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Wei Qi's birthday is on 29th Feburary.

I wished her happy birthday once in the afternoon.

Then because I had to stay up late to study, I wished her again at the stroke of midnight. Tried to catch the split second between 28th Feb and 1st March. She was awake too and said that she was trying to experince that moment. Her actual birthday was over in a flash. haha...

It's so special to have your birthday on 29th Feb.

But for me, I rather have mine on a normal day because I find it really important to celebrate on the actual day itself. Imagine my birthday was on that particular day. I don't know if I should be happy or sad. haha...

Once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEI QI!!!

The Maths paper was great!

There were 6 questions, 1 on each topic. I found the questions quite reasonable. Not that difficult actually. And there was really a lot of time!

In the end, most of my answers are correct so far except one small error.

I'm really confident! Hope I can do well and prove to Mrs Chuah! Yay!

Econs wasn't that good though.

The essay was weird because I had quite a lot of points to write. When I first wrote the essay outline, I was quite sure that I would answer the question throughly. But when I actually wrote the essay in words, my points were kinda jumbled up and I kept repeating the same points. I really don't know how it'll turn out.

I think the data response question wasn't answered well too.

Oh well... It's already over.

It's Physics tomorrow and I only studied about two-thirds of it.

And I want to sleep soon. Preferably before midnight.

Hopefully I can finish in time!

And the A level results will be released tomorrow. I can't wait to see the seniors when the come back (esp the guys after some of them shaved their heads. haha...). Miss them so much!

Paper was fine...

My essay topic goes something like this "Is technology a boon or a bane to formal education?"

This topic can really be argued both ways. It might have been more interesting to say it's a bane. But I wrote boon. Cos it's really much easier that way.

The comprehention passage was about fear. Quite ok except that I didn't really understand some parts. The summary was quite difficult and I only had 10 minutes to answer the application question so I didn't write much. I guess I'll probably score 1 or 2 marks out of 8, like always...

I reached home at 12.30pm after my paper. My Mum cooked fish porridge. I love coming home so early for lunch. It always makes it feel like holiday, although most of the time it's usually because I have exam that day.

Anyway, I called Mrs Chuah after that to ask about getting refunds for my friend. And she also told me that after paying Esmond, we still have money left (the unclaimed refunds and maybe a little profits) so we weren't making a loss. Such a relief!

As she's my maths tutor, she said that I have to study hard for maths tomorrow (she said it nicely though). So, yes! I'll study hard. I want her to be proud of me that even though I had to do so much work, I can still do well for the test.

I got highest in class for mid year exam last year. Then for promos, I dropped to 66%. Guess I was a little too "proud" that I didn't study hard enough.

This time, if I can do really well, I can prove to her that I'm really good!

Yup, so I'll go back to studying soon, after I've had my break.

So far I've studied all for econs and a little more than half of maths.

If I have time later, need to read though all the important points again to make sure I don't forget and to do the past year maths common test.

Jia you to me! I really want to do well!!!

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*Updated: 4.36pm

Damn it! All that rubbish about studying hard... I just wasted half an hour reading my previous posts (didn't know it was so interesting... haha... just kidding...).

Really have to go back to studying NOW!

I know I haven't been blogging anything interesting at all these few days. Pardon me.

It's just that I've been so busy, not to forget, lazy, to blog.

Common test is coming soon.

Test schedule:

• Monday: General Paper
• Tuesday: Mathematics, Economics
• Wednesday: Physics
• Thursday: Chemistry

Then it'll all be over!

So far, I've finished more than half of econs and physics, and half of chemistry and maths. Quite slow!

I really want to do well because I don't want to go for remedials! And I want to show Mrs Chuah that I can do well juggling cca and school work.

But now, I don't exactly feel the fire in me to study hard. I still feel like there's a lot of time and that this test isn't that important after all.

But if I do badly, I KNOW I'll feel bad.

Yup... So I better get back to studying soon!

*Note: the next few day's posts will probably be short, and about how my papers went. Not exactly interesting. Haha... just to warn you first...

It was about calculating the efficiency of a catapult.

I think I did well. No major mistakes, at least none that I know of yet.

We only have 1 shot at SPA skill A and it takes up 25% of the overall SPA marks. So it's quite important actually.

Anyway, since we only have 1 chance, it also means that no more SPA A for me, ever! Yay!

Actually we all knew the question days before because we were given really obvious hints and the question was said to be the same as RJC's.

It was some heating experiment with the spirit lamp. We were supposed to write errors and improvements for skill D. And since we already knew the question, of course we knew the answers. So I already memorised 10 errors for the question.

The thing is, only 5-6 errors were needed. But I worte all 10! I was thinking, since I already memorise all, don't waste right?

Although I had enough time to write all. In the end, I still felt stupid doing that. cos no one did it. And I may have penalised myself if I wrote wrongly. Haiz...

Anyway, it's already over. Only one more Chemistry SPA left. Yay!

Later, I went for Econs S because Kimberly told me that the lecturer said there was lesson. In the end, less that 10 people turned up and most importantly of all, the lecturere didn't come! He was no where to be found.

Me and Kimberly waited in LT4 for half an hour, studying at the same time. Then in the end, we went out to study. Felt weird studying in the LT.

We also saw the SC nominees gathering. They were releasing the results of the SC election. He Yun (my horti junior) didn't get in but she was very optimistic about it.

And I just realised that I didn't vote! Completely forgot about it! Then in the end, my junior class's one and only nominee didn't get in! I so wanted him to be in SC. He was good! So sad...

By the way, did you know that I also ran for SC in the beginning of last year? Haha... Will tell you guys more about it next time!

Year 2s have no lessons from today till next, next monday.

Reason?

SPA and common tests.

This Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: SPA.

The whole of next week: common test for every subject.

Anyway, the good thing is that I didn't have to go to school today because my Chemistry SPA is tomorrow. I really, really need to study. Still have loads of stuff to go through!

I could stay at home to study the whole day but I decided to go for training at Chinese Swimming Club (CSC) because I just felt like it.

Not many people turned up. I guess they were all busy studying.

We started off with warm ups, then backstroke, then butterfly kicks. After that, we had to do sets of 50m pulling.

But the thing is, the juniors started swimming faster than me! All 3 of them, Shu Qi, Ngang Ju and Cheryl! Ahh... I think I'm getting old. Or maybe I'm just not going for enough trainings.

The last time I swam was Monday. But before that, I didn't swim for more than 2 weeks because I was busy with the flower sale. But Monday was fine though. I swam faster than all of them.

So now, I think that my lousy performance is because I haven't been eating enough these few days. No appetite. But the good news is that I weighed myself and lost 2kgs since the last time I weighed 3 weeks ago.

It just makes me depressed to think that I'm not improving anymore. Or the fact that my swimming is getting worse. I don't want that to happen!

After common test, I'll try to train hard. It's embarrassing when the others see me swim so slow. Ahhh...

Now that the whole v day thing is almost over, I get to have part of my life back. Although part of it is still entwined in the follow up plan to salvage the current situation. Haiz...

14th Feburary, Tuesday, Still V day

Immediately went home to bathe. I still had to go out later.

Because Mun Bbun (my horti senior) wanted me to do him a favour.

He's in NS now but he wants to give flowers to his girlfriend so he asked me to help. She stays in Tampines and I was supposed to pass her a bouquet of 3 roses and some chocoates (the cherry chocolates I bought from Marks and Spencers) to her.

Luckily, my Dad agreed to drive me there. I had no idea how to go there and was terribly tired from not sleeping the previous night.

She's quite pretty. Haha... Nice and friendly too!

After that, my Dad drived me home. I was eating my dinner (my Mum cooked potatoes, my favourite!) when I feel asleep!

I only realised the next morning when I woke up, not in my pyjamas. I never fall asleep without my knowing. Usually when I feel tired, I'll "allow" to sleep. Like I'll take off my spectacles and lie down properly, even if it's just in front of the tv. But this time, I fell asleep just like that!

The next day, my Mum told me that I didn't even finish eating my dinner and was holding the bowl when I slept. Even when she took the bowl away, my hand was still in the shape of holding the bowl! And my Dad took picture of me sleeping before and after the bowl was taken away. I looked terribly tired la!

15th Feburary, Wednesday

Didn't go to school cos I was so tired and didn't do any homework so I might as well stay at home to finish it.

But I went to school after lessons ended for horti meeting with Mrs Chuah, Melissa and Jia Yan. We had to decide how to settle the problem.

On the way, I saw some of my classmates. Chen Yue, Livia and Li Yue. And I went to borrow lecture notes from Sheryl. They were all very concerned that I didn't go to school that day.

Apparently, Mrs Chuah (she's also my maths tutor) had found out that I didn't go to school during tutorial and told the class what happened. From what I heard from Sheryl, Mrs Chuah said that I didn't sleep at all throughout and stuff. Worked very hard.

I was quite surprised that she told the class actually. But luckily she did, so they all know what I went through. Then they know that horti actually worked hard to try to pack the flowers correctly. So if any of their friends complain about the orders, hopefully they can help spread the word the we already tried our best.

Over the 2 hours and 30 minutes meeting, we decided that we would set up a refund booth to give out refunds. And make announcement during assembly to tell people about the booth.

At first, me and Melissa thought that we should go up on stage to make a formal apology. So that it would be sincere. But me and Melissa were definitely not the ones who were going to do it. Because we were too emotional. We would probably cry on stage! Then when we couldn't find any one else to do it, we decided that we would just get the SC to make announcement about the booth.

Finally when the meeting ended, I went for inter-house bowling competition.

Had loads of fun! My team had Li Yue, Kimberly and Chifang. Our team name? Strike! Haha...

My first ball during the practice session got a strike! Too bad that it was only the practice round.

I love the company of such great friends!

The guys team in the next lane was super pro!! All hitting scores of 100 and above. Ruxin was in that team. But the thing is, we had to cross lanes so we had to play faster and they had to slow down so that the game would be properly spread out. Dominicus (my ex-Angel) was in bowling and he was in the next lane. But he wasn't playing cos he would be playing tomorrow.

In the end, my scores were 93, 70 and 90. There was some problem with the lane so actually, I got some "free" points for the first game. It's quite high. Usually my score ranges around 60 to 70.

And Li Yue was not on form too, Usually she plays up to 150 but today, her scores were lower than mine.

And, I became Kim's "Mum" today! She started calling me Mummy because she said I'm like a mother, always take care of other people. Quite true, cos I can be quite bossy at times. Haha...

I had so much fun! First time I smiled so happily since the whole venture started!

My Dad bought a small heart shaped cake. It was cheaper since V day already passed.

When I went home and showered, that's when the trouble started.

F (I'm not being rude. Her name really starts with F!) from TJ called me and "I think you owe us an apology."

...

What?!

I got a shock when I heard cos it's total nonsense. I don't owe you an apology you ****! (actually i don't know what is ****. Just felt like doing that.) I was so angry. But I didn't scold her though. It's just not my nature. I know she must be feeling terrible. We all at VJ also do. So why does she have the right to talk to me like that?

The TJ people will be giving out flowers on thursday to substitute. And she's unhappy that we at VJ decided to give refunds to those who didn't receive the flowers. We're not wrong to choose to give refunds. That's what we think is the best solution. But they think that giving out flowers would be better.

So what? That doesn't mean that we're wrong or anything. We just have different views on what it the best solution to salvage this venture.

After all, flowers don't have that much meaning after V day. And you think that people don't know flowers are so much cheaper after V day meh? Then you still charge them V day prices but buy cheap flowers. You think people are stupid ar?!

It's just that we have differing views. I can understand if some people want their flowers. But we can choose to deal with our customers what we feel is right for them. They can always get their money back and do something else with it.

Fuck her. I was so angry and didn't know what to do. I admit that I'm not a good negotiator. So when she suggested re-delivering the flowers to VJ another day, I said I'll call Mrs Chuah and discuss with her first. Made me seem like such a loser that I couldn't make a decision on the spot.

In the end, we decided that we would deliver some flowers to VJ the next week. After all, there was some mix up on our part and we missed out a few orders. So it was only right that we deliver those flowers that we mixed up.

And since we decided to give refunds to our customers, the undelivered flowers from VJ to TJ (which is like almost everything) will not be delivered. Damn it. We should have just ordered the flowers and make them give out. After all, we don't have to do any work since they are the ones distributing the flowers, then we can still earn profits from the successful deliveries. Haiz. A terrible night.

I was thinking that we should be nice to one another. After all, it was none of our faults, and we may be able to work again next time. Why make the relationship so hostile? But since that's the way they want it, fine! I won't bother being nice too.

Stupid TJ people. Spoilt my day.

When I was doing my homework, I received 2 very heart warming smses...

Joanne at 10.53pm "Hey Char! take care of your health! miss u at school..:) hee! good job on e flowers! :) my friends very v happy..all thanks 2 u guys..jia you..hope to cu soon!"

Sheryl at 10.55pm "Hey, think that you will still be studying and finishin up all your work.. Just wanna drop by to cheer you on, jia you! Really feel that you are a very very responsible girl and friend.. Although i cant help you in your studies, but i will keep you in prayer.. All the best for your common tests, i am extremely sure you can do well! And don't reply.. Do your work!"

16th Feburary, Thursday

I met Mrs Chuah in the morning to discuss some stuff before we set up the refund booth today. There was house meeting because the of the SC election. I really didn't want to miss that. I wanted to see the nominees so I could vote. But I really had no choice! Haiz... The sacrifices I make...

In the end, I only managed to see the last 2 or 3 nominees.

Also, there was econs S today. And the interesting teacher taught us today. His name is Mr John Cook, I think.

Halfway during the lecture, there was a sudden blackout. He was all cool about it and made some lame jokes.

Then all of a sudden, the lights came on again. And he said "I was expecting to see all of you waving your hands in the air..."

"...because many hands make light work!"

Haha... Made us all laugh like mad! I like the way he makes unintentional lame jokes. Haha... That's why all of us love his lecture.

One problem though. He's really long-winded! Lecture always end late. Especially today! It was supposed to end at 4.50pm. But when it was 5.40, he was still going on and on. My Dad called me during lecture. I rejected it. But I know that he was planning to drive me home because he always calls around that time if he wants to give me a lift. I messaged him that lecture was going to end soon.

But it didn't! Then finally, I raised my hand and said "Sir, it's getting late. I need to go."

Then he said "ok. End of lecture." And there it was, everyone could go home there and then.

I think everyone should thank me. If not, God knows when he would let us off!

As I expected, my Dad called to give me a lift home. And he said that my Mum didn't feel like cooking dinner so we would go out for dinner.

When I reached home, I messaged Kim to say bye cos I left in a hurry just now and didn't get to talk to her.

She said bye too and said that I did a good job for the flower sale and that she thinks I'm a good leader. I think she could tell that I was still stressed up about everything. I know that too cos Joanne has been asking me that in class. She says I look stressed. Haha... I'm really less smiley these few days.

Anyway, for the dinner, we decided to have buffet at a place near SMU. It's $32 per person. Super expensive! But the food was wonderful! Just wonderful!

There was sushi, chinese dim sum, soup, more japanese food, salad and deserts.

The sushi was nice! But I didn't want to eat too much of it because I wanted to try everything. Don't want to fill my stomach with too much rice. Haha...

The siew mai was so so nice! The best I ever tasted!!! Loved it! Whahaha...

There was spaghetti and pasta too! So many different shapes and there were 3 types of sauces to choose from.

After eating loads of food, we started on the deserts and salad.

There was this Valentine's Day salad. Nothing really special about it though. Just that the chef would prepare it nicely for you instead of you having to take the different vegetables yourself.

I love eating vegetables. Haha... My mum too! We ate loads of vegetables! Good for the digestive system. Haha...

Then it was desert time! All the deserts and cakes were in very small portions. It was good because then we could try one of everything without eating too many calories.

There was marble cake, brownie, peach something, mango pudding, durian pudding (just heavenly!!!), jellies and loads more! My favourite part of any buffet is the deserts. How great it would be if there were a desert buffet. Whahaha...

17th Feburary, Friday

It's our second day of refunds. We were planning to let this be the last day of registering for refunds. Then we would double check with the orders to make sure no one claimed the money wrongly. So sian. Cos I had to sit at the booth during most of my breaks.

We had a horti meeting today. I thought that we would be able to have a break after v day. But because of everything that happened, we had no choice. We had the post mortem for the flower sales. Like always, we had to record what we did right and what we did wrong for the venture. And obviously, there were a lot more wrongs and rights.

I think it's because that I'm in charge that I sorta feel the things said were arrowed to me. Maybe I'm too sensitive.

Mrs Chuah said there was a lack of a leader on the day of packing the flowers. Like no one was standing up to take charge.

But excuse me! I delegated work. I asked Wen Zhe and Xu Duo to pack the flowers into plastic bags. I asked some of them to wrap the flowers with cotton wool and aluminium foil, and asked some of them to collect the flowers. I think I already did what I could do, since this is also my first time. But I admit that I'm not a natural leader so maybe some of the way I did things, others could have done better.

Then again, I wasn't the only leader. Melissa and Jia Yan were also in charge. So Mrs Chuah might not be directing that comment at me.

Also, the idea of typing the orders into the excel format was also criticised. Because some people may have typed wrongly and it took a lot of time. But that was my idea, so I stood up for it. Because seriously, there wasn't any better way to do it. We had to label the flowers and collate the orders. It was already the best way.

I told them that and in the end, Mrs Chuah concluded that we shouldn't have accepted too many orders. It was really too much for us to handle. For that, I agree. Because we weren't expecting so many orders in the first place.

Wen Zhe said there wasn't really a plan on what we were going to do. Like we only decided on the venture and dived straight into it. There wasn't a proper time table nor a list of what to do. We only decided on that as we went along. That, I agree too. And I'll keep that in mind because it's really important if I ever have to be involved in such a big project again.

Yup, so note to self: make sure there's a proper plan on what to do before starting any project!

18th Feburary, Saturday

As usual, I went to SMU for lesson today.

We had a test!

And... ... I didn't study for it! At all!

I completely forgot!

The MCQ was ok, but the essay part, I'm sure I'll die. There were 2 true or false questions and I gave the wrong answer for one.

I seriously hope I won't do too badly for this course. If not, I won't be able to get exemption for the module in university. Then I would have wasted 13 saturday mornings!

19th Feburary, Sunday

Went to a undergrad program and scholarship talk by NTU at hotel intercontinental, Bugis. 10am to 5pm.

It was really useful. Gave me insights on what you study in the various courses. And for the business course, there is this specialisation in hospitality and tourism. I so wanna take this course! Haha...

Went with Si Hui, Joanne and Hanjie! So fun! Whahaha...

20th Feburary, Monday

It was another day of refunds. I had to meet Mrs Chuah in the morning to settle some stuff before the booth was set up. And it was so sad because I missed the CT walkabout.

In case you don't know, CT walkabout is when the student council nominees go from class to class to ask people to vote for them and answer questions. Usually they'll have to do stupid stuff that's asked of them. If not they'll be seen as un-enthu. It's a lot of fun! I went in just in time to see only the last 2 nominees. Sad la!

Also went swimming today. Fisrt time I'm swimming in 2 and a half week. Felt so good to swim again. We went to Mandarin Gardens (the condo beside VJ) and had a short training.

21st Feburary, Tuesday

This is the second day of CT walkabout. It was really fun and my class was very funny. We were more of teasing the nominees than bullying them (I know some classes are really mean). Zi Rui kept asking funny qusetions. Haha...

My junior class also had a nominee. He's quite good. I think he'll get in!

That's all for the stuff after V day. Actually this post is just a summary of everything that happened but since I had to time no blog about it on the actual day itself, I just combined it into one big post. Don't mind my ramblings.

VALENTINE'S DAY.

It's a torture.

Not because I don't know what to give my girlfriends,

not because I don't know what to wear for my date,

and definitely not because I don't have a date (yah, no date!).

It's because I of the horticulture delivery thing with TJ.

If you realised, I haven't blogged for more than a week. 9 days to be exact.

I've been terribly busy with the flowers that everyday I reach home at 7plus. And even then, I don't get to rest completely because I need to call up the members, arrange timetables for manning the booth, call the TJ side to arrange what wlll happen on the actual day and stuff. You can't imagine how much work I've done. Trust me, it's a whole mountain of work!

Well, let's start the story right from the beginning. Then everyone can appreciate the amount of work I've done.

Warning: this will be a super long post. Prepare yourselves. Go to the toilet first if you must. Haha...

Some day in the first week of the year

Discussed the delivey idea with Li Yue. I tell Li Yue almost everything about horti. Esp before I suggest new ideas, cos I need assurance that it's not a stupid idea. She thought it was great! Felt good to have someone support it.

Told Melissa about it. She supported too.

(With more confidence now) Suggested it to Mrs Chuah (horti teacher in charge). She was unsure that the idea would work and seemed quite certain that the response would not be good. I assured her that everything would turn out well. I'll see it through. It'll be a success!

She said ok.

Day of cca walkabout, 4th January

I would be busy with my SMU course and decided that I won't be able to be in charge of V day. Mrs Chuah put Jia Yan and Melissa in charge instead. I would be their assiatant.

I really wanted to be in charge though. It's my idea and I want to do it!

Some time before Chinese New Year

I promoted myself to become co-in-charge of V day together with Melissa and Jia Yan. Melissa had SAT and would be busy. Jia Yan wouldn't be able to handle it alone.

Besides, the course at SMU wasn't as tiring as I expected.

And I was the only one who used to order from the florist and I would probably be the one doing it this time too. Since I have to do so much, might as well get the title I deserve.

Told Mrs Chuah about my decision.

The TJ side also suggested doing this venture with NYJC and TPJC since they had contacts. I was very interested. Since we were going to do it, might as well do it big right? Mrs Chuah objected and I blamed her for being too convervative (not out loud of course). In the end, it was only TJ because TPJC replied too late anyway.

23rd to 27th January

Started working on the order forms, posters and setting the selling prices.

Had to meet after school on the day of the TJ CNY carnival to finalise forms and posters so me and Melissa reached TJ quite late.

2nd Feburary, Thursday

Initial plan: make announcement for V day venture and give out order forms.

But the CT (civics tutorial) council and house comm said they wanted to do a V day thing in VJ which comprises of all the V day booths involved. Ok, announcement postponed to Monday.

3rd Feburary, Friday

CT council said announcement had to be shifted to Tuesday because of the opening of the igloo (students' lounge). It's called the igloo because you can go there to chill (get it?).

But we really had to give out our order forms on Monday. No later.

When I told the CT guy, he said that we'll be giving away the whole V day thing so it won't be a surprise anymore. But if I'm scared, I can make the announcement.

Trying to intimidate me huh? Said that if I'm scared then I can go make announcement.

I'm not scared, but I'll make the announcement anyway.

So,

6th Feburary, Monday

Made a short announcement to give out order forms. Didn't want to give too much information so as to not give too much of the next day's "surprise" away.

I passed the order form around my class during lecture. Glad to see that response was really good. Better than I expected. Also saw other class's order forms as they passed it around. Good, response was not bad!

7th Feburary, Tuesday

There was no announcement about the V day stuff as what they promised. I was terribly angry. Called the CT guy to ask what happened. He said announcement would be postponed to Thursday because of the split assembly.

I was fuming mad! You were the one who approached me about making the announcement and now you postponed it 2 days later without asking me?! And didn't even tell me until I had to demand what happened.

Luckily we gave out the forms on Monday. We had to give the bulk of the orders to the florist by Thurday. Friday and Saturday was for submitting last minute orders.

Imagine what would have happened if we had agreed to postpone it.

Still, if we had made our announcement the previous week, students would have been more informed about the venture. Now, they're not sure about the details because we gave them minimum information on Monday.

How can the CT council and house comm be so irresponsible when they are supposedly the "responsible" student leaders?

9th Feburary, Thursday

The announcement was made during morning assembly. Like... finally!!!

But it was terribly disappointing! They didn't even mention "horticulture"!

It was just some silly skit featuring all the stuff that would be sold on V day. Each cca's item to be sold was given like only 5 seconds of air time.

Damn it! House comm is always the one coming up with interesting live ads to attract people's attention but this time, it was utterly diappointing!

Terrible!

We made an announcement on the same day that it would be our last day for collection of orders. We haven't collected many orders till Wednesday, maybe because people didn't know when was the deadline.

Orders started streaming in like mad that money had to be wrapped into foolscap paper and put into our bags.

In total, we collected $4000+ that day alone. $4000!!! Can you believe it?

I even skipped 6 periods of lecture because there wasn't enough manpower at the booth. Will have loads of catching up to do later...

We decided that we would type the orders into excel format. I suggested it. Would save us time because if not we would have to go through all the orders and make frequency tables for each type of flower ordered. Not forgetting to separate them into different colours.

Besides, we would have to pass a copy of senders and receipients to the TJ side and print out labels. So might as well type it out once then we can print as many times we like and use the excel "sort" function to tabulate the types of flowers.

10th Feburary, Friday

Some of us couldn't finish typing into excel format. I finished though. Stayed up to 2am to finish it. And probably because I got the shorter order forms too. Because Jia Yan stayed up to 2am as well, but only finished a little more than half.

Melissa and Yong Bin didn't do. So Jia Yan and I were the only ones who actually did something.

Got all members to help type out the orders and managed to finish typing by about 6.30pm.

We were hogging almost all the computers in the com lab.

Things are seriously behind schedule. None of the orders have been sent to the florist yet.

Went to the staff room with Mrs Chuah's permission where we used the computers (com lab was closed) and printed out the stuff we needed.

Sorted out messages and did quite a lot of planning on what to do when we had only 3 days before V day.

The situation in the staff room was really tense. Could feel that everyone was seriously tired and stressed out. We only had 3 days left and a lot of things weren't finalised!

Could see that Kim was super tired. She shows it on her face very easily. And I feel so bad because I feel like I'm the one causing her misery.

Released most of the members because it was very late already.

Yong Bin, Michelle, Jia Yan and I stayed back to finish up.

I was really surprised that Michelle stayed back to help. She wasn't in the exco and could go home if she wanted. Bet she was tired too. Anyway, she shows leadership potential. Got chance to become future exco!

We stayed until 8.30pm and because of that, Mr Victor Yang (another teacher) had to stay back with us because he was supposed to lock up the staff room. I felt so bad that he had to stay so late even though what we were doing was none of his business. He could have just chased us out. Instead, he was very nice about it. He also hadn't had his dinner yet (all of us were starving too!)!

Finally, Mrs Chuah drived me and Michelle to Tanah Merah station because her house was near there. Michelle stayed near by too.

Although it wasn't much nearer for me, it saved me loads of walking time.

Was terribly tired by the time I reached home. Sitting on the sofa watching tv seemed like such a luxury.

11th Feburary, Saturday

We met in school at 2pm to cut the aluminium foil (to wrap the end of the stalk with wet cotton wool) and sort out the orders and messages. I only had a piece of bread for breakfast before I went to SMU that morning.

Went to VJ immediately after lesson so I didn't have time to eat anything. Bought cup noodles from the vending machine for lunch.

I like cup noodles but eating so little really made me feel sorry for myself.

I've been eating really little the past few days. Spent most of my breaks manning the booth in school to collect order forms. And by the time I reach home, it's so late that I only eat dinner. Don't even have time to sit in front of the tv and snack (that's where a lot of my daily calorie intake comes from). So I think I'll really lose some weight these few days.

We did all sorts of stuff remaining. To make sure that when we sort out the flowers on monday, there would be minimum work to do (although there would still be a lot, a lot of work!)

By the way, I found out my Angel (Dominicus)'s handphone number from the order forms (he ordered flowers). I found out his identity accidentally when he sent a letter to Livia (his angel). I messaged him to ask how was his O level results that he received yesterday and he was so shocked that I found out his identity and knew his number some more! Anyway, he got 8 points. Definitely staying in VJ!

We finished at about 7pm.

Went to Parkway for dinner with Melissa and Jia Yan. We were super stressed man!

After dinner at the food court, we had ice cream from Anderson's.

It was a sundae (eating sundae on a Saturday. Ha...) with 3 scoops of ice cream. Flavours were Belgian chocolate with chocolate chips, macadamia nuts and some nougat flavour. I love the chocolate one the most! Needless to say, I was the one who chose chocolate since I'm such a chocoholic. Haha...

Then we went to Marks and Spencers because I had to buy chocolates for Mun Bbun. The stuff there was so nice! But quite expensive too. In the end, I bought some cherry chocolates for him (it's looks really nice and I'm so proud of myself for making the right choice!) and sweets for my Angel and mortal.

Shopped around with Jia Yan and Melissa at MPH, then went to Popular which was already closed because Jia Yan wanted to buy stuff for her Valentine's day gifts. Ended up rushing to Evergreen bookshop on the 3rd floor of Parkway in case it was going to close soon.

Which reminds me, I haven't got anything for my friends for Valentine's day. Jia Yan's making personalised bookmarks and Melissa is making cookies but I completely forgot about mine.

Last year, I gave sweets packed in small packets and a "Happy Valentine's Day" note. Doubt I'll have time to prepare anything this year, so I might as well forget it. Was quite disappointed that I had to sacrifice so much for this venture though.

We really had loads for fun. Hadn't had the chance to destress like that for a long time already, since the planning for the whole venture started.

12th Feburary, Sunday

Went to my Uncle's house for a family gathering. It was yuan xiao (the 15th day of CNY). Even though it was supposed to be relaxing, I still could not completely tear myself away from the Valentine's day flower sales.

Had to keep calling the members to plan what time to meet the next day, what to bring, etc.

We decided to stay over at Melissa's house because we expected it to end really late. Then we would need to go to school early the next morning. Wouldn't be able to get buses so late at night, nor so early in the morning.

Things finally became more relaxed when my handphone ran out of battery in the evening. I was a little stressed that I could not contact the members if I had to. But then again, wasn't it better that I now had a valid reason to escape from all the stress and madness?

Nowadays, I'm afraid to switch on my phone in the morning and to open my email inbox. These were the things that I used to look forward to doing. I would wonder if any of my friends sent me interesting messages or emails. Or contacted me to just go out and have fun. Then when there was nothing, I would be rather disappointed.

But these few days, my handphone rings non-stop and I keep receiving mails from the TJ side about their orders. So now, no news means good news. I dread hearing my handphone ring and sometimes, I really wish that it would get lost. Then I would lose everyone's contacts and stuff. No one would be able to contact me anymore. Whahaha... That would be a dream of course. In reality, things would only become messier than they already are.

13th Feburary, Monday

We met to go to Mrs Chuah's house after school today. We had to de-thorn the roses and pack them into classes. Sounds easy right? Wrong.

The de-thorning was actually much easier than I expected. Took a lot less time too.

But it was the packing that was really troublesome.

Esmond (our florist) sent the flowers in batches such that we only had a few types of flowers at one time. We couldn't just grab a bag and pack the whole class's flowers inside.

Instead, we had to pack what we could first, with the flowers we had. Then when the remaining flowers arrived, we would fill in what was missing in each bag. That made everything really complicated and we were doing the work twice (or a few more times), checking each bag and filling it up with the flowers it lacked.

Dinner was prepared by Mrs Chuah's maid. It was nice! There was curry and beehoon and drinks. Another chance to take a breather. I was beginning to get worried that the work could not be finished in time.

After dinner, we continued till late into the night. Less than half the orders were packed by 11pm and people were beginning to leave. Either they didn't have permission from their parents to stay, or they wanted to go home since they stayed nearby. Mrs Chuah decided that we would stay in her house insead of Melissa's because we probably couldn't finish till very late at night.

There were times when I was panicking. I didn't know if we could finish or not.

In the end, the others went back, except me, Melissa, Jia Yan, Ping, Kimberly and WenZhe.

Kimberly slept a little. I could tell that she was terribly tired. But she woke up after a while to continue packing.

WenZhe slept the most. Can't estimate how long though, because time seemed to pass really slowly at night. The rest of us didn't sleep a wink till the next morning.

Ping is really a silent worker type. She does her work properly without any complains and in the end, the work gets done. She does what she's asked to. I really love her man!

14th Feburary, Tuesday, Valentine's Day

Not that I could tell Monday from Tuesday. The clock just struck 12 then there it was. Happy Valentine's Day!

The fact was, we couldn't finish packing that night. Definitely!

The initial plan was to finish packing sometime in the middle of the night, sleep a little, wake up and get ready for school.

Then the flowers would be transported to school in the morning and reach at about 6.15am. After that, we'll set up the booth, people would happily start collecting their flowers at 7am to celebrate their Valentine's Day. A few of us would skip the first period to finish giving out the flowers and then go for lessons per normal.

At least, that was the plan.

But throughout the night, it became apparent that we would not be able to finish even by 6am. Everytime an hour passed, the clock would chime and we would frantically ask one another "what's the time?"

When it finally reached 5am, Mrs Chuah woke up and we all decided that we would have to continue packing into the morning and the flowers would have to be distributed later.

We had a simple breakfast. Milo and peanut butter bread, then quickly went back to work. Mrs Chuah went to school first because she had lessons. She would come back at 10 plus during her break to drive us to school. We definitely had to be ready by then.

And so we rushed through the many plastic bags and finally finshed by 9.30am. We took a short break, changed and got ready for school. Then Mrs Chuah came to drive us at 10 plus as promised.

But the thing is, there were still some flowers that Esmond hadn't delivered. Like the tulips, liles, sunflowers and the big bouquets. Although the number of those flowers weren't that great, it still meant that our orders were incomplete. He would deliver it later to school then we would pack them into the plastic bags.

I was stressed out. Didn't know was I going to face my friends in school and the entire school population when they ask for their flowers and we have nothing to give them because they are not ready.

I already received a few smses and calls fom Livia, Clarissa, Dominicus and Stacy. Although they all asked for their flowers nicely, I could tell that they were getting impatient.

On the way to school, I got a phone call from an anonymous number. He asked "Are you the horticulture girl?". "When are the flowers going to be distributed?"

Since when did I become known as the "horticulture girl"? And how did he get my number? Since this flower sale, I've had people I don't know calling me to ask about flowers. I think they must have got it from people I know.

The problem is, it was almost 11 and the flowers were not ready yet. You know, people buy flowers for themselves or for their friends so that they can walk around school and "show off" the number of flowers they have.

Now what's the point of giving out the flowers so late that we were going to be dismissed soon? In other words, time was running out for people to show off. I totally understand how they feel. That's how I would feel if I were a normal student on Valentine's Day too.

Esmond was supposed to deliver the remaining flowers at 11.15am. But by 12 noon, he wasn't in school yet. I was seriously freaking out! People were coming up to the booth to ask for their flowers and there was hardly much we could do.

When Esmond finally came at around 12.30pm, he only came with a couple of sunflowers. I was terribly disappointed, mostly angry.

Then I heard that there was a gang fight just recently at his warehouse and all his flowers were smashed. Those sunflowers were what he could get for us.

After hearing that, I was more of sad than angry. We couldn't blame Esmond. It was an accident after all.

I almost teared. Tears were welling up in my eyes because I know we wouldn't be able to deliver all the flowers we promised our students. They would be so disappointed. We would be the ones ruining their Valentine's Day!

Zi Rui (my classmate) had a special order for his girlfriend, Justina. he ordered a bouquet of 1 sunflower and 8 red roses. In the end, that wasn't delivered and I was so worried what would happen because I didn't want him to be angry with me over this. Then things would become awkward for us when ever we meet in class.

Luckily, there was a bouquet of 9 roses. And Esmond suggested that I give it to Zi Rui because his was a really big order. That bouquet was the biggest one that we received and I was glad that he suggested giving it to Zi Rui. Otherwise, I wouldn't have anything of the same price to substitute.

After Esmond left, I took the bouquet and wanted to pass it to Zi Rui. But as soon as I turned around to go to the concourse to find him, I started tearing. I put the flowers down and was planning to go to the toilet before anyone saw then wash my face. But as soon as I said "I'm going to the toilet", tears just started flowing out uncontrollably.

The juniors there all saw and there were a few other people at the tables too. I guess they all saw too.

Half-crying, I said "Sorry, I'm just really stressed out!" and turned around to face the wall while I tried to stop myself from crying.

Jia Yan and Melissa came over and consoled me. Definitely felt better after that.

Melissa cried too. And since she was much fairer than me, it was more obvious that her face was red from crying.

But Jia Yan is a really strong girl. She was calm and composed throughout. Luckily we had her around.

In the end, I passed Li Yue the flowers since I couldn't find Zi Rui. She would pass him the flowers during lessons.

Li Yue could see that I was really sad. Kim saw too. And luckily I had them to console me so I felt much better after that.

I met Justina too and explained what happened to her. Told her that we would substitute that bouquet with a 9 roses one instead. And I know it's not about the money, but it's the best we could do then. She was really understanding. I guess it was partly because she could see my puffy eyes...

Li Ling gave me a V day card.

Then I went to the booth to give out the flowers (still incomplete orders though).

My junior class was short of 12 blue roses and we didn't have any more blue ones left. I really really don't want to mess up their orders. I still don't know them very well yet, so I don't want to give them a bad impression.

In the end, I gave them pink ones instead and said sorry. Then were fine with the substitution.

I also passed my class's flowers to them. Luckily only Zi Rui's bouquet was missing. I ordered daisies for myself to give to my friends too. Gave one to Sheryl, Li Yue and Jasmine. And they gave me a flower each too. :)

I also received a flower from Si Hui, Xuan Yun and Hanjie (from TJ).

But Chen Yue came up to me and complained that one of her daisies was dead (it was dropping). So I had no choice but to give her one of my own in exchange. Of course, I felt sad because in order to make her happy, I had to give her one of my own flowers. I paid for it you know?! The sacrifices I had to make...

At the booth. there were people who came up to collect their flowers or to complain that they had missing orders.

We explained everything to them and apologised. We tried to substitute some of the flowers with flowers of another kind. We would give out refunds another day. Some people were cool about it, but there was this particular girl who was really angry. She said "how can like that? so irresponsible" to her friend, loud enough for us to hear.

At that point, I was really upset that I almost cried again. But I was really angry too. It's all because of the stress building up inside me. I had the urge to just blow my temper and shout at her!

"No one wanted this to happen! If you are disappointed about not receiving your ONE flower, I must be feeling 100 times worse than you! So just shut up and go away!" But of course, I didn't say that. It would surely ruin V day for everyone.

After my class was dismissed from lessons, I met Zi Rui and he told me that he found out about everything and said it was ok. You have no idea how good that felt. I know he was really excited about his bouquet so luckily he wasn't mad at me.

Then I went to man the booth until 3pm when we finally decided that we would just go back. The unclaimed flowers were just thrown away or given to friends. I took some back too. But the amount of flowers we threw was quite a lot. But we had no choice. I really wanted to take a break from all this craziness and go home.

Luckily, Li Yue was there to help me keep the booth and waited for me while I packed up. Then we walked to the bus stop together. It was really heartwarming to have someone walk with me since I felt so helpless and stressed out the whole day.

Although this V day was full of so much tears and sweat. I gained a wonderful experience and had some fun too. And most importantly of all, I found out that I had so many wonderful friends who cared about me! That's the most wonderful V day gift of all!

We had dinner after training at Chinese Swimming Club (csc) today.

All of us sat at a long table. The guys one side, and the girls at the other end.

I had grilled salmon. It was almost one of the most expensive among all the stuff we ordered because a lot of them ordered stuff like spaghetti, rice and stuff. Mine costs $10.30. Not very expensive actually, considering the fact that we ate at a restaurant. All the food was actually quite cheap. I think it's because it's for club members only that's why it's not that expensive.

The salmon was wonderful! There was a piece of salmon, with mashed potato and vegetables around it, and with lemon sauce poured over. Delicious! Yum yum!

I had lots of fun today. The girls were kinda in a group, talking about which guy in swimming is the cutest. Haha... A bit bimbotic but very fun! Haha... Of course, it was no guys allowed.

I think the guys know that we're talking about them because we were like giggling and talking in their direction sometimes. Yeah, I know. Bimbotic behaviour. Kevin messaged me during dinner to ask what were we talking about, and asked me not to tell the girls that he asked. Of course, I didn't tell him anything.

Dinner was great! After that, we all walked to the bus stop to take bus. I took bus with some of the guys and talked a little on the bus.

Since the bus would pass by the VJ stop to go to Bedok, some VJ people came on the bus.

George waved to me, although we haven't talked in like don't know how long. I saw him, but didn't expect him to talk to me since we're not that close anyway. He was with Franchesca (not sure how to spell her name). Both of them were from AHS and I got to know George during the leadership camp. I don't know Franchesca though. Had seen her around in AHS and VJ, and heard of her name, but didn't know her as a friend. Anyway, the 3 of us talked a little until I had to alight at Bedok.

Jiahui alighted too. And while we were walking to the bus queue, he asked me what the girls were talking about. And of course, I couldn't tell him. I had a urge to tell, but if I did and all the guys found out, it would be so embarassing!

And he said that all the guys were guessing what we were talking about when they were in the changing room! So if I said anything, it would surely spread among the guys. Then I'll get ostracised by the girls if they found out. So no way am I going to say anything!

Also, I want to talk about Si Wei in my post today.

She's a swimming J1, just joined this year. She's quite pretty, slim and has a nice body.

But she can be a bit whiny and bimbotic at times. Like she asked Ding Yong if she could come for less trainings cos the trainings were making her too tan! And last monday, she complained that she was getting too dark since that was a really hot day...

She's quite straightforward too. Sometimes can offend people with what she says. And also because of this, she can seem a little arrogant. But I think she doesn't do it on purpose. Maybe she doesn't know...

Also, she's an interesting girl. Talks about lots of stuff and is really a conversation starter. There'll never be a quiet moment with her around.

And sometimes, I can sense that she can be quite shy inside too (although she doesn't show it outside). Like she always asks me if I'm taking MRT with her after training because she doesn't want to be the only girl with the guys.

When I first got to know her, I didn't really like her because she came across as too whiny and arrogant. But once I got to know her better, she's actually a nice girl!

Compared to swimming trainings last year when there were only me and Li Ling as the only girls and were really separated from the guys, this year's swim team seems more united and fun!

I think it's because Ding Yong wants the girls and guys to be less separated so I feel like he's trying to be more friendly with us. And it seems to be working! :)

I love the way I've been getting lots of attention in class these few days. (If you've read my previous posts, you would have known that I'm a sucker for attention.)

It's because of the V day flower sales. My class is ordering a whole lot of flowers and they have stuff to ask me, like when will the flowers be delived, how to attach a personalised message and stuff. I'm quite talkative, not to everyone in class, but since this thing started, I've had the chance to talk to most of them.

I like feeling important. So I like it that my classmates come to me in between lessons to ask about the flower sales (although I know this will go away after V day).

And before Econs tutorial when we were already in class waiting for Mrs Leong to come. Jasmine and I were kinda teasing each other.

She punched my left arm (lightly) when I was looking the other way and said that I have muscles. I got quite a shock because I wasn't expecting that. Then when I turned left to look at Jasmine, Clarissa on my right started teasing me too.

Then when I was busy "fighting" the both of them off, Wei Yang came up from the row behind and tried to feel my muscle (*note: NOT in a pervented kinda way!). I didn't see him until I suddenly turned backwards.

Yes, I like being teased (if it doesn't get too out of hand) and getting attention. Haha...

Wei Yang is a really cool guy in my class. He used to be in soccer until he quit because I heard he got into a quarrel with the teacher in charge. Right now, he is cca-less.

He's super handsome. Most good-looking in my class to me. Blur, confident, has a flair for sports and a nice personality.

He doesn't talk a lot actually, but when he opens his mouth, it's always something funny. He always says the funniest comments at the right time.

He has a girlfriend in VJ (not surprising), but I'm not concerned, because to me, he's just a good friend. No that type of connection. Haha...

And ya, to end off this post... I like getting attention! Woohoo! Haha...

Last night after I fininshed charging my phone, I sent him a message...

Me: Hi :) Juz reached home and finished charging my hp. haha... :)

I know, I know. It was a totally pointless message. I just felt curious about what he would reply mah...

Today morning 0720hours

Edwin: Gdmorning mi dear..U on ur way to sch?.. Im on mi way driving to work..Last nite u msg mi..I went to bed liao..Ask u..Did u giv urself ur christian name?Or ur parent giv it to u?Cos i tink charlynn is a beautiful name..

Me: (*hair stand* completely don't know how to reply.)

Firstly, who are you to call me dear?!?! I don't even know you! If it was someone I know personally, then that would be sweet. But... I don't know how to go on...

Secondly, he drives? Sounds impressive, but he's only 24. And that gives me the image that he's that type of busy businessman. Totally different world of people. How to even be friends?

Thirdly, saying my name is beautiful is sweet. But like the 1st point, we're not that close ok...

Oh well... What could I expect him to say to me? Whatever he said, I would probably criticise anyway. But it was a good attempt. Just that I just didn't really like the impression he gave me.

Just no connection la. Haha...

And I'm actually quite particular about other people's sms language. Not as in the words you use, but how you spell your shortforms and stuff. These are the stuff I like to pick on...

1. Think. Not tink. (although u save 1 letter. I'm VERY paricular about this!)
2. Me. Not mi.
3. ... (3 dots) instead of .. (2) (although I liked to use 2 previously. haha...)
4. Too much Singlish or chinese spelling in one sms (lar, ah, hor, liao, le, de, ba...) (1 or 2 would be fine though)
5. Spelling errors! Sometimes it's ok, but if it's quite serious (esp if it's because you pressed the wrong button) , I get frustrated trying to guess what you were spelling.

That's all for now. It's just the stuff I dislike. Everyone has different preferences though. That's why I don't call my friend back after she sends me a sms with the above "errors" to scold her.

There's one person's sms style that I really like. It's Jean, from the TJ entrepreneur club. We are currently working together for the Valentine's day delivery thing so we message each other quite often.

She's a very nice girl. She talks very nicely, even though she may have opposing opinions. And she's not that type of "loud" girl in class. I've only seen her 2 or 3 times though.

As for her sms style, she likes to use ... a lot, doesn't leave spaces after punctuation and uses all small caps. And of course, she doesn't have any of the spelling "errors" that I don't like.

Maybe it's just that I find her a nice person and the tone in her message always seem nice, that's why I like her sms style.

Usually, I don't really like people not to leave a space after fulll stops or commas and I used to like capital first letters.

My sms style changed a little too since then.

The safest way would be to go the completely correct way (in my opinion). Large cap first letters. No spelling short cuts. Correct spacing. And only use one . (full stop). Your tone also matters, but unfortunatly that cannot be taught.

This "conversation" took place over smses... I called the other person no 6 because I saw a digit 6 instead of a 5 in my friend's number. Haha... lame...

5 Feb Sunday 11.30pm

Me: Hi :) pls meet at d gym alley at 7.30am tmr for a very short meeting... blah blah blah... pls acknowledge. thanks. :)

No 6: Who r u? Wat meeting at gym?

Me: This is Charlynn fr horti. meet at d gym alley, near all d house notice boards. :) (I thought maybe my junior didn't have my number yet...)

No 6: I hv no idea who u r..Tink u gt the wrong person..

Me: Are u fr IP class? in horticulture?

No 6: Nope..Tink u gt the wrong num..

Me: Ya, sorry! :)

Next morning during assembly...

No 6: Gdmorning charlynn..Did u manage to find the right person last nite?

Me: (huh? who? then I finally remembered...)

Me: i was wondering who u r then I juz rmbed. haha... thanks! ya, i contacted her. and hav a nice day! :)

No 6: where u schooling?Horticulture?..Is tat the study of plant?

(totally didn't expect the reply)

Me: Ya, it's like gardening society. quite a small cca but v fun! haha... :)

No 6:Wow..Gardening society..Can we b fren?Im edwin..24yr..Hw old r u? Where u studying?

One hour later...

No 6: Hi charlynn..Cant we b fren? =( no reply de?

Me: I was in d LT juz now. no reception la. i'm in vj now, year 2. :) btw my hp no battery soon, no light already. maybe can only see ur reply tonigt. haha... :)

No 6: Oh..U low batt liao ah..Then msg mi after u gt hm n charge ur hp.. U take care hor..

And that's the end. At least for tonight.

Now that I read everything, I think maybe I'm just overly friendly so it seems like I was interested in continuing the conversation with him. I didn't even know that he was a "him" in the first place. I was just being friendly. Serious!

This incident seems a little similar to the stranger incident that happened to me on the bus. I just didn't know when to stop being friendly.

Anyway, I was also grateful that he told me last night that I got the wrong number so in the end, I managed to message my friend. That's why I said "have a nice day" to him when he was expressed his concern in the morning. Totally didn't expect him to reply though.

So now, I don't know what to do. It would seem fun to make a friend. I don't mind making friends if I'm sure that he's not a bad person. But the thing is, I don't know.

He may not be 24 years old. And his name might not be Edwin. He might not even be a guy! (although I highly doubt so. Why would a woman want to pretend to be a guy to make friends with me?!)

I know, I know... I don't even know this guy so it might be dangerous. I know! It seems fun to make a new friend though. But I'm still sensible enough to make the right decisions and take care of myself. So don't worry!

It's the senventh day of CNY, aka ren ri (loosely translated it means people's birthday). So it's everyone's birthday. Woo hoo! Happy birthday to you!

The sad thing is, my class and our junior class is having JTS (junior treat senior) today and I can't go! Because I'm supposed to spend the day with my family! Some of my classmates can't go because of family gatherings too but I wonder why they still put it on that day. Haiz...

Anyway, I went out with my family in the evening and went to have dinner at a coffee shop. We ordered food from the shop that you can order fish, chicken, rice and stuff. Something like a resturant type, just that it's in a coffeeshop. Don't know what is that type of stall called.

We had yusheng (yay! I love yusheng. So yummy and so fun!), fish, mai pian xia (prawns with cereal), honey chicken and baby kai lan. It was really nice!

After the satisfying dinner, we went to he pan (river hongbao) to walk walk. It was nice to just soak in the atmosphere.

I ate a bowl of shaved ice. But instead of water ice, the ice was frozen yoghurt. So nice! And there was passionfruit "sauce" on it too. Just that it's quite expensive, $3. But really really nice man! We also had some chestnuts.

And we met one of our uncle (my Dad's younger brother). He doesn't come to family gatherings, don't know why, so we haven't seen him for a long, long time. He gave us coupons for free ice cream. Haha... So nice of him!

We also saw the fireworks. It was very beautiful! I love fireworks!

In case you don't know, there will be fireworks everyday till the 15th day of cny at 9.30pm so go see if you haven't!

The career development council organised a trip on hospitality to Shatec and some hotel. I so wanna go!

But the thing is, I didn't know about it until after school today! Until Qian Qi told me about it. The announcement was made during asembly this morning and I was late! I'm seldom late, but it's so unlucky that these 2 things fall on the same day.

By the time I found out, registration was already closed. All 40 places were taken!

Remember that time I said I didn't know what I wanted to do in future? Well, I thought about it and decided that I was interested in the tourism and hospitality industry.

When Qian Qi told me about this trip, I was so excited but I was really upset when she said registration was over. I went back to school to check the notice board although I was already halfway to the bus stop.

The good thing is, the notice board had the names of the teachers in charge and I immediately went to look for them in the staff room.

I was planning to tell them that I wanted to take over if any one wanted to drop out or couldn't come on that day. If they still said that there are no places, I would tell them that I would turn up on that day before they board the bus then if there are any people who couldn't come at the last minute because if they were sick or something, then I could take their place.

I know I sound desperate, but I can't help it. I really want to go!

In the end, all 3 teachers weren't around. It was expected since it was already 5.30pm then.

Never mind, I'll try again tomorrow morning. I really hope they have extra places!