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We went for a visit to a herbs and spice garden in Pulau Ubin today.

Only 7 year 1s turned up.

Plus Xiao Han's friend, Mrs Chuah and Ms Su.

Sadly, none of the year 2s could come because most of them had SYF, exams or were sick.

It was definitely less fun without them.

We reached Changi Village like 20 mins early, so we went for breakfast.

In the end, we were late for 5 minutes and the teachers had to wait for us.

Anyway, the bumboat ride was really nice!

It was my first visit to Pulau Ubin. The scenery was absolutly breath taking!

It was so beautiful with the sun shining on the water and the wind blowing in your face!

When we reached there, we realised that there were guided tours only on the 4th sat of each month.

Today was the 5th sat!

In the end, we didn't hav a guide.

Ms Su said I should have called the place since I was in charge. But i didn't.

Because I thought it was already planned and I only had to get everyone to come. But I guess it was partly my fault. My apologies...

Anyway, it was a good thing that Ryan came along. He's like a walking plant dictionary.

He knows lots of plant stuff and can even remember their scientific names.

We also took lots of plants back.

Although I think it wasnt allowed. Haha.

Luckily Xiao Han brought scissors.

We learnt lots of interesting stuff today.

At about 12pm, we took the bumboat back and had lunch at Changi Village.

But on the bus journey home, I had a terrible headache so I went home and slept almost straight away.

Overall, today was a really fun day and I totally enjoyed myself.

Hopefully, we can have more horti outings with the year 2s.

I went for swimming today.

Up till now, it's only my 2nd swim trainning.

Anyway, I was the only girl today.

It's not that bad actually, just that I would have preferred swimming with another girl because the guys really fast!

I think I swam 3km altogether today.

I'm so tired!

I also took my timing for 50m breaststroke...

It was 1 minute.

The qualifying timing for nationals is 48s so I guess I have a lot of training to do. Haha.

I don't have confidence in winning. It's just for the exposure.

Today's gym training was more fun because Hao Quan also went to the gym.

I thought today would be boring like the last time because I would be excercising all alone.

Luckily, I had company.

Initially, I planned to exercise for only half an hour because I would be feeling bored and tired.

In the end, I exercised for almost an hour.

Having some company really makes exercising more fun. Haha.

This is something else that I discovered over the past week. Wierd huh? I keep discovering stuff this week!

Anyway, this is it:

THINGS THAT BOTHER YOU MAY NOT MATTER TO OTHERS AS MUCH AS YOU THINK

I guess I have to elaborate more.

For example, if you did something embarassing and it really bothers you, just remember that no one actually really takes note of it.

They may laugh at it for a little while, maybe even a few days. But eventually, the excitement will die down and they begin to talk about something else.

When they stop talking about it, you should also stop feeling embarassed and bothered about it.

Just think about it. How many of your friend's embarassing moments do you actually remember? Things that happen to others don't seem such big deal, right?

That's what everyone feels. So your embarrasing moments aren't such a big deal after all.

We all have to learn to laugh at ourselves. After that, just put it behind and don't let it bother you anymore.

I find this really useful, because such things used to bother me for a really long time, so I began to be afraid to doing certain things.

Now, when I tell myself that others don't really remember these stuff, it helps.

I feel 'released' frum all the embrassments that have been following me for a long time.

People dun really give a damn to what goes on in you life, unless they are some one close.

Even then, they're probably too busy with their own lives and thinking about their own embarassments to bother about yours.

Learn to laugh at yourself. It'll make you feel better and help you get over it quick!

How to not feel angry:

Whenever you're angry, you tend to frown.

And you may not even know it!

So when you're angry, remind yourself to do this: Raise your eyebrows and relax your face.

Yes! i mean it!

Whenever I do that, I don't seem angry anymore and feel much better.

This has worked for me many times and hopefully, it'll work for you too.

Just smile... And things will be alright.

These few days, I've been feeling hyper! And I don't know why.

I've become more excited, lame and ticklish, laughing sooo much, sometimes my stomach hurts. This is the first time I've felt so happy since i joined Vj.

I was also happy during the first orientation, but this time it's feels different.

I feel like my friends are great, and we have lots of fun together!

And I've also been looking forward to horti on thursdays every week. It's just lots of fun, and the seniors are so lame! It's just so much fun having horti meetings, I don't mind staying back for horti meetings everyday! Haha.

I guess I've become more lame because of their influence. I love horti!

Today, we sold plants at the concourse because it's earth week.

There were lots of plants, and the flowers were really pretty.

We had about 13 types of plants, 10 of each, and 108 cacti. Haha. So many!

The sales was quite good and we made quite a bit. I went to help out during all my breaks and after school.

Although we had specific shifts, I turned up at the stall whenever I could. I really enjoyed myself, because we were telling lame jokes and I was laughing so hard! I havn't laughed so much in a very, very long time. Maybe that's why I've become happier. =)

I just want to say that I've never, ever regretted joining horti. And that's from the bottom of my heart!

Oh man... I'm feeling confused again.

After so many days of being confused and making up my mind, I'm confused... again! Ahh!

These few days, Bernice hasn't been going for swimming and Li Ling's busy too, so I'm the only girl going for training.

In the end, I don't go too because I don't like being the only girl there.

Honestly, I love swimming, and I enjoy going for trainings.

But, it's about being the only girl that's bothering me.

I know I can't wait for the other girls to be free to go for training. I won't be able to keep this up for 2 years.

I'll hav to go alone some day. But it's just really bothering me.

There's nothing wrong the guys or anything like that. I just feel more comfortable with girls.

Maybe after being confused for so long, i may decide to quit swimming and stick to my first 2 ccas--Biz and horti. But I'll feel bad about quitting swimming since already made friends.

I think I'll just stay in swimming for now.

Wait till SYF is over, then Li Ling can go for training. I feel bad about not turning up for so many trainings though. Hee...

Regarding the problem whether to choose swimming or Biz that has been bothering me the whole of the past week, i finally made up my mind...

I'll join both!

I'll skip swimming trainings once in a while to go for Biz meetings.

I also decided not ro run for exco in either swimming of Biz because I have to split my time among the 2 ccas and besides, there are more eligible candidates.

So now, I'll hav 3 ccas. Bizclub, swimming and of course, horticulture! I love horti.

Right now, horti is my first priority among all my 3 ccas. I'm hoping to run for horti exco. Hope I can make it!

I think Jia Yan would get in too. But it's so sad that Sheryl and Poh Xuan had to leave us.. They had a good chance of making the horti exco too. I really miss them.

I still remember that there was once when me and Poh Xuan were harvesting the chilli padi and I suggested trying to eat one.

She really took what I said seriously!

I merely bit a little of the chilli until the juice started flowing out. It was sooo spicy! I only tasted the juice. I didn't even bite any part of the chilli off!

But Poh Xuan was so cute! Haha. She bit off half of the chilli and swallowed it! In the end, she had to drink lots of water. Haha. It was so funny!

I miss her so much!

Actually I made up my mind to quit Biz but then I met Angela this morning and she asked mi to stay in Biz. That kinda made me think twice.

Honestly, I really can't bear to leave all my frens in Biz. But at the same time, I wanna join swimming because that's my interest.

Haiz... I feel confused.

Can some one help me make up my mind?

Actually when I consider whether or not to stay in the cca, it's is not what the cca is about, or what we do during meetings.

It's mainly the people in that cca that make me wanna stay or leave.

Now I wanna stay in Biz because I already made some good friends so I can't bear to leave them.

On the other hand, the swimming pple are really nice too, and i like swimming!

I guess I havn't gone for enough swimming trainings to tell if I really want to do this for the rest of my 2 years in JC.

By the way, I went for my first gym training alone today.

I thought it would be quite weird and a little scary being the only girl there. But when I reached, there were already some girls inside.

That's what gave me the courage to go in.

After a while, the girls left and I became the only girl in the gym.

But surprisingly, it was ok. Not weird at all.

I guess it's more of a psychological problem.

Actually being afraid of being the only girl is also one of the reasons why I'm holding back to join swimming.

I'll just think about it some more them hopefully I can come to a conclusion soon.

Today was a very busy day for me, but also a very enjoyable one.

I started the day with swimming training at 8.30am at Geylang East swimming complex.

It was my first swimming training, after so many failed attempts to swim because of the rain.

Bernice and I were the only girls so we swam together. We swam both freestyle and breast stroke, a total of 2.2km!

Equals to 2200m, or 220000cm, or 44 laps! Haha. It was quite ok, but i began to get tired at the last 300m.

Practice ended at 10.40am and after bathing, I quickly went for my Japanese class.

I was late by 5 minutes and I guess I left a bad impression on the teacher because I was also late the first lesson.

We learnt a few more words today, but I haven't had time to remember all yet.

After that, I had to go to Vj to get ready for the fun fair. I was late and rushing like mad.

To make matters worst, I took bus 31 from Bedok interchange in the wrong direction!

The fun fair was actually quite grand. The stalls were nicely decorated and there was a nice performing stage.

Biz was doing glitter tattoos.

At first we did the tattoo for one another to practice. I made one for Jia Yi but it didn't turn out good. She did one for me, and it was very nice!

It's still on me now because I can't bear to wash it off. It's purple mixed with a darker purple.

Later, I did a tattoo for a SC and really screwed up!

I didn't know that the glitter would stick to your hand if you were sweaty. In the end, the whole thing was just a big mess of glitter.

I felt really guilty and lost confidence in myself.

After that, I went around to get people to come to our stall instead. Because I didn't dare to do another glitter tattoo for fear of messing up.

But after a while, we got quite shorthanded and I decided to give it a try again. I did another one on Jia Yi and this time, it was better. So I started doing the tattoos for customers.

Surprisingly, the next one that i did came out perfect! I was so happy! That little girl even brought her friend to get a tattoo. I was so proud of myself! Haha.

By the way, swimming also had a stall. It was a games stall where you had to throw hangers onto a string and if it hooked onto the string, you get a prize.

I didn't go to help out or pay them a visit because I was kinda busy at the Biz stall.

PM Lee turned up too. I didn't go up to him to shake hands or take photos, but the closest I was to him was about 1m. Haha. Cheap thrill!

We also had lots of fun doing mass dances today.

Although I reached home at about 10.30pm and was very sweaty and tired, I really enjoyed myself today.

Now I'm looking forward to a good sleep and waking up real late tomorrow. Haha.

Nitez!

Sylvester Sim's debut album is finally out today!

After I was dismissed at 1.50pm, I immediately went to Century Square to buy his album from Sembawang.

There was a coupon to get a free SLY poster at Junction 8 for the first 2000 fans at 7.30pm. I guess they're having the 'celebration' now.

But I never go because it's just not my habit to go to autograph sessions.

I listened to sum of his songs already. Not all yet. So far, my favourite songs are suo yi, ying gai and ai qing bo ji.

There's an jing too, but honestly, i prefer the Jay Chou version.

Overall, i think his album is not bad. I wont say it's excellent, but it's ok. He wrote the tunes to most of the songs. So talented.

Hope the sales of his album will be good, and hopefully, he'll be popular in Taiwan too. But of course, he must never forget his Singapore fans if he's popular in Taiwan.

My Mum's paranoid! She thinks I have a boyfriend, but I don't.

At least not yet.

I think it's beacuse of the angel & mortal game my class played with out senior class for Valentine's day.

My angel (Kyeng Wai) gave me a rose on Valentine's day when we revealed who the angels were.

When I went home, she asked me who it was from, but I didn't tell her. Because I already told her that my class was playing angel & mortal with our senior class. I guess she didn't remember. Never mind, just keep her in suspense.

Recently on mon, Lu Jia called to thank me for her birthday present. She sounded so excited, so I was smiling when I was talking to her.

After I put down the phone, my mum asked me again if I had a boyfriend. But i didn't tell her.

Let her think wad she wants. It'll be fun to keep her in suspense. Haha. I'm so bad.

But I don't care. Because I'm not the one being kept in suspense.

Today is another rainy day. Haiz.. I was supposed to go for my first swimming training on mon but it rained so it was cancelled.

Today i got excited again because I would finally get to swim. But who knows, it rained again!! There's another swimming session on sat. I really hope it won't rain then.

Anyway, I got to know a few swimming guys today. Now i can roughly recognise the swimming people, but I still don't know all their names. Haha.

The swimming peeps are quite nice. And crazy too, so it was fun being with them.

Hope I can get to know them better. =)

Today is 1st of April, also know as April fool's day.

The first prank that was played on me was a sms from Yan Ning. She sent mi this msg:

"Mrs Chan says today don't have school.

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Haha. April fool!!"

And i really fell for it! When i first read the message, I really felt my heart skip a beat and I almost told my dad to u-turn and drive me home instead of to school.

I was really happy because I've been tired the whole week so it'll be good to hav a break. When i read the rest of the msg, I seriously felt my heart sink. And I'm not exaggerating. I was so disappointed!

Then, I forwarded the message to some other people. So evil of me, dissapointing others when I know how bad it feels. Haha. But it was fun.

Bernice even called to ask if today got school or not. Haha. It was a lame prank. But kinda funny.

During assembly, an announcement was made that power would be cut off today to save electricity.

It was a lousy prank, because some people already figured it out before it was revealed.

Anyway, that's all the pranks there were today. Only 2!

I really miss the times during primary school when we played pranks all day long on that special day.

Almost everything that we said then was supposed to be a prank, although some didn't really work out.

I guess we're all beginning to grow out of it. There will come a day when the 1st of April will be just another working day for us. And we'll just get on with our own miserable lives..

Ok, I'm being a sadist here.

I believe that we all have a kid inside of us, just that some of us are afraid to show it.

There, does it sound better? Haha. I'm just being lame.