Bitching
Something others do and something which one unconsciously engages in.(Although I have to say that most of the time I am aware yet I still persist.)
Something which is,most of the time, inaccurate due to the massive spreading of similar rumours but which, something which we tend to believe easily.
Something which you can't help doing due to an obvious and recurring weakness in the subject you're bitching about.
Something which you have no right to do as it is considered as passing judgement on someone when it should actually be settled by God.
The more I type this, the more guilty I am. I can say now that it is wrong to gossip and talk bad about people but once I'm in a group, it just happens naturally. It's always the case and I'm not proud of it!
Sometimes I try to be conscious of my tongue and keep my words to myself:being quiet the whole time the gossip is making its rounds. However, in the end, the pressure becomes so immense, like that of a water hose that is waiting to burst, that the floodgates of hell are released and everything starts coming out.
I just hate this weakness of mine. Can I just shut my mouth once and for all?
Things are made worse after people realised that I am God's child. Maybe I need to learn it the hard way. Maybe God would heighten my flaws, take away what little talents left in me just to show me how imperfect I am and make me realise who I am to question others when I'm worse than them?
From the depths of my heart, Lord, I want to change and be a better person:not one who brings people down. Help me to see people with your eyes. Sometimes the best person is the one who listens more than he speaks. Help me to learn to pray for them to replace each gossip I have said, each negative word I have uttered about them....
30 January, 2007
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Actually I have no intention to blog for a long time, partly due to studies and other commitments but it just came as a random thought.
I was reading the additional mini-sermon which came with the "Our Daily Bread" and this time, it was about Knowledge and Wisdom. It states that Knowledge without Wisdom is nothing as you would be constantly listening to the many voices and not knowing which is the correct one. This leads me to think about Life in JC and the sudden influx of knowledge that is hastily thrusted on our weary minds. I realised that the more I understand how things work, for example,how the economy responds to price signals and why inflation and many other economical jargon takes place among other things, the more confused I become. Just like what the sermon said, my mind would soon become a computer overloaded with too much information that it is bound to crash one day.
The more knowledge we acquire, the more we have to see things through different perspectives. Also, we are expected to have a wider scope of our subject. An example would be Literature. In secondary school, Lit was not as complex as now with regards to analysis and essay structure but now, there's poetry and prose comparison: we have to question from both sides and argue with substantial points. The same goes for GP: wider scope, more marks...no black and white areas, there are always the "greys" to be considered. Recently, we are told to take a stand regarding the debate of God vs. Science. When is this going to end?
No wonder adults often say that they would very much want to be children again: carefree, without worries. This is indeed a case of "Ignorance is Bliss." Does education really give you more knowledge or more headaches?
"Teach less, learn more", they say...
Lord, give me the Wisdom to study smart. What's the point of poring through lecture readings and tutorials,understanding everything there and then but forgetting them soon after going through everything? I know that I'm not as academically well-off as many around me but give me the Wisdom to know what to do such that I would be able to perform sufficiently to go where you want me to...
I was reading the additional mini-sermon which came with the "Our Daily Bread" and this time, it was about Knowledge and Wisdom. It states that Knowledge without Wisdom is nothing as you would be constantly listening to the many voices and not knowing which is the correct one. This leads me to think about Life in JC and the sudden influx of knowledge that is hastily thrusted on our weary minds. I realised that the more I understand how things work, for example,how the economy responds to price signals and why inflation and many other economical jargon takes place among other things, the more confused I become. Just like what the sermon said, my mind would soon become a computer overloaded with too much information that it is bound to crash one day.
The more knowledge we acquire, the more we have to see things through different perspectives. Also, we are expected to have a wider scope of our subject. An example would be Literature. In secondary school, Lit was not as complex as now with regards to analysis and essay structure but now, there's poetry and prose comparison: we have to question from both sides and argue with substantial points. The same goes for GP: wider scope, more marks...no black and white areas, there are always the "greys" to be considered. Recently, we are told to take a stand regarding the debate of God vs. Science. When is this going to end?
No wonder adults often say that they would very much want to be children again: carefree, without worries. This is indeed a case of "Ignorance is Bliss." Does education really give you more knowledge or more headaches?
"Teach less, learn more", they say...
Lord, give me the Wisdom to study smart. What's the point of poring through lecture readings and tutorials,understanding everything there and then but forgetting them soon after going through everything? I know that I'm not as academically well-off as many around me but give me the Wisdom to know what to do such that I would be able to perform sufficiently to go where you want me to...
22 January, 2007
Back to the Status Quo
My sister got a new bed. And with it came many problems and packing,throwing,re-organising and conflicts. Problems regarding the ergonomics of the room and how it should be arranged in such a way that it maximises room space as well as what should be retained and discarded (sentimentality vs. practicality) and many more.
As to conflicts, actually it's more of a personal issue. It's just that my aunt touched on a sensitive spot which epitomises me as a whole (Well,sort of...) She likened me to my third aunt in terms of untidiness and organisation and my third aunt's room is like...I don't know...you can't even see the floor cos its so messy? Of all things! Even though I'm not as neat and tidy as my Mum but to compare me to my third aunt is an insult to the extreme! It's equivalent to how I feel when someone hurls profanities at my parents.That's how serious it is!
Hmm,you may be thinking that it's just a small issue but to me, Organisation and Neatness is of utmost importance and this explains why I have this fetish of packing my clothes wardrobe every few weeks and why I can't stand the sight of books that are not properly aligned or even papers not neatly stacked together...and even though it may sound like a boast but I'm proud of how my room looks and how I organised it to be....I don't need my aunt to tell me nicely how things should be arranged and talk to me as if I don't know nuts about land maximisation of a tiny room in a four-room flat....ARGH!!!
But anyways, I should be glad that at least she bothered to help me organise and pack things...even though the comments were unnecessary...and all because of ONE BED...how ridiculous....Don't get me wrong: I still love my aunt. It's just that I thought she should know me well enough to know that she shouldn't say that continuously...(she's been harping on the issue of efficient space management for 2 consecutive days!)
Now my room is smaller than usual and smells of IKEA and my brother is King of 1/4 of the house....
After church I bumped into the most unexpected person in the heart of Yishun: Ms. Wendy Lee. (Yes,our Phy Geog teacher!) Apparently she attends a church nearby and she was waiting for her husband to pick her from his guitar lessons or something like that.Initially I wasn't sure whether it was her but she did a double-take when she saw me and came over to chat with my aunt and me....
Met Cui and Ping after that. Cui wore a skirt!!!! Pretty eh, Cuiwen? Chatted for quite some time before Ai Ping had to go and met up with Constance,Cui's church friend,after that. (She's funny!)
Argh...can't take it anymore....hours and hours of packing and moving would inevitably turn a usually lethargic person like me to the living dead....
As to conflicts, actually it's more of a personal issue. It's just that my aunt touched on a sensitive spot which epitomises me as a whole (Well,sort of...) She likened me to my third aunt in terms of untidiness and organisation and my third aunt's room is like...I don't know...you can't even see the floor cos its so messy? Of all things! Even though I'm not as neat and tidy as my Mum but to compare me to my third aunt is an insult to the extreme! It's equivalent to how I feel when someone hurls profanities at my parents.That's how serious it is!
Hmm,you may be thinking that it's just a small issue but to me, Organisation and Neatness is of utmost importance and this explains why I have this fetish of packing my clothes wardrobe every few weeks and why I can't stand the sight of books that are not properly aligned or even papers not neatly stacked together...and even though it may sound like a boast but I'm proud of how my room looks and how I organised it to be....I don't need my aunt to tell me nicely how things should be arranged and talk to me as if I don't know nuts about land maximisation of a tiny room in a four-room flat....ARGH!!!
But anyways, I should be glad that at least she bothered to help me organise and pack things...even though the comments were unnecessary...and all because of ONE BED...how ridiculous....Don't get me wrong: I still love my aunt. It's just that I thought she should know me well enough to know that she shouldn't say that continuously...(she's been harping on the issue of efficient space management for 2 consecutive days!)
Now my room is smaller than usual and smells of IKEA and my brother is King of 1/4 of the house....
After church I bumped into the most unexpected person in the heart of Yishun: Ms. Wendy Lee. (Yes,our Phy Geog teacher!) Apparently she attends a church nearby and she was waiting for her husband to pick her from his guitar lessons or something like that.Initially I wasn't sure whether it was her but she did a double-take when she saw me and came over to chat with my aunt and me....
Met Cui and Ping after that. Cui wore a skirt!!!! Pretty eh, Cuiwen? Chatted for quite some time before Ai Ping had to go and met up with Constance,Cui's church friend,after that. (She's funny!)
Argh...can't take it anymore....hours and hours of packing and moving would inevitably turn a usually lethargic person like me to the living dead....
19 January, 2007
My many "Firsts" Today
"Happening" is what I would use to describe today. My "first" kicked off when Miss Kon sent me,along with a group of others, to the library after we failed to do our Lit Homework. Actually, I did it on rough paper and not in the Lit Journal and maybe it's because of that that I got sent out. Anyways, maybe this may be one of the last few times that I get punished in the educational system cos when we reach university, detention and such forms of punishment is unheard of. Therefore, being punished in JC occasionally is one of our last few opportunities to do so, at least according to CHARLIE'S philosophy...heh heh...
Shortly after, my next "first" came...I suffered a bout of severe menstrual cramps after running 5 rounds on the track during PE. It was not the first time getting mentrual cramps but this time, it was so serious that I was quite immobile! The pain was excruciating. The feeling was like rapid circulations of blood jabbing me periodically. Thanks to kind souls like Samantha, Charlene, Rhyss,Evatte, and many others who were concerned enough to ask me how I'm feeling time after time,who succeeded in shipping me to the canteen, buying food for me and giving me Panadol. THANK YOU!!! =)
Finally, the last "First" is the worse of all!!! In all my seventeen years on this earth, I have never felt more embarrassed and even though I know that by recording this incident here for the whole world to see would be embarrassing too, I'm sure I was humiliated enough already and further humiliation would mean nothing to me anymore. Anyways, to get straight to the point, my menstruation leaked and my green tpjc skirt was likened to the drainage basin that Ms.Lee taught for the lecture on rivers. (except that it's the Red Sea and not your normal,rushing water!) By the time I discovered the scarlet fountain of humiliation, Louis and Seng Keat (of all people) had already witnessed the Revival of the Red Sea in Singapore...ARGH!!!!
I alerted Mimi immediately and I side-stepped all the way to the toilet after enduring many "obstacles" along the way, one of them being Commando Lee who had a skeptical look on his face when we side-stepped past him. After I changed back to my PE attire, Mimi and I faced the world with courage again.(Well,actually me only!) Louis came up to me and told me that he and Seng Keat saw it but before they could alert me, I went out of the room already. As if that was not enough, Henry came up to me and said:
"Even though I don't know what's happening, from the look of it, I can roughly understand what is going on. Don't worry! Every girl has such moments."
The funny thing is, after my embarrassing incident, Ai Ping also had HER embarrassing moment of which it has to be kept under wraps. heh heh!!!
Ok,enough about my exciting day, now for the updates on today. Nelson ended practice at 5.25pm!!! Yay! I was actually prepared to endure through until 7pm..he rocks! Sochenda and Seng Keat were picked randomly for a solo today and Ms. Choo our new principal dropped in to listen to us. Emily paraded the new choir gown to the J2s and some ammendments to the colour of the gown were made. (One load off our minds!)
After that, dinner at Simei with what was supposed to be Terry,Luke,Prem,Seng Keat,Jillian,Fiona,Zhiyi,Violet (the new J1),Charlie Brown,Duc,Shannon,Ai Ping,Mimi and Valerie but as we couldn't decide promptly where we were having dinner, the Tenors left to find their own makan place. Val and Mimi ended up going home and the rest of us went to Eastpoint Foodcourt. Fact of the day: Duc IS very funny. Besides the fact that he's gross at times (digging his butt and ear and whatever hole he has and touching us after that!), he can really make people laugh..hahaha...
Shortly after, my next "first" came...I suffered a bout of severe menstrual cramps after running 5 rounds on the track during PE. It was not the first time getting mentrual cramps but this time, it was so serious that I was quite immobile! The pain was excruciating. The feeling was like rapid circulations of blood jabbing me periodically. Thanks to kind souls like Samantha, Charlene, Rhyss,Evatte, and many others who were concerned enough to ask me how I'm feeling time after time,who succeeded in shipping me to the canteen, buying food for me and giving me Panadol. THANK YOU!!! =)
Finally, the last "First" is the worse of all!!! In all my seventeen years on this earth, I have never felt more embarrassed and even though I know that by recording this incident here for the whole world to see would be embarrassing too, I'm sure I was humiliated enough already and further humiliation would mean nothing to me anymore. Anyways, to get straight to the point, my menstruation leaked and my green tpjc skirt was likened to the drainage basin that Ms.Lee taught for the lecture on rivers. (except that it's the Red Sea and not your normal,rushing water!) By the time I discovered the scarlet fountain of humiliation, Louis and Seng Keat (of all people) had already witnessed the Revival of the Red Sea in Singapore...ARGH!!!!
I alerted Mimi immediately and I side-stepped all the way to the toilet after enduring many "obstacles" along the way, one of them being Commando Lee who had a skeptical look on his face when we side-stepped past him. After I changed back to my PE attire, Mimi and I faced the world with courage again.(Well,actually me only!) Louis came up to me and told me that he and Seng Keat saw it but before they could alert me, I went out of the room already. As if that was not enough, Henry came up to me and said:
"Even though I don't know what's happening, from the look of it, I can roughly understand what is going on. Don't worry! Every girl has such moments."
The funny thing is, after my embarrassing incident, Ai Ping also had HER embarrassing moment of which it has to be kept under wraps. heh heh!!!
Ok,enough about my exciting day, now for the updates on today. Nelson ended practice at 5.25pm!!! Yay! I was actually prepared to endure through until 7pm..he rocks! Sochenda and Seng Keat were picked randomly for a solo today and Ms. Choo our new principal dropped in to listen to us. Emily paraded the new choir gown to the J2s and some ammendments to the colour of the gown were made. (One load off our minds!)
After that, dinner at Simei with what was supposed to be Terry,Luke,Prem,Seng Keat,Jillian,Fiona,Zhiyi,Violet (the new J1),Charlie Brown,Duc,Shannon,Ai Ping,Mimi and Valerie but as we couldn't decide promptly where we were having dinner, the Tenors left to find their own makan place. Val and Mimi ended up going home and the rest of us went to Eastpoint Foodcourt. Fact of the day: Duc IS very funny. Besides the fact that he's gross at times (digging his butt and ear and whatever hole he has and touching us after that!), he can really make people laugh..hahaha...
Ok! I'm off! =)
18 January, 2007
=)
A Silly Poem
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
---Terence Alan Milligan---
Hahaha....sometimes I wish I could have the skill of writing good poetry and not wait for inspiration to hit before coming up with a good piece. For Mimi and Shannon, I guess the task of writing good poetry comes easy for them as they have been honing their skills for years and they're good at their trade.
I guess I understand how Mimi feels when she blogs about being anti-social and stuff. It's like it takes extra effort for introverts like me to open up to people easily and like what Mimi says, everytime you talk to someone, you're revealing bits of yourself. And if you say something unintended accidentally, people will characterise you according to what you've said and sometimes what you've said doesn't reflect your true self. Well, sounds complicated eh? So, the best thing to do is to keep your mouth shut. This is only a temporary measure as you'll not risk saying something odd but if this happens permanently, people might take the silence as being cold,aloof or even as a sign of pride or anti-social behaviour. Therefore, Singapore has been emphasising public speaking amongst youths by allowing active learning in classrooms through discussions and presentations, which I dread the most. However, I must say that all these platforms have helped but only to a minimal extent. It still doesn't change my introverted personality and the fact that I prefer to listen rather than speak.
Well, just a thought for the day!
15 January, 2007
Er Yi's birthday and teacher comparisons (ooOooOOooOO!!)
Today I learnt something new: I realise how commanding Lorraine Lee can be. Despite having lost her voice, she can still silence the whole lecture theatre with one glare of her doe-like eyes! Hahahaha..but she's good in what she does and thus she deserves such respect.
Moving on, our first Human Geog lesson was not bad either. I think I'll love Human Geog even more because of Mr Sahlan! when we first step into the classroom for his lesson, a powerpoint slideshow with the title "WELCOME TO GEOGRAPHY COURSE" was emblazoned in bold,blue letters across the top and a picture of his face with his name adorned the bottom..HAHAHAHAHA!! Apparently, we learnt after that that the powerpoint presentation was about him with the next slide talking about himself. (This time, the headlines were "Geography Tutor" and "My Greatest Pride and Achievements" in the following slides!)
For GP, as we were in the Arts & Culture Elective programme, we were made to conduct a very interesting experiment of creating a sub-culture in TPJC. Rachel, Rhyss and I were thinking about tying our hair in 2 ponytails besides the one that Mrs Chew suggested: using Ziploc as your pencil case. We had to remain in our sub-cultured way until the end of this week, observe the reactions that people gave (be it positive or negative, although I'm quite sure that they'll be mostly the latter response!) and give an account of the whole experience. Interesting eh?
Anyways, Charlene is the new gospel singer of 06A03. She brought her GMSS Songbook and belted out hymns during Break. Her singing was so infectious/contagious that it prompted potential gospel singers Lizard, Geraldine and Rhyss to croon along with her.MUAHAHAHA!! But it certainly brought back fond memories... "His love is warmer than the warmest sunshine, softer than a sigh..."
To end today's entry, I'll just show some photos (as usual!) of my 2nd Aunt's surprise birthday which I threw yesterday at GMH.
Er Yi opening her present from Maib
See how thrilled Er Yi is...
Er Yi with Ma Ma and Gong Gong
Er Yi with Ma Ma and Gong Gong who isn't looking
Coffee and Peanut cake from Polar Cakes and Puffs (budget la!)
Moving on, our first Human Geog lesson was not bad either. I think I'll love Human Geog even more because of Mr Sahlan! when we first step into the classroom for his lesson, a powerpoint slideshow with the title "WELCOME TO GEOGRAPHY COURSE" was emblazoned in bold,blue letters across the top and a picture of his face with his name adorned the bottom..HAHAHAHAHA!! Apparently, we learnt after that that the powerpoint presentation was about him with the next slide talking about himself. (This time, the headlines were "Geography Tutor" and "My Greatest Pride and Achievements" in the following slides!)
For GP, as we were in the Arts & Culture Elective programme, we were made to conduct a very interesting experiment of creating a sub-culture in TPJC. Rachel, Rhyss and I were thinking about tying our hair in 2 ponytails besides the one that Mrs Chew suggested: using Ziploc as your pencil case. We had to remain in our sub-cultured way until the end of this week, observe the reactions that people gave (be it positive or negative, although I'm quite sure that they'll be mostly the latter response!) and give an account of the whole experience. Interesting eh?
Anyways, Charlene is the new gospel singer of 06A03. She brought her GMSS Songbook and belted out hymns during Break. Her singing was so infectious/contagious that it prompted potential gospel singers Lizard, Geraldine and Rhyss to croon along with her.MUAHAHAHA!! But it certainly brought back fond memories... "His love is warmer than the warmest sunshine, softer than a sigh..."
GP test today saw many climaxes and anti-climaxes due to the constant blackouts in LT1, 6 times in total to be precise. Charlie Brown was taking the opportunity to perfect his animal shadow techniques with his flashlight of a handphone and Ai Ping gave an impromptu performance of "Singing in the Rain" with her sudden burst of her HUGE umbrella opening...
To end today's entry, I'll just show some photos (as usual!) of my 2nd Aunt's surprise birthday which I threw yesterday at GMH.
Er Yi opening her present from Maib
See how thrilled Er Yi is...
Er Yi with Ma Ma and Gong Gong
Er Yi with Ma Ma and Gong Gong who isn't looking
She just can't wait to devour the thing!
Coffee and Peanut cake from Polar Cakes and Puffs (budget la!)
13 January, 2007
Life's anecdotes...
Dhab called from Australia!!!
It was totally unexpected..I was getting ready to bathe actually when she called and she didn't even say Hello when I first answered the call. She was like "I love you guys" or something like that and I couldn't even recognise who it was initially...hahahaha....Dhabitah!!!! COME BACK EARLIER LA!! YOUR "SOON" IS LIKE 2-3 YEARS' TIME!?!?
An overwhelming number of people turned up for yesterday's auditions,around 50 plus and it was so encouraging! Even though we,or rather AI PING, cheated a bit (she told some of them that the second round of auditions were compulsory!), it was still a good amount of people. According to Mr Adrian Tan, it was so successful that other performing arts groups were considering to have compulsory auditions for their CCA too! hahahaha!! We had sectionals while Nelson conducted the auditions and he took so long that we had sectionals for almost 2 hours if I'm not wrong! Anyways, heard from some of the music comm some of the funny incidents that happened...(as if the "1,2,3" incident wasn't bad enough!)
One of the girls was told to sing some notes which were around the range of the Sopranos'. She went one octave lower!! Our new female Bass! And there's another one who did not sing the required tune and ended up singing something funny, which I can't demonstrate now cos if I do,all you will be reading would be "la la las!"
Altogether, Nelson passed 12 Sopranos, 10 Altos,7 Tenors and around 12 Basses I think...WOO~
By the way, on one of the stormy nights when it was raining very heavily, an enormous tree was uprooted, causing a huge jam at the T-junction near my house and because of that, 6-7 SBS Buses had to detour back to the interchange! You should have seen the jam! My family and I had a bird's eye view from our balcony man! After that, my brother and I ran down to kaypo a bit. There were many onlookers, most of them were like us kaypo-ing around...there was quite a commotion and the police and,I think,some personnel from the fire station were deployed to clear the debris...take a look at these:
If you click on the picture above, you can see the many kaypo people on the other side of the road!!
The fallen tree
Police car
Some kaypos on my side
The scale of the damage
How it looks on the next day
Just look at those roots!
Anyways, I don't know why but I slept at a super early time last night, 9 plus...!!! Was planning to stay at home the whole day today but went out with Ai Ping, Charlie Brown,Duc and Mimi to Vivocity to watch Deathnote 2. I have to say that they have an interesting plot even though I have not watched the first Deathnote movie. Ate at "Superdog" and realised after buying the food that it wasn't Halal (!!!) After that, Duc became famous when we went into a cell phone showroom and took a photo of Duc and saved it as the display phone's wallpaper. He became a star when we decided to Bluetooth it to the other display phones and in an effort to make sure Duc doesn't delete it, we change the phones' language to Chinese..muahahaha!!!
By the way, thanks Ai Ping for everything....you know what I mean =)
Duc's super funny man! He believed that I was the "Melissa" that Mimi and Charlie Brown told him about...and he really believed "Melissa" said he was handsome! wahahaha! More details next time!
It was totally unexpected..I was getting ready to bathe actually when she called and she didn't even say Hello when I first answered the call. She was like "I love you guys" or something like that and I couldn't even recognise who it was initially...hahahaha....Dhabitah!!!! COME BACK EARLIER LA!! YOUR "SOON" IS LIKE 2-3 YEARS' TIME!?!?
An overwhelming number of people turned up for yesterday's auditions,around 50 plus and it was so encouraging! Even though we,or rather AI PING, cheated a bit (she told some of them that the second round of auditions were compulsory!), it was still a good amount of people. According to Mr Adrian Tan, it was so successful that other performing arts groups were considering to have compulsory auditions for their CCA too! hahahaha!! We had sectionals while Nelson conducted the auditions and he took so long that we had sectionals for almost 2 hours if I'm not wrong! Anyways, heard from some of the music comm some of the funny incidents that happened...(as if the "1,2,3" incident wasn't bad enough!)
One of the girls was told to sing some notes which were around the range of the Sopranos'. She went one octave lower!! Our new female Bass! And there's another one who did not sing the required tune and ended up singing something funny, which I can't demonstrate now cos if I do,all you will be reading would be "la la las!"
Altogether, Nelson passed 12 Sopranos, 10 Altos,7 Tenors and around 12 Basses I think...WOO~
By the way, on one of the stormy nights when it was raining very heavily, an enormous tree was uprooted, causing a huge jam at the T-junction near my house and because of that, 6-7 SBS Buses had to detour back to the interchange! You should have seen the jam! My family and I had a bird's eye view from our balcony man! After that, my brother and I ran down to kaypo a bit. There were many onlookers, most of them were like us kaypo-ing around...there was quite a commotion and the police and,I think,some personnel from the fire station were deployed to clear the debris...take a look at these:
If you click on the picture above, you can see the many kaypo people on the other side of the road!!
The fallen tree
Some kaypos on my side
The scale of the damage
Just look at those roots!
Anyways, I don't know why but I slept at a super early time last night, 9 plus...!!! Was planning to stay at home the whole day today but went out with Ai Ping, Charlie Brown,Duc and Mimi to Vivocity to watch Deathnote 2. I have to say that they have an interesting plot even though I have not watched the first Deathnote movie. Ate at "Superdog" and realised after buying the food that it wasn't Halal (!!!) After that, Duc became famous when we went into a cell phone showroom and took a photo of Duc and saved it as the display phone's wallpaper. He became a star when we decided to Bluetooth it to the other display phones and in an effort to make sure Duc doesn't delete it, we change the phones' language to Chinese..muahahaha!!!
By the way, thanks Ai Ping for everything....you know what I mean =)
Duc's super funny man! He believed that I was the "Melissa" that Mimi and Charlie Brown told him about...and he really believed "Melissa" said he was handsome! wahahaha! More details next time!
11 January, 2007
CCA Exhibition Day
If you really love comedy and you're dying to have a good laugh, go to Youtube and type "HARD GAY" and click on videos uploaded by "BAKAFISH",hahaha! For those who are already disgusted, just to tell you that it isn't any dirty, real gay stuff. It's just this Japanese guy who goes around, decked in black shades, black leather cap, black leather vest and a black leather,micro-mini,hotpants made of black leather and doing random activities. YES, EVERYTHING ALL BLACK!! HOO!!~
CCA Exhibition Day was not bad. We had around 26 plus people who signed up at our booth (excluding the 60 plus people who made it through the compulsory auditions). Not bad for a start cos according to Samantha and Nat, Band also has around the same number signing up...
We performed "And So It Goes" as well as "Wak Wak Gung" at the foyer and even though we blasted, the background noise was overwhelming. One girl from CO was creating such a ruckus a few metres away when we were performing and she got ticked by Ms.Quek! After that, Ai Ping and I went around promoting Choir and giving impromptu performances, something which surprises myself up till today! We watched Samantha conducting the Band while doing "Hard Gay" movements!! (not Samantha doing Hard Gay..us!!) HAHAHAHA!!!
Actually, I felt rather discouraged by how people reacted when we go around encouraging them to join Choir. Maybe they think that Choir is just all about singing boring pieces all the time and that guys who join Choir are sissies. But it's more than that! Definitely! It's about enjoying the song and feeling the emotions that the composer wants us to experience when he includes a certain accent here or there or a sudden crescendo. ( A little technical here, but you get what I mean...). It's also about feeling the adrenaline rush when you hear the blending of multiple chords when the various sections combine to harmonise together. Not only that, it's about the strong bonds forged when we practise together,compete together, suffer together and when we spend loads of time together.
Nevertheless, we managed to pull it off quite well, according to Mr.Tan so, all's well...hmm,Choir auditions tomorrow. Can't wait to see the second-round of auditions though. Nelson would be doing the auditions this time so the filtering would be even more precise.
Geography test tomorrow....I hope I'll be able to do better than just a Pass...
Why is it that JC Life is becoming the state it is now? I don't want it to be restricted to just looking forward to everything Choir-related and if things were different, it would have been a different story. Sadly, it isn't and will never be. God, you really have to guide me through these 10 months. Even if things can't change for the better, just help me know when to stay true to your ways...
CCA Exhibition Day was not bad. We had around 26 plus people who signed up at our booth (excluding the 60 plus people who made it through the compulsory auditions). Not bad for a start cos according to Samantha and Nat, Band also has around the same number signing up...
We performed "And So It Goes" as well as "Wak Wak Gung" at the foyer and even though we blasted, the background noise was overwhelming. One girl from CO was creating such a ruckus a few metres away when we were performing and she got ticked by Ms.Quek! After that, Ai Ping and I went around promoting Choir and giving impromptu performances, something which surprises myself up till today! We watched Samantha conducting the Band while doing "Hard Gay" movements!! (not Samantha doing Hard Gay..us!!) HAHAHAHA!!!
Actually, I felt rather discouraged by how people reacted when we go around encouraging them to join Choir. Maybe they think that Choir is just all about singing boring pieces all the time and that guys who join Choir are sissies. But it's more than that! Definitely! It's about enjoying the song and feeling the emotions that the composer wants us to experience when he includes a certain accent here or there or a sudden crescendo. ( A little technical here, but you get what I mean...). It's also about feeling the adrenaline rush when you hear the blending of multiple chords when the various sections combine to harmonise together. Not only that, it's about the strong bonds forged when we practise together,compete together, suffer together and when we spend loads of time together.
Nevertheless, we managed to pull it off quite well, according to Mr.Tan so, all's well...hmm,Choir auditions tomorrow. Can't wait to see the second-round of auditions though. Nelson would be doing the auditions this time so the filtering would be even more precise.
Geography test tomorrow....I hope I'll be able to do better than just a Pass...
Why is it that JC Life is becoming the state it is now? I don't want it to be restricted to just looking forward to everything Choir-related and if things were different, it would have been a different story. Sadly, it isn't and will never be. God, you really have to guide me through these 10 months. Even if things can't change for the better, just help me know when to stay true to your ways...
08 January, 2007
Surprise! Monday Blues....and a surprise guest in TPJC
Sunday was a memorable day for Mum. Actually I was planning to surprise Mum on the day where we had steamboat but as we were too loaded with seafood in our stomachs, I decided that showtime will begin the following day instead.
After Church, I met Sze Yee to study at the airport but I don't know why: I couldn't get into the study mood that day...However, Sze Yee was busy scribbling furiously on her worksheets! Surprising eh?
After that, we went on a cake-hunting spree at Tampines Central. Sze Yee graciously volunteered to help plan the surprise and in the end, she was part of the surprise cos she went with me to Ground Zero: my grandparents' place and hid in my Aunt's room until Mum came over. Unfortunately, of all days, Mum took a super long time to arrive so we had to wait for a long time until we couldn't take it and went ahead to have dinner first. When she finally arrived, halfway during our dinner, Sze Yee and I rushed into San Yi's room to light the candles and prepare the cake. San Yi, who was our "accomplice",kept rushing us and making us panic for no reason but anyways, when we were finally done, I called Mum into the room while Sze Yee held the cake and waited. Overall, Mum was relatively calm, not that surprised cos she claims that she is too old for surprises...hai~
Anyways, credit still goes to Sze Yee for helping out la~heh heh...
Today, hmm...Econs test was reasonable...lessons haven't started proper yet so, we could still enjoy our last bits of freedom until Wednesday...so far, the timetable's quite good, teachers seem promising except the fact that I can't get over the news that Ms Ng is our form teacher, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Now that she has the power to control us in anyway she can, she makes us do stretching exercises every morning before school starts!!
Besides her, Lorraine Lee's replacing Kenneth Lee as our Lit teacher (I can hear the resounding cheers already!) and we have our new Maths teacher of which I have forgotten the name already...Geography-wise, our teachers are good too with Mr Sahlan teaching Human Geog and Ms Lee as Physical Geog teacher. Also, I'm so glad that Ms Kon decided to stay for one more year before she leaves! I don't know what TPJC will do without her!!
Lunch at Pizza Hut with Rhyss, Samantha, Charlene, Favian, Junwei and Lizard today after which Sze Yee popped by TPJC to collect the NBL Tickets for this Wednesday's match between the Sydney Kings and the Singapore Slingers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. (They're only selling for 2 bucks each Ok!!!) Went to Ai Ping's house to slack after that and watch some WOOOO~!!!!! SAY! SAY! SAY! SAY!(inside joke!) :P
Now she looks more demure...looks are deceiving though ;)
After Church, I met Sze Yee to study at the airport but I don't know why: I couldn't get into the study mood that day...However, Sze Yee was busy scribbling furiously on her worksheets! Surprising eh?
After that, we went on a cake-hunting spree at Tampines Central. Sze Yee graciously volunteered to help plan the surprise and in the end, she was part of the surprise cos she went with me to Ground Zero: my grandparents' place and hid in my Aunt's room until Mum came over. Unfortunately, of all days, Mum took a super long time to arrive so we had to wait for a long time until we couldn't take it and went ahead to have dinner first. When she finally arrived, halfway during our dinner, Sze Yee and I rushed into San Yi's room to light the candles and prepare the cake. San Yi, who was our "accomplice",kept rushing us and making us panic for no reason but anyways, when we were finally done, I called Mum into the room while Sze Yee held the cake and waited. Overall, Mum was relatively calm, not that surprised cos she claims that she is too old for surprises...hai~
Anyways, credit still goes to Sze Yee for helping out la~heh heh...
Today, hmm...Econs test was reasonable...lessons haven't started proper yet so, we could still enjoy our last bits of freedom until Wednesday...so far, the timetable's quite good, teachers seem promising except the fact that I can't get over the news that Ms Ng is our form teacher, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Now that she has the power to control us in anyway she can, she makes us do stretching exercises every morning before school starts!!
Besides her, Lorraine Lee's replacing Kenneth Lee as our Lit teacher (I can hear the resounding cheers already!) and we have our new Maths teacher of which I have forgotten the name already...Geography-wise, our teachers are good too with Mr Sahlan teaching Human Geog and Ms Lee as Physical Geog teacher. Also, I'm so glad that Ms Kon decided to stay for one more year before she leaves! I don't know what TPJC will do without her!!
Lunch at Pizza Hut with Rhyss, Samantha, Charlene, Favian, Junwei and Lizard today after which Sze Yee popped by TPJC to collect the NBL Tickets for this Wednesday's match between the Sydney Kings and the Singapore Slingers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. (They're only selling for 2 bucks each Ok!!!) Went to Ai Ping's house to slack after that and watch some WOOOO~!!!!! SAY! SAY! SAY! SAY!(inside joke!) :P
Now she looks more demure...looks are deceiving though ;)
Chingay and Mum's birthday...
Last Saturday was the first day of the assembling of the "Dream Team", or what they call it, for the Chingay Parade of Dreams this year. I was quite surprised that I actually volunteered for it as I'm not known to be so enthusiastic over such events, but upon knowing that one could gain over 70 hours of CIP from it and also because,it'll look nice on our Graduation testimonial, I decided to try it out.
Rhyss, Charlene,Samantha, Evatte, Favian,Kok Kok and I went to SRJC together for the event. We saw Louis there and he told me that some of us would be in the same sector but actually we were all separated! (!!!) Anyways, I was put into Sector 4, Group 1 where I met quite a few nice people. After some Ice-breaking games, everything was quite Ok.
All of us headed to Heartland Mall's Yoshinoya to have lunch and then after bubble tea we head back home. Well, I just hope I can tahan this training for two months!
Later, we celebrated Mum's birthday in the evening at our favourite all-time hangout, Golden Mile Steamboat Restaurant!!! Hmm, maybe some pictures will convince you how nice the food is. We ordered up to $74 worth of seafood and beef plus Chicken Rice!
Yummy Steamboat!
Mum and Maib too engrossed in eating to even notice that I took them secretly!
The Blob with his Beloved (btw, he FORGOT that it was my Mum's birthday!!!)
Dad preparing the food:Part 1 
Dad preparing the food and smiling secretly:Part 2
Check out brother stretching and the woman's bulging tummy behind!
Brother stoning while digesting his food
Rhyss, Charlene,Samantha, Evatte, Favian,Kok Kok and I went to SRJC together for the event. We saw Louis there and he told me that some of us would be in the same sector but actually we were all separated! (!!!) Anyways, I was put into Sector 4, Group 1 where I met quite a few nice people. After some Ice-breaking games, everything was quite Ok.
All of us headed to Heartland Mall's Yoshinoya to have lunch and then after bubble tea we head back home. Well, I just hope I can tahan this training for two months!
Later, we celebrated Mum's birthday in the evening at our favourite all-time hangout, Golden Mile Steamboat Restaurant!!! Hmm, maybe some pictures will convince you how nice the food is. We ordered up to $74 worth of seafood and beef plus Chicken Rice!
Yummy Steamboat!
Mum and Maib too engrossed in eating to even notice that I took them secretly!
The Blob with his Beloved (btw, he FORGOT that it was my Mum's birthday!!!)
Dad preparing the food:Part 1
Dad preparing the food and smiling secretly:Part 2
Check out brother stretching and the woman's bulging tummy behind!
Brother stoning while digesting his food
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!!!
05 January, 2007
Post-audition blues
After all the excitement of the first 2 days of school, doing auditions and stuff, now it's back to reality. Well, as Ai Ping and I were discussing, auditions were tiring but rewarding cos we got to spend more time with people from Choir (the Comm,Olivia as well as Cheryl) and we cleared many misconceptions about certain people such as Terry. Who knew that he could be so funny? hahahaha...and the comment that CHARLIE'S eyes were so LOVELY...priceless...
The second day of auditions was much more coordinated compared to the first day cos partly Olivia came to help in crowd control and she got to mingle and talk to the J1s, trying to promote Choir. She should really go into Business man!!
I really feel quite bad for not controlling myself during the auditions. Why can't I be like Charlie Brown, being so professional even though he's really laughing inside?
What happened was there was this J1 guy who came to our station for the audition.Before Charlie Brown proceeded with playing scales, he requested that Charlie Brown count "1,2,3" before he sang and so he did. I was controlling very badly. Maybe you don't understand why I'm so tickled but if you were there, you would understand my predicament. Anyways, after the first try, he counted BY HIMSELF on the subsequent tries. By then, I couldn't suppress it any longer so I pretended to be tired and rested my head on the table. Everything would have been fine if not for my prominent red forehead, which the poor guy happened to notice (according to Charlie Brown), which was an obvious evidence of my silent laughter. Charlie Brown remained professional and he quickly dismissed the guy. After that he was like "Bitch! Do you know I was trying so hard not to laugh and there you were, unable to control yourself while I'm suffering!" HAHAHAHAHA!
I thought that I would be able to control better after this unfortunate incident but the next one was worse. Due to the aftermath of the "1,2,3" guy, my mean, inner self was already at its weakest point.Any of such similar incidents would be met with the 'tinkling' sounds of my laughter again...and it really happened..sigh...
What happened was the next guy who came in was all ready for the audition. When he started to sing the next note, I burst in fits of laughter and I was SO embarrassed (but I think he felt worse!) and I immediately said: "the guy standing at the door very funny ah!" or something like that so that the poor auditionee can take comfort in knowing that I wasn't laughing at him. Charlie Brown was stunned. He was trying to pick up the pieces. Imagine him saying in his slow and gentle voice:
"Erm, don't care about her. She's gone mad. Let's just continue."
I still couldn't stop laughing. So, I ran to Ai Ping and continued my poor joke about the guy at the door. (To understand why it was such a poor,made-up joke, you have to know that there was no guy at the door!)
But besides these 2 incidents, all went well. We got to see Kim Wakerman in action at the audition on the first day. She was in Siti's OG and in her clique too. Ai Ping auditioned her (everything was planned just for Kim Wakerman: the position where she had to stand so that all of us could see her,especially Terry, the order in which the OGs were to come so that we wouldn't miss her,etc...) Also, I saw Fitari, my primary school classmate! It was such a pleasant surprise and I was quite shocked that he could remember me too =)
Anyways, these 2 days have been awesome. The feeling of everyone just bonding, going out for lunch together,making fun here and there, spending a long time at the exercise area doing balancing acts near Tampines Mart after lunch , playing ball in the Choir Room (Ssh!!) and those stupid Maggi Mee and Rugrats piano duets with multiple-accompaniment, I enjoyed myself tremendously!!!
That was why when we were told that there was no need for auditions for the Hook family of OGs, we were super disappointed....cos we spent the whole day in school going for lessons and taking tests,looking forward to it..hai~
Anyway, time to start studying...this year ain't gonna be a bed of roses...
Charlie Brown's and Ai Ping's idea
Duc's panties (in different shades of nude!) utilised by the Choir Clock!
The second day of auditions was much more coordinated compared to the first day cos partly Olivia came to help in crowd control and she got to mingle and talk to the J1s, trying to promote Choir. She should really go into Business man!!
I really feel quite bad for not controlling myself during the auditions. Why can't I be like Charlie Brown, being so professional even though he's really laughing inside?
What happened was there was this J1 guy who came to our station for the audition.Before Charlie Brown proceeded with playing scales, he requested that Charlie Brown count "1,2,3" before he sang and so he did. I was controlling very badly. Maybe you don't understand why I'm so tickled but if you were there, you would understand my predicament. Anyways, after the first try, he counted BY HIMSELF on the subsequent tries. By then, I couldn't suppress it any longer so I pretended to be tired and rested my head on the table. Everything would have been fine if not for my prominent red forehead, which the poor guy happened to notice (according to Charlie Brown), which was an obvious evidence of my silent laughter. Charlie Brown remained professional and he quickly dismissed the guy. After that he was like "Bitch! Do you know I was trying so hard not to laugh and there you were, unable to control yourself while I'm suffering!" HAHAHAHAHA!
I thought that I would be able to control better after this unfortunate incident but the next one was worse. Due to the aftermath of the "1,2,3" guy, my mean, inner self was already at its weakest point.Any of such similar incidents would be met with the 'tinkling' sounds of my laughter again...and it really happened..sigh...
What happened was the next guy who came in was all ready for the audition. When he started to sing the next note, I burst in fits of laughter and I was SO embarrassed (but I think he felt worse!) and I immediately said: "the guy standing at the door very funny ah!" or something like that so that the poor auditionee can take comfort in knowing that I wasn't laughing at him. Charlie Brown was stunned. He was trying to pick up the pieces. Imagine him saying in his slow and gentle voice:
"Erm, don't care about her. She's gone mad. Let's just continue."
I still couldn't stop laughing. So, I ran to Ai Ping and continued my poor joke about the guy at the door. (To understand why it was such a poor,made-up joke, you have to know that there was no guy at the door!)
But besides these 2 incidents, all went well. We got to see Kim Wakerman in action at the audition on the first day. She was in Siti's OG and in her clique too. Ai Ping auditioned her (everything was planned just for Kim Wakerman: the position where she had to stand so that all of us could see her,especially Terry, the order in which the OGs were to come so that we wouldn't miss her,etc...) Also, I saw Fitari, my primary school classmate! It was such a pleasant surprise and I was quite shocked that he could remember me too =)
Anyways, these 2 days have been awesome. The feeling of everyone just bonding, going out for lunch together,making fun here and there, spending a long time at the exercise area doing balancing acts near Tampines Mart after lunch , playing ball in the Choir Room (Ssh!!) and those stupid Maggi Mee and Rugrats piano duets with multiple-accompaniment, I enjoyed myself tremendously!!!
That was why when we were told that there was no need for auditions for the Hook family of OGs, we were super disappointed....cos we spent the whole day in school going for lessons and taking tests,looking forward to it..hai~
Anyway, time to start studying...this year ain't gonna be a bed of roses...
Charlie Brown's and Ai Ping's idea
Duc's panties (in different shades of nude!) utilised by the Choir Clock!
03 January, 2007
Finally....
Spent the first two days of the New Year with my WHOLE family...Dad had dinner with us (one of those rare moments!) Even though it was a simple dinner at the coffeeshop, it was nice to see the whole family gathered to eat. At around 2.30am, my dad decided on going to the coffeeshop again for a late-night/morning supper so Maib, Dad and I went. The rest were already sleeping. There were many men lazing around at the coffeeshop, watching TV,swigging jugs of beer...
Anywhere, moving on to the subject of the dreaded first day of school. It was nice to see everyone in school, albeit looking a little different. As I was helping out with Choir auditions, I did not have to attend lessons and I could skip GEOGRAPHY test!!!
We hung around, tearing audition slips and talking and eating until the first batch of "nooby J1s" (according to Charlie Brown) came in. As I was paired up with Charlie Brown, the challenge of controlling my laughter was as impossible as telling my Big Blob of a Brother to get off the computer. And true to what I said, it came to past! I really tried controlling my laughter by pretending to busy myself with writing out their information on the audition slips and basically trying to look distracted but everytime I see how hard Charlie Brown is suffering by trying to look professional while auditioning them, I would burst out once in a while.. I DID TRY!!
But after that I was immune to all the singing...anyways...my singing isn't that fantastic anyway so I think I should stop being so irritating...haha....
Went for lunch with Henry,Jillian and Wei Lin after that at Yoshinoya,TM and they wanted to share the cost for Fiona's birthday present.
Argh! G12 after that...really tired now...Maths and Lit test on Fri!! ~Ciao!
Anywhere, moving on to the subject of the dreaded first day of school. It was nice to see everyone in school, albeit looking a little different. As I was helping out with Choir auditions, I did not have to attend lessons and I could skip GEOGRAPHY test!!!
We hung around, tearing audition slips and talking and eating until the first batch of "nooby J1s" (according to Charlie Brown) came in. As I was paired up with Charlie Brown, the challenge of controlling my laughter was as impossible as telling my Big Blob of a Brother to get off the computer. And true to what I said, it came to past! I really tried controlling my laughter by pretending to busy myself with writing out their information on the audition slips and basically trying to look distracted but everytime I see how hard Charlie Brown is suffering by trying to look professional while auditioning them, I would burst out once in a while.. I DID TRY!!
But after that I was immune to all the singing...anyways...my singing isn't that fantastic anyway so I think I should stop being so irritating...haha....
Went for lunch with Henry,Jillian and Wei Lin after that at Yoshinoya,TM and they wanted to share the cost for Fiona's birthday present.
Argh! G12 after that...really tired now...Maths and Lit test on Fri!! ~Ciao!
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