth this thurs. yay! i'm finally not the only girl in a jamming session. will be playing the keyboard and teaching kenneth as well. sean had better teach me how to adjust the knobs on the electric guitar to create the effect eg. distortion on the amp. it seems to me that it will be a learning jamming session.

photos coming soon.... bye!

2006-12-18T21:56:00.000+08:00

hi all!! haven't blogged for quite awhile. too many things are happening and i'm quite busy. here's what happened.

14 dec - the prize giving ceremony for the straits times national sch newspaper competition.
YAY! KC got merit + a INglish prize!!! way to go peeps!! we had better keep the et cetra alive.

15 dec
more rehersals for the starlight star bright thing. tomorrow is the actual day and i haven't got a hold of the bimbo thing. christmas presents are not done yet. oh dear.

16 dec
its here! starlight star bright, gen acts youth chrtistmas event. we spent the whole morning doing deco then we had the rehersals. the whole place looked GREAT!! after rehearsals was MAKEUP. oh no. haven't put makeup since k1 and that was like kids makeup. the makeup was very heavy. they also put fake eyelashes on mua. i went to the toilet to look at myself and OMG i almost couldn't recognise myself. i looked soooooooooo bimbotic. those fake eyelashes was so uncomfortable and a lot of people couldn't recognise me, including my mum and dad!! yeah, avina came and she couldn't recognise me too 'cause i look 10 years older and of course prettier. its like a makeover from nerd to chiobu (commented by avina and charmaine) the whole thing was a sucess. i managed to pull off the bimbo thing with GOD's help. somehow, i went up, acted, then exited and i just realized yay! after that went to LJS for supper with avina, dione, yiru, crystal, beatrice, and a lot more people. then walked home.

today
church as usual. christmas event rehersal. stage hands rock man! this year's one is made up of Aron (our leader), Big ben, jian zhou, mervin, kenneth, crystal, lijing and me!! got to know more people in our church. bonding was good!!

more soon. kitchen under renovation so i ain't got time to blog these days. toodles!

2006-12-13T14:11:00.000+08:00

tomorrow is the straits times national school's newspaper competition results. please pray for my team of people.

past 2 days was at the old folks home. had to do about the same stuff. yesterday was my last day there.

random here
'always and forever' by planet shakers is perfected :)
next thing to master: tapping
things that are mastered on guitar:
-chop
-power chords
-bar chords
-finger picking
-a few strumming patterns
-hammering
-pull offs
-palm muting
-playing dead notes
-bending
things that have yet to master on guitar:
-fast finger movements
-more fluent on improvisations
-tremolo
-tapping
-tuning without the electric tuner or any other instrument
-building up stamina for strumming faster songs
-new strumming patterns

how random.

2006-12-09T13:45:00.000+08:00

photospread!

pretty sky from my block
nice angle of my guitarmy piano last time i polished it
my injured thumb (story later)

participated last year, this year, next year?
our first page
hahahahahahahahaha!
de- stressing ball for the competition

feet in the air on the skyride in sentosa.

sea from sentosa!

yup this is some pics from the last month.

went to the old folks home yesterday for CIP for guides. we were doing a lot of moping, sweeping and a bit of sewing. thats where i got my injured left thumb. here's what happened. i was clearing the dirty water from the mops with angela when both of us tried to carry it to dump the water into the sink. she lifted up the handle to get a better grip, not knowing that my left thumb was in the way, making my thumb clamped for a little but excruciating period of time and about one cm of skin scraped off. furthermore, it is near the contact area where i play my piano and use to play my guitar. so no guitar in about a week i guess :( well at least it wasn't my right hand or else i can't write properly. i still can train on my right hand but it will still be awkward. oh well.

full dress rehearsal tonight. toodles!

2006-12-05T16:00:00.000+08:00

hello dudes, haven't blogged for a long time. all that recent last minute arrangement and business dun leave me time on the computer to blog.

last wed
at the old folks home, did a lot of sewing and made a 2D christmas tree out of hangers for the home. was the captain's bright idea. it eventually worked. was asked to play the piano in the corner for the old folks but it so out of tune, the moment i started playing i stopped.ugly sound produced. it was in an average 3 semitones out of tune. do they maintain their piano at all? oh ya, forgot to tell u guys that KCGG has its own bat. a life bat. we found it during camp under a fan with its wing broken. we concluded that it got hit by that ceiling fan. so we named it: Bruce Bartok Braces Blossom Bubbles Buttercup. long eh. Bruce was batman's name, Bartok was the bat's name in anastasia, Braces (where did that come from?), the powerpuff girls in hope that it will one day fly again. so crappy.

thurs

sentosa! haven't been there for a very very very long time. like a span of 5 years. LONG eh? had a lot of fun with my cousins. took some skyride thing to the start of the luge ride. soon went speeding downhill with my cousins with that adrenaline pumping. whee!!! walked a lot. went to see the 4D matrix with my cousins. 'twas so fun and exciting. went to the beach to swim around. loads and loads of fun.

fri and sat
fri cell as usu. sat was dry run for the acting. i have to act as a bimbotic secetary (can anybody imagine me bimbotic? 'cause i can't) had short bimbo lessons from ashley haha. i so cannot do it. must go watch legally blonde to see how she act and act like that. movies are not my kind but its for the sake of acting.

sun
sermon was sooo relavent. pursuing righteousness, what really is it? what in the first place is righteousness? i realized that i got the wrong idea of righteousness: i was living a self righteous life.

monday-tues
the national schools newspaper competition was finally here. sangee, keshi, soph, kathy and me went to SPH for it. it was a 24 hr competition so we are staying overnight in SPH. this also means working through the night. missing worship prac because of it. anticipated it to around that time. was praying that the prac that i have to go to wouldn't clash with the competition. oh well. next year then.

we were given 4 articles to do on. 1, personality interview with Stefan Tseng, 16, a world record holder for triple jump at his age; 2, illegal downloading from the internet, had to call abt 50 people so tried to contact everybody on my contact list; 3, jurong bird park and how it changed; 4, the english syllabus change and how it will affect the nation.
we have to come up with a 4 A3 size newspaper with ads and all. we also had to make one of the ads our self. yup, bloodshot eyes was on the way as all of us slept for less than 2 hrs each. fun anyway. i was left as the layout person as the rest forgot how to use publisher from the training. SPH like gave us 6 meals! breakfast when we arrived, lunch, tea, dinner, supper (that was pizza) and next day breakfast. urgh, there comes the fats. pics to come soon. we managed to finish on time. but the printing was slow so we had to wait a while for the stuff. went home to collapse on the bed sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

pics next entry. bye

2006-11-28T20:40:00.000+08:00

WARNING: very long post.

yup, just came back from guides camp. LOADs of fun this year. so here it goes...

wed
first day of advance party. went with the captain, delicia, and stacey to collect the canvas tent from GMSS, the captain's husband's school where he is in charge of the boy's brigade there. they didn't know where they put the pegs, arrgh!! horrible maintainence. even the very important cylinder that connected the center pole with the horizontal pole was missing!! so we had to improvise to do square lashing and we ordered pegs. the captain had a crazy idea. she tried to use lazer masts (sailing vertical pole used to hold the sail) the thing was tall man. but the thing kept slipping so we still had to use the original poles with one of the long spars. a lot of improvisation was done. more long spars came in for the construction of the playground. safari beds came in and we fixed them up and placed them in the canvas tent soon after. the bonding was great. sadly, me mom didn't allow me to stay over :(

our pretty canvas tent!!!

the safari beds in the canvas tent.

thurs
second day of advance party. more shopping with mrs goh, mrs chua, intan and meiqing. we walked in and out of the school like countless times. we set up the rest of the playground. it was super cool!!! we had two swings and a rope ladder which was like twice my height. we also made a see-saw and another swing which was not very stable due to the lack of strong spars. how cool can gadgets get?!

the swings and the rope ladder

the spars used for the playground.

fri

the actual day of camp. our hard work and many days of planning has finally materiallized. my patrol was combined with Kingfisher, in total 6 peeps :) started with colours in the morning. there were three brownies that joined us namely rebecca, emily and jill. my camp patrol took a tent and started to pitch at our spot to find a lot of things missing: the poles, the guidelines and the dollies! so some went to do gadgets first and some waited and erin went to get the stuff. we pitched it really fast and went on to the gadgets. belle and me did the shoe rack while meiying did the mini rope ladder and the rest did the clothes hanger. we finished really early so we decided to name our group. got inspiration from erin's t-shirt and came up with TWIGGs the short form of The Wonderfully Incredible Girl Guides. haha. played the Manito (secret friend) game. got cheryl ann.

was raining in the afternoon so we did craft. was doing dream catcher whole time. lefty abbit said that mua dream catchers are good enough to be sold!!! yay, finally perfected it.

campfire that night. was sooooo fun. we did the TIRO song, meaning Togetherness, Independence,Respect and Organiztion. we all had to sit on each other. haha. cooking with meiying afterwards. cooked fish, potato, sweet potato, corn and BANNANA WITH MARSHMALLOW CHOLOLATE. they forgot to put the marshmallows so it was just the chololate, was still nice anyway. so me and meying invented something that was SRUMPTIOUS!! we dumped the marshmallows inside one mess tin and added a lot of chocolate sauce and melted it. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....went ot bathe in the bathing tent with my patrol. yup, we change into swimming costumes and we bathe in that while the seniors jet us. the water was soo cold. decided to write sth stupid to my manito. hahaha. wasn't in a right state of mind to write anyway, perfect brain condition to write crap. slept in the canvas tent that night on the safari beds. they are so comfy!! unlike sleeping in the other tent that we pitched, it had no smell, was not very stuffy. i almost felt like i was in my bed!

our shoe rack with our shoes!!

our clothes hanger with our stuff

our group name.

one of my nicer dream catchers. ain't they pretty?

sat

in colour party. was really troublesome as we had to change into uniform before we can raise/ lower the world flag. the cooking day. we had inspection of tents first. then we prepared the bell chicken and cooked some other veg and noodles and newspaper fish! yes, fish cooked in newspaper. it's actually nice. they got leftover marshmallows so we did the same thing that we did in the campfire. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM... our bell chicken turned out cooked. it looked really nice (and it did taste nice too)did more craft later in the afternoon. thought a few people dream catchers. mua chee making session was going on concurrently. went there to eat some mua chee only to discover that the mua chee was very salty. not long after, the whole company was washing their mouths out! melody put in salt instead of sugar!!!!! hahahahahaha!!!!!!!

played 'finding the family' at the courtyard. was so fun!!! my patrol was a fish so we were going blurb blurb.. the leaders are so naughty, they confused some of us. haha. stayed up until 2am to help tingxin with the praise and worship songs for tmr's sunday service. she wanted me to play keyboard with her guitar, oh well. tried to help felly with the sharing of christianity. think and think, like what in the bible has somthing to do with creativity? came out with the real meaning of christmas and how Man's creativity twisted it to become a festival of mistletoes, presents and other stuff. couldn't find anything else. oh well.

the srumptious sinfully heavenly stuff (how oxymoronic)

our bell chicken

newspaper fish

nooooodles!

my fried veggie!

the wonderful stuff finished first.

sun

last day of camp for most but not me. sunday morning went to the chapel early to find that there is no keyboard. oh well. tingxin is on her own now. the praise and worship went ok. we sang every move i make, did you feel the mountains tremble, above all and heart of worship. ting xin pulling pulled it off overnight! you go girl!! we should all jam one day. followed by tent striking and untying of gadgets. i was oiling pegs like crazy! haha. oily hands! went around to take pics with people, soon after perfecting self taking (sadly can't post my self taken pics here, can't show pics of myself here) was really tired after all that. went home and immediately hit the bathroom followed by unpacking and MY BED!!!z Z Z Z Z...

mon

still had to wake up early for POST CAMP. rather its like just clearing up. powdering tents= powedery hair, powdery feet, powdery hands. striked the canvas tent, cleaned safari beds. then there was a change of plan. tmr the leaders are going to the old folks home in woodlands for some CIP for our Puan Noor Aisah award thingy. in the meantime, sangee, fern, and me was being really random. we composed a new song in the tune and sequence of 'on the first day of christmas' carol. here it is from number 12.

on the 12th day of camp my guider gave to me,

12 rounds of scolding

11 dreamcatchers

10 guides a singing

9 candle craft

8 solid fuels

7 cups of milo

6 gadget poles

5 toe weavings!

4 balls of twine

3 long spars

2 canvas tents

and a playground of tyres just for me!

haha, how random.

today

cabbed to the old folks home in woodlands. was stationed at the small coffee shop with intan to help the stall holder. he didn't need help so we ended up playing table soccer with this pro old man who beat both of us 66:7 arggh! played for abt 2 hours and the old man was not even tired! later helped in the laundry with sewing. went sewing sewing sewing sewing sewing sewing and more sewing until the end of the day.

gotta go! bye!

2006-11-21T18:14:00.000+08:00

woke up to a morning with my mum screaming,' rachel, ure in the papers today!'.

KC's team is in the background of that pic.
ok, whoever wrote this article made this casual remark wrong! i merely said that youths like me won't read newsletters that dun have fun bits in it and she/he put it in the general term of 'people'. like i know some people who can read anything, whether it is interesting or not. i think she/he paraphrased it a lil off.

yup, u guessed it, an article about yesterday's event at SPH, the competition training. (ref yesterday's entry)

breakfast was followed by numerous SMSs which were regarding this article, oh well. my handphone bills will definetly shoot up this month.

will not be bloggin for a week 'cause of guides camp. byebye :)

2006-11-20T23:27:00.000+08:00

guides as usual on sat. got three more badges on my guides uniform :) yay! unfortunately the captain didn't allow me to get my photographer's badge. grr... must find out how positives are formed. anyway, i got the entertainer's badge (above), artist badge and my bronze. did the badgework with the juniors :) later in the evening went to blk 525 for the rehersals of my church youth christmas concert. so happen to meet leroy on the bus, so we went there as he dun know the place. the rehersals were fun!!! owen and stephanie was training us and we did some warm ups, like drama class (at that time where i was in o lvl drama elect for the first half of the year until i quit as i wan to take triple science) we were told to do character analysis based on the lines (literature!!!:D). really fun.

sunday, went to church early to meet owen 'cause can't make it this sat for the rehersal. i was repeating the lines over and over again until i got the right feeling and stuff like that. i really cannot act very well, let alone acting proud, i think i made owen a bit pissed off as i couldn't get it until one hour had gone by and it was only five lines. oh well, got to learn, learn and loads of stuff.

today, the straits times national schools newspaper competition training session for the whole day. learnt to use MS publisher even though half the time i was a bit blur (i'm bad at IT, let alone designing) layouts, catchy headlines (i.e: this house believes that debates are a waste of time?!), colour schemes, short cuts, resizing pics and stuff like that. really cool anyway. we did a lil layout dummy with the publisher and presented it. there was this ACS barker guy was so pround lah, 'i have a witness that is to work by my self' whats the point telling everyone in the room about ure witness eh? like hello, watch that tone of voice.

pictures soon... my cam is out of batt so need to charge. coming tmr. tata :)

2006-11-17T13:00:00.000+08:00

this is probably one of the times where i have a camera with me when i want to take somthing. also one of the better pics that i take. i like the pretty tonal colours of the sunset from my block.

yes, my camera is finally repaired. more pics coming soon in the future i guess :)

2006-11-16T20:18:00.000+08:00

training the sec ones (or should i say sec 2s?)for the upcoming camp todae. more gadgets and tent pitching and striking in the hot sun. sarah kelly is SOOOO GOOD AT GADGETS (you might see some sarcasm here) overall everybody was ok... wait till the REAL camp comes... they will get the taste of a wet, muddy field; insects; frogs (and possibly snakes and monitor lizards this year) ; jetting of cold midnight water from the seniors in the bathing tent ; sabotages in mud fights; BANANA WITH CHOCOLATE AND MARSHMALLOWS; cooking and more cooking; craft; possible crazyness and insomia.

eng project yesterdaywas ok... lots of laughing and stuff... nothing much though. went straight off to chinese tuition after that to do 2 very long and tedious gong han (formal letter writing).arrgh. i hate chinese buti have to force myself to love it or else i cannot survive the o's chinese paper. crap.

i can't believe i was selected for the youth service drama thing. like i can't even act properly, i laugh at the sound of my voice of the made up sentences of the script and how stupid i sound. goodness, i can't even sing properly. never mind. i'm only acting as a secetary when i dun know how to act like one. oh well... more training in dramatising for me.

me drama-mama (lama?) ? can't imagine it.

2006-11-14T19:49:00.000+08:00

a busy today.

went to sch at 7.30am to go for camp shopping with mrs chua, mrs goh, intan and meiqing. checked up the wet market for halal chiken and fresh fish fillet but couldn't get any, so we went to NTUC to buy the stuff. bought THREE FULL TROLLEYS of food. we were running around the place looking for stuff on the super long shopping list. one guy saw us and said that we had a big family (!). when it came to the casher, it was chaos. intan, mrs chua and mrs goh was loading the stuff onto the casher, meiqing and i was loading the stuff into the trolleys to be loaded into the boot of the taxi. then we all sweezed into the taxi and headed for KC. unloaded the stuff in record breaking time (or so i thought) packed stuff in the fridge and the guides room.

went to kcp again to collect the forms from the brownies. while mrs lim went to search for the forms, we took care of a p3 class, which was soo cute + adorable = super duper cute and adorable. how i wish i was like that all over again. it was such a stress free time then. oh well, time cannot be reversed, nor can we correct the mistakes we had in the past. how sad.

flyer distribution was ok, covered some good ground. more excercise for me!! and i get paid. i really need to get some workout these days.

eng project tmr and tuition... tatas :

2006-11-13T15:27:00.000+08:00

camp planning again today.

met up with heda, sang, feli, and other guides to discuss what we were going to do for the 'playground' plan The captain has for the sec one orientation next year. yups, we're going to do it during camp. many ideas, we had, only to find the limitations of gadgets using big spars and tyres. cannot make quite a few things like slides.

after that went back to KCP with intan and meiqing to see the building. yups, their going to renovate the whole thing. going to miss it. good (and bad) old memories resurfaced as we walked around the building. met several teachers and met ms hou who was very very busy so didn't manage to have a chat with her. she didn't even give me her phone number :( oh well.

camp shopping with intan, meiqing and few other guides and mrs chua tmr... toodles :)

2006-11-11T14:05:00.000+08:00

guides anniversary auditions today.

went to sch at 7.15 in the morning with a bad throat. urgh, how to sing like that? i was croacking away during the practice before the actual auditions. sung horribly outdated songs like beautiful dreamer, oh how lovely, million stars, loy kratong etc. which is so out of my style of pop and rock. ARIEL TAY SOK EE DIDN'T COME. how could you abandon me like that? u told me that you'd be coming to suffer the "T"s torture and nonsense. *tsk* *tsk* oh whatever, its over already.

after that went to lower pierce resevoir for abt an hour walk on the trail. so happen to have my cam with me, took several pics, but unfortunately the battery was dead in abt 30 minutes :(. i so want a new cam. SLRs: cool. buy me one with zoom lens for chrismas present yes? (jking). saw a lot of monkeys and 2 squirrels and a lot of plants. was a very nice weather for walking.

me dad picked me up then went to drop off my mum's and jie marina's presents for the woman's encounter (shhh...) at paramount hotel. felt very weird as when i stepped into the hotel, people were staring at my uniform as though saying 'what's this girl guide doing here?'

bought my science books that cost $100 over. ouch. must study hard next year. NOMORE SLACKING.

2006-11-08T11:28:00.000+08:00

hello world. haven't blogged for a long time.

power encounter was great. watched the crossing again, tearing as i saw the part of the nailing of jesus' hands on the cross. its like ouch! you can feel the pain when you watch it. the Holy Spirit really worked in the sessions and the ministry time. tearing of the stonghold list was the best part. after we repented of our sins, we tore up the list as a significance that our sins were forgiven, just like that. everyone of us encountered God during the ministry time. at ten plus went down to the canteen to hang around the studying group of jasmine, karen, brian and dione as i can't sleep. picked up a little bit of vectors from yvonne when she was teaching dione vectors, just had nothing better to do. slept at 12am plus.
the blankets they gave us was so thin i couldn't sleep properly, only to wake up next day with a running nose. the whole thing rocks anyway.

publications on monday. *sniff* it was the last time mdm Gammar was having pub meeting with us so she treated us to macs (so nice). we were like 'mdm gammar, DON'T GO. THE PUBLICATIONS NEED YOU. who's going to be that bubbly teacher who takes all our crap? rather, who's going to take over you when ure gone?' i think that last question is still a big question mark. will it be a teacher we love, hate or even a new teacher?

[It's said that sometimes moving on when the rest of your life starts with goodbye.]

2006-11-03T17:41:00.000+08:00

yups streaming results.

i got into triple. wow. i'm pretty surprised myself.

MUST thank God.

orchid was ok, making MORE media today... nothing much.

no inspiration to write anything... oh well

power encounter tmr... byebye

2006-11-02T21:58:00.000+08:00

spring cleaning today.

polishing was so painstaking. 'small circles, my ma would say' ah well, it makes things look better.the only thing that i polished nicely was my precious lil piano. has been a long time since i actually polished the whole thing including the keys (to think that my bro's guitar polish actually worked!) tedious but worth it. i only notice how dirty it was when i looked at the cloth that i used to polish it. yay! nice clean piano! :)

went to do my theory homework. grade 6 theory i one big leap from grade 5 theory man, especially the big questions. they give u a open score, piano score, voice score or a combination and ask you on keys and modulations; ornaments; recognition of chords; italian, french (mabel, HELP!), and german terms; phrasing, expression, dynamics and articulation marks; identifying a likely composer or to suggest a title for the score(s); instrumentaion and orchestration; form and musical genre and writing a short commentary *pants*. these stuff are very chim ( i think u know already). the composing is worse. you have to do a melodic composition of about 16 bars (that's long and hard) for an orchestral instrument (where i don't play any of them). then you must make it look chim by modulating and all. can mati! i'm going to take the exam next year around november, i dun know whether i can make it 'cause there are many compsers that i need to know, which means listening to their works more often. arggh! classical music is so not my kind (despite the fact that i play it on the piano everyday)

collecting of streaming results and orchid hybrinization tomorrow. please pray for me and the rest of the sec 2's that you know in KC :)

2006-11-01T15:37:00.000+08:00

just came back from the orchid hybridnization advanced course.

today's 3 hour session is fun. this time it was the REAL cloning. we each took a pseudobulb (which is a small shoot that is the side branch growth of a orchid) and ringed it (making it look like sping onions), washing it with 5% of bleach solution with Tween 20 (a plant detergent) and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake for 30 minutes! then transfer to the 10% bleach solution and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake and shake for 10 minutes then go to the laminar flow ( a lil bench with a blower that fiters out dirty air and blows out clean air so as to make sterile contditions) to transfer it to a bottle of sterile water and have a brief shake and transfer to another bottle of sterile water to make sure to get rid of the bleach and Tween 20.

ok... the fun part is exposing the buds and excising them (another words dig them out) and putting them in the vacin and went liquid media to encourage the growth of new cells around the buds where each cell will grow into one plant! oh the advantages of technology!

[technology is one thing, but it can never beat God!]

2006-10-26T16:56:00.000+08:00

ah well, another school year finished, report books are in. so here it is (drum roll now...)

eng - A2
chinese - C6
maths - A1
science - A1
geog - A2
hist - C5 (as earlier in the year)
lit - B4
D&T - A1
F&N - B3 (as earlier in the year)
Visual arts - B3

percentage - 69.6%
class position - 10/40
level position - 40/160
CIP award - gold

i really must thank God for this set of results. 'cause firstly, i passed my chinese with a GOOD C6 (where i thought i would get 50), my geography surprisingly did better than my literature and i only have 2 Cs! however, i knew i could have done better if i didn't slack so much. ah well, what is done is done...

praise the Lord for that anyway.

i wonder why every year seems to go faster and faster and faster and faster. it seemed like a minute ago that i stepped into KC and now i have already completed 2 years in KC. who knows, soon 'o' levels will come knocking at my door.

when i was looking at my CIP certificate, i wondering, i put so much time in CIP, but did i make enough time for God? i dun think it was enough. ok... new revolution, spend more time with God :)

class party tmr... well, leave u with a song...

There's some things that I regret,
Some words I wish had gone unsaid,
Some starts,
That had some better endings,
Been some bad times I've been through,
Damage I cannot undo,
Some things,
I wish I could do all all over again,
But it don't really matter,
Life gets that much harder,
It makes you that much stronger,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were, Lessons learned.

CHORUS:
And every tear that had to fall from my eyes,
Everyday I wonder how I get through the night,
Every change, life has thrown me,
I'm thankful, for every break in my heart,
I'm grateful, for everytime,
Some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were lessons learned.

There's mistakes that I have made,
Some chances I just threw away,
Some roads, I never should've taken,
Been some signs I shouldn't see,
Hearts that I hurt needlessly, Some roads,
That I wish I could have one more chance to make,
But it don't make no difference,
The past can't be rewritten,
You get the life you're given,
Oh, some pages turned,
Some bridges burned,
But there were, Lessons learned.

And all the things that break you,
All the things that make you strong,
You can't change the past, Cause it's gone,
And nothing's gotta go,
Because they are gone, Lessons learned.

2006-10-24T17:13:00.000+08:00

yay, new blogskin :) byebye black, white and pink; hello shades of blue!

mon
end of year mass in sch. i was on photography duty with mdm gammar's beautiful 8-mega pixel digital SLR with 14-45 mm zoom lens. arggh! my dream cam! thats the benefit of joining Publications, you don't have to stone while the mass goes on, you can just go snap snapping away with a cam that you probably don't use everyday.
BBQ at chalet in pasir ris with uncle roland's cluster and family in the evening. yummy BANANA WITH MELTED MARSHMALLOWS AND CHOCOLATE *drool* *drool* with more marshmallows to toast. besides the eating, went blading with karen and sheryl along the deserted road outside the chalet, which was a slope. karen and sheryl can't brake in blades so i had to stop them by myself. however at that time, i only had the time to stop karen and didn't manage to save sheryl from banging into a car (thankfully, NOT a moving one) then, i spotted uncle tommy's 5.6-mega pixel digital SLR with 12-200mm zoom lens, arghh! another beauty! took several pics with it. it was GOOD man! had loads of fun anyway :)

today
uncle roland's cluster event. my dad insisted of bringing my bro's classical guitar, only to find out later in the morning that he had this daft idea to stum along with uncle tommy during worship (to think uncle tommy agreed!) as the space we had was quite big. just like that and i was dragged in with no choice. well...a lil last minute practice and i was ok(i played these songs before), i guess. uncle tommy later asked me whether i was in some band playing guitar, i was thinking 'nooo, what made u think like that? i have only played guitar for year plus with little guidance. in the first place, i only touch it when there is songs with nice guitar riffs and stuff like that to practice.' well...spent the rest of the afternoon taking care of little kids and doing my camp craft proposal, boring! cycled all the way back with my brother (he cycled to the chalet yesterday and today which makes 2 bicycles) there goes the speed again, for 3 km :) so fun.

well... report book is coming soon... eeks!!

2006-10-21T14:30:00.000+08:00

deary me, another busy week gone. that's quick.

total results ain't in yet so ya, that will be another time. stayed back on tues, wed to plan guides camp (shh...) with my beloved seniors. what to know more?? haha... dun tell u...

mon, worship team practice. third time going there to look at the pianist on duty's fingers playing for most of the time. it was too coincidental that all the girls were sick *cough*and the guys were in the pink of health. played sing of your great love, i was like going like 'Emajor, 4 sharps, oh dear.' turned out to be ok, just got a little confused at the ending. starting to get used to playing with a band, yay :)

went ice skating again on fri again with my small group...whoohoo!! speeding time! taught mabel to ice skate...wow, fast learner! she was already skating off the wall! thoroughly enjoyed myself. then went to cell as usual.

hmm... thinking to change my blogskin soon since i'm free and all... there goes all that editing of HTML again...

2006-10-13T17:43:00.000+08:00

this picture was taken by Kevin Carter in 1994 which is the Pulitzer prize winning photo.

it is a picture of a african baby crawling towards the sudan camp for food.

the vulture beside it is waiting for the poor child to die so that i can eat it up.

this picture shocked the world.

the photographer, Kevin Carter, fled the scene after taking the photo

3 months later, he comitted suiside due to depression.

yes, it really did.

mr jega showed this picture to the whole school during the free period today. there was a deadly silence in the hall. some were on the brink of crying, some tears fell off some cheeks, some cursed under their breath, the rest were merely speechless. i was speehless.

this picture made me reflect how fortunate we are and how God has blessed Singapore these years. we, in Singapore, have a proper drainage system, they don't even have a proper toilet; we have water that can be drunk from the tap, they savage for water; we have proper housing estates, they are living in horrible refugee camps. furthermore, we take our situation for granted and they are actually really grateful with what they have. i think Singaporeans have to be more grateful in what they have and not complain about the bad things in life. i mean, hey, life is not perfect, right?

sometimes, i think is the bad things that we are focusing on is what that makes our lives seem miserable.

2006-10-11T19:21:00.000+08:00

WARNING: long post

best thing of all

EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!

too many things have happened in this whole month... i shall just summarise them...

Sep 15
ICE SKATING!! brought suzanne along to meet sheryl, dione, sheena and friends, crystal, tina, qian yi, eliz. the rink for the first time was resonably EMPTY :D whees!! speeding time. took quite a while to warm up. taught suz and eliz to skate. (suz, LEAVE THE WALL FOR GOODNESS SAKE. u know martial arts, surely they thought u how to FALL? anyway, everybody falls, including me) erm ya... i fell only once, dramatically, really dramatic. i was weaving through the crowd then i tried to stop using the T-break(i suck at stopping in ice skates), only to end up doing a little pirrouette(is that how u spell it?) and them landed on my bum. i even saw the pro people fall, which was way worse and painful then me. sometimes i wish that i could ice skate as fast as them... well, everything comes with a cost.

Sep 25
english exam...all the papers in one day. compo was reasonable. however, compre was a KILLER. God helped me like he always did :). the theme was politics and religion. I SUCK AT POLITICS. the first passage was abt Gandi and how his sayings and work affected the politics and the faith in India. the second passage was abt how s'pores' politcal situation will be affected if the religious harmony in s'pore is not maintained and how religious harmony is maintianed by ignorance of the knowledge of other religions. well, i feel that it is kind of true. we don't like to talk abt other peoples' religion that is different from ours, fearing the differences and disagreements we might discover. even i have quarelled with some people about it. religions talk about almost the same thing, good moral values. yes there is a common ground, however, i feel that christianity can be set apart from other religions (no, i'm not being inferior here, i'm just sharing my opinion). for me, i believe in God, 'cause its not just a religion, it is a relationship with God. you can just pray to Him any time of the day, knowing that he is always there with you, holding you up when you're down. you can also feel His presence, assured that everything would be ok. even though you're going through tough times, you know that He is just training you, helping you get stronger everyday, eventually making a way out for you. you can hear His voice and let Him speak to you if you let Him. well... He's just too real in my life that he just gotta be God.

Sep 26
CHINESE PAPER. arggh. my worst nightmare. i was telling myself I HAD BETTER PASS THIS TIME. God helped me alot this time, like he always did *wink* :) i wrote resonably long for me compo and letter writing. paper 2 was much better. went home and slept like a pig. my brain was officially dead for that day after the exam.

Sep 29
happy birthday to me!! i'm now officially 14 :) had dinner with my family @ sushi tei :D. finally remembered to bring camera. pics soon ya?

Oct 5

happy birthday dad!!!

Oct - the rest of the papers
geog was ok, lit was also ok. science and math was resonable, considering i didn't study much for these papers XP. D & T was a piece of cake. art was for a long 3 hours, where i used abt 2.5 hours doing it. having a flu for about 2 weeks now. urgh sick.

next post: results, possibly shocking. read only at ure own risk XD

2006-09-10T17:18:00.000+08:00

hello people

this blog will not be updated as frequently as last time.

the editor of this blog needs to study.

study.

study.

yup.

pray that i might get good results at the end of the year.

pray.

to stacey (if ure reading this):
dun be dishearted ok? ure not a faliure!!! look at all the things u led KCGG in. u did a pretty good job considering you had not much experience k? respect takes time to earn, well, u got mine :). i'm sure you changed for the better and for KCGG. imagine if u DIDN'T change, what would KCGG be? i'm sure the company will realise this (or at least realised this already). cheer up ok?? mistakes are ok for me, nobody is perfect, right? hey i voted for u not because u were nice, it was because i knew u would be a good leader. i know it is no mean feat taking up this leadership role. dun give up just yet ok? if you need a shoulder to cry on, u've got mine :) you rock girl!!! :D

2006-09-05T20:22:00.000+08:00

oh.

so, u think being bisexual is cool, making you fit in, whatever. you believe that just because some people who are famous and sucessful are bisexual means that being bisexual will make you the same product. really, I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU.

you and your concepts; 'mind-reading' on what people like on the first look of that person; stuff that i didn't like being said about me and other people, i have enough of it. you think i can bear with all your lame ad noncensial talk. reality check, i am, after all a normal human with feelings, not the supergirl that can deal with everything and not have any broken feelings. even though you come from a broken family, the whole world does not revolve around you. you forget about the feelings of other people and insensitively say anything you want. you don't even know IT HURTS.

i dun care, i'm not going to be your doormat to step on and get dirty. you think i'm too innocent to see thru what ure doing to me, you are horribly mistaken. i'm sorry, i can't be your toy to play with, and i'm not going to be. not anymore.

you think just because i have a 'perfect' family means that you can pour out your problems and expect me to solve it. yet again, girl, i'm not a god. you really need a reality check. i have my own problems too. yes, you see me smile every day, thinking i have a perfect life, everything perfect. but when i'm all alone, everything just hit me like a huge blow. i try to forget everything by keeping myself busy or playing the piano, my haven. you forget that everybody has a tender side, even u. would you like it if people backstabbed you like you did to me? how would you feel if someone unconsciously said something bad about you in front of you and people that you had just met?

you think that making people cry and break down is cool. it makes you feel powerful, yeah right. you are just being a plain bully. like don't you feel bad? now i know why you hardly have any friends.

and i won't be one for you. you have gone too far.

There you go
You're always so right
It's all a big show
It's all about you
You think you know
What everyone needs
You always take time to criticize me
It seems like everday
I make mistakes
I just can't get it right
It's like I'm the one
You love to hate
But not today

it is hard to live in a world where right is rare and wrong is common

2006-09-01T09:30:00.000+08:00

happy teachers day to all teachers!! ( if any teacher is seeing this blog entry)

yesterday was a very good day indeed... triumphs 2, disasters nil

the last day of sch passed too fast for me to digest all the days occurings... i was called up as a replacement in photography duty for the days events. mdm g finally let me use that 8 megapixel digital SLR!! OMG it was soo cool. the shutter speed was so fast, only 3 or 4 of the many photos i took were blurry, including those with movements. well... mdm g was very happy, happy enough to qualify me as an all rounder in photojounlism!!! :) :) :)

anyway what happened was i was moving all around taking photos of the mass and the concert, at the same time training one of the new members who was taking photos of a major event for the first time. so she took the canon ixus 700 while i took the SLR. melissa was a bit shy but she was quite ok at the end :) jia you melissa!! u can do it by ureself next time :))

went back to class after the concert to get my report book... here's what i got(drum roll):

eng- A2
chinese- C6
maths- A1
science- A1
D&T- A1
Art- B3
literature- A1
geography- B4

average- 74%
M.S.G- 2.4
class postion- 5/40

i topped the class for english and literature!!
PRAISE THE LORD!!!

2006-08-26T23:21:00.000+08:00

sorry peeps... too busy to update these days...

fri
my group led ice breaker during cell. hahas... it was so chaotic. from one catcher to alot to one... lols. suffering from fatigue from the week. wasn't so attentive. my group planned sth for the gen-acts leaders nxt week for teachers day. u wan to know??? - well. tell ye not!

sat
went to guides as usual... me, stacy, feli, meiying, annabelle discussed the game 4 e seniors farewell while the others went to make lil notes 4 e seniors... billy and distant cousin seth came to my house for alpha with my father. i slept the whole afternoon... finally a nice sleep!!! later in the evening went to my bro's sch for the boy's brigade annivasary celebration. my bro got promoted to seargeant!! congrates!!! their presition drill was so cool!!! imagine if the guides do presition drill... hmms...

2006-08-22T20:21:00.000+08:00

ms s. ahh... ms s.

ms s is a very nice woman. she threats our class very well. plays a very good role model in manners by telling us that we don't have manners/ virtues. it is indeed a very good reminder as a class to respect our teachers.

ms s has very good teaching techniques. she checks our workbooks to see that our work is ok. however when we argue with her, we always find that she is right at the end of the day ( people from 2/3, u'll understand. its the sophie, ariel thing)

ms s has a significant role to play in our class. she gives us 1-2 minutes rest so that we will not over stress upon her ramblings said earlier, which is good. she has the eagle eye for interesting gadgets in the class, going' what is this, this girl?' or 'let me see this, this girl'. she insists on us listening to her talk and take down notes later, allowing us time to 'fa dai' (if u know what that means).

all in all, ms s is a NICE teacher.

DISCLAIMER: please don't take this seriously. it is a very good comment on the unknown ms s (unless u know her). anyway, ms s really is nice :)

2006-08-21T16:06:00.000+08:00

I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!
I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!I PASSED MY CHINESE!!!

ok i'm pshycho now and over the rainbow (get the picture?). but anyway
PRAISE THE LORD!!!!

promised blog entry will be next... after i get over my pshycho-ness :P

2006-08-20T15:07:00.000+08:00

yet another tiring week.

yesterday's camp fire at queenstown sec was too short. i got embarrased in front almost the whole company yesterday before the campfire. phew! thank God it wasn't the whole company, let alone The captain. here's what happened:

some leader from the sea scouts of yuqing sec (i think) was walking towards my direction. the rest of his company singing some song then.

scout: can you please do me a favor and take this flower? they want me to give it to u.
me: huh?? (i was in blur sotong mode then)
ariel and meiying:*laughing*
the rest of the company(who was there): *cheer and laugh*
scout: don't waste my time just take it.
ariel: just take it lah! (continues laughing)
me: (sacarstically) oh, ok...

i later found out (rather, saw) that the company was playing a lame trick on their leaders, forcing them to give orgami flowers to a ramdom girl. hahas...damn funny, 2 others got embarrased too... i just happened to be one of the unlucky victims. if The captain saw this, the scout leader would definitely get a scolding from her :P yes, The captain is fierce.

the ps benny ho mentoring sessions was good :). alot of our BC people went for it. saw ariel's mum in it.

coming up soon: lil blog entry about ms s

2006-08-15T19:16:00.000+08:00

empower me
like a rushing river flowing to the sea
Lord send your Holy Spirit flowing out through me
'till i'm living as your child
victorious and free
send your Holy Spirit Lord empower me

tomorrow got orchid hybrinisation. yay! we're doing subculturing, meaning to transfer one seedling from a conical flask to another conical flask containing another type of media to prevent overcrowding in that conical flask. i get to play with the laminar flow again!!

chinese test is coming up... pray that i may do my compre and cloze passage properly... i really have a big problem with those things :)

2006-08-12T20:07:00.000+08:00

planet shakers was great yesterday!! could feel the presence of god in the expo hall. went with the gen-acts people. after that went supper at bedok interchange with mst of the gen-acts people. lost my voice for a wee while after the concert... scream too much larhs. really enjoyed myself yesterday.

today was slacking day!! guides in the morning as usual. took down all the BMW decos and planned the seniors farewell blessing next next sat *evil grin* want to know??... ... ... dun tell u :P.u ask me like crazy i also won't tell u...

i guess ure wondering if i like photography so much, why don't i post pics on my blog? reason 1 being MY CAM SUCKS. reason 2 being i am not allowed to put pics of myself on the net. yes, including friendster (what to do, my mum monitor also lohs...). reason 3 being time management. ah well...

2006-08-09T14:39:00.000+08:00

happy national day singapore!!!

went out with the youth this morning at marina south for kiteflying session... but the kite shop wasn't open :( sadness. played volleyball, beachball etc instead. ate with 'em and went out with my avina,suzie,andrea and catherine to bugis after that. went to MOS, arcade and... neoprints!! bugis is definitely the best place to take nice neoprints!!! came back after that to watch the parade. my mum mentioned that i take after my father in the 'mimicking-the-command' bit (this year he was overseas so he missed the parade)hahas.

this wad happened yesterday...
reported to sch at 6.45am for the observation ceremony as a walking girl guide zombie. i was the right marker but i still stuck out like a sore thumb. comments on my uniform as usual. some mentioned 'kawaii', 'i'd love to pull the pigtails'. however i would say 'lets see how u look like with 2 pigtails then'. hahas. community singing was good!! we enthu-ed the whole sch to sing!! go KC!

praise the lord!!! my grandmother finally accepted christ!! yayness!!!

2006-08-06T20:03:00.000+08:00

ck duty today! <333

i have been sleeping late for the past 2 days.here's wad happened.

fri
combined marching practice. was quite good, sombody commented that we march better than the st johns ambulance people. no offence but i'm really not sure. went straight to festival of praise after that. i love the praise and worship!! God's presence was there alright! went supper with charm, dione, eliz, anna,daniel, gabriel, my bro and joshua liu. went back at 12 midnight.

sat
morning got guides! did up intan's 'dreamcatcher' costume for the east division campfire for that night. intan looks FANTASTIC!!! went for the campfire. we won first for the costume thing :) yayness!! came back very late.

planet shakers are coming to singapore!! any takers? go to http://www.fcbc.org.sg/ultraviolet/ for details. or contact me.

this world moves too fast for me

2006-07-29T18:09:00.000+08:00

40 winks.

the first combined practice for my school's national day parade went quite well... our guides beloh (turn while marching) was surprisingly good. we were commented for our good attitude. you go girls!! :)

FESTIVAL OF PRAISE IS COMING THIS FRI!! who's coming?? who wants to come? contact me peeps ya?

somthing weird happened to me this week... i composed 2 songs in five days. for me, composing is like once in a blue moon thing. hmms... anyway this was the nicer song i composed in my bordem despite the hectic week.

defining moments

everyday i live
every single breath
i make choices in my heart
and with these choices
i pray that i might
be able to fulfill Your will

but one thing that i never regretted
is to follow you my God

Lord, i want to be closer to You
it's a call to grow up and move beyond myself
Lord i ask for big changes in my life
and i pray
make each day a defining moment

2006-07-25T20:25:00.000+08:00

i love marching!

from today onwards i have to stay back everyday... for marching! yay! tomorrow is the start of the orchid hybernisation advanced course (did i spell it correctly?). so fun. can play with the laminar flow again!

in like few weeks time, its goin to be national day. time passes too fast for me, sometimes i just feel like saying,' God, can you please make time move slower?' well u can't request that i guess :) hehs.

stop. JUST STOP. stop looking at me. stop trying to impress me. you know it won't work on me. it is too bad that i am insensitive enough to ignore your feelings sometimes. i'm so sick of you. don't bother me cause i can't be bothered to be bothered by such a bother like u cause u are such a bother.
stop. JUST STOP.

2006-07-22T16:39:00.000+08:00

rachel --

[noun]:

A master blogger

'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

oh, i'm a master blogger? i'm so flattered.

today was madness. we were singing and singing and singing the whole morning preparing for campfire at east division day.

for the past 3 days, i had no class!!! yayness. book and music week came and just went, fast. all we did as a class is to busk during recess, sit in the hall(stoning) with my feet aching from sitting down for long hours and perform. here's what i did for the pass 3 days:

wed

stone and watch performances in the hall. i love the debate by the sec 2s. it was highly commical. example:

sophie:on your point ma'am
ning rong: sit down ma'am
sharon and sophie: on your point ma'am
ning rong: sit down please!!

thurs

spelling bee comp. sophie and me went in together and lost together in the 2nd cycle of round 1. sophie got a word like 'mongadesu' (is it correct spelling?) i got some word that mdm gammar pronounced 'de-ce-dence' when the spelling was decadence. arggh! anyway we both got the words wrong.

our class performed too. the school was laughing at our actions for 'heal the world' its like the lyrics say that 'there are people dying' *twitch index finger* damn funny.

during recess, we had to busk. ariane did not come so we can't do miss swan. we ended up singing 'we're all in this together' from high school muscial with me figuring out the guitar chords last minute, with the out of tune school guitar( i tuned it by then) and a 50 cent coin as a pick(i didn't have my pick with me). i know that using a 50 cent coin is bad but that's the only coin big enough for grip( 10 cent coin keeps flying out of my hand). its horrible that they don't maintain the school guitar. it has a lot of scratches, the metal strings are almost rusted all over and, worst of all, there is no bag to contain it and it is just chucked on one side of the music room. anyway we did fairly well, only a few people out of tune and 1 mistake in my chord changes. isn't my class an expert in last minute things?

somehow, i think it is an asset to learn 2 musical instruments. when u learn something new about one, it relates to the other and vice versa, which means that favorite songs in piano scores can become guitar chords for my bro and myself and yet again vice versa. never expected that leroy's basic guitar course came in handy in my piano playing ( i really didn't put in a lot of effort in the course XD) . hmms...

fri
results time. my class did not even win the corridor deco. i'm soo angry!! i took a lot of time folding those paper flowers and they are pretty!! why didn't we win?? surprisingly, our class won first for the busking comp. yayness! i was going like 'oh no, we are ot goin to win, we can't beat 2/3' then it happened. the whole class was screaming like mad. we won third for the performance with the wierd actions. hehs :)

went for marching prac. my bro and my mum came to fetch me. my friend saw him talk to me and said he was sexy. my bro, sexy?! '''-_- lols.

2006-07-18T19:05:00.000+08:00

hmms... what did i do today? arggh! my memory is failing me again and again.

ah, yes.

just came home from the LAST DAY (yes! finally!)of book and music week prep, and it was gadgetry, gadgetry and more gadgetry all the way! yayness! the sec 1's were marching and the seniors were doing the prep. from next week onwards i have to stay back for marching practice everyday. arggh.

whoever want to buy guides cookies, please approach any kc guide and order from them( its really ok if u dun order from me) payment ASAP please! i really dun like to chase 4 money. thanks peeps :)

2006-07-15T17:34:00.000+08:00

ANOUNCEMMENT: girl guides cookie sales is now on!! those who want to place orders please contact me in whatsoever method. here are the prices:
1. mint cream-$10
2. chocolate cream-$10
3. macademia & white chocolate-$12
kindly order before the 29 of july.
these cookies listed here CANNOT BE BOUGHT ANYWHERE ELSE!! meaning that it is bound to be nice!!! furthermore, the tins are very nice looking and it is really worth it.

there goes another sat.my hand smells of the hemp rope now. guides meeting was fun!! we did a lot of GADGETS!!! today we used sparrs (is that what its spelled?), the thick long wood to make one of the book and music week projects. we made a tripod from it and hung the worlds' flags on it. pretty cool huh? we make our own furniture for displays. hehs

for the past few days i have been staying back in school for gadgets to get the stuff for the book and music week done. next week is book and music week already!! so fast.

how time flies

2006-07-10T21:22:00.000+08:00

i hath fallen for shakespeare language

ere shakespeare was singlish which i shalt not use *smack* ok, i'll snap out of it.

i have to stay back everyday from tmr onwards for book and music week prep, and partial fast starts tmr... jia you to my group!!!

i can't believe my class pulled off the last minute of the auditions prep, i was like laughing at the actions of 'heal the world'. the 'dying' action is like the twitching of the fingers, u know, up and down. hahas.

king james version anyone? (jking :P)

2006-07-09T23:02:00.000+08:00

there goes a busy weekend

Sat
i HATE to dress up formally. yeah, a wedding dinner of my father's... sister's... ... cousin, ah (i messed up the family tree a wee bit in my mind for a moment). and there my grandma goes again, ' wah, yan hui(thats my chinese name) jin shui (pretty in teochew, is it?)ah... ke yi jia le!(can marry already) * laughs*' and from there does the matchmaking thing with the people of the same generation somewhere in the family tree.

ermm... reality check, i'm only 14.

Sun
my grandma's birthday and there was poh piah party at my aunt's house. my grandma said the exact thing that she said yesterday, ya, i'm soooo pissed. it seems that no matter what i wear, she will forever say that sentence.

my baby cousin Naomi is soooooo adorable, cute, adorable...*melts*...ahhh!! i ate 3 pohpiah rolls that i made myself (soggy with sweet sauce... yum) in her house. played with naomi and chatted a lot there.

i'm bloated

2006-07-08T15:25:00.000+08:00

1 week of fasting gone. jia you people!

guides was always fun as it always is. today we did my favorite thing, GADGETS! i had to teach a whole bunch of sec 1s to do knots then we went to make a ladder out of ropes made out of hemp and gadget poles for people to climb.REAL people i mean. a sucessful one!! more than 3 people climbed it. see the power of ropes!!! mua ha ha...(ok, that was lame)

cell yesterday was ok, i had to help my brother to help kun in ice breaker. in the end my bro led the ice breaker with my help and used my idea.

next week is a crazy, HECTIC week, i have to stay back everyday, for book and music week preparations. thats school lifefor me i guess :)

2006-07-04T20:15:00.000+08:00

ok, CORRECTION, i'm angry and happy.

the english rep was giving out the marked holiday hw. then she shouted:
'rachel tan has 27/ 30 for compo!'
i was still brain dead from yesterday so the slow processor was even slower today, especially in the morning. i couldn't believe what i was hearing. i later found it to be true. i guess i really did break my record. hehs. but i wrote the whole thing based on sensable crap. hmms...

here's the compo (i still think its really average):

Funny money
I could not see very well so I held it against the light and looked at it again. The colour just looked wrong to me and when I looked closer, even the serial number was strange and smudged. As the manager of sushi tei, I had to count the takings daily before taking it to the bank. Comparing it with the rest of the hundred dollar bills, this one was out of place. I made a trip to the nearest bank, it was confirmed a counterfeit and was immediately handed over to the police.

On closer inspection, more features did not pass the muster: the watermark-likeness of former Singapore president Yusof Ishak was out of place, as was the kinegram - the silver octagon.

I was shocked upon hearing the news, little did I expect our restaurant to be involved in a spate of counterfeit cases involving both local and foreign currency this year. One of my friends, sergeant Rodney mentioned that counterfeiting is not rampant yet. However, they will do their best to track down the counterfeiter.

Later in the evening, the ringing of my mobile phone interrupted my paperwork.

‘Hello?’ I said in a business like manner.

‘Hi Rachel! My team and I found out the culprit of the counterfeit money you had this morning.’ Rodney responded on the other line.

‘So soon?’ I interjected.

‘Yes, it was rather easy to find with all the information you gave us. Thank you!’

‘don’t mention it, it is after all the duty of a citizen. Anyway, tell me how you came about solving the case.’

‘well… we found out that this was linked with a murder case. The counterfeiter was Lim Sim Kiong, one of the most wanted people in Singapore for forgery and drug trafficking. However, he was found dead near a blighted part of Singapore. The shells from the gun that killed him matched the Mini Uzis – a type of pistol which only rich people can afford. My team saw a similar gun in the house of Dan Brown, one of the suspects of the counterfeiting case.

‘Dan Brown? The writer?’

‘Yes. We bagged his gun and found the perfect match in the barrel of the gun and the shells. Metal fragments found at the crime scene matched the broken trigger guard on the gun. Blood evidence on his clothes that night with DNA test confirmed that he killed Lim Sim Kiong. With all the evidence against him, Dan Brown confessed and told us the whole story.’

‘What was the story?’ I asked.

‘He hired Sim Kiong to counterfeit money for him to pay off his debts. Despite being in a lucrative business, he squandered too much money and was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. From the opulent setting to his revenue of advisors with everything looking pristine, I was deceived that he was so rich. Soon Sim Kiong wanted a pay rise and decided not to work for him anymore unless he does so. Dan couldn’t afford it, threatened to kill him. Hearing this, Sim Kiong ran to a rural area of the land but it was not long before Dan tracked him down and murdered him.’

‘So that is what happened,’ I said with understanding, ‘it was nice talking to you, I have to go now, bye.’

‘Good bye, Rachel.’ He hung up.

A love for money is a dangerous thing; it could end up in dire consequences, like murdering somebody for money and even dying for money.

(591words)

P.S: for all you dan brown fans out there, i really don't mean to dicredit dan brown here, k? it is just a story. :)

2006-07-04T19:42:00.000+08:00

i'm sooooooo angry.

i stay back 4 CIP at the national sailing club this afternoon with sangeerna, mei qing and fadzy, and when we reache there, we were told that we were only needed on fri. then we call mrs teo. she tell us to go back home because of miscommunication between the sailing coach and her. so we went back, but no cab! no choice but to walk all the way to the bustop, which is abt 1- 2 km away. arggh! and we walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and finally at the bustop where we took 36 to school ( i dropped at lagoon view that was nearer)and went home. full stop.

it is amazing what one l-o-n-g word can waste time. sch ended at 1.15 and i wasted so much time, reaching home close to 5 pm.

i wish that time could rewind

2006-07-03T22:21:00.000+08:00

HAPPY YOUTH DAY TO ALL YOUTHS!!!

just came back from my first worship team shadowing session- or so i called it.

i went there entirely sotong, sheryl was on the keyboard and i was sitting there looking at her hands move and looking at the song sheet. andy beat the drums very loud, i'm like partially deaf now *ouch*. then suddenly i was told to play one of the slow songs, and it was full of 'bustops'. ya like i have to pause for a moment before playing the next chord. i can't sight read chords just yet. must put new scores before me and try and try again. further more, there were a lot of distractions, like andy practicing the drums at the fast beat, adrian singing along etc... my mind was totally psychoed then, trying to concentrate on one thing and blocking out distractions.

before that i finally finished my first arguementative essay, got a brain wrecking topic that i can't write about:' why are most people afraid of growing old?' wrecked my brain for two full hours just to get things done.

i'm brain-dead now.

dots.

2006-06-26T15:40:00.000+08:00

first day of term is horrible like it always is. horribly horrible.

woke up late, rush rush rush, sleepy, tired, letargic, and the first period is PE. arggh! big wake up call! ran around the two basketball courts 4 times and the stiches came after half the first round. i definitely need to excercise more.

back to being a maths rep to collect a huge pile of holday homework that was towering over me. somehow it seemed like yesterday that the holiday just started, and it just ends in a blink of an eye.

so does the term.

2006-06-22T16:50:00.000+08:00

arggh! sch hols are ending!! no!!!!!!!

AND I HAVEN'T DONE MY HW!!!!!!

wow.

2006-06-16T21:53:00.000+08:00

today was so fun, went to labrador park and wild wild wet.

the labrador park rocky beach was where i went with 20+ people to do research for the class. ya, we're going to teach the whole sec 2 level ecology at the 2nd semester of the year. now my cam got sth wrong, it was raining at the park, then it just got a little wet and it can't take near pics anymore :( sniff. ning rong found all sorts of stuff on the rocky beaches going: 'hey i found sth!' or 'ms chew, what is this?' then she found a spiky worm-like thing and ms chew didn't know what it is, so ning rong declared that she found a new spicies. WOW. in the end, it was only a fire worm, whateva u call it, ermm...new spicies? i didn't know that high end drama could happen on a rocky shore over a small worm.

the rocky shore, at very low tide, going to rain.

ning rong's 'new spiecies' AKA fire worm

the harry crab that we found. i hate my cam!

after that went with suzie to meet elaine and gabby. we took bus to wild wild wet AKA the http://www (get the picture?). damn fun lohs. the shiok river reminded me of the 'shiok shiok kopitiam' hehs. gabby and me went to the Slide Up, the enginiering terror to me. like both of us screamed like mad, and, i was the one who sat on the side that fell backwards (and/or slide). hahas. at the last time we took the u lah lah slide thinger(which was the big round float) gabby was like leaning back at the last part, when water splashed on her face.lols. should have taken more photos

2006-06-13T20:17:00.000+08:00

pics of the church camp
http://xuekun.multiply.com/photos/album/3
http://deeione.multiply.com/photos/album/2

2006-06-12T17:22:00.001+08:00

church camp was really fun! we had a lot of games and stuff but i was really sad that this is the last year that Ps. benny ho is coming to our church camp :(. anyway this is what happened.

day one - 9th june
took coach up to hotel equitorial with me cousins and reached there. had some ice breakers and went to check in then had to reherse for the talentime show. the guys ain't cooperative unless jonathan or clarence or somebody was there. ar well...the gig went through quite smoothly... i still can't stop laughing at jeremy's bimbotic act and his "nong nong ago" song. the big understatement in the gig is "that's so not hot!" :D. all of the performances were very entertaining and we had great fun. stayed up late to watch costa rica VS germany with alicia in the room but slept at the half time.

day 2 - 10th june
went to morning prayer to find that the girl leaders are not there and there was only me, karen and jasmine. the hotel food rocked! during the in-group time we got to know the new people... played some ice breaker games and was formed into groups later and was told what to do for free and easy time: shop for the FEAR FACTOR EXTERME MELAKA during the bonding time tomorrow. we had durians in a truck to come to the hotel. they were really nice.

day 3 - 11th june
the day of the fear factor. our group bought horrible stuff, in fact REVOLTING. we were supposed to prepare 3 dishes in a budget of 20 dollars. our groups ingredients were: chilli paste, asparagus, lady's finger, capsicum, ginger, parsley, corn chips,carots, coke, suan mei, salted vege and, the most revolting, DURIAN ESSENCE!!! the game made the gross side of us come out. we came out with 2 drinks and 1 plate, 'healthy asparigus', 'lady's diet food', and 'hot and spicy' and ALL of them smelt of the durian stench mua ha ha ha....XD, li yun's group got two of our dishes and the third one went to us. hehs. we got the 'lady's diet food', it tasted wierd, considering somthing that doesn't look like durian but TASTES like one. our group kenah two other revolting dishes, some mushroom delight which set my mouth burning (charm, how can u're group be so ruthless?) and the oasis (ashley, sotong sauce is so not hot, let alone the blue colouring). in the end, we won the fear factor

day 4 - 12th june
missed the last message due to CK duty, taking care of little kids during the message. azeal is so heavy, all the little girls wan to sit on me, arggh! all very heavy! my leg pain X). at the end of the day, the girls outrule the guys in the point system.(girl power rocks :P) and it was time to go back *sniff* :'(

2006-06-06T21:14:00.000+08:00

pics of youth net camp http://xuekun.multiply.com/photos/album/1

2006-06-04T20:21:00.001+08:00

youth camp was so fun!! i only knew joash exsisted when i went there. anyway here's what happened...

day 1
reached girl brigades HQ. sepreated into our bunks. all the girls are in one bunk yayness!! we were split into 3 tribes and i ended up with tina, sheena, joash, joseph and gabriel in the 3rd tribe. we named our tribe the crusaders. i got the idea from my bro's temasek boys brigade camp. worst of all, our team only consisted of sec 1 and 2s.clarence explained the point system to us. eggs were our points. the best part: they were RAW! yup breaking them will mean a big mess. we had to carry them everywhere if not the facilitators will confiscate them. very ma fan. however, at the end of the day, after all the games, and water bombing, our tribe had the most eggs for the day! good job people!!

day 2
morning started off with 'the unknown' which was the amazing race. our group was the last to set off but we came in first!! the guest speaker ian was very funny and good.then we had our talent night. our group didn't win, but everybody did thier best. i think they were not spontaneous as the play was very jerky. well, we had our fun anyway.

day 3
arggh!! the eggs are gone!! everybody's eggs!! at first suspected was the guys that intruded the girls dorm, but i was wrong. it ended up to be the facilitators in the girls room. anna sms the guy facilitators in the morning 4 am and said 'its time'. she took everybody's eggs and passed them to owen who was waiting outside the girls dorm (yeh, very naughty ar!).afterall, it was just a trick, so they retuned our eggs. we had our first youth service and had the crowning of the best actor and actress in the talent night and guess who? yups, jeremy tan. lols. then they announced the overall winner: the crusaders!! you guys rock man! :) we had a total of 21 eggs. went to play basket ball and later went home.

2006-05-31T21:22:00.000+08:00

today, i was speding my morning felling groggy...maybe i'm sleeping too much...i had this conversation with girl x ( i'm not doing algebra here, dun worry)i dun wish to expose her.this is what happened...

me: hello?
girl x: I'VE GOT LEVAN'S NUMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!
me: huh?? so what?

i took a wee bit of time to digest what she said, i have a very slow processor in my brain. ya, my school is plagued with some band that is getting popular, ronin riot. really, i think that they are too much, like O levels are around the corner and speaking of the sec 2's being noisy during class(which is bad enough), they were vibrating the whole hall floor. make some sense i think thats what they need.

the albino (levan) guy was really weird. not all of us enjoyed it. i wonder why the school allowed them in the first place. i only liked their acoustic song one more moment(can be listened at the etc page). u can have a preview of how they look like in the etc page too. i admit, they are noisy

2006-05-30T22:13:00.003+08:00

MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS! MATHS!

my mind is full of it. i can't get rid of the word

i entirely crapped through the whole thing. it was that difficult. argh. i did not finish half of the questions. (wait, lets look at the bright side of life...di dum...) i finished half of the questions :). at least mr karib did not spot my nails XD.

gave out more flyers. some dog with dunno how many decibels barked at me (i'm partially deaf now). thank god that it was behind the gate *phew*. small but fierce. dogs sometimes are not my kind. hamsters are still the best.

2006-05-29T21:40:00.000+08:00

maths olympiad is tomrrow!!!

monday: first day of the official school hols, start off the day with giving out fliers door to door with sam and family...so fun...and tiring. then the rest of the day MATHS OLYMPIAD MATHS OLYMPIAD MATHS OLYMPIAD MATHS OLYMPIAD MATHS OLYMPIAD MATHS OLYMPIAD
STUDY! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!

i dun miss my camp 4 nothing loh

2006-05-27T18:17:00.000+08:00

the queenstown scouts that came to our sch today were neardy!

had guides in the morning and found out that i'm promoted only once :( most of the sec 2's were promoted twice *sniff*. the queenstown scouts came down to our sch today to get to know the guides before the mawai camp... sad, i'm not going to mawai camp.

countdown: maths olympiad is in 4 days time

2006-05-26T17:48:00.000+08:00

last day of sch!!!

pretty boring lets just say. report books in, i'm feeling blue :(. no offence, but my results are not up to MY standard:
english:A2
chinese:D7 :'(
maths:A1
science:A1
history:C5
lit: C5
home econs:B3

class position;10/39
level position:42/159
percentage: 66%

you might say i am over reacting, but i'm aiming 4 triple science! what's wrong with pushing ureself harder? i'm desperately crying out now
I WANT TO PASS MY CHINESE!!!

next half of the year revelution:
-pass my chinese
-get at least 70+% overall

2006-05-23T19:46:00.000+08:00

today was so fun.

after sch, i went out with suzie, gabby and avina to watch over the hedge... haha...so funny. i like the pocupine kids. they are so cute like these (below) . they could drive the truck by themselves and make it fly in the air like some stunts man. haha.
then we went to take neoprint... blehs, my hair was frizzing like mad. i looked horrible. the only shot that i thought was nice was the 'dao' shot. went back like seven only to get scolding from my mum :(. auntie iris and kids were here and i had to entertain sara by playing with her barbie doll -_-''' or else she'll cry. i hate barbie doll!!

2006-05-21T17:26:00.000+08:00

need you in my life

i need you in my life
i'm never letting go
of all the things you've said
i'm holding on 'cause you promised me that
you'd never leave
you're always by my side
you'll never let me go
so i'm holding on 'cause i know that i need you

today my cousin marina accepted christ in her life!! yay!! go jie-jie marina!!

church was usual today...watch shall we dance... i'm really slacking now... relaxing. going to watch over the hedge nxt week with gabby, suzie and grace (song, not the church one. yes, there are 2). so fun. i definitely need ideas to entertain myself. any? tell mua

2006-05-16T20:48:00.000+08:00

ahh....school hols are coming!!! yes!!!

today's pretty boring. yes , marking day. went swimming, called up people etc,etc....still boring

arggh! give me ideas for the hols!

life is this boring... for now

it's weird, ure looking forward to somthing and yet it ends up to be nothing.

2006-05-11T21:07:00.000+08:00

hellos. i'm back.

exams this week was not as depressing as last week. phew! its all finished. the only terror now is THE RESULTS. yes THEM.

poor me, i'll still have to study 4 my maths olympiad competitions :( i can't entirely slack this few weeks i guess.

bought two planetshaker cds today... super nice, except 4 some songs... my favourate was evermore....ahh... pretty

i will sing
of the mercy of the Lord
and i will shout
of your faithfulness oh God

for there is none like You
seated in Your majesty
Holy One i come
to worship You forevermore

You are my God my life my all
and i live for you alone,
i am Yours evermore
heaven and earth will shout
Your praise
the wonder of Your Name
i'll proclaim evermore

evermore
evermore

and i will run
into Your Presence
and i will sing
sing forever

2006-05-05T21:16:00.000+08:00

yes!! exams are HALF OVER! freedom is coming!

finally figured out the pulcking method of Far Away...ahhh sooooo nice....(ya, i fall in love with music with nice instrumentals very easily)......wee bit difficult though... in B major :X. i like the lyrics:

This time,
This place
Misused,
Mistakes
Too long,
Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just incase theres just one left

Cause you know
You know, You know

That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreamin' you'll be with me
And you'll never go stop breathin
If I don't see you anymore

2006-05-04T10:58:00.000+08:00

oh mi g

yay! mr racoon face is leaving!!! mua ha ha (yes, i'm evil)

that horrible maths teacher is going!! i dun have to listen to his little lectures and to suffer as a maths rep under him! ms noriyati will be teaching us again!!! whee!!

yes! i will soon reign victorious over him!! i'm free!!!

small print: sorry for the overuse of exclamation marks

2006-05-02T19:29:00.000+08:00

Welcome To My Life

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna runaway?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming

No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life

hmm.... they are kinda senseless huh? every body knows how rejection is like. lets try to change it....

Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
but someone understands you
Do you ever wanna runaway?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so soft
That someone hears you praying

No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels all right
You don't know what it's like
To be like me

To be blessed
To feel good
To be left out in the light
To be lifted when you're down
To feel like you've taken control
To be on the edge of breaking down
And someone's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to my life

hahas...i'm doing this because i'm stressssssssssssssssssed!! i need some relief. really. XP

2006-04-29T17:55:00.000+08:00

MYE'S ARE 3 DAYS AWAY AND I HAVE NOT REALLY STUDIED!

i think i better not blog now... bb

2006-04-26T17:50:00.000+08:00

arggh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CAN'T GO FOR MAWAI CAMP!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

the dreaded maths olympiad is on my camp!!! now i got to kiss it goodbye :(

2006-04-23T17:48:00.000+08:00

MYEs are coming in one weeks time. i guess i dun have time to update...

everything is boring in my life now. all it matters is that i have to study so bb!!

2006-04-16T19:44:00.000+08:00

happy easter 2 all!!

bleh. i'm actually kinda like banned from going out and i guess the only thing to do is to blog. arrgh! exams!!!

church was ok today. brought avina and her friend daphne to church. the PCK part was really funny.

lols. like i got to study now.........................................