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It's my birthday! Haha...

Happy birthday to me. La la la... :)

I received quite a few birthday wishes at midnight, then quite a few more when I turned on my handphone in the morning. Looks like everyone woke up early to study. Haha... Anyway, I'm really thankful for all those wonderful people who remembered!

Thanks to: Kimberly, Li Ling, Shuwen, Xuan Yun, Wei Qi, Lu Jia, Kaijun, Jasmine, Melissa, Hanjie, Stacy, Amarjote, Si Hui and Jacqueline. (in the order that they messaged/called me on 31st August. Of course, there were those who said happy birthday the day before. Love them all too!)

Actually my Mum was the first one. We were watching tv, then the digital clock struck 00:00. I didn't even realise it. Haha... Then it was my Dad. They put 2 hong bao beside my pillow and I found them when I was going to sleep. Haha... My parents so cute! :)

The swimming girls gave me a present today. From all 8 of them. I'm very happy. Haha... :) I didn't expect them to remember cos we don't exactly have a tradition of celebrating each other's birthdays. (Maybe it was because we didn't know each other well enough at the beginning of the year.)

I already suspected that there was a present coming when Cheryl messaged me on monday. That was why I was so happy. Ha... :D

They gave me a very girly pouch/small handbag (I don't really know what it is...) It's so girly, I'm not sure if I'll use it, but it's cute la!

There was also a very nice notebook. The cover was some cloth-like thingy. I don't know how to describe la. Just very cute lor.

So touched by the present. I love them all. Muack muack! :)

I went to school today for Chemistry remedial. Mr Lim is so nice. He even met up with me, Li Yue and Sheryl to give us extra lesson on what we missed out yesterday. He's just the best teacher ever! Although Chem is my worst subject, I want to do well for it because Mr Lim is such a nice teacher...

Anyway, as for the bag that Sheryl and the girls are planning to buy for me, Sheryl checked and it's $59! Not too expensive. Yay... :) Cos I told them that I really like the bag (it's puma, black and gold... omg omg, SO NICE!!!) and Jasmine said it's too expensive, probably about $100. So she suggested that I pay for about half of it, then they come up with $10 each. So I thought might as well, since I like that bag so much and I probably won't buy it if I had to pay the full price.

So I'm happy that it's not as expensive as Jasmine thought. Haha... I'm so excited about it! Only thing though, they'll probably buy for me only quite late cos everyone's busy studying for prelims.

Tomorow's my birthday, and I'll probably be studying the whole day away. Argh!

My birthday wish is to get good prelims and A level results (oops... was that supposed to be kept secret?). If I spend the day studying and get good results, it'll all be worth it. :)

Woohoo! I love receiving presents. I wonder how many of my friends will remember it's my birthday tomorrow. I remember that I wanted to blog about my wishlist, but there are not many things I want right now (except that very nice puma bag!!!). My favourite present is actually a birthday card. It's a very thoughtful and warm gift. Seriously!

(It's a good thing this is a very personal blog and not many of my friends know about it. Haha... I'm talking about my birthday so shamelessly. :P)

The paper was not too bad. For essay, I wrote on stereotypes. My friends said that it was quite a chim topic. No one else I know wrote on that. Really hope that I didn't choose a too difficult topic and under-delivered...

Comprehension went quite well actually. I had 25 minutes to do the application question when I usually have only 10. I was quite surprised and kept checking to make sure I didn't miss out any questions, or even pages. Luckily, I didn't. The AQ was quite difficult. The passages were quite difficult to understand too, but the questions were ok.

Overall, I hope I can score a B4. Shouldn't get my hopes up too high though, cos I'm not sure how I did for the essay and parts of the comprehension.

After the paper, Sheryl and the girls showed me something. I was so happy! Don't tell you yet. Haha... :)

Charlene gave me a pair of earrings for my birthday, and Melissa gave me a champagne glass filled with some nice smelling stuff and roses. So nice! :) Seeing the glass made me remember the times I wiped the glasses in Conrad. Haha... :)

After lunch (me and Sheryl had cup noodles!), I went for Chemistry remedial before going for Econs S.

Cheryl smsed me in the evening. I got quite happy too. Tell you what this is another day too. Ha...

I'm just very happy these few days! :D

The year 2s have official study leave for the rest of the week. So we don't need to go to school until after the holidays to take our prelims. Can wake up late. Haha...

There's no doubt that today is the best day of the week.

My Dad brought my family out to eat something nice to celebrate my birthday.

I suggested going to Swensen's. That's my favourite place to eat, ever! But I seldom go there cos it's not exactly cheap. Haha... :)

And it so happens that there's a promotion! Free ice cream for every main course or pasta ordered when you pay with your HSBC credit card. So good right?!

I had the sambal grilled fish, without the sambal chilli and boy, was that good! So so so nice! Haha... My Mum had Fish and Chips, my brother ate Breaded Chicken and my Dad ate Chicken Salad cos he wasn't hungry. But when the salad came, we got a shock, cos it was so big! Haha... I think he ended up eating more than us.

My ice cream was the called "Angel Hazel". Its's hazelnut ice cream with hazelnut chunks, melted marshmallow, hot fudge, whipped cream and some other yummy stuff. It was quite big, so I couldn't finish. But it was really very nice!

The meal was really worth it cos the main course cost about $13+++ and the free ice cream is worth $8. Cheap! Haha...

It was the best meal that I had for a very long time!

After eating, we walked around at Marina Square (my favourite shopping centre!). Last week me and my Mum didn't finish looking at all the shops cos that place is just so big! Today we managed to visit all the other shops.

I bought a pair of very cute button earrings. Instead of a button stud, it was a string of buttons. So nice! So now you know how come I'm so happy today. Haha...

I also saw a super nice white bag. But I didn't buy. Cos I know Sheryl and the girls are going to buy me a present for my birthday.

They asked what I wanted and I told them I was hoping for a bag. Haha... A bit thick skinned. But save them the trouble of looking for it lor.

After prelims, I'm definitely going to go shopping. Looking forward to it!!! :D

I still remember being so stressed up about prelims just a few days ago. But now, I feel so much better. It seems like some things have miraculously come together to improve my mood. Haha... :)

On Monday, I met this guy on the 608 bus. He's like 40+ years old or something and was injured, having to walk with crutches. Suddenly, he started to talk to me. Seems that he was from VJ. I'm not very sure cos the bus was quite noisy and I didn't hear clearly. He told me about some magazine "spectra" that they used to publish and asked if we still publish it now.

He also talked about some other stuff. Somehow, he ended up talking to me about stress. And said that the best remedy was meditation. Something like that la. I didn't mind talking to him cos he seemed quite nice. Besides, the bus ride was about 15 minutes only.

I was really stressed on that day. But talking to him sort of made me feel better. I just felt nice that a stranger would just talk to me about living life. Haha...

Then on tuesday, while I was studying in the library, Kimberly came by and showed me a short story she saw in a library book. It was a very nice, sort of inspirational story. Somehow, I felt that things had become a lot better from then on.

Wednesday was the day my class celebrated my birthday, so of course I was happy. :)

Today, I suddenly decided to buy a copy of Seventeen. I haven't read that for a long time. It was my favourite magazine, but I stopped reading cos I really had no time. So it felt very nice to read it again. That gold handphone up for grabs in the Seventeen lucky draw contest is just so cool! And it's GOLD too! OMG! I love it!

Haha.... I'm just so happy today. Tomorrow is a short school day, I'm sure it'll be another good one! :D

My class celebrated my birthday for me today. And Hao Quan's birthday too.

Charlene bought the cake, then the whole class gathered round to sing birthday song for us during our break. I'm very very happy today! :D

Both of us had to cut the cake together, and they all insisted that we had to cut together, using the same knief. Not holding hands la. Just holding the same knife. Haha...

And I love blowing the candles. Made me feel like a kid again. Haha... I love birthdays!

The girls asked me what I want for my birthday. I'm going to think about it then tell them. Save them the trouble of thinking of what to buy. Ha! :)

After school today, we had class lunch. 13 people went. It was an excuse to destress cos all of us have been busy studying the past few days. So fun! It's been quite a long time since I went for class outing.

I'm so happy today! Haha... :)

I received a really early present today. From Charlene. Didn't expect it, but oh well... I'm not going to say stuff I'll probably regret later.

This year's birthday doesn't seem to be as exciting as the previous years. Maybe I'm not looking that forward to it because it means prelims are drawing near too.

Anyway, I'm already prepared to receive almost all of my presents late. Cos of prelims, my friends won't have time to buy. And I understand that too. So I already expect them to be late. If they are on the day itself, it'll be a bonus.

Actually, I really don't like to receive belated presents or wishes. Because after the day itself, the special feel about the birthday is already gone. And it's worse if good friends forget. But then again, sometimes I forget too... So never mind...

I've gotten down to real studying yesterday. Studied a lot of organic chemistry. The thing is, I studied at the expense of doing homework and my precious sleep. So today, I didn't do almost all my homework, and didn't understand most lessons. I was super sleepy too. And it's only the first day of the week!

Putting all the stress aside, I feel that studying is actually quite fun. I come home very early nowadays because I don't have cca. Then, I just sit down to study for hours. Gives me a great sense of satisfaction at the end of the day. Haha... I kinda miss cca though.

Today, Li Yue said that I seem to be very quiet these few days. It's very true. I noticed that too. Maybe because I'm too sian-ed by the whole studying thing.

But from now on, I don't want to be so spaced out all the time again. I'm going to be happy! Haha... :D

And, I won't keep whining about studying on my blog anymore cos the more I blog and talk about it, the more I enforce the inconfidence in me. That's bad...

Yesterday, Mr Lim stressed us by telling us how many chapters of Chemistry we have to study. That's 32 in total. And there are 28 days left (and counting...) to prelims. In other words, we need to study 1 and a half chapters every single day, which takes about 2 hours. And multiply that by 4 subjects, that's 8 hours. Include time to do homework, and we're so dead.

After that lesson, I can feel that we all felt the urgency to study hard. For me, it was the urgency to start studying.

After the mid years, I only started doing my homework properly. The homework that I never did before. So how to squeeze in 8 hours of study everyday?!

I don't know if I am stressing myself out too much, but I feel like my dream of 3 or 4 A's is really almost impossible. The teachers made the mid years so damn difficult that all my confidence in myself is draining away. I'm VERY afraid that I won't do well for prelims.

And I don't do well under pressure.

But still, I feel it's difficult to kick start the studying momentum. Like I'm stuck in this "i-don't-want-to-study" mode. It's irritating. Cos I know whining and whining about not having enough time to study won't help at all. I've got to make time! How come my friends can start studying already, but I can't? It's not true that I don't have time... I do!

Yesterday, school ended early and I was planning to come home straight after lessons to start studying. But, the 31 bus took super long to come. After that, I had to go to Tampines Mall to buy some stuff my mother needs to cook dinner, and her lunch.

Then, I came home and took a bath. After that, I studied 3 very easy chapters of Chemistry, then just had to sleep cos I was so tired the whole week. Woke up really late, and did nothing else the whole evening. I'm so angry with myself. I wasted a whole day! And I complain that I don't have time. Argh!

Today is saturday, and I decided that I won't study. I'll take a good rest, then I'll chiong into study mode for the rest of the days until prelims. I don't have anymore time to waste!

Anyway, I really enjoyed myself today. I went to Marina Square with my family. My mother and I went shopping together while my brother and father went to look at other stuff. There were just so many shops in Marina Square. I love that place!

We went into loads of shop, and there was this shop that had sale, so we bought a few things. I bought a shirt, skirt and belt. The skirt is super nice! I'm so happy I bought it! :D

The both of us only managed to visit the shops at one section of Marina Square cos it was getting late. Of course, since we looked into almost every single shop we passed by, it was no wonder that we could only look through one section.

Today was really, really fun! I'm looking forward to going shopping like this again after prelims. But for now, I'm going to study hard. I want to get good results and not regret not studying hard enough after prelims.

Jia you to me! Haha... :)

Finally got to watch the movie yesterday. Still didn't manage to get Sheryl to go along though, she had to study for econs test.

It was a last minute decision to watch the show, because chem remedial and econs S were both suddenly cancelled. Haha... :)

Me and Li Yue went to marina square GV to watch.

The show was really nice. (spoiler ahead) I thought it was just some silly show, but it was more than that.

Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is a very busy man, always caught up in work that he neglected his family. One day, got a universal remote to manage the various appliances that he has. Then, he realises that it's actually a universal remote that controls the universe. Wow... Haha...

It lets him fast forward through the boring stuff in life. And after a while, the remote got used to his preferences. It automatically fast forwarded whenever those situations that he used to fast forward through occured. And he was losing control of his life!

He skipped so many years of his life that his relationship with his wife and children and parents got worse (he was in "auto-pilot" mode in those years he fast-forwarded through). Then he realises that he missed all the seemingly unimportant stuff in life like watching his children grow up, and spending time with his parents.

Then it strikes him that he was fast-forwarding his life all along (even before he had the remote) because he didn't pay much attention to his family at all.

When he finally wakes up (yes, it was all a dream after all!), he decided that he would spend more time with his family.

The story seems kinda bland when u read this, but i can assure you it's not like that. Cos I'm not a good writer. Ha... If the have the time, go watch it. The movie evokes a lot of emotion (I admit I cried... a bit) cos it'll make you treasure whatever you have now, especially your family. :)

I love my family and friends A LOT! :D

Since last night, I started having a very bad sore throat again. This time, it hurts so much more than the last time. Luckily, it began to get better today afternoon. Hope I'll completely recover soon!

Anyway, I think there's a very serious "sore throat" bug going around. Sheryl's sick too. During assembly, during the national anthem this morning, she was "swaying". I was so scared that she'll just collpase and faint. She went home after assembly.

Li Yue is in even worse shape. She got bronchitis or something like that. She went to the hospital to take X-ray today. Luckily everything's fine. She'll be seeing the specialist at the hospital tomorrow morning.

Hope all 3 of us can recover in time for our friday movie date! :)

All JC people have to write their own top 3 achievements that will be included in their holistic report card. Since I took so much time and effort to write and submit it to my teachers, I shall post it here for those of you interested to take a peak at my "achievements".

Don't expect me to be modest here, since it's supposed to tell scholarships organisations and university professors how supposedly good I am. Ha! By the way, I squeezed all the stuff I took part in into the third achievement. Since I already participated, don't waste mah... Hope there's no word limit!

Anyway, I'm so glad, cos I just checked the achievements I submitted online and Mrs Chuah rejected mine. So why am I so happy? She rejected it cos she wanted me to include "highly dependable" and "full of creative ideas" as part of my qualities. I'm so flattered. Haha...

Guess I really have to be thick-skinned when writing this. Anyway, here it is...

Achievement 1: Horticulture Society
Charlynn is the chairperson of the Horticulture Society. She is always full of creative ideas, and during her 2 years, she has initiated 2 projects which were well-received by the student body.

The first project would be the sale of flowers during several in-house concerts to raise funds for charitable causes. The purpose of these flower sales were to provide services to the college, allow members to do community service and give them opportunities to plan and implement projects while identifying potential executive committee members among the juniors. Through this project, she has learnt how to work with others and displayed leadership and decision-making skills.

The next project was a rather large-scaled inter-school flower delivery service with Temasek Junior College during Valentines' Day 2006. Though it was a completely new idea, she was determined to implement it. Response was very good. However, being the first time such a project was implemented, some problems cropped up along the way. Yet, she has learnt much through this enriching experience, and is confident of planning such projects in future.

During her term as the society's chairperson, Charlynn was a highly dependable and responsible leader who earned the respect of the executive committee and her fellow members.

Achievement 2: Community Service
Charlynn recognises the importance of community service and has contributed to various sectors during her 2 years in VJC.

She brought children from the Tampines After Care Centre to Sentosa together with her class during their Service Learing Venture. Also, Charlynn took part in a mentoring program where she taught young children from Ngee Ann Primary School how to read. She has leant how to work with children during these community involvement projects.

In addition, she participated in "Picnic by the Park" organised by VJC and Aljunied CC to raise funds for the community. Her other involvements in community service include mass planting at Bedok Reservoir, the flower sales during various in-house school concerts to raise funds, blood donations and other smaller scale activites.

Through these various community involvement projects, she has learnt not only the importance of community service, but also how to plan activities and work with others.

Achievement 3: External Activities and School Representation
Charlynn also participates actively in activities outside school. She went for 2 attachments at the Conrad Centennial Singapore, where she worked in the pastry kitchen, lobby lounge and banquet departments for a total for 5 weeks during her December 2005 and June 2006 holidays. This experience sparked off her interest in hospitality after having gained much insight into the industry. She has earned good appraisals from her managers due to her positive "can do" attitude, and was also praised for being a very fast learner and interacting well with others.

In addition, Charlynn took up an Advanced Placement Module on International Economics at the Singapore Management University. This course required much commitment on her part. And in spite of her busy schedule due to academic and co-curricular activities, she managed to attend every single lesson and achieved an overall B- grade. During the course, she learnt more about Economics, an area she has a keen interest in, and experienced being independent in a university environment. In general, this course gave her the chance to be better-prepared for university life in future.

A member of the school's swim team, Charlynn participated in several competitions such as the 2005 and 2006 inter-school National swimming competitions, the inter-JC swim meet and Methodist Girls' School swimming carnival invitational relay. Though her first time taking part in a relay competition this year, Charlynn and her team came in 7th in the finals of the 4 x 50m Medley Relay. This was indeed an achievement for them. Through trainings with her peers, she learnt the importance of motivation and team spirit. Also, the competitions taught her how to handle stressful conditions and the essence of determination and fighting to the end. These experiences have changed her and she has become much stronger psychologically.

Charlynn also represented the school in other competitions such as Cashflow 101 organised by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where she became a finalist, Camp Ideaopolis business plan competition, also organised by NTU, and the GIC National Economics and Fund Management Quiz 2006 where she obtained a Merit. These different competitions exposed her to a variety of knowledge where she learnt not only about subject matter, but also teamwork, strategy and presentation skills.

I didn't have school last friday cos it was VJ had our polling day holiday. So I had a super long break last week, including the National Day holiday. Only had lessons on Monday, then Tuesday had celebration. Now, my brain is quite rusty. Almost couldn't wake up this morning, and still feel like I'm in holiday mode. Haha...

Anyway, on friday, I went to get my handphone fixed. The light behind the keypad spoilt, the on/off button very insensitive, and the camera pixels got problem. Whenever I take photo, there'll be lots of dots.

This phone really very troublesome. I think it's the whole batch. Cos when I first bought my phone, the one the lady gave me had the buttons aligned wrongly. I had it changed straight away. Then after using for 1 hour, the * button spoilt. Had to go change another day. Then now, got so many problems.

Coincidentally, there was another guy with the same model sending it for repair on friday too! And some other people also complained that this model no good. My phone is Nokia 6380 by the way. Haha...

The worst thing about repair is the super long waiting time, when sendig for repair and when collecting it, and that everything in the phone will be erased! Ahh... I hate that!

I think all the birthdays I saved in the calendar are erased. I did back up before sending it for repair, so hopefully the stuff can be restored. Luckily there's still warranty, so don't need to pay at all.

I'm just afriad that it'll give me more problems when the warranty is over in another 6 months time.

I went to collect it today. At Century Square after school. During the waiting time, I went to look for some gifts. I want to give Li Yue, Sheryl, Jasmine, Amarjote and Joanne a little something. Just to tell them that I treasure them being such good friends and always helping me with my school work. Especially Sheryl and Amarjote, cos I borrowed so many sets of lecture notes from them because I didn't go to school for a really long time during swimming nationals and when I was sick.

I ended up buying a pack of 6 ice-cream shaped paper clips. Just nice for the 5 of them, and 1 for me. Haha...

I think I'm the very emotional type who treasures my friendships a lot. I'm going to write notes to tell that them I love them. In a friend, friend sort of way, of course. Ha! :D

By the way, my handphone is ok now. Hope this is the last time it'll spoil!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!

Don't worry, I haven't got the date wrong. My birthday is on 31st August, but today is my Chinese birthday. Haha...

Actually, I just found out yesterday! I asked my Mum when my Chinese birthday is, and she said it's the 20th of the 7th lunar month. We calculated, then realised that it's today.

So hurry! Give me my birthday presents! Haha... Joking...

My family never celebrates Chinese birthdays. I think this is the first time she told me the actual date. Ha! :D

Sometimes, knowing too much about a person can be depressing.

Seems like that person is not the one I thought that I knew. So much unhappineess and negative emotions inside. Makes me depressed to know that too...

I was supposed to watch "Click" with Sheryl and Li Yue today, and I was so looking forward to it. Unfortunately, Sheryl told me a few days ago that she couldn't make it cos she forgot she had made a date to go out with her other friends quite long ago. So, she told the 2 of us to go ahead.

The thing is, this outing was supposedly to be a time for the 3 of us to go out together. It wasn't about the movie, it was about spending time with each other. So, me and Li Yue decided that we'll watch the movie this tuesday instead.

Sheryl isn't sure if she's free then, cos her Mum is going to Malaysia one of those days. Anyway, we decided that the both of us will watch it with or without Sheryl on tuesday. So I really hope she can make it.

You know, sometimes Sheryl's blurness really drives me crazy.

Like for the mid years, she didn't hand in one of her Physics essay question and lost about 10 marks for that. She didn't realise it until the paper was given back, and she found that one of the essay question was not attached to her answer sheet. She found that missing question in the end, but Mr Lim said he couldn't mark it for her.

Also for the mid years, she stapled her GP essay wrongly. She wrote 4 pages of essay, and stapled it page 1, 2, 4, 3. The teacher who marked her paper purposely ignored the last page. So her essay was disjointed in the middle, and one whole page of essay was completely ignored. After the papers were returned, she managed to get her essay remarked. Luckily... But she took a lot of trouble to look for that teacher.

Another moment of Sheryl's blurness would be that she accidentally threw away her Physics tutorial which she had completed. She thought it was some rough paper, then when she went home, she realised that her tutorial was gone, and concluded that she must have thrown it away.

There are some other times when Sheryl is just so blur. It amazes me how she can possibly live through it. I don't know... But I guess that's what makes her so cute.

While I was watching the National Day parade on tv, I really felt a very stong sense of pride being a Singaporean. Got quite emotional when they were saying that this is the last parade at the National Stadium, and when they showed the video of the stadium witnessing many important events in Singapore all these years. Also when they said the pledge and mentioned about Mr S. Rajaratnam.

I'm really very, very proud of being a Singaporean. Like how we have racial harmony here, such a good economy. Especially our good government. Yes, I'm proud that we are a nanny state. That the govenment plans everything for us, and takes such good care of us. Is that something that's bad? Of course not!

They have done so much for us, we have a good economy, world class airport, and such wonderful stuff. Why then are we complaining?

You know, not too long ago, people were complaining that youths nowadays are too apathetic. They don't care about things other than themselves. That situation proved to be false when the general elections came earlier this year.

Through so many blogs, the youths made a statement. About how they think we should have oppositions, etc. Honestly, I was quite swayed by some of the arguments they made when I read those blogs. But come to think of it, is our government bad? Is having one major party govern Singapore something we should prevent? No! They are just opposing for the sake of opposing.

I'm saying this now because I suddenly feel such a stong sense of pride being a Singaporean during this National Day. I think it's always been in me, just that this celebration when we all celebrate our achievements as a nation has made that feeling surface.

We are all so lucky to be Singaporeans. We have no natural disasters, no wars among our different races, top-notch security (esp against terrorist attacks and all), great government (if I may say so again) and being such a well developed country in Asia where many of our neighbouring countries are not so well-off. We are lucky that we're a small country too. I think it's because of this fact that we can manage our country so well. We should all treasure what we have.

Singaporeans should stop complaining about what they lack, and instead, see what they so often take for granted.

Also today, I found Mun Bbun's blog through his msn nick. He's a senior I really look up to. He seems to be engaged in so many things at a time, but still able to enjoy it all and do things properly. You know, he was sort of my inspiration to take up the responsibility of being horti's chair and take up swimming (a sport I really love) at the same time.

I knew that it would be heavy on me, but I just thought about how he did it, and with a smile on his face all the time. I wanted to experience a fulfilled JC life. I want to do stuff, and I want to make a small difference.

I don't actually think about him while doing all these things though, it's his passion and zeal for doing everything that has sort of rubbed onto me I guess.

My life in JC has been an enriching one. I like being busy, and doing so many things, though I sometimes still feel that I can't cope. Maybe it's just that I have the passion for doing all these things, but not the ability to measure up.

After reading some of his past entries, I guess my impression of him was further enforced. I won't say that I know him very well, because I didn't spend that much time with him after all. But to me, he's really someone who enjoys whatever he does, and does things to the fullest. He loves Singapore (A LOT!) and also his ccas, and enjoys everything, even studying.

I think I'm somewhat like him... I like learning new stuff, and I really want to enjoy the experiences that I'm going through, whether it's success or failure, happiness or sadness. Because I believe that things happen for a reason. Things that don't break you, make you stronger. And believe it or not, I enjoy studying too, though I confess that this interest may not be that strong sometimes.

Mun Bbun is really someone who I want to be like. I think I have the passion that he has, maybe to a smaller extent though, and I fail to implement it or express it like he does. When I read his blog, I felt somewhat "guilty". I think it's because I don't do whatever I want to the fullest, like him. Maybe it's guilt towards myself, or maybe towards other people that I could have made a difference if I had chose to. I don't know...

And also because I'm easily swayed by my friends. I need people's encouragement and approval for the things that I do. Like if I do CIP, (which I really love doing, and trust me, it's not for the sake of CIP hours) I need a friend to go with me. If not, I won't go for it. It's like I don't dare to express my passion for the things I love enough. And I quite like studying, but I don't say it out loud to my friends cos it may seem "uncool", you know. Like so nerdy or something. People are always saying "I hate studying..." so I don't want to be the weird one and say that I like it, and then get funny stares from them.

I guess this post is really for me to reflect on my thoughts and what I want to do. Mun Bbun is a real good senior and I look up to him from the bottom of my heart. He's in the air force in army, and doing really well now. And I wish him the best of luck in whatever he does! :)

The performance at VJ today really was not interesting at all. I was sitting at the back of the hall with the swimming people and we couldn't hear the video properly.

Plus, the emcees were quite boring. No offence to anyone, and I know that I couldn't possibly have done a better job, so I probably have no right to complain. But, you know, it was just not up to standard for me.

My favourite part of celebrations is always singing the national day songs. I really love that! Still remember that last year, Jasmine, Sheryl, Amarjote and Li Yue, the few of us were singing the songs together.

But this time, no choice la, since all those people sitting at the back were all too un-enthu. And none of the swimming people wanted to sing too. Haiz...

Still, I feel that this year's National Day doesn't have that atmosphere. Maybe it's because I'm too caught up in studies? Don't know. Anyway, whatever happened to those time slots for those National Day videos in between tv shows?

I love lots of those songs. We will get there, home, xin lian xin, where I belong, etc...

After the celebrations, I went home. Everyone seemed to have plans, so I decided that I'll go home to study for the biochem test next week. Now, I've finished half. Haha... So happy!

And here's an early HAPPY NATIONAL DAY to everyone! :D

After school today, the swim team decided to stay back to design our red arena shirts so that we can wear them tomorrow for the National Day celebrations.

Me, Janice and Kevin went to Parkway to buy fabric paint, and we met Joel Tang there. On the bus back to school, we had an interesting conversation. All of us, being year 2s, were asking each other if we had started studying yet.

I said I had only begun doing homework, haven't studied yet. Cos I haven't been doing much homework for the last one and a half years of my JC life.

Surprisingly, Joel gave the same answer. And he said that doing homework can actually be fun. Cos the fun comes when you can sit in front during lesson, take out all the homework you've painstakingly completed, and "display" it on the table for your teacher to see. Then you can pretend pretend to ask questions based on the tutorial, showing that you did your work. Hahaha!!! Damn funny la!

I never realised it, but unconsciously, I've been getting a kick out of doing that the past few days. Whahaha.... :D

That Joel is absolutely crazy too. While Vivien was using the fabric paint to draw on the shirt, he kept yelping and screaming in a sort of girly-gay manner. So funny la! We had a lot of fun drawing on the shirts, laughing like mad whenever Vivien drew something.

In the end, everyone's shirt has the words "VJC swim team" written on it in gold or silver, with a black nickname at the bottom. Mine was "charchar". Haha... Cute!

Kevin's was Bert. Cos he resembles Bert from Sesame Street cos if his big nose. Jiahui's was pang zi (fat boy) cos, erm, you know why. Eugene's was "big trunks" cos of his, you guessed it, big trunks, when he first joined the swim team. And another funny one was Joel's "small kid Tang". Quite cute! And, Joel even wrote on his sleve "Team Singapore". So funny, but quite paiseh! Hah! :D

I thought Shu Qi's nickname was the nicest - "flyer". I thought of it, cos she can swim butterfly. It's such a nice name.

After drawing everthing, we left them in the girls' toilet to dry. I seriously hope nothing happens to it.

Anyway, me, Sheryl and Li Yue are going to watch "click" this Thursday. During one of our breaks, we wanted to do homework at the concourse. But in the end, we ended up having quite a bimbotic conversation.

I was complaining about how I didn't get to go shopping over the weekend, and we also talked about cute guys in Superband, Singapore Idol and the new 9pm show on Channel 8 tonight, and teased Li Yue about her boyfriend. Totally bimbotic! But it was so fun! Haha... :D

It was then that we realised all 3 of us were interested in watching that movie, so we're going to watch it on thursday, probably at Plaza Singapura. I'm so looking forward to it. The 3 of us are best friends in class, and hang out in school all the time. The weird thing though, is that we've never gone out together before, other than the occassional class outing.

Yup, so that's why I'm so looking forward to Thursday!

Ps. I wanna blog about the cute guys we were talking about too, but that's a story for another time. It'll probably be a long post. Oh no, I think the prelims stress it making me bimbotic! HA!

迷路兵 was crowned the 第一天团 of Singapore last night. They rock! Haha... :D

I'm waiting for my hair to dry now... I'm so tired, but I'm not going to sleep with wet hair. I know there's always the hair dryer, but I'm lazy. Haha...

Anyway, came home quite late cos I went to see Xin Yi's dance concert with Sean and Aishu. That Feng Sheng la, he rather go to night safari and see animals than see us. Hmph! Haha... Just kidding... :D

I ended school super early today, 12.45pm. Then ate lunch and went to library to study. In the end, I was so tired that I fell asleep. Even drooled a little. I think no one saw... hopefully. Ha!

Did a bit of homework, then met Aishu at 5.15pm to go to Suntec. We bought bread at Carrefour to eat, then went to buy her black shirt. Seriously, I miss shopping A LOT! I better go shopping tomorrow. Haha... After all, I didn't get to go out properly last week cos I was so sick.

Then, we met Sean to go to Victoria concert hall. There, some RGS girls were selling daisies. Just like horti selling flowers before concerts. Wonder if they copied our idea. Haha... They also sold heart shaped balloons, and people could write messages on them for their friends.

We already bought a sunflower for Xin Yi. And it was like our sunflower so much bigger than other people's daisies. Haha!!! :P

For the concert, we had front row tickets. It wasn't as close to the stage as I thought it would be. That was good, so we didn't have to strain our necks. They were really good seats.

The performance was nice, there were some that I particularly liked, but I can't remember them now. And we were looking out for Xin Yi everytime there was her performance. Seriously, dance people all look similar. Slim, pretty, and with long hair.

Xin Yi was in this Spanish dance performance. I thought the dresses were so pretty and colourful. All the costumes were nice.

My favourite dance was the last hip-hop item. There was this girl that danced really well, it was nice to watch her.

After the concert, we waited for Xin Yi to come meet us. We wanted to go eat supper together, but she couldn't come along cos it was getting late. Anyway, it was weird that she had so much make up on. We might go out some other day when she looks her usual self. :)

The 3 of us went to Raffles City Mos Burger for supper. Aishu left early, then me and Sean left after we finished eating. When I reached home, it was almost 12. My parents were watching the VCD "Ultraviolet". I watched a bit, but didn't know what was the story about. Confusing...

Anyway, now I have a craving for instant noodles, and also ice cream. But I'm too full to eat anything. Besides, eating at almost 2am at night (or in the morning) will probably make me fat. So I shall go sleep pretty soon, after my hair dries...

August is finally here!

My favourite month! Haha....

Why?

Cos my birthday is in August!

This year in particular, it seems like it's been a really long time since the last August was here. I don't know how to describe such a feeling either. Haha... I just feel happy that it's my favourite month now.

My birthday is on the 31st. So it's still quite a long way away. But I don't know why, I'm always so excited about that special day.

When I was young, I used to count down to it since more than 1 month before! Now, some of the excitement has died down, but I still look forward to it nonetheless. :D

I don't understand how people can treat their birthdays just like any day. I hope I never ever feel that way about the 31st of August. It's that very special day, just for me! Hahaha...

And I'll make sure that there's a cake and people singing birthday song! Haha... My friends may do it for me, and I know that my family will do it for sure. They know how important it is to me! :)

Last year's birthday was nice, except for that unexpected gift that was quite a surprise. I still have mixed feelings about it. Hmmm...

I'm quite sure this year's will be nicer. I don't know why either, it's just that feeling. Like me and my group of friends are much closer now, and I know that they'll be happy for me too.

When we had to find a present for Jasmine's birthday, it was so troublesome, and we were afraid that she wouldn't like the gift. So I told the girls that I would tell them what I want. Hahaha.... So bu yao lian. But at least I'll save them the trouble of looking for it.

I already have some things in mind. I'll put up my wishlist one day. Haha...

I love August! Woohoo! :D

Today is the Careers and Scholarships fair at VJ.

In the morning, speakers from the 3 local universities came to talk to us about scholarships and studying at their schools. The main thing about local scholarships is that they don’t have bonds. So you won’t be tied down after your studies.

After lessons today, we went to the hall where there were many booths set up by the various organizations and where we got a lot of flyers and brochures. At first, I walked around with Sheryl and Li Yue. But after that, I got separated with them and was with Jasmine instead.

Jasmine is more interested in business and marketing, and she asked a lot of questions. I really learnt a lot more with her. Haha….

Then, we went for the EDB talk at LT3. It was almost the same as what we heard when we went to EDB with Bizclub the last time. It was the same guy too. And he’s still so funny…

Then, we walked around at the concourse, looking at the local universities’ booth.

At the NUS booth, the guy there was somewhat agitated. He kept arrowing the other 2 schools, especially SMU. It’s quite funny actually. And Jasmine, seeing his so agitated, wanted to shoot him further, asking him questions that put NUS down. And he really got more agitated. Haha… Jasmine is a really good speaker. Like the debate type. So I think he really got pressured by her. Haha… It was really very funny! We laughed a lot about it afterwards.

Later, I went for the KPMG talk. It was very useful cos I learnt a lot more about accounting. The speaker was from VJC, and he sang the whole Victorian Anthem. Haha… Such a funny guy! I really leant so much from this talk, and now, I’m so interested in the scholarship.

All in all, I’m interested in the EDB, GIC and KPMG scholarships. Thing is, I don’t know if I’m good enough to qualify. EDB and KPMG require good results, plus excellent CCA records. For GIC, it’s 4 A’s, at least B3 for GP and excellent CCA records. How to qualify like that? I’m especially attracted by the challenging career as a fund manager at GIC though.

Before today, I didn’t have any idea what I wanted to be. Now, I think I have a clearer picture. Going to meet Mr Ho, my teacher advisor, tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll have a clearer picture on what I want after that.

I've been wanting to change my blog skin for a very long time now. But always can't seem to find one that I like. I'm very picky...

The available ones are either too girly and all about love, or too sadistic. It's going to take me a very long time to find something I like.

Anyway, decided to blog in a different colour today. Just for fun. Haha!!! :)