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I've moved.

2007-06-24T14:49:00.000+08:00

Hi! My new blog add is www.0ne-two-three.blogspot.com. Note that it's 0 (zero) in 0ne, and not O ("oh"). Haha...

I've decided that my obsession with ice cold coffee is finally over, and I'm gonna move on to something new. Don't know why I choose that particular name. It's easy to remember I guess, and I wanted to use the letter "oh" initially, but the add was already taken up. Oh wells...

It's gonna be a whole new beginning, moving on to uni life. I just pray that I'll have time to update frequently so it won't become dormant towards the end like this one... I may decide to let my friends know about this new blog, so we can keep in touch with each other's lives... Dunno yet, we'll see how.

Happy reading! :)

I'm in a purple-ly kinda mood :)

2007-05-03T07:56:00.000+08:00

Whoo!! I highlighted my hair purple on tuesday. And I absolutely love it!!!

I had a 30 mins cut, and I thought the layering was very, very well done. :)

Then, the guy took 45 minutes to put on all the aluminium foil thingys and I had to sit for another 1 hour for the colour to set.

After washing and blowing dry, my day at the hair salon took a grand total of 3 hours!

It's supposed to be kinda purple, but it looks more red actually. It doesn't really matter though, cos I think it looks nice. Ha!

Just that I'd rather tell people that I highlighted my hair purple than red, cos most aunties have decided to dye their hair red too... Hmmm...

Anyway, I'm really pleased with everything.

Work has been going great, and I'm having loads of fun.

Interviews kinda sucked, but oh well, they're supposed to.

So yeah, my life's kinda fun right now, which explains for my lack of blogging. Ha! Paiseh...

Hi!

2007-04-06T18:42:00.000+08:00

I haven't updated my blog in eons!

I've been busy with scholarship stuff and work.

Out of the 7 new scholarship applications (MAS, SIA, NUS, FIREfly, SGX, PUB, LTA) that I sent, I've received calls from the last 4 scholarship organisations to go for interview. I turned down LTA and PUB cos at that time I had already confirmed the PSC one. But I went for the FIREfly and SGX ones just to not limit my options.

The FIREfly interview was fine, and I got into the second round. But I turned down the interview cos it would take a whole day, and I wasn't very interested in it anymore.

SGX hasn't called me for second interview yet, but I'm actually quite confident of being called up cos my interviewer actually said I was an impressive candidate. Ha!

I guess my greatest concern would be that if I want to get another scholarship offer so I can widen my choice, they may not be able to get back to me before 1 May, which is the dateline to accept the PSC scholarship.

But after loads and loads of thinking, I think I'm going to finally accept the PSC scholarship. I think the career that comes with the scholarship is really, really important. I wouldn't want to break my bond cos that's a breach of integrity. Then again, I was quite worried about a job with the civil service cos of the low wages, as compared with the public sector.

That was then. Now, I think my mind is quite set on this scholarship and career. I suppose the salaries of civil servants will be more in line with the private sector 5 years later, when I graduate. If it isn't, I'll see how then. After all, the salaries aren't up to market rate, it's not really my fault right? Just that I hope that won't happen.

It'll be great if I can get at least market rate salary, and a good job at the same time! :)

I got it!

2007-03-18T16:03:00.000+08:00

I just received an email from PSC last night that my grades have qualified me for the scholarship!

My first reaction was that I'm super, super happy. Later, I felt kinda angry. Know why?

Cos they had to take so long to decide that I qualified for the scholarship, that I already sent in my applications to the other scholarhip organisations, and had to write more than 5 essays about myself, not to forget I had to take 2 days of leave to write them. Irritating! Couldn't they have told me earlier?

Anyway, I feel more happy than angry. I'm glad that they still want me despite my one merit and one ungraded S papers results.

I once heard from a teacher that it's often the case where the same few students will receive multiple scholarship offers, while the others won't even get one. Sure feels good to know that I'm probably in the top section. Ha!

I'm a little confused as to whether I really, really want the scholarship though. I think I'll probably take it, but I'm afraid of all the expectations that come with it. Their Management Associates Programme sounds so impressive that they'll groom you to become a future leader and all, but I'm really not sure if I'm up to it. That's why I'm scared.

It's not that I don't have confidence in myself though. I think I can I go through it and come out much better. It's just the thought of that little possibility that I might not make it that scares me.

But, I just have to say that I'm glad I got the scholarship. At least I can relax a lot more. I'm going to call the PSC lady tomorrow to confirm some things before I really decide if I'm going to sign on the dotted line.

I'm happy! Woohoo! :)

Scholarships

2007-03-15T15:15:00.000+08:00

I've been applying for loads of scholarships the past few days, and it has been a mad rush. Almost all the deadlines are today, and I took leave today specially to complete my applications.

The past few days, I've been reaching the office early since it's the school hols and there's no jam, and my Dad wants to go early so we don't have to pay ERP. So I reach at about 7.30am, 1 hour before work starts. Anyway, it's been good because I get an hour to type my scholarship essays. So it's been like that every morning for some time now.

And then, I bring food for lunch so that I can stay in the office to type my essays some more. And when I reach home in the evening, it's some more type type typing after 8pm.

I just completed all my applications, and I'm one happy girl now.

Work has just begun to get more and more busy, and I'm actually very happy to do OT since I get paid, and it's just lots of routine stuff. So why not?

The thing is, I couldn't work OT the last week cos I had to rush home for all these scholarship stuffs. But now that it's all over, I'm going to have a lot more time for myself.

I applied for NUS, SGX, SIA, FIREfly, MAS, PUB and LTA scholarhships. A whole load of them. It's mostly because my conditional offer from PSC has yet to be finalised. It's that kind of feeling where they first tell you "hey, you got the scholarship!" then they take it away from you, leaving you empty and bare. The PSC lady said that the board will have to consider again, on a case by case basis, so nothing's confirmed. It's not a nice feeling.

I've also considered the bond. And although I must say I'll be happy to serve my bond at some organisations, there are one or two that don't really interest me, and those are the ones I just applied for fun. I wonder how many of them will actually consider my application seriously and call me up for an interview.

I think I wrote quite a lot about my CCAs and stuff, and it's quite impressive I guess. I really put a lot of effort into all those essays, and I really hope that someone high up there actually gets to read it seriously before it gets chucked into the"reject" bin or something.

Anyway, I'm just hoping for the best. I went for open houses the recent weekend, and had to sacrifice my precious sleep and shopping. I'm looking forward to having a good break this weekend.

Anyway, with regards to my university applications, my first choice is the double degree for Econs and Law at NUS. My second choice is Econs single degree there. Though I heard from some of my supervisors that NUS Econs is not really recognised, I have already made up my mind. At first, I was swayed to take up Business or Accountancy instead, because of what they said. But when I saw the curriculum topics for Econs, my eyes lit up, and I realised that Econs is really what I'm interested in. Business and Accountancy is fine, but that just wouldn't be the same. It would always be only my second choice.

So, if I fail to get into the double degree course, which is very vey competitive (only 15 students!!) I decided that I shall try to join the University Scholars Programme (USP) at NUS to add more value to my supposedly not-very-recognised degree.

The open houses were fine, and I thought NTU's was a lot, a lot more fun than NUS'. I think it's the atmosphere and the way they welcome you to their school. On Saturday, I went for both. On Sunday, I went back to NUS again, to give them a second chance to impress me or something, if not I wouldn't be happy to go there. And luckily, they sort of did.

I didn't go to SMU though. I decided that I didn't like the school anymore, so I'm not even going to apply for SMU. It's kinda weird actually, because when I was in year 1, I some how just wanted to go to SMU. Now, I'm not even considering it...

I think it's a big step from JC to uni. And the course I get really determines a lot about my future career. I just hope to get what's best for me, though I may not even know what it is right now!

A Levels

2007-03-02T23:48:00.000+08:00

I got 4 A's, A2 for GP, and a merit for Econs S.

I'm really pleased with myself, and I must say that I was expecting 4 A's. GP is good, better that I thought I would get. And the Maths and Econs S papers were really tough, so a merit for one and an ungraded for the other is quite ok for me.

I think I can qualify for the PSC scholarship already. I'm gonna call PSC for confirmation or something. I'm really happy. Whoo!

Day before A's

2007-03-01T23:11:00.000+08:00

Results are going to be released tomorrow, and I'm not very nervous.

I guess it's because I'm already numb to it all.

When I got the PSC acceptance letter, I actually cried a lot. Not because I was happy, but because I was stressed.

I feel as if everything is on the line. If I do well, I'll get my PSC scholarship (probably even multiple scholarship offers), go to a great school, graduate with great honours, and land myself a great job that pays well. Great!

But if I don't, I can't get my scholarship, I probably can't go overseas for Masters cos it'll be too expensive, I'll be second grade to those who have Masters degrees, and then get a second grade job. My life would then suck real bad. Well, maybe not too bad, cos I don't think I'll do too terribly.

I think A's are super important, because with A level results, you decided which course and university you can go to, which affects your career choices very much, which then decides your life.

Whatever it is, I don't know what to feel. I'm a lot less worried than I thought I would be. I'll probably fall asleep soon after I lie down in bed cos I'm terribly tired.

I think I won't do well for S papers, and that's what I most worried about.

As for the other papers, I actually think I will do not bad. 4 A's is very possible, I think. Though I really have a nagging feeling of doubt at the back of my head as I'm typing this.

The best would be for me to see my name up on the board (where they post the names and results of the top students). I really hope my friend, or my junior would call me before I reach school tomorrow to tell me that my name is up there.

Well, we'll leave everything till then. I'm just going to sleep and hope I don't have a nightmare about my results.

One in a million

2007-02-24T21:40:00.000+08:00

Actually, it's one in twenty-two.

I went for a PSC tea session for provisional scholars today, and I was pleased to find that only 22 provisional scholarships were given out this year, and I'm one of them! Haha... I feel really honoured, and I can't believe that this is happening to me.

I used to think that PSC scholarships were very, very prestigious, that I would never even have the chance to know anyone great enough who got the scholarship. And now it's happening to me.

Not that it's not that great now, just that it seems more real to me.

When I think about it, I still can't believe that all this is happening to me.

Before A's, I never thought of even applying for the scholarship at all. I thought it would be zero chance. I wouldn't be able to get the grades good enough, nor pass the stringent selection interviews.

All thanks to Sally who asked me to accompany her to a PSC tea session. I didn't want to go initially, cos I had no one going with me, and I felt there wasn't a need to (since I had no chance at the scholarship). But I decided to go take a look, and was persuaded to send in my application.

I just took it as a chance to gain experience, even if I didn't make it.

When I got the call to go for the interview, I was excited, and happy. I didn't know anyone else who got called for the interview.

After the panel interview, I remembered going to the toilet to cry. I was disappointed with myself. I didn't know the answers to some of the questions, and some of the interviewers were quite harsh. I wan't optimistic about the results at all, and I took it as experience gained.

Even now, I'm still not sure what they see in me. And I'm not trying to be humble here. Maybe it's because I'm just like that - I don't see me as being good. If someone else had exactly the same results as me, the same CCA records, I'll probably think that person is wonderful. I just can't see myself as being that person.

I guess this kind of thinking helps too. That's why I never think I'm too good, I never stop at what I already have. Because I feel I'm never good enough. Anyway, enough of this already. I should trust myself more, since I already have confirmation that I have what it take to be a PSC scholar.

So when I got the acceptance letter, I was estatic of course! And now here I am, going for tea sessions for provisional scholars.

It all depends on my results now. I heard A's are coming out on Friday. Cos the NS guys have their Friday schedules marked as "Admin", or so I heard.

The PSC officers at the tea session assured me that grades aren't everything. There was a President Scholar who didn't get straight A's, but he became the President Scholar anyway. So I'm not so nervous now.

I can't wait for A's to be released! I dying of anticipation.

Hi all!

2007-02-20T20:13:00.000+08:00

I was too busy (and lazy) to blog for so long!

Happy belated Valentine's Day and Xin Nian Kuai Le!

I went out quite a lot with my friends over the past week.

Went to NYDC at Suntec with Wei Qi on friday (9th Feb). My first time eating there. I had the roast chicken spaghetti which I thought was not bad, and we also shared 2 slices of cake. Yum yum! Later, we went to play pool at Marina Square. I won by a bit. Ha!

Saturday, I went kickboxing with Shuwen as usual. That day's exercise was really very, very tough!

As for Sunday, I went to my Aunt's house for early reunion dinner as my family will be spending the actual day at my Dad's side. We played asshole daidi as usual, and it was a lot of fun!

Monday, I went with the other interns to Crystal Jade at Suntec. It's my first time at Chrystal Jade. I'm such a mountain tortise. It was a lot of fun, being our first outing together. I thought the food was nice!

On Tuesday, I went out with Janice. We went to New York New York. My first time too! Haha... I went to many nice restaurants for the first time the whole week! It certainly burnt quite a hole in my pocket, but it was really worth it, considering the fact the last time I met up with all my friends was before I started work.

Something really disastrous happened that day. My handphone ran out of battery at the last minute! Worse still, I don't know Janice's number by heart. (That's how reliant I am on my phone. I don't think I'm the only one.)

We were supposed to meet at City Hall MRT, but we were also thinking of going there earlier to get seats. So in the end, there wasn't a certain place to meet. And with no handphone, I could only hope to meet her along the way.

I walked from the MRT station to NYNY and back, TWICE!, before Janice spotted me. Thank goodness, if not I wouldn't have known what to do.

The main course at NYNY is not bad, quite cheap too. We shared fish & chips ($12.90) and cheese balls. The cheese balls were some kind of appetisers - small harshbrown balls filled with cheese. Not bad, though it was so little, it wasn't worth the $8.90 we paid.

We went shopping at Marina Square, before going to Gelare for half priced waffles. Ha! Super nice, and we were really full by then. I saw Teng Wen there too.

Wednesday, also Valentine's day, I went out with my HOT DATE.

Wei Qi and I went to chocolate factory at Clarke Quay. We shared a chocolate souffle and a slice of chocolate cake. Luckily we went early. If we had reached just 5 minutes later, we would have to wait for seats.

We had little to eat, and just talked, partly about guys. Haha... She was going clubbing with her friends at Zouk so I went home first.

Friday: we had half day off from work! I worked till 3pm and claimed 2.5 hours of OT, and still went home earlier than usual. What a nice day.

Saturday was CNY eve. I went to my Uncle's house for reunion dinner. We played blackjack, and I lost $4. I always lose every single year...

Sunday: first day of CNY. I went to my Grandma's house, then to my Auntie's house. I played mahjong and won 20 bucks. It was all because of the one round where I got all the animals, and a flower (5 tai) and zi mo. Ha! We were playing 20 cents, 40 cents. I won another $10 at blackjack. Super lucky day for me!

Monday: the second day, I went to my Auntie's house again. I won another $15 at mahjong. I am seriously getting more expert at this! All thanks to my qing yi se, I got another 5 tai. Ha! All in all, I won $40 in gambling. Though I must remember that gambling is not good... This is enough to recoup all my loses for the past years. Ha!

It was a great CNY, and today, my family spent the whole day at home watching shen diao xia lu DVD. Shoik! I'm looking forward to going back to work again. Wei Qi's going for interview tomorrow cos we're hiring 2 more interns. Hope she gets the job!

*PS: I wanna tell everyone some superb news! I've got a PSC SCHOLARSHIP! It's provisional though, means that I have to get my excellent grades for A's in order to confirm that I've gotten it. In case you don't know, PSC scholarships are super prestigious! Woohoo! I'm so happy, though anxious at the same time. I can't wait for A's to be released!

We went to the Maldives today!

2007-02-08T21:04:00.000+08:00

From Sentosa, we went to the Maldives. And it was tiring work!

We had to move all our files, stationary, and even computers!

The view from the Maldives was simply breath taking.

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm referring to the meeting room that we interns use at work.

The one we usually used was called Sentosa.

The new one is called Maldives. Or at least we named it so. It's original name is actually Tekong. So not-nice right?

We had to change rooms cos they wanted to reconfigure the wiring in the previous room.

The new room is spectacular! It's much bigger, the chairs there are posh-er, the tables are nicer, and most importantly, the view is superb!

Our entire building has glass walls (wanna guess what building it is? haha...) and our meeting room is a corner room. So we have great scenery. We have sea view, and I took the seat right next to the window. Dammmnn SHIOK!

I first saw the room when I peered in this morning. But when I went right in and looked at the window, my only reaction was "OH MY GOD!"

Eileen had the exact same reaction too. I don't know how to describe it, but it's like when you look from the outside, you really cannot tell what's the big deal about the scenery. But, once you see it, you cannot believe your eyes. You can't even believe what you're seeing is in Singapore. Looks like some posh resort!

The bad news is, we may have to move back to the old room cos they wanna put the new permanent staff in our nice room. But Julie says she'll see what she can do. I really hope we can have the nice room!

QQ, Sylvia and SJ are together with me in that nice room.

The others are still at the intern bench which is really quite bad cos there's no privacy since it's at the walk way, and they can't talk! Super boring, not to mention there's no awesome sea view.

I love the new room! If I can sit there for the rest of my intership, I'll be happy to go to work everyday.

The good bits of life

2007-02-06T23:38:00.000+08:00

I'm getting my life back. Slowly but surely.

It's no longer being eaten up by work.

It used to be wake up, go to work, come back, sleep.

BORING.

Now, it's much better.

I just signed up for kickboxing at Bedok CC with Shuwen. Went for my first class on 3rd Feb, and the second lesson just last Saturday.

I also went rollerblading with Jasmine and Amarjote on Sunday at East Coast. It was so much fun catching up. I completely forgot how to blade and kept falling down. Amarjote had to keep pulling me. I fell down quite seriously when we went down the mild slope. But I don't know why, I always laugh when I fall. Seems kinda fun actually. Ha!

I got the hang of it in the end, and was blading at normal speed. Later, we went to Subway for lunch. Ahh... A good excercise followed by a healthy lunch. I like! :)

I'm meeting up with Wei Qi this friday, and Janice next Tuesday.

Next Monday, I'm going to Crystal Jade for dinner with all my working friends. It's our early CNY "reunion" dinner and to celebrate Friendship Day.

I'm sooo looking forward to it! :)

I did OT today. Seems kinda fun. Pei Shan didn't come today, and I used the computer at her desk. Garren, Dora and Sabrina are such nice people, it was nice sitting with them. Sabrina was going to a hotel after work to check out where she wants to hold her wedding. It's going to be next year, and I'm just glad that I found out. I also don't know why. Haha...

It's nice working OT. It's peaceful in the evening, and much easier to work. Somehow, the mood seems more relaxing too. Like it's less formal.

And I love how the company provides snacks for those working late. Today, there were kaya, tuna and chicken puffs from Delifrance. All expensive stuff. I feel like the company takes really good care of us, so I'm glad to do OT, even though I didn't have to.

Dora was so nice, she got me food when it came. :)

I'm beginning to not dislike my job now (I used to really hate it when I first started). That's really good!

Hope the rest of my days there will continue to get better!

I'm looking forward to Chinese New Year!!!

The send off

2007-01-23T23:19:00.000+08:00

Immediately when the clock struck 5.30pm, me and Mel left the office and headed for Changi Airport to see Mun Bbun off. He's going to Australia to study, and will finish his studies in 4 years time. That's a long time!

As for his farewell present, we bought him a pair of bride and groom bears.

Cos when Mel asked what farewell gift he wanted, he joked about asking us to get him a wife. The 2 bears were wrapped separately. He could open the girl bear first, but could only open the boy bear when after he went in.

Attached to the boy bear was a card saying "this is in case you're GAY!" Haha...

There were loads of people there to send him off. Loads of his army friends in uniform I think.

Me, Mel and Teng Wen got to talk to him a bit, though he was sort of going around talking to all who came to send him off. Will surely miss him after he's gone. We can still talk on msn, so it's quite ok la.

I brought camera, but forgot to bring the battery. *bang head against wall*

Also forgot to bring my handphone out today. And my water bottle. -_-"

After he left, we went to have dinner at Terminal 2. I had ban mian, and the soup was super hot, so my tongue got quite burnt. Pain pain...

I'm super tired today. But I'm not gonna sleep soon... If not all my days will just be go to work, come home, sleep. So boring. I want to do other stuff too...

Blah.

2007-01-22T22:20:00.000+08:00

That's how I summed up the entire day using one word.

There was nothing for me to do the entire day except small things here and there.

Pei Shan made me do OT on fri so I could start on something else today, and now I can't do anything cos the files aren't available yet. Ahh... I was really bored today. Time passes more slowly when you have absolutely nothing to do.

I even had time to read the entire TODAY newspaper, including the advertisements (except the sports section which I don't normally read).

Work only came at 5pm. Same as friday. Luckily I didn't have to do OT cos it wasn't urgent. Can continue tomorrow.

After work, me and Mel went to Tampines Mall to buy a farewell gift for Mun Bbun. It was difficult finding a present for a guy. So many things are so girly.

We saw a mug that said "For the best grandma" and we wanted to buy that for him. Ha! Super funny la. There were loads of other stuff too. I suggested we should take a neoprint of ourselves and give to him so he can remember and think of us whenever he sees it. Ha!

In the end, we found the perfect present. Shall write about what it is tomorrow.

We're going to see him off tomorrow after work. I better not have OT. I'll cry if I do. And if my supervisor forces me to stay back...

I'll QUIT!

Or probably not.

Looking forward to tomorrow! :)

Horti bbq

2007-01-21T14:24:00.000+08:00

We had a horti bbq last evening. My batch and our seniors and grand seniors came, plus a couple of Mun Bbun's friends.

Out of the people I knew, there were Kim, Mel, Wen Zhe, Jiayan, Wei Sheng, Mun Bbun, Kaijun, Teng Wen, Esther, Venkat and Shan Ren.

It was at Mun Bbun's house. The place was super nice! The function room had a nice pink sofa, and there was music.

It was drizzling a little at the begining, but it didn't dampen our spirits.

Mun Bbun's Mum helped out a lot, and she was really nice. The food was great. We even fried nuggets using a metal tray filled with oil placed on the bbq pit. So smart!

I think Teng Wen is the ultimate bbq king. While I was at the bbq pit with the guys, I saw the expert display his skills. He's damn good!

Yin Ren is another bbq king. During the previous bbq at my house, his chicken wings were cooked to perfection. Not burnt outside, and cooked inside. Too bad he didn't go yesterday. He called me at the last minute to say he has guard duty. What a pity...

We also played cards. Me, Kim, Mel and Wen Zhe played pig. Super funny!

We also went to Mun Bbun's house to play mahjong. Couldn't tell that Wei Sheng is a mahjong expert. I picked up a few tricks while watching the others play. Can prepare for Chinese New Year when I play with my cousins. Haha...

Yesterday was also Wen Zhe's 21st birthday. So happy that she decided to spend such a special day with us. Today is Wei Sheng's birthday, and 29th is Jiayan's, with Esther on 2nd Feb. We had a super yummy chocolate cake and took some group photos.

Then we went back to play mahjong and xbox.

We had some money problems though. Everyone was supposed to pay $10, and it would be enough to cover the cost of the bbq. But because some people came only for a while, or couldn't come at the last minute, we collected less than we were supposed to. But the food for the original number of people had already been ordered. If they didn't come, it meant that we couldn't cover cost! In the end, we were short of about $100. I wonder how Mun Bbun's going to handle that since he paid for everything first. I felt really bad cos he had to do so much of the planning, and now even has to fork out so much money.

Though Yin Ren offered to pay since he had to back out at the last minute, we felt it wasn't right to collect money from him.

I was in charge of collecting the money, and it was really difficult cos I even had to collect from Wei Sheng and Esther even though they came for only a little while and barely ate. When I collected money from Wei Sheng, the others asked "what did he eat?". And it was terribly awkward for me cos I had no choice but to be thick-shinned and just collect the money since we were already short of so much.

But I don't think I was at fault for doing that. He was supposed to come early. It's not my fault that he chose to come late, and ate so little right? I'm not angry with him or anything. That's just the way things are, I guess. I don't everyone can understand that.

When I handed the money to Mun Bbun, I felt bad inside cos we were short of so much. But I don't think it was my fault or anything. He invited the grand seniors and a couple of his friends whom I barely knew. You can't expect me to just go up to them and collect money right?

I got really troubled by this matter towards the end. Haiz...

But since it's already over, I suggest we skip the unhappy bits...

All in all, I thought the gathering was a really nice one. The guys are all so funny. And even though we didn't know everyone, we just joked around and the atmosphere was really nice.

We played till 11.30, then some of us left to catch the last train.

Mun Bbun's leaving for Australia on the 23rd and will finish his studies in only 4 years time. I wonder if we'll ever get to meet up like this again.

On the way back, I couldn't help feeling sad that now that we've left JC, most of us will probably go our separate ways. It's going to be really difficult to find a time when everyone can meet up again. That's why I keep wondering if this may be the last time I'm meeting the horti seniors since Mun Bbun's leaving real soon.

I think I feel this way towards all my good friends in JC. When Janice and I join the swimming girls for training, how will we know that if that's our last time meeting them? Even Jas, Sheryl, Amar, Jo, LY and I haven't met up for a long time since we're working and LY's in China already.

I know keeping in touch requires effort. But effort alone is sometimes not enough I guess. There are constraits like finding a time when all of us are free, and in some cases, we even have to consider geographical boundaries -- how are we going to meet up with a friend who's overseas?

I really don't want to leave such good friends that I've made and move on. I know I'll probably make good friends in uni too. But I believe it takes chance and fate to meet people that you really enjoy spending time with. It's just such a waste to let such friendships fade with time...

O T

2007-01-19T23:01:00.000+08:00

The 2 sacred letters...

The amazing part is, I almost had nothing to do for a few hours in the morning. I even went to help another supervisor cos Pei Shan had nothing for me to do. Sabrina was on leave, so I had even less stuff to do.

Today was quite a slacking day for everybody. Most of us didn't have stuff to do.

Then, at about 5pm, Pei Shan gave me some, or rather, a LOT of filing to do. Wei Wei helped me at first. When it was 5.30pm, I told her to go back first. Pei Shan didn't say out right that she wanted me to stay back to finish it, but I could tell she wanted it done.

She says we are going to start getting busy really soon. The next week, all me and Sylvia are going to do is to sit in front of the computer and type tax computations.

Sounds so fun... not!

I didn't mind doing OT anyway since I had nothing on. And can earn over time pay too... Haha... Plus, if I work after 8pm, I can get dinner and transport allowance.

I did 3 hours of OT and went back at 8.30. Since my transport was being paid for, I took cab home. Woohoo!

I haven't taken cab on my own for as long as I can remember!

I only had $15.45 in my wallet and I was so, so afraid I wouldn't have enough for the cab fare.

Guess how much it cost?...

$15.10.

Phew!~

And... I almost forgot to ask the taxi driver for a receipt. Without it, I wouldn't be able to collect the fare from the company. I suddenly remembered after I alighted, and luckily, the uncle was still there, and had not restart the meter yet.

I can't imagine what would have happened if I didn't get a receipt.

And, PSC called me again today. This is the 2nd time that they're calling me when my phone is not with me. Damn irritating!!! Cos they'll call my home and when I get home, my parents will complain about how I ignore the phone call and stuff.

Not like I want to, OK!!

I was holding on to my phone the whole day, and she just had to call when I was busy filing...!

Anyway, it's all settled now cos I've received the email from PSC I was supposed to read.

I think I'm going to buy a handphone strap to hang around my neck...

I'm sick!

2007-01-18T21:56:00.000+08:00

I'm aching all over!

It was a tiring day, but luckily there wasn't much work to do.

I was quite sick that I decided not to go for lunch and had a nap in office instead.

The girls offered to buy lunch for me, but I said I didn't want anything cos I had no appetite.

But they bought tau huay for me anyway. I'm super touched!

I felt better after eating a little.

And Melissa was so cute, so gave me a card she made using pink paper. And she was writing it right in front of me! Haha...

I was already much better at the end of the day. I'm going to sleep soon, hope I'll be alright tomorrow! I'm looking forward to the horti bbq on Saturday! :)

the interview

2007-01-15T21:52:00.000+08:00

I went for PSC scholarship interview today.

It was an interview by a one-on-one psychologist, and it lasted... 3 HOURS!!!

Can you believe it? She had a whole set of questions to ask from ther book. Though the book was rather thin, there were about 20 questions on each each. Imagine how many questions I had to answer!

There were questions like "tell me about your family", "how do you study?", "what is your greatest problem encountered" and "tell me about a person you dislike". Plus lots of sub questions on these main ones.

She was nice though, so the interview wasn't that bad.

Before the interview, I was made to wait in the meeting room before she arrived. Somehow, I couldn't stop wondering if there was a hidden camera, or whether the large white board was actually one-sided glass. Haha... Maybe part of the pschological interview was to observe me while I thought no one was around. Ha!

I thought I did not bad because I didn't say negative things about myself. It went quite smoothly I think.

I'll have another interview on 2 Feb. It'll be with the panel then. A 10 on 1 interview. Seems scary man. Hope I can do well! :)

It's starting!

2007-01-12T22:45:00.000+08:00

Our computers are all wired up already.

When I reached office at 8am, 30 minutes early as usual, Soo Mee gave me filing to do!

It's not the official working hours yet, but I couldn't say no. She's the boss.

Anyway, Pei Shan also gave me work to do and I got quite busy today. Everyone else's busy too. Looks like it's the start of the busy season.

Sylvia already has to do OT. And we're already complaining about the a lot of work we need to do. Can you believe that this is just the beginning?!

Anyway, this week seemed to past really, really quickly.

Hope to have a good rest over the weekends then return to work on Mon.

I have PSC scholarship interview on Mon! I'm scared and excited!

Beginning of work

2007-01-11T22:01:00.000+08:00

Monday was our last day of training.

We've started doing work already, though it's those trival stuff like filing cos our computers have not been set up yet.

Monday was a really, really bad day.

But yesterday and today were the best days I've had at work! :)

I think I'm really bothered about the people interact with. If I had quite a lot of interesting conversations with others that day, I'll feel good. If we didn't talk much at all, like when we met each other in the beginning, I'll some how feel uncomfortable. Maybe suspecting they don't like me or something, though that's probably not the case. I'm just overly self-conscious la.

All of us are getting together really well now. We have wacky conversations and have loads to talk about while doing filing in the meeting room (our make shift "office"). We're even going to watch movie next monday after work!

Just to side track, the view in our meeting room is superb! I'm always the first to reach, and I love sitting in my favourite corner and looking out. It's beautiful!

Work is probably going to get busier soon, as the busy season arrives. Right now, I'm just enjoying having nothing much to do. I bet work will get more fun! :)

TGIF!

2007-01-05T22:20:00.000+08:00

Now I know why this phrase is true.

Friday is wonderful because:

--- the next 2 days are weekends, and...
--- it is smart casual day. No need to dress so formally.

Haha... The attire was really different today, and somehow, I could feel that everyone was looking forward to the break. I'm so looking forward to it!

We did only simple training today, then we met our seniors after lunch. They are the people we are assigned to, and supposed to help.

My seniors are 2 ladies. We didn't have time to talk to them though.

After the quick introduction, we were assigned our first job...

Remove the Christmas decorations! Ha...

After that, we did some simple filing and slacked the rest of the time away. When 5.30 came, we packed our bags and went home.

Thank God it's Friday. I'm in a good mood today! :D

Another day...

2007-01-04T21:06:00.000+08:00

Today is another day of training and back to back lectures.

I spaced out quite a number of times during the training. And I was exceptionally quiet today. Just didn't feel like talking. Don't think anyone realised anyway. We don't know each other that well yet.

We went for lunch at "Golden shoe". Some hawker centre. Much cheaper than Lau Par Sat. It's going to be good for our wallets in the long run. Most of us are already sore from having the pay the adult bus fares now.

So many people used tissue to chop seats there! I wonder what will happen if we just take the table and steal their tissue. Ha!

I really don't like having to squeeze with the lunch crowd. I can't imagine myself, being a white-collar worker and going through the same routine day after day. I'm really starting to question what I want to work as. Haiz...

Yup, so today was a quiet day. Not much interesting.

I'm beginning to lose interest in accountancy. Seems like a job I never want to do for the rest of my life.

At times, it can seem quite interesting. Like solving maths problems.

But I think it's more boring than interesting. Contradictory. Ha!

End of hols

2007-01-03T22:26:00.000+08:00

My holidays finally came to an end when I started working today.

I know I haven't been blogging for super long! I thought of blogging about stuff that happened the past month, but I'm quite lazy to do it.

Besides, I can't remember everything and it's going to be quite stupid cos as I blog about the past weeks, I'm going to miss out on blogging on what's currently happening. So as I clear my back-dated entries, new ones are just going to keep piling up. Then it'll feel like I'm living in the past or something. Gah!

So, I came up with a very smart idea. I shall blog out everything that happened to me during the holidays in ONE line:

Shopping. Prom. Shopping. Go out. Go out. Go out. Shopping. Shopping. More shopping. Watch movie. Go out some more. Help Mum do spring cleaning. Shopping. Go out. Christmas. Shopping. New Year. Post Christmas shopping (I love sales!).

See? Smart me. Haha...

Anyway, today is my first day at work. This week is training. And for today, we had to listen to a lady teach us about tax stuff from 9am to 5pm! Like a lot of lectures back to back. Even more mentally tiring than school la!

The other girls were quite nice, and we got to know one another quite well.

Melissa kept going to the pantry for free milo. Ha!

And the lounge at the office has pool table! We can go play during out free time.

We finished at 5pm today. And since our official working hours were till 5.30, we had 30 minutes before we could go home. So weird right? Why cannot go home when we already finished?!

Anyway, we played pool. Me and Mel won Qian Qi and Sylvia's team cos QQ hit in the black ball into the wrong hole. We were so close, right down to only the black ball left on the table.

After 6 months, we are all going to be pool experts, and also have tried all the food at Lau Pa Sat.

I don't know if I'm looking forward to work tomorrow. It's probably going to be another day of lectures. Haiz...

Makeover

2006-12-15T00:16:00.000+08:00

Yay, change skin!

Though I don't know whether it's nice or not... I was just getting sick of the last one.

Lots of things have been happening the past few days. I've been going out a lot, and also busy with spring cleaning, that's why I have no time to blog. Too lazy to do it. Haha...

I'll blog about those things another day (including prom!).

Haha... Bye for now! :)

Prom prep

2006-12-06T14:54:00.000+08:00

[I didn't know the spelling mistakes turned out so weird. It's quite funny, so I'll leave it as it is. But I added in the corrected words. Haha... :) ]

Firstly, i'd like to say sorry for the spelling misrajes [mistakes] here. O'm [I'm] not wearing my glasses or contacts right now so I'm half lind [blind]. I'm also waiting for my nails to fry [dry HAHA!], so it's not an easy task typing like tha [that] you know...

I went to do up my giar ay [hair at] a neighbourhood hair salon this morning. Now my hair is really nice!

First, the lady curled amsll [small] portions or [of] my hair. Then she started tying some of it to make the top a little :[uffy" ["puffy"]. Later, so pinned up small sections of the curled part onto on top. I almost thought she was soing [going] to pin up akk [all] of my hair into a bun-like thing. But I was too tidy [timid. Me tidy? No way!] to ask. Haha... Luckily she didn't la. If not I wouldn't be pleased with my giar [hair] right now.

After coming home, I had linch [lunch] and drank lots of water. Good to drink water now so that it'll all "come out" before I go out. Heehee... I'm not planning to drink much during dinner later. Cos I don't want to end up with a bloated stomach. Makes you look fat. Some girls ear [eat] really a lot during dinner and end up with bulging stomachs. They're not fast [fat] or anything, but the food takes up space you know. And since gowns are rather fitting, it really shows. I think it doesn't look nice.

Then again, we paid $95 for the meal. Got to eat our money's worth right? Haha... :)

I just painted my nails a silvery white colour, and they're drying soon.

Later I have one hour to gey [get] dressed and one hour for make up. A lot of time, I know. But I want to make sure I have lots of time to get myself ready. At 5, I'll take a cab, then fetch Jasmine and Li Yue then go to Ritz Carlton. I'm so excited!

It's going to be a great night! :)

Contacts

2006-12-01T20:56:00.000+08:00

I bought contact lens on Wednesday. It was from a shop at Bedok.

It was my first time wearing, so the lady was very nice to help me check my degree and recommend me the contacts. Because my astigmatism is quite serious, I had to get the more expensive type. It's $30 for a pair of monthly disposables. But since I'm going to wear it for prom, I don't mind paying.

She also got someone to teach me how to put them on. She called that person Ah-Lin, and I thought it was a lady. But it was a guy. Haha...

He was very nice. It was quite a traumatising experience putting something foreign into my eye. I had to try several times, and he had to push my hand nearer to my eye so that I could insert it. Haha... Then after I put both in, he said "ok, now we'll take them out." I almost fainted.

Taking out was much easier. I did it without much problem.

I left the shop without taking the pair of shoes I just bought for prom so I had to go back to get it. Haha...

Yup, so today is my first day wearing contacts on my own. I had some help from my Mum.

It felt really funny the whole day. Sometimes my vision was quite blur, and it was uncomfortable having something in my eye. But I think I look better without my glasses. Haha...

I don't know it I'll continue wearing contacts or not, since it's quite troublesome. Maybe I will... Or maybe not. :)

The freedom

2006-11-29T20:49:00.000+08:00

A's are officially over! :)

Monday: Econs S on Mon was ok. Quite tough. If I get merit I'll be satisfied.

Tuesday: Went for Ernst & Young job interview. Not bad. I think I got in. And I'm really glad that it all went well! :) The pay's good, and this job is good for my resume too. Now I just need to wait for the confirmation letter. Stayed at home the rest of the day to help paint the walls. Very fun, though it was quite tiring...

Today: I went for dental appointment. Then, I wanted to go donate blood, but I was turned away! Cos they said I just had dental, then to be safe, I couldn't donate blood. I didn't even have any injections or medication for my dental appointment! Irritating! It felt so awkward to walk out without donating blood. I could feel like people were wondering why I was turned away. Like I had AIDS or something. Or maybe I was just imaging it. Whatever...

I feel quite sian these few days. Not because I have nothing to do, but because I feel really quite tired. Just after the A's are over, all my days are filled up. I am officially booked till about the 10th of December. Busy going out with my friends, going out to buy prom stuff, going out with my family, and helping out to do spring cleaning (Ha! My family does spring cleaning damn early). Tired tired... So if anyone wants to go out with me, they've got to make an appointment first, 2 weeks in advance. Haha! I feel so important. :D

When I have time for myself, and also the computer to myself, I'm planning to watch "My Girl" and "Full House" on Youtube. Both are Korean dramas and I heard they're good. Goong was so nice that I still miss it after so long!!!

Anyway, I found a really really funny blog. You should go read!
http://sibehsibehsian.blogspot.com

Reunion

2006-11-23T12:12:00.000+08:00

I met up with Shuwen yesterday, after almost 2 years of not seeing each other! Considering the fact that we are best friends, it seems that we don't meet up very often.

Maybe that's why we're such good friends. If you don't see a person so often, you tend to imagine him or her to be towards the way that you prefer that person to be like. Don't know if you get what I'm saying.

Anyway, we always keep in touch through sms. We sms almost every single week. So although we don't see one another physically, we're there for each other all the time. :)

We went to Junction 8 at 10am, to eat, shop, and just catch up. At the beginning, many of the shops weren't open yet and we just walked around aimlessly and talking at the same time.

Later, we went to Popular and came up with a great idea. We would each buy a small blank book and record the interesting stuff that happened to us during this holidays. Then when the holidays end, we would show each other what we have written. So nice right? I already did my first page, but I don't have colour pencils, got to buy. I want to make mine like a pretty story book. Colourful and interesting. Hehe...

I can't wait to write more stuff in it. :)

The terrible-est paper

2006-11-21T15:35:00.000+08:00

Seriously, I've already gotten into the playing mode. I started studying for today's Maths S paper only on Sunday and progess has been terribly slow. I take super long to think through questions (which is kinda expected for Maths S), but the real problem is that I can't sit down for 3 hours straight to do the paper.

I only did 3 practice papers in 2 days.

The paper was terrible! It was so difficult, more difficult than the past year papers. There was very little need to use calculator because somehow, so many of the questions gave constants like a, b, c, etc, instead of real numbers. I could have gone in there without a calculator and it wouldn't have affected my marks! Come to think of it, there was really no question that required calculator! We didn't even have to use the normal table! Argh!

I like calculating stuff. Handling so many unknown constants only makes the working tedious and I give up real soon. I think I left almost half of the questions undone. I could only do the first part of each question.

I felt angry after the paper. Kinda of weird. I don't know what I'm angry about. I bet that even if I did more past year papers it wouldn't help much either, since the paper was so difficult. Anyway, if I found it difficult, hopefully other people will find it tough too. I reallly hope I can get at least a merit. I was aiming for distinction, but I've got to be realistic. I haven't been doing tutorials for the whole year! I'll be really sad if I get ungraded cos it'll be like I took the paper for nothing!

Whatever it is, it's one down, only 1 more to go! I've got a whole week to study for Econs S and I wanna do well for it! :)

Ps: I'm very happy about 2 things. One is that I'm meeting Shuwen tomorrow! YAY! And the other is that I messaged Chef Steven to say I won't be working at pastry kitchen this holiday cos I want to try a different job (since he was so nice to offer me a place there when I went back the other time). And he replied "no problem charlynn... wish u all the best and visit us whenever u can. We will miss u this christmas.." It feels nice to be missed. Haha... :)

A small break

2006-11-17T21:17:00.000+08:00

The A's are over for the 4 A level subjects! Yay!!!

I thought the Chem paper was pretty ok, and I'm happy with it.

Remember I mentioned about the shuai invigilator? Well, he came to invigilate my class today! A coincidence or what?! I got so, so happy, but I decided to tell the girls later, least they get distracted.

I was so afraid that I would get distracted during the paper. But instead, I got quite irritated. Tell you why...

15 minutes before the paper, at 2.15pm, he said "come on in". After we took out our stuff and barely sat down, he looked at the clock, and said "the time is 2.27. You can start now." We were all shocked! There wasn't even time to relax. And, he read the time wrongly. Just then, Li Yue came into the classroom. He didn't even check if everyone was present to start the paper!

After she hurriedly took out her stuff, he said "ok, starting in 15 seconds" when the time was 15 seconds to 2.23pm.

When the second hand reached 12, we all started. And it was quite frustrating because the commotion before the paper was really distracting. Not just me, everyone complained after the paper. Sheryl said he made her feel so rushed throughout.

Since everyone was complaining, I decided not to say he was shuai. There was no mood. I got quite irritated as well. Ah, at least he ruined my sily little crush on him before the paper so I didn't get so distracted. Maybe it's good after all. Ha!

There was class outing after the paper. They wanted to watch the James Bond movie but we didn't want to, so me, Jasmine, Li Yue, Sheryl and Amarjote decided to go to Vivocity. But on the way there, we decided to go to Plaza Singapura instead because it was getting quite late and we planned to allocate one whole day for shopping at Vivocity another day.

We took neoprint and had ice cream at Gelare. Damn fun! :)

We are planning to go to Escape another day, celebrate Christmas at Jasmine's house and have a movie marathon at Amarjote's house. I really can't wait! All that after the S paper exams are over.

Besides, Xin Yi messaged me yesterday that they'll planning to meet up. I reeeaaally can't wait for exams to be over!!! :)

Counting down

2006-11-15T21:35:00.000+08:00

The past 3 days were absolute madness.

Monday: Physics papers 1 and 2. It was difficult. The questions were not your usual stardard questions. They even asked "what is radian?" I just tried to explain it in my own way, then after the paper, I realised that I explained degree instead. Haiz.

Tuesday: Chem paper 2 and Econs paper 3. The Chem paper was fine. I really hope I can get A. It'll be my first and only A for JC Chem. I finished 30 minutes before time and checked twice. Found some careless mistakes and corrected them in time. For Econs, I guess I did not bad, though I'm can't be really sure if I answered the essay questions properly.

Today: Physics paper 3 and Econs papers 1 and 2. Luckily, the Physics paper 3 was still do-able so I doubt I'll do badly because of papers 1 and 2. I was having the paper in the hall today, there was this really shuai invigilator! I'm not the only one who thinks that way. I heard some girls talking about him too! Too bad he didn't come for the Econs paper. Anyway, Econs was fine. Better than expected. I suspect this may be the best paper 2 that I've ever done. Haha... Hope so!

I don't think I'll get to see that shuai invigilator anymore. My only other paper in the hall in Maths S. But if he comes to my classroom for the Chem paper 1, I think I'll faint. Haha... No la, maybe I'll just be distracted. Haha...

Right now, I only have 3 papers left. The worst exam days (yesterday and today) and already over and I'm in a semi-playing mode now. Haha... Only Chem paper 1 on friday, and Maths S and Econs S.

This whole A levels is going by faster than I expected. I expected it to hit us like a huge wave. After all, it's what we've been preparing for the past 2 years. But now I feel like I'm just taking the exams as they come. Not nervous. I'll probably feel more nervous waiting for results during the holidays. Weird...

Anyway, I'm quite happy cos I've been shortlisted for a job interview at KPMG. Yippee! The lady said there'll be a group interview followed by an individual interview. I'm quite nervous about it, especially the group one. But I'll think about that only after I finish prom (on 6 Dec)!

I've been talking to Jasmine about all the places we would go to after A's. Vivocity, Escape (there's a $6 discounted entrance fee from now till 2 Jan!), ice skating, shopping for prom stuff, etc etc...

I can't wait! :)

Smooth sailing

2006-11-09T20:12:00.000+08:00

Both the Chem paper 3 yesterday and Maths paper 2 today went great!

Yesterday, I finished 30 minutes before time was up. Complete miracle! I usually don't have enough time. Besides, everyone else rushed through the last few questions. The only person I know who finished early too is Livia. She'e super smart. Hope I can do well like her too!

I couldn't believe that I had finished early, but I checked and I really did all the questions already. I had time to check 4 whole questions.

Anyway, I thought the paper was really manageable. Seems like doing practice papers has really helped! Yayyy!!! :)

Maths paper today was fine too. I had one hour extra to check twice. Luckily I checked. I made some careless mistake. Probably saved myself 7 marks. :D I think I can get A for Maths. Cross my fingers!

I've got no more papers till next Monday. But next week is when all the stress will start piling on. All the Physics plus Econs papers and Chem paper 2 in just 3 days! Got to go into intensive mugging mode soon!

But now, I'm going to relax and take a break. I'm tired...

A's: Maths 1

2006-11-07T19:54:00.000+08:00

The paper was great! This is the only maths exam that I've studied so hard for. The previous ones, I just read through my notes. This time, I actually did 4 years of practice papers! Haha... I'm so proud of myself.

Anyway, the paper got off to a bad start. The teacher started us too soon, only after we had time to write our names on the question paper. I felt there wasn't enough time for us to relax yet. And, he forgot to remind us to surrender our handphones, so he was still talking even after the paper started.

Then, Li Yue started complaining to the teacher about the air-con. She wanted to switch it off cos she was too cold, but it was really quite hot. Then, after some more commotion, the teacher asked Clarissa to change places with her. It was so, so irritating! The teacher sounded super irritated with her too! After the paper, Li Yue said it was because the aircon was blowing directly at her head and it was giving her a headache. I guess that's quite a valid reason, but it was seriously very distracting!

I couldn't do the first question, and I got a little afraid. I skipped to the second one, but some how, my brain couldn't focus and tell me the answer. I roughly knew how to do it, but my brain just couldn't click.

So, I decided that I would jump to another section of the paper that I would probably be more confident in. I started at question 9. And from there, things went quite smoothly.

For the option question, I did OR first, but somehow I got stuck so I did EITHER.

Then, I went back to do the questions in front. I didn't know how to do 3 questions, but luckily I figured all of them out after I finished the others. I had time to check and I'm really pleased with the paper. So far I knew how to do all the questions, and I haven't had any wrong answers. After the paper, the teacher told us the answer to the complex numbers question cos he saw some of us using long division. I got the correct answer and that was actually one of the question I had trouble with, so I'm glad I got it right.

Hope paper 2 on Thursday would be great too.

Tomorrow's Chem paper 3. It's only less than 12 hours away! So little time, so much to study...

A's: GP

2006-11-02T19:51:00.000+08:00

It's finally here. The A Levels.

GP was the first paper, and I actually think I did not bad... :)

For the essay, I did the question on technology. "Does modern technology always improve the quality of people's lives?"

All thanks to the essay practice I did on Tuesday, I reused some relevant points and Mrs Ch'ng actually gave me 33 for that essay so I'm hoping I didn't do too badly on this one. Plus, I had proper points to write and didn't have to squeeze out some irrelevant points into the essay. Turns out that majority of the people did that question too. More than half I think. I'm hoping to get like one or two marks above the average marks for that question because I'm really quite confident about it.

Comprehension was ok... Questions weren't that difficult, but I found the summary and application question a little tough though. Didn't have enough time to finish properly and had to rush through the AQ.

I really hope I get B3. The best grade I ever got was B4, during prelims. I think it's possible to get a B3, and I really, really, reeaallly hope I do.

Somehow, I don't feel as nervous about the A's as I thought I would be. It all seems so normal to me. Haha... Maybe that's a good thing. :)

I stole...

2006-11-01T12:39:00.000+08:00

Ok, let's not say steal. It's such a bad word. It was more of borrowing without asking. And yes, I have intention of retuning, so it's so wrong to classify it as stealing.

Ok, so what did I steal, erm, borrow?

A copy of The Economist from VJ library.

Ok, I know it's lame. How many people actually read that magazine?

I "borrowed" it because I wanted to brush up my GP and I wasn't going to school today so I couldn't read it there. So, I took it out of the library yesterday, together with the rest of my books and I'm planning to return it tomorrow. I was actually worried the alarm would sound when I went out. But I already checked the magazine for any barcode thingy. There wasn't any, obviously.

We're not allowed to borrow magazines so I decided not to try asking.

Besides, no one reads it, ok! So I won't be depriving anyone of the magazine. Almost everyone who goes to the library these few days go there to study, and only 1 or 2 actually read The Strats' Times. When I sat at the couch reading Economist, no one even went near the shelf for the magazine.

So there! I'm not doing anything wrong.

And I know I sound quite defensive, because I actually feel a little guilty. Blame it on me being too goody-goody all the time.

Tomorrow's the first day of A's. It's GP in the morning. I'm not that nervous... yet. I'm just going to read loads of Economist, newsapapers, GP notes, and some chim words today. Then I'm gonna go to bed early. Yay!

Ps. I think The Economist is kinda interesting. Haha... I'm such a geek.

Studies

2006-10-30T21:19:00.000+08:00

I realised that I having been blogging about my studies these few days, so I'm just here to bore all you people out there today. Hah! :)

For the past few days, I've been going to school everyday even though I have no lessons. From 8am to 5pm everyday, I study either at the concourse or in the library. With time for lunch and about 1 hour to read newspaper everyday. Seems like a healthy study timetable to me!

And the best part is, I get to go home with a feeling of satisfaction from studying so much everyday. Haha... :D

I really can't study at home these few days. I get distracted by the slightest things and keep walking to the fridge to peek inside. I tell you, I can already feel that I'm getting fat. I eat my normal meals everyday, and just plonk myself on the chair to study. How to not gain weight like that?

Anyway, I feel that I've studied harder for prelims than how I'm studying for A's now. It was the same with O's. It's actually a lot relaxing than prelims, though this exam is really way important. Weird... Haha...

GP is on Thursday, and I'm sure that when the exams start, it'll all be over in a blink of an eye. By that time, we'll have to study day and night that it'll get really quite stressful. So right now, I better study more so that I can sleep more during the exam period. I don't want to turn into a panda then. Ha...

And good luck to everyone for the exams! All the best! :)

Good and bad people...

2006-10-27T23:24:00.000+08:00

I had Econs S yesterday. A super long lesson to go through just 1 essay question. Some parts were still quite interesting though. Then I had lunch with Sally. I had fish and chips. Haven't eaten that for so long that I almost forgot there was fish and chips!

Anyway, I admit that I didn't really like Sally much in the past. I didn't dislike her, I just didn't like her. But after so many Econs S lessons, I found that she's really quite nice after all. :)

I went to school today to study. And as usual, I studied at the concourse. My Auntie who's working in VJ as a teacher saw me and gave me a big bar of Toblerone chocolate with a little note. So sweet right!

Today was quite a productive day. I studied most of what I wanted to cover.

But, there was something that totally ruined my day. While I was reading newspapers in the library, I received a phonecall from a withheld number. It sounded like a Malay or Indian guy, and he knew my name! He said he was ...'s friend. I didn't hear properly who. Then he said something really disturbing. I'm not going to type it out here cos it's quite vulgar. I just kept quiet. Then after a pause, I asked, "who are you?". The person didn't reply immediately so I just hung up.

I got so disgusted! Curse that bloody asshole! If I weren't in the library where it was so quiet that everyone could hear me talk, I would have held on to the phone call for a while longer and try to find out who it was. And probably shout some vulgarities into his face too. IDIOT, and not to forget PERVERTIC! SIAO!

He deserves to be struck by lightning!

How big is Singapore?

2006-10-24T22:13:00.000+08:00

I went to Conrad to get my bankbook photocopied today because I didn't bring it yesterday. Actually I don't know why they need to photocopy it. I already wrote my account number on the form. Did they think that I would be so careless as to write wrongly and not check?

I saw this girl wearing a pair of earrings that I also had. And she took the same bus as me, from the same bus stop to Tampines interchange.

Anyway, I went down to Conrad at 3pm. I just handed the photocopy to Virginia and that was all.

I went to walk walk at Marina Square since I didn't feel like studying. I bought a bag charm and hung it on my NIKE bag. Nice!

There were some people that I kept seeing. Like I would see this group of people in one shop, then after a while, I would see them again at another shop.

At around 5, I walked to Citilink, since I was taking the MRT. I was also window shopping on the way. Or rather, it wasn't window shopping. It was more of loitering. How hard is it to accidentally bump into someone there? Ahhh, you probably won't get what I'm trying to say, or who I'm trying to meet. I don't really know why I was doing that either. I had no idea what time that person would be there. Whatever...

Until around 5.30pm, I decided that I would go back. I took the train, and guess who I saw?

Nope, it wasn't the person I was hoping to bump into. It was that girl that took the same bus as me from my bus stop. I didn't even knew she came to City Hall, and it's so coincidental that we would take the same train back. I think she recognised me.

Anyway, my point is, I keep meeting people that I have no intention of meeting. But when I try to look for someone, all the more I can't find that person.

It's quite irritating. But then again, I think I was really silly to do that.

Tired...

2006-10-23T20:58:00.000+08:00

I'm happy because I studied a whole lot of Econs today. About more than half of the whole Econs syllabus. Yay!

When I reached school today, it was so empty! I was wondering what happened to everyone. Then I found out from Ngang Ju that it was the Deepavali holiday on Saturday being carried forward. Those lucky year 1s have no lesson. But luckily the school was open so I didn't go there for nothing.

I saw Jasmine studying there too.

There was a very nice studying environment at the concourse. Everyone was just busy studying their stuff. Not too many people too, so it was quite quiet and pleasant.

Me and Jasmine sat at different tables though, cos we didn't want to disturb each other. But we ate lunch and went to 7/11 together. Haven't talked to her for very long already. I was quite sian-ed from studying so much that I wasn't in a mood to talk too much.

Later, I went down to Conrad at 5pm. Turns out that other than handing in the form, I needed to bring my bank book to photocopy as well. So I'll have to go back again tomorrow.

By the way, if you're wondering, I didn't meet X today. I know what I'm going to say may be quite shocking, but it's true: I've almost forgotten how X looks like.

Anyway, I think the infatuation is dying down, and that's good too. At least I can study better like that. But I'm sure that if he asks to meet up after A's, I'll probably like him again, since he's such a nice guy.

I know I'm super fickle. I get crushes on different guys all the time. And these feelings fade real quick too. I guess that's why I never believe in long-distance relationships. Whatever it is, I'll just take things as they come. I'm too busy studying to think about all this now.

I'm really mentally drained after studying so much today. And also quite sian-ed about having to keep going back to Conrad to hand in those little things. I'm just going to relax the rest of the evening and go to bed after watching tv.

By the way, Mun Bbun called just now. He just likes to ask about how I am, etc... It was nice talking to him. It actually lifted my spirits.

Yup, so that's all for today. I'm going to relax! :)

Back to studies

2006-10-22T13:41:00.000+08:00

This whole incident has really distracted me from my studies.

After Virginia called me on Thursday, I got so excited that I couldn't study for the rest of the afternoon. Then on Friday, I woke up late, and went for Econs S, and barely studied the whole day. Yesterday I went out with my family. Saturday's my rest day, so I don't study. (By the way, I went to some sale and bought 2 FOX shirts for $5 each! What a steal!) Ok, back to the problem...

The thing is, not studying hard for these few days is making me lose my momentum to study. I'm trying to hang on to those little bits of momentum I still have and hope to go back to intensive studying by this evening. If not, I'm so dead by the time A's are here.

All this distraction gave me a little thought that maybe I don't have to study so hard. I should just, you know, play all I want, and think about you-know-who as much as I want, and in essence, just follow my heart! Constantly reminding myself to study is sucking the fun out of everything.

But then, I know I can't stop studying now. I've been studying hard for so long already! If I give up now, I'll surely blame myself forever... I've got to buck up!

JIAYOU CHARLYNN!

ROAR!

The spirit of studying is finally revived! Ok, I shall go study now... Haha... :)

Thinking a lot...

2006-10-20T21:38:00.000+08:00

...about X.

I tell you, the more I think, the more I like him.

Shhh... That's a secret. I feel so paiseh saying that. I'm trying to act as if I don't care if he calls or not, but that's not true. I do care.

I met Kimberly for lunch today before we went for Econs S and I told her about everything. We were both giggling like little girls. And she was quite shocked that I didn't know his name. Actually I'm quite surprised that I didn't look at his name tag at all the whole evening! So stupid of me.

Last night, he asked if he could call me after exams. The thing is, there's still one whole month to go to the end of exams! Ahhh...

Last night, I didn't like him that much yet. Probably still in a little shock that he asked for my number. But after thinking through this (a lot!), I figured that he's quite a nice guy after all.

Actually, I won't be surprised if he doesn't call back. I seemed like I wasn't interested at all yesterday.

I'm going back to Conrad on Monday to hand in a form. I'm planning to go down at about 5, and hopefully I'll be able to bump into him. Crossing my fingers!

Does this uniform make me look fat?

2006-10-20T01:56:00.000+08:00

I tell you, the Conrad pastry kitchen one sure does!

Virginia called me at about 3pm today to say that she needed an urgent part-timer to work in the pastry ktichen. So I agreed to take on the job since I needed a "break" from studying anyway. It was from 6pm to 11pm. I was studying in the VJ library then.

The only thing that was holding me back was that I wouldn't be able to watch gong ye man wang fei (channel U, 7pm). It's such a nice, nice, nice, nice, nice show!!! And today's episode is very exciting! I've never been so in love with any tv show before. I look forward to the show every single day! It's my first Korean drama by the way, and I'm absolutely hooked! When I decided to take the job, I could feel my heart ache when I couldn't watch the show...

Oh well, I asked Kimberly to tell me the story tomorrow. Though it won't be the same, and no eye candy too. Haiz... But anyway, today's work was quite interesting. You'll find out for youself as I'm going to tell you about it now.

I met Ah Hau in the canteen during dinner. We talked a bit, and he found out that he got me and Zhang Lan mixed up. All those smses that we sent each other, he thought they were from Zhang Lan. I was really shocked. Well, at least now he knows.

While we were eating, another guy from the pastry kitchen joined us. I haven't seen him before. He's Edwin. Cute guy. Haha...

A lot of people in the pastry kitchen have changed. The only people that I know who are still working there are Chef Rosli, Chef Steven, Ah Ming, Virginia, Kuok I and Ah Hau. Too bad Kuok I worked the morning shift today. Didn't get to see him. And when Chef Steven saw me, he asked me to go work for them after A's! Haha... I'm very happy though I haven't promised anything yet.

My first job was to dip some long cookies in chocolate. Then, before I finished, I was asked to go up to Oscar's with Mei Yi (I think that's her name). I was in charge of the deserts bar, which included the ice cream counter, crepe and waffle section. All I had to do was to make crepes, waffles and scoop ice cream. Pretty easy.

Mei Yi taught me some stuff, then she went down. I was left there with no one I knew! Then, I felt very awkward, and I kept thinking that things would have been much better if I had just stayed home and watched tv.

Luckily, there was another chef that was quite friendly. I don't know his name. Let's call him X for now. He would just come over and talk a little, then talk to the other chef in charge of the seafood and stuff.

I talked with X quite a bit, and it made me feel much, much better, and less awkward. It's like everything seems so foreign to me, then there's someone to take care of me. Feels nice.

After talking a while, X asked me for my phone number! Before that, he was talking about playing badminton, and asked me if I played. So after he asked for my number, I asked "for what?". I forgot his reply, I think it had something to do with badminton. But the way he asked for my number was very subtle. I don't really know how to describe it, but it just seemed to flow with our conversation very well.

I wrote it in his notebook. And ya, I gave my real number. Actually, I don't know what to expect. You know what it means when a guy asks for your number right? Then I always don't know what to do in such situations, so I usually do as I'm told. While I was writing my number, thoughts of "accidentally" writing the wrong number kept flashing through my mind.

The rest of the evening was rather routine. I would stand at the counter with mostly nothing to do (there were so few customers since it was a Thursday evening), X would come talk once in a while, I would talk to the seafood chef a little, then make a few crepes and waffles here and there, and scoop some ice cream. That's about it. My crepe making skills got much better after one of the head chef came over and taught me how to do it. And once in a while, one of the waiter would come over and make fun of me and X. I think everyone could tell that he was getting close. I was rather embarrassed actually. I never meant for it to be like that.

At the end of the day, Mei Yi came up to keep all the stuff with me. Almost all the food displayed on the buffet table was thrown away! So wasteful! And they were all very nice food indeed. So next time when you go for a buffet, just eat your fill. Don't feel paiseh to take more. Cos we would rather let you eat it than throw it away.

After my work was done, I said bye to the pastry kitchen people and went to sign out at security. I worked for 6pm to 11pm, for 5 hours and got $30 of pay. :)

Miraculously, after I signed out at security, X was there too. I didn't see him before I signed out, then after a few minutes, he was right behind me, all ready to go. What a coincidence! I was a little shocked to see him there.

We walked to the MRT together and talked along the way. Honestly, I'm a very boring person. If you asked me a question, I would just give a simple answer and stop right there (unless I'm with very good friends). Then there would be nothing else to talk about. It was the same with X. Just that he had lots of stuff to talk about. It was really very nice talking to him indeed. I didn't have to think much of stuff to say to fill in the silent gaps in between. He would keep asking questions about me, but not in a interrogating kind of way. Amazing how he does it.

Along the way, he asked if I had a boyfriend. I said no. We talked a little more. Then when it was time to go our separate ways at the MRT station, he asked if he could call me after the exams. I said ok. I'm surprised I did. I didn't know what else to say, he was so nice. He stretched out his hand for a handshake and I shook it.

I tell you, he's a super nice guy. A really average guy that feels so comfortable to be with.

But there's something I'm unsure of. We barely got to know each other when he asked for my number. I think that when strangers know so little about each other, just like when we first met, it's probably too early to even have a little fondness for another person right? Like the only thing that you can judge me by is my looks since you don't even know my character yet. The thing is, I don't have looks! Coincidentally, I lost my comb today, and my hair was like anyhow tucked under the hat (the tall chef's hat. cool right?! I mean the hat, not my hair) , and I was having a big pimple on my nose, and back to the topic, the uniform really made me (not just me, it's everybody) look fat.

So what on earth prompted him to ask for my number?

I have no idea.

Maybe I just feel too insecure about myself.

Anyway, the thing is, he's got my number, I don't have his. It's all up to whether he calls or not.

Vivocity

2006-10-15T20:18:00.000+08:00

I went to Vivocity!!!

The place is super big, and with loads of shops! Even though only 60% of the shops are open, there's still a gread load of stuff to see. Besides, a lot of shops are having 15% or 20% opening discounts!

It really feels like a little city there. There's almost everything. Plus, there are some people dressed up as traffic police to give directions, and some dressed in bright yellow suits, zipping aroung on some scooter thing, shouting "welcome to Vivocity!" So cute!

I wanted to look for my bag, the one the girls are going to buy for my birthday. So me and my Mum were trying to look for the Nike (bags) shop. After walking to so many places, I finally realised that I was looking at the wrong place on the map in the first place! It was so irritating that we took so long to find the shop. So, if you ever go there, make sure to get your pretty map from the information counter. It really helps a lot.

The Nike (bags) shop was really small. But I managed to find a bag that I like. A black hand carried one. At first, when I saw the exactly same bag in another shop, I didn't want to buy it because it was so black. It was completely black. But, the sales at the Nike shop told me that black would make it easy to maintain, won't get dirty so easily. And I thought it was very true, so I decided to get it.

Actually, it's not what I had in mind for my birthday present. Remember me going gaga over that black and gold Puma bag? And the brown Adidas bag? In comparison, this one was quite plain. But, the fact that it was all black made it quite classy, and since it's black, it may never get dirty, and I can use it forever! Yay! Durability over appearance. Besides, my excitement for all those colourful bags may die down once newer and more colourful ones come out. So, I know that this black one will stay with me for a long, long time. Sometimes I hate myself for being so rational. Haha...

Overall, there are lots of shops there. Clothes, bags, earrings... All those stuff that I love to look at! I promise that I'll go there again after A's and shop till I drop! :)

PS. By the way, I got distinction for Econs S! Woohoo! Couldn't blog that on Thursday because some how I couldn't log into Blogger. :)

Farewell assembly

2006-10-13T21:41:00.000+08:00

The farewell assembly today was damn interesting, funny and of course, super emotional.

Since the theme of this year's year 1 orientation was superheros, our emcees for today were batman and yellow ranger. They were so silly and funny la!

There were performances by house comm, the teachers (I thought the belly dancing part was fantastic!) and some tribute to Mrs Chan. The last part when we sang the Victorian anthem was the most touching . Probably our last time too. Then we had mass dance which we almost forgot all the steps!

By the way, Mrs Chan would be leaving VJ too. She's being posted to MOE. I can tell that she managed the school well, though I don't really like her that much personally. She can be quite straightforward in her comments and I can tell that she is interested only in people who are of use to her. Like when I went with Mrs Chuah and Ryan to meet her about landscaping the school area, she only talked to Ryan. And I could sense that the whole conversation was full of hypocrisy. Like the "oh-how-I-like-you-so-much-but-actually-i-don't" kind of presence. From the both of them. Super fake la!

Oh well, but I must admit that she was a good principal. I'm afraid that the new principal won't tolerate the craziness in VJ, and give us our frequent full days. Then, the VJ spirit could really be changed. Anyway, the year 2s are leaving too, so it doesn't really affect me.

After farewell assembly, we had CT session to get our top 3 achievements and testimonial drafts. We all had free ice cream and chocolates sponsored! Haha... So nice! As our farewell gift from the juniors, all the year 2s got a nice ring as a souvenir. It has VJC engraved on the outside and nil sine laboure on the inside. Damn cool!

At the end of CT session, Timothy said "class stand" and we said "thank you Mrs Leong". She smirked. We don't respect Mrs Leong because we feel that she isn't a good teacher and is also an irresponsible CT. I don't think she's that bad, or dislike her as much as the others claim to though.

Later, we had Chemistry make up lesson. Because Mr Lim is on reservis, we have a relief teacher, Mr Chan. We were all so worried initially because our relief teacher last year was terrible. We were afraid our grades would be afftected since A's were coming soon. But luckily for us, Mr Chan is equally good, if not better than Mr Lim.

The weird thing about Mr Chan is that he likes to wear shirts with very loud prints, and his shirt is always buttoned one button too low. Haha... Quite weird, but I've got to say that some of his clothes actually look nice despite them being too attention grabbing. Tell you a secret, new guy teachers always make me more interested in the subject. Haha... Shhh... Don't tell anyone.

After that, we all went to see Li Yue, Joanne and Hao Quan's art pieces before going for class lunch at Seoul Garden at Taka. I think this is the most successful class outing ever. 20 people out of 25 turned up. Yay!

The food was ok. My table had Li Yue, Sheryl and Zhang Lan, and Jasmine and Joanne in the next table. We took loads of photos, and the guys made silly gay poses too. GAY!!!

Sheryl ate so, so much, despite her small size. I think she ate even more than Wei Yang! And she was playing with the food, cooking the beef in such a funny way.

My favourite was the chocolate ice cream. Yum yum!

We ate from 2pm to 5pm, and I was bloated by that time. Most of the guys went to watch movie while me, Jasmine, Sheryl, Li Yue and Zhang Lan went shopping. We also went to Cineleisure to take neoprint!

On our way to the MRT station, a lady came up to us to ask for donations. Since it was only $2, I decided to donate. But, just as I was taking out the money, I dropped a 10 cent coin and it rolled onto the road. I said never mind, but the lasy went ahead to pick it up! The road was super busy and the coin was at the edge of the road. All of us got such a big shock because she could have been run down by a car had she been 10cm further out into the road! It was so scary!

The MRT was super crowded, we squeezed our way in and it was a very stuffy and uncomfortable ride.

Oh well, this marks the official last day of school. It's been a great day, so much fun in school and with friends. I wish JC life wouldn't have to end. But it's time to start mugging for the A's... Jiayou!!! :)

Stuff...

2006-10-12T00:03:00.000+08:00

I haven't been blogging quite as often as I did in the past cos I'm trying not to be too dependent on blogging. Think I'm becoming a little, just a little teeny weeny little bit more introverted because I'd rather talk to the computer than to people. Haha... Besides, blogging sometimes seems like writing a short essay, no time la. So many things to study, so much homework to do, I would rather sleep if I had time.

I haven't exactly started intensive studying yet. Momentum's building up, but not there yet...

Yesterday was my Mummy's birthday and I went to Parkway to buy a cake from Swissbake. The cake's called chocolate romance. Super yummy! Also bought a super nice card from Print for Shuwen. It's her birthday tomorrow (in a few minutes...).

Anyway, while thinking what to write for Shuwen's card, it suddenly dawned on me that our friendship is just so fantastic. We've been best friends since primary 3... or is it 4? Oops... And throughout, we've been able to keep our friendship strong and going. Though we don't go out very often, and sometimes see one another for only once a year (that's really little for best friends!), we always keep in touch through sms.

She's just such a true friend and whenever I have problems, I can tell her because I know it won't affect the way she looks at me at all. There was once in secondary school that I forgot to bring my thermometer during the SARS period and had to buy one for $8. Somehow, I got so depressed about that (and even cried!) and I told her about it. She never fails to dispense good advice and encourage me.

Shuwen is just a wonderful friend that I never think of as being a bad person or a hypocrite. I love her so much!

Anyway, I also remember that in primary school, we all used to write "forever friends" in each others' autograph books. Then, I didn't really mean it when I wrote it. But today, I wrote it in Shuwen's birthday card and I can seriously see us as being friends forever! I'm just so glad that she's my friend.

I posted the card this afternoon, after 5pm, so it'll probably reach her a day late...

On another note, tomorrow is the official last day of lessons. Friday is farewell assembly. It's going to be the last time that we wear uniforms to school for lessons! I want to wear uniform to university... It's such a bother thinking of what to wear everyday.

My prelim results are:
Maths: A
Physics: B
Econs: C
Chemistry: D
GP: B4
Maths S: merit
Econs S: we haven't get all our papers yet

Nice grades huh? ABCD. Haha... Not exactly what I was aiming for. I better do much better for A's!

Stupid haze!!!

2006-10-07T21:01:00.000+08:00

My eyes are so irrtated by the haze, they're so itchy!

STUPID HAZE!

PSI is about 129 now. Damn it!

Swimming

2006-10-04T21:53:00.000+08:00

I went swimming with Janice yesterday. The last time we both swam was the Nationals! Haha... I haven't swam for so long that I seriously felt an itch to swim so much.

She was late and I went in first to wait for her. The life guard there was very friendly. :)

When she finally came, she changed and went to swim.

All in all, we swam 1km (20 laps). It's really little considering that we always swim more than 2km each training. But our stamina went down quite considerably.

After swimming, my arms and legs were aching a little... But, it felt so good so swim again.

Me and Janice swam one lap, talk a bit, swim another lap, talk some more and swim then talk somemore... Haha... So nice to catch up with her.

Hope we can swim again another day!

By the way, I think I'll be getting my Econs S results tomorrow. Really excited and worried at the same time. I got all my prelim results already, except for Econs and Econs S papers. Econs teachers are so inefficient. And to think they always talk about productive and allocative efficiency. Ha! :)

Results

2006-09-28T17:07:00.000+08:00

It's the first day of school after prelims. Honestly, I was quite excited to go back to school because I was dreaming of the possibility of getting good results. I always think that there's this possibility of getting good results, and I get excited all over. Then, when I think about the opposite, especially about GP, I suddenly get afraid.

Chemistry was the first period today. Tell you a secret, I thought that I would probably do not bad this time. While the papers were being given out, Mr Lim said there was only 1 A. We all knew it was Livia. Then, he asked us to guess who made the most improvement. He hinted that it was actually someone he didn't expect.

Honestly, in my heart, I was hoping that person to be me, cos I really studied for Chem this time round. But, it was Kendrick. I was quite disappointed, but maybe I didn't study that hard enough. So never mind.

After calculating my marks, I got 50.75%. I'm short for 0.5% to get D! (whatever decimal points will be rounded up) I was disappointed when I saw my marks, cos I was hoping for a B (probably wishful thinking on my part) or maybe even a C.

I definitely need to find more marks later. I can't get E! It won't look nice on my prelims results slip.

For Physics, we only received papers 1 and 2. It's still possible to get A. If not, I want to get B. Below that and I'll be sad.

Maths was good though. I still remember that I didn't do very well. And was expecting a C even. But surprise surprise, I got A. Yay!! :) Very happy about this.

Maths S later was fine too. I got 49 (out of 100), but it's not too bad considering I didn't do tutorials regularly. Besides, 63% of the students got less than 50 so I suppose my results aren't too bad. 50 is at least a merit, but the cut off points has not been decided yet. Should be able to get a merit for this one.

We haven't get back our Econs and Econs S papers yet, but I suspect I did not too bad for Econs so I'm excited to receive it. Though we can only get it next week.

We'll probably receive GP papers tomorrow. That's the one I'm really worried about. Hope it's ok.

Actually, I don't like it when people keep saying that they won't do well, but their results shows otherwise. It's somewhat too humble for my liking. I know I'm guilty of that sometimes, but it's only when I really expect not to do well, just like that maths paper.

It's only here that I confess about which papers I think I'm going to do well. Cos if I say it out loud, people may think I'm stuck up, then it's embarrassing when I don't do as well as I claim to.

Anyway, today is my brother's birthday. I bought a bottle of hair wax for his present. Haha... Cos I didn't know what to get for him, and since he's always doing stuff to his hair, I might as well get his a jar of good wax. It costs $11 by the way, before the 15% discount. Really expensive...

Retail therapy

2006-09-27T19:22:00.000+08:00

Monday 24th September

Sheryl can't join us again... She told us last night that she has a family dinner tonight. Haiz... Looks like we aren't fated to go out together.

Me and Jasmine went ahead anyway, and we had a really good time.

We met at Orchard MRT and guess who we saw there? Wei Yang, Kendrick and other guys from our class! What a coincidence! They asked us to join them for "class outing" but I'd rather go shopping. Haha...

Also at the MRT station, a lady approached us and said they were looking for new faces for a commercial. I bet they were looking at Jasmine instead of me cos she's much slimmer and was wearing shorts that showed off her long legs. Anyway, we just declined and walked away.

At home, my Mum said that a few days ago, outside NTUC, someone approached her to take a photo with a model, then if her photo gets chosen, she stands to win some prize. And my brother also said that there are a lot of such cases where people approach you to be a model, but after you make your portfolio that costs a few hundred dollars, you don't get any jobs (he read so from the newspapers).

So I bet it was something like that too. But then, it feels good to have someone approach you about this (though I strongly think that they were referrring to Jasmine, but I'm in denial... Haha...).

Today, we were planning to buy Amarjote's and my birthday presents. Amarjote wouldn't tell us what she wanted for her present (not like me who's so thick-skinned... haha...) so we decided to get her a purple box full of purple stuff since she loves purple. 5 of us were sharing the present and it was really nice to spend someone else's money whenever we saw nice and suitable things. Haha...

All in all, we bought a purple hearts keychain, purple handphone strap, purple lollipop earrings (that were super super cute!!!), purple handphone "sock", green ladybug earrings (this is not purple obviously, but it was cute...), purple friendship band, and a purple box to put them all in. So purple-ish! Haha... I bet she'll love it, since they're all really nice stuff, but I had even more fun shopping for them! Haha... :D

On the way, I also bought a pair of nice round yellow and white studs for $4. Nice!

Then, me and Jasmine went to take neoprint. The shop was really empty since it was a weekday, and we had loads of time to decorate our pictures. It came out really nice and we decided to include a picture of us in Amarjote's present. It's going to the absolute best part of her present! Whahaha... :D

For dinner, we ate at Subway while putting everything in the box. I made quite a big mess cos the sandwich was so gigantic. And we were so full after that.

After dinner, we went to Puma at Takashimaya to look at the bag they wanted to buy for me. But it was a pity cos we found out that it was limited edition and it wasn't there anymore... :( Sad... But never mind, I'll just look out for something else I like. By the way, the Nike bag that I previously said I loved so much, now I think it's too casual so I'll get something else instead. Haha...

After walking around there, we went to Forever 21 too, before going home.

Super fun day, since we got to buy so many things, and the best thing was that we bought using other people's money. Haha... And Jasmine's such great company too. We had a very interesting talk about dreams while we were on the train, and she got so paranoid that she almost screamed. Haha... I can't imagine if she really did.

Tuesday 25th September

Went out with Wei Qi today to Bugis and Icon. Come to think of it, I really don't know why I didn't invite her to go out with us when I went out with Si Hui and the others on friday. Hmm... But never mind that, we had fun today too.

We had lunch at MOS burger, and my meal was super expensive! $7! I should have ordered only the burger since I couldn't really finish the meal in the end. I can't stand spending so much on food. But I would have no reservations on spending that same amount or more on accesories or clothes. At least you can keep accessories and clothes. But food? It just ends up... never mind.

We went to Icon first and started at the highest floors. There were a few stores that we closed since it was an early Tuesday afternoon.

Throughout our whole "excursion" at Icon, I tried on 2 skirts, while Wei Qi tried on about 5 pieces I think. I bought only 2 pairs of earrings, totalling $5.50, while she bought 3 pairs of earrings, one bracelet and one t-shirt. Almost $40 in all. See the contrast?

For me, I usually go out shopping without planning to buy anything. Until I see something that I really like and is reasonably priced, then I buy. It's not really a matter of self-control. Rather, it's a matter of having not enough money...

Anyway, after shopping at Icon, we went back to Bugis were we looked at more stuff. We were already quite drained then and skipped quite a lot of shops cos our eyes needed to rest.

Before going back, we went to take Neoprint. Very fun! That was my first time taking neoprint with Wei Qi. :)

Wednesday 27th September

Went to Heeren with Kimberly today. I was so late cos I woke up at 11.30 when we were supposed to meet at 12.30. In the end, we postponed the meeting time to about 1.30pm.

She hadn't bought my birthday present yet, so she wanted me to choose something that I liked. Heeren was quite different from the last time I remembered it. I guess I haven't been there for quite some time. There were much fewer shops than I remembered.

Anyway, we went into this shop, called "Love and Peace" and Kim saw a white skirt that she loved so much. Unfortunately, it was a little off budget. The saleslady asked if she wanted to try it, and Kim, being very honest, told her that she didn't have enough money. Haha... Kim's so cute.

At M-industrie, there was 50% closing down sale! The clothes were really cheap! But almost everything had pink panther on it, and I don't like pink panther. In the end, I found something that I liked. It's a white shirt, with a nice cutting, and the word "freedom" in blue sequins in front. I thought it was nice. After 50% discount, it was $16.50 and Kim decided to pay part of it as part of my birthday present. She paid $7 for me. :)

We passed by a few bikini shops and joked about buying it. We even went into one shop to take a look. Haha... But bikinis are super expensive!

Then, we went to Cineleisure. We ate at Long John and talked for quite a while.

After that, we saw a pushcart selling earrings. They were going for $2.50 each, but now it's buy 4 get 2 free. In other words, it's 6 pairs for $10! Cheap right?! We talked to the lady, and she decided to let us buy 3 for $5.

And I tell you, there's something that I really must get off my chest... That pair of earrings I bought at Far East for $4 was actually available at that pushcart! 6 for $10! I can't believe it. Even without the offer, one pair at $2.50 was already much cheaper than $4! Argh! I told Kim about it, and I got so disturbed for quite a while. Can't stand it... I've almost gotten over it, but I bet everytime I see that pair of earrings, I'll be reminded of that incident. Irritating!!!

Anyway, I bought another 2 pairs of earrings while Kim bought 1 pair. We wanted to buy identical earrings, but our tastes didn't quite match so we got somewhat similar ones instead. We're going to wear them next thursday! :)

So after walking around for some more, we had to go cos Kim was going to her Grandma's house.

Today's shopping wasn't as "intensive" as the previous days' but I guess I need to rest too.

We've got to go back to school tomorrow, and receive our prelim results. I'm excited about the results, but at the same time, a little anxious.

I'm so thankful for these marking days that I got to shop around so much.

So far, I went to Plaza Singapura, Marina Square, Far East Plaza, Bugis and Heeren the past few days. And bought 4 pairs of nice earrings for myself, plus a shirt. And spent so much time with good friends too. Haha... I'm so happy. But now, time to hit the books again!

I can't wait till A levels are over.

Post prelims shopping

2006-09-23T23:59:00.000+08:00

I went shopping at Marina Square with my family today. Despite me telling them that I'll be going there with Jasmine and Sheryl on Monday, they decided to go there anyway.

My brother's birthday is this Thursday and we went to Changing Appetities to have late lunch (at 3pm!). The food was not bad, and quite cheap at about $10 for a set meal. Nice! The only thing is that the air-con was so cold that all of us coudn't stand it. Even outside the restaurant, the whole place was super cold.

I don't know why, but I've been interested in buying beauty products these few days. I bought a Meybeline concealer (that my Mum paid for. Yay!), T3 pimple cream and Biore pore pack from Watson's and Guardian. I'm thinking of buying the pantene soft and silky hair moisturiser another day too.

I think one of the items I paid for wasn't scanned properly because when I went into other shops later, the alarms started going off! It would sound everytime I walked into and out of a shop. It was really quite irritating cos people would keep staring. No one came to check my bag though, cos they noticed that the alarm sounded when I walked in too. Luckily we had already been shopping for like almost 2 hours and were going back soon.

Anyway, Jasmine, Sheryl and I decided that we would go to Heeren on Monday. Haha... Looking forward to it! :)

Prelims: Maths S plus outing!!!

2006-09-22T23:01:00.000+08:00

It's finally the last paper. Woohoo!!! :D Seriously, prelims are gone in such a short period of time. It's really very fast! JC life seems to pass especially quickly...

Maths S paper today was actually ok... It's not as hard as I expected. I haven't been doing any tutorials for the whole year, and I was expecting to not be able to complete even one whole question! The practice questions I was doing last night were so demoralising. I couldn't even finish one question that I decided to give up after the third one.

I managed to do the 4 compulsory questions and the 2 probability questions. But, I didn't know how to do the other 2! Left 20 marks blank. And I can't believe I didn't do the easy question again! I did the other 2 difficult ones (or didn't really do cos I left so much blank). There was a choice and I didn't do the obviously easy question, just like the Physics paper 3! Argh! Melissa said the 9 marks were give away. Ahhh!!! Kill me please! I must be blind!

Anyway, enough about exams. It's all over. And school reopens on Thursdays cos VJ got marking days. Yay! :D

After the paper, I went home to help my Mum with some housework before going out.

I went out with Melissa, Si Hui, Hanjie, Yuwen and Charlene to Plaza Singapura. This outing was so much better than I expected. It was truly a lot, a lot of fun!

We had dinner at Carl's Jr and I shared the meal with Yuwen. Then, we walked around and looked at all those pretty stuff. There was this shirt that I really liked but the one in brown did not have my size. Quite a pity cos it was on 50% discount!

We walked so much that my feet really ached! But it was really very nice! Retail therapy. Haha... I think it's the best way to lose weight cos we walked so much.

You know, you have to walk from shop to shop, and inside each shop, you've got to walk a few rounds to look at stuff, plus the occational toilet trips, I guess I walked more than 1km! And stood like 3 hours straight! Haha... Maybe it's an exageration. I really can't estimate the distance like that.

I really love all the stuff in the Nike shop! Just wonderful! The clothes were all super nice, and the bags, oh my goodness, I think they have new designs!!! I LOVE IT SO, SO MUCH!!!

Remember I said that the Sheryl and the girls are gonna get me that black and gold Puma bag (which is also super nice!!!) for my birthday? They haven't bought it cos of prelims and I was quite worried that that particular design won't be available now since it's been a few weeks. But no worries, now I've got my next second choice ready. Hahaha.... I think I'm just bag crazy. And super fickle too, since I keep liking a different one.

On the MRT on the way back, somthing happened. After the train door closed, I immediately leaned on the door cos there was nothing to hold and I can't stand properly in a moving train without anything to hold. But, just as I leaned back, the door opened and I got a shock. Quite embarrassing actually, cos the train was really quite crowded and a lot of people saw.

We talked a lot more on the train and it was very nice to catch up with everyone. And I realised that both me and Si Hui are dying to play pool and go bowling! OMG! We really need to have another outing. Don't know when that will be though, cos we don't seem to have any day in common to go out. TJ resumes lessons on Tuesday.

Anyway, I'm going to make full use of this period of time to play hard. All the teachers keep saying we need to get back to our studies when school reopens (which is Thursday). Cannot rest too long, if not we'll lose the momentum.

Going shopping tomorrow with my family, and to celebrate my brother's birthday. Then on Monday, I'm going to Marina Square with Jasmine and Sheryl to buy my present and Amarjote's. Excited...!!! During this period of time, I'm also planning to go swimming! I've been itching to swim. Haha... See, I've got my time all planned out. :)

Prelims: Econs S

2006-09-21T20:12:00.000+08:00

The paper was 12 essays choose 3 in 3 hours. I knew how to do one question. The other 2 I just wrote whatever points I could think of and I'm not confident about them at all.

Especially that ISLMBP diagram. I kept trying to figure out which way the lines would move and I didn't know how to answer the question properly. I only learnt about all those stuff the day before you know... Cos I had swimming competition at the time it was taught in class and I haven't revised it since. Just 1 hour before the exam, I was having my lunch at McDonald's and learnt so many things that I never knew when I read the John Sloman super thick Econs book.

So, imagine learning some super new and difficult concept only the night before and a few mintues before the paper, and doing a whole essay question on it. Can die la!

Whatever... I even had time to go toilet during the paper cos I ran out of points to write. I managed to finish 5 minutes before time. But I wasn't the only one. I think no one had not enough time, and there were people just staring into space when there were 15 more minutes left.

The paper's over now, and I'm so much more relaxed. Only 1 more paper to go! Yippee!

Anyway, I'm really glad I had a good night's sleep last night. I kept dreaming for almost the whole of last week (except yesterday) that I kept having disturbed sleep. Not to mention dark circles round my eyes. Even during the weekend when I could sleep in, I couldn't sleep properly. Irritating!

Tomorrow after the paper, I'm going to play. Yay! So looking forward to it.

*come to think of it, prelims is almost over in just a flash. It's all happening so fast!*

Prelims: Chem 1

2006-09-20T21:46:00.000+08:00

The paper went unexpectedly well today.

I never, ever have enough time to finish this paper. Everyone else too. It's 40 questions in 1 hour! But today, I rushed through the paper and finished in time! And had 5 minutes extra to check too! Amazing...

Maybe it was because I didn't spend too much time thinking. If I didn't know the answer, I would just pick the best answer instead of spending time thinking about it, and still can't come up with the right answer. Hope I can do better this time!

I only have 2 more papers left. Econs S and Maths S. I'm much more relaxed now because the main A levels subjects are over. Yay!

After the paper, I went to study Econs S with Jia Yan.

I don't know if I should feel worried about the paper or not. There's not enough things to study because I didn't manage to copy all the notes that Mr Cook talked about. And I think everyone else don't have much to study too.

And I'm worried that I'll have nothing to write for tomorrow's essay. Haiz...

I'll just do my best and leave the rest up to fate...

Prelims: Physics 3, Econs 1& 2

2006-09-18T21:34:00.000+08:00

The Physics paper in the morning was ok. Section A was 6 essay questions choose 4. I didn't look through all the questions properly. In the end, I didn't choose question 6 that a lot of people thought was the easiest. Wasted la! In the end also couldn't finish the paper. Left 10 marks blank... Demoralizing.

Had lunch with Sheryl, Li Yue and Hao Quan. That Hao Quan was quite crappy, so lunch was fun. :)

Econs paper 1 was ok. There was enough time to finish, and still have time to check two-thirds of the paper. Yay! Haha... Really happy with that.

Paper 2, however, was terrible. I thought it was difficult and I just didn't have the mood to do. Now when I think of it, I don't really know what was difficult about it. I just somehow didn't know that answers at that point in time.

Anyway, I hope I didn't lose too many marks on paper 3. I was expecting to do quite well for econs until that paper came along.

One more paper of my A level subjects left. It's Chemistry paper 1 on Wednesday. After that is Econs S and Maths S that I don't have much hope of doing well. Haiz...

Prelims ending soon. Yay! I got no paper tomorrow, gonna rest loads! :)

Prelims: Maths 2

2006-09-15T14:15:00.000+08:00

I tell you, it's impossible for me to get an A for maths.

If I get B, it'll be good.

C, ok I guess...

Below C, I really don't want. But it's not impossible.

I thought the maths paper was really hard. Somehow, my brain just couldn't click. Usually when I see the question, I can link it to an answer. But today, it was like that link didn't appear at all. The answer wasn't obvious to me. And everyone thought it was an ok paper, just that there wasn't enough time to finish.

I'm so dead... Must be never practice enough.

The good news is that the weekend's here! I'll study a bit more today, go shopping tomorrow and study on Sunday. After all, I only have a few more papers and at least one paper of every subject has been tested already, so it'll just be revision. Yay! One week down, one more to go!

By the way, Jasmine was voted out yesterday. Looks like she won't be coming to VJ today... It doesn't really bother me anyway...

Prelims: Chem 2 & Econs 3

2006-09-14T18:56:00.000+08:00

This is the most tiring day of the whole prelim period. Econs paper 3 is supposed to be the most terrible paper ever. Need to study so many chapters of stuff, memorise all the factors etc. Then when the paper comes out, you realise you remember every single thing, all except that one important factor that's tested.

Anyway, I glad that didn't happen to me. I'm actually quite happy with the paper. Cos I really took a lot, A LOT of effort to go through all those factors that affect price elasticity of demand, factors that shift the consumption function etc. I made up a list that's 8 pages long, and went through it like almost 7 times! Until I got every single factor correct. It's all still in my head now. *I'm so proud of myself! Hehe...* :D

We had to do 3 essay questions in 2 hours and 15 minutes. When I first started, I quickly did the outline for each question, in case I forget any of the points later. I thought I wouldn't be able to finish. Time was really tight. I rushed throughout, with my terribly messy handwriting, and finished one minute before time was up. Yay!

I think I did really well for the essay on wages. After the paper though, I realised I didn't quite pick out the point for the last question. Hope it's not too bad. Overall, I think the paper went well. :)

Chemistry paper 2 in the morning was quite difficult for me. Maybe because I studied for econs the whole night before and didn't study Chemistry. I didn't know how to do the first question and got quite demoralised.

I still remember the paper 3 I think I did not bad. Now, I'm afraid this paper will pull me down. :( There wasn't enough time to finish too... I left about 6 marks blank.

After the Chem paper and before the Econs paper (sorry a bit messy cos this post is not in chronological order...) we had 4 hours to study for Econs. I went to the library with Sheryl to study.

Then there was this super irritating girl. I seriously can't stand her. When other people talk, she'll give that bu shuang look. But when her friend came, they talk like nobody's business. Damn irritating!

Anyway, I think the exams has taken it's toll on me or something. I don't feel stressed, seriously! But I somehow became more introverted. Like when I take the bus with Shanelle, or when I talk to Sheryl, I'll have nothing much to say, it'll be very awkward when one person just keeps talking, then after a while, the conversation dies down and we just don't say anything. Super awkward la! But I can't help it, cos I really have nothing to say...

Anyway, now that the most stressful day of prelims is over, I can finally relax a bit. Tomorrow is maths paper 2, don't have to study much because I already studied for paper 1 the last time. (That's why I've been watching tv and online for more than 2 hours. Haha...) Looking forward to the weekends to take a short break.

I wonder who will be kicked out of Singapore Idol today. Only left with Hady, Jasmine and Jonathan. Actually I kinda support Jasmine and Jon, but I don't really care who wins in the end. Yesterday's performance was pretty much disappointing. The judges all think Hady and Jon should go to the finals. Whatever... This morning during assembly, there was announcement to ask VJ people to vote for Jamine cos she was from VJ (she's Sheryl's table tennis senior). And Jamine will be coming down to VJ tomorrow at 5pm (if I wasn't imagining that I heard that... Haha...)

Prelims: Physics 1 & 2

2006-09-13T23:59:00.000+08:00

The paper was not that difficult. A little on the easy side actually.

I had enough time to finish too! Except for the radioactive question that I don't understand, so just anyhow write lor. Hope I do well!

Anyway, there was this irritating guy sitting beside me (not from my class cos we were all in the hall). He kept making very exaggerated actions, like scratching his head, or suddenly becoming quite frustrated or something, like trying to tell everyone that the paper is hard or he don't know how to do. Damn irritating la!

Prelims: Chem 3

2006-09-12T21:41:00.000+08:00

The paper was not as difficult as I expected. I'm actually quite happy cos I managed to finish most of the questions and knew how to do quite a few of them too! If I keep this up for Chem, I think I can get B! Yay! :D Considering I got E (44.5% round up to 45% for E) for mid-years, even C would be good. And I really studied very, very hard for Chem! Because... need I say again... Mr Lim is such a great teacher. Haha... :)

But I studied quite hard until I got a little depressed last night. Like half crying anf half studying. Think I was siao! Haha... But I'm ok now. I'm glad I studied.

Chemistry paper 3 is a difficult paper. Have to finish 10 essay questions in 3 hours. And I'm glad it's over. I was rushing throughout the whole paper and was on the edge of my seat throughout! My butt hurts! Haha... :)

Prelims: Maths 1

2006-09-11T20:04:00.000+08:00

I decided that I shall blog what about each and every prelim paper that I take, so that when I receive my grades, and compare with what I felt about the paper, I can hopefully know what I need to improve on. So pardon me if posts for these 2 weeks are super boring. Exams aren't fun you know...

I had no paper this morning, but I had dental appointment. It was to do filling for one of my tooth. Then later, the dentist said that actually there's another decay behind, on the same tooth, so I'll need 2 fillings. Argh!

The process was painful! I had to go to another dentist and she kept "drilling" at the tooth to get all the bad decayed bits out. It was not excrutiatingly painful, but was more of unpleasant pain. Very weird and uncomfortable feeling. I was clutching the side of the chair throughout!

In the afternoon was the first prelim paper after the holidays. Wait, what holidays? Apparently I was studying too much (but not enough to finish studying anyway) to even have time to play! Irritating exams. Luckily my brother's also having his O level prelims at the same time, so at least he didn't play and distract me throught the 1 week holiday.

As for the Maths paper, it was ok I guess. But I didn't do as well as I would have liked to. I didn't know how to do 18 marks. Probably get a few working marks out of those 18, but it's quite a lot, considering the paper is upon 85. Haiz... I'm aiming for an 'A'.

After the paper, I met Melissa at the bus stop. Turns out that she finished the whole paper one hour before the allowed time, and I bet she knew how to do every single question. I only managed to scribble the last few lines of the last question at the last minute! Didn't even have time to go back to the questions I skipped. *I can see my 18 marks flying away...*

For the last question, she said she did the "or" option because it seemed more fun. According to her, the "either" option was almost the same as the lecture example so she didn't do it! Argh! How does she do that? I'm aiming for an 'A' while she's aiming for full marks. I wish I had her brain!

Anyway, I don't know if I should keep comparing myself with her. Only makes me pale in comparison, a lot! Maybe I should be happy getting my average grades and do "average"ly well. Don't aim for 4A's anymore, cos it's really tiring to keep trying to climb up, achieve even higher and higher grades (even though that's not happening) and in the end make myself so tired. But then I guess I'll regret it when I don't do well, so I better do my best now. Haiz...

Studying is tiring work!

今天你要嫁给我

2006-09-04T18:24:00.000+08:00

Watch this!

I absolutely love the video and the song. Too bad it's a little blur here. It looks a million times better on tv! :D

A long post... beware :)

2006-09-02T23:20:00.000+08:00

Some more birthday stuff

Also thanks to Joanne, Bernice, Cheryl, Vivien, Lujia (again), Maevbe, Norman, Wan'er and Sheryl for their birthday wishes...

I thought Sheryl had forgotten, but I received it the next morning. Seems like she wanted me to think that she forgot. Her message goes something like "you thought I forgot? No way! Happy Birthday! etc..." plus some cute pictures and stuff. She sent it at 12.37am on 1st Sepember.

Then when I thanked her for the wishes she said she had wanted to send it at 12 midnight, but fell asleep, so it was late. I got so touched! She purposely stayed up to send the message to me! And when she fell asleep, she deliberately woke up, so she could message me... Really very very touching. And she some more felt so bad for sending it late... Haha... :)

Anyway, Li Yue didn't message or call me. A little disappointed, but I guess she's too caught up in her art.

By the way, I received the best birthday present ever! It's from a guy!

Actually... it's from my brother. HA!

I was really very touched. He gave me a pair of earrings in a very nice little plastic bag. He knows I'm very excited about my birthday cos I tell him about how much I look forward to it everyday... Haha...

It was a big surprise cos we don't have the habit of giving each other birthday presents except for the occasional year when we're especially nice to each other... It was a pair of earrings, quite long, with white pearls at the end. I was planning to buy a pair somthing like that. And the weird thing is, I didn't tell him, neither did he ever go shopping with me!

I think it's the $2 type. And he said the lady gave him the nice plastic bag cos she thought he was buying for his girlfriend!

Nonetheless, I was really very touched! But I didn't tell him. You know, it just feels weird to tell your brother how much you love him. Haha... Anyway, I think our relationship has become much better this few months. Previously, he was going through that "attitude problem" stage. We couldn't have proper conversations without any tension. Now, it's much, much better. And I'm happy about that! :)

A Teachers' Day Tribute

It's Teachers' Day today! (ok, just pretend as though it's 1st September) I just wanna take this opportunity to thank all the teachers' that helped me grow throughout this whole 18 (yay! I'm 18. Haha...) years of my life... (As if teachers read my blog, but anyway...)

Mrs Chao. I will always remember my Primary 1 and 3 maths teacher. She was the one who first taught me maths, and I think it's the way she taught all of us that made me like maths so much. She really set the foundation for the way I think through maths problems and stuff like that. I think I'm pretty good in maths, and I'm proud of the way I think through problems. (though I don't say any of that out loud...)

Mr Chong. My Primary 4 and 5 form teacher. I had to change school after Primary 6 (because I moved house), so when I had to leave all my friends at the end of Primary 5, he wrote a very nice letter to the whole class, and mentioned me in it. By the way, he wrote the letter because it was also his last day teaching our class since we would have a new teacher in Primary 6. It wasn't soley because of me. Anyway, I took a picture with him and put it in a photo frame on my table. I kept it there for quite long, and I suspect my Mum thought I had a crush on him. Hah! :D

Li Li Qun lao shi. My Secondary 2 Chinese teacher. I used to hate Chinese... a lot! And my marks were seriously bad. For lessons, she split us into groups and we had to answer questions to get points for our groups. Some teachers have such systems too, but they some how fail. Li lao shi instead made it very fun! For spelling, we could get 1 point for our group if we got more than 90 marks, 5 points for full marks. At the beginning of the year, I told my group mates that it'll be impossible for me. But at the end of the year, 90 marks was becoming easy! I even got full marks once! Haha... From then on, I realised that Chinese wasn't as difficult as I imagined. It was just a issue of getting over the psychological barrier.

Mr Ong. The funny Secondary 3 Physics teacher. He's very funny, and not your average gentleman teacher. Instead, he was quite vulgar. No F words, but he used the adjective "stupid" a lot. Not referring to students of course... That always made us laugh and somehow it made Physics questions seem so much easier to tackle. Miracle! Haha... More teachers should do that. He told us he isn't very popular with the school adminstration and people in high places (like the Principal), and sometimes talk bad about them. But the students all love him! Haha...

Mr Lim. My current Chimistry teacher for 2 years now. I've actually said quite a few times that he's a really nice teacher, but I can never emphasise that fact more. HE'S REALLY A VERY NICE TEACHER! Anwyay, tell you something funny... During remedial the other day, instead of "reaction", he said "erection"! Haha... We all laughed until siao...

Mrs Chuah. Horti teacher in charge, and my Maths tutor for 2 years now. Although her very conventional thinking can really drive me crazy sometimes, I've really learnt a lot from her through horti. And I thank her for helping us with the mess during the V day flower sales. All of us really grew up a lot from that experience!

Plus thanks to all the other teachers that have taught me. I seriously appreciate them! HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY TO YOU ALL! :)

Line Dancing (1st September)

Fine, laugh if you find it funny, but I went for my first lesson of line dancing with my Mum in the evening!

Actually I'm quite interested in it, so when my Mum said she wanted to join, I said I would join too under the pretext of accompanying her. Haha... :)

It seems really simple. There are 4 sets of 8 counts of dance steps. Then after those 4 sets, you just repeat everything over and over again. It's that simple!

But, for someone like me, a dancing idiot with 2 left feet, it's no mean feat. I kept turning the wrong way, and couldn't remember the steps! All those aunties danced better than me.

Well, it's because it's my first lesson and the class is already halfway through. So we didn't learn the previous dances. But even for the one that we leant on the day itself, I had problems catching up. My Mum too. So maybe it's because we need time to get used to it first...

It was really a lot of fun, but I got quite dizzy from looking at people's feet all the time and turning so much. There was this sick feeling in my stomach.

The people there were all very nice though! There was a girl younger than me, and she danced really well! There was another slightly younger lady, and all the rest were aunties. I guess I'll become even more auntie than I am now after hanging out with them. Haha...

There was one particular auntie who danced really, really well, and was teaching the others who couldn't catch up.

Overall, there was this very warm feeling among this group of (not so young) women. I enjoyed myself a lot! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

2006-08-31T15:10:00.000+08:00

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! :)

Yay! Present...

2006-08-30T21:24:00.000+08:00

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)

GP prelims

2006-08-28T21:33:00.000+08:00

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...

The best day ever!

2006-08-25T23:59:00.000+08:00

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'm in a good mood!

2006-08-24T21:52:00.000+08:00

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

Birthday cake

2006-08-23T22:02:00.000+08:00

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... :)

Presents

2006-08-21T21:36:00.000+08:00

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...

Shopping indulgence

2006-08-19T23:16:00.000+08:00

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... :)

Click!

2006-08-18T21:21:00.000+08:00

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

Sick sick sick...

2006-08-15T21:12:00.000+08:00

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! :)

Top 3 achievements

2006-08-14T18:38:00.000+08:00

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.

Handphone repair

2006-08-14T18:02:00.000+08:00

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!

Surprise surprise

2006-08-13T14:15:00.000+08:00

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

Looking underneath...

2006-08-11T15:40:00.000+08:00

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...

Postponed movie

2006-08-10T17:30:00.000+08:00

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.

National Day, plus lots of reflections...

2006-08-09T23:45:00.000+08:00

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! :)

National Day celebrations

2006-08-08T17:35:00.000+08:00

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

Fashion design

2006-08-07T22:23:00.000+08:00

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!

Superband

2006-08-06T12:35:00.000+08:00

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

The dance concert

2006-08-05T01:29:00.000+08:00

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

2006-08-03T21:51:00.000+08:00

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

Careers and Scholarships Fair

2006-08-02T21:46:00.000+08:00

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.

Looking for something new

2006-08-02T20:29:00.000+08:00

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!!! :)

Community service

2006-07-29T23:59:00.000+08:00

I went to do some community service with Kimberly today. It's organised by SMU, and we're raising funds for Very Special Arts Singapore. Saw Joel Poon there too. Too bad Vivien didn't go. Haha... :)

Very Special Arts Singapore is a organisation that provides people with disabilities to learn art so that they can provide for themselves in future. (I think I'll remember this for a very long time, after saying it to so, so many people today.)

It's also college day at VJC, but we decided to pon. Haha... It's really boring la, just a waste of time.

We split up into groups and my group had 11 VJ people and 2 SMU volunteers, Jonah and Jasmine. We went to Raffles City.

Our job was to get people to donate at least $2 and then they could write an encouraging message to the members of VSA on a little card and then we would give it to the disabled people. I thought it would be quite easy. After all, it's only $2. If someone approached me for a $2 donation, I would surely give.

Me and Kimberly had some troubles starting. We were quite shy at first, and couldn't find a place that had good traffic.

Finally, we found a nice spot outside Sunctec, just at the bridge. I always rememeber a lot of people asking for donations there. Haha...

Kimbely completed her booklet of 10 coupons first, while I still had about 4 to go. Then I also finished after quite a while. We saw Sheryl there, cos she went for some walkathon. And she was so nice! She donated $2 to each of us. Haha... :)

We went to have our lunch at Marina Square before going back to Raffles City to get our second booklet. That Jasmine and Jonah so good lor. Just sit at Starbucks and shake leg while all the VJ people went to ask for donations. Their job was to supervise us. Then in the end, we all get the smae number of CIP hours. Not fair!

But they were very nice la. And I don't really mind that they were slacking cos that means it'll be our turn next year if we go to SMU. Whahaha... Anyway, they're really nice cos everytime I call Jasmine, she always tells us to take our time. Haha... :D

After we got our second booklet, me and Kim went back to the same place to ask for donations. In the beginning, I got quite a lot of donations! The first lady I asked gave me $10 cos I didn't have change. Then later, there was another guy who also donated $10 because there was no change too! Haha... Such nice people!

It's meeting all these nice people that make asking for donations worthwhile. I can't stand it when people just walk pass and ignore you. At least say "no, sorry" or smile to acknowledge what... I know sometimes people can't donate cos they already donated to some other charity. After all, we weren't the only group of people asking for donations there.

Sometimes, I really pity those people working at the Suntec area. Because everytime they cross the bridge, there are so many people giving out flyers and asking for donations. I still rememeber the times when I had cross the brigde to go to Conrad. Can be quite irritating at times, but I'm never rude.

Anyway, after a while, a security guard chased us away saying that we needed to have the Suntec pass to ask for donations there. We went to the other side of the bridge instead.

Soon, we got tired. It's really very tiring being on our feet for such a long time, and asking people for donations. Quite demoralising too, if you meet the wrong people. We decided to stop already. It was about 1.45pm and we were supposed to end at 2.30pm.

But then, we saw Joel and his friend. They were going back already, and they only finished one booklet. So at least we didn't collect the least. Haha... We went back together. I got $50 altogether.

Seeing that we were quite tired, Jonah and Jasmine didn't make us continue anymore. Instead, we just sat there and chit chat.

The other girls came back too and after a while, we all went back. I was seriously very tired. My legs were aching so much. After that, I went to meet my family at Suntec for dinner and just walk walk around.

Then, we went to see the National Day rehersal fireworks. It's really different when you see fireworks live, compared to on tv. It's all about the feel. It was really very pretty. :)

We went back after borrowing VCD.

And I watched Elizabethtown. It's a really pretty movie. It doesn't have a big climax or anything, just that the whole movie was very beautiful. I think girls will love it! I did! Haha... :)

My grades

2006-07-25T20:18:00.000+08:00

It's a little late to blog about this only now. After all, I already got all my results back last week. I didn't do well, that's for sure. Maybe I didn't study hard enough, plus, the papers were super difficult. I think the teachers are trying to spur us to study harder.

That's why ever since the mid year results have been given back to us, the library suddenly has a lot of newcomers. It's always so crowded now, during breaks and after school too.

And suddenly, we're all not ashamed to reveal the NERD in us.

Everytime there's a break, we'll ask each other "you going canteen to eat or go library?"

The reply will most of the time be "library." Now, we only eat during one period of break. The other periods are reserved for mugging.

That being said, here are my grades:

Chemistry: E
I'm disapointed about this one. I studied hard for it, but just managed to get an E. :(

Mathematics: C
Equally disappointed. I never get C for maths. I only get A's! Argh! This paper was terrible!

Economics: B
Short of 2 marks to get my A. Always like that for Econs. Why can't I get my A?!

Physics: B
The absolute shocker. I planned to give up on Physics to study the other 3 subjects more throughly. When I had only 2 days left, I decided that I would just go through the formulas and important comcepts of each chapter to grab as many marks as I can. In the end, I got a B for a subject I didn't really study. What is this?! Moral of the story? Don't study.

General Paper: C5, or is it C6. Haiz...
GP always kills me. I'm going to volunteer to go for GP remedial even though I don't have to. I don't like reading, newspapers or any types of books. So tell me, how to improve like that? Argh!

I think I can use this set of results for "before and after mugging" comparison. The before mugging one, of course! Haha...

Better study hard! I want to do well for prelims and more importantly, A levels!

Anyway, tell you a secret. I've actually been doing my Physics and Chemistry homework these few days. Yay! Three cheers for me! :D Especially for Chemistry because I haven't been doing any that homework for almost the whole of my JC life (since Mr Lim is so nice and doesn't scold when we don't do our work). Haha... My first step to studying hard.

Must make sure I keep to my plan! :)

Being sick sucks...

2006-07-24T12:52:00.000+08:00

Especially when there's a big pile of homework piling up to become an even bigger pile!

Last night, I went to the kitchen, and was so blur that I banged into the fridge.

It all happened so fast. I turned around to go into the hall, then the whole of my left side just whammed into the huge refrigerator. I fell onto the floor, quite shocked, and dropped the bottle I was holding.

After I told my Mum, she told me not to go to school.

It was just as well, since I haven't finished my homework.

I haven't been able to get any work done because I was really so sick that I just rest the whole weekend away.

The worst thing is, I don't even know if I can do my homework because my lecture notes are all blank from the time I missed school during nationals.

And now, there are going to be a lot more blanks after not going to school for so many days!

Argh! Just kill me!

If not, the homework and stress will kill me instead.

I've gotten down to doing some revision right now, since I can't do much homework. So hopefully, I'll make my time worthwhile today.

Medicine

2006-07-23T16:09:00.000+08:00

I went to see the doctor today. Woke up at 11.30am. Luckily the clinic opens the whole day, even on Sunday! The doctor so nice. Haha...

I made an appointment and the receptionist said my number is 101. Now serving number 95, I should go down in half an hour's time.

I reached the clinic like 10 minutes late and was afraid that my turn was over. But to my surprise, it was only number 96! So slow! Waited for 40 minutes before it was finally my turn.

Told the doctor my symptoms. About how I started falling sick on Thursday, till yesterday that the fever subsided, then the sore throat got worse. Then last night, my ear suddenly hurt. Feels like there's phlegm stuck inside. Gross! But it hurts quite badly.

I was so afraid that it was something serious. Maybe need to go hospital for operation or something. Or even worse, maybe I got bird flu! I tend to think about all these bad stuff... Ha...

Anyway, the doctor said that I have a very bad throat infection and it spread to my left ear. Right ear is alright through. He used some instrument to look into my ear and said the infection there quite serious too. Got bleeding (though no blood dripped out or anything). If it gets too serious, my ear drum may break. Oh my gosh, please don't let that happen.

I got 2 days MC till Tuesday, though I probably don't need it. And no PE for me for 1 week, and no swimming for 2 weeks. And I got 6 types of medicine, including ear drops and super big antibiotics tablets. It costs $66! Luckily I had just enough money on me, if not I wouldn't have known what to do.

The doctor also very funny. He told me to rest well and said no shopping for today. Then when I was leaving, he said study hard. Haha... How come cannot shop, but can study? Ha...

I went home after that, feeling a lot better that it wasn't something serious. I'm much better now, though my left ear still feels blocked and whatever I hear through that ear has echo. Haha... Kinda funny actually.

Anyway, about other stuff that happened the past days that I was too sick to blog about:

Wednesday we had the swim team exco election. All the year 2s got to vote, but the juniors couldn't vote. The 5 nominees were Cheryl, Vivien, Willis, Eugene and Shao Sheng. The exco decided the nominees, but I was disappointed that Ngang Ju wasn't included.

In the end, Willis is our new captain, Cheryl the vice-captain, and Vivien is our treasurer cum secretary. I think the guys are all sexist cos they chose Willis over Cheryl though I felt Cheryl is much more capable. They just didn't want a female captain. Or maybe they didn't know Cheryl well enough. I'm not sure.

I talked to Ngang Ju after that, and she said she was quite disappointed that she didn't get into exco. After all, swimming is her only cca. I felt the same for her too. Well, maybe they'll create new posts next year when there are more members.

Next, thursday was our last PE lesson. We played captain's ball, and it was really the best PE lesson we had. It was so fun! :) The school stopped our PE lessons so that in future we could use these 2 free periods to study. Haha...

And prelims are coming soon. Teachers are all pressurizing us to study. We're left with less that 40 days to the GP prelims I think. Then 1 week after that will be the prelims for all the other subjects.

And on friday, the swim team barbeque was fine too. Quite fun, though I still wasn't feeling well that day. I went to NTUC to buy food with Eugene, Eric and Ke Wen. Willis was supposed to come, but he was late. Super late that even after we finished buying everything, we still had to wait for him for quite a while. I thought he was supposed to show a good example as the captain. Anyway, I realised that Eugene was quite a good leader when we were shopping for the food. Too bad we didn't realise this earlier.

Eugene's realy good at setting up the fire too! He only used 4 firestarters, and in a while, the fire was already so strong.

During the barbeque, I didn't eat much. Cos my throat was still sore. Everytime I ate, it would hurt. Guess it's a good chance to lose some weight too. Haha... Joel Poon was so cute. He was the only one cooking most of the time, and he seemed to enjoy it. He was kinda dancing, moving from side to side while cooking. Then everything he cooked was just nice. Well-cooked, but not burnt. Ha... :)

The guys brought tiger beer, and Vivien brought a large bottle of vodka. Some people drank, but I didn't. And guess what? Vivien drank quite a bit, and she got drunk. It was really quite irritating because we had to take care of her while we were supposed to be having fun. It's such a spoiler. And since it was my house, they were suggesting that I bring her upstairs to sleep. But I didn't want to cos I wouldn't have known what to do with her. I just said that it's not convenient cos my brother is having tuition. I'm like so bad right? ... I was also scared that my parents will scold what... They didn't know there was going to be alcohol.

Anyway, Vivien recovered after a little while and returned to normal. Luckily...

We also played truth or dare. There were some stupid dares. Like Ding Yong had to carry Janice, Eugene kissed Cheryl's hand (Cheryl was cringing is embarrassment!) and Kai Xiang kissed Vivien's spectacles. Haha!

It was already 11pm by the time they all decided to go back and I was already very tired, since I was sick too. After washing up all the tongs and stuff, I took a bath and went to sleep. That was all for the barbeque. Fun, but super exhausting for me. Not to forget traumatising when Vivien got drunk.

And last night, I watched V for Vendetta on VCD. It's quite a nice show, but quite interllectual too. So there was quite a bit of the story that I didn't understand. Nice movie nonetheless.

By the way, my Dad left for Macau this morning for a business trip. It means no one to drive me to school, and extra early mornings for me. Haiz... He'll be back only on Wednesday night. Hope he brings back some nice souvenirs!

Anyway, I'm going to do some homework now. I'm seriously lagging behing schedule now that I've been sick for so many days. Hope I'll be well enough to go for lessons tomorrow! :)

I'm sick!

2006-07-21T13:09:00.000+08:00

It just happened so suddenly.

I went for econs S yesterday, feeling fine. Then during the 2 hour lesson, I began to feel my body aching (the type that you feel when you're sick) and my throat got sore. After the lesson, I knew I was sick.

I went home, bathed, ate dinner, then went to sleep at 8pm. Last night was earliest I ever slept in a long, long time!

I was so cold, but perspiring at the same time. It's a super uncomfortable feeling. Plus the body aches.

The worst thing is, the swim team is having barbeque at my house today (friday). I have to help them buy food and bring them here.

I woke up at 9.30 cos I couldn't sleep. Ate a little more, then slept at 12.

Throughout the night, I was feeling so hot! Perspiring so much.

Woke up today and decided not to go to school, then went back to sleep again.

All the while, I kept waking up every hour or so. I had my breakfast at 11, then went back to sleep again.

Now, after waking up, I feel loads better. I'm going to meet the junior guys to buy food later, then have the barbeque. I'll probably come upstairs for my own dinner and rest while they're playing downstairs. It's so ironic that I can't join in the bareque that's just at my house downstairs...

I hate being sick!

Present hunting

2006-07-18T19:30:00.000+08:00

Went to Parkway with Amarjote to look for Jasmine's present today.

Her birthday was actually on Sunday but last week we couldn't think of what to buy, and were all kinda waiting for each other to come up with an idea. So the present came late.

We gave her a card last friday though. I tell you, the card was super nice, cos I made it! And it's the nicest looking one I ever made. I think that I have some hidden artistic talent. Haha... It shows only once in a while, so people hardly ever notice.

Jasmine was weird taste too, or should I say unique. So we didn't know what she would like. And when we asked her, she kept saying "don't need to buy present, don't need to buy present." But usually when people say that, they're always secretly hoping for one. Don't bluff la!

So, I went present hunting with Amarjote today. Me, Amarjote, Sheryl, Li Yue and Joanne were sharing. But the others weren't free.

We walked around for quite a while, looking for something suitable. Water bottle, pencil case, belt, bag, handphone pouch... We were thinking to buy maybe one of these items.

Anyway, today was very fun cos it was like shopping. Me and Amarjote are quite crazy about earrings, but I'm crazier. Haha... Then whenever I see nice stuff, like bags, skirts, earrings, accessories, keychains, belts, make up etc, I'll go crazy. Then Amarjote will have to pull me away, if not we'll never find Jasmine's present.

After walking around for quite a while more, we decided to get the water bottle that we saw earlier. It's a Sigg bottle, and the picture is so cute! Haha... Don't know if Jasmine will like it, cos she always uses a small bottle and then drink from our bottles when she runs out of water. Haha... Hope she likes it!

Today, me and Amarjote talked a lot while shopping. Actually, I always thought of her more as Jasmine's friend. Because I'm closer to Jasmine. But after today, I realised that I actually have a lot to talk to her. We were talking throughout! No breaks in between! Didn't know that we both could crap so much in each other's company. Haha... Funny that I only realised this after being classmates with her for one and a half years! :)

Swim team farewell

2006-07-12T23:59:00.000+08:00

It's the last day of nationals. Today, we have 2 events, the girls' and guys' freestyle relay.

It's the same as the past few days, sitting there watching people swim. Since it was the finals, it was all very exciting. The results were all so close!

At 4pm, there was a special event for disabled people. It's so amazing how they can swim so fast, even though they are disabled! Simply amazing! One national athlete even swam faster than what the VJ guys can swim!

Both our events were at the end of the day. The girls' was first. We cheered a lot. All of them did well. Almost their personal bests. We came in 8th, as expected, but we managed to achieve our expectated timing.

The guys' event was next. They were aiming for 6th I think. In the end, they came in 7th, just 1 second slower than the previous team. But it was good effort on their part nonetheless.

Then came the interesting part!

After the competition, we took lots of photos. Team photos, juniors, seniors, breaststrokers, freestylers etc... The guys are crazy! Doing funny poses for the photos.

After that, we went to Marina Square for farewell dinner. Since the nationals are over, the seniors will leave soon. We went to Seoul Garden and took quite a while to find the place.

My table had Vivien, Jia Hui and Kevin. The food was not bad, although I didn't exactly like the food there. And Vivien's so spoilt! She asked Kevin to peel the prawns for her cos her Dad always does that for her. And can you believe it? Kevin actually did it! He's so nice! Haha...

The table on my right had Joel Poon, Joel Tang, Eric and Shao Sheng. They are a crazy bunch too! So it was lots of fun sitting with them.

When we almost finished eating, the guys took lots of photos. And quite gay too!

We also took more team photos outside, with the esplanade background.

After that, the guys all went home, but the girls still wanted to take a walk. We went to the esplanade and sat beside the river. The scenery was very nice, and we just sat there and talked.

Actually I was quite glad to leave swimming. Not that I didn't enjoy trainings or anything, this year trainings have indeed become more interesting since the new girls joined. But it's just that I want more time for my studies.

But the girls were very reluntant to let us go. They were saying how much they missed us, especially Vivien. She was so sad that the year 2s were leaving. And she also said that me and Janice, the only year 2 girls, seemed so much a part of them that it didn't occur to her that we were leaving together with the year 2 guys.

I also got quite sad when they all didn't want us to leave.

We had to go home at 10.30pm cos it was getting late. We love each other's company so much that we decided to study together. Study buddies. Haha... :)

Vivien, Janice and I took train back. And Vivien seemed some what sad that the year 2s were leaving because it means that her cute guy was leaving too. And he sort of "rejected" her indirectly. Maybe she was reading too much into what he said, but she was disappointed all the same.

I'll be sad to leave too. It's the first time I felt so sad about leaving the swim team. It's the junior girls who added so much fun for me and I love them lots!!! :)

The finals

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

Medley relay finals. I was a lot more relaxed today because I knew I would mess things up if I was nervous. Besides, we would most probably get 8th anyway. So, no pressure.

It's until now that I appreciate not being a super good swimmer. Cos if not there would be so much pressure! 1 second would cost me the first place or something like that. But now, 1 second doesn't matter that much.

The guys' relay was before ours and they came in 6th even though they were aiming for 5th. The difference between the 2 positions was only 0.14s! So close!

For our event, everything went well. When Ngang Ju swam towards me, I saw that we were tied with another team! We had chance to beat them!

When I plunged in, I remembered to do the chang hua bi this time. Yay!

The swimming part was fine too because I decided to glide more. And I was concentrating on counting how many pulls I did. Just to take my mind off the fatigue.

Up to the last 10 pulls, I got tired, but I pressed on.

I came out of the pool after Shu qi plunged in. I took a while to recover. I swam till my whole body was drained!

While Janice was swimming the last lap, I saw that we were almost on par with that same team. Maybe we were a little faster. I cheered for her, and finally, we managed to come in 7th!

It was such a pleasant surprise and Janice was shocked too when In told her. The guys congratulated us and we took team photos.

The relay guys and girls also took photos. I don't know why, but it felt so nice to be so "part of the team". Ha...

Anyway, we found out later that our overall timing is 3.08.52min. Yishun JC was 4 seconds slower than us, and CJ was almost 20 seconds faster. They said Janice swam very fast and caught up with the Yishun girl which was 10m in front of her! Either that girl was slow, or Janice was fast.

Shu Qi was quite disappointed with her butterfly timing. Although we don't know the timings for individual laps, but they said that Yishun caught up to us during the butterfly lap. But it wasn't exactly Shu Qi's fault. I think it was because YJ's flyer was super.

As for me, I don't know my timing either because the score board didn't show. All we know is that 1.43.27min is the timing for Ngang Ju and my timings combined.

Ngang Ju's personal best is 55s, and I know that her timing is almost the same as the YJ backstroker, which is 58s. So I bet I did 48 seconds or less! Yay!

I'm happy, cos I'm quite sure that I beat my personal best. Though I'm sad that I don't know my exact timing.

After the competition, we went to eat at the food court and I had tau suan. Then, we all took MRT back. Ding Yong and I alighted at Tampines and it was super awkward because we didn't have anything to say to each other all the way from the train station to the bus interchange. So awkward!

Anyway, today is a fine day, and it's the end of my swimming competitions. I have no more events. Tomorrow is the last day of nationals and VJ entered the girls' and guys' freestyle relay. Hope the results will turn out fine! :)

The sacrifice

2006-07-10T21:54:00.000+08:00

Today, we had training at Bedok at around 1pm. We had half day since VJ sailing team came in first. When will VJ ever have half day because of the swimming nationals? I think it'll gonna take quite a few years... Ha...

We played a bit of catching in the water. Haha... We are all crazy! Training was slack because it was just to practice plunging. We shouldn't strain ourselves too much because the race is just tomorrow.

And speaking of tomorrow, the medley relay finals is tomorrow and I thought that I should probably go on a little diet to at least maintain, if not lose some weight. Cos we haven't been swimming long distances recently and I've been eating quite a lot during the exam period. Ha... :)

Anyway, one of the girls said that there was this article about preparing for competitions and it said that 2 or 3 days prior to the race, we should eat sweet and high-energy stuff to build up on our energy reserves. It's completely opposite from what I planned to do.

And so, with that article from some professional, I guess I have no choice but to stuff myself with all those high-energy food, like chocolate, sweets, ice cream etc... Oooh... Haha...

Too bad I have to put aside my dieting plan just to ensure my performance will be good...

Haiz... The sacrifices I make.

I'm going to finish my bar of chocolate now. HAHA!!! :D

Shopping at Bugis

2006-07-09T21:09:00.000+08:00

I was supposed to have training today.

And I went out early to go out with Si Hui, Melissa, Xiu Zhen and Yuwen to Bugis. I was planning to go for training which starts at 5pm later.

But I didn't tell my parents that I was going out with them. I only said I was going swimming. Cos I was afraid that they wouldn't let me go. They already stopped me from going out with Hanjie and the rest of the girls on youth day to watch movie. So if I asked and they said no, there was no way I could sneak out.

But at 4 plus, training was cancelled because it was raining the whole day. So we continued shopping.

We had lunch at the food fare. The food was quite average.

Then we went shopping at Bugis junction and at "icon".

Melissa and Yuwen bought some stuff. The both of them ar, complete shopaholics! They spent so much money that I felt so poor when I went out with them. I would buy lots of stuff I had money too! Too bad I'm broke! :(

But I still had money to buy 2 pairs of earrings. Man! I should really stop buying earrings. I don't even have enough holes to wear them!

I went back at 7pm, the other girls were still shopping. 5 hours of walking around, without sitting at all! My legs are aching!

Anyway, when I went home, my parents asked why I was so late and if I went swimming. I said training was cancelled (it was pretty obvious that it was raining) and I went with the swimming people to eat dinner and just talk.

They bought my story. But I still feel kinda bad lying to them. But there was no doubt that shopping today was fun! :)

Swimming in the moonlight...

2006-07-08T23:59:00.000+08:00

The girls trained at 8pm at Toa Payoh today. We decided to swim so late, and so far away, because the pools were usually crowded on weekends.

Toa Payoh wasn't crowded though. Maybe people were resting so they could watch soccer later.

We swam quite a bit and practiced plunging.

Then we ate at the foodcourt and crapped somemore before going back.

I'm super tired now! Don't know if I'll be watching soccer...

Into the finals!

2006-07-07T23:59:00.000+08:00

I didn't have any event today, but I went to support the team anyway. Didn't go to school. Haha... :)

It felt so much more relaxing without any event. I wore the butterfky earrings and the starry hairtie from Melissa and Wen Zhe since we all agreed to wear it every friday. Seriously, I haven't changed my earrings for a really long time. I wore the small red studs during swimming all the time. So happy to wear dangling ones. Ha!

There were quite a lot of events today. There was guys 100m breaststoke, Fabian's 100m backstroke and both guys and girls' freestyle relay. I was the only one without events, so I helped to take the timings.

After feeling so stressed up and emotional yesterday, I can't emphasise more how relaxed I was today. I cheered a lot too.

The girls' relay came first and we were all cheering like mad. There were 11 teams. We had to beat 3 to get into the finals. And I didn't take the timing for one of the other teams. So after the race, we didn't know if we had gotten into the finals. We had to wait for the announcement. And thank god, we were the 8th team! Haha... So so happy! :D

The guys' relay was next, and it went well too. We came in 7th!

So overall, we have 4 events in the finals. Both the medley and freestyle relays for guys and girls. Yay! :)

After the competition, we went to McDonald's to eat. The guys left after a while. They said they were going home to mug. But the girls stayed back and talked a lot. It was more of a gossipping session. Like who's the cutest guy in swimming and whether we all had boyfriends before etc. All those girly stuff. Ha... But it was a lot of fun!

Anyway, I'm just glad that we got into the finals. Although it means that we'l probably have to train over the weekends. Haha... The finals are next tuesday and wednesday. :)

Utter disappointment

2006-07-06T22:59:00.000+08:00

This is the third day of nationals and I have 2 events. 50m breaststroke and medley relay.

I started the day with my dental appointment. I tightened my braces, and it wasn't as pain as I expected it to be. Haven't seen Dr Woo for a long time now. Somehow, I suddenly feel that she's very nice and friendly. Haha...

After that, met Vivien at Toa Payoh to go to the pool. None of the girls have events in the morning, but Vivien wanted to support her cute guy so I accompanied her since I wasn't going to school after my appointment.

The guys did ok, but as expected, not good enough to get into the finals.

We went for lunch at the foodcourt. After eating, we went to some place with lots of chairs and air con to just sit and talk. There was this cute baby girl in the row in front of us and we were playing with her. She's so so so cute!!!

My 50m breaststroke event is a little after lunch. At first, I wasn't nervous because I had done this before. Besides, it wasn't my first event this nationals. But as it got closer and closer, I got so terribly nervous. The warm up didn't feel good. And I was just not feeling on form.

The other girls taking part in this event - Cheryl, Jovena and Jia Yi - were all very nervous, this being their first time. I was trying to tell them that there was nothing to be afraid of. But, I was just so scared inside myself.

That feeling sort of built up inside me since I didn't want to show the juniors that I was also nervous. I was supposed to encourage them, not scare them even more. And I also felt pressure to do better than the 48.62s I did last year. It was seriously a lot of stress. And I think I sort of purposely pressured myself so that I would do better. I don't know...

Before reporting, I listened to music on my MP3 and honestly, I almost cried because I was under so much pressure!

I think Ngang Ju could tell it too cos I asked to hug her before I went to the reporting station...

Cheryl and Jia Yi were in heat 1. Both of them did 57s, although Cheryl was a quarter of a second faster than Jia Yi. That result was good for Jia Yi, but Cheryl was disappointed. She could have done better. All of us knew that.

Jovena was in heat 2. She did 1 minute. That was kinda what she expected I guess.

When it was my turn, Cheryl and Jia Yi were beside me since they already finished their races and came back to get their stuff. I went to hug Jia Yi too. Think I like to hug people when I get stressed...

The race started, and for the first part of the race, I seriously don't remember what happened at all. I only remember that by 25m, I was already tired and was just doing high frequency swimming. But I just wasn't gliding enough! I felt like I was a drowning frog or something, struggling in the water...

I finally reached the end and my timing is 50.10s.

!!!!!

I was really sad. This possiblity of me not doing well had struck me before. But I was so hoping that it wouldn't come true.

Now that it did, I guess it may be because I didn't train that hard.

I went to warm down, then went back to the others.

Fabian said I didn't do my chang hua bi! After plunging, I just came out of the water. No pull, no kick!

ARGH! :(

I really can't remember what happened at all, and I was pressurising myself so much that I just wanted to get to the other side asap, never mind how I did it. In the end, I ended up slower.

A real big disappointment!

Although it was over, I was still worried because I was taking part in the medley relay and I didn't want to pull the others down. I know we want to get into the finals real bad!

And it didn't help that Fabian and Ding Yong were sort of pressurising me not to make the same mistakes for the relay...

I was seriously stressed and listened to my MP3 to try to calm myself down. And I admit that I cried, a little little bit, cos I was so terribly disappointed with myself.

If I weren't that nervous, I'm sure I would have done better. Probably even better than last year.

The relay was coming up, and I tried to take the pressure away cos I knew that it was the thing that was causing me to make mistakes.

There were only 9 teams in the heats, and 8 teams will go into the finals. We just had to beat one team. This was really important to us because it just may be the only final that the girls have.

Luckily, there was a announcement.

Sort of a miracle:

The heats for the A division medley relay was cancelled and we'll go straight to the finals!

We were all happy!

It may be because one of the teams withdrew from the event, so we automatically qualify.

It was good for me too, cos I wasn't sure I could swim well then.

Without that event, the only event left for VJ today was the guys medley relay. They had to beat 3 teams to get to the finals. Wih much cheering and impressive swimming from all of the 4 guys, the team came in 5th and qualified for the finals. We were all so glad!

That was also that last event of the day, and we went back after that.

Overall, today was not only a physically draining, but mentally exhaustive day for me. I've never felt so many complicated and mixed feelings before. But at least now I know that I shouldn't pressure myself too much, otherwise things could turn out worse.

I'll probably forgive myself for today's performance if I do well for the relay.

Today's results:
50m breaststroke
Event: 06-04
Heat: 3
Lane: 1
Personal best: 48.62s
Today's timing: 50.10s

Adidas rocks!!

2006-07-05T22:09:00.000+08:00

I absolutely love the Adidas commercials. The person who came up with it is a complete genius!

If you haven't seen the ad, then you seriously haven't been watching enough tv.

Impossible is Nothing! Yeah! :D

One thing though... I don't understand the "jose +10" thingy... Ha...

I got cut by a pen!

2006-07-05T21:29:00.000+08:00

It was my dark blue pentel pen with the 0.38mm tip.

I was going to cap my pen. Then instead of pushing it into the cover, I didn't aim properly and poked my finger instead.

And I pushed it in so hard that there was a 1cm cut on my little finger and it bled.

Oh man... how many people can cut themselved with a pen?

After I did that, I felt so...

so...

stupid!

Ps. I had a super sweet dream yesterday. It was nice, a bit weird, but nice! HA! :D

100m breaststroke

2006-07-04T21:37:00.000+08:00

Didn't go to school today. It's the first day of nationals.

In the morning Shu Qi has 200m individual medley. She was somewhat sick. And didn't perform as well as expectations. Oh well, she still has 3 more nationals to go. I'm sure she'll be able to get into the finals then.

We went for lunch at the foodcourt. I met Seet Teng there. She was taking part in the same event as me, just that it was B division.

After lunch, we went back quite early because Ngang Ju had to warm up for her 50m backstroke event. We had almost 1 hour before warming up. I was quite bored, and was getting nervous since I had nothing to do. So, I messaged quite a lot of people about my competition, just to chat and get my mind occupied.

I guess it was also a kind of promise to them that I would do my best. And they were all so nice to reply and give me well wishes. :)

Also, I felt it hard to tell the juniors that I was nervous and all. Because, being the senior, I was supposed to encourage them, not make them freak out more. They said I didn't look like I was stressed. That's because I didn't show it. I was unusually quiet most of the time.

For Ngang Ju's backstroke event, she didn't do her personal best. I think she was quite disappointed.

Cheryl and I were taking part in the same event. She's in heat 1, I'm in the second. Both of us are in lane 7 too.

The C and B division was super good! Especially the C division girls. It's like as we get older, we become slower? Haha... Makes no sense.

We were asked to report super early and had to wait for quite a while before it was our turn. The TJ girl in lane 6 beside me was very nice! I got to know her during the swim meet, but not that close to her though. Just sort of "I know you exist" that kind of closeness. Haha...

She was very nice la. We talked quite a bit and hugged before the race.

During the race, I made quite a few mistakes actually. In the beginning when I was supposed to step up on the plunging board, I didn't. Cos I didn't hear the whistle. Then until I realised how come there isn't a whistle and I look around, I realised that everyone else was already standing up there...

After I plunged, my goggles almost dropped out. But luckily it didn't. Before the race, we were all freaking out about what would happen if the goggles dropped out. Shuqi's did during the medley. And the coach said she could have been disqualified when she adjusted it. I really can't see if it came out...

Anyway, I think the first 50m went well. I remembered to plunge, pull and kick. And I was like... erm swimming moderately fast I guess. Like not as high frequency as for the 50m race, but still not that slow.

Turning was fine too. I don't remember much of it cos everything seemed to whizz pass so quickly.

But after turning, I had to do that pull (chang hua bi) and kick again, but I didn't have enough breath since I was swimming so hard. So I managed to pull, then without kicking, I came out of the water. I was in quite a weird position then. Hopefully no one saw that. Haha...

The remaining 25m began to feel tiring. I was pacing myself with the TJ girl beside me. For the first 75m, I think we were neck in neck. But towards the end, I got tired and she went ahead.

I felt tired, but I still tried to swim fast. It just wasn't worth it to rest for 1 or 2 seconds and add so much to the timing. I could have all the time I wanted to rest after it was over. I know I swam hard, but I felt I didn't give it my all. Maybe I did 95% of my maximum towards the end.

After the race, I was really tired and my whole body ached. Almost couldn't pull myself out of the pool. I guess that was evidence of my 95% effort.

We went to warm down, then met up with the others.

My timing is 1.47.22 min. Cheryl's is 2.04min. She was quite disappointed. The others said that she got nervous and didn't do the strokes properly. It's ok I guess. First times are always more frightening. I know it's true because I wasn't as nervous as I was last year.

Harry was having his event today too. 100m butterfly. But he stopped after 3 quarters of the race because he siad he couldn't breathe. It's because he just recovered from a bad cough. What a pity... I thought he did really well.

Anyway, that's all for today. Quite fun I must say, although I was a bundle of nerves before the race. Now that it's over, I'm more relaxed.

My next even is 50m breaststroke on thursday afternoon.

100m breaststroke
Event: 02-09
Heat: 2
Lane: 7
Timing: 1.47.22min (personal best)

Preparing for tomorrow

2006-07-03T20:59:00.000+08:00

It's my second post today. Guess I'm totally bored...

Anyway, the competition is tomorrow.

I swam a little just now. And I'm going to sleep early tonight, at 10pm. Luckily there isn't soccer tonight. Haha... :)

I'm not that nervous as I was last year. Maybe it's because we had more preparation for this nationals - the MGS competition and swim meet a few months ago.

Hope I'll do well! :)

100m breaststroke
Event: 02-09
Heat: 2
Lane: 7
Personal Best: unknown