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Thursday, December 30, 2004


Hmm, it's 30th December 2004. 1 more day till the end of 2004, maybe it's about time I start reminiscing, especially since there's going to be so much that's new in a day's time.

What I remember from 2004:

January: From what I remember, I was an annoyed, worrisome prat that thought too much about things, especially with regards to co, when things all worked themselves out in the end, more or less anyway.

February:

Chinese New Year!

-The family visit was fun, since all the cousins got around and played (gambled), yakked and the atmostphere was generally happy, upbeat and great. None of that "IT'S O LEVELS THIS YEAR, I'M SO GOING TO DIE" sort of thing. Not yet anyway. I guess I had more of a come what may sort of attitude then, one that I learnt to change fantastically fast once the school term started.

-I remember it was the first time I went to yinlaoshi's house, and we were kind of feeling weird, since we couldn't really mess up his house or stuff. I think we ended up in the room staring at his son's pictures, looking at his album and the stuff that was in his cupboard. Oh yeah, we were gossiping a lot too, and talking about stuff in general. Fun times, that was. =)

March:

-Lifeskills Camp

I guess the class kind of bonded during that period of time, well at least my group sort of did. It kind of eased tensions for a while and was even fun? Slacky camp! With good food! But everyone sort of hecked the proper table manners and etiquette after a while. (slightly before the first dish came) We won second for the class dance, and although no one was very enthusiastic at first, we soon all got to know our steps etc. And we even actively participated in the games thingy, what with the towels and all. My class is kind of nice and chummy in that way, that we don't have all the noisy people or all the quiet people, and although we have cliques, but we blend well too! I don't know, sans a few annoying people at certain times, I love this class. Being together for two years makes you get to know people better, enough to have random conversations across the classroom, talk about teachers, share troubles and do random plotting every now and then... =)

-First Huanghe prac...

I remember feeling extremely happy and excited about the song. First chuida piece ever, gan chu liang duo. =)

April:

-Mugging for Mid years... Don't even want to think about it already.

May:

-My birthday and mid years! Sian birthday as usual, I remember buying my own cd, with some contributed fund from a lot of people. =( I miss having black forest cake at my birthday.

June:

-Piahing for concert... There's so much that happened then that cannot be summed up so simply, so I shall not attempt to. All the effort and hard work we put in may not have been enough to polish up the concert that well, but it's the input and the process that counts. The road that we took there and all those that we overcame along the way. =) And I love all my dear juniors, despite them sometimes being quite odd(hyper/depressed/studious/etc.) and seniors too, and if there is ever another chuida item, I want!!!!!!! XD

July:

-NYCO concert. I don't think it was a perfect performance, and further reviewing of the concert cd proves me right. But as long as we know we did our best and had fun doing it, plus learned stuff on the way, it's okay. I guess. Pia harder for next year jiu hao le.

August:

September:

October: O level mugging + Prelims... Relatively disappointing prelim results, but still okay to get into hc I guess (since I did make it for the first three months at least)

November: O levels <- study like crap, have no life. The when it ends, find out that there's a lot of time, and you basically have no life anyway. =)

December: NAC! <- 31 times of zhu ying yao hong XP Dunno ba, I don't really like solo instruments in general, prefer dazu more (have balance...), but anyway, it was quite fun I guess, especially to waste time. Except I have to wake up at like odd early hours in the morning to reach there at 830 for the first competition in the morning. And I got to know cg better too, I guess, since we a lot of stuff together then. =)

Got my first sort of paying job checking contact lens boxes... I guess the job was kind of flexible and lax, since we were unsupervised most of the time and there's a lot of responsibility? Plus I kind of realised that it's based on a sort of trust, and the want to provide customers with good products that things like quality control comes about. To us, whilst we're checking, we get so sick of the boxes that we start complaining that no one looks at it anyway, favouring the quality of the product inside more. Yet to the manufacturer or middle men, it's a matter of doing your job with pride (remember ss?) and responsibility. Anyway, spent an entire week (5 days actually), 8 hours each, inspecting and packing boxes. Not exactly the most interesting job in the world, but if you have company, it isn't that bad. And I feel kind of good that I donated about half my salary to the tsunami victims...they do need a lot of help, the damage done is disastrous.

And now the new year is here, and I know not what to expect, so I shall not expect anything. Like they say, come what may, and I'll deal with it later... =)


Monday, December 27, 2004


WooooT! Loved the class party thing! Love yinkie for hosting and organising it too! Although I went just in time for dinner and polar bear(!!!), skipping all the humiliating forfeits from pass the parcel and etc. I have learnt the art of polar bearing, cannot be too noisy... Although I had no idea why I liked helping the polar bears so much, since it meant that I was dead sooner... Oh well. And I got a piggy cd case! From suanne through gift exchange, and it's really cute, and good at polar bear! Because it first guessed the hunter(Shu!), then the two polar bears (boonpin + suanne) and siok adores the piggy too, keeps trying to spin it. Oh yes, we had scrumptious dinner + desserts too, with erm brocolli (my favourite veg!), chicken wings on skewers, nice pineapple rice(!!!!!) and fish/sotong balls, ham and three layered thingys that were nice! And alcoholic log cake! Which sort of explains the abuse of exclamation marks and odd punctuation + grammar here.. Plus! I was nice at the party k? I was tolerant, did not roll my eyes and ignore people (single person actually) like I normally would.

Annnnd since I have to go offline le, I shall ramble on another time.


Friday, December 24, 2004


Okay, I figured out how to work the mp3 thingy, and now I'm happy! Plus since I'm not industrious enough like xiaohong to go around everyone's tag board wishing them Merry Christmas (eve or not), here's wishing everyone who reads this,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Oh and dizi people, I've got the photos from the chalet... here! And here! (moved it because it was blocking my tagboard)



wo yao ku le... I've got an mp3 player, an instructional booklet, and yet I have no idea how to use it. I used to know how to use it, or at least I thought I did, but now it's weird! And I don't have enough nice files to stuff inside either =( It's being extremely uncooperative -prods mp3 player- and all I have are 3 songs that have mysteriously managed to find their way inside. X(


Wednesday, December 22, 2004


I'm feeling cranky right now and it's probably got to do with the fact that I had less than two hours of sleep last night. And also from the sudden realisation that I practically squandered my entire holidays away doing things that weren't planned out properly, and wasting a lot of precious free time, that I will probably not encounter till two years later. But anyway I'd better start thinking happy thoughts before I end up moping and whining (again).

Well, it was my first and last CO chalet I guess, in all my 4 years as a secondary school student. The company was good, mahjong was bloody heavy, junk food was (more or less) aplenty and drinks were being consumed at an unimaginable rate. All in all, the chalet was fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Had macs for lunch with cg before meeting them at bedok mrt station and going to costa sands where on the first day we went there, we marvelled at the (minute/insignificant/puny) amount of space there was for us to sleep, eat and play. We immediately identified the only table of a decent size as the mahjong table and set up to play. =) We taught erm a lot of people, like huiling, angie and the sec 3s, essentially jiao-ing huai the poor people, whom of course decided that mahjong was immensely fun and got somewhat addicted to it throughout the course of the next few days. We essentially played cards and mahjong till dinner time (or else something happened that I don't remember and apparently isn't significant enough for my memory to dig up after 2 hours of sleep) where we went to the erm hawker centre place to eat dinner. But the things there are seriously expensive, like some erm mantou with chilli crab SAUCE cost $2, and the mantous were tiny (imagine 1/3 the size of the palm of your hand). Then we went cycling! Or rather boonpin cycled me around on the double seater thing, since I couldn't cycle or find my balance. At first I was whimpering a lot and talking (for assurance) to take my mind off the moving bicycle, and I freaked when she went very fast... But after a while I sort of got the hang of it, and we went faster and faster, trying to overtake people and talking about stuff along the way. Essentially I felt better towards the end because I was more used to it, and I was the one peddling faster, so I sort of took over the determining of the speed when boonpin was tired. It also more or less inspired me to want to learn cycling again, which I sort of left to the next day. We went to the beach for a while and admired the very chio stars, the cool wind, took photos and talked for a while before going back to the chalet where we slept at erm 2 or 3am in the morning on a mattress on the floor (as in -counts- 6to8 people using the mattress as a pillow). It was quite uncomfortable actually, because I had to share the pillow with some other people (which I gave up doing after a while and abducted the blanket to use as a pillow) and my legs and body was kind of twisted in order to avoid the (mahjong) table legs as well as the chairs/stools under/around it.

Woke up at either 7 or 8 with a sort of crackable neck and bleary eyes. Had breakfast of nutella and bread which jiang chuan brought then played more mahjong. Then because the entire bunch of them rented many many many bicycles that day, boonpin had the arduous task of teaching me how to cycle, where I tried to erm balance myself without killing anyone and at the same time moving/peddling. My sense of balance was incorrigible and I barely managed to make it erm half a cycle (?) before falling over either to the left or right. I managed to get two erm enlarged veins between my index finger and thumb on both hands, little blue blacks on my left knee and a long line where the skin got scratched off on the back of my right leg, from the peddle if I'm not wrong. Met ying ying and xiwen after that (dizi you san que yi le... because sab was sick =( ) and whilst xiwen went to the arcade to play, ying ying and I went to the beach! Quite fun, sans the sun and the fact that when I finally found a nice spot to sit, the water would suddenly reach even higher and wet my wallet + clothes. After a while I gave up and walked in the water with ying ying, despite the salt water stinging the po pi part and we talked about lots of stuff. And I got sun burned! Again! Which means I'm somewhat red now once again, but the after sun lotion is near, so no fear. (It rhymes! Can you tell I don't have enough sleep and am going wonky?) Went back to play even more mahjong, read hong lou meng and erm play mahjong till BBQ time. I was really really lucky in the afternoon, since I kept winning, but xiwen didn't win a single round in the afternoon. But at night she started winning lots of rounds and erm pity my poor tiles that got whacked about, oiled, sticky-fied and pao mian-ified. Essentially I came home to xi pai later by soaking it in warm soapy water to get rid of all the oil and salt from the chips. The juniors were absolute darlings in that once they got the fire going (which took nearly forever), they kept bringing in food to stuff us whilst we were being dua pai and sitting at the table, with the aircondition from the room above, television above the fridge and people bringing food in whilst we continued playing mahjong. The food was quite yummy, although the satay was all mutton and tasted a bit odd... But the chicken wings were nice! And cooked! Plus the sotong balls and crab sticks. Obviously the person who came up with the concept of BBQ-ing was no vegetarian... The dizi people went out for a walk and more talking before returning to the chalet to play...yup you guessed it, more mahjong. Angie is such a cute mahjong player!!! She opens her cards and puts it in different rows before arranging, and has to leave little gaps between the cards that she has arranged nicely so that she can see better, whilst the rest of us attempt to guess what cards she needs and whether or not she ting pai le. And halfway through the night/morning they figured out a fantastic way of eating marshmallows with nutella sans bananas and heat. Essentially Angie is a very cute mahjong player, and Huiling is a damn amusing one... She was trying to teach Daphne how to play, and when I threw a jiu tong, she very confidently shouted chi, and took the card, put it down, and took out qi and ba suo to put beside it... Or course she realised it soon after we gave her weird looks and funny comments. We played till erm 4 plus when the juniors came in to take over whilst we played cards in the air conditioned room upstairs. Then we switched levels and angie + sec 3s were upstairs and about to sleep/gossiping/playing cards, while the three dizi people were downstairs and half falling asleep. Or at least I was... I slept in another very weird position, sitting on the chair, with both my legs propped up by another stool and my head on my arms on the mahjong table whilst somehow managing to hug my hong lou meng book and jacket. Needless to say I woke up in the morning with pins and needles all over my legs and hand that I squished for the erm 2+ hours. Apparently I remember waking up in between to talk, but because I was sleepy, I was rambling and no one paid me much attention... Oh well, probably nothing very constructive to say anyway.

Next morning we woke up at 7 plus in the morning, and the 3 dizi people went out for a walk again to wake ourselves up. I was feeling grumpy and wanted to sleep more... Plus no one really felt like moving a lot at all, so we went back to the chalet rather quickly, where everyone packed up in erm record time and sat on the first floor talking/gossiping as usual until 8 plus where we went to catch the shuttle bus home...

Whilst I was actually planning on catching up on sleep when I got home, I went to meet cg at hc to erm hand out christmas cards and eat lunch! Then we went shopping and I finally bought a skirt that I think doesn't look odd any more or WEPish... And somehow or another we lost track of the time (quite typical) and managed to not finish walking around far east by 1730, because we went tangs and erm isetan in taka first for fun.

-points above- Nearly all narration, since I don't feel like elaborating anymore and shall drown myself in self pity and lament about the horrid waste of my holiday, which could have been better spent:

1) Trying out how taking private dizi lessons would be like
2) Actually getting a job + earning spare cash
3) Learning a new language/skill
4) Finishing Hong Lou Meng
5) Starting on JC stuff, which I will be doing tomorrow anyway
6) etc.


Sunday, December 19, 2004


I slept for erm close to 5 hours this morning, since I was dragged up by my parents to walk and have breakfast. Being extremely sleepy, I came back home and slept till about 2pm, before waking up and eating lunch and running off to the library. On the way there, I saw this cute little girl, who strayed off the path and ran across to the big grass patch, screaming "Ahhh..." Then when she saw the look on her mum's face, she detoured and decided to chase after her sister instead. Her mother started calling after her, "Xiao bu dian..." Then the little girl repeated after her mother, calling her older sister "Xiao bu dian" too. Okay nvm, the point is that she was just very cute.

And... I finally managed to borrow hong lou meng! Plus I sort of better figured out my way around Jurong Regional Library. Oh yes, the book pian ren.. It says hong lou meng (shang), which I automatically assume to mean shang ji, but it has all 120 chapters! Which kind of doesn't make sense... But never mind, I only have to read the first 40 anyway. And I borrowed more books! Oryx and Crake by Magaret Atwood and The Truth, by Terry Pratchett. Meaning that I should be successfully occupied till the end of the holidays. =)

Tomorrow's CO chalet! Although I'm lugging the stupidly heavy mahjong set there(no thanks to cheegake) I still can't wait. Plus I actually managed to squeeze all my stuff into one okay sized bag. =)


Friday, December 17, 2004


Despite my well intentioned, somewhat well crafted plan to oversleep this morning, it didn't succeed. I slept at about 3 am in the morning, and woke up at 930am. Apparently I dreamed it was already 10, so I got up, stared at the clock and went back to bed, where I kept trying to sleep, but couldn't, since I was thinking about the posting results. After some horrible tossing and turnings, I still couldn't sleep, and when I looked up at the clock, it was only 935am. So I gave up trying to coerce myself into sleeping and went to read the morning paper, whilst looking up at the clock in my parents' room every few minutes. Then to drag time even further, I went to brush my teeth and wash my face, very very slowly. And finally I saw the minute hand move past 1010, since the toilet clock is slow, I walked around staring at all the clocks in the room, and after having ascertained that it was indeed past 10, I went online to check the results of my posting.

And... I got into HCI! =) And my handphone started to erm ring, with lots of smses, and people called, and I called my mum and dad etc. So, I'm in hc for the first three months, happy! But don't know if I got into lep or not. =( And I'm too lazy to go hc to check..

[edit] I did get into lep! Which means that if I didn't apply for lep, I might not have gotten into hci... Oh well, whatever. I'm just feeling sleepy... [/edit]


Thursday, December 16, 2004


I'm feeling happy today! Firstly because I had a dreamless sleep last night, or rather I slept and woke up not remembering any of my dreams, 'cos everyone dreams all the time and it only depends on whther you remember it or not. So that's good, and I realised that it's very possible for me to sleep past 10 tomorrow since my cousins have all gone home and there are no more noisy kids to wake me up when I'm not ready to.

Then, I went back to CO again this morning, waking up at 7 am in the morning to watch xiaozu at 9 am, and I didn't even get to hear the nice dizi part that was 26/28 xiao jies away. But apparently, it wasn't very good anyway, or in my juniors' language, it was "GOOD". Cg, angie and I went early, but it was so stony, and cg kept poking/hitting me again! XP Then we went waffletown to eat, and I got somewhat weird. Was feeling erm depressed/worried again, so I got whiny and irritating. Have you ever become someone you intensely hate? I was close to being that, whiny and irritating.. -shudder-

And when we came back, sab and I went to visit miss chek in the staffroom to talk to her and yakked along with her even older students from zihui's batch I think, or yun ying. Then was huibao... Okay, because I was quite sleepy today, I don't think I was really paying attention except for the dizi ones, and counting today, I've heard zhu ying yao hong at least 33 times this month. -doink- But the juniors very pro, the way the sec 1s were arranging the chairs, I seriously thought they were going to sit down and play... And when performing dizi, unless in an orchestra or part of a xiao yue dui, we always stand! XD So funny... And cg has a noisy camera too... At about 5 we moved back to m4 since the alarm for lt 2 would sound soon, and there were a lot of yang qin solos, so I kept staring at the zhus, and watched them bounce, and later played with daphne's zhu which had erm two knobbly things instead of only one, and saw that the zhu tong looks like a xiao! Very cute okay...

I love my dad a lot too! He very pro, came into my room just now and gave me two boxes, one was a webcam, and the other was a mp3 player... Then he said it was an early christmas present. I was like O_O Although the erm mp3 player is not branded/famous brand etc, but have one better than have none right? And the webcam is logitech de, haven't really gone to stare at it yet... =)



NAC concert! Nearly all the people performing were the senior competition winners except for pipa and erhu. Passed people [cheegake, enoch, eugene, ger] christmas cards (if you want, ask me! Soon! Since I'm running out of cards, stamps, and it's going to be Christmas le...) and watched the erm concert, which I found quite boring ba... Like cg said, it was quite informal, the da shis like couldn't really be bothered? And the competition winners couldn't wait to get off the stage! And teng didn't play feng nian ji! doink. Plus, I think I'm quite horrid at appreciating solos for other instruments besides dizi, since I kind of found it boring...

Anyway, met cg at 5 at city hall, and I was a few minutes early, but she was horrifically early, so in comparison I seemed late.. (But I wasn't!) And we wandered around, returned books, ate chocolate strawberries, and being the nice juniors that we were, we got one for gladys and one for ger too. Then met them at the mrt station, and they were late! From deciding to eat taco bell, to thinking about eating bk (again), we went to the food court to eat! Had ban mian (the fat, flat one) and guo tie, both shared with cg. And I wanted more ginger!!! Due to lack of ginger, I think I took too much vinegar and was desperately craving for water by the end of the meal. And ger was proclaiming while she abducted a guo tie, "Wo bu chi cu de..."

Mmhmm, cg and I were sniggering/chuckling/laughing le. Oh well. Then we had sorbet, and the lemon lime flavour is nice! Not so sweet, and supposedly fat free too, so not feeling too guilty about that, except for the amount I paid for it... Watched the concert, listened to junhua gush about x****l*, get whacked (countless times) by cg using the bklet, had my hands and feet frozen and escaped mostly unscathed from the concert... Walked to the mrt station with cg and ppl, where an indecisive zm was making an important decision on whether or not to take NEL (they did in the end). Finally managed to reach home, where I am now sleepy! And still worried about the stupid/bloody posting thing. >=(


Wednesday, December 15, 2004


I've been having posting related dreams, and it's quite scary sometimes. Like Tuesday night? I dreamt that MOE decided to send letters to people who signed up for elective programmes telling them whether or not they got in. And some how I was in a room surrounded by lots of elective people and we were all holding envelopes, some thick, some thin. I had a thick envelope and that was erm bad... So when I opened it, I found a PAE like booklet which detailed mistakes and how horrendous my writing was in my portfolio (assuming I had handed one up, like CAP camp like that), then I freaked and started worrying about whether or not I would get into the jc of my (first) choice. But somehow the dream moved on to something about washing hair in the end... So it wasn't exactly horror movie kind of scary, but it still gets you sort of edgy and paranoid/nervous.

Then last night I had another dream about this huge cake factory, and I can't remember if I was working or visiting there, but anyway, I was in a greyish white room with my classmates, and I remember michelle declaring that everyone was most likely going to get 2 or 3 points below their prelim L1R5s, which is good!

And when I woke up in the morning, I thought it was Thursday, and that results were coming out tomorrow! -headwall- I guess you could say I'm worried, very very worried. Maybe subconciously worried. Or just in plain denial. !!!!! =(


Tuesday, December 14, 2004


How? To take kaoji next year or not. What ji to take? Take private lessons? Bring di dai tmr? Don't bring? So many little decisions! -bangs head against the wall- =(


Monday, December 13, 2004


Whee! Last day of competition! No more waking up early in the morning to go to tanjong pagar to wait for ppl and stuff. Anyway I managed to drag cheegake and junhua with me early in the morning to watch combined, and the suona guy was chao pro! My ears were ringing during the competition, and the sheng people rocked too! Should have made the sheng suo juniors come to experience such proness and get them to fa fen tu qiang.

Then the dizi open was screwed... Although baishezhuan is a very nice song, but the results were screwed! Okay, so andy and zhi-xuan's dimo's weren't as liang as jiajia's, and zhi-xuan's pianist was dead. No movement, no feeling, and he kind of messed up the song, since he dragged zhi-xuan when he was trying to go faster, and it felt like the piano was dictating the song, when it's DIZI open, and dizi should have been leading! =( And overall andy and mingyan pei he-d the best, since they didn't really tuo jie (if they did at all) as obviously as the other two. And jiajia had this part in the middle where it looked like she had not enough qi, her dimo was too song and couldn't reach the high notes and sounded as if it was about to po! But thankfully for her the part ended le, so she changed back to her other dizi... Still, how could jiajia have gotten second and zhi-xuan and andy combined third? Doesn't make sense to me. In fact, nearly all the dizi nac comp rankings don't make sense to me. I think I'm weird(biased/prejudiced) but it's really quite puzzling actually. Makes you wonder what the judges comments were, or what affected their judgement (especially since they took ages to finally get the results out).

The ensemble one was much proer, since ALL the groups sounded much much much better than prelims. And ding xiao yan's ruan ensemble was PRO! Their jian qiang jian ruo, the coordination, the aesthetics etc. I never knew tan bo could sound so good! (no offence) And teng's feng nian ji was also very very nice, since everyone was just staring and gaping cos it sounded so good. But yin shi was erm a bit more sian ba.. Haha, not really receptive to new songs unless I've heard them over and over again. Then it subconciously gets into my head and I have not much say le... And qiu yu sounds nicer than erm chao xiang xing... Or maybe I just haven't caught the niceness of it yet. And I have free tickets to prize winners' concert! Or rather ger had, then I koped, and cg koped, so no more le.

And I finally bought my OP bag today, so cheegake and I now have the same bag, and alice's present, and cheegake's present(some cute panda badge which says CHEEEESSEEEEEEE). XD Feel like an impossible spendthrift these few days, shall attempt to save and save the next week or so.


Sunday, December 12, 2004


Dizi senior finals standard quite disappointing? Dunno, in my opinion, I don't know how the guy even got into finals? And he kind of didn't deserve third either, cos qiyu sounded better. But it's very sad, since I was expecting senior to be very much pro-er than intermediate, instead, I think at least two of the intermediate people could have done better than the third placing of seniors. Or maybe I'm just biased. Whatever.

Reached SCH at the miraculously early hour of 0800 with ger, after we had breakfast, and waited for jaime, junhua and enoch. So we traipsed around a little past SCH then went back and waited for them. I was feeling quite sleepy by the second guy, which was quite sad case I think, but thank goodness it wasn't very long and draggy. And they took much faster with the results today than they did yesterday, so ger, jaime, junhua, enoch and I could waste time walking to city hall from SCH, and I was only erm 5 minutes late to meet my dad at redhill when I set off at erm 1120? The wonders of the mrt.

Went to Queensway after that to get new shoes, and I think I spend quite a lot of money there... Since I bought a new pair of shoes and changed my sandals. Then my dad gave me some more money to get a bag... Feel so nei jiu and can kui. =( Like spend a lot of money lehz. Oh well... Last nac day tomorrow, then no more very early waking ups...


Saturday, December 11, 2004


Intermediate finals today! Met a lot of people I guess, some of whom names I don't know. And others that I did but couldn't place a face to etc. And erm I kind of didn't agree with the dizi intermediate results, personal opinion and nothing else. I think that xiang le should have gotten second and qing lun third... Dunno lahz, maybe it was song choice? Oh well, I decided today that in addition to chun dao xiang jiang, mudi, mo li hua and bai she zhuan, I like qin chuan shu huai and you lan feng chun. =)

And today, I purposely went early, so I would be on time to meet my qin ai de juniors at 830 at Tanjong Pagar, but they were late! =( Then the judges took extremely long to get the results out for the erhu intermediate finals, and I managed to help junhua pass karin's xiao back to her.

Plus I think I'm extremely bored, of the four books I borrowed yesterday, I've already finished two. Which is why for now I have decided to read the Hitch Hiker's Guide, since it's definitely going to take me longer than the rest of the books.

Lalala...


Friday, December 10, 2004


Lessons learnt from NAC:

1) Dimo is (very very very) important.
2) Yinzhun is (also very) important.
3) Yinse is important and 1) is one of the few essential causes.
4) Coordination is also important. (between piano and player, different bits of the orchestra etc..)

Managed to mess up the recording for ger with a erm foreign recording device that was entirely uncooperative. It turned itself on and off, and ate a recording or two, which is why I don't ever want to see it again, except I will. On Monday. Where I'm supposed to help ger again with dizi open, bai she zhuan. So cross your fingers! (ger anyway, and help me upload my photos...)

In any case, I went to the library today, and managed to borrow erm books! =) Since I haven't exactly been intellectual or studiously preparing for next year, I might as well catch up in my reading. I was actually planning to borrow hong lou meng to read in case I did make it for lep next year, but I couldn't find the book (couldn't figure out the system + couldn't find it anyway) so I borrowed this thick erm triology(?) by Douglas Adams consisting of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Mostly Harmless.

Looks interesting/thick enough to keep me occupied for a while. And I borrowed a chinese book by yi shu, when I realised nearly all her books were all romance related, I picked the only one without the heart sticker (which identifies romance novels). And two other english books titled The Lovely Bones and erm Farm Fatale. =) Happy book borrowing day, and since I managed to not watch Incredibles for the third time, very happy indeed.

Oh yes, my sibling + 2 cousins went to BK for lunch (again, since I had BK for dinner last night with enoch, jh, caina and cg) and they were of course fascinated with the blue sprite, so they opened a packet, stuffed it inside the sprite and stirred. Effervescence is observed and a colourless odourless gas is evolved that dunno did what, but was probably carbon dioxide anyway. And the solution turned from colourless to blue. And it tastes the same, so essentially all you get is coloured sprite, that overflows and wets the table, thus costing you all the serviettes that they provide. Not worth it.

Anyway I should be going for NAC on Sat, Sun and Mon, then after that will pop by for CO camp, and get my posting results. -cross fingers- =)


Tuesday, December 07, 2004


I watched the incredibles for the second time yesterday, to pei cg, and it's still very cute. Oh well, I'm feeling broke now. At least my wallet feels empty, piggy bank is a different matter, but I don't want to touch the money there lahz.

Anyway, today went for nac! And at first I thought listening to mudi 13 times was repetitive, but it's not as bad as zhu ying yao hong 31 times. By the time I walked out, I was humming zhu ying, until I smacked my head against the wall a few times and realisd that mudi was better in my head than zhu ying, but neither was best of all. Unfortunately, I was humming mudi to myself on the train on my way home, while reading Terry Pratchett... Oh well.

Sian diao, I want photos from grad night, although the wires have been misplaced/abducted/decided to elope with someone's bag, but maybe some day I'll get them. And I'm going to wake up late tomorrow, since I've been up at about 7 or 8 the past few mornings and out the entire day. -yawn- Oh yes, I've got my voice back, still coughing every now and then, but I speak! Still too fast but I have a voice again.


Saturday, December 04, 2004


-whine- I'm sick! Peeling! And I'm losing my voice! But never mind, there's co chalet so essentially I'm happy. Just don't call me to talk or expect me to shout or say hi if and when I see you because I highly doubt the possibility of me having enough of a voice to do that.


Friday, December 03, 2004


I'm baaaaack! Finally. Missed my bed, missed my computer(internet connection) and missed people... Before I go on, GER! Meet me soon k? Then I can pass you your wires and you can help me upload pictures and I can go around sending them to people. Kay?

Anyway, I spend about 4 days and 4 nights there, not including the time I was at grad night, and the place is fantastically big. It's got a court yard, linking the rooms and the living room + kitchen together, 4 rather large rooms each with their own attached toilets, another back yardish sort of thing with two bbq pits and a bbq table + bench and a patio leading to the back yardish thing. Then there was a big tv, with rather bad connection and we lugged a smaller one there so people didn't have to fight over channels.

But anyway grad night first. The food wasn't very nice, except perhaps the cheesecake and berry crumble. The waitresses/waiters could hardly wait for us to clear up and be gone, enthusiastically asking and removing plates whenever and wherever they could, even if you said no. The entertainment was rather floppish as well, since it was helmed entirely by our school people (not that they were bad) but we were promised an entertainment company. Either that or the entertainment company meant only the DJ. Took photos and pranced around awkwardly (while others danced) and took the erm bottle of vitamin C that the school gave us. It just feels good to be back with the class even though certain people are still around, and still as irritating as ever. Okay, skip to chalet

[291104] Night 1

Reached the chalet at about 12 plus, and changed out of my heels to nice floppy sandals. Which reminds me, high heels are fun! Essentially because I get to be really tall for a while. Just that it's kind of tiring and hurts aftar a while, but still fun! Alice couldn't be taller than me even if she spiked her hair more, 'cos she was in flip flops that day. Anyway, I just bathed and slept on the floor since I was quite tired and my feet felt weird.

[301104] Day 1/Night 2

Woke up at 7.35 in the morning, and if you know me well enough, it's abnormal. My usual wake up times range from 9am to 12 noon. And because of the awful hour that I woke up at, there was nothing good to watch on tv, not that the tv was of much use, since the reception was very gross and entirely capable of raising my degree further and ruining my eyesight. Went swimming at about 10, minus sun block till about 12, and ended up burnt and red. The colour I would still be for the next few days. Had lunch and played with the large beach ball with my cousins, throwing it up to the second level and letting them knock it back down. Then played hopscotch in the courtyard and badminton. So essentially I did lots of exercise of sorts, more than I would at home anyway, since no one to play badminton with etc. Then had first bbq of about three or four more to come, and learnt how to play mahjong! Of course I'm still disgustingly bad at it, and I haven't figured out why yet. But never mind, practise makes perfect, anyone?

Slept quite late I think, don't remember why though, but spent the night on the floor with my sleeping bag and the mini pillow again. By this time, I was desperately missing a pillow whereby I could turn and not land up on the floor. However I am immensely proud of my nose, since I was sleeping in an aircon room and managed to evade the flu for the past few nights.

[011204] Day 2/Night 3

Woke up in the morning, aching... I know I'm lan, and my face and shoulders hurt! Sun burnt le... And my after sun lotion was at home... =( So miserable, I woke up even earlier that day, at about 7.05am. Which proves that I am immensely unused to the environment there. Once again, stoned in front of the tv and at 8am, watched Thomas the Tank Engine, and came to realise, or observe that the people in TtTE don't move! Only the eyes of the trains/carts move and they roll around, but the people are in a permanent pose with the voice overs talking. <- Bored! Then went to fetch sab and ying ying, where we played cards, daidi, heart attack (minus ying ying), mahjong, monkey, bball (with this other group of people and small boy who was quite pro), scrabble (minus sabrina), badminton and treasure hunting. The treasure hunt was organised by the chalet people, and we had to answer questions and scavange for items as well, inclusive of 1) a red sock 2) a swatch watch 3) a $100 note 4) picture of a dog 5) a can of food

We managed to get 3), 4) and 5), then we borrowed 2) from some guys who were playing soccer beside the seminar centre. We didn't win anything in the end, but it occupied time to some extent. And sab, ying ying and I spent most of the night by the pool, on the deck chairs, talking about stuff. Quite fun. We talked about a lot of weird stuff, and it was quite sad that we san que yi again... (xiwen was still sick... -pat pat-)

The three of us were quite stoned by the end of the night, and when we played mahjong with my cousin, we were immensely giggly and very very VERY slow. If the pais fall down, we start laughing, and the reactions were chao ji man. Someone can throw pai, then we all stare and suddenly someone goes, "Pong." Especially ying ying, I know I was very slow for one, but I was pondering about the zha hu thing, since you can only hu when you have dai, but I didn't have dai... But since we weren't playing with money, no one really cared so anyhow hu lohz.

[021204] Day 3/Night 4

I think we stayed up till about 3 or 4, then I woke up at about 7 plus, slept again then woke up finally at about 9, whilst sab and ying ying woke up earlier than 9 and were all awake and stuff.

Then we played more badminton and attempted not to aim for the drains, but I managed to hit another shuttlecock onto the roof on a different side this time from yesterday, and slightly later, my cousins managed to whack the beach ball there, leaving it stranded on the roof, until someone from the office came to rescue it later. Whilst my cousins went off to escape theme park, we played 3 people mahjong, where it was chao easy to hu, and everyone seemed to be waiting for the same pais...

After which I sent sab and ying ying off, then stoned in front of the tv waiting for my darling juniors + seniors to turn up. They reached at about 7 plus, and my nice uncles went to pick them up from the mrt station since they all missed the shuttle bus. And since we assumed laoshi + junhua, caina, jaime to be lost, they all started eating first. Lifern managed to finish an entire plate of satay very quickly, such that the people at the other side didn't even realise that there was satay. Then all the rest of them were interested in were marshmallows! Marshmallows are only nice when they are slightly hard outside and all mushy inside, so I normally roast one at a time, but my juniors very pro. One stick can stuff 3 marshmallows, but I don't think all will be toasted nicely ba, so nvm. The sec 2s and 1s left quite early, and laoshi managed to bring lots of food and his own beer to the bbq. Then took out the ice box for him and he managed to sit on it XD complete with 'crack' sound effects... Ger was trying very hard to control her laughter and not spill whatever drink she had, and laoshi was very amused as well... Somehow I couldn't imagine him not seeing that rather big box on his chair, but oh well.

Then we started playing with nutella + bananas + marshmallows, extremely fattening and sinful, but still yummy nonetheless. And we sat down and yakked and yakked till past midnight, when everyone was summoned back by their respective parents and I saw junhua's chio hulusi! Very fun lahz, which makes me look forward to co chalet, which I recently heard has been confirmed from 20th to 22nd. And about time too.

Finally I managed to get an empty bed to sleep on, with a longer pillow + mattress and blanket. I missed my bed so much and my pig, and bolster and stuff... =(

[031204] Day 4

Woke up in the morning with a horrid sore throat, still red, and had a sort of rushed breakfast before we were bundled out of the terrace and on our way home... =) Reached home, bathed and went online for a while, since I missed my com too, read blogs, checked emails and stuff, before plonking on my very familiar, comfortable bed and sleeping till the evening. I essentially had two meals that day, since I was insistent on detoxing after all the rubbish and junk food I had. Nice to be back home. -yawn-